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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1897)
« THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1897. 3 The machinery owned by the calling for a recognition of God in * * * * W ESTERN * * * * society for printing aud binding the constitution. These names Bibles is antiquated and worn out. represent the great society of Chris If the manufacture of Bibles is con tian Endeavor; and other great re tinued new machinery must be pur ligious organizations are helping to chased. It was said by Mr. Gil permeate the country with the same man this forenoon that if the ap idea of a national Christianity. peal for fund? receive a proper re Such being the circumstances of sponse, the old building is to be the situation, it cannot be regarded sold anyway. If the Society lives as impossible or even improbable through its present difficulties it that this sentiment may have had may erect a new building in something to do with this decision Is there a n y th in g you w ant? Have you property to sell? another part of the city. against the adherents of the Koran. Do you wish to bay a home? Do you wish All details a® to the finances of If it is to be established as a rule to go intobusiness? Do you wish the society were refused by Mr. of national procedure that such a to exchange real estate or 'Foulke aud Mr. Gilman. They theoretical violation of the law as personal property? said that they could not discuss exists in the adherence of these six this question at the present time. Mohammedans to the religious A statement has been issued, how guide-book of their race, which F riends :— We have recently established a general Ex- ever, in which it is said that the sanctions polygamy, without the ( hange and Inform ation business in the th riv in g city of expenditures for the last two years slightest allusion, actual orcontem- Silxerton, and have for sale a num ber of town lots, vacant have been $156,050.92 greater than plated, to any violation of the laws and im proved, some well established business enterprises the receipts. in practice, then it is evident that some splendid farm s near Silverton, and last but not le a st’ justice is here about to take on an all the lots in inquisitorial character which will No rioham m edans W anted. be fatal to the survival of liberty. No believers in the Koran are And of this there are, indeed, many S E C U LA R H O M E wanted in this country. Such was existing indications. — [ American a tract of land adjoining the Liberal U niversity grounds the decision recently arrived at by Sentinel. and beautifully situated for homes. Below is a p artial list the federal board of immigration in this [New York] city. The case The above, from our patriotic of the property we have for sale. was that of six Mohammedan im friends, is certainly to the point, migrants who had arrived from the and we begin to believe that the C ITY P R O P E R T Y . FA RM P R O P E R T Y , Orient on the steamer “California”. chains of religious intolerance are H a l f - A c r e L o t in W est S ilv e rto n ; At the Barge office, upon being being rapidly forged around the beautiful location for residence. $200. 2 3 acres, weli im proved, fine house, barn and o u tb u ild in g s, one m ile fro;,,’ questioned, it was learned that they necks of the unsuspecting people; C o r n e r L o t near th e L iberal U n i S ilverton, $4000. Will tra d e for larger all believed in the Koran. The but we wish our dear brothers o ’ versity. $100. farm of equal value n o t over tw en ty ts in S e c u l a r H o m e , location u nles from S ilv erto n . Koran sanctions polygamy. And the Seutinel could see the undenia to L su o it, a t $25, $50 and $75. from this the decision was arrived ble fact that the holy bible is not O n e S e t B la c k sm ith ’s Tools and 8 acres of sp len d id f r u it an d farm well estab lish ed business. A b arg ain at ing 3 1 land, at that they must not be allowed only full of polygamy, but that it $160. well im proved, good ru n n in g w ater, th ree m iles from »Silverton, a t $27 to land. is also the text book from which H o u s e a n d L o t near the depot. f>er acre. Can divide if necessary to As a matter of fact, not one of the persecutors draw their lessons $750. s u it p u rch aser. H o u s e and lot in c e n te r of tow n. the six Mohammedans had more of intolerance. But no matter, $3 75. than one wife. That they were po Brother Sentinel, we’ll not be too H o u s e and barn w th 1 ^ acres of 1 6 0 acres of fine tim b e r, e a r s large saw m ill, $1000. Logs can lie floated lygamists in practice, or contem cranky, for unless we who believe ¡and in »Silverton. $750. nearly all th e way to m ill. plated becoming such in this coun in religious liberty “hang together, try, no one claimed. They simply we’ll all hang separately.” bilverton is tlw hom e of Secularism , and fam ilies mo believe in the Koran, like all good ing here will have the splendid advantage of schoolir Mohammedans, and this w a s the The marshal of Kansas City th e ir children in the only Liberal U niversity in the worl whole case against them. starves the prisoners unless they There was an act of congress will attend religious services! In Silverton is beautifully situated in the g reat W illam et A fir passed in 1891 which enumerates olden times those in power burned valley in the foothills of the Cascade m ountains. polygamists among the classes such wicked people at the stake,but sp ark lin g stream affords splendid w ater power and gre: which it is thought proper to ex “the time of forcing people into re- advantages for drainage. W rite to us for fu rth er inform : Yours for business, clude from this country. Among igion has passed away”! We live tion. others named in this class are idi in a country where religious toler ots and insane persons, criminals, ance is practiced! Where men have IN FO R M A TIO N B U R EA U and E X C H A N G E . those suffering from loathesome or the power they will always oppress, W a t k HrKEt-T, contagious diseases, etc. To class and power never should be given OppoMite L iberal Hail. Silverton, Oregon. ify among such persons simple be into any man’s ht nds, for it will be lievers in the Koran is a proceeding abused. The marshal has no relig in which there is neither reason nor ion, I’ll wager a doughnut, but his justice. And w hen it is done, as in zeal to make people think he has th is instance, the conclusion at should bring out a public condem ANO once suggests its e lf that the real nation. He should be removed opposition in the matter is directed from office. He is worse than the INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS against the religion for which the men who burned heretics at the Koran stands. stake, for he lives in a different To teach , educate and confer degree» of sc h o larsh ip upon those who by stu d io u s This conclusion would not so century.—[Appeal to Reason. ness are e n title d to them in A rt, Science, L ite ra tu re , Law, P h ilo so p h y a n d Theol <»gy. I t is well known th a t h u n d re d s of people are hig h ly qualified in varioui readily come into view but for the lines of scientific research, and have become practical aw well as th eo re tic al schol fact that the United States has We will send the T orch of R eas arfi pnice leaving the school room and are deserving of a degree su ita b le to theii within recent years been posing as on one year to five new’ subscribers cal ling. M any are w orthy and fitted, and W estern U niversity ¡ h fully a u th o riz ed to honor such with a su itab le degree. O th ers, not q u ite ready, to aid th em oui a Christian nation. Not yet have for $3.7-5, and the party getting up ami U 1 in o eCt a »d/ tu d y ’ followed by neriodieal e x am in a tio n s and w hen th e candidate is qualified, to g ra n t a diplom a for a su itab le decree a c the last echoes died away of that the club will receive fifty visiting ‘*'a‘ m"5' decision by the supreme court, in cards for his trouble. These cards Fehruary^ thnt (his is a use. ’ as thev J have i n pnc/rnviniz of p k . .. . nave an engraving oi Vl w e stern u n iv e rs ity , are teachers, doctors, pastors fawv Vnristian nation . A n d with the the famous Wettutein badge beauti- D a n ic a , a u th o rs and inventors. For full p a rtic u la rs , address opening of congress next month, a fully lithographed at the left of million and a half ot names will your name. This ofler holds good J- H. R A N D A LL, Ph. D., M. D. INFORMATION B u re a u and E xchan^e W ESTER N U N IV ER SITY Absent Teaching Institute cotne bef>re the national legislature un til .Jan. 1st. P E O P L E ’S IN S T IT U T E C H IC A G O , IL L IN O IS