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HATRED IS HAPPINESS. 
 
 CHAPTEE I. 
 
 I have not written this book for profit, but rather 
 for pleasure. In fact, I expect to lose money by the 
 venture, but as I have plenty of money of my own to 
 lose, the enterprise is purely my own affair. I will 
 say to you, critics and readers, be ye friends or foes, 
 if you ever saw me, or think that you did, that I am a 
 hater of mankind, and the living world in general ; I 
 have no friends, and never had ; furthermore, I have 
 desire for none. I never cared for any one in the 
 least — father, mother nor relative ; and I hate all those 
 who are friendly to me with as deadly a hatred as I 
 hate those who hate me. I would show no difference 
 between friend, father, mother, relative and inv most 
 
bitter enemy. If they were in my power I would 
 treat them the same. I defy mankind and the worst 
 they can do. The worst is only imprisonment or 
 death ; but what of that ? Life is short anyhow. I 
 can conceive nothing more worthless or insignificant 
 than honor and respect of man. 
 
 There is one limit to my hatred, and it is for 
 those creatures who are mental wrecks, or with not 
 enough brain power to make them objects of hatred, 
 as all females and the majority of males. What would 
 I do with you all whom I consider my enemies (for I 
 consider the whole world so) ? If I had the power, 
 I'd lay you dead or drive you into slavery, which is 
 worse than death ; yes, put you in chains, torture you 
 by driving you with a whip and red-hot irons. I deal 
 only with human beings. I have no religion, and want 
 none ; neither am I a Spiritualist or Atheist. I do 
 not believe in a Kepublican, Democratic, Kepresenta- 
 tive or Socialistic Government, yet I am not an An- 
 archist, but I believe in despotic rule by force and 
 fear; death punishment by chopping off the head. 
 
I think all of the blacks should be kept in slavery, 
 and the majority of the whites also. This may be 
 queer logic for a free-born man and a resident of a 
 civilized country, but, having lived in nearly every 
 nation under the sun, I have become embittered and 
 made the cynic I am. I take pleasure in writing this 
 because it gives me not only the privilege to gloat 
 over the injustice and misery which exists in this 
 world, and will continue to exist as long as this world 
 stands, increasing day by day, but it gives me the un- 
 bounded scope to make known to all readers who 
 enjoy life and the friendship of man, that it is all a 
 delusion and hallucination of the mind, as I haven't 
 a friend in the w^orld, but, I am glad to say, have 
 plenty of enemies. I enjoy life and am perfectly 
 happy in hating all humanity. 
 
 Although I have no religion, I believe that the 
 world and universe is controlled by a power so great, 
 grand, wonderful and strong, that it is not only be- 
 yond my comprehension, but of all others living. I 
 fear this wonderful power, and I could praise and 
 
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 worship such a power, only I feel, on account of my 
 unworthiness and wickedness, it would be considered 
 so worthless as not to be accepted. However, I feel 
 this wonderful power, but it is beyond my ability to 
 describe or comprehend its greatness. 
 
 In expressing my different ideas of good and evil, 
 I'll call the thoughts "Spirits;" the good thoughts, 
 " Spirits of Good,' ' the evil thoughts, " Spirits of 
 Evil." This book I solemnly dedicate to my great 
 enemy, mankind, and because of my deadlj^ hatred 
 and my happiness in that hatred, I call the book, 
 
 ''HATRED IS happiness:' 
 
 Note. — If I have repeated a subject or sentence 
 a dozen times, more or less, I have done it because I 
 wanted to emphasize it particularly, and that is my 
 business; and if I have jumped from one subject to 
 another without rule or order (dialogue gives me that 
 privilege), that is also my business ; and if you don't 
 like it, and don't want to read it. and tell others not 
 to read it, that is your business ; do the worst you 
 can ; I can stand it. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 You have heard of fiends and devils in human 
 form ; you can imagine them in all their horror. Those 
 who have read Dante's Inferno, for instance, do not 
 need to rely on their own imagination ; these fiends 
 and devils have the most deadly, undying, indescrib- 
 able hatred for all humanity, even the hatred of Satan 
 and his devils for all humanity ; and the hatred of 
 these human fiends and devils is nothing compared to 
 my hatred of humanity ; and the worst of these fiends 
 and devils are good compared to myself, for I know 
 about what I am talking. The hatred of none can 
 or will ever equal my hatred for all mankind that have 
 attained the years of accountability, but in my estima- 
 tion, all females and the majority of males haven't 
 enough sense to be worth hatred. I am not writing 
 
this to please any class cf people, but to please myself, 
 and I speak of the different spirits, expressing my 
 thoughts as they are, I'll call the evil thought, full of 
 hate, the " Spirit of Hate." The different kinds of 
 thoughts are named according to their meaning — 
 good, medium, or bad. The Spirit of Love, which 
 represents thoughts of love ; the Spirit of Destruction, 
 which represents destructive thoughts ; Spirit of Com- 
 mon Sense, which means what the name signifies. 
 Spirits of Eeason, Lust, War, Destruction, Eevenge, 
 Imagination. When these thoughts come into my 
 mind according to their names, I will converge with 
 them mentally, in dialogue, and write the results in 
 this book for my own pleasure and to make enemies. 
 I will commence with the Spirit of Hate, as I always 
 did have more use for it than any other spirit, and 
 have now and always will have more use for it than 
 for any other spirit. 
 
 Well, most honored Spirit of Hate, can you give 
 any new ideas, and tell me how I can increase my 
 hatred for human beings? If you can, I will be 
 
most grateful and under everlasting obligations to you. 
 (Spirit of Hate.) No, I cannot possibly do it as 
 you have been the chief of all haters for many years. 
 You are far in advance of all other haters of humanity 
 and none can be compared to you. You are perfect 
 in the art of hating, and I believe that your equal 
 will never be known in that respect. 
 
 (Writer.) Most honored Spirit of Hate, I believe 
 you are right, and I find there is perfect happiness in 
 hatred, not in violent outbursts of short time hatred, 
 but in hatred perfectly under control — cool, calculat- 
 ing, life- time hatred and revenge, with perfect control 
 over all the faculties of the brain, and not allowing 
 myself to get angry under any circumstances whatever. 
 I have had my angry passions and all passions under 
 complete control for many years. Can you understand 
 how I can use the Spirit of Love, Spirit of Hate ? 
 
 (Spirit of Hate.) No, I cannot, you surprise me 
 greatly ; how can you, who never had any love for 
 parents or any one, but only the most intense hatred, 
 which is beyond imagination. How can you, the 
 
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 chief master of hatred, lust, and all that's evil, use 
 love, is beyond my comprehension. 
 
 (Writer.) Most honored Spirit of Hate, I will 
 explain to your complete satisfaction. You know in- 
 toxicating liquors, such as whiskey, brandy, wine and 
 beer, do more damage in the world and cause more mis- 
 ery of all kinds than anything else. I hate all human 
 beings of all nationalities, races, and colors, all those 
 who have brains enough to be worth hating, savage or 
 civilized, poor or rich, learned or ignorant, that ever 
 lived since the beginning of the world, all those who 
 are dead, those who live now, and the countless 
 millions who will live in time to come as long as the 
 world lasts. If I had the power I would destroy the 
 human race, wipe it off the face of the globe. Now 
 as intoxicating liquor makes far more misery, as you 
 well understand, in this world, than all else, and as my 
 hatred is directed to the world, I love intoxicating 
 liquor, as it does most harm and destroys most. Not 
 for my own use — I am too sensible a man for that ; I 
 have had misery enough, but I love it dearly for the 
 
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 misery, ruin and destruction it has caused in past ages, 
 causes now, and will cause in the future. I will call 
 all intoxicating liquors under the name of whiskey. 
 Whiskey, Whiskey, my good friend Whiskey ! I hope 
 you will always be used in the world. I love you 
 most sincerely ; no words can express my love for you 
 as you are the chief agent of destruction. I believe 
 there is more true happiness in hatred than anything 
 else. I believe I take more happiness in hatred in 
 one year than other people take in a lifetime of love. 
 
 How much true happiness I experience in walk- 
 ing alone after dark in the largest cities of the earth 
 and watching the work of my best friend, whiskey, 
 which works surely, swiftly, and extensively. See the 
 magnificent drinking palaces, restaurants, gambling 
 hells, and palatial hotels, crowded to their utmost and 
 in full blast, in parts of the large cities where the 
 wealthy classes spend their money. Hark ! listen ! a 
 fight, a shot, a stab, murder, police. The excitement 
 is intense, the scene appalling, and another one of my 
 enemies lies dead. It is done as effectually as if I had 
 
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 done it myself. I go into a saloon and buy a bottle 
 of liquor, hug the bottle up in my arms, go into a dark 
 alley, get down upon my knees, and worship it the 
 same as a heathen Chinee would worship his gods. 
 Exult and gloat over the fiery liquor. Look ! Both the 
 old, hoary-haired man, tottering upon the brink of 
 the grave, and the youth with all his life before him, 
 coming to taste the liquor and judge of its effects. 
 The old man, white-haired, yet a blossom on his nose 
 disgracing that white hair, which should be an honor 
 to old age ; the youth, blear-eyed, unsteady in his gait, 
 more uncertain in his actions, the cause of a mother's 
 broken heart — oh, revenge, how sweet ! Others, with 
 incurable diseases, covered by the finest raiment, male 
 and female, arm in arm, and my best friend, whiskey, 
 leading them. Could I ask for greater happiness ? 
 Look at the large number with the glitter of insanity 
 in their eyes, the seeds sown by strong drink ; see the 
 ones in the dark places examining their knives and 
 firearms, with the eyes of beasts of prey. On the op- 
 posite side of the street is a ball and banquet of the 
 
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 so called highest class, with carriages waiting. There 
 the liquor can be said to flow. The theaters are out, 
 people rush to the drinking resorts and gambling dens 
 to follow their vices ; there is plenty to be seen and 
 heard as well. They yell, stagger, quarrel, and fight — 
 Oh, I have found the secret of happiness for me ! 
 Look at the large number with diseased minds, in all 
 stages of decay ; and what caused it ? A fight, three 
 on one ; they have him down and use him for a foot- 
 ball. Now they run away ; he doesn't move ; must be 
 dead or crippled for life. They all look like they be- 
 long to what is called the best society. This is Satur- 
 day night. I will walk toward the poor part of the 
 city, commonly called " the slums ! " I carry a large 
 bottle of fighting whiskey in my pocket, and a small 
 glass to drink from, but not for my own use — I would 
 not touch a drop of it ; yet I give it to different people 
 who I am sure will commit crime under its influence. 
 I meet some street walkers shivering with the cold, or 
 for the want of a drink ; I give them a good drink to 
 give them nerve. A little farther along, I meet some 
 
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 tramps, who ask for money ; I give them a drink and 
 tell them to stop begging and do anything for money, 
 but never to beg. They promise to take my advice, 
 and by reading the papers, I believe they did. Eveny 
 where I go, in the slums and the better districts, I find 
 fighting, yelling, singing, and quarrelling. I come to 
 a crowd at the corner ; a policeman has a finely-dressed 
 drunken man in custody, waiting for a patrol wagon to 
 take him to prison ; he is telling the policeman how 
 highway robbers used him for a foot-ball and robbed 
 him. I wonder if it was the tramps to whom I gave 
 the whiskey, that robbed him. There are plenty of 
 broken hearts as well as broken and bruised heads to 
 make my heart glad. Ah, what can't whiskey do? 
 Now we'll see what love will do. 
 
 My old friend whiskey has fixed quite a number 
 of my personal enemies, who hated me almost as I 
 hated them. They had plenty of reason to hate me, 
 because I ruined their homes and some member of 
 their family, but I have no other reason to hate them 
 only my hate for all responsible people naturally, and 
 
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 of course I like to make them as much misery as pos- 
 sible, aod I did my share, and now whiskey may fin- 
 ish it. One got the delirium tremens, but was about 
 to recover, when I called to see him, purposely to make 
 him worse, as I had ruined his home, and the sight of 
 me was enough to give him the horrors. I took an 
 artificial snake, with movable mouth, tongue, and eyes, 
 in my pocket. The sight of me nearly set him wild 
 with rage, but he managed to control himself. I 
 showed him the snake without the others seeing it, 
 and away he went into the worst fit of delirium he had 
 at any time ; he continued that way with short inter- 
 nals of consciousness, when he would curse me and go 
 into another fit. I rubbed my hands with the great- 
 est pleasure imaginable, and shouted with joy over 
 this death. Another of my enemies went violently in- 
 sane by drinking, but was rational at times, with some 
 prospect of recovery. I bribed his keeper to let me 
 see him during one of his rational spells. I gave him 
 one of my exultant laughs of concentrated hate, and 
 showed him the artificial snake. He went raving, hope- 
 
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 lesslj mad — no hopes of ever recovering. Even the 
 hardened keeper was horrified, and refused my bribes 
 to see him any more. So I exulted over whiskey's 
 work and my own combined. A large number of my 
 acquaintances have ruined themselves, mentally and 
 morally, shortened their lives, and died horrible deaths, 
 by using whiskey ; and many of them are living mis- 
 erable living deaths now. If it be possible for me to 
 hate one class or classes worse than others, it is the 
 class of gamblers, brokers, bankers, etc. Of course, 
 they are among the chief human agents of misery and 
 destruction in the world, but yet I would not care to 
 destroy them for that reason, unless there are others 
 to take their places. However, whiskey is mowing 
 them down continually, and they are splendid exam- 
 ples of destruction to the younger generation. 
 
 I have spent many dollars in " the nickel in-the- 
 slot " phonograph, which records the insane ravings o£ 
 a lunatic who became insane through drink. I enjoy 
 hearing the natural sound of the mad ravings of a vic- 
 tim. I feel like getting the records of the mad ravings 
 
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 of a large number of lunatics who lost their reason in 
 this way, and set all the phonographs in motion at 
 once, to gloat over the work of whiskey. The mixed 
 up ravings, as mad laughter, screams, groans, yells, 
 rattling of chains, and iron doors of their cells, as they 
 try to escape, and all the noises of a mad house, would 
 be many times more pleasant to my ears than any 
 music ; and I should like a continuation of this, night 
 and day. I believe that the majority of all the insane 
 of the world is made so by liquor, directly or indi- 
 rectly. How I gloat over this misery. Just think 
 what idiots their offspring are born. The world is full 
 of them and I glory in it. Just visit one of these mad 
 dens and you will have the horrors yourself when you 
 hear the jeering, yelling, laughing, and see the wild, 
 staring, rolling eyes, distorted features, beating them- 
 selves against the walls and floors, biting themselves, 
 foaming at the mouth, indecent postures, and worse 
 language. Instead of horror, to me, there is rejoicing. 
 To convince my readers that whiskey is the great- 
 est evil, and for that reason I love it, I will recite an 
 
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 incident that I have noted. On a sidewalk, near a 
 saloon door, was a man, apparently drunk, but in the 
 stupor of death. The jeering crowd was taking turns 
 feeling his heart, to see if he was dead, when a casual 
 observer had only to glance to tell that he was dead. 
 It was an amusing sight to see the drunken crowd, 
 both male and female, in a drizzling cold rain, feeling 
 for a dead man's heart, shaking hands with him, fall- 
 ing over him, lifting him and putting his hat on his 
 head, calling him by name, talking to him, telling him 
 he is all right, to get up and go home, and holding him 
 in a sitting position, when he was as dead as could be, 
 white as chalk, eyes open and staring, but all the crowd 
 was drunk, first one and then the other saying he could 
 feel his heart and pulse beat. At last some one more 
 sober than the rest, suggested a doctor. One ran in 
 one direction for a doctor, another for an ambulance, 
 and lastly a policeman came, who immediately tele- 
 phoned for a patrol wagon. It was more fun than an 
 Irish wake, where they stand the corpse up in the cor- 
 ner, and try to pour whiskey in its mouth, and end up 
 
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 with getting the corpse on the floor with about a dozen 
 on top of it, fighting. At last came doctor, ambulance, 
 and patrol wagon. Well, of course they pronounced 
 him dead. Anyone but a drunkard could have seen 
 that plain enough. The facts of the case were inves- 
 tigated. The man stood up in front of the bar and 
 poured down my good intoxicating liquors until he 
 dropped dead. Intoxicating liquors, you are diamonds. 
 You do my work nicely. The same night I saw a man 
 killed by a billiard cue ; he was a stranger, and drink- 
 ing ; the murderer was drunk also. Whiskey, you are 
 a pearl of great price to me. I saw plenty of such 
 sights the same night. I heard screams, shouts, and 
 yells, some of murder, and all caused by rum. I fill 
 my bottle again, with fighting whiskey^ and give it to 
 the different ones, who will commit crime with a little 
 stimulant and artificial whiskey nerve. I never fail to 
 give a little advice where it will do the most good. 
 
 Note. — I have run dives in all the largest cities, 
 and in many of the smaller ones, and towns also, 
 under the guise of groceries, saloons, restaurants, 
 
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 and other kinds of shops, where drinking, gambling, 
 dancing, and all kinds of vice were taught the young 
 of both sexes. 
 
 I continued through different parts of the city 
 until daylight, seeing the good work of my splendid 
 good friend, intoxicating liquors, every place I go. 
 I buy the morning papers, and gloat over the accounts 
 of drunken murders and drunken crimes of all kinds, 
 which are graphically described in them, and retire at 
 the break of day, perfectly happy in the drunken sights 
 I have witnessed in the night in the one city, knowing 
 full well I had only seen a small portion of said city, 
 and only think of the immense and glorious work of 
 misery in all the largest cities, towns, villages, in all 
 the countries of the earth ; it's almost beyond compre- 
 hension — it's splendid. As I retire I know without 
 doubt that my good friend intoxicants will continue 
 to cause misery and destruction while I sleep ; it's a 
 glorious, satisfying, happy thought, and I gloat over 
 it, saying with all the power of which I am capable, 
 " My Intoxicating Liquors, Live Forever ! " 
 
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 The damage that suits me best is when the intoxi- 
 cants undermine reason, more or less. There is no es- 
 timating the ruin wrought in this way. The parent 
 may not show it much, but their offspring inherit a 
 weak intellect and an appetite for this curse. To my 
 chief belongs all this honor and praise for my joy and 
 satisfaction, knowing that life is nothing to these idiots, 
 but they are living reproaches to their parents. How 
 happy it makes me, to think that this good friend of 
 mine never rests day or night, be I sleeping or waking. 
 When I lay dying I will have the satisfaction of know- 
 ing that my only friend still lives to deal out misery 
 and ruin to my enemy as long as the world stands, 
 although I may have returned to dust and my name 
 and deeds be forgotten. 
 
 Now, Spirit of Hate, you can understand how I 
 can use love in connection with intoxicating liquors, 
 because they do more damage to my natural enemies 
 than all else besides. 
 
 I own stock in a whiskey distillery in a certain 
 
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 part of the world. The money profits which I receive 
 on this stock I almost worship like the heathen wor- 
 ship their brazen idols, but I can use love in connec- 
 tion with other destroying agents. 
 
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 CHAPTER II. 
 
 I love gold and money for the misery, injustice, 
 and destruction it causes in the world. I believe it 
 comes next after intoxicating drinks in that respect. 
 I will give a list of those I love because they cause 
 misery and destruction. This is the glorious list of 
 all kinds of intoxicants : — gold, money, diamonds, 
 luxuries, all kinds of contagious diseases, such as 
 fevers, leprosy, and others that I might mention. The 
 more infectious and incurable they are the better I 
 love them. I love storms, cyclones, hurricanes and 
 other destructive storms. I love opium, and other 
 poisonous drugs which cause misery and woe. I love 
 locusts and all kinds of insects which destroy the 
 crops and cause famines. I love the beasts of prey, 
 birds of prey, and poisonous reptiles, because they 
 
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 are destroyers of man ; love the drought which parches 
 and dries up the earth's substance ; the floods which 
 drown ; fire arms; metal weapons, and explosives which 
 kill ; love tidal waves ; earthquakes ; volcanic erup- 
 tions, which cause loss of life. I love wars, because 
 of the largo numbers killed and crippled, and the 
 misery and destitution caused by them. I gloat daily 
 over the Turkish- Greek, and Spanish-Cuban, and all 
 wars of the present day. I was taught in my youth 
 to despise slavery, but now I love it, all blacks should 
 be slaves and all others. I would be a despot if I could 
 rule, and I esteem monarchs of all kinds ; the more 
 despotic the rule, the better it pleases me. 
 
 If there is anything of which I have not thought 
 that causes misery and destruction to man, I am sorry, 
 as I love everything that does. 
 
 (Spirit of Hate.) I understand quite plainly 
 how you love everything which causes misery and 
 destruction to your natural enemies ; and I understand 
 now how you can use it in connection with hatred. 
 
 (Writer.) Spirit of Hatred, you are exactly right. 
 
(Spirit of Hate.) You can't be equalled in this 
 matter. 
 
 (Writer.) I believe you, most honored Spirit of 
 Hate. 
 
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 CHAPTEE III. 
 
 Spirit of Common Sense, I will have a talk with 
 you, for a change ; what is your opinion of my idea of 
 hatred vs. happiness? 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) You make me very 
 weary ; let me show you how foolish you are. Suppose 
 you should gather together a large number of intelli- 
 gent animals, viz., dogs, monkeys, apes, horses, cats, 
 cattle, etc. If you should shake a whip or your fist a^ 
 them and say, how I hate, you can see how foolish that 
 would be. Well, one-half of the men in the world 
 know no more than intelligent animals. Many dogs 
 can understand what they are told, and obey, but they 
 can't talk ; if they could talk and had hands to work, 
 and with the same strength, they could do the same 
 as the majority of men in the world do. 
 
