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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1899)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, APRIL 27, 1899. The question was raised: Why Do you want intake the Weekly v q u x R f h are there so many more witches vregonian'f ion can get it of us I Oregonian? You ---------- than wizards? In the eyes of the at the regular price, $1.50 a year, Torch of Reason? The oldest mention of witchcraft religious celibate, woman was the and we will give you the Torch of I t is only One D ollar a Y ear, and c o n tain s reading m a tte r th a t you can in Bavarian law is the imposition personification of seduction, and Reason for a year absolutely free, n o t get elsew here for th ree tim es the of a fine (12 shillings) upon per- had been from the beginning a sat- Think of it! Send in your orders, m oney. I t com es every week, too. sons who injure the harvests by ellite of Satan, the arch-seducer, Do you ta k e th e magic acts. The earliest recorded and his facile instrument in bring- instance of the infliction of the ing sin into the world with all its W e e k ly Oregonian? death penalty for witchcraft oc- woe. They add an equally con It is publiEhed a t P o rtla n d , ore., ■ V curred on June 18, 1090. elusive argument from physiology, E X -G O V . J O H N P . A L T G E L D . an d co n tain s m ore and b e tte r infor m atio n in regard to th e Pacific In the Canon Episcopi, adopted declaring that only an imperfect N o rth w est th a n any o th er p ap er,an d by the Ecclesiastical Council of animal could have been formed out A B o o k for t h e P e o p le is th e best news p ap er in Oregon. C O N T A IN S A L L T H E F A M O U S S P I t C H t S , L E T T E R S , You get six teen pages of good re a d Ancyra in 900, the belief in witch- of a crooked rib. M E S S A G E S AND E S S A Y S OF T H E A U T H O R . ing m a tte r each w eek, including all N A T IO N A L IM P O R T A N C E A N D craft is expressly declared to be a No sooner did the zeal of the P E O V E P R U Y L A IS R S IN U E T E OF th e news of th e n atio n an d th e R E S T E A R N E S T L Y C O N S ID E R E D . w orld, for only $1.50 a year. pagan delusion. A century later, authorities begin to relax than it T r u s t s , M o n o p o l ie s , G o v e r n m e n t in the'Corrector, issued as a guide was stimulated anew by the re O w n e r s h i p , C iv il S e r v ic e , T a x a t io n , \ A / i 11 V H I I a r r a n t 111 > U U a C G C p i for confessionalists, a year’s pen ligious orders and the secular E M l o e n c e t y io n Q u e F s r t a io u n d s , , T a S r t if r f i , k e E s d , u c L a a t b io o n r , ! ance is imposed upon any one who clergy, and especially by the chap- O r g a n iz a t io n s . I m p e r ia l is m a n o a A Good O ffer? believes in the nocturnal assem tains and confessors'of the rulers. HuNDRED ° THER ToR'cs D i s c u s s e d . Until May 9, 1899, you can H A N D S O M E L IB R A R Y E D IT IO N , t.O O O P A G E S , g et T he T orch of Reason and The blies and vigils known as the sab- One of the most bigoted and brutal S U B S T A N T IA L CLO TH, P O S T P A ID , $ 2 .5 0 W eekly O regonian *>oth one y e ar for only $1.50, th e price of th e Oregon bat. Curiously enough, in the six- of these ghostly functionaries was GEO. S. Bo WE N & SOM, Unity Bldg., CniCABO. ian alone. T his is only a lim ited teenth and seventeenth centuries, Mathias von Kemnat, court preacher Agenis wanted everywhere. Write tor terms. offer. You should tak e advantage of it a t once. papal inquisition denounced and of Friedrich I. of the Palatenate. persecuted as heretics all who did Another still more fervid zealot of Send all o rd ers for su b scrip tio n s an d for Forstners’s sam ple copies to not believe these things. Measures this work was the Jesuit, Jeremias were taken by the provincial synod Drexel, court preacher of Duke TH E TORCH OF R E A SO N , ■ 1 1 of Salzburg in 1569, calling upon Maximilian I. of Bavaria, from S ilv e r to n , Oregon. all who had any knowledge of 1615 to 1638. He was somewhat IS IN VALU A BE TO A familiarities, conventions,pacts and celebrated as a pulpit orator, and C a r p e n te r s a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g , confederations with the devil to re waxed eloquent in describing in such as lettin g in locks, as it tak es th e place of chisel and gouge; to port them to the bishop or his juries done to crops, kine and AND C a b in e t M a k e rs , for inlaid w ork, dow- official. The informers were as human beings by the maleficence elling, patch in g , rem oving sp lits and sured that they would have nothing of