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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1899)
3 T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON. FE B R U A R Y 2, 1899. Suppose that the sultan should ask for in d e m n ity and the M oham medan priests should dem and th at a Turkish fleet be sent here to en- force the dem and, would such an a ttitu d e be deemed an indication of a fine moral and religious sp irit? Our governm ent will obtain from Turkey paym ent covering the am ount of property belonging to Am ericans which was w rongfully destroyed by T urkish subjects, but [S e cu la r T h o u g h t. it can take up the cause of the m is sionaries only as A m erican citizens Jingoism and H issionary E nter whose rights as such have been vio prise. lated by T urkish subjects. The Spanish-A m erican war has BY B. F. UNDERWOOD. no religious aspect for our govern It is surprising how jingoistic our ment. The m ajority of the people m issionary organizations and their of this country are P rotestants. organs and representatives have be The m ajority of S p an iard s are Ro come. They dem and the annexa m an Catholics. But the defeat of tion of the P h ilippines as a duty Spain by the U nited States is not O ur which the United States owes to the defeat of Catholicism . C h ristian ity and civilization. M any governm ent cannot favor P rotest se^m to regard a Spanish-A m erican a n t m issionaries in the Phillipiues. war, not in purpose, but in fact, as Such a policy would be contrary to a trium ph of P rotestantism over the principles of our governm ent Catholicism and th in k th at an op and it would be short sighted. W e portunity to do m issionary work in have had no q u arrel with S pan the Philippines, in Porto Rico and iards as C atholics, but only with Cuba is the great service which th e '^ p a in as a nation th a t has by its war, if these islands are annexed, cruelty and oppression kept up will have done for the P ro testan t strife on an island near our coast. Our governm ent has no right to faith. These people w anted the U nited interfere with the religious beliefs States to send a fleet to C o n stan ti of Cubans, Porto Ricans or Phillip- nople to dem and a t the can n o n ’s pinos, and it has no disposition to Yet m any zealots would m outh th a t T urkey pay for the do so. dam age done hy M oham m edans drag our governm ent into a posi to American mission property in tion of quasi-support of a m ission These people are Arm enia. For those whose busi ary enterprise. ness it is to preach the gospel of at perfect liberty to labor in m is peace on earth and good will to sionary enterprises on the present men, this was rath e r a belligerent lines and under present m ethods and th a t ought to satisfy them . attitude. But let this be rem em bered, th a t A p p ro p riate H usic. it is no part of the work of our gov ernm ent to assist in m issionary A traveling showm an recently work. Our governm ent will insist on paym ent for the destruction of ssfid: “ I took out a tableau show some the property of Am erican citizens tim e ago, and I had some queer who were living peaceably in T u r key. But the wrongs done to mis experiences. We alw ays had tro u ble getting ruitable m usic, for one sionaries will be d ealt with as wrongs done to Am erican citizens, thing. I rem em ber th a t we struck and the m eans and m ethods should one town where the music was fu r be left to the governm ent. It will be nished by a seedy, freckle-faced time enough to send a fleet to Con young m an, who officiated a t a stantinople when all pacific m eth w reck of a piano. “ I asked him if he could think of ods have been exhausted for the re music ap p ro p riate to each picture dress of the wrongs done. The feeling between the a d h e r as it was displayed. ‘Certainly he ents of different religions is often could, and do it im p ro m p tu .’ The very bitter and it is not alw ays pos perform ance opened. H e was seat sible for the au th o rity to prevent ed at the piano and he turned to outrages on persons and property, look a t the first tableau. It was a owing ,o religious bigotry and fa- rep "« en W ti« n of Adam and Eve naticism , when m issionary work is in ,he G ar,len of E d en - Like a undertaken. If a score of M oham flash he turned and began pound m edans should come to an A m eri ing out, ‘T here’s Only One Girl in this W orld for Me’.” can village and hold religious meet ings and gain converts to their Rem em ber, if you send us the faith, they would lie entitled to nam es and addresses of 25 of *. protection as T urkish subjects, but your Liberal friends and acquaint- what a riot th eir labors would stit ances, we will m ake you a present ¿ik| up. 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