- .;-*(��� LOWERY'S CLAIM NUMBER TEN. NEW DENVER, B. C, CANADA. PRICE: TEN CENTS. mAfrCH, 1902 Lowbrv's Claim is published every month at New Denver, B. C, Canada. It is devoted to Truth and Humor. It has no press or trust list, but is sent free to all persons over ioo years of age. It is a Sham Crusher, and will fight all frauds to a red finale. It costs $i a year in any part of this world, but lack of mail facilities prevents it being mailed to Mars, Hades and other out-of-the-way places. All agents can make 25 cents upon each subscription obtained. Advertising rates are $2 an inch each insertion, and no cat is made for time or position. If you desire this journal do not depend upon your neigh hor, but send in your white or green dollar before the thought grows cold. The same editor shoves the pen on this journal and The New Denver Ledge, so do not confound your orders when sending in your collateral. R. T. Lowbry. New Denver. B. C. ".1 - . _ -> Under the wash many a rich vein hides. One of the greatest sins is to lie unkind. A clean soul seldom lives in a dirty body. Love and sin cannot dwell in tbe same cabin. Many a man has money to burn, but no matches. Love comes easiest te> those who do not prospect for ti. A prophet often finds it difficult to make a profit in his own camp. A bird upon a woman's bonnet is worth more than two in the bush. A moral wave has hit New York. The wave is not expected to recover. 'Tii better to have shot and missed the mark than never to have shot at all. Legislators who cannot govern thomselves will never be able to govern the people. <��> It seems strange, but often those who fear death the most are apparently the most religious. The Filipinos must curse Roosevelt much the same as the Yanks once cursed George the Third. Death is but a chemical change, and should be no more dreaded than jumping into the sea for a bath. AS? Partvism in Canada has made 9/ our politics rotten with the corruption that comes from bribery and falsehood. <S> Wheu a mau prays he gently insinuates that God does not know his own business, or else has a short memory. <S> Canada is iu need of more liberal divorce laws. The present system of procuring divorces is a disgrace to civilized people. <S> With the exception of Nos. 1 and 9, all the issues of this journal can be procured by sending 10 cents for each number required. <S> When you strike a town where all the churches are exceedingly prosperous be sure and do all your business in black and white. <S> Many play this life from soda to hock, and never know the sweet calm that comes to the soul of the man who always pays the printer. When we think of the great injury such men as Talmage do to this world we are almost tempted to wish the old Presbyterian hell was a reality. *S> An editor in White Plains, N.Y., is being paid for acting as receiver for a big brewery. Some editors act as receivers for breweries without being paid, in fact they pay for the privilege. <S> Knock down the miracles, blow away the myths, and blot out the fairy tales from the church and you have a thin skeleton of truth upon which man has hung all these things for his own glorification. British Columbia is a free country. Here a man can open a jackpot in the broad light of the day, and not be arrested. In Southern California it cannot be done unless the door is locked and the police are not on to the combination. <S> "Can a man be a good Christian on a salary of $5 a week?" is a question that is agitating the East. Quite likely, as no one can be very wicked on that much a week. On a salary of that amount here in the west a man would have to be a thief in order to keep even with his board. <S> A paper in Ontario was recently served with a $1,000 writ for publishing Talmage's sermon. Any paper printing such literary* mush without permission deserves to be punished. Talmage has made more money out of God than most of the sky pilots, and still things that his soul is safe. ��� r 140 LOWERY'S CLAIM. [Maich, ISM The Religion Fakirs Ritualism and Priestcraft Shaken Up >&>&&&& The ritualistic fakirs in the re-1 victims by a free-and-easy rope, but ligious world are getting a terrible j the ducats come rolling in just the ���baking up everywhere. The people are growing sick of the sacri- ligious mummery prepared for them by the priests, and are demanding the right to worship the God of all as their hearts dictate and in accordance with their individual needs. Long before Christ came upon the earth a black-hearted priestcrrft held the people in a superstitious mesh, forbidding them even to pray to their Father in Heaven. Christ's earthly life was made one of perpetual sorrow by these religious fakirs; he was hounded from place to place and finally nailed to the cross by them. These blind leaders of the blind in days of old were condemned by every truly God-loving man. Christ condemned them, because of their teachings and black-hearted deeds. In vain did He try to teach them the way to heart worship. They would not listen to Him. His was a way of Goodness, Love, and Truth; their's was one of treachery, tyranny and mummery. Back of the teachings of Christ was Love and Truth; back of the teachings of priestcraft was Mammon,nothing more. All men are religious. Some have developed along religious lines more than others; but the same inclination to worship something is born in the hearts of all. The priests took advantage of this instinct in man, and by systematic coercion more damnable than savagery, held the masses bound, while they pilfered the poor and put to death the weak. Today priestcraft is losing its grip. It is less tyrannical,but just as black-hearted as it was in days of old. But it does not hold the power to pilfer and kill as in the days of Christ. Today it holds its same. And that seems to be the whole aim of priestcraft ��� to "bleed'' the people; the keep man humble by taking away his money. And there are thousands, ves, mil- lions, of ordinarily intelligent peo- variably denounce rit ualism. Nothing ever invented by mortal man has done more to damn his soul. We laugh at paganism, and denounce the Chinese for their religious beliefs, but they are not one whit less reasonable than the ritualism of priestcraft. The Chinese have their prayers printed for them on little slips of paper. These are put in a liox and placed on the roof of a Joss house, and every morning a Celestial priest climbs the ladder pie in this world who seem to enjoy and shakes the box, in order to the process; at all events they con-! present a new lot of petition* to tinue to cling to the custom of pay-1 their god. Occasionally the w hole* ing the priests to do their praying batch of prayers is changed, and for them. they I login with a clean deck, but In contrast to this army of re-j the priest never loses the deal, ligious imbiciles we occasionally j Catholic and Protestant ritualists see men standing boldly out as j do business on a more modern basil Christ stood, for Truth, Goodness! perhaps, but the principle is the and Love���for Life. These men; same. The Bible is replaced by are branded as human devils, and priest-prepared rituals and prayer- the finger of ridicule���and often; books, which contain laws for the scorn���is pointed at them; but the moral and "spiritual" guidance of same treatment was accorded to lielievers, and prayers for their de- the Man of Love nineteen hundred j li vera nee from every manner of sin years ago. which the priests declare exist. All A despatch from London, under \ a believer has to do when he feels date of February 4th, says: "The in need of prayer, or rather when large and fashionable congregation ; the priest says he ought to pray, which attended a memorial service is to pull out his little prayer-book officially described as a 'Requiem and go through a saoriligious raum- for the repose of the soul of our; mery that would insult any God of sovereign late Queen Victoria/ at St. Matthew's Church, Westminster, this morning, was greatly Love, Truth and Goodness. Catholic priests affect to believe that God is a divine being of ven- scandalized by the conduct of a i geance, who cannot lie approached number of anti-Ritualists, who, im-1 by man in any other way than mediately after the service was con-1 through the priest** and saints who eluded, stood up in the church aud protested. " 'The service was a blasphemous insult to Queen Victorias memory,' they shouted. " 'This is not God's house,' said one objector. " 'This is a Joss house/ added a chorus.'' And thus it goes. Every day mention is made in the press of incidents similar to that rejiort from London. All of which speaks well for the religion of Jesus Christ. Men of reason, who will think, In- have gone before. They force their subjects to believe tliat (*od is a Great Something, Somewhere, unapproachable by man; unaffected by man's sorrows and sufferings; a Thing without love, compassion or reason; a sort of unthinkable machine that feasts on the souls of men, women and babes; whose only aim is to damn mortals made after hii own image. They would have their subjects to believe that there is nothing good in man, that he must live his life and in the end be damned unless he hands over to IfAIOH.lMt.] LOWERY'S CLAIM. 