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 (Writer.) I know all this, but just in proportion 
 as a man has brains, he is mean just as his mind is. 
 The smarter a man is, generally, the meaner he is ; 
 the only exceptions to this rule are those who fear a 
 punishment or a power after death, or a desire for re- 
 ward. Some desire worldly praise and honor, but they 
 are the meanest hypocrites at heart. But in order to 
 receive honor and fame, they build hospitals, colleges, 
 and schools, to perpetuate their memories. Some ac- 
 quire their fortunes by holding offices and robbing the 
 unsuspecting public, and yet are considered good and 
 pious by their friends, and strangers and relatives. 
 Take all these selfish objects away, the fear of punish- 
 ment and belief of reward after death, and you will 
 soon see what they are. They would torture you to 
 death, drive you into slavery, and if they had power, 
 yes, or lynch you without mercy. All these self inter- 
 ests make them artificial. They are victims of circum- 
 stances and surroundings. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) What is your reason 
 for hating men ? 
 
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 (Writer.) I could give reasons enough to fill a 
 book ; besides, it is natural instinct for me to hate. 
 All responsible people that have ever lived, or will 
 live, are naturally vicious ; and more than half the 
 males in the world are fools and beneath contempt, 
 and only useful to stop bullets. I don't believe any 
 of the females are responsible for their acts, for the 
 lack of brains, or for the want of well balanced brains, 
 and consequently are only useful to prolong the de- 
 spised human race. As I don't consider females re- 
 sponsible for their acts, I don't think them worthy of 
 hating. If I speak of hating all humanity people will 
 hold up their hands in horror ; yet it is an indisputa- 
 ble fact that hatred is one of the most common attri- 
 butes of mankind, and I will prove it. 
 
 The French hate the Germans and Italians* 
 and the Germans hate the French and the English ; 
 the English hate the Germans, Russians, French, 
 Yankees, and Irish ; the Italians hate the French ; the 
 Turks hate the Greeks, Armenians, and all Christians; 
 the Greeks, Armenians, and Christians hate the Turks; 
 
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 all black races liate the white instinctively ; all white 
 races hate the blacks the same way ; the Chinese and 
 Japanese hate each other ; the Spanish and Yankees 
 hate each other ; the United States hate England and 
 Spain ; most of the Irish in Ireland and the world, 
 hate England ; but the Irish in Ireland and all over 
 the world are divided among themselves on religion 
 and politics, and hate each other. So it is all over the 
 world ; one nation hates another, and all nations are 
 divided among themselves on religion, politics, and 
 color, and hate each other individually. 
 
 I can imagine myself a Frenchman hating the 
 German, or a Russian hating the English, or an Eng- 
 lishman hating everything that is not English, or I 
 can imagine myself a Turk, hating everything but 
 Turkish rule. Can you find a Turk who does not hate 
 a Christian ? No ! And they are honest enough to 
 say so ; but the Christian will tell you he does not 
 hate the Turk, but despises him, or some other milder 
 word than hate. However, it will take a mind reader 
 to tell the difference. I don't believe there is any dif- 
 
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 ference. There is no one living who has not been 
 treated mean himself, or treated some one else mean, 
 consequently all are mean. I don't have to be bitten 
 by a venomous reptile before I am convinced that such 
 a bite would kill me, because I have known of others 
 who have been bitten, and the consequences ; I don't 
 have to be bitten by a rabid dog and go mad lo con- 
 vince me of facts, because I know it has happened to 
 others. I don't have to expose myself to contagious 
 diseases before I will believe they are catching, be- 
 cause I know of the evil effects to others. So it is 
 with man. I don't have to be robbed, murdered, swin- 
 dled, or insulted, by them, before I believe that they 
 would do it ; because they would do it if they had un- 
 limited power and had no fear of punishment here or 
 hereafter. Now, Spirit of Common Sense, these are 
 a few of my reasons for hating all human beings, alive 
 and dead. I believe they are more than sufficient, 
 but the reasons I could give are beyond limit. I have 
 read all the history of the world up to the modern his- 
 tory of today, and what is it but a continual story of 
 
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 injustice, slaugliter, and torture, by those in power ? 
 But there never has been any crime, injustice, slavery, 
 slaughter, or torture, since the beginning of history on 
 this earth, that I would not have increased if I had 
 lived in those days ; and if I had power today I would 
 make despotism and slavery the only rule on earth. 
 All those who have been persecuted, slaughtered, or 
 driven into slavery since the world began, and inclu- 
 ding the present day, but would have done the same 
 to their persecutors under the same circumstances and 
 belief. I believe in a monarchy, royalty, despotism, 
 nobility, and classes. 
 
 If I had had a pleasant life from the time of my 
 birth up to the present time, I would hate all human 
 beings just as I do now. It is not a personal matter 
 with me, born and bred therein. I must hate human 
 beings for their meanness to each other throughout 
 all past ages and the present time ; they don't have to 
 treat me mean when I see how they treat each other. 
 Now, Spirit of Common Sense, if you wash another 
 reason why I hate man, just contemplate the life of 
 
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 Napoleon Bonaparte. How any one can study the 
 history of that Hfe and have faith in human nature is a 
 mystery to me. After creating himself Emperor and 
 conquering several countries, he was not satisfied with 
 the countries he had conquered ; the more he had the 
 more he wanted, until he wanted to rule the whole 
 world and to leave it to his heirs. He had strong brain 
 power, more than a number of ordinary men combined. 
 You see how he used it ; only for selfish purposes ; he 
 made war systematically, and slaughtered millions, di- 
 rectly or indirectly, for his own advancement. I, the 
 chief enemy of humanity, review the work of Napoleon 
 with pleasure and satisfaction, for it destroyed life. 
 Yet I hate Napoleon as much as his victims. There 
 never was a man who lived in the world before Napo- 
 leon's time, or in his day, or at the present time, who, 
 having enough brains and believing as Napoleon did, 
 would not have done the same, or much worse if they 
 could. I honor Napoleon greatly for the slaughter and 
 misery he caused personally, but I honor him more for 
 the example of slaughter he set the world, and which 
 
has been followed and will be followed for ages, with 
 unlimited war, slaughter and misery. Every country 
 of the world has numerous military men, who take 
 Napoleon for their model, and who are anxiously wait- 
 ing for an opportunity to follow his example as near, 
 and as soon, as possible. I believe there are generals 
 in the United States who would like to be the Napo- 
 leons of today if they were capable. They are more 
 than willing to do the slaughtering and killing, but 
 have not the brains to do the planning. All the histo- 
 ries are fall of selfish examples like Napoleon's ; not 
 a care for suffering but a wish to further their own 
 gluttony and ambitious pride. The more wealth or 
 power they acquired the more they fought for. So it 
 is at the present day ; fight for gold and honors. Now, 
 Spirit of Common Sense, I believe I have given suffi- 
 cient reasons for my hatred. Monarchy is filled with 
 despotism, injustice and misery. I have no words to 
 express my praise for this agent of destruction. I be- 
 lieve in all countries being monarchical, ruled directly 
 by glorious Royalty. Some have more power than 
 
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 others, but the more power they have, the more grand- 
 ly they rule. Glorious Royalty, live forever ! Most 
 all glorious governments have suffrage and are ruled 
 to a limited extent by the mob ; these governments 
 are only making the best of the present time and cir- 
 cumstances ; they are like mighty lions and beasts of 
 prey, sleeping ; yes, they are most mighty and power- 
 ful, but only sleeping. Never fear, they will arouse 
 in time and great and magnificent will be their awaken- 
 ing. There is no estimating the power after this rest 
 and sleep. No words can express such grandeur. 
 They will place the latest improved cannons and rapid 
 fire guns at the end of every street, covered with im- 
 pregnable armor, and sweep the streets in every direc- 
 tion of the fool mobs ; or by captive balloons, airships, 
 hidden mines of explosives fired by electricity, or 
 many other deadly plans. They would not stop the 
 slaughter until they were sure their power was estab- 
 lished for good, and all their subjects would shout as 
 with one voice, that would echo throughout the earth 
 and sky, "Royalty forever." They would abolish all 
 
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 mob rule and suffrage of all classes, and establish 
 themselves on a permanent foundation of despotism. 
 Might is right. Few people have any idea of the 
 power of the fire-arms of today ; the wealthy and titled 
 classes, and Jews keep it as quiet as possible. There 
 are all kinds of improvements, all kinds of explosives, 
 and the possibility of using electricity and armored, 
 horseless, self-propelling vehicles, mob proof, with 
 rapid fire guns. The next mob or revolution will not 
 have the easy times overthrowing the governments 
 that they had a hundred years or more ago. 
 
 Once Eoyalty gets into power, backed by the 
 wealth of the world, it will stay there until all the 
 architecture has crumbled away and time tumbled into 
 space. Even if it should come to a question of war, 
 Royalty would win, for the wealthier class is on the 
 side of Royalty. Their money pays the soldiers, buys 
 the amunition and fire-arms, and is all powerful in 
 war as it is in peace. The middle and poorer classes 
 are divided among themselves. You can hire any 
 number of them to shoot each other down without the 
 
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 least provocation. I don't believe in the rule of some 
 despotic countries, where they are ruled by permission 
 of the fool mobs ; no, I want a rule that can be hon- 
 ored, respected, and praised. 
 
 I honor and praise all Royalty and respect them 
 the same as whiskey, wars, famines, plagues, beasts of 
 prey, venomous reptiles, floods, hurricanes, earth- 
 quakes, volcanic eruptions, and everything else that 
 causes human misery and woe. Can the meanest 
 fiends and devils ask for more than this Royalty can 
 do ? " Live on. Glorious Royalty of Misery and De- 
 struction," forever ! 
 
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 CHAPTER lY. 
 
 I am sure, with all my hatred for humanity, that 
 I could not improve on " Glorious Royalty" as human 
 tools to cause misery, woe and destruction to all my 
 natural enemies. "Glorious Royalty, live forever!" 
 From the beginning of the reign until now is only a 
 continual glorious story of war, torture, slaughter, mis- 
 ery, woe, and destruction ; and may it continue so. 
 Look at the slaughter of the blacks, armed with spears, 
 and bows and arrows, in large numbers, shot down by 
 the hand of glorious Royalty. It must be an amusing 
 sight to see the black savages wiped off the earth in 
 large numbers. They should either be exterminated 
 or put into slavery. Look at Royalty, governing In- 
 dia, where millions are dying of slow starvation. I 
 tell you it's splendid ; there's nothing slow or half 
 way about the work of Royalty, when it sees a chance 
 to reduce a troublesome population, or an overpopu- 
 
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 lated country, either by war, starvation, strict laws, or 
 taxation, and numerous other plans. 
 
 Ireland is a good example. It has decreased in 
 population about one half in fifty years. There is 
 nothing slow about the Royalty of Great Britain. 
 
 The glorious Royal government of Spain is doing 
 its best to exterminate the Cubans or put them in tax- 
 ation slavery, and I wish for its success. 
 
 Royalty is increasing in power aud favor in the 
 world. France is liable to go back to it at any time. 
 All the wealthy classes and most of the middle classes 
 are in favor of it. It would be very easy in times of 
 civil war, international revolutions, sympathetic strikes 
 and riots, to overthrow the United States Government. 
 The moneyed men or capitalists could very easily start 
 international war by withholding their money from 
 manufacturing companies, railroads, and other indus- 
 trial pursuits. The object of the speculators and cap- 
 italists in withholding their money would be starting 
 a revolution to overthrow this republic and establish 
 a military or monarchical government. The moneyed 
 
classes could and would pay a large army big wages, 
 and give them gorgeous uniforms, with gold and lace 
 to catch the female eye, and plenty to eat and drink. 
 The females of all classes would hug and kiss them, 
 and the newspapers would make heroes of them all — 
 from the soldiers of the rank and file up to the officers. 
 
 Such soldiers would shoot into the quiet citizens. 
 They would shoot their own people, school-mates, 
 neighbors, friends, and relations — father and mother, 
 brother and sister, if by doing so they could win favors 
 from the female sex, which they would be sure of, and 
 they would receive unlimited praise from the newspa- 
 pers for their acts. 
 
 An example and proof of this was in 1894, in 
 Chicago, during the railway strikes. When the soldiers 
 came in from the plains and other places, every news- 
 paper in Chicago (excepting one or two) devoted whole 
 pages to making heroes of every " common " soldier, 
 and everywhere they went they were greeted with 
 ladies' smiles and waving of ladies' handkerchiefs. 
 
 The newspapers knew very well by adopting this plan 
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 the soldiers would not only shoot the mobs down, but 
 the innocent citizens, like dogs, on the least provoca- 
 tion, if any. There is nothing slow about the news- 
 papers and all connected with them or the editors. 
 They are well supplied with brains and money. 
 
 It is easy to pick out those in different cities now 
 who secretly favor the overthrow of this government, 
 but with the least encouragement would openly declare 
 their views for the overthrow of the government and 
 establishment of a military despotism until a heredi- 
 tary monarchy could be established. And the various 
 papers, backed by unlimited capital, could soon accom- 
 plish this ; and could scare people into subjugation 
 by fear of anarchy. No man with even a hundred dol- 
 lars in the bank would hesitate in joining in this war- 
 like spirit ; then money and property holders would 
 rank as one. The poor classes would fight on the side 
 that gave them the most money. After enlisting all 
 comers, they would secretly organize guerilla gangs of 
 cut-throats and bloody rapiers of all the irresponsible 
 parties and negroes in all states to cut down and de- 
 
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 • stroy all until their purpose had been accomplished. 
 
 It would be easy for the wealthy class, which is 
 the government, to organize such gangs, aided by whisks 
 ey, and the source of money and supplies kept secret. 
 They would divide in small companies to capture and 
 destroy villages ; and in large armies, to destroy cities 
 and towns, committing all kinds of crime. This, with 
 an exaggerated account in the papers, would soon sub- 
 due all unbelievers. 
 
 If I had the power, I would organize a band of 
 robbers and murderers for the wealthy and governing 
 class ; and I could fill the position of captain, and run 
 the business to perfection on a large scale, for who 
 would be less merciless than I ? When my array would 
 capture a city, my orders would be "to the victor be- 
 longs the spoils;" which means rob, slaughter, kill as 
 I would, and have all the booty brought to me to be 
 divided. I should order all males of every age to be 
 slaughtered, but the females to be reserved for luorse 
 than death. 
 
 After such a sway of terror as I would make, the 
 
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 strongest friends of the republic would be willing to 
 accept a monarchical form of government, or despotic 
 government of any kind. Their first act would be to 
 disarm all except the regular army ; then everything 
 would be in their power, but it would be good bye to 
 all republics and democracies in the United States. 
 
 The moneyed classes of England, Germany, and 
 France, aided by the monarchical class, could bring on 
 just such revolutions at the same time in the same way 
 for the same purposes, and with the same results — the 
 destruction of freedom and suffrage. Then glorious 
 despotic Royalty would rule the world. The monarchi- 
 cal governments of the world would swoop down on 
 South America and Africa, and try to divide them up,, 
 which would cause a general war throughout the world. 
 All nations would then be under monarchical rule and 
 there would be continual war, slaughter, destruction, 
 and misery, which would be my greatest delight and 
 
 joy- 
 There are numerous other ways the wealthy could 
 
 begin the overthrow while claiming to be very patri- 
 
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 otic, but traitors at heart. They might even make pa- 
 triotic speeches, but when necessary show their hand 
 openly when it came to the time. Men naturally are 
 deceivers, dishonest, and traitors born. 
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 
 The majority of the married men in the United 
 States are henpecked, and yet they believe there is 
 nothing like home. They would sacrifice the govern- 
 ment rather than leave their wives and children to fight 
 for their country ; so many men are base and vile at 
 heart, yet to the world and their friends they are 
 stealthy as the cougar that inhabits the Indian jungle, 
 and only a move in the wrong direction shows what 
 they really are. These men have a standing and a 
 personality in the highest society, and yet they are as 
 corrupt mentally, morally, and physically, as the laws 
 of this government. So what has the government to 
 depend upon with such a footing ? 
 
 The greatest evil of this government is the self- 
 ishness of man. It isn't what will do the most good 
 for the people, but what will put the most money in 
 the pocket of the office holder and all others. When 
 
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 they fight it isn't for the good of the government ; it 
 is for their own honor and profit. If man generally 
 should be weighed in the balance, he would be found 
 wanting! Day by day he loses more and more, yet to 
 all appearances he is as fat as well fed swine. Not all 
 the patent medicines, prepared food, or expensive 
 drinks, could rebuild this loss, for it is weight of char- 
 acter, not flesh. 
 
 For instance, look at the large number of men 
 who resort to medicines, sea air, and foreign lands, for 
 their health. They think they are getting thin, but 
 if we could see their brains and their thoughts, we 
 would not require an X-ray to examine them, for the 
 thinness and vileness of those same thoughts would be 
 discernible to the naked eye. They physic the body 
 when it is the mind that needs the physic most. Wash 
 their character, and the bodies would take care of 
 themselves. 
 
 Some men run to the doctor with the first sem- 
 blance of a pain, or upon the least complaint whatever, 
 and why is it? Does their imagination picture a 
 
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 grinning skeleton called Death, which they are fighting 
 back from their sight ? Ah, who knows ? 
 
 Men are naturally cowards. There are in this 
 case exceptions, as in every rule, but we will say the 
 manly man is in the minority. If there should be a 
 w^ar and they were drafted and could not hire a sub- 
 stitute, two-thirds of the "butterfly " men of fashion 
 to-day would desert the ranks before meeting danger 
 and would turn and fly, like the cowards they are, 
 before they would face the enemy. It would take 
 coercion to make them fight, cannons at their heels or 
 chains on their legs to prevent running, but they will 
 shoot down the unarmed mob with the greatest pleas- 
 ure in life. 
 
 In the United States there are so many selfish 
 men that it is impossible to choose out of millions a 
 president whose only aim is not selfishness. There 
 was one president in particular who was the model of 
 selfishness, and if prizes were being awarded men for 
 such characteristics, he would be the winner in both 
 looks and action, except when he was playing the 
 
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 hypocrite for some purpose. He hired a substitute 
 in time of war and he had millions of followers. 
 There is another such a one, a little, short, heavy-set 
 general, wearing a bullet proof armor, who was just as 
 selfish in a way, who would have liked to have estab- 
 lished a hereditary monarchy. The others would do the 
 same. The government of today has not the honest 
 fighters to depend upon that it had in the former wars, 
 for selfishness rules the country and the overwhelming 
 majority of all inhabitants. 
 
 The poor classes have to depend upon the wealthy 
 classes, and the wealthy control the government by 
 ruling the poorer classes and all classes. 
 
 I don't suppose there ever was a nation in the 
 history of the world where dishonesty of all kinds is 
 so universal among all classes as in the United States; 
 thefts, brutal assaults, and the murders and lynchings 
 (papers are full of such) happening every day. 
 Although the men belong to a civilized nation, they 
 are more brutal than the savage, of whom nothing 
 good is expected, but in torturing their enemies some 
 
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 of the modes of death are no more horrible than the 
 murders and lynchings of this civilized country. 
 
 Men make promises only to break them ; office 
 seekers promise anything to buy voters, only to forget 
 them when they achieve their own object. The capi- 
 talist promises the laborer higher wages, from day to 
 day, until the men's patience wanes and the end 
 thereof is the "strikes," which terrorize the peaceful 
 and law abiding citizen. 
 
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 CHAPTEE VI. 
 
 Spirit of Destruction, what is your opinion of 
 the modern independent females? 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) They are objects of pity 
 and cannot possibly be blamed as they are victims of 
 this modern age and circumstances. They have un- 
 limited power over men at the present time, in fact 
 they are running the country to ruin fast enough ta 
 suit any enemy of humanity. Their influence is sure 
 to increase until there is war, and how joyful that will 
 be; the different ways the modern females have of 
 driving the government to ruin are almost innumerable. 
 One of the chief causes is females taking employment 
 from men ; this is rapidly increasing and continually 
 advancing into almost all trades and occupations, 
 until hardly any male occupation is free from female 
 competition. Thousands of men with families are 
 turned out of employment now, and the number still 
 
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 increases by unmarried females who should be married 
 and have families of their own. There are over a 
 hundred female stationery steam engineers in one city; 
 and there are a number of large tinware factories 
 where all the work is done by females. And they per- 
 form all kinds of work, light and heavy. Several new 
 bicycle factories are employing females exclusively. 
 The number of different trades formerly called men's 
 trades have no distinguishing names now. Do you 
 people who believe in right and justice believe in this ? 
 It surely leads to destruction, and that's what I want. 
 If I was employing hands I should only have females, 
 and discharge all males. What should I care if all 
 the males and their families starver My reasons for 
 employing females in preference to males would not 
 look well in print. There are millions of men who 
 would hire females in preference to men. I would pre- 
 fer to employ female dentists, shoemakers, shirtmakers, 
 fcailoresses, barbers, and all others. I would always 
 employ and trade with unmarried women in preference 
 to men, if I knew that they and their families were 
 
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 starving. I think that any government will be short- 
 lived compared to what it should be, which allows fe- 
 males perfect freedom to compete with men in the 
 different occupations, or which allows them freedom 
 and equal education. 
 
 (Writer.) So, Spirit of Destruction, you and I 
 can find nothing but perfect pleasure in contemplating 
 the work of the modern independent females, who are 
 rapidly advancing, as it surely leads to misery and de- 
 struction. 
 
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 CHAPTEK YII. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) Did you never desire 
 to do any good in the world ? 
 
 (Writer.) No ; if I ever did one good act in my 
 life it was not intentional, and I am sorry for it. I 
 continually gloat over all my evil acts ; and the only 
 pleasure and satisfaction I will have when dying will 
 be the thoughts of damage and ruin I have caused ; 
 and my only regret is to know that I can do no more ; 
 and my only hope is that I will be able to come back 
 in the form of a venomous reptile, or a beast or bird 
 of prey, or an evil spirit. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) Can you suppose for 
 a few moments, just for amusement, that you had al- 
 most unlimited power in this world to do good ? I 
 have a curiosity to know what you would do. 
 
