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anust The two institutions traveled
together for ages until human exper
iencejias condemned both to extinc
tion. But conceding his mathematical
argument to be true, it Is hard to
see how the promiscuous breeding of
400,000,000 white idiots Is going to
help them In the coming war with
the wise, dark races.
A better way would seem to bs to
cross the idiots with the wise races
and put Steven in charge of the job.
But there Is still a lingering, suspi
cion that he is trying to have a little
fug. with the rest of his brother fools
by stirring up race and religious pre
judice. George V. Wells.
18TH WARD POLITICS. Would
Grogan, Touhy or Lewis (Grogan's
straw man) keep whisky and religion
out of politics if elected? Do they
believe education Is both a right and
duty of the" state rather than the
church? Do they hold our public
schools above their parochial
schools? Do they believe in a uni
versal system of education or would
they vote as others have done to
give the House of Good Shepherd
$25,000.
Would they first give consideration
to their constituents and secondly to
their church and thereby risk ex
communication? Do they owe allegiance to any for
eign sovereign?
Would they vote to close the City
Hall on church holidays? Do-they
believe in free speech and the sep
aration of church and state? Do
they believe in the taxation of
churches and like institutions?
Has their training and environ
ment been such as would make of
them full-fledged citizens? Would
they try to make the 18th ward a
safe and respectable place in which
to live? These are not private ques
tions, but information that any citi
zen has a right to know and are
being asked by the voters of the 18th
ward. "We know how Harry Green
wood stands on these subjects, but
how about Grogan, Lewis and
Touhy? Lee Green, 1416 Masonic
Temple.
IT ALL DEPENDS. It all depends
on who. says or writes a thing
whether the masses of the people
will listen to it or not. Count Tol
stoi can go away to die by himself,
but if a poor fish like me did that I
would, be arrested as a wife deserter
and hurled into prison by Judge
Olson as a "moron."
Count Tolstoi's son can lecture in
this country and say that our "Mann
act proves the American people to be
a nation of hypocrites," yet if I said
the same thing some people would
want me lynched.
It all depends on who says it. I
shouted birth control for two years
and was threatened, but when Judge
Stelk, Att'y Brundage and a few
more big guys came out for it then
the prattling mob said "hurrah."
Count Bernstorff says in April's
Pearsons on Kant's "thou shalt do
this"" and "shalt not do the other":
"I think a man should do what is
right, but I'm very lenient, especially
towards sins of the flesh when the
temptation is great and the results
unimportant" '
Now, Forum writers, you would not
take this utterance from me, but you
will eat it and relish it from Count
Bernstorff. So I say it all depends
on who says a thing. A poor fish like"
me is apt to get kicked for uttering,
truths and justice, just because I
have no literary, social or financial
prominence.
It is the big lobster that gets away
with the truth, but the masses 'des
pise minnies or creeping things, such
as worms and bedbugs.
George Bernard Shaw "seesv no
harm in polygamy" or crossing the
state line with a woman companion
not a wife." But let me try it and
officialdom would call out the whole
U. S. army. It all depends on who
says it Small fish, worms, buss and