14V the thirsty blood-money leaches enough of the "root of evil" to pay tkem for going through a form of ���avage prayer to keep his soul out of hell. They teach the ignorant that by confessing to them and, incidentally, of course, the paying of a priestly fee, they are forgiven, and ean go out and repeat the offense as often as they please, so long as their money lasts. The teachings of the "High" Church of England are very little better than those of the Catholic Church of Rome. The only difference between the "high" church and the Catholic church is the language used. In one the congregation may know what the priest is saying, in the other they can not. There is about as much spirituality in either as there is in a cow's shed. It is form, form, form. So long as the subject goes through the motions of worship and pays the priest his fee it is all right. How many hundred professing Christian worshippers we have seen go into a self-styled Christian church and bob up and down like jacks-in-a-box, racing through a ritualistic service that is nothing but sounding brass, and come from their pews like cattle let out to pasture, in many instances cursing the very God whom they a few moments before pretended to worship. Oh, the curse of ritualism and priestcraft! How hard did Christ attempt to show the hellishness of it! How hard he strove to teach his disciples and all people who came unto him the nearness of God to man. How hard he tried to impress his hearers at all times with the simplicity of Christianity. How ���treneouily he tried to tear away the cobwebs of superstition that priestcraft had wound about the minds of men. He taught men that to believe on God was to become a co-worker with Him. He called men friends and brothers, and taught them to pray to "Our" Father, not "His" Father. He denounced every phase of priestcraft, and commended every phase of goodness, whether found in a street urchin or in a king upon a throne. The goodness of a little child was just as great in His eyes as the goodness of His greatest disciple, and the evils of priestcraft were none the whiter than the crimes of black-hearted murderers and robbers, because they were cloaked in the toggery of the altar. After the coming of the Holy Spirit it was possible for every man who would accept of it to become a part of God���a partner with Him. The Holy Spirit is not given to priests any more than it is given to anyone else. All men can receive it who will, and all men can reject it who will. To reject it means to reject Christ, and to reject Christ means to reject God. And all the priests in earth, heaven and hell cannot help a man who will not accept it. Men who have received it, and who practice its teachings in their lives, have no use for priests of any kind no more than Christ had. They do not measure a man by his priestly garb, but by his Christ-like deeds. All the ritualism of priestcraft can uot make a Christian; all the mummery of all the priests that are and have been or ever will be cannot save a single soul. Each must save himself,and he must do it as a little child coming to an ever-loving father seeking pardon for its waywardness. Governments, religions and art are each a reflection of the life and morals of the people by whom they are produced! So if we have a corrupt government, a hypocritical religion and a crude art, we know it is because the people are corrupt, hypocritical and crude. Chinese history dates back over eleven thousand years, and archaeologists have unearthed Egyptian records of an advanced civilization existing in the valley of the Nile nine thousand years ago, while recent discoveries in Thibet show that a race well up in the ages inhabited that land seven thousand years ago. AU this does not contradict the Christian history of a six-day creation some sixty centuries ago. It merely goes back a few thousand years beyond the date when the world was created. The Most Important Thing H�� Said* Small Mabel had received a parental injunction to remember at least one thing the minister said at church, and upon her return home exclaimed: 1 'I remember something.'' "That's right, dear," rejoined her father. "Now tell me what the minister said." "He said," replied Mabel, " collection will now be taken up a u At the Giirl*s High Sehool Professor���I told you, young ladies, in our last lesson, that a man's brain is larger than a woman's. To what conclusion does that lead you, Miss Bertha? Bertha���That in the matter of brains it does not depend on the quantity but on the quality.��� Fliegende Blatter. Mrs. Carrie Nation's assertion that she is not going to marry any man in Iowa has been confirmed emphatically by every Iowa man heard from. ���Chicago Tribune. In Dahomy the women rule. They fight the battles, run the governmunt and wear the pants. No army has yet made a success of invading their territory. It is believed that the Lord didn't make Yankees at the beginning for fear they would annoy him with their suggestions. ��� Washington Post. Boston is experiencing a lively anti-vaccination movement. Bos- tonians were always noted for their astuteness. '"**���:-��� 14S LOWERY'S CLAIM. (MAtCH, lKtf into the sump and put many a working girl on the hike wbere the curtains are reel. Almost in the' heart of the city is Chinatown, one Of the sheiw places for tourists. Many men find em ploy men t as guides through this yellow bole of hell. I explore! it both dav and * 9 night, and can see Dante's mind when he wrote his Inferno. In some of the alley* I ran against a stench that nicked the e*dge nf my appetite for weeks. Fish alley is a beaut. It ought to be framed and writ t<> Ottawa, where our legislators seem to love what is called the vellow curse of California. Editor Ir California lUh.t h. S��u H.r. and Iter. ����%������;����������'& A man fond of comfort should fornia train is all ready" I joined never travel. However, some peo- the throng, and the long train pie have to keep on the move or pushed its way through the misty the railroads would become too night. One man on this train poor to buy water for their stock, should have lieen a millionaire. Perhaps I thought of this when I For 30 years he had been a sleep- faced the south and drifted into ing car porter. I asked him how it California. was that he did not own the road. Seattle is a live town, and is'He replied that it was probably wide open, with the safety valve owing to the lack of education in tied down. For a town loaded with his youth. so much business it has the toughest j It is a fact that < iregoii produces looking railway station on the map. large quantities e��f soft water. It jSome of the smells might be bottled It resembles a hobo just off a car of is everywhere. In chutes, veins and sent in the same package. Pennsylvania feathers. and deposits, and in tbe cre<*ks it is j The Chinks are great for econ- I found the people of Portland to be found. Anyone, even aliens, jotny. In tome of the alleys are to delirious with joy. The sun had can stake it. Other fluids are Dot be found small brick buildings in again been discovered. Portland so easily obtainable. At some of j which an* public cooking stove*. is a city of great wealth, but the the railway depots it requires eon-; After dark I watched a Chink citizens seldom grow prodigal ow- siderable prospecting to find a glass j cooking his supper, and as tbe ing to the amount of work required of beer, but once locat-nl you van ��� sickly light fell Opon his face I bad to scrape the moss off their bank get an internal bath for a short bit. ' uo difficulty in picturing what bell rolls. I was just 68 years too late in j looks like when the inmates are While sitting iu the depot a man reaching'Frisco. In tbat time the preparing their evening meal. 1 came along and addressed me as city has grown from a sandy beach 'took a peep into tbe undergound Mr. DeLacy. I was on, for I had to its present prominent position. Ionium joints. fa one when* two ��� *w read the New York papers, so I land all the good openings for pa- men reduced to living skeletons by told him that I was Bill Maxwell, jpers have been filled. The Golden the use of the drug. In another from the Roaring Gulch country, Gate is still open. Frisco is the several were hitting the pipe, while and never sweetened my whiskery. Paris of America. It is also the'others were rolled up in blanket*. He looked surprised, but stood j home of golden romances and some dead to everything except their pat, and said that he had taken me j49ers. The people are mneb ad- pipe dreams. On an upper bunk for a preacher who pounded Bibles dieted to riding on street ears and lav an obi Chinaman busily en- drinking steam beer. Ihere is a J gaged iu preparing bis dope for the saloon to eve-ry UK) inhabitants, pipe. He said that he was 56 years asked me where I was raised. 1 land a case of jim-jams occurs daily, old, and had been smoking opium told him that I had been raised in The city is noted for its mysterious for ;js years. I sugg��*steel tbat it nearly every camp between the Red ^murelers and news|>apers that are was about time for him to swear off. River and the Setting Sun. When I yellow, even to the bank-roll. They Gut in the gloom <if an alley I mentioned the sun a look like a will waste acres of space upon the three men stood, one with a "gun' horrors of some crime and crowel iu his band. Not a six-shooter.l��-i- something of real importance into a hypo letadeel with cocaine. A in a little town away back in Maine where he was born and raised. He flash from the memory of other days came into his eyes and he nearly smiled. He had lived in Oregon for 37 years, and owned a townsite, and did I know anyone who wished to invest in real estate. I did not, and as he walked away he moved his feet like a duck suffering from the gout. Out of the dew rushed the man in blue, and shouted: "The Cali- three lines. If their readers de- mand such peppery trash it is a poor wretch WSJ just having '�� "shot" as we* came along. For 10 wonder that crime is not more years he had lieen a victim of thi rampant in Califeirnia. The Chinese Own much of' Frisco. They are silent but sure, anel Up most terrible of all drug habits. At his feet was a tin cup for receiving charity from those who fore many years they should be pass along. Behind him stood an able to control the business of Cali- otheT white man waiting for a fornia. They have driven wages "shot" of the drug that binds It8 A ** March 1908.] L0WERY'8 CLAIM. 