 (Writer.) Well, for amusement, and it's very 
 amusing truly, I could not imagine anything more lu- 
 
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 dicrous or ridiculous to my nature. But to satisfy your 
 curiosity and show you I know good from evil, I will 
 suppose I valued the honor of humanity, and had al- 
 most unlimited power in this world over human beings, 
 to do good, and I should do the very best I could for 
 the living of today and the generation to come hence 
 both in permanent prosperity and happiness. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) Yes, that's the idea, 
 exactly. Suppose you had a large number of flying 
 machines, or airships, the only successful ones in the 
 world, and that you were the only one in possession 
 of the secret and power of locomotion ; that they were 
 perfectly useless to others, until you had charged them 
 with your secret of power, and you had this large 
 number of airships manned by the most desperate and 
 fearless class of men in the universe, or manned by the 
 worst devils or fiends, being perfectly in your power ^ 
 through superstitious fear, they believing you to have 
 supernatural power ; said air ships being loaded with 
 new explosives many times more powerful than any 
 others known, and an invisible vapor and rays which 
 
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 you could send on an army or city, destroying millions 
 in one day, when out of the sight of the earth ; and 
 that you could destroy the largest city in the world in 
 • a few hours, all the navies of the earth in a few days, 
 consequently, you would have power to dictate to the 
 whole world. With all this power, you only had one 
 object, and that to do the most good now and in all 
 coming generations until the end of the world. 
 
 (Writer.) I will tell you honestly just what I be- 
 lieve would do the most permanent good ; I believe 
 that all past history, up to and including the present 
 day, positively proves that hereditary monarchies and 
 despotism of all grades have caused more damage, 
 misery, woe, war, starvation, torture, and injustice of 
 all kinds ; and has prevented the advancement of the 
 world more than any other human agency, and if it 
 were wiped out entirely from the earth, the world 
 would advance in perfection, universal peace and knowl- 
 edge in every way. So I would proceed with the aid 
 of my airships to capture and destroy all the royalty 
 and hereditary monarchs of the world, male and fe- 
 
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 male, old aod youDg. The best way to get the largest 
 numbers at a time would be at a family reunion, death, 
 wedding, or celebration of some kind, and destroy 
 them all at one stroke. They could be located in dif- 
 ferent places separately, and in families or in compa- 
 nies. And I would destroy those who offered them 
 succor or aid in any way; after capturing them, I 
 would order all their heads chopped off, male and fe- 
 male, old and young, cremated, and their ashes scat- 
 tered to the four winds of heaven. I would not leave 
 one titled human being live ; the only way to destroy 
 venomous reptiles is to exterminate them entirely, and 
 to get rid of royalty to serve them the same way. This 
 would require the death of many, but just think of the 
 countless numbers that royalty has slaughtered. Read 
 the ancient histories from time immemorial up to and 
 including the present day, and what do you learn ? 
 
 Look at the millions in India dying from starva- 
 tion caused by the English injustice and taxation ; look 
 at the war of barbarity taxation and extermination 
 waged by the royal government of Spain against Cuba. 
 
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 With Germany a republic, and all titled classes de- 
 stroyed, I believe the cause of friction between France 
 and Germany would be removed ; that they would be 
 able to settle their difficulties as to territory, bound- 
 aiy, and everything else, peaceably, and be perfectly 
 friendly, if they were both republics. If England, 
 Eussia, and all the other countries of northern and 
 southern Europe were republics, they would be friend- 
 ly one with the other, and with Australia and all civil- 
 ized countries, and not so much jarring and confusion 
 among themselves over the islands in the oceans, and 
 division of Africa, etc.; and all civilized nations would 
 join together to keep the heathens of the earth in 
 order and let them rule themselves by hereditary mon- 
 archies, and exterminate themselves by wars, famines, 
 cannibalism, starvation, ignorance, and superstition. 
 The only place for the hereditary monarchies is among 
 the heathen, such as Chinese and South Sea Islanders. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) But republics have 
 wars. The republics of South America have interna- 
 tional revolutions and civil wars quite often. 
 
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 (Writer.) Yes, I know, but they don't amount to 
 much ; it's more like family quarrels, not much de- 
 struction and loss of life, and soon settled. I believe 
 there is no better proof of the governing power of re- 
 publics than that they can rule the fighting class of 
 people who compose the South American Republics. 
 The fact that the republican form of government rules 
 them at all, even with occasional revolutions and small 
 wars, is positive proof of the practicability of this form 
 of government. The men of South America are vain, 
 proud, and boastful ; their wars are simply for excite- 
 ment, as they can't live without it, besides the admira- 
 tion and respect they win for themselves. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) But the greatest re- 
 public of modern times, the United States of ximerica, 
 had a very destructive civil war, both in property and 
 life, which lasted a number of years, and the spirit of 
 ill-feeling has not altogether disappeared in some sec- 
 tions of the country yet. 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, but the republic is still here 
 another proof of the practicability of a modern repub- 
 
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 lie. That war was caused by the noisy, know-it-all, 
 book- writing, northern females, and henpecked preach- 
 ers, etc. It might have been prevented but for th& 
 yelling of northern females which influenced the 
 soldiers, the citizens and the statesmen. Look at the 
 misery, the destruction, and loss of life, just for paltry 
 negroes, who would be better off in slavery now. 
 
 I was born in the north, in 1857 ; my parents 
 were on the northern side and I was taught slavery 
 was wrong, but I loas ivrongly taught. 
 
 One of the greatest damages and dangers to the 
 United States Government today is the modern yell- 
 iug females who want to vote, but if I had the power, 
 with the airships that you mentioned, the modern fe- 
 male would be the first I would compel to keep their 
 place. Any form of government will fail that allows 
 freedom to females. 
 
 I honestly believe the Turks are one of the few 
 nations on the earth who understand how to manage 
 the females ; I think their plan might be profitably 
 copied in all ways, excepting the plurality of wives. 
 
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 which might be limited to two or three ; in all other 
 ways, the Turkish plan of managing the female is per- 
 fect ; they put them in schools and keep them there 
 until they are married, and keep them shut up after 
 marriage. If this thing were done in civihzed coun- 
 tries, there would be less rottenness in society as it 
 stands today. Shut up the females and make them 
 keep their places and this will be a different world, 
 with little use for law, prisons, or poor-houses. 
 
 I firmly believe that there will be war as long as 
 royalty and millionaires exist, and females allowed lib- 
 erty ; and if I had this power, I would obliterate both 
 from off the earth, and shut up all females, making all 
 men equal in wealth ; that is, supposing I wanted to 
 do human beings good. But I can't fancy anything 
 more useless or more amusing than to want to benefit 
 humanity. 
 
 Still supposing I was aiming to do the most last- 
 ing good to humanity, in the coming generations, I 
 should order all civihzed governments to confiscate the 
 property and money of millionaires and all females as 
 
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 warniDgs to others. I would confiscate all property, 
 real and personal, above a certain limit ; when a man 
 reached that limit he should be compelled to retire, 
 and give some other man a chance. The retired men 
 to have the privilege of loaning their money to the be- 
 ginners at a reasonable rate of interest as a means of 
 income, to live upon in retirement ; but I would not 
 permit a female to be either a money or property hold- 
 er. The confiscated money and property to be used 
 for public improvements by the government. 
 
 If all the Jews, male and female, old and yoang, 
 were destroyed, or transported to an island, and all 
 their property confiscated, I think it would be for the 
 world's good. All of the black race in the world should 
 be transported to Africa and in slavery, the proceeds 
 of black slavery to be divided equally among the re- 
 publican governments of the world, according to popu- 
 lation ! Said profits in Africa to be used by the dif- 
 ferent republics for making public improvements ; and 
 if the blacks increase too rapidly, exterminate as many 
 as may be necessary. The white race would have to 
 
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 work on the plan of self preservation and self defense 
 in dealing with the blacks. The only way to govern 
 the blacks is to keep them in their place. Slavery only 
 will accomplish this. 
 
 Therefore, if I had the necessary power to dictate 
 to all the world, and wanted to do the most permanent 
 good, I would do all the things I have mentioned. 
 
 Now, Spirit of Common Sense, I have told you, 
 just for amusement, and to satisfy your curiosity, what 
 I would do had I enough power, and if I wanted to 
 do good ; but I claim it is foolish, and worse than use- 
 less, to try to benefit the human race, for the plain 
 reason that the majority are worse than fools, and as 
 it is impossible to give them brains, the only thing to 
 do is to rule them by despotic power. I would not 
 benefit them even if it were worth doing. 
 
 Spirit of Common Sense, I have told you what 
 I would do for your amusement ; now I'll tell you 
 what I'd do for my amusement : I would use such 
 power in making misery, woe and destruction upon 
 this earth. As the chief enemy of humanity I would 
 
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 use Glorious Eoyaltj as my principal tool. I would 
 strengthen all monarchies and make them despotic, 
 take away freedom and suffrage from all people, and 
 abolish all republican governments ; and if they re- 
 volted and complained, I would put chem beyond 
 misery and woe. I would not want to rule personally, 
 as monarchy would rule with misery and destruction 
 enough to satisfy me. I would order the tax taken 
 off of all intoxicating liquors, opiums and injurious 
 drugs, so that all classes, rich and poor, could have 
 plenty. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) But if you had this 
 wonderful power and would do lasting good to the 
 world, all the people would honor and respect you in 
 every country as long as you lived, and build monu- 
 ments to your memory, and name rivers, countries and 
 cities for you after you are dead. 
 
 (Writer.) I can't imagine anything more worth- 
 less than honor of any class. It is as useless to my 
 existence as the barking of dogs, the grunting of pigs, 
 or the hissing of reptiles. I prefer hatred ; I don't 
 
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 ^ant to do all the hating ; I want to be hated in 
 return. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) Did it ever occur to 
 your vicious mind that human beings of the highest 
 ■class, educated and intelligent classes, or any class are 
 all beneath contempt and not worth hatred ? 
 
 (Writer.) Say, Spirit of Common Sense, that is 
 what I call a wise idea ; there is plenty of wisdom in 
 it ; it is a convincing argument, but it's natural for 
 me to hate human beings; it's an instinct as natural 
 as life itself. I hate myself as much as any. I am a 
 natural fightpr. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) That's no excuse, 
 you have sense enough, and will power enough, and 
 self control enough to overcome this instinctive hate. 
 You say you are a fighter, but you will get more fight- 
 ing than you bargain for by publishing this book. 
 You will make lots of deadly enemies, and they will 
 kill you or hire an assassin ; they will libel you, make 
 all kinds of fabrications imaginable, and every crank 
 will try to murder you, because they know they will 
 
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 not be punished for it, but, on the contrary, get only 
 the highest praise from the Jews, wealthy, titled, 
 female and all other classes, for ridding the country of 
 such a fiend. You may be slowly tortured to death, 
 and the newspapers will make heroes of your destroyers 
 for the way you have spoken of them, and the wealthy 
 traitors of this country and titled classes and Jews of 
 Europe, who they represent. 
 
 (Writer.) You are not talking to a coward. I am 
 perfectly responsible for all my acts and willing to suf- 
 fer the consequences. I will fight the whole world 
 single handed. I defy all that can be done. If I have 
 to die I will die game and fighting. I am ready to 
 die at any time ; but I will fight, and defend myself by 
 fighting my own battles. After I publish this, I will 
 go to some foreign country, civilized or barbarous, 
 where there is a war and join the army ; will fight and 
 kill as many as possible before I get killed myself. If 
 I fail to get killed I'll extend and increase the sale and 
 use of intoxicating liquors and drugs throughout the 
 difierent countries, the rest of my life. I could do 
 
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 more damage this way, than by fighting, although I 
 am an expert artillery man, consequently I would 
 choose the greater of the two ways of misery and de- 
 struction to human beings, that is if I am able to leave 
 the United States alive after I publish this book. 
 This is the land of the free and home of the cowardly 
 lynchers, and I do not expect to get out alive. But if 
 I were stationed in a mountain pass with a good sword, 
 I should not fail ; that is, a mountain pass with per- 
 pendicular walls above and a precipice beneath, where 
 only one lyncher could get through at a time. How 
 much nicer it would be to lead a whole host into a val- 
 ley surrounded by mountains, and only one pass lead- 
 ing in and out, and have this pass undermined with 
 explosives, and after they are all in, to fire the mine 
 and close up their only means of escape. Then what 
 joy unspeakable to walk on the top of those perpen- 
 dicular walls and watch them slowly die a horrible 
 death. I wouldn't only harm in this way those who 
 would harm me, but all human beings. But it would 
 be a grand sight to see a flood in a valley, only one 
 
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 outlet, and the water full of human beings, beasts of 
 prey, and venomous reptiles, all swimming for this 
 one opening. And if I stood guard at this pass with 
 a sword, I would only allow the beasts of prey, venom- 
 ous reptiles, and the human females by, and I would 
 behead all the males, old and young. Spirit of Com- 
 mon Sense, you have asked my object in writing this 
 book. It is to make as many enemies as possible. I 
 want as many men to hate me as possible, and this is 
 a good way, by writing a book. My motto is, " the 
 more enemies the better." While other men desire to 
 make friends, I desire to make enemies. If any one 
 has new ideas or any ideas of his own, he is called a 
 crank ; but I am not a crank. I can give reasons for 
 both my ideas and actions. You can all give reasons 
 for happiness in love, and I can give just as many reas- 
 ons for happiness in hatred, if not more. I claim that 
 I have as much right to hate and make enemies as 
 others have to love and to make friends. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) You say you desire 
 power so you could spread misery, woe, and destruc- 
 
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 tion throughout the world. I should think that it 
 would aggravate you not to be able to do so only in a 
 small way. 
 
 (Writer.) I as the chief enemy of humanity, am 
 well satisfied with the way the world is going ; it's 
 drifting fast towards despotism ; it's worse than slavery 
 in many countries. Almost all countries are in debt, 
 and the people are in the grip of the money-lenders 
 and Jewish usurers. Intoxicating liquors, opium, and 
 Royalty, the wealthy and the Jews, are increasing in 
 power, and I have plenty to gloat over, even if I cause 
 no misery myself. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) You say you are about 
 ready to die, and don't want to live to be old and help- 
 lers. What would be your favorite death ? 
 
 (Writer.) Any death in which I could kill, maim, 
 or cripple the largest number of human beings ; and 
 I suppose I could do this best in an army in time of war. 
 I would have two two-edged swords, pointed at each 
 end and to be fastened on the bottom of each foot so 
 I could fight with my feet as well as with my hands, 
 
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 in close quarters ; I would have a heavy knife in my 
 left hand, and a two-edged sword in my right ; with 
 my feet, I could kill by kicking either forward or 
 backward ; I would have a belt full of revolvers and 
 a gun, and as I am a dead shot I think I could kill 
 quite a lot before I should get killed myself. I would 
 only fight for the pleasure of killing, not honor. If I 
 were mortally wounded on a battle field, with crippled 
 ones lying about thick, I would like to kill them all 
 before I die. I would drag myself from one to the 
 other, who would be begging for water, and plunge 
 my knife into their hearts; yes I loould give them water ^ 
 or drag myself to a rapid-fire gun and turn it on the 
 largest crowd in sight and watch them fall. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) Don't try to say 
 that you would have to be mortally wounded to do 
 that. You never did kill the wounded when you were 
 in the artillery, infantry, or cavalry, in a number of 
 the different republics of South America, in times of 
 revolutions. Oh, you are capable of anything. 
 
 (Writer.) A dead man is a good man and they 
 
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 are all my enemies while living. A grand death on 
 a battlefield would be just as I have pictured mine to 
 be, with each of the swords on my feet sticking into 
 the vitals of a man, the knife between my teeth in 
 another, and my sword in another, and knife in another; 
 I dying too, there would be six in one death struggle. 
 I should like to see the field strewn with the dead, 
 see them fall like grain before the reaper. I am always 
 satisfied when I do my best and should be in this 
 case, many or few. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) You hate human 
 beings so much, you must be in a rage all the time 
 because you can't destroy them yourself or make 
 enough misery for them ; I should think you would be 
 in danger of murdering the first one who bothered you 
 in any way. 
 
 (Writer.) My hatred is strong for all men, but 
 my hatred is cool, calculating, and perfectly under 
 control of my reasoning faculties ; as for getting in a 
 rage or being in a rage all the time, you are entirely 
 mistaken. I never allow myself to get angry under 
 
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 any circumstances whatevei', consequently there is no 
 clanger of committing murder, in any country where 
 there is plenty of law in time of peace. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) Don't you desire 
 some friends or associates ? 
 
 (Writer.) I would associate with no one of any 
 class. The farther they keep away from me the better 
 I like it. I have told people who have been inclined 
 to be friendly, that I had an incurable contagious 
 disease, and that it was so bad that they would be 
 liable to catch it by breathing the same air as myself, 
 and I had plenty of room in consequence. The 
 animal electricity or magnetism of the female sex is 
 necessary to my well-being, yet I must say I have no 
 use for them otherwise. 
 
 I believe in some parts of this book I have com- 
 pared human beings to beasts of prey and venomous 
 reptiles and I want to apologize. To make such a 
 comparison is a mean and cowardly insult to the poor 
 beasts and reptiles, who cannot talk to defend them- 
 selves. It is quite common for despicable human 
 
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 beings to compare each other to wolves and other 
 beasts, and to call each other or their works and 
 actions beastly. If these poor beasts could under- 
 stand what they say, they would be justified in de- 
 stroying them. What beast would kill or destroy 
 more than is necessary to supply its wants or appetite? 
 I acknowledge I am worse than any beast and I be- 
 lieve all human beings are who spend their lives in 
 greed and injustice. These people suit me exactly 
 because by injustice and greed they make misery, woe, 
 and destruction in the world, and that is just what I 
 want. But to compare them or myself to beasts and 
 reptiles when it's a well known undisputed fact that 
 they are clean, sexually, compared to mankind, is a 
 mean cowardly act. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) I can do nothing wath 
 you, you had better have a talk with the Spirit of Love. 
 
 (Writer.) I have explained the only way I can 
 use love is to " love everything " which causes misery, 
 woe, and destruction. 
 
 (Spirit of Common Sense.) You had better have 
 
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 a talk with the Spirit of love, anyhow; it may do you 
 good. 
 
 (Writer.) All right; I am always ready to learn ; 
 waltz out the Spirit of Love. 
 
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 CHAPTER YIII. 
 
 (Spirit of Love.) I am a perfect stranger to you 
 because you never had any use for me at any time of 
 your existence. You say you have use for love in lov- 
 ing all that makes misery, woe, and destruction. You 
 are mistaken. That is not love. It is just the oppo- 
 site of love. In every way love is on the side of good. 
 What you take for love is only exultation of hate in 
 your nature for the works of liquors, Royalty, etc. 
 
 (Writer.) I am glad that you told me. My feel- 
 ings in this matter are so pleasant and satisfying that 
 I thought it was love. I cannot believe any love can 
 excel the satisfaction and happiness I experience in 
 watching the works of these destroying agents. No 
 words can possibly describe this feeling of pleasure 
 and happiness which I experience in hate and in 
 watching what satisfies that hate perfectly. 
 
 Well, Spirit of Love, I suppose you are mixed up 
 with the Spirit of Lust, more or less ? 
 
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 (Spirit of Love.) No, I am not in the least mixed 
 up with Lust. When Lust comes in I go out. There 
 is a deal of hypocrisy in Lust and it can go under the 
 guise of Love quite successfully for a long time, but 
 it usually shows itself, sooner or later. 
 
 (Writer.) When two healthy human beings of 
 the opposite sexes live together, then love is hardly 
 ever equal. I suppose one loves the other the better, 
 or one does all the loving and the other has nothing 
 but lust. When it comes to the facts of the case, it 
 would take a mind reader to tell lust from love where 
 healthy males and females are concerned. I believe 
 the only love that is of account, and is genuine, is the 
 love of human females for their young, and some chil- 
 dren for their mothers, and the one they think is their 
 father. There is a doubt about the father in all Chris- 
 tian countries. I have been in the private detective 
 business in Europe and America, and I know jast what 
 I am talking about. I have watched all classes, as a 
 matter of business and profit. In Turkey and all 
 countries where they keep the females confined, and 
 
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 make them keep their places, and where lust takes 
 the place of love, illegitimate children are unknown. 
 But in any Christian country, where so called love 
 rules, and females are allowed their liberty, can a man 
 swear he is legitimate ? In fact, does he know any- 
 thing about it, or does he only think or believe he is ? 
 China is a very old government, and they get along 
 there without love. I don't believe any government 
 that teaches love will last half as long as China. It has 
 an immense population in a comparatively small terri- 
 tory. 
 
 (Writer.) There are lots of crimes committed 
 through love. I found this out through my business 
 as a private detective, and I know of a large number 
 of murders by poison, etc., committed for love; not 
 only murders, but suicides and other crimes, and fool- 
 ish actions while under the influence of love, which 
 were never discovered and never will be. I am very 
 thankful I am a stranger to love. I am free, not a 
 slave of love. Some people will tell you a happy mar- 
 riage and a happy home with love is a paradise or 
 
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 heaven on earth. Well, they are welcome to it. The 
 whole social system founded on love is disgusting to 
 me. I can well understand how a Turkish harem with 
 one or several pure minded females could be a para- 
 dise on earth, with no free, corrupt love, or go as you 
 please free love society. 
 
 The conservatories, hotels, summer resorts, and 
 ball rooms, are good places for this society love. There 
 is no danger of being detected, and it is practised con- 
 tinually by all classes in Christian countries where 
 love, sioeet love, rules supreme. They are welcome to 
 all the happiness they can get out of this love. I don't 
 want any. I know I can get more happiness in lust. 
 
 (Spirit of Love.) Don't you believe in love of 
 country and native land as a good virtue ? 
 
 (Writer.) That all depends upon what kind of a 
 government my native land would have. If it had the 
 best government on earth, and should be perfect — an 
 impossible condition — I could love it ; but if there were 
 any other country in the world with a better govern- 
 ment, and I should go there and prospar in every way, 
 
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 and if the country of my adoption should go to war 
 with my native country, I would jBght against my na- 
 tive country, and kill as many of my countrymen as I 
 €Ould. The world is my native land, and the country 
 which I believe has the best government I desire to be 
 my home. 
 
