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Let every man, woman and child have a fair chance to win subsistence, love and happiness. Do not add to the inequalities which Nature imposes. Your statutes dwarf, deform, pervert and kill. Away with them) Away with the barriera and chains and swaddling bands! Give us fresh air and sunlight and FAin tla ZOTHE TO srnscniBERs. If there is a blue mark across this paragraph it tells you that your subscription to Faiii Pi.av expires in one week, that is, you will receive only one more copy of the paper, unless you renew.

If there is a red mark it means that your subscription has expired, that is, the number so marked ia the last you will receive, unless you renew. Conducting a paper upon the cash system is every way best, each subscriber pays for what he gets and is not compelled to pay for what another man gets but does not pay for, as under the trust system. Fair Play needs 500 new subscribers between this date and July. Who will send us the name, or names, and accompanying cash of one, two, three, four, five, ten or more? Will radicals help on the work or will they leave all the burden to be borne by the publishers? Read the utterances of the Reactionists "What the Enemy is Saying and Doing" and then ask yourselves if this is the time for indifference and slothful ease. Had each Radical who has received a sample copy of Fair Play taken hold in earnest and canvassed for subscriber as two or three have done we should now have three thousand subscribers, the paper would be self-supporting and we should be turning out proppgandistic pamphlets and leaflets by the tens of thousands.

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'Democracy can be real and beneficent only by keeping within the limits assigned by the sovereignty of the individual," remarks the Personal Rights Journal. Which is equivalent to saying that the Democracy which is majorityism resting upon compulsive taxation is incompatible with the sovereignty of the individual. And who knows of a governmental democracy which is not, in reality, merely a tax-robbery fed and bayonet-propped majority ism Nothing new from our cause in the United States Court. To the supreme powers that be a citizen's rights count for very little indeed; it ia not worth the trouble to notify victims of the American Inquisition what fate is probably in store for them. A large number of people yesterday April 30 celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of Washington.

It would puzzle the wisest of them to tell us what they have that is worth the powder burned, and the breath wosted in bombastic eloquence. "The jailer was a hardened heathen at sunset, a baptized Christian at dawn so few and simple are the beliefs about persons and facts, not philosophies that Paul counted necessary conditions of admittance to the school of Christ," says Wilber F. Crafts, agent of the Sunday Association. Yes, "few and simple" indeed were the beliefs about persons and alleged facts any fiction fanciful legend found ready acceptance among those who did not trouble themselves about philosophies," those to whom nothing was more credible than the miraculous and to whom a science, a philosophy, that insisted upon verification, was absolutely unknown. Mr.

Lindblom rightly says that it is not necessary to defend the use of stimulants. It is not necessary to defend working seven days in the week. All that is required is to defend the right to work seven days in the week if one so chooses. The same argument applies with equal force in the case of the two entirely distinct questions of the use of stimulants and of the right to use them. Draw sharply the line between Liberty and Despotism and force the fighting right there.

Do not be lured off from the main line into side-issue ambuscades. Do not fear for morality, justice, temperance, if Liberty lives. Guard her upon every side and all will be as well as it is possible to be in this world. Timely and true are the words copied elsewhere from the Port Angeles Commonwealth. It is the utter condemnation of our so-called morality that under its sway the most cowardly and cruel murderers are the pets of society.

Capital punishment is barbarous and ineffective, but restraint of invaders is necessary and there is no more ruthless, savage, invader than he who sunders loving hearts because his human property has escaped him. So -long as husbands and wives are regarded as the property possessions of each other, so long will innocent blood stream from the knife of the homicide and juries of like murderous proclivities acquit the destroyer of peace and order and love. A minister of the gospel of love and good-will edits the Advance of Worthington, Minnesota, which accounts for the vindictiveness of his editorial headed "Drunkenness a Crime." His only conception of justice seems to be equality in injustice. The only educational influence which he appears to cognize is the club of the law. He proposes to weaken or eradicate inherited appetites by setting the victim to work upon the rock-pile, or stealing in the name of the city or State what money he has i left after his debauch, to all appearances utterly oblivious to the fact that in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand such high-handed outrage results in worse than total failure.

Doubtless this reverend gentleman favors the Comstockian legislation which is intended to make it impossible for the wives of drunkards to save themselves from becoming the mothers of these drunkards' diseased children. "Increase and multiply so long as you are legally married no matter what the quality of the offspring you bring into the world, and then punish as criminals the poor victims of your own foolish, knavish, repressive systems Appreciating to the fullest extent the broad humanitarian-ism and tender sympathy which prompted and informs Katherine Dunning Clark's tribute to Mother, yet I must write the words which follow: Death dissolution is a fact in nature. All organizations are subject to it. Disintegration is the counterpart of integration. Growth and decay are interchangeably cause and effect.