149 slaves with chains that cannot be broken, except by death. As I gazed at these two human wrecks but there in the dim light of the alley the thought struck me forcibly that some people find hell on this earth without much prospecting. One alley in Chinatown is filled with Chinese gambling houses,from which white men are barred. Visitors can look upon everything else aiound yellow town, but they cannot get a chance to rubber the games of chance. There are slaves in this section of free America. The girls in Chinese brothels are kept in the most hideous slavery under the : sun. These slaves sell for so many thousand dollars right here in 'Frisco, under the starry flag in which freedom cuddles up. The girls are kept belli nel barred win- dows,and outside white men patrol the alleys to see that by no chance the girls hike away to freedom. I have heard, although 1 cannot ���Vouch for the truth of the statement, that in some brothels the fcirls are chained to the wall when rtot required for business purposes. Missionaries can find steady employment in this part of 'Frisco. I if some parts of Chinatown white women are kept exclusively for the ���urte of Chinamen, and yet it is whispered around that this is a Christian country. A Chinese play is a long thing, mhch* longer than a Presbyterian Wrmon. About one scene a nigbt Is played, and an ordinary tragedy takes several weeks to complete it. For this reason Chinese companies neVer show in one-night towns. The night I was around yellow town there was a hot time* in one of the theatres. It was the lirst night of a celebrated yellow tragedian, and his acting for some reason did not suit the crowd, and they commenced a hostile demonstration towards him. The police commenced to throw the pugilistic Chiitksemt, and soon the street in frofit of the theatre was filled with a howling mob yelling with excitement and heaving rocks and rotten vegetables at the police. Just then the guide and I rounded the corner and the scene put me in mind of old times around Owney Cosgrove's in Toronto. The guide hail a gun but I was only armed witn a picture of my bull-dog; but we knocked down a few yellow streaks and pushed our way to the front where the moon-eyed demons had the police pinned against the wall. They requested us to push our way back to the telephone office and call for more police. We succeeded in doing this, and then I lost the guide in the shuffle, and discretion directed me back to the hotel where I was safe from moving but reitten vegetables. Besides I had discovered that there are others besides the Irish who can heave rocks and make an impression. The riot ended by the arrest of 21 Chinamen, several of whom had their heads smashed by batons. Verily, that was a night in which I received value for the money expended, and I will be a long time in the Slocan before I see the like of it again. While Chinatown is a* verv fas- w einatiug place to tourists it is hated by the citizens of 'Frisco. They avoid it as a plague spot, and look upon it as though it was a sewer, although at one time this yellow sjiot was the aristocratic part of the city, as is attested by thp substantial old houses of brick and stone. It is an intensely interesting place for the artist or the writer of romances. Here is material for almost any kind of a poem, play or story, but I pass the buck. I do not care to fish for literary pearls in such a sink of Oriental filth ancl iniquity. City people despise the very sight of this quarter of the town, and rejoice in the fact that it is gradually decreasing in population. Murder is cheap among the Chinese, and through the highbinders professional assassins put Chinks out of the way for $60 or less per corpse. Hundreds of Mongolians have' been murdered in Chinatown, but only seven white people up to date. Especially in China the Chinks are very economical. In Canton, for instance, executions take place every morning in the jail yard, and the bodies are fed to the hogs. So beware of Chinese pork, for no man knows what it contains. Still I have no use for Chinamen, and they should be driven out of the white man's land back to their native wallows. If permitted to increase in America they will eventually hold the top hand, and then, Oh, God ! what a country we will have. Tourists would then ask to be shown the Whiteman's town, and Chinatowns through their abundance w7ould cease to be objects of curiosity. San Francisco is a paradise to the man who loves good food at reasonable prices. To a mining man it is a mystery how the restaurants make it pay. For 25 cents you can get a meal fit for an editor, and for four bits you can get a French dinner with wine on the side and two hours in which to eat it. On the top of the tallest building in the city there is a cafe in which the price is $1 a plate. Here is to be fouud the highest living in the city. Misdirected energy in the way of sexual vice is excessively abundant, and Sodom was a country village compared to this camp. All kinds of women seek their prey in low and high places and the he-virgin is very wise indeed who escapes intact from the allurements of frisky 'Frisco. In the next issue I will give a few remarks upon the towns, the flowers and oranges of Southern California, and the dusky maidens of Mexico. This journal is sent free for one year to anyone sending in four yearly subscriptions aud the four dollars. IM LOWERV'8 CLAIM. "��li ��.!���*��� It Means Socialism The Evolution of Civilization ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Renan has said that truth is always rejected when it comes to a man for the first time, its evolution being as follows: First, we say the thing is rank heresy, and contrary to the Bible. Second, we say tbe matter really amounts to nothing, one way or the other. Third, we declare that we always believed it. Two hundred years ago partnerships in business were very rare. A man in business simply made hungry octopus, a grinder of the individual. And to prove the case various instances of hardship were cited; and no doubt there was much suffering, for many people cannot adjust themselves to new conditions without pain. But we now believe that corporations came lie-cause they were required. Certain things the times demanded, and no one man, or two or three men could perform these tasks alone���hence arose the corporation. The rise of England as things and sold them���and all the; a manufacturing nation began with work was done bv himself and im- mediate family. Soon we find instances of brothers continuing the work that the father had begun, as in the case of the Elzevirs and the the plan of the Stock i ompany. The aggregation known as the Joint-Stock Company, everybody! now admits, was absolutely necee-l sary to secure the machinery, that Plantins, the great book-makers of j is to say, the tools, the raw stocks, Holland. To meet this competition | the buildings, and to provide for four printers in 1**��40 formed a part- the permanence of the venture. nership and pooled their efforts. A local writer by the name of Van Krugen denounced these four men, and attacked partnerships in general as wicked ancl illegal, and opposed to the best interests of the people. This view seems to have been quite general, for there was a law iu Amsterdam forbidding all The railroad system of America has built up the country���on this thing of Joint-Stock Companies and transportation, our prosperity has hinged. '���Commerce,'' says Emerson, "consists in taking things from where they are plentiful to where thev are needed." There are ten com bi nations of business partnerships that were not j capital in America that control licensed by the state. The legis-1 over six thousand miles of railroad lature of the State of Missouri has'each. These companies have ab- reeently made war on the Impart- sorbed a great many small line*; ment Store in the same way, using and many connecting lines of tracks the Van Kruge.i argument, for! have been built. Competition over there is no copyright on stupidity, vast sections of country has lieen In London in the Seventeenth practically obliterated, and this has Century men found guilty of jiool- all been done so quietly that few iug their efforts and dividing profits people are aware of the change, were declared guilty of "contum- Only one general result of thiseoq- acy, connivance and contraven- solidation of management has been tion," and given a taste of the stocks. When corporations were formed for the first time, only a few years ago, there was a fine burst of disapproval. The corporation was declared a scheme of oppression, a felt, and that is tatter service at less expense. No captain of any great industrial enterprise dares now say, "The public be damned," even if he ever said it���which I much doubt. The pathway to success lies in serving the public, miles, m not in affronting it. By no oUw means is success possible, and thii truth is so plain and patent tbat even very simple folk recognize it. You can only help yourself by helping others. Thirty years ago. when p. T. Barnum launched the saying, "$l,f public delights in being humbugged, he knew it was not true, for he never attempted to pit Ibe axiom into practice. He amused tbe public by telling it s lie, but Barnum never tried anything so risky as deception. Even when he lied we were not deceived; truth can be stated by indirection '���When my love tells me she ii made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies." Barnum always gave more tban he advertised; and going over and over the same territory he continued to amuse and instruct for nearly forty years. The tendency to co-operate ii seen in such splendid features si the St Louis In ion Station, for instance, wbere just twenty railroad companies lay aside envy. prejudice, rivalry and whim and use one terminal. If competition were really the life of trade, each railroad that enters St. Louis would have a station of its own, and Ihe public would be put to the worry, trouble, expense and end lease delay of finding where it wanted to go and how to get there. As il is now. the entire aim and end <if the scheme is to reduce friction, worry and expense* and give the public the greatest accommodation���the best possible service��� to make travel easy and life secure. Servants in uniform meet you as you alight and answer your every queetion- speeding you courteously and kindly on your way. There are women to take care of women snd nurses to take care of children sad wheel chairs for such as may be infirm or lame. Tbe intent is * serve���not to pull you this way sud that, and sell you a ticket over s certain road. itae*, im.) L0W��ft1f>8 CLAIM. isi Before Co-operation comes in amy line, there is always competition ���pushed to a point that threatens destruction and promises chaos; then to avert ruin men devise a better way, a plan that conserves and economizes, and behold it is found in Cooperation. Civilization is an evolution. Civilization is not a thing separate and apart any more than art is. Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Civilization is the expeditious way of doing things. The next move of Evolution will be Socialism. Socialism means the operation of all industries by the People, for the People. Socialism is co-operation instead of competition. Competition has been so general that economists mistook it for a Law of Nature, when it was only an incident. Competition is no more a Law of Nature than is hate. Hate was once so thoroughly believed in that we gave it personality and called it The Devil. The Trusts are getting things ready for Socialism. Humanity is growing in intellect, in patience, in kindness���in love. And when the time is ripe, the People will step in and take peaceful possession of their own. Prudes are Criminals. Hand in hand with this prudish- ness, with this base idea of nudity, travels the mental perverts who allow their sons ancl daughters to grow into puberty, into manhood, into womanhood, without one word of warning as to the terrible pitfalls into which they are sure to blindly ancl innocently fall. If the writer were to go back to childhood again, and if he had the power to select his |iarents,he would prefer anybody or any influence, lie it criminal of the lowest character, rather than have every conceivable advantage given by the wealth and luxury of a home occupied by prudes. Prudes are criminals! Not against the laws of pigmy man, but against the laws of Nature, against the laws of God. To them the body is something vulgar, not to be mentioned or to be disclosed even to the fresh pure air. They live in this atmosphere of impurity and narrowness. It stamps its influence upon their bodies and upon their features. They have no mind or opinions of their own. Their standard is based on what Mr. or Mrs. So-and-so will think, not upon a clear comprehension of what they consider to be right or wrong. They go through life mental and physical slaves. Their children are taught what a shameful thing the body is. They greiw up with these perverted nar- reiw ideas, and must often wonder heiw a pure mind can possibly exist in such a vulgar habitation. All this is a perversion of the natural, ancl is criminal in character. But the horrible crime of prud- ishness is illustrated the most startling in the endeaveir to hide and ignore the sexual instinct. May heaven help the e-hildren of prudes, for no help, nei knowledge can be obtained from their parents. They will stand by and sec their children struggling in the mire and filth of sexual depravity without a word of assistance. They will see them go blindly, innocently up to and over the precipice eif self-abuse without a hint as to the true character of the terrible results that will follow this base habit. They are the perverts of the earth. They have no right tei curse others because of their impure minds. They ought to be jailed just like any other dangerous criminal. The lowest beasts of the field protect their offspring from destructive influences, but prudes consider themselves too extremely refined to mention sexual subjects, though in reality their minds are usually so rotten with impurity that they need to be cleaned and disinfected as bad as any ordinary sewer. It is considered a crime to cripple or kill a man, and when an engineer kills and cripples.scores of persons by neglect he is considered criminally liable. But prudes, placed in the position of parents, allow their children to deform and weaken their bodies, demoralize and degrade their minds and morals, and at times produce even death, by their criminal prudishness and neglect, and no voice of protest is heard. Look back on childhood and youth, you men, you women, and recall the knowledge that you had to acquire by physically degrading and demoralizing influences. When you were enclosed in the throes of this mental and at times physical agony, did you never think of the plain duty of your parents? Have * you ever wondered if the barbaric rites and cruelties of savages could have such physically deteriorating influences as this worse than savage neglect ? All hail the day when this curse of prudishness, with its vulgar idea of the nude,has disappeared. Then our boys and girls will have some chance of growing into manhood, into womanhood, without being weakened and demoralized physically and mentally because of sexual ignorance.���Physical Culture. A movement is on foot in some parts of the States to induce the court judges to abandon their simple republican dignity and revert to the custom of the English justices by once more assuming the gowns, because it is a "symbolic aid calculated to impress the people with the dignity and importance of the bench." What rot! When the bench has to resort to symbolism to uphold the dignity of the law, it is time to go out of business. There is already too much "symbolism" about justice, too much cloaking of the law and too little sure and swift justice. Canada is suffering from this very thing. If you wont love, then hate. 15S LOWERY'S CLAIM. (March, is* the The News Department of the C. P.R. has its knife into this journal. It declines to sell it through the regular news agents on the trains, and attempts to prevent sub agents from handling it. Why is this so? This journal deals in more truth than any other publication in America, and is feared by all grafters, theological or otherwise, wbo live upon the fears and ignorance of the human family. Some of this class must have persuaded the News Department that this journal was too vile for publicity, or perhaps the manager of the Department is a namby-pamby cuss with a Presbyterian set of morals, or a brain warped by priestcraft in bis youth. His news agents sell vile cigars and cigarettes. They sell novels, seething with trashy thought,and newspapers filled with political lies, and lurid descriptions of rapes, hold-ups, murders and suicides. Then why not let them sell the Claim? Its only sin is telling the truth. It fears no god, man nor devil. It advocates freedom for the people. It believes in placing woman upon a higher pedestal than she has ever occupied under church, state or society. It believes in the freedom of thought and the uplifting of every human being. It sails under no false flag, and bows to no creed or man-made god, yet it defies any man to prove that its teachings are not for the benefit of the masses against those who would hold the race in mental and physical bondage. And that is why the Claim is not sold on the cars. It probes too deeply into the shams of church, state and society to suit the grafters who generally ride in Pullman cars. workshops were then ordered to cease from business on Sunday. Charlemagne forbid work of any kind on Sunday. Hence it appears that man and not God has made the Sunday laws, in the past as well as the present. The first law in regard to Sunday observance was made by Constan- tine in 321 A.D. The courts and Life in Mexico The Mexicans may love gold but they do not work themselves into a fever over it. They will ne>t allow railroads to run into their towns. The roads land their passengers three or four miles out of town and you have to walk in or ride in a wagon. This system no doubt saves many lives, as the "greasers" are so slow they would find it difficult to keep out of the way of the cars if the trains ran through the towns. The male Mexican is lazy by nature and education. He is fond of horses, and loves to sit in the sun all day. smoking cigarettes and watching the women work. Me is jealous to a showdown, but can be very polite to strangers in the day- j time. After night he is liable to cut jTou up the back if you have a! few dollars in your je��ans, and no! gun in your hand. The female Mexican is a hot bird. She is so jealous over anything she loves tbat it is not safe to step on her claim. If you do it is liable to be all off with the Dudleys, provided she gete her dagger out first. Virtue, as it is known in the north.does not* exist to any alarming extent amongst Mexican women. The nude is not objectionable, for men and women go in swimming together without any clothes on. Their towns are extremely filthy owing to the fact that the only water closet is the street. The Mexican is full of religion. He and she go to church and act in the most devout manner possible. They pray long, count their beads, and bow to all the pictures of saints until their necks are in danger of being Ixiwed. After church they go to bull-fights, dances, monte games, ancl the other general agencies of the devil, and often wind up the day with a few uiur- j dors. Surely the Christian church is off the trail in Mexico. They have various kinds of liquors. You ean get 5 drinks for 10 cents. One or two drinks of their mescal (made from cactus root) will enable a man to own a town. I met one saloon man who was also police magistrate. He had the greatest cinch I have ever seen, but then that is the custom. The man who sells the lioozerine often deals out the law. Mexico is a rich country, but its people t>e- long to the Dark Ages. I could not get a single subscription to this journal in the whole country. The Negro Problem. We hear a great deal about this question from the white man's jHiint of view, but the* following interview, which .lames Creelman reoonla with President Hyppolite eif the Haytian Republic, ia his book, "On the Great Highway.'' will lie of Interest to those who are giving this subject thought. It shows what a colored mau thinks of the "Negro Question": "We are < on tent to lie as we are." said President Hyppolite. ���We have learned to look with suspicion upon all schemes for our island coming from white men. We know that they would overrun us if we gave them tlm opportunity. What has your nation done for our race?" "it has poured out blood and money, and laid waste whole states in order to make the black man the equal of the white man." I answered. "Has it? It has cheated the negro with promises that are never kept, and with laws that are never enforced. The blacks of the United MarOh,19M.