Lucifer, the Light-Bearer from Valley Falls, Kansas • 2

Lucifer The Light-Bearer. THE IA3IE LVUFEB. WHAT WE HATE SUCCEEDED lit DOIXG. Colonel John R. Kelso, in his "Government An A correspondent writes: "How I wish the name Lucifer could be dropped for a while and the Light- alyzed," after summing up the cost of our last war, Bearer used." together with the interest and taxes that it has cost Most sincerely do I sympathize with our earnest the people since, asks: "What have we succeeded in friend in her feeling of repugnance towards the word accomplishing with the forty billion dollars that war A Weekly Journal Devoted Chiefly to Woman's Emancipation from Sex-Slavery, by and through a Better Understanding of Sexology Including Heredity and Stirpicultureand by and through a Radical Reorganization of our Industrial and Economic Systems, 1.50 Per Annum.

Trial Trip One Month Free. Address Vie Editor and Publisher, MOSES HARM AN, Drawer Topeka, Kan. Lucifer. I have not yet outgrown my early preju- and. a war government have cost us within the last dice against the idea associated with that word and thirty years shall not probably live long enough to outgrow it.

"We have succeeded in killing 500,003 of our bravest aud Neither will I live long enough to outgrow my in- best young men, not one in a thousand of whom bad any herited aversion to the words skeptic, freethinker, in- thing to do with bringing on the war, or any correct idea wnat tne war was about. 'Give me the storm and tempest "We have succeeded in maiming, crippling, diseasing fadel, atheist, free-lover, and yet all of these words are not only harmless but represent noble qualities of mind and character, unless it be "infidel" and "atheist," which are negative rather than positive in mean- and otherwise disabling nearly a million more of oar strong est and bravest young men. "We have succeeded in making 1,501000 widows and or- wm The oral Grandeur of Man. Woman's incapacity to appreciate man, to understand how enormoas is the debt which she owes him, her incapacity to rise to a perception of bis moral grandeur, explains her subordinate place in the scheme of things. That she remains his inferior is not his, bat her fault.

Once, in Virginia City on a snowy day, I saw upon the street, homeward bound, Captain Bob, chief of the Piutes, and his royal family. The Chief himself held by the hand the heir apparent, a toddler of three, who trotted by his side. Immediately ahead was the Chief's consort. Held on her back by a strap which passed over her low, broad brow, was a cooking stove. It was not a large one nor in very good repair.

It mast have weighed nearly a hundred pounds, and undoubtedly its corners and knobs pressed deeply into the back of the Chief's helpmate. On either side of her a little daughter clang to her calico ekirt as an aid to progress through the snow. Presently Captain Bob wearied of holding his son's hand, and picking him up with a calm grunt, placed him sitting on the stove. His wife bent a little forward and readjusted the strap on her forehead. That was all.

She made no oom-plaiut and evidently felt there was no cause for auy. She recognized her lord's right to do as he damned pleased. As I viewed this simple little aboriginal domestic scene it occured to me that it conveyed a great moral lesson. Bob and Mary were the natural man and woman, standing for the relations of the sexes when the same have not been vitiated, or modified, by artificiality. Bob had absolute power to do as be liked, and did it.

Whatever civilized woman has beyond ing. lut among them all, not one represents an idea nans whose husbands and fathers, whose protectors and sup more beautiful and grand than does the name Lucifer, porters we have slain. of Action and Thought rather than the dead calm of Ignorance and Faith. Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge' Offi 66 of publication Flat No. 10, Crawford's Flats, corner of Fifth and Monroe streets, Topeka, Kan.

TorEKA Kansas, October 21. 292. "We have succeeded in bringing unutterable bereave ment to hundreds of thousands of parents'whose "darling boys" have been left by us to whiten with their bones a thousand battle-fields. m. The history of this world is, of itself, an educator, an eye-opener.

