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VOLUME 1
DUNCAN OKLAHOMA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 1907
NUMBER 45
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preacher that defends the profit system is the teaching of Jesus The preacher knows
not only guilty of aiding and abetting the it all right but while he is finding that out he
murder of a million babies and the debauch- &lso finds out that he cannot make a living
ery of a quarter of a million virtuous women out of his profession and follow the teachings
I am proud to say that I had the 'pleasure annually but he is assisting the human race of Christ Then it is that he turns traitor to
of hearing the famous C N Haskell deliver on its course to a hell on earth and the inevit- his own self respect and having the ignorant
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his inaugural address and strange as it may able destruction of all the virtues that remain follower by his superstition which beats the
seem I actually did expect to hear something in the race but he is violating and defend- throat a block he grafts him to the grave
that at least bordered on to a remedy for the ing others who violate the one command in and then some He gets so many of the good
present industrial panic but not a word did the bible which is worth more than all the things of this life and is allowed to sorter
this so-called radical emit that would in any rest of the bible combined which is “earn run at large with all this riotous living stuffed
way cheer the hungry and oppressed He thy bread in the sweat of thy face’ If all under his belt that he naturally takes
did however show his pitiful ignorance and laws were' were founded on that one com- kindly to the ladies sometimes to save them
inability to give a remedy when admitted that mand there never would have been a pauper an sometimes to keep ’em— it’s owing to
the twenty-nine million dollar fine assessed on earth there wouldn’t be any virtuetraded S? uber i!s‘ wu were n?Jf fi?ritbe
against the Standard Oil company would in- for bread there wouldn’t be any monkey monarchy on the° face of the 'globe If the T
evitably have to be paid by the people Is it- dinners there wouldn’t be any diamond- preachers do not know it I can tell them that
studded pug dogs there wouldn’t be any fried chicken in the stomach of men who do
thin-ated champagne-soaked harlots flying ?ot kor causes ten crimes to where Sunday ’
around in automobiles sneering at ladies who baseba11 couses one- '
are as far superior to them as a white BIG DINNER ON THANKSGIVING
possible that there is a working man left in
this state that is so menial minded as to con-
tinue voting the Democratic ticket after his
standard bearer like the miserable defender
of slavery that he is comes out in inaugural dove is to a bait-stealing turtle and whenever The big cemetery dinner will be held at
address and says that we must bew to the you hear a preacher say that any man has a the Electric theater house the proceeds to go
will of mammon or bring down the wrath of right to live off of the labor of others ou to the cemetery fund Bring on your turkeys
the god of greed on our rebellious heads It hear a hypocritical scoundrel who is lower chickens etc and leave them at Allen &
is alright for the Standard Oil company to down than the sneak thief because he not Newland’s the committee This is a right-
make forty per cent dividend on their stocks only helps to rob you but insists that you be- eous cause and it is your duty to give it your I
but if they make it by theft and a judge sees lieve that it is right so you won’t object consideration No one gets any profit out of
fit to take pa rt of it back by duo process of ' when the next thief comes along That the this except the satisfaction that Duncan is to
law the rash act is liable to wreck the whole church was the friend of labor up to the time lave a cemetery free of all incumbrance It
financial system Mr Haskell says that ’by of Constantine cannot be denied but eP'
1 r j - ’ cumbered homes without spending eternity m
1 fining the Standard Oil company such an en- ruling class by this time had learned that a a debt-covered casket If you want to bring
of mous amount that the people will become man will sacrifice his all for religion and they anything that is not cooked bring it early
afraid to invest their savings in corporations ' set about to capture it and they were so sue- r"nA u rpL
' and that will retard industrial progress In cessful that ever since then the church has
other words he gives us common suckers to been the bulwark of oppression' Not a step
Understand that whatever we do we must not has been made in science that has not been
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firy to cut down the profits of the corporations resolutely fought by the church:' Jesus Christ
—the wellfare of industry depends on the was a union carpenter a Socialist and an un-
amount that the common people will stand to compromising foe to all kinds of oppression
be robbed of That’s awful fine dope but and if he were to come back and start a
somehow or the other nothing but a willing newspaper he wouldn’t have preachers enough
It is very common to hear people talking
about the oppression of Russiar It seems
that it is almost a hopeless task this business
f of opening the eyes of the workers to the
fact that no despotism can exist except by
permission of the subjects There is hardly
a man but what will readily admit that the
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slave will swallow it Under chattel slavery on his subscription list to preach the funerals workers of the world are writhing under the
the more the slaves produced the more they of the rest of the list I don’t like to talk tyrant heel of mammon yet the very moment
were worth but under wage slavery the more about the preachers (I suppose you have al- you propose a remedy he gets suspicious He
the slaves produce the more the machinery of ready noticed that) but take this surround- is like the fellow who has kidney trouble’ he
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production is worth and the less the slave is
worth Under chattel slavery when a slave
got sick or died it was a loss to the master
but now when a slave gets sick or dies it
makes times better everybody but the slave
himself rejoices the undertaker’s business
picks up the doctor begins to look wise the
1ng country as a sample' of the breed and you
may form some idea of what they stand for
as a class One joins the Socialist party and
coffin maker gets his wife a new dress the
drqggist— another story on his smoke house little dipper and a magazine shotgun another
his widow buys a pair of black shoe strings (evangelist he) gets into a controversy with
and a sack of flour while the philanthrope his brethren about the advisability of evan-
insurance company points to her as an exam- gelists having a surplus of women while he
pie of the immence amount of good they are peddles saving grace at so much per'save I
doing humanity
knows he has it and he also knows he has
stood it so far and that kidney kure he don’t
know so much about it he has already tried
several remedies that were guaranteed to
pours out his sou to his audience as often as cure a you would teke six whJle bottl an(J
he is able while he makes his living farming he is kind a juberous and the same thing
another rapes his own child and also the child holds good about politics As far as I am
of a neighbor another swims - a lake with a concerned I will guarantee saw dust to cure
screen wire over his head by the light of the youfwie bree f?ns
and send me a report of how you getting
along after each ton take a scoopshovelful
at a dose after each meal the first ton and
report to me and I will give you directions
for the next ton The reason more people
are not cured by my remedy is because they
v I don’t follow my directions But my remedy
don’t believe there is another profession not for the industrial ills of society is not so hard
This capitalist system is thoroughly satur- even the cow thieves that can show up such to swallow as I require you to take only a
ated with disease and death crime and vice ! a brilliant record in this surrounding country headful at a dose and that only once a week
want and misery oppression robbery and de- The whole trouble lies in the fact that for and it costs you only a dollar a year but that
ception and yet the preachers almost to’ a hundreds of years the preachers have sup- ater youtae
man support it It’ is an1 utter impossibility ported the ruling class and there is not a lieved you are at liberty to get your money
for a person to live a Christian life and be a ’ man on earth with as much brains as a March back if you will only call at niy office— wher-
financial success under capitalism Every ‘ hare but what knows that it is contrary to ever that may be
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