 (Writer.) I believe the world would get along 
 just as well without you, if not better. 
 
 (Spirit of Love.) You are in darkness; have you 
 no conscience ? 
 
 (Writer.) I have knocked conscience out so 
 often and so repeatedly, that it has become a stranger 
 to me, and has not bothered me since I was twelve 
 years old. 
 
 (Spirit of Love.) You had the best of parents, 
 and you know that they both loved you dearly, yet 
 you never gave them any in return for their love. 
 Your mother said she would give her life to save yours; 
 she would have willingly died to save you, and you 
 know it. This is the proof of the love at which you 
 scojff. Your father was a good, honest man, and he 
 
loved you ; and now you are going to disgrace your 
 parents' good name by writing this book. Every one 
 who reads it will make mean remarks about your parents 
 and blame them as well as yourself for what you do. 
 (Writer.) It is natural for all human and animal 
 females to protect their young ; the love of the human 
 female is stronger and will last longer than the instinct 
 of protection of the animal mother. I never had any 
 love in my nature and I am glad of it. I can't under- 
 stand how a man can have love for parents, wife or 
 children. I cannot. I have plenty of lust, which 
 satisfies me perfectly ; love is only for the females and 
 males who are the dupes and slaves of females. 
 You say readers will blame the innocent for my 
 faults, and yet you and the Spirit of Common 
 Sense ask why I hate all human beings. I expect to 
 get worsted in the battle over this book; they will not 
 be satisfied in tearing me to pieces, but they will drag 
 my dead parents from the grave like hyenas and gnaw 
 their bones and hiss worse than any reptiles — blame 
 those who are perfectly innocent for my faults. This is 
 
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 characteristic of all human nature ; blame parents for 
 the sins of their children, when it is a positive fact, 
 and has been proved countless times that the best 
 parents often have the worst offspring. Such are the 
 beauties of human nature. 
 
 (Spirit of Love.) You admit that there are good 
 people in the world. 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, I admit there are quite a number 
 of good people in the world, but it is only because of 
 their fear of punishment and the desire of reward 
 after death. There is all to gain and nothing to lose 
 by having a good name ; a good name helps any one 
 in every calling and occupation in life ; and there are 
 a great many reasons why a man acts the hypocrite to 
 win a good name, consequently they are all artificial 
 victims of times and circumstances. I will describe 
 some of the beauties of human nature, Spirit of Love, 
 and I suppose according to your doctrine, I should 
 love all human beings. The paupers of Europe have 
 scarcely enough to eat in their native countries. They 
 are fortunate if they caa get meat once a week, they 
 
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 live on bread and water most of the time. It takes 
 them a long time at their starvation wages to earn 
 enough to pay for the cheapest passage to this country, 
 and then they arrive here as paupers ; but they can 
 earn from two to six times as much here as they can 
 for their labor in those countries, and have the best 
 to eat and drink, meat to eat three times a day. 
 About the first thing they buy with the money they 
 save, is the " flag " of their country, and pictures of 
 their native monarchical rulers, who nearly starved them 
 to death and butchered their friends and relatives in 
 war ; this is the nature of the dog that licks the hand 
 of the master who whips and abuses it. Some of them 
 who become independent here would even join their 
 native countries if this country should go to war with 
 them. They get together in crowds, sing their national 
 songs, hoist their national flag, use abusive language 
 against the country of their adoption, that brought 
 them out of their mire and starvation. They want their 
 languages taught in our public schools, their songs 
 sung, and their national holidays kept, in this 
 
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 country. If Eoglisb, they want to celebrate the birth- 
 day of the " Female Koyalty." 
 
 Look at the majority of these foreigners. They 
 <3urse this government, while they would bleed it, 
 and sell their votes to the highest bidder ; but to go 
 back to their own countries, oh, NO ! They have free- 
 dom here and no starvation. And still they would 
 fight for a monarchy, especially the ignorant classes, 
 who, if told it would be to their interest (they believe 
 black is white if told so), would fight for that side, be 
 it right or wrong. 
 
 Now, Spirit of Love, after all the beauties of hu- 
 man nature I have enumerated to you, and after con- 
 templating the work of injustice, taxation, and staiva- 
 tion — England against Ireland and India, famine and 
 starvation ; taxation, injustice, and the extermination 
 practised by Spain against Cuba, and all the injustice 
 of monarchies, usurers, money-lenders, and Jews, and 
 the wealthy traitor classes of the United States, and 
 voting traitors of all classes, and "ring-rule" politi- 
 cians, and the thousands of multi-headed monsters, 
 
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 called trusts, companies, etc , at the present time, and 
 in all past centuries, nothing but injustice, according 
 to your doctrine, I must still love human beings. I 
 hate both the persecuted and the persecutors, as the 
 persecuted would be the persecutors if they had enough 
 power. 
 
 (Spirit of Love.) I give you up ; you are incu- 
 rable. You had better have a talk with the Spirit of 
 Keason. 
 
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 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 (Writer.) Well, Spirit of Reason, what is your 
 opinion of my plans ? 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) Your plans will lead you to 
 ruin and destruction. They aie suicidal. Your ideas 
 are so radical and di£ferent from the ideas of the world 
 that they will call you a crank, or crazy. 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, I suppose that I must follow after 
 the world and do as it does, and do as it tells me, to 
 follow after the crowds, like sheep, cattle, horses, and 
 geese follow a leader, or go in droves ; do as I am 
 told and ask no questions ; never think or have an idea 
 of my own, but follow the example of the fools of the 
 earth, and make the best of injustice, wrong, and ev- 
 erything else ; be a victim of circumstances and civili- 
 zation, and I will not be a good citizen if I do not do 
 that. If I have independence and a mind of my own, 
 I am liable to be called a crank, imprisoned, or tor- 
 tured to death. I give my reasons for my opinions, as 
 
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 I go along in this book, and I claim a right to those 
 same opinions in this world. I deal entirely with facts, 
 and the past history of humanity, as well as the pres- 
 ent every day history also, it gives me no end of reas- 
 ons to hate human beings. I can't understand 
 how any one who has made just such a study, could 
 either have faith in man or have any respect for him. 
 I have travelled much around the world, and in almost 
 every country ; have had experiences wdth different 
 nationalities, and have studied human nature, there- 
 fore, I claim to be a judge, and I give my reasons as 
 both logical and true. I have intentionally and sys- 
 tematically driven all good impulses out of my nature. 
 I will prove to you that I have perfect control of all 
 my passions. There is plenty of lavr. I can wait sev- 
 eral years if necessary, to kill, when ^mother revolution 
 or riot breaks out. I never saw a good looking female 
 since I was young until the present date, that I would 
 not like to grossly insult, and I never expect to do so, 
 what is more, but I have perfect reason and control of 
 my passions, and never will molest one, only on the 
 
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 safe side of the law. I have sense enough to go to a 
 country or state where females are allowed to do as 
 they choose from twelve years up if I want to marry 
 a young one, and in times of war or revolution it would 
 be different. 
 
 If I carried weapons in every pocket, in any large 
 city of the world, I would not use them under any cir- 
 cumstances ; notwithstanding I would love to slaughter 
 and kill all males who are worth notice, but I never 
 forget the consequences to myself ; and my reason tells 
 me that there is too much law, and they are not worth 
 death or imprisonment. I would kill every male who 
 is worth notice if I could, whether they molested me 
 or notj if I was in an isolated place, for my reason 
 would tell me there was very little danger of the law 
 in that out of the way place ; I would be revenged on 
 those who insulted me in the large cities, full of Chris- 
 tian law. 
 
 Note. — Of course I would not kill females any 
 place in the world, under any circumstances, as they 
 are not responsible. 
 
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 (Spirit of Eeason.) What reason would there be 
 in kilhng those who did not bother you in revenge 
 for those who did ? 
 
 (Writer.) They would be liable to have money 
 and valuables, which I would like to keep as souvenirs 
 to gloat over, would bo one reason ; and they are men 
 and I hate them, would be another. Those who don't 
 bother me are as much my enemies as those who do, 
 as they all would bother me if they could, and had 
 protection and power, but I watch the law when I am 
 in a country where there is lots of it, as there is here ; 
 I don't break it, but will wait until a war, riot or revo- 
 lution, or until I get into a thinly settled country. I 
 always prove my reason and knowledge and self con- 
 trol by suiting myself to my surroundings and the 
 conditions in which I find myself. You will all hold 
 up your hands in holy horror about my hatred, but 
 you all have hatreds of your own ; you hate or despise, 
 which is the same. 
 
 Hatred is one of the most common traits of hu- 
 man nature, as common as lust or love, but most peo- 
 
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 pie hate only a few of a kind — nations, religions, or 
 societies, and individuals, but I hate^tlie whole world 
 from the beginning to the ending ; I only enlarge on 
 their hatred to the limit. I don't have to see human 
 beings to hate them ; it is my nature as^well as an in- 
 stinct, and for good reason and^cause, 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 (Spirits of Hate and Destruction.) Our old friends 
 the Teusts are doing splendid work in causing misery, 
 want, and destruction, and they are liable to cause a 
 revolution, civil war, and the overthrow of the govern- 
 ment. 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, they are working perfectly and 
 extensively ; they are increasing their power wonder- 
 fully and rapidly ; they buy up the most influential 
 newspapers in the principal cities ; they hire them to 
 keep quiet and leave them alone by the week, month, 
 or year. You will notice one day the columns of a 
 paper will be full, exposing them in details, and then 
 days and sometimes months elapse before you read 
 any more in that paper about them ; the limit for which 
 they were hired has run out and the paper shows them 
 up again to receive its hush money. This includes all 
 trusts, such as fresh meats, provisions, coal, oil, sugar 
 
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 and numerous others on the trust list, and many other 
 robbers of the public ; they buy up courts, judges and 
 juries ; buy up United States Congressmen, Senators 
 and State Legislators. I tell you, Spirits of Hate 
 and Destruction, there is nothing slow about the trusts 
 for causing misery, want and destruction ; conse- 
 quently, they are one of our best friends and agents. 
 What better plan could be imagined to arouse the 
 hatred of the masses for the wealthy classes than the 
 Tkusts, which raise the prices of the necessities of 
 life ? And the sooner the civil war is started the bet- 
 ter, because the masses are sure to get the worst of it. 
 So Good-Bye, Republic, and welcome to a military 
 despotism which will prepare the way for a glorious 
 royalty. 
 
 " BoYALTY ! Live forever ! " with your necessary 
 accompaniment of destniciio7i. 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) Why is it you are not aggra- 
 vated with the little harm you can do ? 
 
 (Writer.) I have always done as much damage 
 in the world as I could since I could remember ; and. 
 
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 as I have said before, I am satisfied when I have 
 done my best. Thousands of Uves have I ruined, 
 directly or indirectly, in my life, and have started 
 thousands on their downward course to ruin, male and 
 female. 
 
 I have run a large number of gambling dens, dance 
 halls and other dives, concocted all sorts of schemes 
 for the special purpose of ruining young lives of both 
 sexes in the principal cities of several countries; I 
 have ruined all I could, but there is no limit to the 
 numbers that I would like to ruin. My good agents, 
 liquor, opium, gold, money, and the grand people who 
 have the wealth of the world, monarchies and despot- 
 isms, Jews and humanity generally, are all driving the 
 world to destruction fast enough to suit even me, the 
 chief hater of humanity ; consequently I am satisfied 
 and happy. 
 
 (Spirit of Eeason.) What reason or common 
 sense is there in your hating people who are dead, 
 who lived thousands of years ago ; people who are 
 alive now, but you never saw, and people who will live 
 
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 after you are dead and decayed, or as long as there is 
 a human being living on the earth ? 
 
 (Writer.) You have my idea exactly ; I hate all 
 from first to last, excepting females and the majority 
 of males who are not accountable. To begin with, 
 those who are dead, under favorable circumstances 
 and no restraining influences, would have used me in 
 whatever way would have suited them best ; those 
 living to-day would do likewise but for the fear 
 of punishment or an impending doom ; and the gen- 
 erations to come would do the same and no arguments 
 would lead me to believe differently, therefore, I hate 
 all human beings from the beginning to the end. 
 
 Yictims of superstition, victims of circumstances, 
 and victims of civilization are all artificial. Take 
 away the restraining influences of superstition and 
 civilization and see what they will do and what they 
 are. How can you students of history and human 
 nature have faith ? 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) Have you no gratitude for 
 the founders of your native land, the United States, 
 
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 who risked everythiQg and fought and died for liberty 
 which enables you to live in peace and plenty ? 
 
 (Writer.) No, you can't expect, with my nature 
 of hatred, any gratitude. I suppose the founders of 
 the United States Government (I believe their inten- 
 tions were honest enough and they did the best they 
 could) valued human honor, had faith in human na- 
 ture ; but I think that they were wrong in that. If 
 the founders of this Government and they who fought 
 to establish it could look at this Government to-day, 
 they would say that their work was in vain. This 
 country is a garden spot, with almost unlimited resources, 
 and is of immense size, but it is a regular hot-bed of 
 dishonesty and immorality of every kind and full of 
 traitors to the Government, with the wealthy classes 
 running all over the world after royalty when our fore- 
 fathers fought and died to dri\e it out of the country, 
 with foreign traitors as citizens who prefer the flag 
 of their country of starvation and shackles, to the flag 
 and government of this country of freedom and plenty, 
 the majority of whom are ready to fight at the insti- 
 
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 gation of the wealthy classes, who are all traitors and 
 who will pay well to destroy the Government. All 
 the States and Government are ran by the wealthy 
 classes, with all the law courts controlled, bought and 
 sold by the highest bidders. A sham patriotism used 
 as a cloak for all kinds of injustice, dishonesty and 
 vice which possibly can be imagined ; politics run by 
 bosses who control votes ; do you think if George 
 Washington or Patrick Henry could come back 
 and view the United States Government, that they 
 would recognize it ? This country under honest gov- 
 ernment is capable of supporting five hundred million 
 inhabitants with ease and plenty, but over-crowded 
 now with less than one hundred million, on account of 
 the greed and dishonesty of 7iice humanity. If the 
 founders could see all these things I have mentioned, 
 the corruption connected with the government, and 
 all grades of society, negroes voting and living on a 
 lawful equality with the whites, helping to run the 
 country to ruin, females in some states voting and 
 holding office ; the people the most extravagant and 
 
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 wasteful ever known on earth, not satisfied with the- 
 comforts and the necessities of life, they want the lux- 
 uries, and not satisfied with the luxuries that can be 
 produced in this country, they must send to foreign 
 countries for gew-gaws of luxury and extravagance. 
 There's no limit to the millions wasted by the modern 
 females for useless stuffs of fashion which is only good 
 for a few months. If the founders could see all this 
 evil, they would say with one voice "there is no use 
 to try to benefit humanity; we wasted our time and 
 lives ; '' and I believe they would curse the whole 
 human race. After fighting and whipping the Eng- 
 lish, whom they hated and despised most justly and 
 with no end of causes and reasons, if they could have 
 observed in 1846 or thereabouts the landing of an heir 
 of that hated government which they risked all to 
 whip, the Prince of Wales, who landed in New York 
 about the year 1846, with such an ovation of honor 
 and cheering as he received. The heir of the hated 
 government that tried its best at two different times 
 to destroy this government, then to receive the heir of 
 
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 such a despicable government with honor, respect and 
 eclat— bah ! When, if there was any decency, honor, 
 honesty or gratitude in human nature, he should have 
 been received with scorn and hisses, as an heir pre- 
 sumptive to the English throne and a representative 
 of a hated monarchy ; that one incident in history is 
 enough to make any man who believes in right and jus- 
 tice hate the human race. At the present day military 
 companies of Boston going to England and marching 
 up and down before the old Queen ; and to use Fan- 
 euil Hall, Boston, in 1887, for a birthday celebration 
 of the said old female head of England who has as 
 many lives as a cat. This government sent two am- 
 bassadors to England to represent this country at the 
 time of the old Queen's Diamond Jubilee of sixty 
 years of slaughter, injustice and starvation ; all 
 these beauties of human nature only show how 
 fast this government is drifting towards a monarchical 
 form of government ; it also shows very plainly that 
 the government is becoming very easy to overthrow. 
 Then it will be war, slaughter, misery, woe and 
 
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 destruction, which will have fall sway in the world, as 
 this government is the only drawback and preventive 
 of despotism all over the world. I would prefer to be 
 a common soldier under a monarchy than a wealthy 
 citizen of a peaceful republic. I am like a fish out of 
 water in times of peace, and would rather live one year 
 in the army of a despotic government where the 
 motto is "to the victor belongs the spoils " (when the 
 spoils consist of money, valuables and females) than I 
 would fifty years in a peaceful republic surrounded by 
 wealth. 
 
 All monarchies and despotisms have use for 
 soldiers, and so have some republics ; but war in 
 republics is too humane. When they capture a city 
 there is no spoils in money or females to amount to 
 anything, and the soldiers only stand around and look 
 at the captured. 
 
 (Spirit of Eeason.) Do you fully reahze the con- 
 sequences of fighting the whole world alone ? 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, I am attacking the whole world 
 alone, and I will fight them all single-handed ; and I'll 
 
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 face them without a friend if it is ruin, torture or 
 death. I never had a friend except my parents and 
 some females, but I never cared for any of them, and 
 I was glad when my parents died, and my female 
 friends have gone from my sight. I have always 
 delighted in making enemies, for men have always 
 bothered me as much as they could, but all who ever 
 bothered me are beneath notice and contempt. I 
 intend to make all the enemies I can while I am living 
 and hope my book will do so when I am dead. The 
 only men I envy in history are those who were most 
 hated, scorned and despised, and the ones who are 
 most hated, scorned and despised now. My own 
 hatred is so strong that it can't be described. There 
 are lots of hypocrisy in all friendship ; the man with 
 a handsome wife can have no end of male friends, or if 
 he has pretty daughters or sisters or female friends, he 
 can have plenty of male friends ; this friendship, like 
 all friendship, has a selfish object in view, and a per- 
 sonal one, but it is policy to have friends rather than 
 foes. Friends will help one in every way, that is if he 
 
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 uses them for his own profit and amusement, and not 
 let them use him instead. Friendship is made up of 
 two classes — foolish and wise. The wise use their 
 friends for purely selfish purposes and profit by it, the 
 foolish are continually being used by their wiser 
 friends with no return but kind words. I understand 
 all these tricks, but I am too independent and have 
 too much hatred to use any of them. 
 
 (Spirit of Eeason) What do you expect to gain by 
 writing this book ? 
 
 (Writer.) To make enemies ; I don't expect there 
 will be many books sold, but I'll be satisfied with the 
 result, few or many. 
 
 Life is not worth living, there is nothing in it, it is 
 an old story and I'm tired of it. I am ready to risk 
 my life on this for I am willing to die and won't care 
 if I live only ten days or ten weeks, but I prefer to die 
 soon in the full possession of all my faculties and 
 strength. 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) You had better take my advice 
 and not publish this book. 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 (Spirit of Lust.) With your disposition, you can 
 enjoy this Hfe all right, although you have no love nor 
 desire for it and don't want any friends ; but you have 
 plenty of lust and hate, which is all that's necessary 
 for happiness to you. The only use you have for men 
 is to swindle, cheat, rob and murder them, under fav- 
 orable circumstances, and far enough away from rail- 
 roads and telegraphs, in time of war, revolution and 
 riots ; and the only use you have for females is lust; 
 you can have a fine time travelling around the world 
 as you have for many years, ha ! ha ! simply looking at 
 the young females of all nationalities of all sizes and 
 shapes, and joining wars and revolutions once in a 
 while for robbery and excitement, to satisfy your de- 
 sire for slaughter, murder and destruction. 
 
 (Writer.) I did find much pleasure in that for a 
 number of years, but it has gotten old and stale. I 
 
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 want to make one last vicious kick at the world with 
 this book, and then die ; life is not worth living. 
 
 (Spirit of Lust.) But only think of the damage 
 you could do by living ten years and pursuing your 
 old plans. You take great pleasure, enjoyment, and 
 satisfaction in corrupting the morals and lives of the 
 young, of both sexes ; you have ruined many, and if 
 you keep out of this book business, you can ruin 
 thousands more. You have many successful plans, 
 some of them original. You go into a city a perfect 
 stranger, and in one week have a large number of 
 both males and females in your power. Just think of 
 it ! you can use the males to fix the females, and get 
 them in your power. You know how to do it success- 
 fully and on a large scale. 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, but there are others to put my 
 plans in operation. I am always sure to have disciples 
 and followers wherever I go. There are many work- 
 ing my plans all over the world now, and most of 
 them have plenty of money. But none of my plans 
 for the corruption of the morals of the young equal 
 
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 dancing, bicycles, and love novels, for accomplishiQg 
 that purpose — three great curses to humanity. 
 
 (Spirit of Lust.) Honestly, I could not improve 
 on them. You had better give up the scheme of pub- 
 lishing this book, for it may be the means of your 
 losing your life, and if you were more successful you 
 might die happy and satisfied. 
 
 (Writer.) The corruption of morals of aU classes 
 in all Christian countries is advancing so rapidly that 
 I am nearly satisfied. The bicycle is a great help to 
 both sexes of all ages; they can go so far, stop so often 
 and return so quickly. I tell you it is a great invention, 
 and I gloat over it continually. Give human beings 
 plenty of freedom, let the males and females associate 
 together freely, and I will be satisfied with the results. 
 
 (Spirit of Lust.) Do you believe religion is a 
 damage or help to immorality ? "Would you change it 
 in any way if you could ? 
 
 (AYriter.) I do not find any fault with any Chris- 
 tian religion, as it is used for a cloak to cover all kinds 
 of immorality, and I would not change it in the least. 
 