It shows how a noble name can be and has been perverted, maligned, persecuted by the enemies of science, the enemies of knowledge and enlightenment. But time is the great avenger. "The whirligig of time brings in its revenges," sooner or We have succeeded in burning hundreds of thousands of homes and depriving millions of persons, mostly women and children, of their shelter "We have succeeded in devastating hundreds of thou sands of farms, and in thus ruining hundreds of thousands of families. "We have succeeded in breaking down the business of later. Saying nothing of its astronomic origin, the priests of Jehovah have for thousands of years slandered and abused the character of the grand old rebel to whom they have given the borrowed name Lucifer, But investigation shows that Beelzebub, or the Prince of the fabled devils is and has always been a much better character than his mvthical rival and mill ioDS of good, honest and industrious persons.

"We have succeeded in driving those persons to through their indescribable want and unutterable wretchedness. We have succeeded i drivinir thm fcn in. enemy Jehovah. Beelzebub has always been the pat- aanity' eaicide. beggary, tramphood, prostitution, theft, rob inn nuu luuiuci ron and friend of knowledge, of investigation, of pro "We have succeeded in binding upon the peonle a forged what Mary possessed, she owes to the generosity of man.

Human Kights are based upon and measured by Human Needs, Human Wants. There is no other basis or standard of Ethics Morals than the Normal, the Healthful Satisfaction of human needs, human wants. Any human Law or Institution that stands between a normal need and its normal satisfaction or supply, is an Immoral law, a Crime-breeding institution, and must sooner or later yield to the force of enlightened Public Opinion. Liberty to Choose and to Refuse, an ever-abiding Sense of Responsibility for the natural consequences of one's acts, the Ability to Decide for one's self on each separate occa gion as to what is Right and what is Wrong these are the Essential Conditions and Factors that underlie and build up True Womanhood and Full-developed Manhood. debt so prodigious in its amount that they can never even The writer who said that the whole prog hope to pay it and become free.

We have succeeded in cov ering the farms of our country with mortgages that can never gress, of liberty, while Jehovah has been the consistent and inveterate enemy of all these and especially the enemy of liberty. Beelzebub is the synonym of truthfulness, of courage, of fidelity, of freedom, of enlightenment, while Jehovah must, in years to come, at least, be remembered as the synonym of de- ress of civilization was marked the difference between an Indian's wigwam and a lady's boudoir, told the simple troth. And the boudoir is man's free gift to woman. be lifted. "We have succeeded in building up a thousand trusts syndicates, oombines, and other monstrous mononolies Endowed with a more powerfnl body than linrrc 1v-ri nrViitVi oya nimnln'n.

4- lit. 11 i i I iiuouiuK iub iiLts jut or in Tjoonie 1 i I 4- -rr Mr gf she, generous man does not beat her, save in exceptionul cases, each of which shonld, in 1 Fy, and sucking up their blood. hatred, etc. justice, be studied by itself before condem "We have succeeded in strangling free speech, a free nation is passed. We hope our friend will not fail to look up the press and free trade.

We have succeeded in making a mere Possessing a brain superior in mass and history of the word Lucifer. burlesque of liberty and all the other inalienable rights of men. In short, we have succeeded in establiflhi While not many of us will live to see full justice more delicate in construction than hers, he has not employed his advantage to her hurt, bnt to lifting her from the position of Mary, while he has by his own unaided exertions done to the name Lucifer, its triumphant vindication financial and PoIitical condition of things which is just about Suhscrihkrs will please note the nrritton rn till' a9 bad as can well be imagined; a condition of things which Even now there are at rpi tK I is only a question of time, wrapper. 1 his shows the wlioie i must inevitably end soon in general disruption and blood toiled upward from the status of Bob, Akthub McEwkn in The Wave. least two other journals besides ours, called by this Uhed.

Great successes, are thev not number" of the paper to which subscription has been paid, and is intended to save the trouble and expense of sending bills or statements. The man with the "moral gran name The German Lucifer, published at Madison, "Our nearest success of all, however, has doubtless been and a laige and well printed magazine publish- in t-be mighty impetus which we have given to the promotion ed in London by Madame Blavatzky, and devoted to of immorality among our people, especially in regard to the deur" in 'The Wave" from which we reprint a portion exhibits such ponderous "masculine superiority tw that to criticise him seriously ex the advocacy of "Theosophy," or to Asiatic "Occultism." M. Harman in Lucifer, Jan, 2, '91. poses us to the charge of being unable to recognize a joke when we Ouit subscribers and patrons are hereby requested not to send money in unregistered letters. Sums under one dollar may be sent in postage stamps or postal notes.

