Essays on Radicalism

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two months; and I beg also to let you know, for the satisfaction of the English cabinet, that they may embroil themselves with France, or get into what ever political embarisment they please, but an Irish Protestant will never hoist a musket, or draw a sword in their defense; Gentlemen let us bid Her Excellency a good morning." They got the pardon. Did [underlined: you] ever try those tactics? Even try to get what you wanted by appealing to fear? I am not appealing to anything but your own experience; If you have never tried it do so; Common sense tells me that, "He is a brother Mason," would have got the pardon where nothing else would. But at that the pardon does him no good. The Hangman says to him, "You had my brother hanged that you knew to be innocent; and now I hang you that I know to be guilty. Yes I hang you, with the white flag of the lord Lieutenants pardon waving for you in the distance."

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Now this is only a story, and a little off my line of argument at that, the main reason that I put it in is to start a discussion. It is absolutely impossible for any one to live in civilization without violating sombodies prejudices. The Masons and in fact all radicals violate the prejudices of the conservatives and the conservatives violate our prejudices. God Proved one thing to the conservative and the exact contrary to the radical and then turned them loose to fight it out. God has proved to Billy Sunday that there is a Hell and a personal Devil - To me He has proved that there is no such place; I think the joke is on Billy. I do not think it wise to go further into the Study of Masonry - you can go as far as you like - you do not need to join the Masons to find out all of their secrets. I thought that I had discovered the Law of Religous Prejudice, but they have known it for ages; They know that

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nothing is wrong that does not react to their own injury, Sir Robert could do [underlined: any thing] and be a [underlined: good Mason] as long as he did not injure a brother Mason or see him injured. I can do no wrong unless I do some thing that reacts to my own injury, only I include as my, "Brothers," all radicals. Anything I do to injure them injures all, any thing a conservative does to injure a Radical injures me. I found out what my concience is.

We have seen how the life and death of Christ intensified the ideas that each of the three classes that were organized at that time - The Jew - Mason and Catholic. Now there is another Basic religion that come later, about a hundred years ago Joseph Smith Jr. founded a new Radical church. When the Catholic church was a power in Europe the Masons were persecuted by it, they persecuted the Protestants and while it was not the Roman Catholic church

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as an organization that persecuted the early Mormons it was the same class of society that said that "Every member of the I.W.W. ought to be hung." People who are catholic at heart. They feared Masonry - feared Mormons and now they have [underlined: Good] reason to fear the I.W.W. they persecuted the Socialists and Anarchists also; the first labor unions were bitterly opposed. Now there must be some reason back of all of this. A study of the life and times under the Greek and Roman Governments at the time of Christ shows the ruling power to be radicals; Christianity appealed to the slave - he would die for his religion - but would not fight for it; Spartacus with [crossed out: fifty] thousands gladiators broke loose and kept the Roman army busy quite a while - but the non-fighting Christian won and the fighting Sparticus finally lost. The conservative gains political power until after the Protestant rebellion or reformation.

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Then we see Christianity taken up by the radical and we soon see about fifty seven varieties fighting each other and the Roman Catholic fighting them all and the Masons as well - all forms of Heresy looked alike to them. There has been quite a change in the protestant from the time when he had to read the Bible secretly and later in America to go to Church with a gun on his shoulder - to the day when when the protestent [crossed out: takes] has to appeal to peoples fears of hell to get them inside of a church. I can illustrate with examples better than I can by theorizing.

I was a member of a Cooks and Waiters union in a large Western city; The organization was started off by Radicals; backed up by a powerful Miners Union they [underlined: forced] every body in that industry into the organization. It was aggressive when controled by the radical element, we fought our hours of labor from 12 to 10 and from 10 to 8 - but the radicals are