witches. “Thousands of this knots. In fact, no Silverton, Ore to fear, inasmuch as their names hellish brood have been burned at W a g o n o r P a t te r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r Main Street er of pianos, organs, sew ing m achines, would be kept secret. Here we the stake,” lie exclaims, “and shall ag ric u ltu ral im p lem en ts, sash; b lin d s, CAKRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF have the beginning of that system we accuse their judges of an unjust fu rn itu re , nor of espionage, anonymous denuncia sentence? Nevertheless, there are A n y O th e r W o o d w o rk e r, should be w ith o u t it. tion and private inquisition which some extremely frigid Christians S chool played so prominent a part in the who are unworthy of this name, AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED. S u p p lie s , subsequent history of witchcraft. and who resist with might and It ’8 th e only ro u n d b it in th e world th a t will bore a SQ U A R E H O L E Books and The first authentic cases of witch main the extirpation of this crew, and do all th a t any o th e r trial in Bavaria occurred under in order, as they sav, that, forsooth, bit will do. S ta tio n e ry . Duke Albrecht V. in 1578. With the innocent may not suffer. Oh, PRICES. Set of five,different siz e s,p o stp a id . .$2.60 the accession of Wilhelm V., sur- out upon these enemies of divine Single b it, p o stp a id .................................. GO honor! Does not the Holy Writ named the Pious, in 1579, persecu D ealers in F ruits, Vegetables tions and prosecutions of this kind expressly command: ‘Thou shalt Address, LIBERAL UNIVERSITY GO. increased in frequency and se not suffer a witch to live?’ I ap and C onfectionery. S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n . verity, and soon becoming epi peal to God’s behest and call, as demic, continued to rage for more loud as I can, on bishops, priests than a century in every part of the and kings to destroy with fire and Remember. country. The chief agents and in sword this worst of human pests.” stigators of this dreadful carnival A new era of enlightenm ent be- of cruelty were Dominicans and gan in Bavaria with the founding Jesuits, acting under instructions of the Academy of Sciences by the and th a t when you w ant First-class Goods at from Rome. The inquisitors who Elector Max Joseph on March 28, P opular Prices, a trial will he enough to con were sent to Bavaria as the pleni 1759. The secularization of the vince you where to trade and get the biggest b ar potentiary emissaries of the pope cloisters in 1803 destroyed the gains for your money. found the association of heresy last lurking places of the witch with sorcerv •F the most effective craft delusion.”—[“ Witchcraft in This week we open our spring line of Ladies’ weapon for the punishment and Bavaria,” by Prof. E. P. Evans. S k irts and Dresses. Ask to see our Scotch suppression of the former. \\ here Reason shed her pure Law ns— 16 yards for $1.00. No tro u b le to show 1 here is a general tendency light the witch fires flickered and ’em. They are world heaters. among recent defenders of the waned, but where God and the Mail O rders P rom ptly A ttended To. Sam ples Romish faith to resort to all sorts Bible reigned there they glowed all Sent Free on A pplication. of shifts and subterfuges, in order over the land, shedding their lurid to relieve their church from any glare, full of the agony of the inno- direct responsibility for witchcraft cent, over hill and dale and on the DREYER & C R A IG ^ ^ i persecutions. Goethe’s cynical re- rippling, happy water courses. SILVERTON. OREGON. mark, that writing history is one “ Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling STRICTLY ONE PRICE. PRODUCE TAKEN "’ay of disavowing the past and re- place, and wlu-n thou hearest ■ 1 - • --- pudiating its errors, applies with answer.” From this blissful dwell- * uliar pertinence to the efforts ofj jng place there came no help to the O ur Job D e p a rtm e n t. apologists to cleanse the of- burning victims of Holy Writ. ALWAYS GIVES fieial robes of his holiness from I 5J 5ft t such an ugly stain. It is a notori ous fact that the chief promoters of I ‘ r8ecutions for withcraft were If natural science is not the basis members of the monastic orders of a man’s education, he is hut im- B E C A U S E IT G IV E S 'lirectiy commissioned by the pope, perfectly educated. ‘ H O N EST STOCK, F IN E S T IN K A N D E X C E L L E N T W O R K H A N S H IP The Flickering Flam es of W itch Fire. the Z. Y 3 *** Ine "L IV E Q U E S T IO N S ” KINNEY PORTER ! A guinaldo’s Pow er is Broken, ----Satisfaction L