Image provided by: Silverton Country Historical Society; Silverton, OR
About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1899)
THE 6 TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JU N E 15, 1899. S T R IC T L Y O N E P R IC E - PRODUCE TAKEN of his death was determined and impressive to the members of his are but borrowed legends, copied family and the close friends who from a system of myths and alle heard it. ave you ordered your Spring Suit For many years Mr. Silver was gory in common use among the yet? The fact that we are the one of Cleveland’s most prominent Our oriental nations of antiquity. clothiers of Silverton, we would The death of Abel at the hands citizens. He was the mayoralty N e w run a great risk if we did not know our of Cain has its parallel among the candidate on the Union-Reform myths of Chaldea; it was symbolic ticket at the last election and was C a rp e ts clothing, for we guarantee it, and only a leader of many ieforra move of the eternal war between day and good clothing can bear such a guarantee. ments. He was ooe of the found- night, light and darkness; so the are If you want to get acquainted with us Christian story of Christ and the ers of the prohibition party. He devil is naught but this old myth; was a poor boy, but made a great w ithout spending much, Big of the casting out of deal of money and was proprietor the storv trv one of our ready devils was but an allegorical figure of the famous stock farm of L. B. S e lle rs ! made suits a t............... of light overcoming darkness, the Silver & Co. at Salem, his former rising sun subduing night. The home. He came to Cleveland in Pelasgians had their divine child, 1871. He left a widow and two their savior, who sacrificed his sons. The remains will be cre OREGON own life to save his people; he was mated, probably in Detroit.— S IL V E R T O N born of a goddess and placed by [Cleveland (O.) Daily World. her side; like the child of Zeus be T h e G r _t' Witchcraft Still Lives. side Rhea, Sasipolis beside Llithya, Tvchon beside Tyche, Iachos be The Rev. Solomon E. Hotema, a side Demeter. All these myths run in the same groove, have the preacher of Presbyterianism to the No Need to Suffer from Any Disease. same origin, all traceable to the Indians of Indian Territory, has same source, the sun god A men Ra recently shot and killed three of E lix ir at dawn chasing away darkness. his neighbors, two of them women, B a c te ria c id e People in all ages have adored the whom he accused of witchcraft. V IT Æ - O R E Eucalyptus Oil O re -O lin e sunlight and feared darkness. It He is in jail at Antlers awaiting M e d ic a te d Soap is the most natural thing in the the halter. When asked why he world; what a man can see he can took the lives of the women and Agent PEARL W. GEER the man, he replied solemnly: “I defend himself against; but danger S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n . lurking in the dark he is not pre took my authority from the book pared to meet, so fear in the dark of all books, the Bible. It says, takes the place of courage in day ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to light. How much more so this live.’ ” In jail the preacher spends his must have been felt by primeval man in a state of profound ignor time in Bible-reading, praying and ance, when every phenomenon of singing, and regards himself as a nature was, to him, an evil or a martyr for Christ’s sake. Ho- good being. It was with primitive tema’s father, au Indian, was a man in his savage and sevi-savage ruling elder of the Presbyterian To sell property state that all of these religious church fnr many years. Solomon myths took root; the soil was pro was educated at Eastern seminaries To buy a home and taught school before entering pitious, the roots penetrated deep To go into business and became so firm that even our the pulpit. At different times he To exchange real or personal property civilization has not been sufficient served as county clerk, county to eradicate them. The gods and judge, rewresentative, senator and To work, or to hire workers district attorney. He is described devils, myths of day and night, are ANYTHING everywhere about us; they are fed as a man of good character and of from the pulpit, groomed and ex sound mind apart from his belief W R IT E T O U S . W E C A N H E L P YOU ercised weekly by the priesthood. that the scriptures are iuerrant It is the night, the darkness, the and contain a message from God to Address, INFORMATION BUREAU imaginary demon which holds so man! W a t e r S t k k k t . Silverton, Oregon. Op{>o6ite Liberal Hall many weak-minded people spell A descriptive catalogue of all the bound. Cicero says this myth dates back to the remotest an best Freethought works free on ap tiquity; it has ever been used by plication to Dellquest & Andrews, How to Make the priests to frighten the ignor Secular Booksellers, El Paso, Texas. ant.—[Freethought Magazine. The Fall of the First Man. D R E Y E R & C R A IG H $7 DREYER & C R A IG Vitæ=Ore Remedies I AC N F O R M A T IO N BU REA U YOU WANT Good Tim es for all Time Disbelief On His Dying Lips. With a passionless but firm and positive avowal of his disbelief in Christianity on his lips, Mr. Lover ing B. Silver, one of the best known citizens of the city, died Sunday at his home, 172 Summit street, aged 73. For a number of years Mr. Sil ver had been an avowed Infidel, and wished it known that he had died as he had lived, an infidel. He wished no one to say that re pentance had come to him on his deathbed, and his quiet disavowal of any religious belief at the time C u t T h is O u t— Fill it up, and forward with $1.00 to the Liberal U niversity C o ., Silverton, Oregon The Government nationalized the Postal System, why not also the Money System? " A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD in his book entitled U N C L E S A M ’S H O M IL IE S O N F IN A N C E >------ Postpaid for 25 Cents. All profits on this book will be given to the Liberal University. To the P u b lish ers a f the Torch It should be in the hands of every thinking person. Address all orders to o f Reason: The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon. . Please send the T orch of R eason to my address for one year, for which I en close $1.00. N a m e .................................................. Post office...... .................................. O u r Job D e p a rtm e n t ALWAYS GIVES __ Satisfaction BEC A USE IT GIVES State 1 HONEST STOCK, FINEST INK AND EXCELLENT WORKHANSHIP