Dualist and Mo-nist alike must part with loved ones. There are no classes here. The grief of the one is akin to the grief of the other, but they differ in their manifestations. The tears of Katherine Clark fell fast when she read my "Farewell," and yet the hope she would say certainty of reunion and immortal joys is hers. But we, who knew and loved my mother, gazed through the wreathed blossoms upon her pulseless dust arid no tears dimmed our eyes.

Did we not feel Yes, but ears are not for the dead." She had ceased to suffer. A long life well spent had closed in peace. Tears nor somber-hued habiliments could ease in the least the bed of death. She was past all human help or need for it. Should we weep for our own loss? Tears are for those who doubt or despair.

Self-pity weakens and destroys. Mother is free from all pain. In earnest work we find the only possible balm for own wounds. What more need be said or done Why waste time and energy in dreaming of fairy worlds when in this world-home of man's there is a million times more work than we can do in the longest possible life? Honor to the memory of the worthy dead for us the love and work of this world and this life. Vernunal tllflit.

These are extracts from the address of Vice President Robert Lindblom of the "Personal Rights League" before the "North Side Personal Rights League," of Chicago, as reported in the 1'monal Iiighta Advrcate of that city. The first personal right to which I shall call your atten-tion, is the right of a speaker to be honest. This may appear like a paradox, and yet it is the very corner stone upon which we rest our breastworks, that we might successfully resist the attacks made upon our rights as persons. The right to be honest. Do you comprehend the humilia.

tion of the proposition Do you realize the degrading slavery under which you exist, when you are compelled to acknowledge to yourself that you dare not be honest in speech I will not pursue this subject further, at present, but have simply alluded to it in order to call your attention to a phase of it which involves "tolerance," I was going to say, but I do not care to use that word even. Tolerance is an insult. No man or woman has the right to assume to tolerate. They have the right to do as they please so long as they do not infringe upon our rights, and for them to presume to give me, as a matter of toleration, this same right, is a piece of impertinence which we should not submit to. Let us then banish toleration from our vocabulary.

I will say then that I have alluded to the scarcity of absolute truth in speech, in order to impress upon you the value of hearing it, and the duty which rests upon you of receiving it respectfully, even though it should be new and startling and offensive to your preconceived opinions! Every man and woman has an undisputed right to abstain from the use of alcoholic liquids, as well as from the use of tea, coffee, tobacco, animal meat, and other things considered injurious by a large number of people. It is a personal right which they can exercise so long as they do not interfere with any equal rights of others. It requires no statute, law, or ordinance to secure to them the right be sober, or to abstain from the use of any intoxicants or milder stimulants. I have never heard of any attempt being made to compel anybody to go to a saloon and drink, or to a butcher shop and buy meat. Those who eat meat and drink generally do so because they like to.

Sometimes in the case of individuals and children, force is used to compel them to take certain nourishments, but I consider even that wrong, believ. ing that the cravings or repulsions of nature are more reliable than doctors and ignorant parents. We are not made alike, although the Declaration of Independence pre- tends that we are. We do not look, act or think alike, and it would be absurd to expect us to feed and drink alike. I can understand how a person raised on crackers and pumpkin pie three times and prayers four times a day, can conceive an aversion for anything really humane, how they wish to change the colors of the rainbow and the flowers to gray, and the gladsome songs of the birjs into dirges.

lean conceive how an existence, the principal object of which is to be one of the very few who escape everlasting fire and damnation, should deny to itself and others all the good things in this beautiful world. On the other hand, I can understand how a man full of milk of human kindness, should desire to enjoy for himself, and see others enjoy, all the good things which nature has provided for us to use, not to abuse. I believe that stimulants are absolutely necessary to men of deep feeling and emotions they supply the waste of nerve force which feeds an exuberant spirit. I know that wine has saved the life of my wife, and it has enhanced the pleasures of my own. I know that what is food to one is poison to another.

Those who work hard with muscles, brain and souls, need stimulants in moderate doses, and they get it, prohibition or no. I have wasted time in trying to defend the use of stimulents. That is not necessary for our purpose. It is sufficient if I believe that they are good for me, or that I simply like them, as I do poetry, music, colors in harmony, or terrapin. I like them and claim the right to use them so long as I do not interfere with the just rights of others.

I use them. Others need not. I don't interfere with them. They must not interfere with me. If they are interfered with in the enjoyment of their tastes, they have a right to complain.

If I abuse my tastes and make an exhibition of myself, the law has a punishment for me. $: 4i I believe that woman should have the right to own and control her own body, after as well as before marriage. I believe that motherhood is the most sacred condition of womanhood, and that condition should not be imposed upon her without her cheerful consent. In common with the heroine of that quaint Story of an African Farm" I rise to ask: "If the children of married people are sent by God, who sends the children to unmarried people and I will furnish the answer myself by saying that man alone is responsible for both and that he commits one of the deadly sins when he forces upon the woman in or out of wedlock the awful responsibility of motherhood without her consent. It is an invasion of her personal rights and an outrage upon humanity.

