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n the state that it is unable to protest view of things Tl ere la no nerd tor found out that all the colony here are AND THEY HANGED society except by the hangmans that for n man of your great moral afraid of Liberalism so when I get A FEAST FOR FREETHINKERS 1 noose If that is so the state had bet- characur nail one who has lived rs a chance I try to tell them that Lib- MARY ROCERS ter be revolutionized or go out of busi- ¬ clean as you have need have no eralism is not Libertinism which is ¬ r twi ness Common humanity common jus- apprehension of an early end We vicious and disregards morality and i tice and common sense can Inaugur- hope ere this reaches you that you that they should examine into things everyFreethinlccrism the list of contributors are In numerous names familiar to apnerenry ate a better system than that leaving may be entirely restored to health for themselves and not leave it to reads including tj over Blade Despite the strongest protest out the sacred Influence of religion and your former vigor again The the clerics I also tell them that made to Governor cultivated K a the and the majesty of the law Blade also has my best wishes Liberals are Infidels and that all Infi- ¬ Josephine Henry Charles Vattsr of Ver-¬ civilized and Christian State In the case of Mary Rogers Ver-¬ IL EAKER dels do their own thinking and that Clarence S Darrow Joseph McCabe Mar mont on December 8th took mont has made a specialty of hang ¬ Infidelity is a thought that cannot be Dr J B Wilson Singleton W Davis hung her liogers trout her cell and ing a woman and letting oft men mur- ¬ Brunswick Maine Nov 29 1905 frightened Into one or scared out and Harriet M Closz The by the neck until she was dead derers with life sentence or a pardon Dear feel sorry I have not that he who is free must help to free Prof W F Jamieson HolyoakeDr was so gen- SirI State her legal murderer The press says that Vermont has con¬ sent you a bit before Enclosed find others and the scattering of Free Judge Jarrish B Ladd Stephen D Parrish s erous as to buy her a nice black dress victed many men murderers in the two dollars It will not go far but thought is the way to liberate the Otto Wettstein J T Patch mis-¬ M M to be hanged In No doubt the past 20 years and hanged not one It If others will drop you some of their mind from every shackle and to allow Mangasariau Walter Hurt erable woman took some pleasure In unhampered is barbarous enough to hang male loose cash it wont hurt them and will the free and exorcise of All Rationalists will want to read in the current number the possession of a new gown They In- dis- ¬ Dar criminals but to disfranchise a wo- do you good You work hard to Its every faculty and destroy the rows great article on made cut away the collar of the Punishment and Its Function Free her man load her with disabilities tax her struct and interest us and tlie best ease calle religion To use Reason thought the Essential v of All Progress by Wilson All is Matter d ute s bo the rope > ouiU worK nice God without her consent to support unjust we can do Is to divide with you You for their As It was Reason was All Matter is Mind by Dr William Colby Cooper and Liberal and commanded her to take off her government and then if she commits cannot work for nothing Why do not the God Mother who attended the ¬ ¬ corset so she would be more com crime to hang her is rank cowardice those who love the B G B pay up birth of Liberty when mother Nature party How jj fortable1 at the necktie and As I understand tho condition ofI travailed upon the bed of torture for They then diabolisme many other firstclass features thoughtful and humane The very fact that women bring things there are many behind in their for the life of her beloved child Reas ¬ fl to prepare to die and Optimism told the woman the human race into life through the subscription who if they would pay on not conscience is the true guide make her peace with God It Is pangs of travail and all through life up would start you toward Easy the only light that has guided the thing THE CULTURIST quite clear to me how this are treated unjustly by Church and Street at least It would give you a steps of humanity through the tan- ¬ Is done The Bible says you cannot ¬ tnot State should make the Christian reli- pleasant Thanksgiving I shall do the gled swamps of superstition idoatory THE WORLDS FOREMOST FREETHoUCHT MAGAZINE 1toW by searching find God so how will abolish persecution planting gion arise in its majesty and same about Xmas time send two or fanaticism the r a poor human being In the shadow of capital punishment Will it do It three dollars standard of personal and intellectual An artistic periodical well printed on excellent aper