T H E TORCH OF REASON', SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , JU N E 24, 1897. _______» 1 . . . m e t k s o i ir an creation is not filled and ter by being reasonable; belief in never got upon bis knees. He kept tiroes, and to the eyes of the reallv | calo.neled, exhorted, th rea te n ed ’ m iracle is being superceded bv right at work, an d m ade others do live people, the skiesgleam b rig h ter prayed for cursed a.id outlaw ed as practice of m orality, and we re the same. I d o ubt if he had any and the ea rth grows richer every it was in the d a y . of saddle-bag m em ber the former tim es mostly to profit by their blunders; we review faith beyond m s bve senses; b u t year. ‘ stone drags and h»dy-office. the history of the fathers not so .h a t he did believe in, he believed o ld granddaddy stick-in-the-mud W ben the work was to be resum- m uch to em ulate their wisdom a s t » in persistently. I he world to him 9, t beside the fence weHping , o was no vagary, but a stubborn fact: his son remove a big rock from the ed on the then uncom pleted shaft avoid their errors. I am not afraid the people will he had battled with it heroically, drivew ay. He knew it was better to the m em ory of the father of the until he had gotten the better of it, out, but then it d id n ’t look as it republic, it was discovered by the ever get too wise. There is no and owned and com m anded his used to and its absence witnessed investigating engineers that it was reason to think th a t an y one will cwm - ship. H e had received m any his neglect in not rem oving it long built above a two-feet deep stratum ever be to rational. No one will of quicksand, and declared th a t it ever the less respect the tru th bv a hard knock and passed through before. would never do to top out the understanding what he reads or a thousand difficulties, and by I do not propose to go back to stum p of the \\ ashingt« n m onum ent by discovering m istakes in the sheer pluck had won the day. His my cradle to take up my abode. I unless that at first overlooked docum enlsor by discarding forgeries wite was with him , a bright and shall not seek the wigwam of the defect in the site could be remedied. in the signatures. comely woman, and well read. aborigines to finish m y education. 1 he first thought was to pull down I he form er times were doubtless Besides being som ewhat of a I sh all not concede th a t barbarism and rebuild the structure. But an better than these, to the people of philosopher, she had the shrew d is superior to civilization. I do excavation was made wide about form er times; and times like the common-sense of her country folk not believe th a t savagery is to be the base of the pyram id; little by form er would now he b etter th an and a touch of fancy and sentim ent prefered to culture. I have no little earth was scooped from u n these for those of today who have such as glows in the pages of Scott faith th a t cannibalism is the acme der the tall pile; stone by stone, it not been elastic enough to comply and Burns. She was fond of both of sp iritu al perfection. I do not was sub-underpinned until a with present conditions. these writers, and knew them by boast th at I shall gain eternal foundation broad and deep repL c d The Indian prefers his teepe to a heart. She could play upon the salvation by d rin k in g either the dirt and drift and mud and mire; palace. If a troglodite were set ( to be contin ued .) literal, the tran ssu b stan tiated or all was m ade doubly secure with down in P h ilad elp h ia at the the make-believe blood of a dead iron hands, and the tall cenotaph porch of th * C ontinental or the For the Torch of Reason. god or dead m an, w hilst those who was shot upw ard to pierce the G irard hotels, he would not know Bible T im es an d O ur T im es. aie too refined to stom ach such clouds. how io get his dinner; he would not gospel d irt are dam ned to e t e r n a l l y Some, perhaps, thought it pre lave money to pay for h is f a r e nor “Think not to say, the former roast as part of the devil’s toast, or sum ptions or cranky to undo and ability to there earn a dim e to buy times w e re better th a n these, for 8n« pr fnp , . , . . . , ’ suner toss tor any tune all because and do over the work of the original a plate of baked beans. Ship a thou -lost not in q u .re wisely con- they wou)d ,,ot man or architects; hut done it was, despite biji can n ib al to London and the cerning these th in g s.” m ind, on a fellow’s life-ice like the lam ent th a t the form er times first thing he would say would be__ If those who m ake so much ado gloating wolves. The form er tim es were b e tte r th a n were better th an th e s e , and I have about the present questioning and these, I he story of w hat one m ay have not yet learned th a t the proud pier Take me back to F iji, please; interpreting of the bible knew or F e! fo! f«m ! I w ant th e blood of an endured in the former tim es, in con is in danger of toppling over, nor thought more of w hat is in it E n g lia h m u n !” sequence of its bigoted adoration of observed th a t it has sprung an inch they m ight profit thereby. Id o not know but civilization custom s more ancient still, may away because it was put upon a I he bible has had m any advocates will ceaseand barbarism come back. sei ve to point a moral or encourage profounder foundation. This testi who have been as innocent of its I do not know but steam engines the wise to a like heroism , but it is monial obelisk to hum an integrity contents as a m ule is of