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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1897.
like the bubbling of a wave on the worth living for. They talk about envy, bigotry, fanaticism and tvr- SILVERTON...
breast of the sea. It Hashed from Ingersoll’s destroying, How false! annv are found in the line,
the fulness of his being. His ora- He gives a thousand times more
I have taught school for twenty
lion was like a thing of life. Every than he takes away, He gives a years in Iowa. At our last teach*
part was fitly joined together and clear sight. He pulls away the ers’ meeting, held in a church, our
moved w ith accordant thought, curtains hung by the priests, painted county superintendent asked a
1 here was no catastrophe in the and daubed; and shows the genuine “ brother” present if he believed
.A rtistic W ork
evolution of his magnificent ideas, drama of human life. He takes reverence could be taught in our
whose streams swelled to ampler away the skeleton, and the full- schools without the use of the Bible W hen you w ant a ....
titles, and bote his hearers almost blooded man appears. Even if he and the repetition every morning
Good Sm ooth S have
unconsciously to new and astonish- didn’t build, I’d rather live out- of the “Lord’s Prayer.” The broth-
ing views. Even the orthodox be- doors than in the gloomy caves of er, of course, said, “No, I do not.” Or a F irst-C lass........
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gan to applaud. The power was superstition.”
Mr. Superintendent then gave us
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irresistible. It was the force of “But he does build,” said Burn- to understand that other things be-
iruth, but truth presented with the ham. “He only dissipates fancies, ing equal he would fill the schools
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dazzling splendor of a picture. It The infidel is the only builder; for with “professors,” thus placing an-
w w w w to
was truth flowing from the heart of lie alone deals with facts, which he other premium on hypocrisy. My
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O regon
a man and not from dogmatism. It does not undertake to demolish, wife, daughter and myself all teach,
was truth radiant with passion, He breaks the images, but the ma- Before anv of us will carry the
bursting into quick and scintillât- terial he uses for better purposes,” so-called gospel banner we’ll go to
ing light. One could scarcely be-
“ Don’t you know,” said Paddie, the poorhouse. The accursed cow-
lieve that the smiling and dimpled “that people like to dwell in fancies. ardice of this age is lamentable;
colored w ith “ P E R F E C T IO N ”
orator, so gay, so cordial, with the J hev had rather fancy they are go- business men, professional men and
Dyes will m ake beautiful C ar
keen sword of a Saladin, light and ing to heaven than really know others who do not believe the or
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that
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and
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airy J ike a feather, was hewing that
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o th e r dyes, th e colors o b tain ed
man
will not wash o u t or fade.
down, with the strength of the knowledge in place of fancy
before the “chariot of lire” afraid
They a re sim p le and econom
hammer of Thor, the venerable an J
of losing a nickel.
( to be continued ?
ical to use, and th e new “ P e r
gigantic superstitions of the past.
There
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numbers
of
teachers
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For the Torch of Reason.
He was not the ideal iconoclast, se
and
others
who
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personally
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cially adapted for Rugs and Rag
Current Events.
vere and dark-browed, and threat
C arp et m aking.
isfied that the superintendent him-
ening like a thunder-cloud. He
The “Christians” have been howl- self is a narrow, bigoted, vicious,
For Sale By All
was like a May day, full of glitter- ing and pawing the air over the unfair and arbitrary crank, and
D R UG G I S T S .
ing and beautiful fancies, and did massacre of Armenians. They have yet not one except myself called
GUISS & SON,
not seem to bear within his bosom worked up sympathy enough to him down. Lord, you ought to
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the weapons of such enormous de- almost plunge the countries inter- have seen his look. Cotton Mather,
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wtruction. Not until he ceased did ested into war. After all it was hut Paris, or Phipps couldn’t have
we know how far they had been the outgrowth of damn fool “mis- beaten the look of malevolent de-
borne. It was a dramatic surprise sion work. ’ Some Christian soci- termination to crucify me at the
to look back and see what realms ety sends a fanatic (no others earliest possible date.
had been passed. Ingersoll’s elo- go) to some “heathen” land to try
When a man who doesn’t believe
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quence was like the modern rail- to overthrow their form of govern- orthodoxy, puts a nickel in a church Locke on Human Understanding.. .$1 140
road. It bore one over vast tracks ment, or to at least dictate its pol- coffer, he has in him the necessary 5 n. bleal R epublic, p a q e r .. ............ 50
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to the other side of apparently im icy, and the people after sizing up qualifications,
if coached a little, The¡ N ature! C u re ,’ D r’ Conger, new,
passable mountains, where pros the mouthy and brainless local for a devilish scoundrel, inasmuch as c l o t h ..................................................... 2 00
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pects hitherto undreamed of burst agent of an invisible deity, very policy could alone dictate the act. Sam
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upon the sight. At the close of his properly refuse to allow him to
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oration, everybody was with him. tear down a moral condition with the
price hut my light in the cause T rials am i T riu m p h s of Lat>or, Her
They saw as he saw and felt as he which they have been contented at home keeps me too cussed poor to n ard i, p ap er.