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 as it is respectable to be religious, and makes a fine 
 covering for hyprocrisy. Millions have been killed in 
 past ages on account of the Christian religion, and it looks 
 now as if millions more would be killed and tortured 
 to death in years to come as long as the world lasts, 
 consequently I can find no fault with religion. 
 
 (Spirit of Lust.) The summer resorts aid us in 
 this ruin. They are perfect schools of vice and lust. 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, I am proud of these summer re- 
 sorts and delight in watching the results and example 
 to the young growing generation. Have watched 
 people in both Europe and America at these various 
 resorts, in what is called the best and middle classes 
 of society, and I am in a position to know there is no 
 joke in the old saying, " it takes a wise man to tell his 
 own father." If all the bastards were taken out of 
 Christian countries, there would be a number to 
 surprise the world if they could be counted, and 
 my belief is based on my own personal observation 
 in so many different countries. You would be sur- 
 prised at the number of cases in the highest society 
 
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 and amoDg all classes that has been hushed up for fear 
 of bringing disgrace on the family name, etc. If all the 
 stars which are visible at night are worlds like this and 
 inhabited by people similar to the human beings on 
 this earth, and if any of them have such free love 
 as this in all Christian countries, they are in a bad 
 fix indeed. Spirit of Lust, would you wish to change 
 any of the social customs of society or religion in 
 any Christian country of the earth so as to benefit 
 or increase your power ? 
 
 (Spirit of Lust) — I would not improve or change 
 the customs in any way to increase my power ; they 
 are perfect. 
 
 (Writer) — I agree with you ; it amuses me greatly 
 to hear people talk about pure minded males and 
 females in this age of Christian countries. How 
 can they be pare minded ? Education includes his- 
 tory and history includes all the vile lives of royalty, 
 male and female, kings and queens. Read the history 
 of Cleopatra, the siren of Egypt ; her impure life ; 
 and many others, male and female, in all ages. Even 
 
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 if they do not study history, the papers tell a little of 
 the truth and facts about the few cases in Court ; if 
 they did not read history, newspapers, or novels, there 
 are plenty of older or younger friends who take par- 
 ticular delight in teaching them and poisoning their 
 minds sufficiently. 
 
 (Spirit of Lust.) Yes, their minds are naturally 
 full of lust and everything connected with modern 
 civilization, education, and society of all grades, has a 
 tendency to increase it. I have no fault to find with 
 the management, as it is in my favor ; but I advise 
 you to give up this plan of publishing this book, as it 
 will spoil your career in this respect. 
 
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 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) How do you like the 
 blacks and all colored races of the earth ? 
 
 (Writer.) Spirit of Destruction, I have the most 
 friendly feeling for you, and if I had more power I'd 
 have lots of use for you ; that is, if you could give me 
 any new ideas, which I doubt very much . 
 
 I will take the greatest pleasure in answering 
 your questions and tell you what I think of all black 
 races and what I would do with them if I had the 
 power. They should be in slavery, colonized or 
 shipped to Africa, but to allow them to live in white 
 nations, equal before the law, is one of the worst and 
 most humiliating curses any white nation can be sub- 
 jected to. My parents taught me that slavery was 
 wrong, and that blacks should be free and have equal 
 rights with the whites, but they were wrong and very 
 badly mistaken. 
 
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 (Spirit of Destruction.) Yes, that was what 
 might be called a black mistake, and that mistake bj 
 so many people brought on the war in the United 
 States and caused an immense amount of destruction 
 of lives and property, and as you and I both favor any- 
 thing that causes war, misery and destruction, we 
 cannot find fault with that. The blacks have al- 
 ways been a curse to the United States and have 
 caused much destruction, and are doing so now, all 
 the time, and always will. They may be termed our 
 agents. 
 
 How long do you suppose that the whites will 
 stand such a black outrage on decency as blacks liv- 
 ing on an equality with them ? The negroes will con- 
 tinue to make trouble until they are shipped or colon- 
 ized. I have some idea how you hate the black races 
 of the earth and would like to destroy them and drive 
 them into slavery, so I am just supposing this for 
 amusement. 
 
 Suppose there was a war, and you were at the 
 head of a large army of many thousand whites and 
 
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 several thousand blacks, and you were about to engage 
 the enemy in a battle ; but there were many deep 
 ditches between you and the enemy and high ground, 
 which made it impossible to get your artillery across 
 the ditches to the high grouad so you could sweep the 
 enemy off the earth, and to complicate matters your 
 artillery ammunition was nearly exhausted, what would 
 you do under the circumstances ? 
 
 (Writer.) That would be very easy. I would 
 order the blacks marched up to the ditches and the 
 ammunition wagons driven close to the ditches, when 
 I would order the heads cut off and the bodies thrown 
 into the ditches and their black heads to be used as 
 €annon balls, which I believe would answer the pur- 
 pose exactly ; when the ditches would become filled 
 with the black carcasses, I would transfer my artillery 
 across on them and occupy the high ground. If I were 
 anywhere and needed to throw up breast works I 
 would use their bodies for that. If I were fighting 
 the enemy along side of a large river, said river hav- 
 ing embankments higher than the land with a big 
 
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 flood Id the river, the enemy being towards the mouth 
 of the river in the same direction the river was run- 
 ning, and the water in the river was about to over- 
 flow the banks and spoil my war plans, if they were 
 not built up quickly, I should use the negro carcasses 
 for that purpose, making the bank safe, and always 
 using the heads as before mentioned. When the 
 banks were built up in this way that would cause more 
 pressure on the banks below, opposite the enemy's- 
 position, and would be liable to burst the banks and 
 exterminate them ; or in case of a prairie fire they 
 would be useful to stop the fire and the said fire would 
 aid in destroying my enemy. If any nation which 
 has a large black population would get in a foreign 
 war it would be invincible if it adopted this plan of 
 using the blacks ; it would accomplish two purposes, 
 in destroying the enemy and destroying a worthless, 
 despicable, odorous, black, living, increasing curse of 
 the country at the same time. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) That's right ; call up the 
 Spirit of Hate, and let's have a good laugh together. 
 
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 Just fancy the black heads flying through the air as 
 cannon-balls, mowing down the white enemy, and 
 using the black carcasses for breastworks and to fill up 
 ditches. Let's all laugh together once more. Ha! 
 ha! ha! 
 
 (Spirits of Justice, Common Sense, and Reason.) 
 Don't think for one moment you can make us believe 
 you would only do this to the black races ; yoa would 
 do the same to the white, under favorable circum- 
 stances. 
 
 (Writer.) As you say, that would depend upon 
 circumstances. If I could use one against the other 
 as a destroying agent, I would always do all in my 
 power, every way, to cause the most misery and de- 
 struction. 
 
 (Spirits of Justice, Common Sense, and Reason.) 
 You are fully capable of turning the blacks on the 
 whites in overwhelming numbers and destroying them 
 if you had the power. 
 
 (Writer.) If I thought I could do more damage 
 that way, I most certainly would try. But if I wished 
 
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 to cause the most humiliation, misery, and destruction 
 in the world, in future years I would leave the blacks 
 as they are now, scattered over the earth, mixed with 
 the whites to a great extent in many countries, and 
 protected by equal laws. 
 
 However, I should think there would be a good 
 opportunity for the right parties to agitate some plan 
 of colonizing the negroes and shipping them out of 
 the country. If all whites were taxed from 5 per cent, 
 up, according to their wealth, the blacks could soon be 
 gotten rid of. I believe every white working man or 
 day laborer could afford to pay ten dollars or more 
 towards such a fund, as they would have more employ- 
 ment. The negroes are a perpetual danger to the 
 government, and millions of whites, both north and 
 south, would favor any form of government in prefer- 
 ence to this, which would drive all the negroes out of 
 the country. Who would blame them ? All this pre- 
 tended friendship of white men for the blacks is hypoc- 
 risy. There is abundant proof that the majority of 
 white females admire all black races, but that is one 
 
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 more proof human females are not responsible for 
 their acts. The blacks bearing equal votes and rights 
 before the law causes it. The miserable politicians 
 of all parties are sucking after the negro vote. Do they 
 not know, or have they no idea what the blacks would 
 do if they (the blacks) were in the majority? Ah, 
 they would treat the whites much worse than they 
 were treated before the " emancipation proclamation ! " 
 The United States would be a different country if all 
 the negroes were driven out. What a horrible thing 
 it is to raise a family, and have it thrown up to them 
 that negroes are as good as they, or their parents, and 
 what a shame to allow the colored children to attend 
 the same schools as the white children, and mix up in 
 the same room and classes. It is no wonder they grow 
 up without seeing the distinguishing line between black 
 and white, inter- marrying, as in most of the northern 
 State?. But all of this suits me exactly, but the whites 
 are fools to allow it. There is much controversy in 
 regard to the large number of suicides in this country. 
 Contemplate the black curse of allowing the negroes to 
 
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 live in the same cities, counties, and States with the 
 whites, voting, and with equality before the law, and 
 the modern, advanced, independent, aggressive, pro- 
 gresive females, trying to vote and taking employment 
 of all kinds away from men. These two curses are 
 much more than sufficient to cause any man with any 
 self-respect or decency to commit suicide. The only 
 wonder I can see is that so few destroy themselves. 
 
 (Spirit of Eeason.) What do you mean by say- 
 ing females are not responsible for their acts ? 
 
 (Writer.) From my experience with them, what 
 I have read, and what I have been told, there are times 
 in their lives when they are mentally wrong. Bat I 
 give them the benefit of all doubt, consequently, I 
 count them irresponsible all the time. 
 
 (Spirit of Eeason.) They get over that. 
 
 (Writer.) But I believe the effect lasts as long 
 as they last ; they do queer acts and follow queer fash- 
 ions at all ages, which proves they are not responsible 
 beings. I am no female hater ; I would have been 
 
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 better off now, mentally, morally and physically, if I 
 had. I always did like females from my earliest 
 recollection, not for the noise they make with their 
 tongues in talking and singing, but I like them for 
 the animal magnetism which they possess, and which 
 is necessary to the health of my carcass, in limited 
 quantities. The more animal magnetism any one 
 female possesses, the better I like that one ; of course, 
 I never had any love for them, only very strong lust, 
 which, with my nature, answers the same purpose. I 
 want a change once in a while. I don't want them to 
 love me. If there were two young females of the 
 same age, just alike in every way, in looks, age and 
 disposition, only one loved me and the other hated 
 and despised me, and I had my choice, I would marry 
 the latter, and get a divorce or make her get a divorce 
 in a few months. I believe I could tame her in about 
 twelve hours, and she would either hate me worse or 
 like me better ; I would not care which, but they are 
 queer animals. 
 
 Xow, if the Christians managed their women like 
 
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 the Turks, Persians, and all followers of Mohammed, 
 the country would be better off. 
 
 American married men are the worst dupes, tools, 
 €at's-paws and hen-pecked slaves upon earth. England 
 and France are rapidly becoming the same, and bas- 
 tards are increasing in all the Christian countries. 
 The more freedom the females have, the more bas- 
 tards. Any man, or any class of men, who would be 
 satisfied wdth the rotten state of all society in Chris- 
 tian countries, would be satisfied to share a wife with 
 another man, if it was the common custom of one wife 
 for two men. But as the majority of men in Christian 
 countries are fools, free lovers, and men whose only 
 thought is lewd women, anything will suit them, and 
 the more corrupt society is, the better they like it. 
 There is no wonder in that, as the whole system of 
 society in all Christian countries is perfectly rotten to 
 its core, and you can't expect sound fruit from a de- 
 cayed tree. No man of any observation or self-respect 
 would marry now unless for money. Look at the 
 scandals in the papers, and only a small percentage 
 
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 get into the papers and courts, when there should be 
 thousands in courts, according to right and justice. 
 Still they marry, which proves the filthiness of Chris- 
 tian nations. Some of the intelligent men in past 
 and present history, who are the most honored (and 
 honor is what they value), have married widows. The 
 way I understand that is, that they are close observers 
 of the ways of the world, see the corruptness of society 
 and the difficulty and chance of getting a virtuous 
 single female, and they don't want to marry a single 
 female and have a number of males laughing at them 
 secretly, or openly saying, " he thought he got a vir- 
 tuous female, but I and others know differently.*' So 
 the intelligent men make the best of circumstances 
 and modern society, marry widows, and by so doing 
 acknowledge to the world that they are taking a 
 second- handed one, at least, and no one can laugh at 
 them. Every one knows what widows are. If they 
 are all like the ones I have had experience with, there 
 is no wonder their husbands are dead ; but the least 
 said about the widows the better. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 I, the chief hater of all men of intelligence, am 
 well satisfied with the works of the females. Many of 
 the governments of the world can trace their failure 
 and overthrow, directly or indirectly, to the influence 
 of females, and I believe that they yet will be the 
 downfall of this republic, and when this is gone, all 
 republics will fall. Then will follow the establish- 
 ment of monarchies over all the world, which will 
 cause perpetual wars, famines, pestilence, injustice, 
 misery, torture, slavery or worse than slavery ; and 
 this is just what I want to happen. I will give a few 
 of my reasons for believing the females will overthrow 
 this Republic : All females have a secret or open re- 
 gard for royalty and all titled people ; and in proof 
 of it they are always running after the titled class and 
 gratefully accepting any crumbs of favor or notice 
 which are thrown them ; and there is no country upon 
 
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 the earth where females honor the titled class more 
 than in this republic. This is plainly proven. If 
 there is no royalty or titles to run after, they will run 
 after military titles and those who are in a higher so- 
 cial circle than themselves, and those so-called higher 
 circles only look down in scorn upon them, but their 
 flattery and coddling are sweet, nevertheless. They 
 who are treated with the most scorn are always more 
 than ready to take the least favors from them. To 
 prove that all females in the world admire and honor 
 royalty, look at all the newspapers and magazines de- 
 voted entirely to females. Can you find one of them 
 which does not publish stories and anecdotes about 
 titled people, their movements, where they are going, 
 what they are doing, and all the disgusting particu 
 lars? And the newspapers, with pages devoted to 
 female readers, never fail to have a paragraph, some- 
 times whole columns, about these foreigners of title 
 and rank — kings, queens, princesses, etc. The novel 
 writers all know this fact, and the majority of the suc- 
 cessful ones have titled characters in their novels ; 
 
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 the writers of family story papers do the same, 
 and the play writers kaow the value of having titled 
 persons and characters in their plays, as they are well 
 aware they draw the females. They also know that 
 females and their bond slaves — men — are the sup- 
 porters of the theatres. They know the powerful in- 
 fluence that females possess over their male dupes and 
 slaves, who are willing to make monkeys of themselves 
 all their lives to please them. Just as well do they know 
 that the success of theatres and novels depends upon 
 females. One of the strongest proofs that females 
 worship titles is the large number of the wealthy 
 ones of the United States, who go to Europe, buy 
 titles with their money and beauty, and marry the 
 impoverished sons and heirs of English Earls, or any 
 title whatever, that may be added to the bargain. 
 
 Give the female power to vote in all the States 
 and at national elections, then good-bye Republicanism 
 and Democracy in this country, and the death knell of 
 all republics in other countries. 
 
 Agents of royalty in Washington work the females. 
 
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 wives, daughters, and sisters of henpecked statesmen 
 and friends, in favor of monarchical governments. 
 
 The work of female influence can be seen in the 
 works of several Presidents in favor of monarchy. 
 
 One of the greatest dangers to the government is 
 the influence of the female relatives of the henpecked 
 statesmen, and it proves, beyond the shadow of a 
 doubt, that all females honor hereditary royalty. 
 
 The titled foreigners at Washington give balls 
 and banquets, and use all kinds of tricks to make 
 friends of these hen-pecked statesmen and their female 
 relatives, knowing full well the said females have 
 power in numerous ways to rule their husbands, which 
 is always in favor of hereditary rulers. The govern- 
 ment being undermined and weakened by the titled 
 class of people of Europe and the world, are strongly 
 aided by the female agents of trusts, railroads, tele- 
 graphs, and all such who are corrupt lobbyists, and 
 who play the prostitute and practise blackmailing. 
 You hear much about kind-hearted females, when it 
 is an undisputed fact that the Spanish are slaughter- 
 
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 iog the Cubans by thousands, and starving them to 
 death, and selling the young females at auction, every- 
 thing fully as bad as in Armenia, and instead of send- 
 ing help to the Cubans, a few hours' sail from this 
 country, they collect an immense amount of money 
 and send a professional female, who makes charity a 
 business, to Armenia, the other side of the earth. 
 And what is the reason for all this injustice? It 
 proves the power and influence and friendship of all 
 prominent females, and all females, for monarchies. 
 Spain has a queen and the females will not interfere in 
 Cuba on that account, and they use their all powerful 
 influence upon their henpecked husbands and their 
 henpecked presidents for mere personal matters of 
 their own, preventing them from helping Cuba. The 
 Queen of Spain writes charming, sweet, pathetic, lovely 
 letters, as they call them, to the wives of the president 
 and statesmen, while they talk sentimental rot about 
 the poor Queen of Spain. Kind-hearted females, how 
 amusing. I believe this will hold good in all Christian 
 countries. How plain was the female influence shown 
 
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 in the Cleveland rule of ruin ! The black Queen of 
 the Sandwich Islands first visited all the monarchies 
 of Europe, and was received with great pomp and cere- 
 mony by all those monarch s — male and female. Some 
 of the titled Europeans wrote to Mrs. Cleveland and 
 her friends to do all they could for the kicked- out 
 black queen. AYhen she arrived here she called on 
 Mrs. Cleveland, and all the female relatives, who vied 
 with each other in honoring her, because a Queen and 
 the titled classes of Europe and the world had directed 
 them to do so. Black Queen Lilioukalani worked on 
 the sympathies of Mr. Cleveland, his wife, and the 
 other females in the ring. At last, Cleveland ordered 
 the American flag pulled down at Honolulu, and the 
 black Queen Lil to be reinstated. That was only fe- 
 male influence. No wonder the Turks are the best 
 fighting men of the world— they have something to 
 fight for ; and to prove their government is practical, 
 it has existed for thirteen hundred years. If it were 
 possible for any modern nation to adopt their marriage 
 laws and ways of managing females, with a limitation 
 
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 of two or three wives, I believe such a nation would 
 rule the world. Freedom of women, in both France 
 and America, will lead them to ruin, and to prove it> 
 both of said countries are decaying in population ; 
 there is less increase of population in France than any 
 other nation, and there would be the same, in fact, in 
 the United States, if it were not for immigration and 
 increase of the ignorant, foreign-born paupers. What 
 more proof do you want that unlimited freedom of fe- 
 males is destruction ? 
 
 I am more than satisfied with the work of the 
 modern " know it all," advanced females ; and I hop© 
 their power and influence will increase in every way, 
 for it means ruin and destruction. 
 
 This female sovereignty in society, running and 
 ruling men, is a great pleasure to me. The worst 
 enemy of humanity who desired the most misery and 
 destruction could not ask for anything better than 
 perfect equality among the sex with belief in love. 
 How amusing to watch these poor female ruled dotards 
 stand around quietly and let the females take their 
 
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 occupations away from them and vote to help the 
 females rob them of their natural right of employment 
 and vote themselves into the poor house or starvation. 
 If laughing would make any one fat and healthy, surely 
 there is enough to laugh at, in watching such society 
 in the United States. There is no occupation in 
 which men are engaged that is safe from the " new 
 woman ; " she will do anything. They work at all the 
 trades, occupations and professions now, more or less. 
 In some of the Western States and Territories the 
 women vote. I tell you it is great fun to watch the 
 crowing-hen expression on their faces when they go 
 to the poles to vote ; there will soon be as much com- 
 petition between the female candidates as the male, 
 but the contests will be hotter ; instead of fist fights 
 and black eyes, it will be tongue lashing and hair 
 pulling. I desire no more pleasure than this, and the 
 downfall of the government, which is sure to follow. 
 Let us laugh at these female clubs ; we can easily 
 judge their conversation by the items we read in their 
 magazines as to the way the titled class of Europe and 
 
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 the world dress, what they eat, what they do, and al! 
 the scandals connected with them. It is difficult to 
 find a female who does not like and admire praise and 
 flatter the titled and most wealthy class, which lead 
 to ruin. These clubs only help to make misery and 
 woe at the present time, and especially for years to 
 come. 
 
 Can anyone estimate the large amount of money 
 wasted yearly by extravagant females of all classes 
 combined, in the United States, for useless gewgaws of 
 fashion, which are only fit to burn or destroy in a few 
 months, when they are not in fashion ? It is impos- 
 sible to control the modern advanced female, unless 
 by a revolution or foreign war and the destruction of 
 the government. But if it were possible to shut up 
 the females in separate schools, within large grounds^ 
 from the time they could walk until they were mar- 
 ried, and keep them shut up after they were married, 
 and compel them to wear the plainest clothing, this 
 would be a different government. Then every State 
 and county from the Atlantic to the Pacific could 
 
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 build the finest public marble buildings, and all kinds 
 of the finest, substantial, ornamental public improve- 
 ments of every description with the money that is 
 now wasted by the modern extravagant females. 
 
 Not only this, but the government could build a 
 navy which could whip all the rest of the navies of 
 the world combined, and could build armored forts 
 every few miles on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 
 and have railroads with armored cars running the 
 whole length of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The 
 armored car railroad running as close to the coast as 
 possible — so as to protect the coasts and to prevent 
 the landing of enemies. All these things I have men- 
 tioned could be accomplished, and many more of the 
 same kind, and be of substantial, lasting, useful grand 
 improvements for the advancement of the nation in a 
 short time with the money which is wasted by modern 
 females. Then this would be a nation to be proud of, 
 on a substantial foundation, and men would be more 
 liable to honor and fight for such a nation than to 
 make monkeys of themselves, as at present, running 
 
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 after the females and being used as slaves bj them. 
 Such a nation could be called a male nation. This 
 nation, as it is now, can be called very appropriately 
 a female nation, as the big majority of men are female 
 ruled and hen-pecked. 
 