music. w ill be beaten into boomerangs and Many a one has advocated the bible Perverrtenes^ ,,f stu p id ity and and moral sagacity and energy is cotton-m ills become c a ta m o u n ts’ as a code of moral« w»,.n ' 8na'uel^ e s s of hypocrisy to su p bottomed on terra firma, buttressed as a code of m orals when they ... . , lairs. I do not know but the pose anil profess th at repeating Withiro.1 bands and we tru st will “ wheel» o f tim e” will reverse th eir knew and cared about as m uch parrot-like the phras»*—“ Saved b\ aland so long a» a free |« .p !e ahall m otion and the revolution ofp lan ete about both the bible and morals as the blood’’—has a n y th in g in it of revere t h e nam e of one of the and people will tu rn backw ard, (Joes a farm brute. This kind of p u rity or savors of holiness. n a tio n ’s m u ste r m a so n s. like King H ezekiah’s dial, and people are the fiercest to denounce W e are told th a t we have got too 1 here are those, even those who chaos come ag a in — if ever there ’he infidelity of thoughtful and moral men who have made the far ahead of the “ faith of the are set a t the head of college in- were o n e —but I don’t believe it. bible a study from y o u th and whose fathers, th a t we are getting too struetion, who echo the com plaint Is that too agnostic? I do not know but somewhere in purpose in life is the advancem ent wise above th a t which is w ritten in th a t the former times were better the W estm inster Catechism or than these, They know not. bow the ages to be will be forgotten the of the hum an race; whose th o u g h t is not of th eir own salvation, but W inchester Confession. T hat we to leach except from th»* well benefits we have today. I do not their chief desire is to do the most m ust turn about and retrace the old thum lred “ catechism ” or much know bur freedom will be buried good in th eir power. Those who paths, if we would get on. Old dogeared “ m an u al.” They would b -neath the re-established tem ples are farthest behind the tim es most stick-in-the-m ud sits on a log by not know how to handle a geography of supei stition and ty ran v twirl its ibuse those who are in advance of the side of h is tum ble down cabin with a m ap of a new state in it, but bloody scepter from a throne recast and m utters as the electric car would petition congress to order from the B artholdi’s statu e of the age. I suppose th a t ever since A dam ’s shoots by—“ I shall be glad when th at ail atlases should bound the Liberty E nlightening the W orld. children were born, or from the first we get the stagecoaches again.” L nited States by F lorida and th e I do not know but the p rin tin g -’ up corning of the second generation, \ ' ° US R etro8P«c ‘>un reads a modern M ississippi river, as it was in the press shall be used to flatten witches the same deprecating cry has come *n r hook a i>d m ourns at the beginning, is not now, and never instead of publishing the daily in- So they call a halt telligence, the m achine-shops set at up from grouty conservatism . s n d°g I ! l r e i U » i i h a b shall he again. worn garm ent th a t has 0,1 th e th o u g h t of other teachers work to supply im plem ents for th e The old m an is alw ays appearing of ,,f some 8ome out wor» and in n cicu the w nam e o a f' ri to connneu rtu re of heretics, and a rt confined hopping ••vppuig mad mau if ir the m e youngster youngster gets gets . . eh ^ Ut ° n <,eca*u°nally J for c< »nven- an(I preachers, --------- » -----ui , anu ahead of him , and yet he is proud Ience> a,,<1 expresses tlm hope that th e old apostles and pedagogues to picturing birds in hum an shape in heart th th a a t t he he has has so s h '411 8OOU gel ^a<k ,o the fu rth er,’’ saying, “ .» it is but w ithout other piuiua^c plum age mmi than ]n his his heart so sm sm art art a a - - -- — unit- ...... Hay, . . “g o ’ no ----------- , - .......... - - - ........ ->on. T h at is, if he has any sm art- G< aCCep,a' lCe of the 0,d cree l, and ,iarig, r °UB to tu rn new leaves, do impossible wings; when the people th a t this, t h at and the other cast «»If n° t get beyond the pictures, you * h o »Io the work shall live in ness himself. ina- N otw ithstanding the burden of absurdity - and disgorged - - - abom - ........ - . are . lo" rationalistic or too spiritual- huts and hovels and the only in- flibtl Will 11 « ^ ____1 1 i iolL. N XT..a 1* • is /<• i • • .. habitable I I • . « ■ a buildings be the castles the speech of all the old men in t1' ”1 wlJi yet preached and accept- 18tlc- atu ralism “ infidelity,” ♦ very age and every country, about ed a “ lhejr were fortT* four-hundred spiritualism is lunacy, only the of butchers of hum anity and the the degeneracy of the day, lam ent- ° F I,’UI ‘thousand years ago. KUl* r* n atu ral is w orth w orshipping tem ples of u n earth ly divinities, uig the d ep artu re from the gods of d o cto r O ldbury and Deacon and only holy we worship it a rig h t.” It m ay be possible th a t the school .uperetltious. and in wildest d anger those who cared only for the old paregoricked, bled and blistered - j . . * - ir grandfathers, yet the world I)r’^ “ P want to see things restored But the MUn of science is rWng house shall become a barracks the n,l T ^ ' 1, ° n at itf WO,?te(d rat,: ‘o t h e " ld b « ' ’. and they diagn«e and the roi.ts and myth» of dark- college be a horse »table, and he has g o ,o n very well for a l l .d .r e d iw rd e r and prognosticate, „e»8 and fear are clearing a w a v oai -HL c le a r i n g aw ay. T~~ ( continued ------ ’~ — page .) on sixth