| LOWERY'S CLAIM. ���IS3 States are kept in a state of inferiority from which they can never rise. You cannot name one negro Governor of a state, although there are several American states in which the whites are outnumbered by the blacks. The people of Hay ti won their independence from their white masters by the sword, and they will keep it by the sword. The United States tried to get us to give them the Mole St. Nicholas for a coaling station; but we are not fools. No white nation seeks a foothold in this island except as a basis for conquest." "That is a remarkable statement," I said, "when you recall the fact that, but for the warning given by Mr. Monroe, a President of the United States, to the Heily Alliance, Hayti would have been reconquered by France." "Ah, yes! the Monroe Doctrine! Always the Monroe Doctriue!" cried Hyppolite. "But the history of the world shows that no race can develop unless it develops itself: no race can be free unless the means of freedom are in its own hands; and no white people ean look at a rich country inhabited by negroes without desiring to secure it for themselves. We are free, and we intend to remain free. You see a negro holding the highest oflice in the nation. Would that le possible if the United States or any other white government had control? No. Each race must live apart- to be free. When the races mix, one race or the other must fall into a condition of inferiority." '���And the negroes of Africa?" I interrupted. "Will they, too, be able to maintain governments of their own?" "Probably not. They are unarmed, and surrounded by white ��� nations. But this is a question for the future. The example of Hayti may yet play a iiart in the destiny of Africa." Thomas Paine was among the first tojadvocate the independence of the colonies. His pamphlets, the Crisis and Common Sense, did more to inspire the soldiers than anything else. It was Paine who named "The United States of America," and also helped to write the Constitution. He was one of the greatest lovers of liberty the world has ever seen, and possessed a noble and fearless soul. Roosevelt, now President of the States by accident, wfote a book some years ago in which he called Paine "a dirty little atheist." He has never retracted the statement, probably because he wants the vote of creed worshippers. Tom Paine was not an atheist, ancl his name will be bright in the world long after that of Roosevelt will have been buried in oblivion. Thoughts of Thinkers. Every age has a thousand sides and signs and tendencies; and it is only when surveyed from interior points of view that great varieties of character appear.���Emerson. How hardly fate uiay cast thy lines, how oppressed with toil or with misfortune mocked, faint not, nor, self-accused,bow down to dark despair. To bewail disappointment is but a waste of virtue. The energy expended in a groan in sufficient to achieve a multitude of victories. Let each defeat encourage a newr resolution. ��� Henry Frank, in The Shrine of Silence. I can see no explanation or excuse or toleration for those who, in these advanced days of enlightenment, are still trying to teach that the books of Moses are the work of divinely-inspired men, and that their teachings were right and just. Such men are the enemies of progress. They repeat what they have been taught, like so many parrots. They are not to be trusted as guides or teachers. If such as they had been the exclusive controllers of religious thought (as they have endeavored to be) we should still be torturing dumb beasts and burning their flesh for "a sweet savor unto the Lord."���John S. Hawley, *in Fearless Bible Reading. Say nothing of ray religion; it is known to myself and my God alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it can not be a bad one. It is a singular anxiety which some people have that we should all think alike. Would the world be more beautiful were all our faces alike, were our tempers, our talents, our tastes,our forms, our wishes, aversions and pursuits cast exactly in the same mould ? If no variety existed in the animal, vegetable, or mineral creation, but all were strictly uniform, catholic and orthodox, what a world of physical and moral monotony it would be! These are the absurdities into which those run who usurp the throne of God and dictate to him what he should have done.���Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson. Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. From its twilight in Greece, through the Italian worship of the Virgin, the dreams of chivalry, the justice of the civil law, and the equality of French society, we trace her gradual recognition, while our common law, as Lord Brougham confessed, was, with relation to woman, the opprobrium of the age of Christianity. For forty years earnest men and women, working noiselessly, have washed away the opprobrium, the statute books of thirty states have been remodeled, and woman stands today almost face to face with her last claim���the ballot. It has boen a weary and thankless, though successful, struggle. But if there be any refuge from that ghastly curse, the vice of great cities, before which social science stands palsied and dumb, it is in this more equal recognition of women.���Wendell Phillips, inJ1881. IM LOWERY'S CLAIJt. Radiate Truth-Life gy Elbert Hubbard, in The Philistine >ftftK>&)^ The supreme prayer of my heart It is a great thing to keep silence is, not to be learned, rich, famous, without being glum���to down your powerful, or "good," but to be critics without saying a word, and Radiant add to your friends by holding your I desire to radiate health, calm peace. And since language can courage, cheerfulness and good- never explain to one who does not will. [already know, and since words are I wish to live without hate, whim,: never a vindication, silence, when jealousy, envy or fear. I wish to be simple,honest,frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected���ready to say ballasted by soul, is effective le- yond speech. Pentecost is just a plain healthy man, who has secured freedom by "I do not know" if so it le,to meet j holding fast to the truth (until it all men on an absolute equality��� !has become a habit of mind) that to face any obstacle and meet every j there is no devil but fear, and the difficulty unabashed and unafraid, j Reality (God) is on his side. I wish others to live their lives, j This man has gotten so good a too���up to tlieir highest.fullest and 'hold upon Truth that he can, to a best To that end I pray tbat I degree, live it. And so I prize as may never meddle, interfere, die- especially valuable the following tate,give advice that is not wanted, ; statement concerning the Basic or assist when my services are notj Elements of Truth, as it seems to needed. If I cau help people I'll Mr. Pentecost do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift I All is One.���There is but one Reality. Matter, Mind, Spirit, or inspire, let it bo by example, in- j thoughts, things are but manifesta- ference and suggestion rather than ! tions of the one Reality. What by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be radiant���to radiate life. the Reality is no one knows. We know only forma, appearances. Matter exists,Mind e��xists, but only as expressions <if the one Reality. It is a great and beautiful thing; II. All is Good.���All things to bc patient if wrongfully accused; 'work together for good. Some to lie so strongly girded 'round things are better than others, but with right that you can meet slan- all things are good. Sickness, der bv silence, and calumny with a poverty, war, casualties, death, si nil.?. There is no such thing as work together for good the same as "righteous indignation1'���tbc term health, wealth, peace, security und has an apologetic touch and was life. coined by some pious pedant whoseI 111. All is Power,���Weakness temper often ran with hima-muck. |is but a slight or lesser degree of I have seen Pentecost placed in positions where an average man power. Tin' one Reality is Power, and this power is available for our would simply have boiled over, but. every need. All that we need is Hugh ic was absolutely unruffled to know how to call it to our use. inside and out. He doesn't play and to appropriate it. the devil's tattoo, sneeze, cough, rook, jig, twitch, amble, mince or monkey with his watch chain. He can relax and keep quiet,no matter how great the din. IV. All is Wisdom.���The universe is the expression of Perfect Wisdom, therefore there never was and never will be a mistake. What we call mistakes are unsuccessful M , tttAab*, lisi efforts to reach perfection,by means of which unsuccessful efforts we learn. That which teaches me cannot be a mistake. V. All is Love.���-The universe is the expression of Perfect Love. Perfect Power, Perfect Wisdom and Perfect Love constitute a combination against which there can be no opposition. Almighty Power renders opposition impossible; Perfect Wisdom permits nothing but harmony; Infinite Love devises nothing but Good. VI. Desire is the only Motive. ���The universe and all it contains moves, acts, only from desire. Will, in the sense of volition, is merely a servant of Desire. We will to do nothing except what we desire. When we speak of a person with a strong will, we mean that the said person has a strong desire. It is easy to will to do what we wish to do. The desire to eat goes before the movement of the body towards food. We will to eat because we wish to eat. VII. There can be but one Desire, viz.: The Desire to be Happy. ���In this we are not free agents. It is impossible to wish to be miserable. There is no one word that describes the single desire of the universe. Happiness is a good word if we give it a large meaning, including pleasure, comfort, peace of mind, blessedness. It is impossible to wish for anything but happiness,or to will to de> anything except to promote our happiness,in the* large sense here spoken eif. VIII. Once understand that our only motive Is the Desire for Happiness,and Life becomes a Pleasure. ���The slavery called Duty is over, and we arise into the glorious free- eleini of doing whatever we dei because it is a pleasure. The only reason why anyone does his "duty" is because it is a pleasure, but if wc; tako our pleasure from a "sense of duty" we are slaves, whereas if we do our "duty" because we enjoy it, we are free. IX. Without Freedom and the ������'��������� tlASCtt.ftft*.