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the TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1898.
My Honest Opinions.
hills, noted for their height and
steepness.
H alf ar. hour was re­
(Continue«! from 3d page.;
quired for dinner, and then we sped latter. “ T rain up a child in the
on to Union Mills, where G. J. way he should g o , and w h 'ii he is
T rullinger lives. Mr. 1. subscribed old he will not d e p a rt from it,”
for the Torch and informed me th at but teach him th at he is a n atu ra l
Silverton is 18 miles away.
born devil, with a big D, and th at
. \ few miles from Union Mt!!“ 'lie Ciiu only be good through the
we arrived at a little village a n d I “ saving grace” of a religious sys­
To sell property
stopped at the post office to le a r n tem which he finds out in his ma-
To buv •Z a hom e
the name of the town.
1 he lady tu rer years is a bald-headed fraud,
To go into business
informed me th a t it is Liberal. and if he does not develop an evil
What a beautiful nam e for a town! n atu re it is because he was born too
To exchange real or personal property
I am proud to have it so near Sil- good t() 8pOji
To work, or to hire w orkers
verton.
Of course to ad m it this would
A N Y TH IN G
The next stopping place was Sil- ru jn t jie soft job of the clergy, and
verton, where we arrived in tim e t i,e wiley schemes of the good bro-
for supper and to note the work ¡ , |ier who professes religion and
W R IT E T O U S .
W E CAN H E L P YOU
th at has been done on the U niver­ joins the church for personal a d ­
sity.
W hen we left in J u n e the vantage, or protection from the con­
basement was not half done, but sequences of rascality. And such
now it is completed and the fram e­ will m ain tain it and teach it to
Address, IN FO RM A TIO N B U R EA U
work is up for the first story. The children and young persons of
W A T B R 8T K E K T ,
Silverton, Oregon,
dining h all has been treated to a whose innate confidence in hum an • ppoaite
L iberal H all.
fresh coat of paint and everything nature and want of knowledge of
The Pro% churchly wiles they can take ad-
looks bright and new.
peels are bright for this y e a rs vantage. But they let the well in ­
school, and the work is progressing forincd grey-beards severely alone
nicely.
1 he Secularists of the ( u n n i after they are dead).
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I nited States are co n trib u tin g and
They never approach me to war n
working to build up at) institu tio n Jne of ^he evil o£ ,ny ways, hut they
of which they may be justly proud. j,ave h u nted m y girl, behind my
Let us all do the best we can and back> and t r jed th eir wheedling on
the coming year will crown us with her
g h a lj j neglect the du ty I
success.
owe t 0 her and fail to warn her
Bike and I are a t home. \\ e againH( these treacherous hypo-
have traveled two thousand miles c rj£es? H ardly.
th is sum m er, and let us hope th a t
In ed u c atjo n , especially in the
much good will result from our na£ura| sciences, lies the “ hope of
C orner M ain and W ater Streets,
SIL V E R T O N , O R E.
labors. I am glad to he at home, redem p tion»\ The more knowledge
but anxious to go again or do any-
j,.gs rejjgjon# The less Jesus
thing whereby I can best serve the (he n)()re m o ra |ity .
£f the money
cause for which I live. The cu rtain an d e energy now
now’ fooH
rooiishly expended
H o w to M a k e
will now fall and next week will in building churches,feeding priests
witness a slight change and we will and otherw ise m ain tain in g th a t
begin Act II, Scene I.
degrading superstition called relig­
P earl W. G eer .
T he G o v ern m en t natio n alized th e Postal S ystem , why not als<
ion, were expended in building and
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[ I t took lots of «pace to get him m ain tain in g institution» of tru e
here, but we are glad he i» h o m e .' le«»rning free from priestly contam -
ination, this world would become a
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veritable paradise to what it is now.
You rem em ber the story of the Life would he w orth the living,and
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man in Ita ly who asked the priest th is earth would become a thing of
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if he really believed the religion of beauty and a joy forever.
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the country; and th e priest said:
These convictions are forced up­
“ Oh, no! we have to go slowly on on me by a life of some study and
account of the people; they believe observation, and I cannot say oth-
W ho D o es Y o u r
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it.”
And when the people were erwise and be honest. I expect to
asked if they believed it, they said: he m ade a subject for aspersion by
F ill it up, am i forw ard w ith
“ Oh, nol we are not such fools; tl»e clergy and th eir allies, after I
$1.00 to th e
h u t the priests believe it.” A nd so am dead.
The dead cannot talk
people play hide-and-seek w ith each back. And those who never dare
L ib e r a l U n iv e r s ity C o .,
U N C LE S A M ’S
H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E
C u t T h is O ut —.—\
P
other, not daring to tell the
m ficent, c le a r t r u t h
M. J. Savage.
o f th in g s .-
m ag-
Rev.
“ If it be true, as our d aily ex-
perience teaches us, th a t the m oral
sense gains iu clearness and power
by exercise, by the constant en-
deavor to find out and to see for
ourselves what is rig h t and w hat is
wrong, it m ust be nothing short of
a m oral suicide to delegate our
conscience to another m an .” — W .
K. Clifford.
Hezekiah “ They say th a t Skin-
got religion.”
ner Clutch hez
°
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O badiah—“ M ight
ez well stop _ th ’
_
revival, then, fer if he hez it ¡h e r’
won’t no one else git it.” —T ru th .
f,(r a
rinting ?
Silverton. Oregon
moment to cross controversial
swords with me in life, will find If von require any
their opportunity to do prodigies of
buckram valor when I am silenced
C a rd s o r C irc u la rs ,
by the inevitable,
B ill H e a d s ,
I have a kindly feeling towards
N o te o r L e t t e r H e a d s ,
my fellow m en, and I alw ays en­
S ta te m e n ts ,
deavor to be charitable tow ard
th eir frailties, rem em bering their
T ic k e t s , P ro g ra m s ,
education and environm ent. And
In v ita tio n s ,
“ w ith m alice tow ard none and char-
B e a k s o r P a m p h le ts ,
.. .
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lty for all, 1 expect to quit this
E n v e lo p e s ,
life
“ Like one who w raps th e d rap ery of his
O r an y o th e r P rin tin g , you will serve
.,
couch
. . . .
.
y o u r own in te re st and help su p p o rt
A ro u t h im , a n d lies dow n to pleasant
d re a m s.”
F. S. M atteson .
T u rn er, Ore.
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