your
salvation?"

In the same edition of "Il Proletario" there is a detailed list of 170
books and pamphlets that are advertised as being on sale at the
book-store of the Italian Socialist Federation. The first part of the
list, under the heading "Anti-religious Pamphlets," includes 22 works,
whose prices range from 5 cents to 30 cents. Among them are to be found:

"The Religious Pest--5 cents.
The Crimes of God--5 cents.
The Sins of My Lady Penitents--8 cents.
The Last Religious Lie--5 cents.
Neither God Nor Soul--15 cents."

Near the end of the detailed list 22 more works are advertised as
anti-clerical novels.

On May 1, 1912, while its editor, Arturo M. Giovannitti, was in prison
at Lawrence, Massachusetts, "Il Proletario" published an article under
the caption, "The Priest":

"Now at last the nations have understood that God is a monstrous
fable, and that hell, heaven, immortality, and all the other
devilish things are states created by rascals to despoil and
oppress the people."

We are very much indebted to the Social Reform Press for favoring us
with the translation of "The Little Catechism," edited by Bartos
Bittner, whose dead and corrupt body was found by neighbors in his
lodging in Chicago. This blasphemous Catechism, from which quotations
are to be given, was published for the use of the children of the
Bohemian-American Socialists:

"Question. What is God?

Answer. God is a word used to designate an imaginary being which
people of themselves have devised.

Q. Is it true that God has never been revealed?

A. As there is no God, He could not reveal himself.

Q. What is heaven?

A. Heaven is an imaginary place which churches have devised as a
charm to entice their believers.

Q. How did man originate?

A. Just as did animals; by evolution from their lower kinds.

Q. Has man an immortal soul as Christianity teaches?

A. Man has no soul; it is only an imagination.

Q. Who is Jesus Christ?

A. Jesus Christ is the son of a Jewish girl called Mary.

Q. Is he the son of God?

A. There is no God, therefore there can be no God's son.

Q. Did Christ rise from the dead as Christianity teaches?

A. The report about Christ rising from the dead is a fable.

Q. Is it true that after Christ's death the Apostles received the
Holy Ghost?

A. It