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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1898)
6 TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1S98. A s V ie w e d in E n g la n d . W ESTERN ^-ZV va The indictment against Spain in Cuba is a terrible one. It seems pretty clear that the Cubans have A fund is being raised at Madrid been butchered, tortured and starv- for the purchase of a warship. The ed to death wholesale. At least two Bishop of Madrid is president of the hundred thousand have perished, committee for receiving suhscrip- more than half of them being heip- tions. Good old Christianty: This ¡ess women and children. Nothing is how it promotes peace on earth. like it has happened in recent times [Freethinker. except in Armenia. This is per- Is th ere U H yth t U o you leant? H ave you p ro p erty to seth ho you it'ish to ha a a hom e? ho you Irish To Jove God, to practice self-de ctived by the committee of the to oo i n to tm si // ess? ])o you w ish nial, to overcome desire, to despise American senate, whose report con to e.vehua o'e real estate or wealth, to hate prosperity, to desert tains the following passage: “The j personal p ro p e rty ? wife and children, to live on roots that Spain is a Christian state and berries, to repeat prayers, to does not give her greater warrant wear rags, to live in filth and to to exterminate her subjects than F riends :- -We have recently established a general Ex drive love from the heart — these, Mohammedan Turkey possessed to for centuries, were the highest and extirpate hers.” Quite true, gen change and Inform ation business in the th riv in g citv of most perfect virtues, and those who tlemen! The observation is most Silverton, and have for sale a n u m b er of town lots, vacant practiced them were called saints. excellent. Yet over here in Eng and im proved, some well established business enterprises _____ land the pulpits don’t ring o with de some splendid farm s near Silverton, and last hut not least —[Ingersoll. nunciations of the Spanish atroci- i ^ t s ill Although the ignorance and ties. Oh, dear no. The Spaniards ! crimes of the race have ever fallen are Christians, and that covers a most heavily on woman, yet in the SECULAR H O M E multitude of sins. general progress of civilization she Spain has never been anything has had some share. As man be „ else than a butcher outside her own a tract ot land ad jo in in g tin* Liberal L n iversity ground came more enlightened she of ne peninsula. She butchered in the and b eautifully situated for homes. Below is a partial list cessity enjoyed the results; but to of the property we have for sale. Netherlands, butchered in Mexico, no form of popular religion has wo butchered in Peru, butchered in the man ever been indebted for one W est Indies, butchered everywhere. C IT Y P R O P E R T Y . pulsation ot liberty. Obedience and FARM P R O P E R T Y , W herever she went she carried H a l f - A c r e L o t in W est Silverton ; subjection have been the lessons 2 J acres, well im proved, fine house, treachery and cruely. Her pres b eau tifu l location for resilience. $200. barn and o u tb u ild in g s, one m ile frobi taught her by all alike.— [Elizabeth C o r n e r L o t near th e Liberal U n i S ilverton, $4000. W ill tra d e for larger ence has always been a curse, and Cady Stanton. v e rs ity . $100. farm of equal value not over twenty in the interest of humanity we hope L o t s in S e c u l a r H o m e , location m iles fiom S ilv erto n . Priests maintain their false hut she will soon he driven back upon to s u it, at $25, $-50 and $75. profitable craft by nursing the her own soil, where she may stand A a,‘res of la,Hl in Silverton, O regon; 313 acre8 of sp len d id f ru it and farm- sanctified prejudices of the ignor a a cn chance o re trad e for /o°"87 ’ d .rU,t tree8’ etC’ WlU in* land’ ¡‘"Proved, good running a n ce of 01 becoming becom ing a a little little m m ore farm lan . w ater th re we,‘ e m iIes f, ol„ s i fverton at ant, w hose minds they keep so god- c iv iliz e d . I t is a ll v e ry w e ll to ! H o u s e a n d L o t n e ar th e depot, per acre. Can divide if necessary to su it p u rch aser. ridden that they cannot expand sneer at the Yankees, as a few (on $750. their ideas beyond their god-limit ly a few) Englishmen do; hut it $375°USe and lot in c e n te r of tow n. ... .. . , 1 6 0 acres of fine tim lrer, e a r s large ed sphere—the hotbed for the rank w ould be a d isg race to them if th e y H o u s e a ” <l barn w th l l8 acres of saw m ill, $1000. Logs can be floated growth of every foul weed of mural were insensible to the infamies that ian<l in silverton- LoO. nearly ad th e way to m ill. 1 noisomeness—all weakness, narrow are being perpetrated almost at j ness, and stupid bigotry in the their very doors. War is a terrible, Silverton is the home of Secularism , and fam ilies mov- bead; bitterness and cankered feel tbing: we bate it, and we hope it! jug here will have the splendid advantage of schooling ing in the heart. Perversity and will be avoided. But if the an- th e ir children in the only Liberal U niversity in the world, narrow-mindedness generally go kees decide that the Spaniard must together. When a person has spent be cleared out of Cuba, and that Silverton is beau tifu lly situated in th e great W illam ette valley in the foothills of the Cascade m ountains. A tine his days in the society of the ig they must do it, we feel sure that sp ark lin g stream affords splendid water power and great norant and superstitious, he gener they will have the sympathy ofthe advantages for drainage. W rite to us for fu rth e r informa- ally becomes false, narrow-minded, overwhelming majority of the peo- ; tion. Y ours for business, suspicious and selfish.—[Bible of pie of the mother country. And as Reason. England won’t stand much Span1 INFORMATION BUREAU AND EXCHANGE, The clergy agreed to pray for ish nonsense in the way of interfer-i rain last Sunday— the arrant ence with her commerce, it is just rdlverton, Oregon. quacks! The rain, however, out possiblethatLr.cle Sam and John Opposite Liberal h « il ran them, and came before they Bull may find themselves a good prayed. Rather disconcerting, no deal nearer before the trouble is doubt; but the prayer- machines are ended. And why not? They ought not easily put to the blush. When t0 have shaken both bands long the great fire occurred in Mel- ag°- AND bourne, during the bush fires vve As f°r Spain, what she has got have had, while the heat was kill- to do is to multiply schools, estab- iug the people, and in Queensland hsh freedom of thought and speech, INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS and Broken Hill, where the floods Put down the lordship of the Catho- are, the holy humbugs were useless. ♦ „ „ ¿ o h .a n < g ’Ve ^P bullfights; To teach , educate and confer degrees of sc h o larsh ip upon those who by studiou-- ess are e n title d to them in A rt, Science, L ite ra tu re , Law, Phil ness Philosophy an d T he«1- <4iy. I t is well known th a t h u n d re d s of people are highly qualified in various 1 hey could not even save their own the stream of civilization, lines of scientific research, and have become practical as well as th eo retical schol- joss-houses from , the wind and the I . What is at the bottom of Spain’s , , . . 1 ars since leaving th e school room and are deserving of a degree su itab le to their Lames; and find it necessary to go * cRwardness. Its religion. It is cab lin g . M any are w orthy and fitted, and W estern U niversity is fully authoriz- around, cap in hand, to en gullible people to give them money to rebuild what their god has fit to destroy! These are the fel-< haa kept the people the most pious Am ong th e p atro n s as stu d e n ts, and g rad u ates holding th e fine L atin diplom as low’s who are going to get rain for and the most ignorant in Europe, °! W estern U niversity, are teach ers, doctors, pastors, law yers, m erc h an ts, m* inventors. For full p a rtic n la rs, ad d ress, the the land — after the rain has directing their eyes to heaven in- '’ ulnic3, au,liors ami 1...... . come. Arrant sharpers and bare- stead of on the path of civilization faced jugglers is what they are and progress.—[Freethinker (Lon- J. H. R A N D A L L , Ph. D., M . D. [Liberator. !don). R E FLE C TE D RAYS. ',X INFORMATION H u r e a t i f in d E x c h a n g e W ESTERN U N IV ERSITY Absent- Teaching Institute q t I 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