THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUN E 17, 1897.
From an Ex-Catholic.
to Ireland where all the laity have
We never ta n escape punish- was progressing nicely until a few
days ago when we were ready to
rings in their noses and are led m ent for w rongdoing.
E ditor T orch of R ea . o n : Your around like go m any cattle, but you
| ^ o p le may suffer on your ac- begin work or- the building. All at
once then* seemed to be a sort of
sarnple copy was received and read cannot do th a t in this free and gio- count hut no one can suffer for you. a m isu n d erstan d in g and a dis-
with great interest. I am glad there nous country.” “ He left saying,
Men created the gods and not satisfaction a s to the stability of
the organization and its ability to
are so m any minds like my own.
bx you*
bix no hing god the men.
build and m ain tain the institution.
My m otto and greatest pleasure is I said. " I will snow you th at there
If such a being as a god could The work was brought t » an abrupt
to produce the greatest am ount of
one catholic true to his country
exist, it would be as silly for us to stop and th e m ain promoters were
pleasure and happiness to fellow first and not to I he old Dago •’»P« c |a i„ Mn under8t a u ding of bis (h e r brought to realize th a t It would he
friends. I ask no one to do mv ol Rome.”
or its) will, as it would h • fo r a n ‘" ‘I'o^ible for the Oregon State
thinking or praying form e. I do
Ih u s th e fig h t b eg u n , hut I fought
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1 feeeular U n io n , m its p resen t con-
a n t to claim a k n o w led g e of P re s
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ion, to carry ont the work.
not p ray myself, consequently value bim to a finish and finally his own
M cK inley’s idea of a future life.
The enterprise has in no way
no other. Catholic priests did my congregation th a t tried to starv e me
Is it wrong to teach a lie?' Is it failed, but a change was necessary
thinking for about thirty-five year- (,ut starved him out and would not
to carry it o u t. A m eeting of the
until I finally told them th a t 1 had P:O’ him another cent after they wrong to teach a child th at there executive hoard of the union was
is a S anta Clan-? Is it wrong to
plenty of their superstitious, lying, found out 1 was right.
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Pearl W. G e e r for t h e ‘s um of $321.
hum bug utterances.
Now where there was a little one
At firsl, because they could no story school house with twelve to be to lHrtC:b a th in g th a t cannot he I he P orch of R eason will be con-
longer dictate to me, they boycotted twenty pupils, there stan d s a tw o Proven?
prove.i'r Can
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th a t d u cted as before In the in te re st of
n y o one
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! Secularism and m orality and the
me. I hat was 111 G ranville la story building
with .1__
three teachers
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whole in stitu tio n including the
where all were catholics. I was and an attendance of from seventy
should pity those whose university and all has been placed
post m aster at the time and I lo.-t to one hundred pupils, and the Pa- m inds are diseased with superstition in the hands of parties who will see
th e office through the conspiricy w itii 'ochial school that once h a d three ;H’d hypocrisy; we should not c o n -' to it th a t the w ork is carried out
the U. S. post office inspector. I sisters teaching ignorance'and 8 u p - (b*mn them but we should be plain ° n a propel plan and the business
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will be placed ... on
, so . firm a basis
was arrested and taken out of bed at ersdtion to over one hundred pupils and outspoken in condem ning t h e .., :
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th a t no one will be a tra id to d o n a te
2 o’clock in the m orning, taken to now stands with locked floors and c o n d itio n s fav o rin g t he c o n tin u a tio n libera 11 v
Sioux City and placed in jail for 8 th»* sisters all gone. I bis is the of these m ind diseases, and do all
No one will he asked t<► donate to
in
our
power
to
show
people
th
eir
the cause who is not satisfied as to
hours u ntil my friends hailed me fruit ol my labor as a true supporter
its stability, and those who have
out.
1 of the “ red schoolhouse.” The Priest great injury.
promised to donate may use their
I was charged w ith opening letters ibe3 have now has a hard row
If religion is necessary to all own pleasure in paying the same.
robbing the mail etc., hut 1 proved
hoe a> his people think for them- men, it should he intelligible to all
It is now the d u ty of all to help
myself innocent of every charge and se' ves ,o ¡someexient. I am now in men.
this cause along. The U niversity
m ust be built as soon as possible
cam e o ut a free A m erican citizen b u t a lo'\n with only two catholic fam-
and in order th a t no time may he
The Unitarians.
lost the post office ju st the sam e dies a,ld ‘bey a,e about like myself
lost let every Secularist m ake it
through the strong hand of Romo on excePt they are not quite as strong!
his business to come to our aid at
o u r governm ent. The boycott cost «gainst it as I am. I presun e if a ! >" n" ‘ ° our greatest statesm en one»*.
P earl . W. G eer .
me not less than five thousand dol- « c h o lic P riest was near they would and M o la r s have been U n itarian s
W here Our Lecturers Are.
lars, and this whole trouble came confess their sins. It is different an<
bave great respect tor that
about because I was director of the with ,ne f,‘r 1 have none r° co n fess.; o rga,nzat'on tor we )el,eve that it M rs . H osmer and M iss D e P eatt .
public school. A few days before the 1 alw ays aim to m ake others happy !8ta,,( 8 nPXt to becu ar,sr" ,n lhe
EASTERN OREGON.
school was to begin the priest went a "d alw ays treat everyone as I like J reat onwai‘d m arcb to religious Lexington, Ore
to the other two directors and told
be tr«a ted.
