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GOOD NEWS.
Septe mber. 1917
NEWS
' ' ( FORMERLY THE . FOOLKILLER )
A Monthly Message of Warning
and Counsel and Comfort to
a Stricken World. ' " , .
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James Larkin Pearson, ..- Editor
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HOW DOES IT STRIKE YOU?
NORTH CAROLINA.
If you think this dope I am giv
ing you is something new that I
have just gotten hold of and
thought it would do for a sensa
tion, you are badly mistaken.
It may be sensational to some
folks, but it isn't new at all. It is
as old as the Bible, and the fact
that you didn't know" it was in
there ain't my fault. .
Millions of people have believed
these things for a long time, and
millions more are beginning to be
lieve them these days. It is no
new revelation ,to me, but has
been gradually unfolding before
my eyes for several years. I have
been just on the verge of launch
ing this campaign two or three
times before, but decided the time
was not quite ripe for it. v
' Especially since the Great War
started .L.have been convinced that
we were in the closing soTies of
this age, and I have not felt satis
fied to go on being a mere clown
to make people laugh. ; My
' mouth has watered" more than
once to, say the things that I am
now saying, and at last they are
said. That is, some of them are
said. There is plenty more to say.
This is a mighty big subject, and
as the hurrying stream of events
lushes on it will get bigger. ,I
can only just touch the high
places in this issue. In future
issues ithere will be room t6 treat
the different phases of the ques
tion more at length. '
, Now, Mister, if you believe it or
don't believe it, I want the priv
ilege of talking to your head
about a quarter's worth, anyhow.
By that time you will either de
cide that I am a fool or that you
are one, and maybe both of us
will learn something. :
Now come ! Get up a 1&ig club
and send it in. And if you think
that way about it you can tell all
your friends that Pearson: has
suddenly gone crazy and they just
ougiit to watch his capers; . '
There is such an urgent demand
coming from many of my readers
for Good :NewSv. to be made a
weekly paper, that I have decided
to put it up to the whole bunch
and see what you all say.
If I undertake to get it out
every week it will, of course, be
necessary to get more machinery
and more help. This has been a
sort of one-man concern hereto
fore, but it has often been more
than one man could manage very
well. And I wouldn't think of
trying it weekly without getting a
good crew of hands and the neees
safv machircrv to do the work in
a business-like-way.
A Linotype Machine will be the
first and greatest need, and it will
cost about $2,500. It will be used
to set the type for the paper and
to handle the mailing list. I can
make out a few months with the
press I have by running it pretty
steady, but soon a faster one will
be required. y
If I do make it a weekly. I want
to also enlarge the pages to stand
ard six-column- size just twice
as big as they are now- and thus
make room for some good clean
advertising to help pay .expenses..
That would make it take eight
times as much paper and postage
each month as it has been taking,
and all other expenses larger in
proportion. You can see at a
glace that it is going to take a big
pile of money to fit up , and run
such a business, and you readers
of Good-News are my only de
pendence to raise the money. It's
up to you. The way prices of
paper and other things are now I
will have to make the subscription
price $1.00 a year for single subs,
or 75 cents in clubs of, fomy or
more. Now if ENOUGH of you
want it that way, and want it
BAD ENOUGH, you can get it.
But you certainly MUST- under
stand that I can't print it week
ly just to please a few. You must
ALL get behind it and push. It
will be a job requiring the utmost
loyalty and co-operation of every
one. You must.-not only "wish
it well," but you must translate
your wish into actual cash and
send it 'here to help buy paper
and pay work hands. That is the
only possible way for you to get
Good News weekly.
Now here is my proposition:
I want to see how manv will be
game enough to send me One Dol
lar right quick to pay for a year's
subscription to. the weekly Good
News. If as many as Two Thou
sand will respond to this call
within the next two or three
weeks, I will order the Linotype
Machine and go to fixing for the
weekly paper at once. But if I
should happen to not get enough
money to ; enable me to start the
weekly, then what ? LISTEN ! If
you send the Dollar for the week
ly, and then for airy reason the
weekly failg to materialize, I will
just mark you as a paid-up sub
scriber to the monthly Good News
for 99 years. In other words,, you
will get , the monthly right on as
long as you and .the, paper both
live without ever ha yincr. to renew
again. So you see it don't, matter
whichway it -turns out you won't
lose anything. v
Now, friends, I am in deep
earnest about this, and I want you
to look at if in the same light. If
your eyes have been opened to
these great truths, ' it is your
solemn duty to help open the
eyes of others. Millions of men
have DIED for causes not half as
worthy as this, and surely you can
give ONE DOLLAIl for this
great cause, especially when you
will be getting the worth of it
back in the paper - every week.
