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1 Volume X. Boomer, North Carolina, May, 1920. Number 5. I I THE BONUS There is a scheme on foot, I note, Among the plutocrats who own us, "To buy the soldier boy's vote By giving him an extra bonus. The plutes who did not go and bleed But sat at home in safe protection They didn't think how they would need The soldier's vote 3t the election. But now the competition's atrong To see which gang of .office slackers Can toll the soldier boy along VVlkJU piuuiioc pic iUU( wuuwo crackers. The carpenters who built the camps Got ten bucks without hardly try ing; One buck, said our official scamps, Was quite enough to pay for dy ing. Alas, when voting time draws nigh, And office itch is burning hotter, They think of that official pie, And all their mouths begin to water. But if the soldier men who fought Are half z& brave as they have shown us, I do not think they can be bought With any politician 's bonus. James Larkin Pearson. ANOTHER STRAW VOTE An agricultural magazine call ed "Farm Life" is also conduct ing a straw yote which begins to look interesting. All the farm papers, you know, are extremely patriotic and loyal to the admin istration. They have all pointed to Woodrow Wilson as a second Messiah, and they have cussed the "radicals" and "Socialists" till you could almost smell sul phur. Quite naturally, then, it would seem that the bulk of their readers would be of the iiame stripe. It looks like they would just fall over each other to vote for Wilson and Palmer. One would think that Palmer es ecially would certainly get heavy vote among that class of readers, because of the distin- j?uished service he has rendered the country by rounding up "reds" and by keeping that crim inal Debs m prison. But, lo and behold, the latest report on Farm Life's straw vote .shows that the vote for that same criminal Debs is just equal to the combined vote of Wilson and Palmer! In other words, Wilson and Palmer are just half as popular, among the farming jjopulation as the man they are keeping in prison. Great raw-hide and bloody- bones ! What are we headed for next ? I hate mighty bad to ask so many embarrassing questions but I would just like to know if you have seen any "democracy" going around loose in your neigh- ijorhood. "MOULDING PUBLIC OPINION." I am a newspaper man. I have worked on daily papers, and I know something about their dir ty tricks and their dishonest, ly- ing habits. I know that nearly I all of the big daily papers are just as low-down sneaking mean; Movement. These sanctified and dishonest as the devil wants I millionaires were going to organ them to be. They simply WILL j ize the religious resources of the NOT tell the truth in any matter j country on a "business" basis that pertains to the great class j and just take the soul - saving struggle if they5 can possibly find j job out of God's hands and run a lie to tell. j it themselves. And the big dailies set the . Their idea seemed to be that pace for most of the big week- ies and monthlies. They all think they must trot right along n the same filthy track and tell the same sort of lies that the dai lies do. Whereever the daily press can manufacture a lie that will show up Socialism, radicalism or the abor movement in a bad light, they spread it plum across the front page m letters as big as cow-tracks. But if there ever comes up a truth so big that they can't entirely ignore it, they put a machine head on it (and a misleading one at that) and bury it among the advertisements a- way over at the back of the pa per where nobody will ever see it. And they call that "moulding public opinion!" For pity's sake! When will the public learn to have some opinions of its own, without having them "moulded in such a skewter-godlin manner as that? Now, Mister, maybe you can begin to see through some of the blood-and-thunder yams you read about Russia. Maybe you will be able to stand it without fainting when I tell you that nine-tenths of your "riots, blood shed; rapine and murder" never happened anywhere except in the clabbered cocoanuts of hired plutocratic newspaper writers. And your terrible jeemmy-fit a- bout men and women going to gether like the brute creation am came irom the same source. There was never a word of truth in it. Time after time the inde pendent and labor press of Amer ica have published positive proof that the charge was a lie, but the plute press never made the correction. Adding More Horrors to Death. The thought of dying is not pleasant to any of us, even when we believe that death is a condi tion of sleep and total uncon sciousness. But if we had to be lieve that we would stPl be alive after we die ,and that we would have to spend eternity tapping tables, ringing bells, manipulat ing ouija boards, and sending fool "messages" back to earth through some fetch-taked "spir it medium --sarn my skm it death wouldn't be a terrible thing, sure enough! "MOVEMENTS" AND "DRIVES." It is only about eight years ago that Mister J. Plutocrat Morgan and a few other millionaires got up a new "movement" to w;hich they gave the hif alutin name of "The Men and Religion Forward j they thought God was sorter old- fashioned m His methods of sav- ng the world, and that He was lot making the headway that might be made if better business methods were .applied to the work. They probably would have admitted that God was do ing very well considering His chances, but because he had nev er been to business college, and had never had any experience in Wall street, they were sorter sor ry lor God and proposed to step m and show Him how to run His business. These sanctified plutes had it all figured out on a money Tasis, and they could tell you exactly how many dollars and cents it would cost to save one soul. It was all a matter of money, and they were going to put their mil lions behind it and just "save souls" to beat the very Old Scratch. That was Mister Morgan's Men and Religion Forward Movement, and there was just about as much real Christianity m it as there is virtue in a public prostitute. The whole thing was an effort to pull the wool over the eyes of the common people and make it appear that the pot-bel lied plutes were winged angels sent from heaven to save the world. It was an effort to lull the poor industrial slaves to sleep and make them forget the hell of their present living con- itions while they dreamed of a heaven somewhere in the future. But the scheme didn't pan out quite like Mister J. Plute Mor gan and his millionaire . pals thought it would. The common people didn't show much eager ness to have their souls saved by the Morgan method, and so in the course of a year 01 two the great; "Men and Religion For ward Movement just quietly petered out and we never heard any more about it. But j ust now it seems that the plutes have decided to tiy their litle game of saving the world again. . This time they have har nessed up the Babylon preachers and hitched them on m the lead and they have named their new wool-pulling apparatus "The Interchurch World Movement." And inside of this big "move- ment" there are all sorts of little "movements'" and "drives" to raise big piles of money. In this case, just as it was in the other case, MONEY is the whole thing. But the plutes got the idea that the preachers and the churches would make good bait, and that the poor, devils would follow them into the millionaire trap. The pretended purpose of this new "movement" is to unite all the various denominations into one big working machine a sort of "League of Churches" like the League of Nations was going to be. And millions of good honest church people are right in for it. They don't seem to realize that they are helping to f orm the "Image ot the Beast" spoken of n Revelation. But that is exact y what it amounts to. We air- know the Church of Rome is the Beast, and the "league" of pro- testless Protestant churches will be the Image of the Beast, just as sure as you are a toot high. And because all the orthodox: churches separately are now dominated by the devil, it is plain to see that when he gets- them organized into one big league he can use them still more effectively. But he will not use them very long. Did you ever read in the New Testament where it talks about "gathering the tares into bundles to bum them?" They are now tying up the tares into "bundles" and "leagues," and they will soon be burnt. Just wait and see. GETTING THE SENSE OF IT There is a great deal of theo logical stuff written these days by writers who may possibly know what they want to say, but they havent' the ability to say it so that anybody else can get the sense of it. Many papers come to this office containing ar ticles on the disputed questions of theology, and half the time I can't tell which side of the ques tion the writer is trying to sup port. The language -is so tangled up and the thought so poorly ex pressed that there is no sense in it But I find one group of religi ous thinkers who have the Truth so well in hand that they have no difficulty in expressing it so it can be understood. These people are dangerous "heretics" in the eyes of the orthodox world, and they are not even recognized as Christians by the fashion able churches. But I am here to tell you that they wil! pan out more of the pure gold of Truth to the pan-full rhan any other theological claim that I have ever seen staked out. The reason orthodox writers can't express themselves clearly is because they have nothing clear to express. Their whole system is befogged with too much of 'the devil's error. You can't build a straight fence with crooked poles. Neither can you sqeeze lemonade out of a rotten tater.
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