IIIE roR«-H OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1898.
5
years ago. Since then th e holy
men have hern g rin d in g out priests
and beer by the car load.
Bishop
O’Connor, the first prelate of P itts­
burg, raised a big kick at the holy
}.. er and carried the light against it
all the way to Koine. Arch Abbot
Wimmer, the then head of the sa-
r»-d brewery, w e n t to see lire pope
in defense of the blessed juice. Pius
IX. was the pope then, and Pius
net only told the holy man to keep
on making his beer, but raised the
brewery to tbe d ig n ity of an Arch
Abbey so th at it would be beyond
*tbe jurisdiction of an y one-horse
bishop to make trouble.
Abroad.
My Stay in .Junction City was a
pleasant one, ami J „iet m any
frie n d s I b a d
n o t see»» b e fo re.
J
received some subscriptions f,,r tbe
T orch and a fifty-dollar donation
for the I ni versitv.
Tuesday m orning we (my bike
and I) left Junction City for H a r­
risburg, wiiere we spent a few hours
am ong the good people, two of
whom subscribed for the T orch .
after which we started on a long
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tends through a fiat, prairie coun-
It seems th at a man nam ed P he­ tiy , and on account of the mud the j
lan is the bishop of P ittsburg now, bicycle would have to ride occas-
and Phelan is one of the leading ionally while I waded. This did Pupils are Given Every O pportunity to Learn W ithout
Being Hampered by Superstitions am i Dogmas.
patrons of the brewery, so it is not hinder m uch, however, and we
left
the
r<>ad
behind
us
pretty
live­
doubly safe from his interference.
A staff representative of the Voice ly. We tried to find a Secularist
visited the holy brewery, incog.,and along the road, but ail our search
had a high old tim e with the holy seemed in vain until, after travel­
men. The priests th ought him to ing a distance of fifteen miles, we
be a good Catholic, so they rushed stopped at a farm house to enquire
I knew by the friendly
the growler, gave him fine H a ­ the way.
vanas to smoke and made m erry smile of the lady who met me at A Splendid Corps of. Teachers and Good Facilities for
leu tiling.
Lor information, address
generally. At the door of the brew­ the door that she must he a Secu­
J. E. HOSMER, Ph.D ., B.S.D , P re sid e n t,
ery was found a dish of holy water larist, so after enquiring the road I
decided to investigate further. Sec­
SILVERTON.
OREGON.
for the use of the holy soaks.
ularists usually “ take thought for
Last Fourth of Ju ly the big $250,-
the morrow ’ and as a consequence
000 church gave a big beer picnic
have their larders filled wbh good
for the benefit of the construction
things, so I offered to buy a glass
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fuud.
A thousand kegs of holy
beer was dru n k and $4000 was net of m ilk, as it was near supper time
and the oil and compressed air on
ted toward the construction of the
which I fed the bicycle is not good
big god-house. Three m onths ago
food for man, unless it he a politi­
a party of the brethren went on a
Corner Main and V» ater Streets,
cian and an Esquim au.
To my
church toot, drank <5 kegs of holy
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beer, got into a free fight, in which surprise, the lady refused to sell
m ilk, and, to my greater surprise,
one man was alm ost killed and
she escorted me into the kitchen
fourteen were arrested, and all for
and set before me m bounteous feast
the glory of God.
There are over
that made my stom ach erv for joy.
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J'X) students at this brew ery-m on­
It is needless to say that I did am ­
astery, many of w hom are studying
ple justice to the meal, for which
for the priesthood.
the lady would take no pay. I
1 his thing of ru n n in g a brewery learned that s h e and her husband
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under com m and of the pope and
are both Secularists, and she ac-
Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Sporting Goods Etc Etc
drinking 1000 kegs of beer for the
cepted a subscription to the T orch
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w
gb»ry of God in a single day is very of R eason , after which I bade her
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exciting business.
good by,m ounted my hike and sped
W. E. J ohnson .
away down the road.
No other
Id
L o c a tio n H e a lth fu l
S o c ie ty G ood.
E x p e n s e s M o d e ra te .
C u s ite r & D a v e n p o rt
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H icks & Am es
le n th A n n u al C o n v en tio n .
Secularists could be found. I was
referred to a m an who “ had a pe­
culiar religious belief”, h u t on in­
vestigation I found him to lie the
most superstitious of men, looking
for his Jesus to come ami take him
w ithout a m om ent’s warning. 1
gave him a copy of the 'T orch and
hope he has recovered from the
shock it undoubtedly gave him.
I he Tenth A nnual Conveutioi.
<’f the Oregon S tate Secular Union
"hl He held at W agner, Oregon,
three days, beginning S unday, Ju ly
L. M. 298. This is the first time
a ’" ’ivention has been called to
t in this p art of the state, and a
We arrived in Albany about
"I1 • i.tlid time is anticipated.
The
l'r-. day will he devoted to exercis- dark, just as the rain began to p at­
ter down. The next m orning it was
at the grave of K atie Kehm
raining hard and the roads were too
miili, and the second day to the
slick for the bicycle, so I took the
* ‘ ’ ration of Independence D a y .
train for Lebanon, fifteen miles dis­
1,1 program will he announced
tant.
A rriving there, J enquired
laler -
P earl W. G eer ,
for a Secularist, and w as referred to
President.
G. E. H ardy, who welcomed me to
S'lverton, Or., May 5, 1898.
his jewelry store and subscribed fi r
the T orch of R eason .
He also
* t i d e Tom’s Cabin will be plav- made me acquainted with several
1 hursday night, in the canvas others, and as a consequence I ob­
Pavillion, hack of Coolidge A Mc- tained seven subscriliers and met
' 1 «One’s hank, Silverton.
(C ontinue 1 on 8th page.)
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