Larger amounts should be sent by Money Order, bank draft, or registered letter. K.XHM( IfOT A SAFEGUARD. relation or tne sexes. So much to preserve our union of states. So much to sustain government "The best government in the world," In an unpublished story one that may never see the light in book form because the author is poor, and there is too much truth told for cautious publishers to take hold of it, the assertion is made that we have the best government in the world.

meet one. But jokes so dense as this one, must be labelled, or uke the consequences. We submit this unwieldy mass of To the Editor of Lucifek As a very encouraging evidence of the progress of those ideas of which Moses Harman stands as the exponent and martyr, I wash you would print and lay before vnnr readers tlio fril 1 muin it f. "moral grandeur" to Mrs. H.

J. Hunt who is an adept in turning Credit all articles not otherwise ac counted for to the assistant editor. L.iiiie D. White. down such fellows.

She keeps a good sharp pen "mightier than the sword1' just for that purpose, al A Jf. "No one has eaid we have not, but how good is the best, very powerful article by Amehe Rives, in the Sep- that's the question Please notice that our P. O. Drawer is iuBtoadof though in this case, I fear nothing "Mr. Speaker, may I answer that said Morse.

"Certainly, sir." Morse rose slowly to his feet and looked around with a ess than a sword will penetrate, teniber number ot the JSorth American Bevieic. These ideas are fast gaining ground and rapidly coming to the front, and the American people are beginning to understand that the alleered nuritv whie.h is main. Read "Pray You Sir Whose with any effect. Daughter1' bv Helen Gardner. Not comical air: "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I once Z3 aJ 1 MM Is Arthur McEwen a representative man, are there many like him? My ac tained only by debauching our courts and imprisoning boughfc nalf a dozen eB- Ifc was a 8eason of tQe year when when we sometimes get well not very crood ones.

I hroke our best citizens is simply a sham, a fraud and a ue8, A arose A1u" one, it was very bad; another, it was not much better: still the least interesting feature in the book is the preface by Elizabeth Cady St AO ton. Price 50 cents, paper quaintance is rather limited. I am not swindle. Ed. W.

Chamberlain. cover. Order from this office. sure that I know even one like him; his conceit and stupidity are overwhelming. It seems an injustice to Lucifer 'Woman's incapacity to appreciate man." iVhat a pity! Can't "Masculine under another, not eatable; and so on to the sixth and last; it was the best of the lot; it was not rotten, but would soon have been so for it had been sat on for a week.

That's what's the matter with our government; it has been sat on by European customs, European methods, European money power, till it must hatch out a European chicken or become addled; yes, it's the b9st government in the world, of course it is, but and its readers to issue a paper No one will deny that an intelligent bystander would be culpable in allowing any one to grasp a non insulated electric wire in his bare hand, from a lack of knowledge which such an onlooker could supply; and yet people question the wisdom of instructing children and young girls in regard to without something on the editorial page from its absent editor. As we standing push her to the front" far enough to make her begin "to understand how enormous is the debt she owes him?" Poor civilized man: he will have to go and learn of Capt. Bob how to impress his female, with a doe sense of his su still meet objections to the name, a moral matters, far more serious, where an admired ignorance that's just how good it is." reprint of Mr. Ilarman's defense of mignt, indeed often does, lead them into permanently injur ing themselves both mentally and physically. Is not the above applicable Is any governmert sound The illustration as to how our war, with its A knowledge of the law which governs physical nature immense cost to the people, has increased sexual 1m- seems to me not only the right of every thinking being, but morality will be given another time, but I have one tne only means by which people will ever be brought to look question to ask of those who are readv to die to de-simply wisely and innocently at certain fundamental facts, feud government.

Please take that $40,000,000 000 which our government has cost the people the last is appropriate at this time. Mrs. 8. E. V.