There is a big field right now for
such a paper as I contemplate,
and it ought, to easily get a mil
lion subscribers.
And now let your Dollars be
gin to roll in thick and fast.
Remember that if only TWO
THOUSAND of you folks will
send me One Dollar each to help
buy a Linotype Machine, I will
give you Good News', weekly
right away. Who will be first?
And also remember that if the
weekly fails to start, then you
will be a LIFE-TIME subscriber
to the monthly. Thank you!
THE MAGNET AHD THE IRON.
I fully expected that a few of
my Socialist readers wQuld try
to kick out of the harness and
raise a big fuss over the change
I have made in the paper. But I
have been -happily surprised at
the smallness of the number. Not
more than a half-dozen have
shown any disposition to act ugly,
and even that half-dozen have
not taken it as hard as I expected.
Of course all that have objected
to the change belong to the agno
stic, atheist or infidel class. Tkev
don't believe in the Bible, and
they think anybody that doas be
lieve hi it is crazy. They think
it terrible that anybody would be
foolish enough to pay any atten
tion the Bible prophecies con
cerning what is to happen in the
last days'.
A few others that are not
Socialists have taken the same
stand. I now have proof that ' all
infidels are not in the Socialist
party, and that all Socialists are
not infidels. The great majority
of them are standing right with
me and-'have shown, added in
terest in the paper since it was
"born again."
To the little hand-full of Social
ist readers who seem to think tha
I jumped the track and turned
against them, I want to say this :
While I never have been able to
quite agree with some of Social
ism's economic teachings, I have
long recognized it as the nearest
approach to the truth as I saw it.
My sympathies have been with it
in preference to any other party.
My attention was first called- to
Socialism by hearing its enemies
cuss and abuse it, and T said to
myself, surely that must be a
good thing, else it , would not be
so bitterly abused and persecuted,
I have noticed that every good
cause has to : go through a period
of persecution ., before:, it gets
established, while bad , causes
J generally, have ... smooth sailing
right, from the start. Wherever
you find a new institution that is
persecuted, abused and lied about
by all the established institutions,
you may be reasonably sure "thera 1
is something good in it By fol
lowing that rule you can't go, very
far wrong.
So I looked into. Socialism and
found that it was headed in the
right direction. I soon discover
ed that it didn't have a very clear
view of the object it was driving
at: Its eyes were not fully open
ed to the truth, arid it saw, "as
through a glass, darkly, ' ' but
that was better than being totally
blind like the other parties.
The Socialist movement is noth
ing more nor less than the human
race groping f orwar and reach
ing up toward the glorious light
of the New Age that is soon to
come. The Millennial Age may be
represent' as a great magnet
and . the Socialist party as the.
piece of iron that first came with
in reach of its influence. The
very fact that the iron has felt
the pulling power, i& proof that
the magnet is there.
But the piece of iron that jumps
toward the magnet don't under
stand the power that makes it
move. If it could think at all it
Would no doubt think it was mov-
ing by its own power.
' And that is exactly the mis
take that Socialism has always
made and is still making. It
thinks it is moving forward by its
own power. It thinks it is going
to create a man-made' Millennium',
and do away wjith sin and restore
the blessings of paradise to the.
race all in its own power. With
its ' 'materialistic conception of
history," it leaves no room for
the knowledge and power' of God
in its movements. It don't realize
that there is a divine plan being
worked but through the slow pro
cess of the ages, and Miat men and
parties and governments are no
more than cogs in a wheel that is
driven by a Higher Power.
No, no, my dear comrades, I
have not turned back and desert
ed you. I have merely passed you
arid gone on ahead to a point
where I can see more dearly the
glorious goal toward which we
are all mo ving not by our own
power, but by the wisdom and
power of God. ;
; Read ' 1 The Times of the Gen
tdesi' this issue and see if I
ain't, got it figured out about
right. -s :
Again I say, don't take, my
word for - anything. Investigate
for yourself. And then if you i
find I have told the truth, per
haps you had better heed it
Get ready for. the Great Jubi
lee. If you possess millions, pre
pare to turn them loose, for all
wealth is, now going to flow back
to its proper level. - '
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