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VOLUME XV NUMBER 42 LEXINGTON KY JANUARY 27 1907PUBLISHED WEEKLY 9 150 A YEA R IN ADVANCE =
Brigthest Jewel That Gleams in
Prod Columbias Crown of Glory
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Through the Efforts f Thomas Paine the
Shadow of Old Glory Now Falls
Protectingly Onjkmerican Homes
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PAINES RELIGIOUS CREEDS f
I believe in one God and no more and I hope
for happiness beyond this life 1
I believe in the equality of man nndl believe
that religious duties consist in doing justice loving
mercy and endeavoring to make our fellpui erect
ores happy I
But some perhaps will say Are we to have no
word of Godno revelation 1 I answer Yea there
is a word of God there is a revelation 4
wlhe word of God is the Creation we bdjiofd and
and it is in this word which no human iinypntion
can counterfeit or alter that God sn aketliftinjyer
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True Value And Worth of
Thomas Paine to Mankind
His Great Aim Was To Build Up a Federation
of Republic To Include All the Nations of
EarthPlan Outlined by Formation of
Federated States of America
Was the Greatest of All
Political Reformers
First To Realize And Name
the Great Religion of Humanity
i BY TIIADDEUS BURR a1IEBIdNi
To the world at large a man is not what he is to
himself nor what ho is really but what tho world
comes to or can be made to think of him All such
appreciation is determined by the religious politi
cal financial social and other dominant interests
and feelings of his time which he has either favored
or opposed and disturbed
The result is that as these dominnu interests and
worldviews change with the solution of human
progress the characters of the distinguished men I
and women they have sent to heaven or hell must
have a new day of judgment ant1 viy even have
to change places 1 So has it been with the great
actors in Grecian and Roman history and the Mid
dle Ages Whether we should go up or down to
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find the souls of Gracchi or of Caesar or of the
more recent characters like Napoleon depends upon
the changes of our said dominant interests con
trasted with theirs
What then were and are those contrasted inter
ests in regard to Thomas Paine f and what are their
judgments really worth f What was the world in
which Paine lived compared with the world for
which he lived and ours There can be no question
but that Paines life was one of persistent con
sistent and devoted endeavor to realize his ideal
republic as against the actual and practical world
of despotisms in which he lived Now which of
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Soldier = Author of the American Revolution
Whose Pen of Fire Wrested Liberty
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PAINES POLITICAL CREEDm
Society in every state is a blessing but govern
ment even in its best state is but a necessary evil
in its worst state an intolerable one for when we
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suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a
government which we might expect in a country i
without government our calamity is heightened by
reflecting that we furnish the means by which we
suller Security being Iketrue design and an cndJ J
of government it er 110w8 that It what
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From His Brain Came
Americas Magna Charta
Inspired Our Declaration of Independence A
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Reason In Its Majesty
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Deep Reverence of An American
Woman For Memory of Paine
By Josephine K Henry
Speak of me as I am
Nothing extenuate nor set
Down aught in maliceBARD
BARD OF AVON
No character in history in the past three hundred
years has been a more powerful factor in shaping
the governmental social and religious life of Eu
rope and America than that of Thomas Paine
His struggles and heroism and his writings in
England France hand America make him the great
est apostle of liberty of modern times
The thoughts of Thomas Paine voice the interests
and higher aims of all nations truly loyal to liberty
whether the cry comes from oppressed Russia so
cialistic Germany and Italy monarchical England
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or republican France or America The spirit of
Thomas Paine is in tho battle cry for liberty and
equality of rights that is ringing around the earth
today
todayThe
The women of the world owe Thomas Paine a
debt of gratitude they cau never pay whether they
recognize the fact or not for he was the first man
on the American continent that pleaded for the pro
tection of the human rights of their sex
The brain of Thomas Paine conceived Americas
great Magna Charta the Declaration of Inde
pendence and The Bill of Rights the corner
stones of American republicanism Washington
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