Emery of Michigan spoke at Metropolitan Hall Oct. 10 on the subject, Imperialism in She is a very able, forcible and interesting speaker. A large and appreciative audience was in attendance. After her lecture Senator IVflTer and G. C.

Clemens each spoke a ffiw minutes. A few selections from Mrs. Emery's lecture are well worth a place in Lucifer's lhe ignorance of children can hardly ever be remedied thirty years, and see if it could not have been used in 1 1 ml r. wuun tne ignorance or tne average mother remains what a better wav than in nernPtnati fbt i WDl so mucn Lois. periority.

"The Moral Grandeur of Man" has had a chance to put in its work through countless ages of man's undisputed right to rule and woman's unquestioning duty to obey. If he is still dissatisfied with the work of his own hands who is to make it right? Surely woman's weakness and "enormous indebtedness" cannot do it. How is she to pay this enormoue debt, if she ever acquires the capacity to appreciate it? Perhaps by Carrying a stove on her back a la Mary. Whatever civilized woman has beyond what Mary possessed she owes to the generosity of man." Too bad! and he has lost all she has gained and yet "generous man does not beat her!" How can such forbearance ever be rewarded. We leave it for the McEwens to inform ns.

We don't like to be in debt and will pay up if we have to carry stoves to do it. Bring on your stove a. Did McEwen But how shall health be preserved-and physical morality be obtained by those who are kept in ignorance of the law To keep our sous and daughters innocent, we must warn by which health and physical morality are governed A them of the dangers that beset their path on every side. thinking child is never satisfied when told to do a certain Ignorance under no circumstances ensures safety. Honor thing, or to abstain from doing it, by the assertion, "You protected by knowledge, is safer than innocence protected by ignorance must do it because your parent, tell you that you must and what I tell you is right" They wish to know why oer-tain things are, in themaelves, right, and it ia justice that A few brave women are laboring to-day to secure for their lees capable, less thoughtful, less imaginative sisters, a they should know.

Ae a mere matter of defense, such knowledge should be recognition or true womanhood based on individual rights. There is just one remedy for the social complications based on sex, and that is equality for woman in every relation in life. Men must learn to respect her as an equal factor in civilization, and she must learn to respect herself as mother of the race. Womanhood is the great primal fact of her exist ever have a mother? If eo "where was he at" when he discovered the enormous given to children. A mother who keeps it from them acts as foolishly as a hypothetical lioness who proceeds to tear out her young- one's claws, that they may be harmless as doves debt she owed him? ence; marriage and maternity, its incidents.

not reflecting that, unlike doves, they have no wings to bear Spiritualist Meeting. The Leavenworth Co. Spiritualist Association will hold a two day's meeting at the residence of T. C. Deuel, near Fairmount, on Saturday and Sunday, Oct.

29th and 30th, 1892 Good speakers will be in attendance. The public are respectfully invited. H. H. Harris, For Committee.

Mrs. Mabel Aber of Kansas City, will hold seances for Materialisation on Friday and Saturday nights. 28th and 29th. Lidcifkb three months for 25 cents. tK- VT-SLsn V- Hannah J.

Hunt. NOTICE. Editor Lucifer: While attend- (i, JL LI I a niviJ duuwo luau iud oi mwiB ui Lumnuier lull them out of the dangers again which their claws would society opinions are made and modified by men) con- eiders most important and charming in woman to secure her ing the Freethinkers Association at If every modern girl, as did the Jewish maiden of old Ottawa two Liberal friends grave me were to look upon herself as the possible mother of a Mes orders for pamphlets. The orders siah, how different would be the training, mental and phys were lost and I do not know where to address tbem. If thev see this success in social life, are the very traits that ultimately lead to her failure.

Self-effacement, self-distrust, dependence and desire to please, compliance, deference to the judgment and will of another, are what make young women, in the opinion of these believers in sex domination, most agreeable; but these are the very traits that lead to her rain. Elizabeth Cady Stanton in "Preface to Pray You Sirt Whose Daughter?" by bin H. Gabdsee. ical, which she would herself demand. notice I hope they will send me their In no case are ignorant boys or girls perfectly safe, either address to Atchison, Kansas.

with themselves or with others. J. RKM8BURG..