In feudal times, when the wealth of every petty lord depended on the number of his soldiers, it was natural that he should inculcate into every family the duty of rapid, propagation, particularly of the male species, for they made soldiers. Since then the larger monarchs have practiced the same doctrines. They too need soldiers, but we do not, and it behooves us to consider if our welfare lies as much in the direction of a rapid population of the world as in a proper population of it. To bring to the world human beings without ability to fulfill the sacred charge of them is injurious to all concerned, and to society at large. The awful responsibility of parentage should not be recklessly assumed, and to impose it upon woman against her consent is a crime, or should be.

Physical force is directly opposed to morality, it practically drives out of existence the moral forces. 1 Herbert Spencer. JMSEOKTI'XES OF VUEERFVL iHEETUIXKEli. In the hope that it may help, in some small degree at least, that broad-minded and generous Freethinker, J. Francis Ruggles, the Bronson, Michigan, Bibliophile, repair his heavy losses I give place here to an extended extract from his latest "Broadside," which he calls Biblioconfla-gratio," being Circularis Singularis o.

18." If you want rare, curious, old, 0. books and periodicals remember that J. Francis Ruggles can help you find them if anyone can if you have such works to dispose of write to the same pushing, square-dealing, genial gentleman. Instead of reclining among the roses of relaxation as we had purposed briefly doing, we must still remain at the front, and again mount the editorial tripod for the purpose of inditing our first semi-annual message. As sooner or later befalls the lot of most business men, and especially those of this historic town, we too have undergone the ordeal of Are, have passed through the crucible of conflagration.

On the night of February 20, our Bookery, Knicknackatory and Sanctum Sanctorum were entirely con" sumed, thus sweeping away in a few brief moments the vast literary accumulations of a busy lifetime. Our tons of book stock, and valuable private library of choice new and O. works on peculiar subjects and ordinary topics treated in an uncommon manner, dating from 1473,) the most of which were extra matterated and enriched with clippings akin to the subjects treated gummed to the covers and fly leaves, and favorite passages carefully marked; of prized bibliographical works and finding lists containing the titles, authors, publishers, sizes, prices and date of publication of nearly every book issued in America since the discovery of the Continent, of costly extra illustrated volumes, Confederate States imprints, "Ju-mana," Baconiana," Facetia," our cords of periodicals, embracing original issues back to 1714, and many fac similes of others more ancient, including a fine selection of papers with singular titles; our profusion of fascinating pictures and statuary, hundreds of photographic and stereo, scopic views gathered by years of travel, thousands of portraits of celebrities and pictures for purposes of illustration, our aggregation of numismatic treasures, some ante-dating the christian era, numerous acquisitions in philately, glittering specimens of the minerifl kingdom, our wonderful accumulation of autograph letters, documents and signatures, our avalanche of quaint bric-a-bmc and souvenirs of eccentricty, our omnium gatherum scrap books of psychological odditie, local history archives, and our own twenty-three years literary contributions, our common-place books tilled with uncountable intellectual notes, our oceans of newspaper clippings and gleanings of a third of a century, and unedited material filed away for use in the near future, our miles of correspondence with names and addresses of myriads of bibliophiles, biblioworms. and warm personal friends, our electrotypes, printed advertising matter, circulars and stationery, our worlds of old book catalogues in various languages, all our account books, invoices, and office records generally, together with furniture, clothing, trunks, satchels and packing cases, while last in enumeration, but first of all in sentimental value, the original W'ebster's Elementary Spelling Book, in which we conned our letters, with our other old text books of school boy days, and several generations of family heirlooms that are hopelessly unduplicatable, have all been reduced to ashes by the chemical action of the devouring element. The spirit and method of the man are clearly revealed in these original and selected pithy sayings which I find in the "Broadside:" They conquer who believe they can.

To suceed you must have gumption, but if you haven't got it, you can't get it. Luck is the promise of laziness, the hope of idleness and the delusion of despair. Fame never comes to idle hands or empty heads. You cannot aft'ord to bring up a large family of bad habits. Don't be afraid of being aione get acquaintedwith yourself.

He who expects to drift into great, ness will be washed to the shores of disappointment. We are brought to infancy, we creep to boyhood, run to manhood, walk to old age, awl ride to the grave. Washburn. "The Story of an African Farm" by Ralph Iron (Olive Schreiner) is bound in cloth, contains 375 pages and costs only sixty cents postage prepaid. Lovell's paper-covered edition, 23 cents.

This is the Radical romance of the century, i A Quarter of a Century's Work of the Republican and Democratic Parties. An indictment of sixty-one counts. Bv Hiram Maine. For sale here. Price, 5 cents..