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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 .
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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
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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
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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.
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.
,
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.
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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
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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).
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