THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 25, 1899.
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“ Dog in the M anger.’
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(Continued from 5th page,)
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(Concluded from 1st page.J
This I take it to be your position,
necessarily come through the re­
I Mr. Hosmer. The majority of the Plym outh
jection of their teachings.
• people have decreed that certain
In the same way our political
amounts of the public funds shall . Rocks . .
The Bible and Progress.
C H A M P IO N S O F T H E
NORTHW EST
Bred fo r S iz e , B eauty
and Egg Production
Eggs from m y Prem ium Stock, $3.00 per 13.
J. W. BROWN
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.
Silverton, Ore.
progress has come. The practical
be devoted to educational purposes,,
acceptance of the Bible as the
and although you have been op-J
I
measure and standard of man’s po­
T h e G re a t
posed, and that rightly, to any or i
litical rights would have held man­
all of these funds being used for the
kind in perpetual submission to
Vitæ=0re Remedies
benefit of sectarian institutions, j
the rule of tyranny. The Bible
your opposition and that of vonr
teaches that kings rule by divine
No Need to Suffer from A ny Disease.
co-laborers has been effective in so
right, and that resistance to them
far that no line of distinction has
on the part of the people is sin.
E lixir
been drawn excluding heterodox!
B a c te ria c id e
It says: “The powers that be are
institutions from the benefit con­
V IT Æ -O R E Eucalyptus Oil
ordained of God. Whosever, there­
O re -O lin e
ferred, so that you are strictly en- |
M e d ic a te d Soap
fore, resisteth the power, resisteth
titled to come in for your share of:
the ordinance of God; and they
them. If there is any inconsist- ]
A gent
PEARL W. GEER
that resist shall receive to them­
selves damnation.” Every upris­ ency in your applying for an ap­
S ilv er to n , O r e g o n .
ing of a people to free themselves propriation designed to elevate
from a tyrant’s yoke, every act of mankind, while opposing every at­
resistance to the oppressions of a tempt to lower it, I fail to see it. j
Where is the inconsistency in j
despotic ruler, has been a practical
denial of the authority of this Proudhon not surrendering his
Scripture, and, therefore, heretical. property rights, contending that to I
The English barons were heretics hold them is robbery? The state
when they demanded the great ignored his contention and pro­
charter from King John at Runny- tected him in these rights, nolens ,
mede. The sturdy sons of Switzer­ volens, and he had to submit to its
To sell property
land were heretics when they met decrees. Where does Herr Most’s
To buy a hom e
on the Rutli meadows and resolved inconsistency come in, in wearing
patent
leather
shoes
and
other
to expel the Austrian bailiffs from
To go into business
theircountry. The immortal Henry “gear” to match, seeing that so- 5
To exchange real or personal property
uttered heresy when he stood up in ciety ignores his teachings, refusing !
the Virginia House of Burgesses to evolute out of its dude state?!
To work, or to h ire w orkers
(I
trust
no
one
will
infer
from!
and fearlessly said: “Csesar had
A N Y TH IN G
WANT
liis Brutus, Charles I. his Crom­ these illustrations that my mind is
well, and George III. may profit by imbued with anarchistical doc­
W R IT E T O U S .
W E C A N H E L P YO U
their example”; Thomas Jefferson trines.) If there is no inconsist­
indited heresy when he penned the ency in these cases, there is cer­
Address, IN FO RM A TIO N B U R EA U
Declaration of Independence; the tainly none in your contention
water 8TKF r T
Colonists were guilty of heresy that the public funds shall not be
Silverton, Oregon.
when they resisted the power and misappropriated for sectarian pur- Opposite L iberal H all
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authority of Great Britain; the poses, but shall be used only for
Americau Republic was born of the advancement of the race.
Now, although it may appear at
hereey, nourished by heresy and
' How to Make
a
superficial
glance
that
it
is
incon­
lives today as a triumph of heresy.
Good Times for all Tim e ^
Every struggle against tyranny sistent to ask for aid in one case
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and oppression has been made; and object to it in another, it is
The Government nationalized the Postal System, why not also
nothing
but
deliberate
perversion
the
Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD
every battle for the political rights
in
his
book entitled............................
of man has been fought; every vic­ that makes it appear so. Why!
tory for human freedom has been Because our good friend and critic
UNCLE SAM ’S
won by men who have rejected the must admit that in the one case
HOMILIES ON FINANCE
Scripture doctrine that the powers state aid is asked for in a righteous
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that be are ordained of God and cause, and in the other case for an
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unrighteous one. Can he, as a
must not be resisted.
It should he in the hands of every thinking person. Address all orders to
Thus it appears that the advan­ Liberal, deny this? If not, then
The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon.
what
was
his
motive
in
making
a
tages and blessings of what is
called Christian civilization are “kick” against what his better W ho D o e s Y o u r
due, not to the acceptance, but to judgment must tell him was right?
C u t T h is H u t
What
but
an
excess
of
“human
na­
the rejection of the Bible as an au­
Fill it up, and forward with
ture”
can
account
for
it?
But
to
thoritative rule of faith and prac­
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the
credit
of
Liberals,
be
it
said,
tice. Heretics have been the great
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To the Publishers a f the Torch
ance, aud out out of social and sordid sentiments. I am pleased
B ill H ead s,
to
see
the
different
spirit
mani­
o f Reason:
political despotism into larger
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