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TO KCl I OF
VOL. 1.
R eason .
SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1897.
LIBERTY.
How w inneth L ib erty ?
By sword an d
NO. 21.
th.°“g h ta ®the Palladium of their tacking superstition in the harm-1 Jews,
Freethinkers,
Catholics
j ;ait *’ as the ”as,s of al1 °ther bless- less absurdities of its ceremonial Buddhists, etc are allowed to ex’
t !
0 , 'b T t h e souls of those who strive
L u X T I ' & '" ‘“ T'1*1’ a* wel1as institutions, and sparing the ruin- presa their views by permission, by
•y d die?
.
intellectual. They should learn to ous dogmas that have drenched the toleration. Not that the n a ti n n i«
Where dw elleth L ib e rty ? W here lies revere the memory o f t h e n i a r t v r s fac e of th e e a r t h «dH
h
i s
.
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lation is
th e la n d .
nf t , • ,
;
ine n,artyrs ace of the earth with the blood of protestant simply by reason of the
Most open to th e favors of her eye?
r faith, and recognize the im- her noblest children, and turned fact that the majority of the neo
d a th she h er seat m em pires, deserts D
O
rtan
ce n of f t the.r
h e ir Q
O rv in n a ♦
/• garden-land
l i t « into « hope- . pie are protestant, but it is hisb.r-
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portance
services
to ♦ the I • vast ______—
areas of
wide,
Or m ost to little freeholds doth she cause of modern ctvilnation and its less deserts. The skeptics who scoff I ically, constitutionally, legally a
bide?
• u principles: but they should at the inconsistencies of a poor cler- protestant nation a n d 'h a s been so
W hat is th e range th a t N atu re gives h e r a ' so le a r n to recognize
Wh’ V rost or fire she sta y s th e ir fly- tU<ie .‘T t h e r e m a i n i a g
the magni- gyman who tries in vain to recon­
judicially declared!
I t ¡8
cile the instincts of his better nature
\\ bat do the catholics say to
in g fe e t,
no trifle that the prevalent system with
...... u the
. c « demands
Ci n tt„ u n u of
, iti an
n i anti-natural
iiti-iriiiirii
this? They say that this ought to
And holdeth each w ithin its native z o n e ; of e th i c s a n d th n
i
,
,
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,
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The pine its love—th e p alm —shall
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poral and creed, should themselves he con- l>e a Christian nation, that a truly
n never
e v e r m eet;
e e t:
eternal hones
i l l i o n s o of f <\ii
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hopes of m
millions
our r sistent enough to repudiate
the wor- Christian nation is a catholic na-
Nowhere do roses bloom from beds of brethren are still based on a lie. It
sliip of the fatal founder of that tion, that a protestant nation is
ice,
Nowhere in valleys laughs the edel- ls no trifle that the health and hap- creed, and not let the hoary age of
only partly Christian, that catholics
piness of millions of our fellow-men the Galilean doctrine palliate the
The races of the sea shall never fare
are still sacrificed on the altar of tendencies of its life-blighting de are increasing more rapidly in this
Beyond th e m oist a n d sounding ele- , v Qg
u
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epuntry than protestants, that
m ent,
,hat untruth by the suppression of lusions.
—Bible of Nature.
when catholics reach the numbers
Nor
fledged and schooled , in public recreations on the only day
. . . any pinion, e..........
which
will put them in the major­
air,
A
Protestant
Nation.
ity, they will complete the chris-
On venturous e rra n d
th ro u g h th e when a large plurality of our work­
waves lie s e n t ;
ing-men find their only chance of
The Presbyterian Messenger, re-i ¡ « Ä T *
th7 prOtCu'
The cygnet to his nest of river-flag,
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tants
have
begun
by
making
the
leisure. It is no trifle that honest
The eagle to his eyrie on th e crag.
fernng to I resident Cleveland’s ! government catholic, by making
men are still branded as ‘‘infidels,” reference to Jesus Christ in his the union of church and state
Dwells Freedom w ith th e sp h erv m u lti­
tu d e
“renegades,” and “scoffers,” for re­ Thanksgiving proclamation, says: ^ ’»ser. by making Catholicism the
The vistas of the m ighty sky reveal?
fusing to kneel in the temple of a
g a l, conRtit‘lf
constitutional
“The United States Supreme le
lefiral-
ion»l religion nf the
Each p lan et keeps th e track it h a th p u r­
nation.
Then
protestants will have
sued,
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nature-hating fanatic. The
strug- Court has recently declared judi-
And «hall pursue while ages turn and gle against the spirits of darkness cially that this is a Christian n a - to take their own medicine. They
tolerated
with Jews
and
tion; and now the executive falls in may he l<
,lerate<l with
Jews and
U ncentered roves th e guideless aerolite, iK ^.v n o m eans yet decided in Italy, li&
. And 1« us hold up not only ! * f e,lllnke,H> f»r * while, hut they
A'niVht'.'<!S ‘° rU' n d°Wn 0,6 !teep* °' where ,he urch-hierurch is spinning th | Christian Hag, hut the p ro le- p , ' ,'.ave n.°
.rl8hts with
i restless intrigues to retrain the taut
lgton will
..... _ he
Ever? historical,
hisn.ri,.«! L™»,’
flag. Every
consti­ Catholics whose religion
W ith law dwells lib e rtv ; law m ak e th
»• , ?
the taut flair.
free.