} L0WfiftY*8 CLAIM. 11.11 11 15* Sense of Freedom Life is a Drudgery.���As a matter of fact every one not physically confined is free to do exactly as he pleases all the time, but few realise this, and consequently live in the sense of slavery, which is a kind of death. X. The one motive is the De- lire for Happiness, but Permanent Happiness is only Possible by living for Others.���It is better to give tban to receive. It is said of Jesus that "for joy that was set before Him He endured the cross." The only permanent joy is found in the cross. To live for others is a purely selfish performance. As soon as we discover how happy service for others makes us, we become what is called "unselfish," but there is, as a matter of fact, no unselfishness. Numbers of people become selfrighteous or make themselves miserable because they do not know- that tbeir "unselfishness" is purely ���elfish. When I know that I do a "heroic" thing because I want to. I don't care to be praised for it.. XI. Courage is the Condition of Success.���Courage comes from a profound belief in the first five doctrines here laid down. No one can do his best who is timid���afraid of his outside and of his inside: of Ms environment ancl of himself. XII. Physical Health is Promoted by Healthful and Happy Thinking.���As a general projiosi- tion the body is an expression of the mind. If the mind is healthy the body will be healthy. Asa man thinketh in his heart so is he. P*t��nt-M��dieine Fakirs. About the lowest scoundrels on the face of this earth are those who rob the poor, weakened, eliseaseMi victims of money and health by making false promises as to the virtue and powers of their remedies. Ordinary burglary is highly respectable business compared to this. But according to law the latter is a crime and the former an honorable occupation. Who interferes with the thousands of advertising quacks���and many who do not advertise���whose sole object is to extract money from the soul-tortured victim of weakness. Every intelligent man knows them to be quacks and rascals of the lowest order, but they go on year after year in their nefarious business, and not an effort is made to curtail the crimes they daily commit. Talk aliout men being so mean that they would steal pennies off dead men's eyes���why, these despicable scoundrels would steal even the clothes. They are the scurf of the earth���the off-scourings of! crime and criminals. Nobody knows better than thev their rem- edies are valueless, ancl that in many cases they actually stimulate; and result in serious injury. But, what do thev care? Their sole aim 9/ is to make money, and they will 9/ 9/ adopt any means in order to accomplish this object. The penitentiary is too good for such debased scoundrels. It is bad j enough to rob a man in possession of all his powers, but when the confidence of a sufferer is gained, by the pretence of friendship or j professional ability,and then abused by deceit for financial gain, there is no tit punishment for such criminals. Such rotten specimens of j manhood ought to be hung out in the desert as fit food for carrion. Suppose an emaciated, decrepit person was walking along a crowd- eel thoroughfare, and a man should kneick him down, take all his vain-; ables, and injure him severely. | That would be a crime, would it not? Hut bow does such a crime j differ from that already described?! The only difference is that there were no pretences of friendship made in the last-described robbery. A confidence man is one of the most despicable of all criminals, ami these confidence men���medical fakirs -are far worse. The regulation confidence man only steals your money, but the latter often ! steals your physical power also,and at times even your life.-Macfadden. Thoughts ef Thinkers. It is too late in the day for men ; of sincerity to pretend they believe j in the Platonic mysticism that three are one and one is three, and yet that one is not three and the three are not one. But this constitutes the craft, the power, and the profits of the priests. Sweep away their gossamer fabrics of fictitious religion and they would catch no more flies. ��� Thomas Jefferson. The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all day,bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undis- ��* honored,, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. Amen.���Robert Louis Stevenson. There is lots of nonsense written about liarefooted virtue and patent- leather vice, but virtue does not go liarefooted voluntarily. She would get shoes if she could. A great many people pretend to think that good clothes and nice things generally mean that their possessors have robbed somebody and that they are guiltily spending their ill- gotten gains. All of which is a part of the poverty-hypocrisy en- couraged by Christianity.���Washburn. Supernatural ism is an utter absurdity; it is an impossibility, it is wholly an assumption, it is an imposition, it is a tyranny, it is an enemy, it is a constant ancl perpetual lie. Nothing has done so much barm in the world ns an acceptance of the supernatural. Supernaturalism is the doctrine of Gods and devils, of purgatory and hells, of wretchedness and lies; but nature is at the same time the fountain of life, the cause of existence, the source of all truth.���D.M- Bennett. I5e; LOWERY'S CLAIM. mmmmmm When Gabriel Galls. *����� Here lies the dead 'neath headboards stained by time, In graves uncared for; rudest heaps of earth; Rough men whose lives on earth were black with crime, Devoid of every mark of honest worth. In ways unnatural they met with death. In blood stained garments they were hid from sight, A curse clung to each victim's dying breath, And hatred lit their eyes till dimmed of light, With boots yet on their sinful feet they'll lie Till Gabriel's trumpet echoes from on high. Here lies old Texas Joe, who met his death From hand of one who was of quicker fire, And Tuscarora Sam, whose fund of breath Slipped from him when he called Black Bill a liar. And here is Poker Frank, who tried to steal The frayed affection of Sport Daly's dame, And this rude board stands over Brocky Teak, Whom drink had made unsteady in his aim When with shooters he and Grizzly Pete Went out to hunt each other on the street. Here lies the shot-up frame of Smoky Tim, Whose stolen horse lacked necessary speed; And close beside him sleeps old Greaser Jim, Who was by vigilantes roped and treed. Just over there lies Sacramento Joe, Who died with boots too full of wiggling snakes. And just beyond they planted Tommy I.owe, Who made a fatal play to grab the stakes From "oft" the table in a game of draw��� "Bit off," the boys said, "more than be could chaw." Here's Bob the Methodist and Sleepy Ike, And Doughface Henderson ami Whiskey Mack, And ]*>.>r Jot Bowers (not the man from Pike), And^Faro Dick and Three-Fingered Jack, And others, names unknown, lie in this sj>ot; And standing in tbis border burial ground, Rude and uncared for, comes the passing thought That when the dead wake at the trumpet sound Clld Gabriel will be filled with mute surprise To see this gang <>f thoroughbreds arise f ���Denver Post. it-i [March, wo* Sexless Nonenities Physieal Culture Attains Physical CUeaklings ^ Admitting that marriage is fun-1 marriage's under such abnormal damentally a physical institution. I conditions. Although the men are* that whatever the exalted height of far from the physieal standard that the regard existing between the contracting parties, it is made peis- sible first by physical attraction, then call to mind the average physical condition of those who have entered and are still entering the holy bonds of matrimony. When such facts are viewed the great wonder is not why there are so few but why there are so many happy they should approximate, the principal fault is to be found in the female sex, for as far as the marital relations are concerned, it is the woman who should have control, anel should be blessed with that physical excellence which will supply the finer instincts essential un- der such circumstances. The female human animal should lie as strong in proportion to the male as is the female of lower' animals. That the average woman falls far below this standard ho one will deny. The female cat," clog, horse or lion is but little weaker than the male of their own species, and in a race can usually run about as fast as the male. Woman should be as strong in comparison with man. Of course there are excuses and causes for feminine weakness. Wifh their vital organs crushed by 'the corset and with every meivemeVit curtailed by a skirt, and with teachers and parents continually impressing upon them at every step in their education the importance of dignity and ladylike '"behavior, which means that the'y must daily violate tbe most important** lavf <Sf nature in ignoring the necessity for regular use of the muscular system, can we expect the��m "to grow into fine, vigorous, well-sexed women"? This lack of physical excellence*, more especially among women, is unquestionably one of the greatest causes of marital unhappiness. Although men are supposed to select their wives, iu reality the woman does the selecting, and if all her physical forces* are not developed to their full completeness; she has not the sentences of'discrimination in sexual selection that she could possess under more normal conditions. Hence sheuojten selects a man for a husband, not because she loves him with all the devotion, intensity and power that should accompany every true, marriage, but liecause he will enable her to advance socially,or to satisfy other ambitions. In au insipid way she may believe that she loves some other man more than tlie one she marries,but in her eyes he may not be her equal, or may hot' fie able to give her the position aftd influence desired, and"hs - tin* strength, emotions and jniwer of a true woman are still dormant *cin her undeveloped body, she is fri* capable eif loving any one to titij * -I March, lsert.J LOWERY'S CLAIM. ist great degree of intensity,ancl therefore cloes not alleiw hive to influence her choice'.