THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE CENTRALIA CONSPIRACY, BY RALPH CHAPLIN
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THE CENTRALIA CONSPIRACY
BY RALPH CHAPLIN A TONGUE OF FLAME
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every prison a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. It is the whipper who is whipped and the tyrant who is undone.--Emerson.
THE CENTRALIA CONSPIRACY
MURDER OR SELF-DEFENSE?
This booklet is not an apology for murder. It is an honest effort to unravel the tangled mesh of circumstances that led up to the Armistice Day tragedy in Centralia, Washington. The writer is one of those who believe that the taking of human life is justifiable only in self-defense. Even then the act is a horrible reversion to the brute--to the low plane of savagery. ...
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