T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , J A M ARY 27,
“converted "? Alas! How can yon
tight a religion th at is based upon
th e stu ltific a tio n o fth e intellect and
the crucifixion of the b rain ? Some
of those poor children will recover
from their attack of m ental sick-
ness called religion, but the weaker
ones never will, ih o se who be-
iieve in free brains and untram m el-
ed thought, in teaching how to
investigate, not how to believe,
should tty to help the L iberal
University
D. P riestley
■For the Torch of Reason.
Not W a r B u t Peace.
Great standing arm ies are
guaranty of peace. 1 hey are rath er
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menaces of war. 1 here is the great-
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est danger of war in the conn-
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tries where the arm ies are the
™nkee ’
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Nations with powerful arm ies
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and navies are tem pted to m ake use
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of more pretexts for declaring w ar
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against weaker nations, to secure
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portions of their territo ry , to take
from them certain strategic or com-
mercial advantages, or even to
turn attention from discontent and
threatened insurrection at home.
powerful arm ies tem pt to conquest
and plunder, to n atio n al injustice
if w ar „ -„ „ u |„, <■„ gr(,a( (hh)g f|U.
the United S tates.”
M any who talk thus do so, par-
rot-like, repeating w hat they hear
or read from jingoes, not knowing
really what war m eans. If they
could have experience of war; could
see the killed and w ounded; th ed e-
struction of ihe products of labor;
the widowhood, orphanage, poverty i
and w retchedness; the burden of
heavy taxation continued through
years to pay for the loss and ex­
penses caused by the war; the
brutalizing effects of war upon the
ignorant or those needing the re­
strain ts of home and peaceful social
life: the general dem oralization
which results more or less from
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war; if they could have experience
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Ot these, they would be less Hip­
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pant in talking
about war, less
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noisy in shouting for war with
E n g lan d , G erm any, Spain, Jap a n
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and other nations whenever a n y
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th in g occurs which may he a pos-
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Slide subject for controversy be-
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tween the L nited States and those
C()Untrjes
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I have heard recently th a t you
are try in g to found a Liberal U ni­
versity in your city, and although
only a poor boy myself, I think I
can spare a dollar for so .w orthy a
cause, and consequently you find it
enclosed. I think Silverton is to
he congratulated u upon
p i n i the
Rut; f energy
lie r e V
and in d u stry of her Infidels in thus
founding the first U niversity in the
L .S . in which young people can he
fa,,gbt V‘at wdiich is useful, with- i
° evwy
ut a n I,,b,.rai
u x tu re of „ superstition.
If
,/p - g
men arm ed and equipped for
fighting, and great navies on the
sea in constant readiness to move to
whatever point they are ordered.
Thnao
»«ill;
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Ihesem
.lhonsof t men whose
contribute even the sm all sum of
one dollar, ihe University would
soon be a grand success. Hoping
‘b i It th e ^ t h i n k e r s everywhere
finaneia
in behalf
o W,B
ftb „ respond
,i lliv,.r8itv.
I am y fratern
ally ,
n
of
ness it is not to produce, hut to de-
st,oy, have to be supported by ta x ­
ing the poorly paid, poorly fed and
pnorly clad people who toil like
slaves for a living. All the costly
business of war is carried on at the
expense of the people, whose real
interests are advanced only by
PMace and the p u rsu its of industry.
Ihe U nited States, separated
from Europe by the ocean and not
in need of alliances with an y
European nation?«, either for offen-
?i\.‘ or defensive purposes, does not
r ’f d a great stan d in g arm y.
1 here are m any people in this
r‘ public, who are so much under
f ' influence of the m ilitary sp irit
which has deluged the earlh with
blood and debased and enslaved
populations, th a t they talk as
R espectfully invite von to visit
th eir estab lish m en t and con­
vince yourself th a t they are
show ing th e greatest line of
G eneral M erchandise in M arion
cou n ty at p o p u lar prices.
Mail orders given p ro m p t atten tio n .
Y ours to Please
beantifv the earth and bless m an-
kind. These are the victories for
l,s t() achieve to become perm anent-
,y. Preerni'»ent am ong the nations
^ , ' o t d y X J n r r i ^ t e are'ln v m R
cd and when all the resources of
peace have been exhausted w ithout
obtaining justice
B. F. U nderwood
A. WOLF & SON
S ilv e rto n , Oregon.
C u s ite r & D a v e n p o rt
DEALERS in -
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y / i ERCHANDISE
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H arry
T. S m ith .
TORCH OF REASON
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Corner Main and W ater Streets,
S IL V E R T O N , O RE.
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DEALERS IN
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A G R IC U L T U R A L
IM P L E M E N T S
runs, F ish in g Tackle, C utlery, S porting G oods„E tc., Etc.
SILVERTON, OREGON.
Secularists
-O r anybody
SEND US YOUR J0BW 0RK
W e W ill Do I t F o r You
Neatly, Quickly, and
For Less Money
KEEP THE TORCH OF REASON
BURNINÛ.”
New and selected secular sonxs set
to familiar tunes.
Thirty-two paxes.
Price io cents.
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ano crime.
Yet such is the disposition and
the m ilitary p reparation of the
great nations of C hristendom —
nearly 1900 years from the lim e
that Jesus exhorted men to love
tneir enemies and to return good
for evil— th at when nations are
contiguous to one an o th er and have
great common interests, each find
it necessary to keep a large sta n d ­
ing arm y which can he mobilized at
a m oment’s notice. W ith o ut such
an arm y no E uropean n atio n —ex
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eept by the general agreem ent of
the powers—could preserve its na-
tionality.
The result is th at the great Chris-
tia n n u t iz ^ o . r i?
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tian nat.ons.of Europe 1 keep m.l-
1H>S.
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