freedom
M any of their memliers Heppner Ore
Ju n e 27-28
them to hire a catholic sister, a ethe
1 should go to a despotic Priest aH
U arists and bavt fRs* Lone Rock Or»*
population was m ostly catholic, with th a t is likely five hundred times car< * a superstition including tin W agner O re ........
only about twelve protestant fainil- worse th an I am , I would tell him g,’v*
1 an< a
A Success.
ies in the town and it was their duty I things perhaps I never did, ju - t in
In Rev* ^ P c 'a n d ’s excellent Me-
The dram a, .Ja n e , played by home
as directors to hire a catholic sister ' order *o have som ething to confess. ,nor‘a ' Seim on which appeared in
talent at Silverton last S aturday
and convert the funds into the l’aro- j 1 can well remember when I used the last 18sue of tl,e 1 ORCH OF K ea* evening was a decided success in
ch ial school and let thedupes go to go to confess and m any tim es I ' SON we were g l« '1 to see th a t he re every way and was attended by a
free. They consented and he came would tell of some small sins that I fered but ver-v b ’tle to the old m yths large and appreciative audience.
Every part in the play was acted
to me, also a catholic, hut of a d if - ' never com m itted so I would have and aIthough ww do not th in k Uni-
fere nt type. I told him th a t if I som ething to confess, and several ta ri«ns are quite free yet we m u-t with great credit to the players.
Miss Wolf, our elocution teacher,
went hack on my word to the other tim es when I did wrong I did not rem em ber th a t we are not perfect acted the p a rt of Jan e , in her usual
teacher I would be a liar. He said it tel1 h in ‘* * thought it none of his '^ s e l v e s ; and then again, we m ust creditable style which testifies to her
was no lie as long as it was for the business.
I thought 1 could make rHmeniber the long dark ages th at ability as an im personator and an
catholic church. I told Him “ to ‘h a t all rig h t by avoiding had and fear and « « P e titio n has hung elocutionist. J. Ralph Benton p la y
h— with th e catholic church;” a lie by doing good in the future.
about th e hum an mind as h avv ed the p art of an aged English
gentlem an with great credit, m ak
was a lie and I was not brought up
1 a ‘” a F reeth in k er from head to c,ouds are th o u «l,t to have «nvelop- ing it one of the prom inent features
as a liar. He could not m ake me
and so is my fam ily. I belong e d .the earth d u rin S the e a ri? Part of the play. H. L. E isen h art as
go back on the other teacher I hired to th e K. P. ami am a full Hedged <d ^ g e o lo g ic a l histoiy.
the young m an in trouble acted
All of the elem ents of reform are well his part, and Mrs. M. P.
and make a liar out of myself for Liberal in all th at is good for the
working together to expeil the Hosm er as the dashing widow
the benefit of a despotic priest and Novation of my fellow men.
d a r k n e s s and at some happv, brought rounds of applause. Talien
F ratern ally yours,
bis followers. I was a free Am er
E isenhart im personated well the
future time the full ra d ia n t light of Irish woman, while Grace W olfard
Dr. L. S. S toll
ican, freethinking citizen and he
the beautiful sun of tru th will shine as Miss Norton was splendid. The
Sioux Center, la.
nor the old Pope of Rome could not
forth upon a world fully fitted for p a rt of the English w aiter was well
m ake me go hack on my word.
a free happy people.
ployed by Pearl W. Geer: H arry
Little Points
Then he got mad and said “ We will
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Desart as th e Irishm an and Charlev
A i ta te m e n t.
p a ge rtM t ^e «bOy»’ both did nicely.
have the sister tench as the m ajority
«n * • . n r • 1 <0 x x
b ttle pain (Thom as^ some-
Mr. J. C. Johnson of W oodburn
rules.”
C ertainly I said mt not times m akes a big convulsion in
W hen the Liberal U niversity and
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m
ade up” the faces of the actors
w ith m y sa y so.
I ben m y wife th e m e n ta l stom ach of a would-be the T orch of R eason were started
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which added greatly to the success
spoke up and said, “ why yes. father angel
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, ;n S 'l ^ r to n last fall the parties ,n- of the play. Mr. John so n also im -
Turney, if you allow a catholic to
I he most destructive anim als the terested acted in good faith, Ivliev- personated “ Ole Oleson” aud the
world
has ever known are the ing th a t the Oregon S tate Secular Ita lia n between the acts and was
teach the public school it will cause
the few protestant families to sell out ‘7 spooks.
f” '” V
\ They t have invisihl-
» , skins: » Union • was perfectly
,
, capable of wel| received. Music was furnish-
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carrying on
on the
the work
work. A printing ,.d by the M arine Band O rchestra
an.1 move aw ay .. " __ “ Mrs ~ Stoll
" ey travel
tra.v,‘l as
as fast
,a8. ' as
»” thought
thoin?ht and
and carrying
8* 1 b ine their poisonous sting ’•ohs the victim 1 outfit wus purchased for $275 and
and oft or
Jrorva» ♦ „ u
Holy F a th e r said, “ the quicker they of all desire of seeing things as the paper was begun. S oli-itatinns were p leasan tly spent in daneina*”
sell out and
move away the
they really are. were m ade for m oney to pay for
T aking all In all, the dram a was
b etter for the
country." T his
H ypocrisy has become a fashion-
ani1 "P to *1"’ t>n>e. $ i n i l a great success long’to be remember-
a flamed
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and able vice and every fashionable vice only
b n has been raised. Efforts have ed by all who witnessed It. The
been m ade o ra.se funds for th e Liberal U niversity realized $39 from
I said, “ yes, you bad oetter go back! passes for a virtue.— Moliere.
j building of th»* U niversity and all the proceeds.