 Signs similar to the following, are very plentiful 
 in all cities of the country, as everyone knows : Abra- 
 ham, Isaac, Jacob & Co., importers of the latest styles 
 of millinery from Paris and London ; also, importers 
 and wholesale dealers in the finest feathers of all the 
 countries of the globe ; also, live birds, starved to 
 death so that the feathers will not come out, for trim- 
 ming nice ladies' hats ; also, new Parisian novelties 
 for trimming ladies' bonnets, consisting of artificial 
 snakes, lizards, and all kinds of reptiles and animals, 
 in miniature ; also, natural small reptiles prepared by 
 a new process, which causes them to retain all their 
 natural beauty of color; also, the finest hand-made 
 lace, made by females in damp, underground cellars, 
 where the average life is less than twenty-five years ; 
 also, the new Parisian fad — live chameleons, with small 
 
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 gold chains around their necks, and brooch to fasten 
 to the hat or waist ; also, the latest London corsets, 
 which make a long, slim, tapering waist. This is very 
 similar to the countless advertisements in this female- 
 ruled, henpecked country. 
 
 But in a government such as I mentioned, where 
 females were shut up all their lives and compelled by 
 law to wear the plainest clothing, and the money saved 
 that way to be used in substantial government improve- 
 ments of all kinds, these are the kind of signs and ad- 
 vertisements you would see : " Washington, Adams, 
 Jefferson Co-operative Co., manufacturers of all kinds 
 of marble work, such as statuary and ornamental 
 marble work of all descriptions. Ten thousand marble 
 workers employed on the co-operative plan; we are 
 State and government contractors ; we built the new 
 marble State library of Pennsylvania, and the four 
 fountains, and furnished everything complete ; we also 
 built the new marble patent office for the United States 
 Government at Washington, D. C, covering two acres 
 of ground, with over a hundred statues and one of the 
 
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 largest marble fountains in the world in front of the 
 building ; we have built, in the last few years, fifty 
 county libraries, all of marble, with large fountains 
 and ornamental marble wall fences and statuary ; also, 
 twenty marble arches for State capitols, one hundred 
 feet wide, two hundred feet high, and fifty feet thick ; 
 we also manufacture bronze work of all kinds, and 
 bronze statuary and ornamental iron work of every 
 description. As the ten thousand men who have op- 
 erated this co-operative company for the last ten years 
 have all obtained the highest limit of wealth allowed 
 by the government, they will all retire for life in less 
 than six months ; the books have been opened for new 
 members for several months and there are only a few 
 vacancies left, as there are less than one hundred po- 
 sitions left out of ten thousand new beginners." Now, 
 this last is the kind of an advertisement which would 
 be possible in fifty years if the females were shut up 
 and compelled to keep their places. 
 
 Compare the two advertisements : the first 
 
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 advertisement, which is a truthful representation of this 
 female ruled government, everything for' the present, 
 all wasteful, nothing substantial or lasting ; the last 
 advertisement represents everything which is grand, 
 substantial and permanent, but the last advertisement 
 is impossible under present female rule, which is in- 
 creasing in power all the time, and I am glad of it, as 
 the present government will fail with great misery and 
 slaughter, and only despotism can rule it afterwards. 
 If there was some way to excite the contempt of males 
 for females and cause them to treat them as inferior 
 beings as they are, and treat them more as necessary 
 incumbrances, aad teach love of country and govern- 
 ment above all, then there would be more hope of the 
 perpetuation of the government. To prove this as a 
 fact, the pagan republic of ancient Rome treated 
 females as inferiors and with comparative contempt 
 they honored the government above all, and it had a 
 wonderful power and advancement for the barbarous 
 age in which it existed, but it began to decay as soon 
 as females commenced to have influence. All these 
 
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 reforms I have mentioned are impossible to the female 
 ruled males of this country. 
 
 If I thought they were possible, I would not men- 
 tion them, as I gloat continually over the rapid way 
 this government is rushing to ruin, and it is very 
 amusing to watch it being ruined directly or indirectly 
 by females, and surely it is the most disgusting way 
 any government could fail. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIY. 
 
 (Spirit of Imagination.) We will suppose a case 
 just for amusement and let the imagination have full 
 sway. Suppose the largest star which can be seen 
 from this world similar to ours, inhabited by beings 
 the same as this world, only they live to be a thousand 
 years of age. Suppose one of these beings had power 
 to come to this earth as a representative in the form of 
 a spirit and communicated to me an offer he wanted 
 me to make to you ? This spirit representative of the 
 other world would make the following proposition to 
 you through me ; now saying he has the power to 
 transfer your spirit to the world he represents, and 
 either give your spirit the highest power in that world, 
 or put your spirit in a beast of prey, reptile or other 
 animal, or destroy your spirit entirely and completely, 
 and he would give you your choice. In the country 
 he represents there is a female princess just born ; sho 
 
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 is heir to the throne and will be ruler of the whole world 
 he represents ; all the inhabitants will honor her as 
 long as she lives, which is for a thousand years, and 
 her wealth and power will be greater than any of this 
 world ; she can marry or not marry, just as she wishes, 
 but she has inherited a very weak mind from her 
 parents. However, she is not capable of governing 
 her subjects strictly, systematically and practically as 
 they should be, and now the proposition he makes to 
 you is for you to allow him to transfer your spirit into 
 the body of this infant princess ; refuse, and he will 
 transform you into some hideous beast or destroy your 
 spirit entirely. What is your answer ? 
 
 (Writer.) I would not stop to consider the 
 proposition ; I would jump at the chance of escape 
 and would willingly be any kind of a male beast 
 or entirely destroyed, anything imaginable, than 
 become a female human being, or a female of any 
 kind. 
 
 (Spirit of Imagination.) The representative 
 
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 spirit of the other world says you are a victim of 
 ignorance. 
 
 (Writer.) Tell him if that is ignorance, I am 
 thankful that I am ignorant ; that he has grossly in- 
 sulted me, and to get out. 
 
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 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) What is your opinion of 
 the little dwarfs who hop around the world and make 
 lots of noise ? 
 
 (Writer.) The majority of them are beneath 
 contempt. Their minds are as small as their stature ; 
 they are good in time of war for lackeys, and in time 
 of peace to marry and raise young ones for the same 
 purpose. Many of them are kept out of war by their 
 size. Of course, there have been intelligent little 
 men in all ages, and at the present time, but, intelli- 
 gent or not, they hate the big men. I suppose the 
 reason for this is, they were used for foot- balls by the 
 big boys in their school days, and knocked around by 
 the big men after they were grown. Any big man 
 who gets into the power of a little man, in any way, 
 is in a bad fix. There have been many small generals 
 in different parts of the world, in the armies of differ- 
 
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 ent nations, in the past and present history, and they 
 seem to take great delight in killing the large men. 
 One nation had many large men until one of its little 
 generals began to make a target of the tall, and now 
 its armies are full of men short in stature. The said 
 nation lost its last war on that account, I believe. As 
 all of my desire is for misery and destruction, I am 
 glad of this planning of the little men, which they 
 will execute if they get the chance. The majority of 
 the large men are fools, and the intelligent lot of them 
 are the meanest on earth. AVhere I would be satis- 
 fied to drive the small men into slavery 15 hours a 
 day, I would drive the big men into slavery 20 hours 
 a day. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) If you were furnished 
 with the power to return in spirit after death and 
 take the form of a beast of prey or a bird of prey, or 
 some invisible spirit of which the world would be 
 ignorant to see or know the cause of, to cause either 
 misery and destruction, or good ; what would you do ? 
 
 (Writer.) As I believe it is worse than useless to 
 y 
 
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 try to benefit humanity, which all past ages prove, and 
 as I hate mankind, of course I would do all the dam- 
 age I could. If it were possible for me to take the 
 form of a bird of prey, and fly over the world and 
 spread the dreaded disease — leprosy, among all nations, 
 I would do it ; I would prefer this to any other method, 
 as it is a slow, lingering, horrible death. To kill the 
 most of the people in the world now would be the 
 kindest thing you could do for them, as there is noth- 
 ing but misery and slow starvation and worse than 
 slavery for them, consequently I would prefer all meth- 
 ods which caused the most misery ; but still I would 
 spread diseases, such as the black plague, yellow fever, 
 cholera, and all loathsome diseases, if possible. I 
 would aid royalty or any other destroying agency, and 
 do all I possibly could to damage all republics in the 
 world. I would silently, swiftly, and secretly sow^ the 
 seeds of disease in the armies of all republics ; horses 
 and cattle of all republics should die from disease ; 
 founder their ships on the rocks at sea, destroy the 
 light-houses and create false lights in their stead, tam- 
 
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 per with the compasses, fire the cities, forests, and 
 everything else possible which belongs to all republics, 
 if I had the power. I should like to be able to change 
 the course of ships, drive them on the rocks, but save 
 the crew in boats, so they might slowly starve to death, 
 or drown quickly ; but I would prefer that they slowly 
 starve — turn cannibalistic and eat each other. In fact, 
 I would do everything possible to aid monarchy to 
 destroy all republics. 
 
 I would work and destroy until the whole remain- 
 ing world was a monarchy, then the balance living 
 could fight among themselves, and my work would be 
 finished. I would perch on the highest mountains as 
 a bird of prey, or roam the forests as a beast of prey, 
 or float over the earth as a spirit, and gloat over my 
 work. I would visit the different countries in the 
 darkness of night, and with a voice that would make 
 all the inhabitants tremble, if possible, say, " Koyalty 
 Forever." 
 
 If my power was limited in the spirit, so I could 
 do comparatively little damage to human beings ex- 
 
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 cepting in one way, I would keep within my limit. But 
 I should like to cause destruction upon both sea and 
 land, and allow no rescues. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) The majority of men on 
 land are fools, and beneath contempt ; but all who fol- 
 low the sea as an occupation, from the captains to the 
 lowest sailors, without exception, are fools. 
 
 (Writer.) I believe yon are right ; but yet I would 
 kill them all, on general principles, if I had the power ; 
 and all who took their places, as fast as possible. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) There is nothing slow 
 about yon, according to your power, and I can give 
 you no additional advice on destruction, as your ideas 
 are perfect in that respect. 
 
 (Writer.) You are right. Suppose my power for 
 destruction in the spirit form was confined to the land 
 only, and Hmited to a certain extent. If I had the 
 power to transfer locusts from one country to another,, 
 destroy all crops and create famine, I w^ould be quite 
 weU satisfied. Or if I was allowed the power to in- 
 crease storms, heat, and cold, I would be most thank- 
 
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 ful. Did you ever notice miserable human beings 
 complaining about the weather ? It is always too hot 
 or too cold to suit them, too wet or too dry ; then 
 again, no snow or too much snow. There is no limit 
 to the presumption of despicable humanity. They 
 should be thankful they are permitted to live in any 
 kind of weather, without any fault-finding whatever. I 
 can imagine what kind of weather I would give them 
 if I had control of it for a short time. One day I would 
 blister them with intense heat, the next day extreme 
 cold and snow ; then there should be such a deluge 
 of rain, that all the buildings would be floating around 
 like Noah's ark in that long ago. I would make them 
 glad to get any kind of endurable weather. 
 
 If my power lay in an invisible spirit, and was 
 confined to cities, towns, and villages of different na- 
 tions, I would be sure to do all the destruction that 
 was possible in the above-named places. I would use 
 fire, contagious diseases, opium, and liquors, if pos- 
 sible, in every way, to their fullest extent. All this 
 feeling of pretended friendship in nations of hereditary 
 
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 government for those of republics is either for self- 
 interest, or purely hypocritical ; and as all republics 
 are the natural enemies of the titled and wealthy 
 classes, I would use one country against another ; if 
 possible, get up a regular war of extermination, in 
 favor of monarchies against all republics. All mon- 
 archies are liable to combine against all republics for 
 self-preservation ; then see the dead fall in all repub- 
 lics of the earth, as if the pestilence had struck them, 
 and much worse. 
 
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 CHAPTEE XYI. 
 
 SECRET SOCIETIES.' 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) What is your opinion of 
 all secret societies ? 
 
 (Writer.) Some of them are full of traitors, some 
 have branches all over the world, and have a large 
 number of titled members. Citizens of a republic who 
 will belong to any society which allows citizens of a 
 hereditary monarchy as members, are traitors to a re- 
 publican form of government ; not as an open traitor, 
 but worse — a hypocritical traitor. No citizen of a 
 republic can be friendly to a monarchical government, 
 or titled classes, and be an honest, patriotic cititizen 
 of a republic at the same time. The majority of mem- 
 bers of all secret societies are fools, and it would take 
 at least ten of them to make one average common sense 
 independent man, and they can only be led or driven 
 like cattle ; consequently, as the majority of all 
 
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 members of all secret societies are fools or traitors, 
 you and I, Spirit of Destruction, can find no fault 
 with them, or their work, because] they aid war and 
 destruction. 
 
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 CHAPTER XYII. 
 
 " BEAUTIES OF HUMAN NATURE." 
 
 A very old saying is, " man's inhumanity to man 
 makes countless thousands mourn." I beUeve that 
 could be changed to '^ man's humanity to man makes 
 countless millions mourn.'' If there can be anything 
 imagined more despicable than human natare, I would 
 like to see it. When I talk of human beings I mean 
 the big majority of males ; I do not include the fools, 
 and the females who do not know enough to be either 
 good or bad. It is an infallible rule that the most in- 
 telligent are the most grasping after wealth. Look at 
 them ! the more they get the more they want ; if they 
 get a hundred acres of land they want a thousand, 
 and so on, no limit ever satisfies them. If they get a 
 block of houses, they want more without limit ; if the 7 
 get a million in gol ^ they want another, and so on. 
 If they make a million in business in one city, they 
 
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 want to make the same in many other cities, never 
 satisfied ; however, there are a few exceptions to the 
 rule, caused by other selfish or superstitious reasons. 
 Another beauty of human nature is to witness 
 the wealthy people in this country, who, either they 
 or their ancestors, made their money here ; they are 
 all traitors to this government. Are not millionaires 
 worse than murderers ? A murderer kills a man, or 
 perhaps more than one ; a millionaire is the cause of 
 many deaths, either directly or indirectly, because he 
 has many times more than his share and many others 
 are sure to die in consequence. He cares not how he 
 gets his money, so he gets it ; mines cave in, trains 
 are wrecked, men starve and are killed in his employ 
 by needless carelessness of some defect, yet it is to 
 help him make his millions ; is it not blood money ? 
 Did some man not lose his life to save him money, 
 when it should have been used to strengthen some 
 wall or brace some partition ? that is, if you believe in 
 justice. Observe the wealthy classes of the world. 
 Could more despicable deeds be imagined or viler 
 
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 schemes to ruin and destroy than they perpetrate, to 
 grasp the filthy hicre from others. Of course I am 
 worse than any of them, for I gloat and glory in the 
 misery and destruction they cause in innumerable 
 ways. 
 
 A few of them donate hospitals, libraries, colleges, 
 etc., but every one with common sense knows their 
 selfish object in so doing. 
 
 I praise and honor all the wealthy and titled 
 classes and Jews, because they are all the same where 
 self-interest is concerned. How can people with 
 common sense, who claim to like right and justice, 
 like the wealthy people, after reading the history of 
 past ages and watching the works of to-day, is a mys- 
 tery to me. 
 
 They would not be able to run the world if the 
 majority were not fools* The masses should organize 
 societies to regulate the wealthy and titled classes, 
 and have international societies for the same purpose, 
 because no one country can regulate the wealthy and 
 titled classes and Jews by taxation or otherwise with- 
 
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 out international co-operation of other countries, for, 
 if one country compels the wealthy to do what is 
 right, they will only be for moving to some other 
 country where they can have protection to rob the 
 public in numerous ways, according to law. Much 
 capital is going from France, England and all Europe 
 and the United States, to be invested in Russia in 
 manufacturing enterprises, because the majority in 
 Russia are ignorant brutes. 
 
 Old families with histories, who have had ances- 
 tors in government positions, and the v/ealthy classes 
 and descendants of army and navy officers, are as 
 much a danger to freedom in this republic, and all 
 republics, as the old families of Rome were to that 
 government. 
 
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 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 CLUBS. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) What is your opinion 
 of clubs ? 
 
 (Writer.) Well, neither you nor I can find fault 
 with them or any other of the worst enemies of human 
 beings which desire to cause them the most misery. 
 A large number of clubs are only blinds for drinking 
 and gambling ; and what more could we ask for ? 
 All of these clubs are full of traitors ; they make all 
 ma,nner of fun of George AYashington and the other 
 founders of this government in private, and in public 
 they make patriotic speeches and laud George Wash- 
 ington to the skies. In the wealthy clubs, the traitors 
 have had their plans laid for years to overthrow this 
 government and establish a hereditary monarchy. If 
 France would go back to a monarchy, they would put 
 their plans into execution immediately, by starting 
 
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 riots, revolutions, and a civil war, by withdrawing 
 their money from the different industrial enterprises. 
 All the hereditary monarchies of Europe would lend 
 their co-operation, and also the wealthy Jews of the 
 world have promised the wealthy club traitors their 
 support, through their representatives, the clubs. 
 Some of the countries have promised soldiers, ships 
 and ammunition to aid in the overthrow. All of these 
 traitor plans have been matured and perfected for 
 years ; all that is wanting now is the opportunity. 
 After-dinner speakers and females are the mediums of 
 communication between the wealthy club traitors of 
 this country and the monarchical countries of Europe 
 and the world. These foreign countries might ignore 
 the "Monroe Doctrine," and go to war with South 
 American countries and draw the United States into 
 war ; or some one of the countries of Europe declare 
 war against the United States, and all the monarchies 
 then back it up. In fact, there is no end of ways for 
 them to start the game, and they are sure to do it 
 sooner or later ; and they are sure to be successful. 
 
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 All monarchies would prefer to combine against all 
 republics rather than fight among themselves, as ail 
 republics are a perpetual menace to their own 
 existence. 
 
 The working classes of Europe do not recoojnize 
 that their only future hope of freedom will be in the 
 United States, and if it fails, they fall. Would any 
 industrious citizen of any monarchy of Europe have as 
 much freedom and justice, and the use of the ballot, 
 in their native country, or on coming to this country 
 when it becomes a monarchy, as they have now ? When 
 this country does fall, it will be the greatest slaughter 
 known in the world, with more brutal horrors, with 
 millions of blacks and vicious fool whites overrunning 
 the country. It will be almost horrible enough to 
 satisfy even me. No matter how slender the hope of 
 the industrious workers of Europe is on the advance- 
 ment of the United States — that is, if the United 
 States curtail the females, by shutting them up or 
 otherwise — it is their only hope. There is a possible 
 chance for it yet by the use of the ballot, and a pos- 
 
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 sihle chance is better than no chance. These foreign 
 countries will say when this country fails, that they 
 must curtail or abolish the ballot, or we will go to ruin 
 the same as the United States ; then, good-bye liberty. 
 You would think the plainest common sense would 
 show this fact to the industrious workers of all the 
 different nations of Europe, but they can't see it. 
 
 At the first call for help to fight the United States, 
 these foreigners would leap for joy ; it would not be 
 necessary for a second call. Yet it would be with de- 
 struction to their last and only safe guard, which is 
 freedom in this country, but will be slavery yet. If 
 the fools do not wake up and study these things, and 
 combine for protection, they will find when they look 
 up, before long, air-ships navigating the air, controlled 
 by glorious royalty ; and if they raise a protest, they 
 will be blown off' the earth. How long do you suppose 
 the war would last in Cuba, if Spain had air-ships? 
 They would exterminate the Cubans, who would be 
 helpless, or drive them into slavery. Air- ships are 
 sure to come. 
 
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 I am a traitor, but I am not more of a traitor or 
 a worse traitor to my native republic, than any other 
 wealthy citizen of this republic, or the wealthy class 
 in all republics. 
 
 Now, Spirits of Hate and Destruction, call up all 
 your fellow- spirits that you can, and let us all drink 
 the health, prosperity, and success to all of glorious 
 royalty. Let us imagine that we are continually drink- 
 ing the health, prosperity, and success to monarchies, 
 and let us continually curse all republics of the earth. 
 
 I will shout with the loudest \oice, and if you 
 cannot shout, try to collect the atmosphere into a 
 storm, and when I shout for " glorious royalty, live 
 forever ! " you try to take up the echo by the wind or 
 storm which you will try to control, and sweep around 
 the earth to all nations and howl in the storm and 
 tempest, if possible, or try to make the storm and 
 tempest howl on the oceans, on the mountains and in 
 the forests, in the villages, cities, and towns, " Gloki- 
 ous Wealthy Classes, Jews, and Royalty, Live For- 
 
 ever 
 
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 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 Can you find more impure, insultiog language 
 used in the slums of any large city than the college 
 students use ? They are the same through life, al- 
 though they may cover their low, insulting natures 
 with hypocrisy and deceit. There is no end of scan- 
 dals in the papers, by the acts of college students ; 
 and only a small percentage get into the newspapers 
 that should. If any one has doubts upon the subject 
 they can soon find out for themselves by going to a 
 college town and to the college games — boat races, foot- 
 ball, base-ball, etc. 
 
 Most all highly educated people are as vindictive 
 as demons if any one offends their dignity. Their 
 politeness is like the hissing of serpents ; read the ed- 
 itorial pages in the papers of Europe, which represent 
 the monarchical and wealthy class, and Jews and clubs, 
 and the papers of this country, which represent the 
 
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 same, and you can almost hear the spiteful hiss of 
 the intense vindictiveness of the reptiles. This 
 proves what the vampires would do if they had the 
 power. Contemplate the people who run the trusts 
 of all kinds ; the greedy land-grabbers who own thou- 
 sands of acres, one often has sufficient land for hun- 
 dreds of men. Look at the greedy things they call 
 the wheat kings, corn kings, cattle kings, coal kings, 
 copper kings, cotton kings and merchant princes ; 
 each one of them having more than their share aod 
 many times over,. and still grasping for more, and the 
 majority are college graduates. Bat all this injustice 
 of highly educated, greedy vampires, could be con- 
 trolled, regulated and limited by the ballot, if the 
 voters were not dishonest and sach fools ; yet I am 
 asked why I hate human beings. (Note.) I admit 
 there are some poor college graduates working as 
 barbers, hotel and restaurant waiters, Turkish bath 
 attendants and dry goods clerks, etc. 
 