and with tt tho scaffold get the all loving and Never If the human race is ever made Now how is our good editor He is liberty upon the lofty heights of a beautiful cover in colors 100 a year 10 cents a copy No free to sign all merciful Heavenly Father more merciful just and humane it not going to leave us is he Oh I equality besides the throne of Jus- ¬ copiesit costs top much to produce a treaty of peace at such a crucial must be done by the uplifting influence hope not What would we do without tice where Nature holdeth court I ¬ THE OULTURIST PUBLISHING CO moment Of coure the good Chris- of Rationalism There is no proof want you to write to me when you himI r= tians of Vermont and Mary Rogers that hanging has a deterrent effect know wed have Dr Wilson and have time and tell me how you and Box 970 Station M Cincinnati Ohio who was a Christian attended In her upon murder you left to see to the Blade but the Mr Hughes are Hoping you and all last moments by her spiritual advisor The philosophy of government and peculiar characteristics of Editor your friends aro well I amW F can a dollar I will enclose < know how the peace with God Is the philosophy of must Moore would missed I have felt WILSON raise 100 POPE DECANONIZES jurisprudence be to renew it < be based upon a proper all along that he would get well or at I enclose you a letter front a convict Popular tmadeThe cowering woman In the hands ng of tho causes of crime least better so he can attend to the Brunswick Me Dec 8 05 The Neapolitan Saint Who If ho is not a subscriber to Blade of her male executioners promised she Let us hope that the hanging of Blades wants some years yet I am Dear have not written hte Granted Prayers Too Expedlously FrlendI please send it to him without delay would be brave and she uttered not a Mary Rogers will bring on such a tide aware that heas well as myself is to you nor sent anything for a long and write me and I will forward his Napes 9 while the vast impersonal of public sentiment against capital getting into the sere and yellow etc times have been so poor with us here December St Expedite ¬ subscription just as soon as I hear a popular Neapolitan tSOundn s power of the punishment G7 In Maine and especially in this coun- saint whose fJ brutal that it will be forever I shall be this coming January 1st ¬ from you Please give my kindest re ¬ tian State of Vermont swung this mis abolished In the United States ShouU Three years more if I live I shall ty that I could not seem to spare specialty has been the too quick grant tv gards to Charles C Moore W ng prayers erable wretch from the scaffold The this be done the star of American have rounded out my threescore and a dollar all I could get going to pay of has been decanonlzed SCOTT M D press says that the hanging was suc ¬ Republic will be in the ascendent ten I cannot realize that I am so expenses But you are one of the by the Pope and the officials of the or cessful and the great and good Gov ¬ shedding its beneficlent influence on near the end I was myself quite most deserving and patient of men church in Naples have been ordered A VISION to Images ernor Bell sent his congratulations the nations of the earth Down with unwell last spring and early summer that I must squeeze out 20onot remove his from the places ° I was talking with God and he said of worship All the arrangements for hanging capital punishment Let us as a na ¬ My friends were alarmed and I was much I know for you If possible Ill ¬ to me appears Mary Rogers were complete and artis- tion banish it to the dark and cruel put under a doctors care But not- send you a little more between this It that the worship of St ¬ Do you see my son Jesus there Expedlto ¬ tically carried out Two bravo stal past The 20th century with its knowl ¬ withstanding tho drugs I took I got and the 1st of the year as a New rested on a misunderstand- You must glorify him you never wart men walked beside her on the spirit I ever Years present I hope others who or Ing An Armenian martyr by that edge and broad humanitarian well think I am as well as canoe way to the scaffold ready to catch her demands this- So I hope Brother Moore will pull have plenty will remember you at name is known to have existed but he and goodr nor ever can see if she should fall The noble sheriff Versailles Kentucky through Remember me to him Mr this time It is a good time to re was not canonized In the latter half t men in- The city of Zion so fair of the nineteenth century some nuns I t adjusted the black cap The Ham was in to see me ths A M member those who work for our Ir straightened her up on her feet and He says he is poor and owes for his terest instruction amusement etc begged that certain relics discovered Then I said to God said L to him r the rope