Show ft A LETTER FROM FM HIS SATANIC mm MAJESTY THE DEVIL editors note we consider this thia reprint from the may issue of chicago unity as one 01 of the finest bita of constructive satire that has ever been brought tp our attention the writer waldemar W agrow is associate editor of unity aind magazine castle of ignorance 13 terror street land of shaywn Shay ws inferno mr common ma man n 7 confidence Confide nee street peace loving province Pro ince Nince dear sir I 1 have had it in mind for some time to w write rite you a letter concerning the folly of good men they have given men no end of ti the moment I 1 feel the world is safe in my hands then good people begin again to stir up pew new trouble for me they are my bitterest enemies I 1 have tried to bribe intimidate threaten and even persecute them but with little result unless I 1 can convert them to my way of thin thinking kinig my kingdom is doomed such a disaster you will agree can prove to be only a dismal tragedy for mankind yu know I 1 have hae always considered my self the friend of men have I 1 not wiped helped them to fight back every bit of progress that would upset the quietness of stagnation have I 1 not helped them crucify burn and behead those men and women who sought to get men to disregard the fhe age old prejudices have I 1 not helped powerful greedy lustful men to drive out the reformer when he tried to attack their methods of gouging widows bivs and orphans have I 1 not blessed and consecrated the weapons of influential men by which they won their political battle v thus giving them the victory ol ar outraged humin human rights have I 1 not helped some men tp grow enormously rich through the sweat and blood of little children in textile mills and mines have I 1 not done my best to keep the masses in ignorance so that they would not become dissatisfied because of exploitation by which my favored few have grown so mighty why then all this bitterness against me surely I 1 deserve some better treatment at the hand of those whom I 1 ha have ve so richly blesse moreover I 1 have dane my best to keep the flame of hatred burning brightly you know that people are never so effective in doing my iny will as when they hate just now I 1 have succeeded in rekindling the flame of hatred of the jew off of course you know that the jew is in a vast minority among the peoples of the world but that does not matter I 1 always try to direct a peoples attention away from the main issue to a fanciful one by getting them to hate a race or a group in that they know themselves to be secretly guilty that kind of a scapegoat device creates a feeling in the accuser that they are in the right and the more they outrage other peoples rights the more they imagine themselves to be the lords anointed stuffy the revord record of all al the persecutions I 1 have bave inspired and you will di idi ver t that ha t P people eo PI e i imagine mag tie themselves to be most self when they hate one ancher just give me time and I 1 will sow the whole world with the seeds of hate abild and then ym will see a world bursting into flames lest you forget I 1 want to remind you that november 11 is the anniversary of my liette litt party how the remembrance tot the day on which it began cheers my heart little do you know how long and how earnestly I 1 had been planning for that little party which lasted only baur our short years and three months I 1 say it was a little party for ifor I 1 have been making plans to throw throve another p party arty which in 4 size splendor and duration will make that hat other seem like a sunday school class pi Inic you I 1 never do anything hastily or without long I 1 thorough borough planning I 1 have found that if f I 1 let men and women think they are actuary actual y doing the planning g they wi gnirk much harder and faster it tick es their vanity it k appeals to their self importance le lest st you forget 1 I want you to know that I 1 have been arking on the plans for my next par 3 ty y flar many long years I 1 want no aitch hitch in any of the arrangements fsr for i when I 1 finally press the button I 1 continued on last pak Fag sis A LETTER FROM HIS SATANIC x MAJESTY THE DEVIL continued from page ii 11 want the whole world to blaze forth in a gorgeous fire lighted with the glow of human passions human hatreds hat reds 1 human suspicions human lusts when that eventful day arrives the parties of nero geaser ceaser alexander and napoleon will seem like a love affair of two spinsters spin one blind arid and the oth I 1 I 1 j er cr armless i but some things worry me greatly j I 1 cannot understand why the common man and woman whom I 1 have evarl sought to befriend las as I 1 told you be bc j sere refuse to help me with my plans have I 1 rpt apt always thrown my parties hotl for their benefits have they not gone cone away from each party with sarger larger bank accounts more lands 1 more wealth more inore glory how un j grateful these people are arc what wor rles ries roe me still more is th that atthe the group of df men and women who are trying to incite suspicion against me are tell ing the masses I 1 am not their friend some of this group gi aup you will find in 11 some in business some ini in school some ot of them are mothers think of it mothers in the homes the rhe very ones who ought to le be willing wiling to do anything for the w cifare and glory of lof their children no matter what I 1 say or do these folks steadfastly refuse to believe my nea next it party will be for their benefit 0 the poor ri Fi eluded fools it they tonly only knew ms me they would lov i scheme so that you may understand how worried ried I 1 nin am abut the success of my next party I 1 want to tell you what the common people aie being taught by this croup of benighted good people first they are telling themi them net to put their trust in armies an and navies because violence only begets violen violence cd and that they who take the s word sword always perish by the sword to prove their contention they single fat cut my last party I 1 ask you has bas not every nation become stronger in I 1 every way because 0 nf its army and navy have not all the worlds greatest men been generals and men of war they say the man pt of nazareth hom bom I 1 helped murder was a gre great man how do they figure that out 1 ile he built no empire conquered no armies and won no free land for the people if this dreamer had his way there would be mi navies no armies rp factories I 1 te tel you its absurd more foolish still are they for try ing in to change nature have I 1 not been 1 with the common people for thousands j acors dont I 1 know more than Y anyone else that human nature cannot be clis changed aged they say men can ie be changed and can be taught laught t til settle sctt e their inter nation disputes in a peaceful nonviolent non violent way just as man was taught tau ht to settle sette his interman inter man and iner community disputes in a nor alent manner they say also that T ta ins ansti act to ci oi operate is deeper han the instinct anstin t to fight much as 1 I disagree ais aisa gree agree with their attempts to I 1 hange human nature I 1 want to ess secretly that on oil a number 0 of f occasions in the past they seem to fi have succeeded they changed man from a slave loving to a slave batin hating creature and from a king lo 10 t I 1 a self governed creature the means by which they brought this about was universal tive free education 0 how 11 I 1 hate universal um versa education especially the kind they have in the public and universities of the united states in those universities they take nothing air ir granted they investigate vesti gate every everything they anoon into every private and public ti tradition to iee i ee if it is humane and beneficial some way must be found to muzzle e the professors or else my party will b be a dismal failure now what wo worries me most of all is is a group of men who a ho call themselves preachers it if I 1 had any suspicion that you might perchance he be of these I 1 would tear up this letter at once these felles are trying to create in the common people what they call all a christian conscience sometimes me times they call it a social conscience and sometimes an international mind this is a sinister thing thin you cant fight it with swords and belets bu lets it is is invisible and works without vis ible weapons it is a lipty dow owr r aid lays vs hold bold of ri etile in i t terrific fashion I 1 have seen it send sena men to jail some have gone t tp the callows ral lows and some have bave been cru pille Sei cause ause of it I 1 tell te 1 you that if thin social conscience bu business sines geta much ampre support there will be no one at rny ray next party except nero and myself there are still other ten dencie that cause me to worry a good deal I 1 have spent many blee pleas nights during the past few years since my last party cameto came to its all too sudden apse since then many of my mv loceal mends haap arr fr raen aven rn mp ps aall those hose who shared in evera cl I 1 oud extend thorn them I 1 mus therefore ineke new friends friend awl A rince vou are ar n 1 youner liberal I 1 think vou tan can Ts s mur influence to acquaint we me wt many of the your cpr pr yen men of yol yo ren cration who a londt f 3 venture for you know I 1 mur mut t have the support of the yo munir men to inake dake my next party a ghastly success |