 Voters are anxious to sell their votes, helping to 
 ruin this government of right and justice, which was 
 
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 established under such favorable circumstances for 
 advancement in 1776, and now one hundred and 
 twenty-one years old, the most corrupt nation in 
 every respect that can be imagined. And with al- 
 most every abuse of justice and right, which is in 
 the power of the voters to remedy by ballot, thej 
 vote themselves to ruin and destruction. 
 
 This government was started on the most just, 
 liberal and unselfish foundation, a perfect model of 
 righteousness and justice, in every respect ; and the 
 men who founded it were models of honor. They 
 were unselfish, self sacrificing citizens, but what have 
 been the consequences to their noble and almost more 
 than human work ? Look at the results, then ask me 
 why I hate human beings. Behold, the politicians 
 and office-holders, with their dishonest methods and 
 tricks of every kind, and the despicable citizens of all 
 classes, all looking out for themselves, and traitors 
 to the government ; all in favor of any kind of gov- 
 ernment which would protect their own individual 
 interests best.! 
 
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 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 Is there anythiDg gold will not accomplish in 
 Tilling this world ? Money is necessary to every gov- 
 ernment. The Jews of Europe have a mortgage on 
 nearly every nation of the earth ; the wealthy classes 
 of Europe and other nations have mortgages on every 
 other country. These mortgages are called national 
 ■debts ; and the majority of the citizens of all nations 
 have their property mortgaged. All classes of wealthy 
 people of all nations of the earth are bound together 
 by self interest, regardless of nationality, race, or 
 €olor ; and the poor middle class are simply tools of 
 rich. The civilized nations of the earth will hold up 
 their hands in horror at slavery when millions of citi- 
 zens are worse than slaves. Slaves are not allowed 
 to starve, but they are permitted to starve in large 
 numbers with the greatest pleasure by the rulers and 
 wealthy classes. The Jews are considered the greed- 
 
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 iest class in the world, but they are no worse than the 
 wealthy classes of all nations. Yoa can find no class 
 more greedy than the wealthy of this country, with 
 their trusts and companies. They do not like to call 
 them trusts, but every company or combination of 
 capitalists in the United States from the smallest to 
 the largest should be classed under the one heading. 
 Trusts, as it is only a question of time when they will 
 all combine to rob toe public. 
 
 All republics of Central America and South 
 America are run by the wealthy classes of Europe, 
 and the wealthy traitors of their own countries com- 
 bined, directly or indirectly, and all South American 
 republics are naturally and justly, and with no end of 
 reason, suspicious of the monarchies of Europe. Sa 
 the wealthy and titled classes and Jews of Europe and 
 the world have gone into partnership with their most 
 faithful and reliable allies, the wealthy classes of the 
 United States, and have instructed them to buy up 
 the national debts of the South American republics 
 and build railroads, and get immense tracts of govern- 
 
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 ment land, send vast numbers of their foolish emi- 
 grant subjects there to gradually undermine the gov- 
 ernment, and at the proper time to revolt. In all 
 South American republics they would be backed by 
 the wealthy classes of Europe and the wealthy class 
 of each separate republic of the world, who are all 
 traitors to their native republics. When the proper 
 time arrives, the republics in these countries will be 
 obliterated in this manner. England has long been 
 trying to get control of some Central American 
 republic, so she could transport her war material 
 quickly from the Atlantic to the Pacific. All Central 
 American republics are justly suspicious of England, 
 and all other monarchies. England's wealthy classes 
 and Jews, and the wealthy classes of the United 
 States, ha\e just the same as bought the republic of 
 Honduras ; they have agreed to pay the national debt 
 of Honduras for the right to build a railroad from the 
 Carribean Sea on the east to the Pacific Ocean on 
 the west, and a government grant of three thousand 
 acres of land for each mile of railroad built, and the 
 
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 choice of the land along said railroad. The govern- 
 meDt has given them the right to run the banking 
 business of the country. Of course all the business 
 transactions are done and contracts signed by a United 
 States company as a blind, and they will pretend to 
 run the country in favor of the United Sta^^es, but 
 England furnishes most all the money and will secretly 
 control everything to her own advantage and interest, 
 the same as she secretly controls the Panama canal, 
 with her most friendly co-operators, the wealthy 
 traitors of the United States. Look at the map of 
 Central America. England has a possession called 
 British Honduras, separated from the Eepublic of 
 Honduras by a perfect harbor for ships. All England 
 would have to do after the railroad is built, which she 
 will control, is to lay in war material in her own pos- 
 session, ship it through the Eepublic of Honduras on 
 the railroad, bring in as many European emigrants as 
 they desire, who will always fight for royalty, then 
 good-bye to the republic. The hen-pecked statesmen 
 of the United States will sneer and scoff at this fact 
 
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 if it's mentioned to them, but they are paid by Eng- 
 land to keep quiet and keep others quiet. Now, all of 
 this is a fact, as any one can prove by an investiga- 
 tion ; but if you inquire of the newspaper men you may 
 be sure they will deny it, as they are in secret com- 
 munication with these traitors, and well paid by them. 
 The same combination of wealthy traitors, Jews and 
 monarchies that is engineering the plot against the 
 Hepublic of Honduras, is plotting against all the other 
 republics of Central and South America and the 
 United States. It is all in the power of the ualimited 
 gold which the wealthy classes, hereditary rulers, and 
 Jews of the world possess. So the end of all repub- 
 lics is rapidly drawing to a close, as money rules the 
 world. 
 
 So, Spirit of Destruction, call up the Spirit of 
 Hate, and let us all sing and shout for joy. Royalty 
 rules forever ; then we are sure of a reign of misery 
 and destruction. 
 
 A few years ago there was a bill presented to the 
 United States Congress to allow Russia to land soldiers 
 
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 in this country in case of war. This proves what the 
 wealthy traitors of the country are. There is bound 
 to be a war between the combined monarchies of the 
 world, and against all republics. They will have to 
 start such a war for self-preservation, and the mon- 
 archies are sure to win, as they control all the wealth 
 aud brains of the world, and all the wealthy class of 
 each and every republic are on the side of monarchy. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) You and I cannot ask 
 for anything better to insure the most misery and de- 
 struction, than a money- ruled world by the glorious 
 agents of royalty, who are the wealthy classes of all 
 nations of the earth, including wealthy Jews. 
 
 (Writer.) That is one of the reasons why I hate 
 human beings. The big majority waste their money 
 on females, etc. ; but the Jews are the wisest people in 
 the world, for they know that money rules the world, 
 and they who have the money are the actual rulers. 
 They have been going on this principle for ages, and 
 the consequence is, they are the actual rulers behind 
 the thrones of several hereditary monarchies. They 
 
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 rule other nations directly or indirectly ; they are care- 
 ful to cover up and hide their influence and power, 
 and the extent of their wealth. They own many na- 
 tional debts, in the form of bonds, mortgages, etc., on 
 nearly every nation, and it is only a question of time 
 when they will own and rule the whole world, in 
 friendly combination with other wealthy classes and 
 monarchicF. 
 
 The wealthy classes and Jews of all nations of 
 the world believe that wealth is better protected in 
 every way by monarchy. 
 
 There is no end to the power of money,' and as a 
 proof I will mention a few things which show its 
 power. Honesty is very scarce ; it is like patriotism, 
 it has a limit. Some will not steal a small amount of 
 money, when ninety-nine out of a hundred of all so- 
 called honest men will sell out for a large enough 
 amount. Of course they would prefer to do it secretly 
 and that can almost always be done satisfactorily. 
 The same way with traitors to governments. Some 
 
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 will not do it cheaply, but the majority will for enough 
 money, power or titles. The history of ages proves 
 this, although almost all will deny it. 
 
 If the politicians and wealthy classes desire to con- 
 trol the votes of the farmers they can advance the 
 price of wheat and other farm produce, and while they 
 make immense profits for themselves, the poor and 
 the consumers are the losers. When it is necessary 
 to raise or lower the price of any article for their 
 own benefit, it is done easily enough. They make 
 millions by such profits and run no risks, as they 
 balance the profits and loss between themselves 
 for political purposes. 
 
 I believe there has been quite a number of un- 
 selfish men who honestly desired and intended to spend 
 their lives trying to benefit the working classes, as 
 they had faith in human nature ; but, being intelli- 
 gent men, they soon discovered it to be worse than 
 useless, as they received only insults and abuse for 
 their undertakings, and then they would go over to 
 
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 the side of the wealthy class, where they are sure to 
 get money and honor for their work. 
 
 I hope the Jews and their power will increase. I 
 could not desire better human agents of misery and 
 destruction than the Jews. I hope all the wealthy 
 classes of all nations will continue to concentrate the 
 wealth in the hands of the fewest number possible, in 
 combination with monarchy, then I would be satisfied 
 with the result of misery and woe that would follow. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) If there should be a 
 civil war, and two generals organizing armies, and 
 every man could take his choice, and one general be- 
 lieved in humane warfare and the other in slaughter, 
 robbery, etc., which general do you think would 
 organize the largest army in this so-called civilized 
 age in any Christian country ? 
 
 (Writer.) That is a foolish question. There is 
 no thinking, chance or doubt about it. Why the 
 " slaughter " general would organize the largest and 
 most powerful army in every respect ; many times as 
 large as the humane general. 
 
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 (Spirit of Destruction.) Then the boasted, so- 
 called modern civilization does not amount to much, 
 according to your opinion ? 
 
 (Writer.) That's my honest opinion, it is the 
 greatest humbug imaginable. It is built on a female 
 foundation ; that is, the females are equal before the 
 law with equal education, ownership of wealth and 
 equal freedom, and consequently as unreliable, 
 treacherous and unstable as a foundation of sand at 
 low tide by the ocean. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) The gambling in grains 
 and provisions and all kinds of stock pleases me 
 greatly and, of course, pleases you. 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, you are right; it is a grand insti- 
 tution for misery and destruction. In the past ages, 
 the speculators who raised the prices of food by specu- 
 lation had their ears cut off, or they were nailed up to 
 the side of buildings by the ears — now they are hon- 
 ored, praised and respected ; this is " advanced civili- 
 zation," I suppose. To compare these provision 
 gamblers to thieves or murderers, is an insult to the 
 thieves or murderers. I have known the price of an 
 article of food to double in twenty-four hours' time. 
 Imagine the poor people with large families sending 
 to the stores, expecting to pay the same price as for- 
 merly for absolutely necessary articles of food, and 
 only receiving half the quantity they did a few days 
 
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 before. This is bad enough for people with money ; 
 but for poor people with large families, it means 
 partial starvation in countless cases, which causes 
 disease in many forms, and plain starvation in many 
 cases. Every town or city has its gang of thieves 
 who speculate in necessary provisions ; they just 
 naturally raise the price and have an agreement among 
 themselves not to allow it to go below a certain price, 
 notwithstanding what the wholesale price may be. 
 
 All the large cities have large gangs of worse than 
 thieves or murderers, the large, fine palatial buildings 
 where they gamble in provisions are called by high 
 sounding names, such as the Boards of Trade, Provi- 
 sion Exchange, Bourse, Stock Exchange, etc. All 
 stock gamblers harm the citizens as much as the pro- 
 vision gamblers. All these gambling vampires should 
 be abolished by the ballot, but two-thirds of the 
 voters are fools and dishonest themselves, and there 
 is no way to make them more honest or give the 
 fools more brains. Provision and stock gamblers 
 can be classed with wliiske}^ monarchy, famine and 
 
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 pestilence, as chief agents of human destruction and 
 misery. Consequently, Spirit of Destruction, you and 
 I must help them all we can, and glory and gloat over 
 the destruction and misery they cause. 
 
 (Spirit of Destruction.) How would you like to 
 have the latest improved steam yacht, of large size 
 and greatest speed, provided for propulsion with elec- 
 tricity and steam power ; both or either power could 
 be used ; also the yacht armed with the latest, im- 
 proved, most powerful torpedo guns and agents of 
 destruction, besides on board a number of the most 
 desperate cut-throats which could be found, then go 
 on a piratical cruise, rob passenger ships, with m'il- 
 lions of gold on board coming from Australia and 
 Africa and all the world, bound for England, the 
 wealthy shylock, Jew and Christian usurer nation of 
 the world. You could see by the papers when these 
 ships would sail. 
 
 (Writer.) No words could express my extreme 
 
 pleasure in such a life. I would rather follow such a 
 
 life for a few months, than a peaceful life for a 
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 hundred years. Of course, if I started such a life I would 
 follow it as long as possible, the longer the better, and 
 only stop at death. When I should stop one of these 
 gold laden vessels, I should blow up a few dozen of 
 its sailors, or blow off the captain's bridge or funnels, 
 and then demand of them to hand over the gold ; then 
 I should slaughter and kill the whole of them. I 
 would order every male to the front part of the ship — 
 passengers and crew— and lock them up with a good 
 guard over them. Then I would transfer the gold and 
 females to my ship, and sink their ship with all the 
 m'cdes on board. 
 
 I would get all my crew on deck, get them intox- 
 icated, then go below, turn the electric lever, which 
 would close all the secret doors and shut the crew on 
 deck, after which I would turn on a powerful electric 
 current and kill them all instantly, and I would have 
 all. Then I should only have to kick their dead car- 
 casses into the sea to be rid of them, and the gold 
 would be all mine. After I had disposed of all on 
 board I could go to some secret place, secrete my gold. 
 
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 and take another lot of cut throats and repeat the 
 same operation again, as long as possible. 
 
 I would establish large numbers in the wholesale 
 and retail liquor business in different countries before 
 I died, on my gains, and start distilleries. I would 
 leave the money in trust, to start the different kinds of 
 liquor business, gambling places, etc., and give them a 
 chance to buy the business and pay in small payments, 
 by the week. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 (Spirit of ReasoD.) Did it ever occur to your be- 
 nighted mind that all human beings who have plenty 
 of sense, or the most intelligent who have the most 
 wealth, possessed of everything which is supposed to 
 be the most desirable in this world, are more objects 
 of pity than hate ? 
 
 (Writer.) Perhaps they are objects of pity, but 
 they would be much more so if I had the power even 
 for a short time. 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) If you had led a good life^ 
 there would be more sense in your fault finding of 
 human beings; but you acknowledge to being the 
 meanest and the worst man in existence, so why should 
 you be a fault finder when fiends and devils are good 
 compared to you? What sense, reason, or justice is 
 there for you to hate all ? 
 
 (Writer.) There never was any justice in the 
 
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 world, and there is none now, and I do not believe 
 there will ever be ; so in dealing with humanity I 
 would never have any use for justice. 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) You claim all is evil in the 
 world and all that appears to be good is done for 
 selfishness. If you believe that, I should think you 
 would have a felloiu- feeling for the evil-doer in the 
 world. 
 
 (Writer. ) I have fellow feeling enough to cause 
 all the misery and woe that I possibly can in the 
 world, and when I think of all the damage I have 
 caused in my past life, and all I would like to do, 
 I always remember to do unto others as they would 
 do unto me if they had the power, and under other 
 iavorable circumstances with no restraining influences 
 whatever that would be torture and death. 
 
 (Spirit of Hate.) You want to do all the dam- 
 age and cause all the misery you can ; you will not 
 do any harm by publishing your book — people will 
 only call you a " fool-crank." Give up the idea of 
 publishing the book, act the hypocrite, and make all 
 
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 the friends that you can and join a church. There is 
 sure to be a revolution in this country in a few 
 years. The wealthy classes want just such unprin- 
 cipled cut-throats as you are to spread misery, terror 
 and destruction in the country. You would have 
 an opportunity to divide gold and booty of all kinds 
 to suit yourself. 
 
 There is nothing visionary or unlikely about this 
 idea ; it is more than likely to happen, but even if 
 it should not, you know hundreds of other plans to 
 accomplish a great deal of damage. 
 
 (Writer.) Yes, I agree with all you have men- 
 tioned, but I am threatened with heart disease, and 
 I want to make one vicious blow at the world with 
 this book before I die. 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) What right have you to find 
 fault with human beings and hate them, their laws 
 and their customs ? 
 
 (Writer.) Because their characteristics, laws and 
 customs are unjust aod rotten to the core. I claim I 
 
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 have the right to find fault with such corruptness, and 
 hate what is offensive to me. 
 
 (Spirit of Keason.) There has been advancement 
 in the world for the last few hundred years, and in the 
 last hundred years in particular. 
 
 (Writer.) How slow has been the advancement, 
 and how weak is tbe foundation upon which it rests. 
 The advancement in some ways has been made at the 
 expense of others. There has been advancement in 
 inventions and sciences, but it has been all used for 
 selfish purposes, and it is all controlled by the wealthy 
 classes of the world, and they will use all the inven- 
 tions of the world to enslave the majority of people as 
 soon as they can. The wealthy classes are the ene- 
 mies of all the working classes, but they, by hypocrisy 
 and lies, make the fool laborers believe they are their 
 friends, and yet give only a small mite in comparison 
 to their wealth for charity, which should prove their 
 hypocrisy, but fools are blind. It is useless for one 
 to start reforms alone ; it requires the co-operation of 
 many. All classes are looking out for themselves in 
 
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 some way. To blazes with the government, is their 
 motto. 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) What fault can you find 
 with your native country, the United States ? 
 
 (Writer.) You ask what fault I can find, and I 
 ask what good I can find in it. The negroes are a 
 curse to the nation, the wealthy classes are the 
 most despicable traitors on the earth. They control 
 the government and buy all the courts of justice ; 
 there is nobody good ; all are dishonest, corrupt and 
 immoral, more or less. 
 
 (Spirit of Hate.) What is your opinion of the 
 wealthy Jew^s — the Rothschilds, for instance ? 
 
 (Writer.) They are a good example of human 
 greed, and are never satisfied. Wherever gold, silver, 
 or precious stones are found, they send out their 
 agents, like claws or talons, to buy and control all 
 mines, crowd out the individual miner and others who 
 are trying to lay up something for their old age. 
 
 We can ask for nothing better as agents of misery 
 and woe than these same Rothschild Jews ; but they 
 
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 are the same and do worse than all the wealthy 
 classes of every nation of the earth. 
 
 Could the worst fiends and devils which were, 
 which are now, and which will be, desire more misery, 
 woe and destruction than I have described in this 
 book, or be capable of more than I and my agents 
 would do with enough power ? 
 
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 CHAPTER XXIIL 
 
 You cannot expect the chief hater of humanity, 
 as I claim to be, to be anything but the chief of 
 traitors for everything which promises any advance- 
 ment or justice for humanity ; yet, chief of traitors as 
 I am, I am not a hypocrite. 
 
 I have depicted a few of the deeds that I know 
 of concerning the wealthy classes, both Jew and Gen- 
 tile, of the world ; the wealthy and titled classes of 
 the monarchies of Europe, the negro curse, and the 
 evil to our country of the "new woman." 
 
 You who are interested in your country's welfare 
 and have watched your nation's controversies with 
 other nations, will allow that there is danger of war. 
 England has touched on serious questions, the Alaska 
 Seal Fishery and the boundary of Venezuela in South 
 America being the principal two, and that it did not 
 become a case of fire and ammunition is only chance. 
 
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 If the United States annexes Hawaii there is a ques- 
 tion of war with Japan, and if the United States rec- 
 ognizes the independence of Cuba, there will be cause 
 for another breach with Spain, which is liable to be 
 anyhow if the United States refuses to accede to the 
 demands of Spain for indemnity for United States 
 vessels filibustering in Spanish waters. So there is a 
 chance of war on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and 
 if the L'nited States goes to war with one of those 
 countries she may have them all to fight, for the whole 
 world of monarchies hate all republics. 
 
 The majority of our citizens do not care what be- 
 comes of the government so long as it lasts while they 
 live, and would be more than happy to know it would 
 fail as soon as they died. They are all ideal personi- 
 fications of selfishness ; their main object is self. 
 Some of them think they are such important factors 
 in the world that when they die the world must stop 
 and stand still. This is the kind of traitors of which 
 this republic is composed ; they can all be bought and 
 sold if you only have the price. Money will buy both 
 
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 conscience and vote. A politician with the necessary 
 price buys a voter as easily as an English nobleman 
 buys one of the wealthy females with his title. 
 
 Many of the monarchical countries are bothered 
 by republican societies, and democratic tendencies are 
 very strong in some of them, so they will welcome war 
 with republics, to stop the discontent of their subjects, 
 and in time of war it's easy to kill off leaders of repub- 
 lican ideas. 
 
 I believe republican governments have advanced 
 as far as they can without war or revolution. I be- 
 lieve that the world has come to a turning point, either 
 to go back or advance ; either that hereditary mon- 
 archies are to rule the world, which would be a per- 
 manent backward step, or a republican form of gov- 
 ernment to rule the world, which would cause advance- 
 ment in every way ; that is, if the females were shut 
 up. Furthermore, I believe it is impossible to have 
 two principal forms of government in the world so 
 
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 equally divided without there being war between them 
 for a supremacy ; and, as the hereditary monarchies 
 control nearly all the wealth of the world, and wealth 
 controls nearly all the brains of the world, they will 
 be the sure winners. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXIY. 
 
 (Writer.) Well, Spirits of Hate, Destruction, 
 Lust, and all kindred spirits, what is your opinion of 
 the theatres of all kinds, from the lowest to the so- 
 called highest ? 
 
 (Spirits of Hate, Destruction, Lust, etc., in 
 chorus.) They are perfect ; we have only praise for 
 them, as they are some of the chief human causes of 
 misery, woe and destruction in the world ; their in- 
 fluence for evil is hard to estimate. 
 