around her neck paper and will pay as soon as he can etcand who more deserving than the catacombs might be sent to SHORT LETTERS Whatever possessed itfastened they proceeded to vindicate He has a hard time of Has beenlour Freethought Editors I am right convent and the Pope gave it The care of your son the majesty of the law just as they do sick with neuralgia so he cant work glad to learn that our good Editor and islon to its being done hisx savages so grin laso containlnlg bones was I all over the earth where live SIgourney Iowa December 11 1905 as he would Hoping you will get into friend C C Moore is mending God the ¬ To desert your Expedlt good Sis j They have done this thing for thous Dear Sir Inclosed Is my check easier times and that Brother Moore could not do a better job than to and tfie whim tha ands of years and that is what they please apply on my will be himself agalnI S CUFTIS restore him to his former health and x mistook the directions for for 100 which Or from UlslncI do in Vermont today The picture O subscription strength Remember me to him t the saint to whom the rr brother L Naumans > n woman with u black cup over her I think this pays for him till April I S CURTIS N bag drawn over her The God said 1IfUIXcl ld a black 190G Kindly send me a receipt show- pinioned 1901Dear Mo said ab her neck with limbs which pays his lars for which please advance tho St Louis Dec 2 1905 mentThe via SSVHH Ing the date to this When I was jJ starting from her head and date on label one year and send one Dear Mr MooreI write to express JP dj subscriptionI Before I was bo tad blackened face hanging hope our old and tried Dr Wilsons book for the other lol my deepest sympathy for you in your Mere sent to Nap n AslSiil 7 Hence ney wif + t mutes Is a majestic object about his afortlme lar I was sorry to hear of Mr Mere illness and trust you will soon recov which means I p J1 friend Mr M ore is free to wed i Acindlcation of the majes again ady top Mxla with being sick avo taken the Blade eleven livered expedlty or wit self a With the pliab 1e hnt men can be found 1 Cuorpalmr t aiaicJiThe t trial capaciCyconixaitauc iEgc theDhnaawefe7i o suparstltWiil shIliPtnrn ll C R- nul C pedlto which bones got Jtol legal murder gives evi may T o years of useful life so tilt he thaSfal Ii prayers so expedltlou the humanizing influence of books the starting of to root sea a mighty monument raised to his P1 good Pope Sartq bed Gospel the tidings of good work In the form of an enlight district No 7 Mariposa een humor sarcasm otg ° r and America oa hanged Mary Rogers was ened humanity and that ho may see Iowa and if any of the in ogle which have served to make the For an exposition Jis not forget that the ofllcirla his ancient enemy superstition dead would like to donate a book to the so many hours pleasant but for 1 me- of the were made and nMme polite about it und politeness E D NAUMAN school it will be kindly received vast Information which has given Threspondent and bunted iTCiirln hoaxas like the counts a good deal etw HU1I1 on placed In library C W CRAV a broader better view of life Stam Italy is au abovese it the when the scaffod Yes Mary Rogers is dead EN I Again hoping for your speedy restor thority foment that to Rome Oklahoma City Okla Dec 11 05 S r She was guilty of an atrocious crime me pas eternity In a few Btehop Thomas Omaha Neb almost as astrocious as the State of Miss Mao Hamilton ation to health I CUNING Byrne o fvJTenn was receiv- noticed a recent New Phil a Ohio Nov 27190k amJ Vermont committed against her The Dear MndamI in HAM ed in j 4nco by the pope City Dear enclose you herewith legal murder of Mary Rogers was issue of the Kansas Star that Slr1 the coil the pontiff dealt upon P O Money Order for 300 for which ipus more brutal and cowardly than the Bishop Scannell has taken it Penryn California Nov 25 1905 prlnclpall abuses which excommunicate ¬ please place the tab on the Blade Drf7has to you for at murder she committed It is time himself Dear Sir Enclosed find P O are said t In thee church in land In Hooker and Thomas counties tending wedding In which the ahead three years from the time it preachers aro vir ¬ for the people of the United States to a Money Order for one dollar for renew- America a declared he was Nebraska These a wife thus was paid for I hope Brother Mobro ask and answer these questions groom had a divorced al I cannot get along without the determined them at any tuous lot If this Is what the environ oppos- will soon be well again Give my rO showing to the world that he is Blade I do hope our dear old cost Acco s Information ment of religion does for gods sake What good has been done by this gards to all Dr pi oe that ed to Freethought freespeech free- Wilsons may many Plus X coil J