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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1898.
that to find the causes of these and legs. It may l>e impossible for encircles the earth with an atmos
kindred evils and their proper rem man to ever know how to live for phere of its poisonous breath. We
edies is the highest work that can ever, hut it is possible, probable are in earnest. This Anarchy of
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engage the minds of men. and we and much to be desired that his the gods is a deadly and present
Published W eekly by the L ite ra l I Di are never happier than when try prime of life he much prolonged, enemy. We must tear down its
versity Com pany, in the In terests of
ing to find out, and point out, the and also that his strength, physical strongholds before the world can
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
things that if removed will leave and mental, be much increased. move at any but a snail’s pace.
J. E. Hosmer,..................... Editor the human family richer in every When children can be horn of par Life is too short at present to waste
P. W. Geer,.................... Manager true sense. Allow us then to be ents who can see five times as far any time. Let us up and at it!
happy while we point to what we as we can and can see things five
E ntered at the postoffice at Silverton, conceive to be the most dangerous times as small, who can detect five
D o d g e rs .
Oregon, as second-class mail m atter.
thing in our body politic—the worst times aR readily by taste and smell
The preachers are great fellows
anarchy in the world—a more the presence of poisons in their
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Some weeks ago we quoted from
num ber. You are earnestly requested sion. Open its closet and see its this wolf in lamb’s clothing—this
to renew so th a t you m ay receive the pa skeletons. Climb to its steeple and, Anarchy of all past ages—this Su the scripture, “The fear of the Lord
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de
cided th a t it is l>est for all concerned as its great bell lings, hear the perstition that is the cause of our is the beginning of wisdom.”, and
th a t we do no t send papers longer th an screechings of the owls and bats of disunion and stupidity—this ball remarked that it is not true, but
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
This will p revent any loss and we will the dark ages. Is there a greater and chain that is soon tied around that the love of the truth is the be
know ju st where we stand.
cause of confusion? Is there any the neck of every little life that ginning of wisdom. Now here
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scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. good people? If Christianity was ed and cursed, and in turn made hurls at our wicked heads the “new
a thousand years out of sight in to cramp and curse others. O, the version”, which has changed the
THURSDAY, NOV. io, E. M. 298 the past, as it will be some time, Anarchy of the gods! Its bombs word “fear” to the word “love”,and
what could prevent good people of poisonous vapors are being thus tries to show that we are “wav
Anarchy!
from uniting, and what could stop thrown even now into our district oft”.
The bible that has been the guide
There are, among our friends, the great tide of everlasting secular and our state schools, and the red
certain peaceable, good-hearted, in righteousness that would cover the handed murderers of honest thought of Christian people for hundreds of
telligent people who honestly be whole earth? Think of the great are at the doors and in the halls of years says “fear”, and God is a
lieve that it would be better for the possibilities! Once the old element every state and national assembly. strange being to allow his word to
world if there were no govern of disunion gone, schools of natural Social life is but one narrow pa be so misrepreserted, and if men
ments. They think that “each in and moral science would take the triotism for “our church” and a made such a great blunder when
dividual should be a law unto him place of the full-blood theological broad hate for foolish neighbors they first translated it were not
self" and that every case of in- and mongrel schools of superstition, who believe in sprinkling, or in those who translated it the last
fringnment upon the rights of an and what would be the effect? immersion, or are Catholics, or Lu time apt to make fully as serious
other, or on the community, should Think, () think, of the possibilities! therans, or are Methodists, or are blunders? But this does not alter
have a law when needed, and this Let us learn a great lesson from a lost. And all this comes from cling the case, anyway. Neither the fear
law should be made by the parties simple thing in Mother Nature’s ing to the ideas of old priests, of the Lord nor the love of the
concerned. We do not wonder that book. Look at this little fly. The whose books are held sacred by the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
some believe thus, for the great sum of the debtor and credit side ignorant and claimed to be holy by No one can love a thing that does
struggle for political and financial of its existence is balanced, and the hypocrites—a book which says not exist. Neither can one love a
On “thou shalt not lie,” hut contains thing that does exist if he has no
pow’er has turned the dark side of we say its life is short.
what it is like. If you
even our own free America to the credit side we find the more lies than any other—a book conception
don t believe it, try to love vour
ward many of us who would fain resources of its little life, and which says “thou shalt not steal,” uncle whom you have never seen
put on rose-colored glasses—glass on the debtor side there is its and yet teaches that the chosen and don’t know whether he is alive
es that only turn the blackness longevity (net stock) and its liabil people stole at their god’s command or dead, or whether he ever did
red, and we behold blood — the ities. All on the credit side has —a book which says “thou shalt really exist or not.
repeat, “the love of truth is
blood of the poor victims who have helped make its life as long and as not kill," and yet records much the We
beginning
of wisdom”, and we
gone down in the terrible struggle happy as it is, while all the liabili murder, and worse than murder, add that the fear and the love of
against poverty and tn the riotous ties have helped to make its life under the leadership of God him gods is idiotic.
crimes that always follow in its short, and given it all the paiu and self—a book that borrowed from a
The Christians are trying to have
footsteps. No, we do uot wonder. suffering it has endured. Now heathen sage, who lived five hun
what
if
from
the
liability
side
of
dred
years
before,
the
golden
rule
a Christian Endeavor convention in
We wonder that it is not worse.
Silverton,
and one of the ministers
But we cannot agree with our so- fiy life there could be taken all, or that “ what so-ever ye would that expressed the
idea that God might
called Anarchistic friends that no nearly all, the evils that keep it a others should do unto you, do ye send a thunderbolt and strike down
government is the remedy, nor that puny, short lived creature, would even so unto them,” and then by our k reethought school. Another
’ould the doctrine of eternal punishment thinks that if the ministers get to
each individual can he a law unto it be long before its longevity W
himself. Men are far from perfect, bean eternity compared with its gives it the lie—a book that is said gether and pray, God might be in
duced to destroy us.
and the only safeguard of civiliza present existence? And is it not true to eminate from an all wise being,
We are not the least bit afraid of
tion is the highest expression of of man? Our lives are too short. and yet contains theories that a god, for no one has ever proven
right by the people. This we call Before our bones are hardly stiff every school boy knows to be scien that such a being exists, and the
Anarchy? only danger is that the prayers and
law, and through it we have, or enough to support our bodies, the tifically impossible.
should have, self-government of the deposit of lime is so great that our What is Anarchy? Is it confu fool talk of these preachers may
induce some of their tools to do
people, for the people. The far bones become dry and hard like dead sion? Supernatural religion causes something
foolish. How much
ther governments get awav from things that they are. Our muscles confusion, aud is confusion that better it would be if God’s agents
this idea and become centered in only become strong and active to at enters the minds of men as soon as could be induced to teach science
the hands of a domineering few, once begin to be flabby, rheumatic, they are old enough to think. It and morality instead of “stuffing
the more tyrannical they become gouty and soon lose their elasticity. starts in the home, reaches out to people*’ with old worn out lies and
and the more there will he who! Our nerves are soon weakened, the 8cli<N>], affects for evil the social inciting them to war against those
learn through false government to our blood becomes sluggish, and life of young snd old, holds gov who are teaching the truths that
despise all government. We think our organs of sense become sense- ernm ents in its bony clutch and, will lengthen men’s lives and make
them happier, wiser aud better.
Torch of Reason