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These are just a few of the pictures that are in the album I just created at the above link. Please go to link to view all the other pictures. The Garden of Eden is one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas, it truly is amazing. J.P. Dinsmoors sculptures tell the store of what we are still facing in todays politics.

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"This is my coal house and ash pit, with Labor crucified above. I believe Labor has been crucified between a thousand grafters EVER SINCE LABOR BEGUN, BUT I COULD NOT PUT THEM ALL UP SO I HAVE PUT UP THE LEADERS - LAWYER, DOCTOR, PREACHER, AND BANKER. I DO NOT SAY THEY ARE ALL GRAFTERS, BUT I DO SAY THEY ARE THE LEADERS OF ALL WHO EAT CAKE BY THE SWEAT OF THE OTHER FELLOW'S FACE." J.P. Dinsmoor

J.P.Dinsmoor was a very fascinating man born in the 1843 died in 1932. He created his 200 sculptures out of cement telling of his political views and some scenes out of the Bible. Please read below about what the Populist Platform was back then extremely interesting.

In 1906, Samuel Dinsmoor at the age of 63 started work on the stone log cabin. he stone was then laid up with dovetailed corners in the manner of a log cabin. He designed the main floor with a mind to entertaining visitors, incorporating 3,000 feet of oak, redwood, and walnut to elaborate moldings and baseboards, To add to the unique look, he built no two windows or doors the same size. After his home was completed in the following 22 years, he used 113 tons of concrete to create tableus on Biblical and political themes and a mausoleum for his first wife and himself. Dinsmoor even created his own 40-foot high pagoda-style stone and concrete mausoleum for himself and his wife. However, when his wife died, the town insisted that she be interred in the cemetery rather than the mausoleum. Though Dinsmoor initially complied, he later dug up her coffin and placed it in a steel-reinforced crypt in the mausoleum so that she couldn't be moved.

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Garden of Eden is located in Lucas, Kansas. I grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and would go out here to visit this amazing place. S.P. Dinsmoor served in the Civil War as a nurse in the Union Army. After the war, Dinsmoor returned to Ohio and soon joined the Masonic Lodge. Joining this organization was a significant development in his philosophical outlook on life. He had grown up in a very religious home, but, like many who witnessed the inexplicable slaughter of the Civil War, began searching for other ways to understand humankind.

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Um... let's see... America stands on a tree that says "Chartered Rights" on it while a couple of people saw off the limb it's standing on with a saw that says "Ballot" on it.
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The creator of this ivy-covered concrete and limestone utopia was pioneer showman Samuel Dinsmoor. Dinsmoor was a patriotic American, lover of freedom, and hater of the conspiratorial trusts.
On the "Goddess of Liberty" tree, Ms. Liberty drives a spear through the head of another trust octopus, as free citizens cut off the limb that it rests upon.On one pillar, an octopus representing monopolies and trusts grabs at the world. A soldier and a child are trapped in two of its tentacles. Fear not.

He was a school teacher and then a farmer after the Civil war. He was a Populist here the platform they were after, they failed and the Federal Reserve was put in.

Populist Platform
Australian (or Secret) Ballot. Voting was still conducted publicly in many areas, potentially subjecting voters to pressure or recrimination by employers and landlords. (This proposal was adopted almost everywhere in the United States in the early 20th century.)

Popular Election of U.S. Senators. As provided in the Constitution (Article I, Section 3), senators were selected by the state legislatures, not by popular vote. It was believed that business lobbies exerted inordinate influence over the selection of these officials. (This plank would become part of the Constitution in 1913 when Amendment XVII was ratified.)

Direct Democracy. The Populists urged the adoption of the initiative, referendum and recall as means to give the people a more direct voice in government. (Some or all of these procedures became part of the constitutions of many states during the early 20th century.)

Banking Reform. The Populists believed that much of their economic hardship had been caused by bankers' unfair practices. They proposed to end the national banking system, a point of view not widely held. (The Populists failed with this proposal and a Federal Reserve System was established by law in 1913.)

Government Ownership of the Railroads. Anger against the railroads for alleged price discrimination was so intense that the Populists advocated for federal appropriation. (Opponents charged the Populists with socialism and little public support existed for this plank. However, during the Theodore Roosevelt administration, steps were taken toward reform of the railroads.)
Graduated Income Tax. The Populists viewed the graduated income tax as a means to pry loose a portion of the tremendous wealth of the nation's most prosperous citizens. A "graduated" tax meant that the rate of taxation would increase as one's income increased. (A step was made in this direction in the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894 when a uniform tax was imposed, but that portion of the law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court the following year. Authority to impose such taxation was granted to Congress under Amendment XVI in 1913.)

Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver. The Populists in 1892 raised the silver issue, but not with the same fervor that would emerge four years later. (The free silver crusade would die a natural death in the years following 1896, as prosperity returned and the world's gold supply increased.)

These were the days when the free-thought movement and a multitude of secret societies proliferated throughout the United States. Lectures on free-thought and scientific theory often were held in Masonic halls. Ohio was considered a “hotbed” of free-thought activity. Free-thought was the end point in the evolution of deism, a philosophical movement that developed in Europe in the eighteenth century. Deism gained a strong foothold on North American thought from about 1790 to 1840. Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Ethan Allen, among others, were adherents of its tenets. Freethinkers, although widely divergent in individual group focus, believed that any issue in life should be dealt with in a rational manner without resorting to emotional responses or to the dictates of tradition or religion.

(Back in those days many Masons were fighting against the banks, too much control, the churches, corruption of the corporations, lobbies,federal control, loss of states rights, voting fraud, the tax structure. Many feared the infiltration and control of the Illluminati. There were many different factions back then as there are now within the Masonic Lodges. With of course many who did not know what the higher eschelons were up to.)