the Tact that gve us a bigger dose of Infidelity i dreadful official murder T Editor C C Moore live dom of action and meddling with week before last was a humme while t The Kansas City Journal of Nov citizens of the Green Moun ¬ years to edit the Blade In mind there thenu- Catholics in Are the peoples business is the agree with the Doctor in politics d pious work other That could not be any greater calamity America had tho increase for 29th tells how a churchman in tain State proud of their ¬ history of Catholic church tyran religion Wishing you all good health Topeka hav- ¬ individual citizens the befall the people than the death ot many years p two ot Immigra- the prooduce business at How many of her subjects holding them and a long life I am DANIEL HOCK storage eggs required nizing over its Pun kind friend C C Moore We will tion from Cathc tries the num ing on hand n lot of cold would have done what they 1 In mental bondage persecuting and STETLER ber of actual co ions from pro hired an old farmer to take them their paid officials to do live in hopesJ M PUTNAM prosecuting them whenever anyone testantism contiuactically to be around and sell them as fresh country Is human life safer in Vermont than them dares to think for themselves 3057 very to stores When hung ignorant halt of Minn State Prison 112 E M limited are thous product the retail before they this paper contained an account penryn California Nov 25 05 wrejathollcs grocers The same Dear you know I do lot ands of instandee aban the customers complained the crazed woman SirAs kDear I first read in the of Pope Pius X complaining that the get the Blade I write to you to let SlrWhen donlng their r llgI Lothar denomi- ¬ discovered the cheat and tho paper Will not the brutal and lawless say Blade of your illness my eyes were Catholic church in America is losing you know that I do not forget yiu nations To the utJSJkamazement of says that the reverend gentleman now If the State may take human life with tears and my with ground so many deserting it Is It my emancipation and instructor lor filled heart the prelate the pop a spoke very has more time to pray What a good why may not n ¬ grief any wonder that as people become en- i knew religion does have on some murders clti ¬ years Your birthday will be ta emphatically the fit that ho Influence If the State legally its ¬ I have a peculiarly sympathetic feel- lightened tho desire Is to free them week or two and I hope you will live how some of the African bishops zens may not the citizens commit the ing for all great and good men When selves from mental bondage- to be 100 years old You are now 68 had surrounded theme es with more peopelThe same act the State does you were first taken ill I started to In the United States marriage is a many people you made luxuries than even Ui pope thought ¬ not capital punishment turn and how have prests might be made less in Does like deeds and mort- ¬ say write to your but a thought struck me Ignorant and brutal civil contract happy I do not know All I can himself entitled jurious if they were all pllchered But the minds of the Gov- ¬ that you had thousands of friends to1sw gages and this being a secular is to hope that you are spared to us then perhaps their piety depends toward violence ernment the clergy and priest have besides me who would be writing to humanizing in ¬ to continue tho good and great work Catholic largely on their passion Let us watch the In- ¬ you at the same time and that too Excommunication fromtthe really no right to meddle with the you are engaged In I have read hanging of Mary Rogers that ¬ Is the penalty of Rigl Bish- fluence the of marriage and divorce in many letters might worry you and In the tRev ¬ stitutions Dog Fennel twice It Is the great ¬ will have How many men have mur your illness so I postponed op Richard Scannell ot Omaha has AMERICAN CATHOLICS ARE LOS any manner whatever Church and ever read crease it In Vermont How est and best book I have placed upon Miss Mae Hamilton and ING FAITH SAYS POPE dered their wives yet people suf ¬ till now mur- State are separate the I loaned it to the deputy many have been hung for wife asking Now your condition Im ¬ others for having attended the Ken fer the church to dictate in certain told me one day without my that has der This is an opportune time for proved in the last week as reported nedyPrltchett wedding ia Omaha last Italy December cases with the arrogance of a tyrant him that he believed you to be an ITurin 4The criminal statistics on this point If all the Blade of the 19th mist I will week The because a Rome dispatch says that Good people can get along without the honest man and praised it to beiob-11n Stamp in this country ¬ Representative KcunCdythe groom the wife murderers in church