 (Writer.) You are right; they are useful tools 
 of monarchical rulers, and all rulers of republics and 
 all nations. As all rulers like to get all citizens, 
 wealthy and poor, interested in theatres and music 
 halls, because they know when they are so occupied 
 they will pay no attention to the government, then 
 they can play their government tricks and rob the 
 public to their heart's content. 
 
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 Theatres influence the majority of people in every 
 government for evil. There is no end of proof that 
 the overwhelming majority in the world are fools. 
 One of the plainest proofs is that they waste their 
 money on theatres. The theatres in all monarchical 
 countries are tools of the government. The most 
 successful writers of plays are those who use titled 
 characters in their plays. The most successful English 
 writer of plays in the past, and the one most honored 
 and whose plays are most popular now, used one or 
 more titled characters in nearly all his plays, and that 
 is the principal reason of his success. The titled class 
 naturally, for self-preservation, patronized those who 
 serve them, and nothing helps them more than a suc- 
 cessful play with characters representing monarchy, 
 and monarchy has the power to make a play success- 
 ful, so they have all in their power to increase their 
 own power. What I have said of the most successful 
 English author of plays, is the same with all play 
 writers, in all monarchies. 
 
 The successful ones have to use titled characters, 
 
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 as it strengthens the power of royalty. Nearly all 
 citizens of the United States, ignorant or learned, 
 know the history of the country, how a monarchy tried 
 to destroy this country twice, still they will patronize 
 plays with characters representing monarchy. Sup- 
 pose a just man should come from some planet or 
 other world and all this should be explained to him ; 
 I believe he would surely say the people of this coun- 
 try will not patronize a play which represents mon- 
 archy, which tried to destroy the country twice ; and 
 after he was told such plays were the most successful 
 I believe he would try his best to go back to his own 
 world or destroy himself, anything rather than live in 
 such a despicable, ungrateful world. It is enough to 
 make any man hate all humanity. Look at the large 
 number of these plays, with characters representing 
 monarchy, traveling all over the country, some of 
 them representing young members of monarchy five 
 or ten years of age, of both sexes ; this is intended to 
 corrupt the youth of the country and teach them to be 
 traitors and to desire monarchy in this country. 
 
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 These Diimeroiis plays, with characters representiDg 
 mocarchy, are helping the wealthy traitors of the 
 country greatly, as it teaches fools and prepares them 
 for a monarchy, when the time comes for the wealthy 
 traitors and all traitors to overthrow the government. 
 The wealthy traitors of the country pay the titled 
 characters plays immense sums of money secretly ; the 
 other plays which have no characters representing 
 monarchy, but which use love instead, damage any 
 government greatly, and the others which depend on 
 dancing and showing as much of the female form as 
 the law allows, will damage any government beyond 
 calculation, but all theatres and plays of all grades use 
 the female form divine, or otherwise, exposed more or 
 less, to draw trade. The females are the support of 
 the theatres of all grades. If all females were shut up 
 and prevented from going on the stage, and prevented 
 from patronizing theatres, I believe the theatres would 
 close up, and be turned into libraries. Nearly all the 
 poor and middle class of industrious English workers 
 have a friendly feeling for the United States govern- 
 
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 ment, because they realize better than any workers 
 of Europe that their freedom would be curtailed if 
 this government would fail, and many of them have 
 friends and relatives in this country who have pros- 
 pered and become independent. The same with all 
 the governments of Europe. All the industrious pro- 
 ducing classes have friendly feeHngs for the United 
 States Government, but if the monarchical heads of 
 the governments of Europe see a danger to their ow^n 
 existence in the success of the United States Govern- 
 ment, all they have to do is to order all the musical 
 halls and theatres to sing songs calculated to cause a 
 warlike feeling against the Yankees, and such is the 
 foolishness of human nature that I believe they will 
 be successful and cause them to fight their best friend 
 and protector, the United States Government. The 
 music halls and theatres are the strongest powers to 
 make the industrious wealth producing classes of two 
 nations fight and exterminate each other for the ben- 
 efit of the titled and wealthy classes and Jews. 
 
 The facts of the case are, that all the industrious, 
 
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 wealth-produciog workers of all civilized natioDS have 
 the same interest in common, and if they could have 
 international agreements, with constant communication, 
 they might be perfectly friendly, instead of being made 
 to believe they are enemies to each other, as they are 
 now, by the monarchical rulers and all rulers and 
 wealthy classes who make them ready to fly at each 
 other's throats in war, by the aid of their tools, the 
 theatres, music halls, and newspapers. So, Spirits of 
 Hate, Destruction, Lust, etc., we can have only the 
 highest praise for theatres of all descriptions, as they 
 are the principal human agents'of destruction, in com- 
 bination with monarchy and the newspapers, wealthy 
 classes and Jews. 
 
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 CHAPTEE XXY. 
 
 (Spirits of Hate, Destruction, and all kindred 
 spirits.) I will tell you a story about our best human 
 agents of destruction — monarchical rulers : 
 
 A great king was visiting a neighboring powerful 
 king, in the year 1897, and the powerful king wa& 
 showing his royal guest over his large kingdom, show- 
 ing him his immense works for making cannons, fire- 
 arms, swords and explosives of all kinds; then he 
 took him to inspect his powerful navy ; he showed 
 him his immense farms, where he bred the best war 
 horses in the world ; then the powerful king took his 
 royal guest for a drive over his immense domain, ac- 
 companied by a body-guard of soldiers, and as they 
 arrived at the top of the hill they came in view of a 
 quiet village in a peaceful valley, with children playing 
 on the village green, and men working in the fields. 
 The powerful king said to his royal guest, " This is 
 
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 one of my principal works for supplying war material 
 for both the army and navy." The royal guest, look- 
 ing surprised, said, " I can see no buildings of any 
 kind for manufacturing war material ; I only see a 
 peaceful village, with men working in the fields and 
 children playing in the streets. " The powerful king, 
 looking amused, answered, " Well, they are the war 
 material. They are as much war material as the guns, 
 cannons, explosives, war ships and horses I have shown 
 you." And the royal guest, seeing the joke, laughed 
 heartily, and they both laughed together long and 
 loud. They both agreed that the population in each 
 of their kingdoms was becoming troublesome and too 
 numerous, so they agreed to have a war as soon as 
 possible, to attract attention and kill off the excessive 
 population, as in time of war they could kill off the 
 principal leaders of republican ideas with the modern 
 destructive improved firearms of all descriptions ; they 
 could reduce each other's troublesome population by 
 the million, with comparatively small cost. The two 
 kings made a friendly bet as to who would be the 
 
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 wiuner. After leaving the peaceful village they came 
 to the immense game preserves of the king, of many 
 thousand acres. 
 
 " Yes," said the powerful king to his guest, 
 " the dirty dogs [meaning his subjects] have the au- 
 dacity to complain about my game preserves, but I 
 will put them beyond complaint ; " and they had 
 another hearty laugh together. After passing the 
 game preserves they came in sight of numerous build- 
 ings of immense size, and the powerful king explained 
 to his royal guest that they were distilleries and brew- 
 eries for the manufacture of all kinds of intoxicating 
 liquors. The conversation turning to intoxicating 
 liquors, both kings agreed that it was their greatest 
 help to govern their subjects, as it undermined their 
 brains and reason, and made beasts of them, so they 
 could be easily governed and driven to war like horses ► 
 As they drove into the royal capital city towards the 
 royal palace, passing companies of musicians playing 
 national airs and waving flags, and cheering of the 
 subjects, they passed numerous theatres, music halls 
 
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 and newspaper buildings, and the powerful king, ad- 
 dressing his royal guest, said : " By using these theatres 
 and music halls to sing my warlike songs and act war- 
 like plays, and using the newspapers for the same 
 purpose, I can declare war against any nation in a 
 few days, when my subjects become troublesome and 
 too numerous, as they are now, and I am going to use 
 them very soon against you, as we have agreed." 
 
 " Yes," answered the royal guest, " I can manage 
 my subjects the same way by using the theatres, 
 music halls, newspapers and intoxicating liquors, 
 which will cause my subjects to desire war ; of course 
 the world must think it is genuine warfare between 
 us. All we have to decide on now is, when to start 
 it ; but the sooner the better, as republican ideas are 
 advancing too rapidly, but after a few weeks of war with 
 our new engines of destruction, and the newly discov- 
 ered secret deadly vapor destroyers, which are capable 
 of destroying millions, which methods are exceedingly 
 valuable, as they destroy all the inhabitants of a city 
 without damaging the property, what a great chance 
 
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 for confiscatioD of property there will be, and we can 
 maoage so as to divide equally and satisfactorily." 
 Meanwhile the powerful king and his royal guest 
 drove to the royal palace, amid the tumultous applause 
 of their subjects and loud cheering of crowds of 
 wealthy American tourists, male and female. The 
 two kings acknowledged the applause and cheering of 
 the subjects and the cheers of the wealthy American 
 tourists, and the powerful king, addressing his royal 
 guest, said : " You and I, as well as all the monarch- 
 ical rulers, can always depend on the wealthy classes 
 of the United States of America, as well as the 
 w^ealthy classes of every republic in the world, for they 
 are all traitors to their native republics. They all be- 
 lieve their immense wealth would be better protected 
 by monarchical rule. " The royal g;uest, answering, 
 said: "There is no doubt that, as you and I know, 
 everything has been in readiness and perfected for 
 years between the monarchical rulers of the world and 
 the wealthy classes and Jews of all the monarchies, 
 in friendly combination with all the wealthy classes of 
 
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 each and every republic in the world. The wealthy 
 clubs in every republic are the mediums of communi- 
 cation between wealth and monarchy. The wealth of 
 the world, in combination with the monarchies of the 
 world, have power now to destroy all the republics of 
 the earth at once." The powerful king, answering, 
 said : " Yes, I know all this, but what is the latest 
 plan for attacking the Yankees? I haven't seen any 
 of the late reports. Are they going to make the at- 
 tack through Canada, or will they attack the South 
 American republics ?'' 
 
 (Royal Guest.) You are behind the times. The 
 attack is to be made on the South American republics 
 and the Monroe doctrine first — the latest plan, rather 
 than to attack by the way of Canada, which may be 
 the next and as soon as possible. If France should go 
 back to monarchy, everything could be fixed immedi- 
 ately, as all mob-ruled republics are dying, and all 
 their wealthy and other traitors will betray and kill 
 them. So, Spirits of Hate, Destruction, Lust, and so 
 
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 forth, .we have plenty to gloat and glory over, as 
 the world is going fast towards universal monarchy, 
 and we can ask for nothing better for misery and 
 destruction. 
 
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 CHAPTEK XXVI. 
 
 If any one says anything against monarchy, or tells 
 the truth about it in the United States of America, the 
 native traitors and foreign- born traitors and all trait- 
 ors say they are Irish. I can prove I am not Irish, 
 as my father was of English descent, and my mother 
 of German descent, but I hate the EogHsh, Germans, 
 and Irish with as deadly a hatred as I hate all human 
 beings ; but the Irish are not traitors to the United 
 States Government, like the overwhelming majority of 
 native-born Americans and descendants of other na- 
 tionalities. I acknowledge I am the chief of traitors, 
 and would sell the government and all the inhabitants 
 to the Turks or English for one piece of gold, as a 
 souvenir, if I had the power ; but, depraved as I am, 
 I cannot help admiring that patriotic people — the 
 Irish. There is abundant proof that they are pa- 
 triotic and the best of fighters. It is a matter of history 
 
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 that the Irish are patriotic, as proven in all the wars 
 of this country. If this nation should have a war with 
 Germany, would the Germans fight against the father- 
 land ? I believe the overwhelming majority of them 
 would not. The same with all the people who come 
 from the nations of northern and southern Europe — 
 they would not fight against their native monarchies, 
 and with a war against England the wealthy traicors are 
 all on the side of England, and millions of others ; but 
 the Irish can be depended on to fight and protect the 
 government ; they will fight any nation in the world, 
 but the same cannot be said of any other race or na- 
 tionality in this country. Who can blame the Irish, 
 as a race, for hating monarchy? They have been 
 victims of a monarchical rule of slaughter, starvation, 
 and injustice for ages. If all nations hated it as much 
 as the Irish, monarchy would soon be expelled from 
 the earth, and the world would advance. Of course I 
 do not want this to happen, and there is not the least 
 chance of it coming to pass ; the monarchial class are 
 disgusting to me, still I honor and respect them for 
 
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 tlie misery and destruction they have caused and are 
 causing and always will cause, as long as the world 
 lasts ; consequently, I will always do what I can to help 
 increase their power. I have written considerable 
 about the wealthy traitors and club traitors of the 
 country, and how much all females love titles — there 
 is no end to the proof of this fact, every paper and 
 magazine has abundant proof in every issue, but most 
 human beings will deny everything. Quite lately a 
 newspaper denied this fact in a long article, because 
 one female ran away from a titled libertine, as if one 
 case would prove anything ; where one snubs a title, 
 a thousand run after it, and millions would run, if it 
 was any use. To prove all I have written on this sub- 
 ject, I selected the following filthy stuff out of thou- 
 sands of the same kind in newspapers, etc. I hate 
 to be compelled to use such printed carrion — I only 
 do it to prove what I say. The following is the 
 filth: 
 
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 Philadelphia, September 4. 
 
 Prince George's American Trip. 
 
 Special to The Inquirer. 
 
 " Lenox, Mass., Sept. 3. — Aristocratic residents of 
 Lenox are anticipating pleasurablj the contemplated 
 visit of Prince Alexander George, youngest son of the 
 Duke and Duchess of Teck. The Prince will be the 
 guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burrell Hoffman, at their 
 magnificent country seat, Brookhurst. The date of 
 the Prince's arrival is not fixed, but preparations are 
 in progress befitting the reception of a royal person- 
 age. Prince Alexander is 23 years old, a handsome, 
 manly chap, an athlete and sportsman. He is the 
 brother-in-law of the Duke of York, the future King 
 of England. His stay in America is limited ; probably 
 three weeks will be passed at Lenox, and some days 
 at Philadelphia. Among the plans for the Prince's 
 entertainment is a hunting trip beyond the Kockies. 
 Mrs. Hoffman said, yesterday afternoon, 'We have 
 not been apprised of the exact date of the Prince's 
 arrival at Lenox. He may decide to visit Philadel- 
 phia first. We are hoping, however, that he will come 
 to us at once.' It is possible the royal guest will re- 
 main only two weeks. He will be a spectator at the 
 annual golf tournament of the Lenox Country Club, 
 which takes place at the height of the fox season. 
 The Hoflmans have spent their summers in Lenox for 
 the last ten years; Mrs. Hoffman was the beautiful 
 Miss Shattuck, of New Orleans, a daughter of William 
 B. Shattuck, one of the wealthiest cotton brokers of 
 the Crescent City. Mr. Hoffman was, during the 
 
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 Hayes administration, in the American Legation in 
 Paris, and it was on a visit to England on official busi- 
 ness that he met and first gained the friendship of the 
 Duke of Teck, whose son is now to visit him. Mr. 
 Hoffman is one of the most popular men who come to 
 Lenox. Ha is a member of the exclusive Lenox Club, 
 and of the Country Club, and is an enthusiastic golfer. 
 Mrs. Hoffman is a brunette, with a very erect carriage 
 and large, lustrous dark eyes. Her name has been 
 identified with almost every prominent social event in 
 Lenox, and the coming visit of a member of the royal 
 family adds to her prestige and success as a queen of 
 Lenox society." 
 
 As a further evidence of the condition of the press 
 in pleasing the great American free born public, I 
 quote the following, which was published in the col- 
 umns of a great New York paper : 
 
 "A lot of fuss is being made about the new heir 
 to the dukedom of Marlborough being the luckiest 
 baby in the world. 
 
 " What is the matter with the son of the Duke of 
 York, heir prospective to the British throne ? 
 
 " The little ' Vanderbilt Duke,' as we love to call 
 the infant Marquis of Blanford, is lucky as babies go, 
 but there is no need to become hysterically superlative 
 about him." 
 
 This is nauseating stuff, bat I glory and gloat over 
 
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 it contiouallj, as it is positive proof that all the 
 wealthy classes are traitors, and it proves there are 
 millions of traitors in the country, or the newspapers 
 would not be allowed to print such putrid stuff. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 (Spirit of Eeason.) Are you a woman hater ? 
 
 (Writer.) No ; nothing could be farther from the 
 truth. Perhaps you beheve I am a woman hater be- 
 cause I advise shutting them up. I believe all of them 
 should be protected and well cared for; that is the 
 reason I advise shutting them up. They are not 
 capable of protecting themselves, as is proven by the 
 hundreds of thousands who are ruined yearly in this 
 country. It is as plain as can be. It is no experi- 
 ment, as the Turks have shut them up for thirteen 
 hundred years ; and I believe the Turkish women are 
 more contented and happy than the women in Chris- 
 tian countries. Every Christian and every citizen who 
 upholds the modern society in all Christian countries 
 are personally and collectively responsible for the large 
 numbers of females who are ruined every year. They 
 
 are supposed to be protected by the law, but what 
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 good is the law when they haven't enough brains or 
 knowledge of human nature to protect themselves? 
 Every female who ever led a life of vice could have 
 been a good wife and mother if she had been shut up 
 and compelled to do what is right ; this is a fact that 
 will admit of no argument. Not only are all citizens 
 of a Christian country who uphold and champion thia 
 kind of society responsible for the hundreds of thou- 
 sands of females who are ruined every year, but they 
 are also responsible for the large numbers of males 
 who are ruined by the female victims of Christian 
 society. 
 
 (Spirit of Reason.) It is impossible to shut up 
 all females. 
 
 (Writer.) I say you are a liar, and I can prove 
 it. The young females in many countries of Europe 
 of certain classes are shut up in the schools most of 
 the time until they are married, — the same in many 
 South American republics, — but after they are mar- 
 ried they make up for lost time. Every man in this 
 world has a right to an eighth of an acre of ground^ 
 
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 at least, with a high wall around it, to prevent the fe- 
 males wasting their time watching their neighbors and 
 talking to them, — with the house in the centre ; and 
 all female children put in government schools sur- 
 rounded by large grounds, and kept there until they 
 are married. If married women wanted exercise they 
 <30uld have plenty by running around the inside of the 
 walls, or working in the garden, and any man who was 
 not capable of supporting a home like this should be 
 put in prison or slavery on government work. When 
 a man wanted a wife he could go to one of the State 
 female schools and pick one out, without any monkey 
 business as at present. Widows should be shut up 
 as soon as their husbands die ; the widowers only 
 should be allowed to marry widows. When a widower 
 wanted a wife he could go to the fire-proof building 
 where the widows were confined and take one. All 
 buildings should be fire -proof ; all residences should 
 be built alike, and females should wear the plainest 
 clothing ; but all the city, government and public 
 
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 buildings should b built out of stone, marble and 
 iron — the more substantial and ornamental the better. 
 In a government like the above not one female would 
 be ruined in a year, instead of hundreds of thousands 
 as at present by so-called Christian society, and, to 
 prove this as practical, the Turks and a few other 
 nations have practiced it for over a thousand years. 
 I have written this to prove I am not a woman hater. 
 I denounce the whole system of Christian society, 
 which slaughters them by the million ; consequently, 
 I am not responsible for the work of Christian 
 society, but every one who does advocate it is re- 
 sponsible. 
 
 (Spirits of Hate, Destruction, Lust, &c., in 
 chorus.) You amuse us greatly by your talk about 
 shutting up the females. Do you forget Sodom of 
 old? Men are just the same to-day, if not worse, as 
 is proven in every country of the world by the numer- 
 ous cases in court, but only a small per cent, get in the 
 courts. 
 
 (Writer.) You are right. I give up. You have 
 
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 the best of the argument. And still those good spirits, 
 as Love, Justice, &c., ask me why I hate all human 
 beings ; but that could be stopped by making it a capital 
 offence, punished by death. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXYIIL 
 
 (Writer.) Well, Spirits of Hate, Destruction, 
 Lust, and all kindred spirits, in summing up society 
 of all grades and all connected with it, and all so- 
 called Christian countries of the world, as well as all 
 the world, we can find no fault whatever ; in fact, we 
 could not possibly improve on it in any way so as to 
 increase misery and destruction to our natural ever- 
 lasting enemies, mankind ; so, let us all laugh and 
 shout aloud for joy continually. AVe must imagine we 
 are drinking the health and advancement of our best 
 agents of destruction ; of course we will help them all 
 we can. The following, as we all know, is the glor- 
 ious, magnificent, powerful combination : Intoxicating 
 liquors, hereditary monarchies, despotism, gold and 
 money, the wealthy classes of every nation of the 
 world, the Jews, wealthy and poor; negroes and all 
 colored races, provision and stock gamblers, all 
 
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 wealthy and all other traitors of republics, all trusts 
 and combinations of capital, Christian and Jew 
 usurers, and all usurers of the world, the modern in- 
 dependent aggressive bicycle-riding-voting-females, 
 dancing, love novels and theatres, as well as every- 
 thing which causes misery and destruction to 
 humanity. 
 
 The above is a list of our principal agents of 
 destruction to be proud of. No words or language 
 can express how I honor and praise all agents of 
 destruction in this glorious, powerful list, and I know 
 all of you evil kindred spirits agree with me. I am 
 about ready to die and join you, and I hope all of us 
 will be furnished with sufficient power to aid all these 
 destroying agents in the glorious list as much as pos- 
 ible, in spirit form or otherwise, to cause the most 
 increasing misery to all humanity on this earth, secret- 
 ly, swiftly and as extensively as possible. So, all evil 
 and kindred spirits, let us all laugh and gloat together 
 over the misery in the world, which is constantly and 
 rapidly increasing toward destruction. Let us all 
 
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 shout together in an ecstacy of joy, of concentrated, 
 powerful, satisfying hate for all humanity, and curse 
 all human beings who ever lived on this earth, all 
 who live now, and who ever will live, and curses on 
 the last human being that dies on this earth ; so, once 
 more, all evil and kindred spirits, altogether, curses I 
 curses! curses! for all human beings, from first to 
 last I curses continually ! everlasting curses ! 
 

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