* What pitiable e>bjects such women are! They go through life cotd, heartless, pitiless, unfeeling cieafcures. T,hat divine desire of'e"Very fnfe* woman's soul for mot lier hood, for the prattling voices of their own lovely children, they never experience. They are not women���not men. They are sexless nonenities that exist a certain number of years and then die. The world is made darker, gloomier and uioW'severe because of their influence at times, but rarely, if ever, is it made better. Marriage for position or money, or to satisfy other desires than love is made possible simply and entirely by the lack of that virile* power which accompanies superb physical health. A finely sexed, fully developed Womanly woman could no more marry without love than fire could mingle with water. Her whole physical, mental aid moral lieing would cry out with repugnance and loathing against such a union. As a first step in marital unhap- piness, because e>f thc lack of physical excellence, many women con- e tract loveless marriages, which always start and end unhappily. For the need of this same physical powerT'Svhich carries with it the normal instinct necessary to protect a woman from the more gross passions' of tier marital partner, the life'of many a married couple becomes a most harassing existence'. and in addition the woman sutlers nieist serious physical torture's from the effeets of unnatural excesses. TheVeis nothing that predisposes a woman scv strongly towards that which if right, natural and moral as the'fifier instincts of superb animal-"power. Such a woman is moral because her every desire, her every instinct is in favor of morality. Such a woman has no dilliculty in finding and���what is more important���keeping a husband, for the simple reason that she respects the strong instincts of her nature, and forces her husband to do likewise, thus retaining and increasing day by clay his respect and his love. The entire conventional idea of marriage and the duties of a wife to her husband are abnormal, and unquestionably these perverted theories have done much towards bringing about the unsatisfactory matrimonial condition now almost universal. The civil ceremony is supposes! to give to man every privilege he may desire. The wife is supposed to le subject to his every wish. The laws of nature or the laws of (Joel warrant no such conclusion. In fact it is plain that the wishes of the wife should be paramount ��� that the husband should be subject to and controlled by her. When this outrage to woman and the plain laws of nature, in ber total subjection to man iu marital life, is fully milized,one eif the principal causes of diseases peculiar to her sex is plain to any unprej udiced reasoner. How many thousands of young women, apparently in good health, enter the realms of matrimony.and as a result find that their health of body and mind lias been sacrificed. It should not be. It is often the result of the perverted impression that marriage means total subjection to the wishes of another. On the "rocks" of this false conclusion are shattered the happiness, health and future prospects of millions of married couples. Herein lies the paramount importance of superb tutions formed by man for the purpose of annoying people under the guise of doing good. Thought Thei*e Would Be a Fight. Up in Clay county several years ago a Christmas frolic ended in a tragedy. Old Mrs. Philpott was a witness at the trial. "Tell us all about the fight." said the lawyer. *'I never seed no fight,'' replied the old lady. "Well, then, tell us what you did see,'' remarked the lawyer in a careless sort of way, taking her at her word. Mrs. Philpott moved her sun- bonnet back, lit ber pipe and proceeded: "Cy Sewell he gave a Christmas dance, an' me' an' a whole lot of others was tbar. The boys an' gals tbey got to danciu', an' as the boys went dancin' round an' round they got to slappin' each other, an' finally one boy he slapped another boy too bard���harder than he al- lowed to���an' knocked him down. An' the boy what got knocked down be jumped up an' jerked out a great big knife, 'bout long as your arm, an' whacked the fellow that knocked him down right across the middle from side to side. An' then the brother of the fellow what got cut be pulled a British bulldog 'bout the size of a bam, an' he let go six 44's right squar at the fellow who had the knife���an' jest then Bill Smiley���Bill's cousin of Jake physical health. Notwithstanding Hayes who got shot���come runnin' the' iniiuence that may be' imposed jouten oie man Sewell's room with on a woman by what she may haveIa double-barreled shotgun an' let cause to believe is her duty, sbe I oil' both barrels right into the will not stoop to anything that will crowd; an' oie man Sewell got ex- outrage her physical instinct if she cited an' jerked a Winchester ouen possesses all the power, beauty and from under the bed an' went to health conjoined to superb, whole- pumpin' lead into the gang; an' by some' womanhood. If the people were strong enough to resist slavery there' won lei be no such thing as a Lord's Day Alliance in Canada. It is one of the insti- that time the house was full o' smoke an' flashin' an' holleriii',an' 1 seed thar was goin' to be a fight, so I left the house." Preachers marry more for money than love. ���5M BJHSHBBJBa 18S LOWERY'S CLAIM. Unhealthy WomeR Overeating the Great Sane te Happiness^ ^^ li One of the greatest evils with which all women, and men, too, have to contend, is over eating. The alcohol curse has assumed proportions. It brings weakness, and at times excruciating agony to to the homes of its victims, and those closely connected with them. But I firmly believe that over eating is so much greater in its ravages thau alcohol, that the latter evil is of insignificant importance in comparison. The sin of over eating is universal. It can be found in every *p home���at every fireside. Hardly a woman lives to day under civilized conditions who has not sacrificed a certain degree of her physical lower and beauty to this sin. I do not necessarily mean by over eating that one is in the habit of stuffing herself with food at every meal. I me��an simply eating beyond the power to digest. When the stomach is not in a condition to digest, no appetite exists. No matter how small may be the quantity, one who eats at such times commits the sin of over eating. How many of my readers are in the habit of eating three metals a day, or trying to eat three meals a day? They will naturally argue that this has been the custom for years, and why should anything different be productive of superior results ? Regardless of the dictates of the appetite, when the usual hour for eating appears, one is supposed to at least attempt to eat. How often have I heard the remark, "Well, I am not hungry, but I will try to eat something, for I am sure to be hungry before the next meal." There you have it! Persued by a constant dread of being hungry before the next meal. Why, my friends, hunger is the most exquisit of all sauces. There is not equal to it. Not only is it valuable from this standpoint; but it accurately indicates that the digestive organs are ready for food���that they are in a condition to use nourishment to the best possible advantage. For heaven's sake dou't be a 4'duty eater." Duty eaters never acquire an appetite, never experience a feeling of hunger. They will not allow themselves an opportunity to become hungry. They always eat in advance of hunger; and therefore this delicious sauce is never amoug their |iossessioiis. How many weak, frail, delicate women owe their condition to the sin of over eating. They usually feel langiud and chronically tired. They go to l>ed tired, they get up tired, and how often you hear them say 4,I uever have any appetite, but I must eat to keep up my my strength. I get weak and faint if I don't force myself to eat," Thus the situation continues. What can I do to make you realize that it requires energy to digest food just as it does to walk, to lift a weight, or perform any muscular lalnir? Sow is it not clear that if this energy is used by the digestive organs to eliminate a meal that has been eaten whun not deiired eir required���that the nervous, muscular ancl mental energy will be vastly depreciated ? I want my readers to realize one Of great truth in the laws of hysiene and health, aud that is, the necessity for appetite in eating. If you have no appetite, wait until one is acquired. You need not have the slightest fear of its failure to appear. It is only a matter of time, and the kecnnc3S8 of hunger, the delicious flavor that foods assume under these circumstances, will not only vastly increase their enjoy- IMA1CM, is�� ment, but their true oflice, the proper nourishment af the body, will be performed in the healthful, normal manner. I challenge any weak woman to try this suggestion. In a vast number of cases I have seen women suffering from weaknesses of this nature,actually increase in strength while abstaining totally from food, for then the system was given an opportunity to "right itself/1 The poor, overworked organs of digestion secure a much needed rest, and the nerves and other functions of the body have an op- portunity to reach a normal degree of strength and health. Every physician will tell yoa tbat by far the greater majority of diseases begin at the stomach. I would make this a stronger statement by claiming that nearly all diseases have their beginning there, and I want to most emphatically emphasise that if ths stomach was properly treated, these diseases would never begin.