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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1899)
3 surely the man who can take that F o r th e T o rch of R e ,« ,u . wise, but the offer w as not accepted. A Bad Lot. creed and profess to like it, has A Polygamous Congressman, Representative Carpenter, of Wis something the matter with his ---------- consin, in his famous speech excus BY D. PRIESTLEY BY CHARLES CLARK MILLARD. brains, or else he is merely preach- ing or justifying his course in vot ing for the back-salary-grab law, Mr. Moody, while talking to the lin« and does n<’' eJtP « ‘ t0 t* takeu The alleged crime for which the indirectly admitted that it was inmates of the Colorado state pris seriously. religious press would have Mr. common for a member to have a Newberg, Ore. on, said: Roberts, the “tripple alliance” family at Washington, besides the “We are natnrally bad, the whole member-elect from Utah, excluded one he left in his district; and the Mrs. Stanton on Mrs. Place. crowd of us. The first man born from a seat in the national house religious editor« did not howl. of woman was a murderer. Sin It is asked why women should be of representatives, is not a “malum Then, the enormity of the offense leaped into the world full grown and the whole race has been bac exempt from capital punishment. in se”, but only a “malum prohib does not cousist in a member of Because they have no voice in the itum”. It is a crime only when congsess having more than one wo ever since ” laws, no representation in the gov and where prohibited by law; man, but in publicly acknowledg After Mr. Moody had delivevec ernment. This is a “male oli himself of the above glad tidings o garchy.” Men make the laws and therefore if Mr. Roberts has violat ing, protecting and caring for their ed no law, he is guilty of no wives or concubines. Those wrho great joy, he told the convicts that compel women to abide by them. crime assume that they are the good peo he held in his hand a pardon for Men decide what deeds are crim It appears, from numerous ex ple of the United States are willing one of them, from the governor. inal, drag women into their courts Of course there was great excite to be tried by juries of men, advo tracts in the Literary Digest, that that public thieves and robbers ment as to who it was for. It was cates men, judges men, imprisoned the law of Utah against plural shall sit in the house, with the sa for one of the women. When she and watched by men, their heads marriages is not retro-active, and loon keeper, the partner of courte received it she buried her face in shaved, dress adjusted, strapped in the law enacted for the same pur sans and the frequenter of “dives”, the nurse’s lap and wept, and the the chair for electrocution by men, pose by congress does not apply to if they admit that what the good account says that nearly all the in the presence of men, without a any state; and, as the “tripple al people profess to believe is correct. liance’’ was concluded at a time and Practice is nothing; theory is ev prisoners shed tears. word to say as to the law or its ex place when and where no statute erything. They were rejoiced, not that they ecution. law existed prohibiting it, the ver This man’s conduct is no worse were free, but that another person I am opposed to the death pen dict in this case must be, “ No crime than that of other members, past was free. That was disinterested alty in any form, for men or wo benevolence, and showed the utter men,but the fact that woman has no has been committed”. But it is and prospective, but he docs not falsity of Mr. Moody’s creed. That voice in the laws, no representation claimed that he should be excluded hide it—he believes he is doing creed evidently does not fit the in the government, makes her as because he is immoral; and the on right; away with him! But, should a polygamist be ad Colorado penitentiary. It would helpless as dogs or cats in the ly immorality alleged is the having be better adapted to some cannibal hands of the vivisectionists, outside three wives. If Col. Ingersoll were mitted to membership in the house? a member of the house he could, No; certainly not! The house island. the realm of justice and mercy. Compare those ninety and nine What a picture is presented us at and doubtless would, consistently should, immediately after its organ convicts shedding t< ars of joy over this time for contemplation. The object to the seating of Mr. Rob ization, adopt a rule declaring that one sinner who was to escape, with great state of New York on one erts on account of immoral conduct; “only men who have heretofore and a person who expects to escape an side and an ignorant, unbalanced that is, conduct not conducive to do now keep themselves unto one eternal prison by turning state’s and half crazy woman on the other, the best welfare and the greatest woman, their own lawful wife, or evidence — a man who began to about to suffer the death penalty happiness of men, women and unto none if they are single men, commit crime six thousand years for a horrible crime which no sane children. But ministers, religious shall be eligible to a seat in this editors and