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power which for ages made Europe tutional and legal fact and princi­ the national religion; supposing, of
Fly law, and thou dost forge thyself a a Gehenna of misery and despotism pal that makes this a Christian na­ course, that the ('atholies go on in­
c h a in ;
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tion, tnakei» it a protestant nation. If creasing as rapidly as they think
Still w ouldst thou pass th e bounds p r e - ! 1X0 1,1 bPairb where a swarm of
they will and that the policy of the
scribed for thee?
clerical vampires is still sucking the it he inconsistent with the rights of church remains unchanged.
Romanists to make this assertion,
still w oublst thou g rasp strange honors i ; fil i .
.
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and dom ain?
lile -b lo o d of an impoverished na- it is inconsistent with the rights of
B. F. U nddrwood .
B chold! his liberty exceedeth th in e
tion. Nor in Austria and southern Jews and even of all irreligious
e ho freely b reath es w here
thou
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,
Science.
w ouldst fret and pine!
Germany, where the alliance of men to make the official declara­
From a philosophical point of
—E d ith V . Thomas.
phurch and state remains a con- tions that the president ami the
governor
have
made.
One
of
our
view, science is knowledge of the
stant menace to the scant liberties
political judges had the temerity laws of life; of the conditions of
Reform.
of the people.
to declare in the late Saratoga happiness; of the facts by which we
F. L. O s w a l d .
Freethinkers need not underrate General Assembly that it is not are surrounded, and I he relations
1 ruth that prevails against error the influence of individual efforts to true historically, or in any other we sustain to men and things_by
also prevails against half truths, recognize the superior advantage of way, that this is a protestant n a­ means of which man subjugates
and the recognition of just claims organized co-operation, so urgently tion. Made in such a place it was nature and bends the elemental
a traitorous declaration. Politic­ powers to his will, making blind
cannot
be
furthered
by
unjust
con-
needed
for
the
reform
of Sabbath
ians, who are looking for votes,
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cessions. Uncompromising right is laws, of press laws, and the educa­ may presume on the liberality of force the servant of his brain.
Science is the great Iconoclast,
mightiest, and Freethinkers would tional system of the numerous col­ protestants and cater for the papal and by the highway of progress are
have served their cause more effect­ leges still intrusted to the control ballots by such declaration ; but all the broken images of the past. On
ually if they had contended, not of the Jesuitical enemies of science. protestants, informed as to the true every hand the people advance.
for the favor to enjoy a privilege, 1 he strength - in - uoion principle history of the nation, should repu­ I he vicar of God has been pushed
diate them with indignation.”
from the throne of the Caesars, and
>»ut the right to fulfil a duty. The should encourage the oft-debated
So this is not only a Christian upon the roofs of the eternal city
ministry of reason imposes obliga- projects for the establishment of nation, but a protestant nation! If falls once mere the shadow of the
tions to posterity, and to the mem- Freethought colleges (as well as
it is inconsistent with the rights of eagle. All has liccn accomplished
oryot its bygone martyrs, as well Freethought communities); but catholics tosav this, it is equallv by the heroic few. The men of
as to our help-needing contempora- still more decisive results could be inconsistent with the rights of Jews science have explored he&ven and
pics; and the defense of its rights is hoped from that union of the pow­ and Freethinkers for the president ^arth, and with infinite patience
have furnished facts. The brave
a truer religion than submission to ers of knowledge and of moral cour- and governors to refer officially to thinkers have used them. The
the yoke of a mind-enslaving dog- age which has never yet failed to
Christ in their public papers! gloomy caverns of superstition
ma. The Rishis, or sainted her- insure the triumph of social reforms. Exactly. The presbyterian is log­ have been transformed into temples
»‘it« of Brahmanism, used to devote I We should cease to plead for favors .™..
,.re,.. of thought, and the demons of the
ical. 1 hen neither Jew’s, Free-
’hemselvee to the service of a forest where we can claim an indisput- thinkers nor Catholics have any past are the angels of today. Sci­
ence took a handful of sand, con­
■ nip,,-, and guard its sanctuary aide right. We should cease to ad- rights which protestants are bound structed a telesco|>e, and with it
gainst vermin and reptiles; and mit the right of mental prostitutes to respect in this matter. That is explored the stary depths of heaven.
the believers in a personal God to enforce the penalties of social os- although all help to support, and Science wrested from the gods their
Cannot devote their lives to a nobler traeism against the champions of if necessary to defend the govern* thunderbolts; and now*, the electric
ta«k than by guarding his temples science; but we, in our turn, should ment, the government discriminates spark, freighted with thought and
love, flashes under all the waves of
against the serpent of priestly des­ deserve the prestige of that cham- against the religious beliefs of all the sea. Science took a tear from
potism.
T.
pionship by scorning t h e expedients others in favor of protestants; their the check of unpaid labor, converted
* he disciples of Secularism should of the moral cowardice which strains religion is the religion of the nation into steam, and created a giant
to value the r i g h t of tree- at gnats and connives at beams, at- Hence “ this is a protestant nation.” that turns with tireless arm, the
countless wheels of toil.—Ingersoll.