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Show THE POINT OF VIEW. H The Deserot News' expatiates on the service 'fl that law-breakers have done the world, and tri- M umphantly asks what civilization would have been H "but for such law-breakers as Wycliff, Huss, H Xuther, Savonuarola, Washington, John Brown," H etc. Then it copies from an exchange that '-good H men have suffered undbr the law of conscience H sake, but they have been men who in their moral principles were ahead of their times. They have H since become heroic figures in history, for the rea- H son that public conscience has risen to their H level." To which the News responds that "they H were prophets," and adds, "some law-breakers of jH one generation will always be the heroes of an- H other." Which is all right, for men have often M lived ahead of their age and have been made-to H suffer because of the ignorance or priestly tyran- H ny, or both, of those around them. But a great ! many have been made to suffer for real crimes H and all the rolling ages can never make heroes of H them. So, when some one rises up and proclaims himself a prophet, it is but fair to judge him by ; -H what he proclaims. If he can demonstrate by per- H feet mathematics, that something which the world H has held to be true is not true, he is entitled to H a hearing. If he demonstrates that from nature's H secret elements he has evolved something that H cannot fail to be of infinite service to men, such H a miracle as is the magnetic telegraph or tele- phone, then he is entitled to profound admiration M and great reward; if one comes and declares M that he Is a new prophet of God.; that he has M been given the right tuid . the power to found a M new religion and we find that it is but a rehash M of an old Asiatic tyranny, a system which makes M the masses toil for the few, which makes woman fl an inferior being, which is a mere copy of the M tyranny which has never been tried without being , M swiftly followed by national deterioration, decay i M i H H&H l d I m 1 !1 and deSradatJon tnen we Uave the right to ques- Hfif ji'ljlffll on tne divinity of tho claims of such an one Blfili ' 'llifffl I I ' arl(1 to conclude that he is in the world's parlance. SMMb ki is I SB S HlM II " I I merely a confidence man and grafter. |