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Edwin C. Walker (1849-1931), a free love and speech advocate, writer/editor, and a bit of an anarchist, lived a good long life fighting and writing for his causes. He worked on Lucifer The Light Bearer in Kansas and it is there that he met his future wife (at least for a time), the daughter of the editor Moses Harman. Two decades Lillian Harman's elder, they married in 1886 and set off a firestorm and a notable court case thanks to the fact that their marriage refused to acknowledge any government restraint. That it also gave the man AND the woman involved equal rights in the marriage was also a problem... Later in life, when living in New York, he helped found the Free Speech League, a precursor to the ACLU. The pamphlet for sale here, about temperance in reference to the Bible, "was entered upon in the interest of temperance, and of moral and intellectual honesty" (preface). The honesty being that the Bible does not, in fact, call for temperance. On page 17, he posits, "what would the Christian… Read More
