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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. The mosque, even, m ight be of a copy of the Torch of Reason
in danger of destruction if the m i­ feong Book No. 1. T his will only-
litia were slow in getting to the cost you a few m inutes’ work and a
spot.
2 cent stam p.
erful argum ent in favor of m anual
training in the public schools. The
m ajority of children are so active
that thev * develop * th eir own brains
and nerves to a certain extent along
these lines. W here they fail to do
so. we get the tram p and the sloven.
I, is a physical im possibility to ac­
quire skill and dexterity in any art
unless the foundation has been laid
in the form ation of the m otor
nerves before the age of sixteen.—
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