church members gener body”. Then the gentleman from before he was born. person could possibly perpetrate. ally have solemnly pledged them Utah could retire gracefully and in Mr. Moody says, “The first man For the protection of society she selves to take the Bible for “their honorable company, the house born of woman was a murderer/’ must be punished, but let her sen That’s it—“born of woman”! It is tence be commuted to lifelong im only and sufficient rule of faith and could retain its self-respect and the so much better to be made of dirt. prisonment. Such criminals as practice”, and the Bible forbids po office of representative might here But, after all, according to the in Mrs. Place, now doomed to death, lygamy,if it forbids it at all,only in after be compelled to seek the man. spired fable, it was religion that must be deprived of their liberty, certain special cases. If bishops, At an inquest recently held in caused the first murder. It was a but capital punishment is a barbar deacons, etc., are prohibited from having more than one wife, which England on the body of a woman quarrel between Cain and Abel as ism unworthy this stage of our de is doubtful, other men are not; and who died of starvation while her to which God liked’best, mutton or velopment and a disgrace to the church people are estopped by husband and his housekeeper were garden truck. They were fire-wor Christianity and civilization of the their own act from calling enjoying themselves at the seaside, shippers. Paul said, “Our god is a nineteenth century. The parapher that immoral which their “only a “mission lady” who had visited consuming fire.” Abel’s mutton- nalia of death by electricity is more rule of faith and practice” nowhere the deceased stated in her testimo fat would burn (the god would re harrowing in its details than the condemns. ny that she was not at all conoern- ceive it), but the cabbage which gallows, and both are revolting to “The father of the faithful”, the ed with the condition of any suffer Cain brought would not burn. the moral sense of the community. man “after God’s own heart”, and er she might visit except in a Mr. Moody says the whole race There is a sentiment of tenderness thousands of the best and most “spiritual” wayl This is true has been bad ever since. A man and compassion in the soul of every | faithfu, ..B(.rvantg of God.. und(M. Christian love! What matters it if who has had father, mother, broth man that revolts at the crucifixion the special leadership of Jehovah, the body starve to death so the ers, sisters, wife, friends and neigh of a mother of the race, even in the bors, who has experienced all the form of the most ignorant and de for more than fifteen hurdred years “soul” be “saved”? To feed the —including prophets, priests and body only defer’s the soul’s eternal endearments of love and friend graded woman. The time has come for New York, kinK8 ~ ha<1 morB wiveH ,haD haB bliss. Why don’t the Christians ship, and then can pronounce such a verdict as that upon those who the great leader in the sisterhood of the member-elect from Utah, and all try to reach heaven a little have loaded him with blessings a states, to abolish this relic of bar- in not a single instance were they more quickly?—[Secular Thought. and give the criminals, by reproved for so doing. Has God so thousand times beyond his merits, barism useful labor for years, the oppor- changed that what pleased him furnishes the nearest approxima unity to atone in a measure for In every country and in every tion to total depravity which it is beir crimes, and benefit society by ; then displeases him now?. “ M hat age the priest has been hostile to God hath cleansed” Christians liberty; he is always in alliance possible for an unregenerate sinner heir patient industrv. By making our prisons what they should not “call common or un- with the despot, abetting his abus to imagine. The man who, like be, schools of reformation, clean”. Mr. Roberts says that es in return for protection to hia M hittier, tries to take the old creed ■hould where the best . elements in » the hu- ufu, . , , j Christians must learn to V« be more own.—[Thomas Jefferson. under protest, sayiug, man mind can be awakened and de- a , - , veloped, men and women might “ ’¡«rant of polygamies or give up But still my human hands are weak graduate as skilled laborers,scholars the joyous hope of finallyresting “Christian science” is not posi To hold your iron creeds; Against the word you bid me speak in the rudiments of learning, with in Abraham’s bosom.” tive, but entirely negative. It is My heart within me bleeds” ; clearer , moral perceptions and with s . . nrigbam Young once offered to founded on denials of things that new hopes and ambitions, a bless-’ or like Albert Barnes, who ex- ing to themselves the familv and re^orm and from that time restrict exist, and affirmations of condi- 7 * 1 • « » • A * • claims, “ It is all dark, dark to my the _ © state.—[Elizabeth Cady Stan- himself to one woman if all the tions which have no reality.— soul!” is entitled to sympathy. But (ton. members of congress would do like-1 [Flaming Sword. For the Torch of Reason. . a . . a • a a • a a .