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H y p n o tism , How it is Done, its
felt. By the power of an infinite for 2000 years and set up a new take a bad cold with any assurance
I ses and its D angers, Ja m e s R.
Cocke,
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sympathy, he compelled allegiance and comparatively untried article, of keeping it.
R. BRITTON.
Dialogues of P lato , tra n sla te d hv
Griswold, Iowa.
to the hitherto unrecognized truth.
The great religious syndicate then
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Del M ar’s H isto ry of M onetary
If one for a moment left the ora- cries out for “protection” for this
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tor and watched the audience, a aggressive vandal who is turned
R en an ’s Life of Jesu s, p a p e r............
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M olecular H ypothesis of N atu re,
most interesting picture was re- loose upon an inoffensive people Editor Torch of Reason:
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vealed. It was seen like an ocean unused to our ideas of civilization,
Please find inclosed 25 cents for Handbook of Currency and wealth,
tossing from “grave to gay, from I, for one, would prefer to have which please send the Torch of W aldron.— . . . . . . . ...............
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lively to severe.” Now, ripples of OUr government draw the line be- Reason three months to the in- Ephemeric .............................
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smiles swept over it, then there was tween protection to an American closed addiess of a friend of the
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a billowly break of laughter, then citizen who is attending to his own cause.
tion, Wiley, paper
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there was silence as some great business and one who is meddling
I am reading the Torch every We keep u p w ith the times in Liberal,
thought unrolled, while tears glis- with the customs of other countries, week and think it is just the right y/^TTrTu\ o u H s ^ k o rd ers^w ifi furifish
tened as the pathetic music of his I here are none of us who would paper to open the eyes of the peo- you any h«x»k you w ant a t th e lowest
price. A ddress all orders, W. E . Jo n es,
voice touched the fountains of aff< c- think it a hardship to go to war to pie who let the ministers pull the 2111
A lder stre et, P o rtlan d , Oregon.
tion. Every word was felt as if a fight for the release of a citizen wool over their eyes. If they would
Who can think
great play was being enacted or maltreated, hut a whole lot of us only read the Torch it would put
of some simple
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thing to paten i?
some mighty opera sung.
object to being sent to face a foe to them on the right trail to freedom worn j 6 hn wkdi > ekb 5 rn £ c o ngp i^ n tWA?m^
nevs, Washington. ». C.. for their tl.SN) prize offer
ell,” said Moccasin Bill, as save the live of a damn fool crank and liltcrty.
and new JUt <»r one thousand Inventions wanted.
thev went out after the marvellous who, by his incessant meddling anti
The majority of the people in
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oration, “this is simply wonderful. old woman’s curiosity, has got into this country are very liberal in
Iam satisfied as I never was before. trouble with some government.
their view’s and if we had some one
If there ever was such a thing as
These Christians l>eg money every to give a few’ good lectures on sci-
getting religion, I’ve got it; fo ri time they get an outsider in their ence and morality, I think we could »
'Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat-
could holler as loud as the Method- “tabernacle” and then use it to start a large organization and do ;ent
business conducted for M o d er a te F ee *.
jO uii O ffic e 13 O pposite U. 8. P a te n t O f f ic e '
ists for very joy. I’ve been on the brow-beat the men to whose gener- good liberal work through this ¿and
we e-n se ure patent in less time tnan thuacj
(remote from Washington,
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mountain top.”
osity they are indebted for the part of Idaho.
S Send model, draw ing or photo., with deserip-i
n.
We adv. c, i f patentable o r n o t, free o f
“If such a speech as that doesn’t means to procure food and raiment,
I will work for your paper and
O u r ice rv- 1 due ti.l patent is secured.
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, “ He w to Obtain Patents,” with'
give a man faith, I don’t know and consign them to “hell fire.” get all the subscribers I possibly {cost
of same in the U . S. and foreign countries'
(sent free.
Address,
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what does,” said Charlie. “I never Ingratitude is not the smallest of can. Yours for freedom,
respected human nature as I do their misdemeanors, nor is it fitted
OLAF SORENSON,
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now, or felt there was so much to head the list—where malice,
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