��� Woman's Physical Development. Am I My Brother's Keeper ? That those shrivelled souls whe hope to force the redemption of the world by legislative action should so far outlive their time as to be a power in this day and generation of enlightenment and toleration does seem a trifle preposterous. Vet we still have them with us and they are legion. With them the scriptural interrogation is answered in an affirmative���not of love but of compulsion. In the prairie province ef Manitoba, where a goddess of liberty with a third class certificate enlightens the world from her little white school house shrine in every range aud township, these disciples of compulsory righteousness are astonishingly numerous. In the province of Ontario, which decorates herself with the proud assurance that sbe is the land of culture, intellect and all the attributes of * j; ;; i I f ** If ASOH. lMt] LOWERY'S CLAIM. 159 advancement,{these self-appointed regulators of their neighbor's lives hold unbounded sway. The day has passed when these good folk may kill the un regenerate on sight as the Puritans did the Indians, or burn at the stake they who differ in theology, as Calvin did Servitas. But the spirit of the blue laws and the inquisition is rampant still and expresses itself in enactments to force sanctimoniousness, down freedom of thought, speech and action, and fence with the barb wire of prejudice the broad free pastures of love wherein the nobler better man might thrive and feast his soul. Such is the spirit iu which prohibition laws are enacted. "Am I my brother's keeper?" "Yes- ancl if the brother in the minority does not do, think and act as we order, we shall demonstrate the beauty of our fraternal regard by placing him behind the liars." It seems to me that these* prohibitionists have shot very wide of the mark. No one disputes that intemperance wastes the body and warps the soul. No one denies the evil of drink. That whiskey is a curse is admitted without demur. But that intemperance can be abolished by legislative action is entirely another phase of the case. Hedging men's habits with a law to prevent them falling is like sending a man up in a balloon and asking him to walk back. Prohibitory enactment will not prevent drunkenness. It will make men hypocrites, sneaks and liars. It may diminish the sale of chemically pure whiskey, but it will boom the production of Vanilla extract, pain killer and red ink. Fundamentally, the principle of prohibition is founded on the error and ignorance of prejudice. It is the impotent attempt of he wbo weiuld be his brother's keeper to become his brother's dictator rather than his teacher. It reverses all the laws of brotherhood and sets in its place the clay-footed idol of force. It turns the clock back three thousand years and places us beside the Manchureans who forced the con- quered Mongrels to shave their heads. Christ's Miracles. In exact ratio as a people increase in intelligence, miracles decrease in frequency. So we find the world forever peering into the shadowy past for expositions of the miraculous. We find a Christian civilization of the twentieth century groping in the darkness of Judae- ism for proof of the wondrous works of a man called Christ, who is reported to have healed the sick, raised the dead and turned water into wine. We know that the Hebrews as a people were ignorant. We know that they were the self- elected chosen people of God; that they were so provincial in their learning that they would not give ear to any knowledge that did not originate within Cathay came there to increase their store of learning and compare notes. The wisdom of the known world centred in Memphis. It was called the home of learning. Christ himself, we are told, was carried out of Jerusalem while yet a little child and taken to the city of Memphis. Here he attended the schools with thousands of other children. Only once, at the age of twelve, did he visit the land of his nativity. Then he returns to Memphis to complete his education and finally re-appears, a full-grown man, schooled in all the sciences of Memphis, to teach a new philosophy and do wondrous works among the Hebrews. But how about the people of Memphis? They record no miracles in his name. They tell of no wondrous works which he performed while in their midst. Their history did not change because of his presence. They treat him as they did thousands and hundreds themselves. We ! of thousands more of their scholars, record the fact that Know that they lived unto thein- by failing to selves, refusing to mix, fraternize he lived. or blende with all other people. Why should these miracles be We know that they were intensely unfolded to the benighted Hebrws bigoted; that they despised all and not to the enlightened scholars who did not accept the tenets of of Memphis? If they were bona their narrow, selfish faith. We ride miracles would they not know that as a pe?ople they were be much more readily accepted by hypocritical, uncharitable and uu- a people who had all the light of truthful. We know that they their age than by a people who sat were a conquered, brow-beaten, in darkness? Any reasonable man down-trodden race, harboring all would answer, Yes. But the solu- the intrigue and stultification tion of the mystery is within itself, which the shackles of bondage Christ worked no miracles. He would place on such a people. did no wondrous things. He Among these Hebrews we say taught no new philosophy. He that Cfirist was kirn and we search preached on the streets of Jerusa- their records for a history of his lem the beautiful truths he had wondrous works. Why uot turn learned in the city of Memphis. elsewhere for his record ? In the He turned to account the sciences city of Memphis, in the land of of au advanced race to relieve Egypt, lived an enlightened peo- suffering in a degenerate one. pie. Memphis had colleges greater ��� in the number of students than J. Pierpont Morgan has paid in uie fll J five hundred thousand dollars for any which now exist. Ail tne Raphael>s Madonna. The picture philosophy of all lands was taught cam0 high but j P. lives in a there. Scholars from India, Christian country and can mulct Rome, (Jreece and even far off | his workingmen for the amount* 160 LOWERY'S CLAIM. What is Meant by "Christian." In an impeachment of our arch- isticeconomic and social system, a writer in the "Arena" on the cause of anarchism says : " Anarchism could not be, were society well organized and industry just and Christian. It is the cry of insane wrath against the horrors of our civilization���a civilization that dooms hosts of hardworking men to squalid poverty, joyless toil, hourly fear of the morrow, ghastly disease, and ultimately death, and that opens below to hosts of hard-working, half- starved women the hell of harlotry.' ' As with the word "religions," it all depends on what we mean by the word "Christian" when used in connection with "industry." The writer of ihe " Arena" article may have a revised creed of his own making, but if "Christain" ethics are really based upon the creeds of the leading denominations known by that name, including the Remand Greek Catholic���the mothers and grandmothers of all the younger Christian secte���then it is nothing to be wondered at that Christians rob and butcher each other in cheir wars of conquest, or that they rob and starve each other in their industrial wars, or that they look with unconcern upon the hells of economic suffering, the hells of vice and of crime caused by their own narrow selfishne��ss and remorseless greed. Catholic orders seeking refuge in England from the effects of recent legislation. At a meeting in Albert hall recently the immense building was packed to tho doors with enthusiasts pledged to uphold Protestantism of the nation and to demand the suppression of the mass and confessional in the Established Church, into which it is contended they bave been introduced through the Government's abuse of patronage and by certain bishops in defiance of law. Viscount Mid- dlet-on presided, supported by Lord Kiunaird and Lord Overton, some members of parliament, prominent evangelical clergymen, and the notorious anti-Ritualist book-seller Kensit. The speeches declared that there was a conspiricy afloat to undermine the Protestant religion, and denounced the dangers of the introduction into Great Britain of bodies of celibate, militant Catholics, who profess to be driven out of their own countrv ** by persecution. Was it not a fact, asked Viscount Middleton, that these orders were compelled, sooner or later, to quit any country where they established them selves because they only acknowledged the authority of their own superiors, regardless of the law of the land ? He protested amid enthusiastic! applause against the planting among English Protestants of communities of men with such a record. [M ASCII 190* Resolutions embodying the objects of the meeting were passed with uuanimous fervor. One of these insisted upon the retention in the Sovereign's oath of the rejection of the "Distinctive errors of the Church of Rome.'' Another condemned successive governments for allowing violations of the law forbidding monks and Jesuits to reside in Great Britain, the existence of such communities in the country being pernicious to society and dangerous to good government. The leading opposition to this journal comes from people who profit by keeping the truth away from the dupes within the power of their grafts. Can a poker player lie a gentleman and raise his hand against a woman ? Tourists and Strangers Whon In New ix-nvrr. will find tlie Xkwmarkkt Hotrl a k'""<l ;-ii-w-��- lo camp over niirht. Fro<�� it- i-.il�� ������in- -.th*' rtm-flt ���v.'ii.-ry In tho world can be wen without ������ \u i ��� h.��rk'i*-*L3^S> z*Js> ���*���*���-, " \ After the Jesuits. The spirit of ultra-Protestantism inherent in a large section of the British public is indulging just now is one of the periodical manifestations. 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