cannot get write to you to express my sympa- when Mgr Thos Byrne of Nashville every community church but the eautiful and simple to understand- would be reared in good people And from thy and best wishes for you and your has a dovlrced wife living Members Tenn saw the Popo in private confer ¬ along with I have also loaned it to the Warden and they would be as permanent insti- family And I hope you will soon re- of the Catholic were warned ence Pope Plus dealt principally up- history and observation for tho last I have not had opportunity to oak as our Jails and penettentlar the cover your resume not to attend the Wedding Miss to tutions 20 years it would seem that the you tM from illness and on serious abuses said have been can expect nothing less than him what he thinks of and Hamilton disregarded warning ies We churches are trying to rid themselves Iff your good work of destroying supersti the found in the church in America and Christian civ book I am sure he will say that during cere- capital punishment in a be- ¬ Lion and error and advance the cause and was a bridesmaid the he declared must bo suppressed of the most intelligent the reason is one of the best books he ever read which t illzatiton that was forced by rational of Liberalism and good morals as you mony Friends of Miss Hamilton de- immediately Ing that the church thrives best where I am at the same time going to asS 1 to abolish clare Sot closed humane public sentiment are scarcest and the eve been doing in the past twenty that the Incident is It Is said the Pope complained that ¬ schoolhouses the him to let me get the dear old Blajleif r1 witch burning and selling human be rears They insist that Miss Hamilton shall Catholicism was on the Increase people are the most ignorant Read I will be here till next winter if I do while ings on the auction block We are benighted people are sorely in take an appeal to a church tthorlty because of the steady flow Science and Religion by Draper not get a parole I expect BThe 4 in America i more civilized now We only burn liberty toet seed of such men as you and such higher than the bishop Miss Mao of immigrants thousands of Catholics I Please excuse me for the one next month The Warden is do Qfc hang women pipers Hamilton and her reputed join- ¬ at the stake you desire further In- ¬ as tho Blue Grass Blade sister art were renouncing their faith and tfrcriminals the takeh and If all he can for me and if I do get on and men coin fortunes from In- ¬ Ifcrhero are not many great and good to bo the wealthiest Omaha Churches while few formation or investigation kindly I you Ing Protestant i woman and child labor the day leave here will kit country Ingerson- Miss Mae Hamilton Is said to be blood of form D MARBLE M in this now Protestants wore joining the Catholic legalized liquor traf- meA my P O Order and address so I caw worth more a million dollars i fhearts the M Only a few think and many than Church pee get the paper I will go to see youj fic trade on the vices of our own 05 ow ve which was left her by the late C W said to have decried the fact Leesburg Florida Nov 24 soon as I can leave the State I wr He is wing you are much better now Hamilton president of the United many Bishops surround Dear SlrOur subscription to the to show you my plans I have ma that American graves in the potters field yearly mill soon be well again I remain States bank 1 with more luxury than the drunkardsS Blade expired November 1st Here is As this is a Holiday we are alloy themselves These are but a few of the signs of f griend HENRY KAISER himself and were living In pal a check for 125 for another year I to talk and mix up In the cell ho Popo pur advancing Christian civilization If church members would empty leaving the work to be done by malta it 125 so in case you have to after the entertainment in church aces Is more humane to hang a woman ray Kansas Dec 12 19- their purses into their heads instead priests I It discount the check or any exchange j parish enclose you the program You will than burn a witch and more Christian any- 05rI like the Blade best of of into the keeping of so many gentle to pay you will have a dollar net by It Is one word abj negro at the stake than to that there not pets I take contrlb men of the cloth they would boonuch flt7 to burn a much pained to hear of h- that Its will come out ¬ way We are am only Infidel The Blade auction block Hang the Gods I the My subscription wiser than they are and the world nextN sell him from tho your continued illness and am dur ¬ unexcelled week as a full sheet open confession of and I am here nearly 3 years I hf would be that much hotter ing criminals is an prised you take such a pessimistic arun behind so long as I J r a 1 r 1r X31 t 1 4 rf+ Si r 8 Yt rnt I w 4I