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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JULY 13, 1899.
OUR CATHOLIC N E IG H B O R S.
w hether to laugh, cry or get mad
On the platform , at Silverton,
The ideas repress n ted by the
during the 4«h of Ju ly celebration,
N ear to the city of Silverton is other thirteen stations are as
were but very few who believe in
The O n ly Paper of Its K in d .
prayer. Y’oung men who m ake all the Roman C atholic town of Mt. follows;
2. Jesus is m ade to hear his cross.
Published Weekly by th e Liberal U ni­ m anuer of sport of the preacher’s Angel. Above the town is a high
versity C om pany, in th e In te re sts of
3. Jesus falls the first time.
antics, and old grey-headed veterans hill known as The Butte, and it is
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
4. Jesus is met by his blessed
in the cause of Freetbought, and on this hill th a t th e new m onas­
tery is being built.
m other.
J. E. H o s m e r,.......................E d ito r who know th at hum an reason is in ­
Last week, in the com pany of our
5. The cross is laid <m Simon of
P. W . Geer.........................M anager sulted by such m um meries, are
forced to listen or drop out of line. ex-C atholic Secularist, Mr. IL E. Cyrene.
6. V eronica wipes the face of
E ntered at th e postoffice at Silverton, We who are loyal to our flag, as Klein, and his excellent wife, we
Oregon, as second-class m ail m atter.
long as th at flag represents Liberty, made the ascent of the hill, and Jesus.
7. Jesus falls the second time.
despise the simpering, slavish viewed the works of the oldest and
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8. Jesus speaks to the women of
prayer to any ty ran t, he it a king, most powerful C hristian church.
This institution is being built by Jerusalem .
One year, in ad v an ce..........................$1 W or a priest, or a god.
an order o f Catholics known as the
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9. Jesus falls the th ird time.
We do not wish to he m isunder­
T hree m onths, in a d v an c e ................
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Benedictines. The brothers as well
10. Jesus is stripped of his gar­
In clubs of five o r m ore, one year,
stood. Every one should have the
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privilege of worshipping a god or a as the sisters of this order wear ments.
Money should l»e sent by registered
long black dresses; and as we
11. Jesus is nailed to the oross.
devil if he so desires, hut it is im ­
le tte r or m oney order.
12. Jesus dies on the cross.
polite, im politic and dow nright visited the shrines and little prayer
13. Jesus is taken down from the
N otice!
mean to force any form of worship houses, we met with several of
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cross.
upon a people who ought to he free these men, robed in black, going
A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes
14. Jesus in laid in the tomb.
The from one station to another p ra y ­
th a t your subscription has e x p ired . in fact as well as in name,,
ing.
As we stopped a t the different
You arc earn estly requested to re ­ C hristian religion is no more our
The new m onastery now in the stations, we not only adm ired the
new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa­
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de­ religion th an is spiritualism , th e­ process of construction, is to be a
w orkm anship of the relief represen­
cided th a t it is best for all concerned osophy, B ram inism , or Judaism .
massive stone structure, two h u n ­ tations, but, not being at all awed
th a t we do not send papers longer th an
N early all of these ideas were re­
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
dred and forty feet wide, and four by superstitious belief, we found
T his will prevent any loss and we will presented in the Silverton audience,
hundred feet long.
The walls some pleasure in criticising their
know just w here we sta n d .
We request you to semi us th e nam es the m ajority being what are term ed are three, four, and
five feet defects. We noticed th at tiie color
of Secularists who m ight become sub- Infidels. Then why m ust one sect
soriliers and we will m ail sam ple copies.
thick, and will represent labor of the garm ents o f the different
dom ineer over the people?
and m aterial costing m illions of characters changed, which one of
Must we forever have a few wily dollars, and it is said that one
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our party pronounced as a serious
priests and their enthusiastic fol­ priest, traveling through the U nited
defect. Then the virgin M ary, who
lowers
fore«4
their
obnoxious
doc­
States and parts of E urope last according to the story, m ust have
FOURTH OF JULY -
trine upon people who do not w ant year, raised two m illion dollars to
been about fifty years of age a t the
it?
Must
those
who
have
modern
To those who believe in “ the flag
help this work along.
death of her th irty -th ree year old
ideas in regard to the causes and
above the cross,” it is sickening to
After exam ining the m assive son, looked as fresh and blooming
the results of life, take a back seat
as a girl of twenty sum m ers. And
see the cross raised to such an ex­ while these aggressive fanatics walls, and wondering if they would again, the features of both Jesus
alted position above the flag, above spout of their gods and dev’ls, their ever he used to conceal the awful and his m other are more like those
crimes th a t are said to take place of m odern Europeans th an of the
our republic, r* 3 the ideas of the heaven and hell?
We have no
But perhaps the
in these haunts of the dark-robed ancient Jews.
brave infidels who were the in stru ­ desire on such occasions to talk
saints, we visited the school and most pleasing m istake of the artist
about
our
p
articu
lar
views
on
the
m ents in the bands of Liberty to
prayer stations, which are fourteen was the placing of the spear hole in
Jesus’ side. At Station 13 the hole
religious subject. It would h e out
write our “ godless” constitution,
in num ber, correspoding with su p ­ is on the left side, while at Station
of place in such a mixed audience,
and above everything th a t is worth assembled for a common patriotic posed scenes in the life of C hrist. 14 behold it on the right side! Take
having. And yet we cannot cele­ purpose, to present th at which is These little houses are about six this with the fact th a t one of his
feet by ten feet in size, and are big toes is somewhat cracked, and
brate our Declaration of Indepen­ obnoxious to m any, but no more
it ‘urnished us m erry thoughts that
located on a winding path th a t
for a tim e drove out the sad ones
dence from one ty ra n t, without out of place than the prayers th a t
leads up the hill toward the m onas­ caused by our pity for the enslaved
some advocate of spookish nonsense are forced upon those who are, and tery. On the wall in the hack and
m illions who worship at these
by right ought to be, as free to
being allowed to declare onr loyalty
upper part of each is a rep resen ta­ shrines. At one station we met a
think for themselves, and as free to
to a ty ran t in the sky, which has express those thoughts as the tion in relief of the last scenes in brother in robes and a young man,
evidently a new student.
The
C h rist’s life.
hindered onr progress more, and C hristian.
brother stopped and said a few
enslaved us with a far more cruel
Station No. 1 represents him words, but on our m aking it known
The celebration in Silverton was as being- condem ned, and his th a t we believe not in the C hristian
slavery than a hundred King
a success. The day was perfect. judge w ashing his hands, illu s­ dogm as, he passed on, with the re­
Georges could have dream ed.
We have become so accustomed The races were good, and the dram a trative of the fam iliar Bible story. m ark th a t if we are not Christians
it is our own look out.
to the sight, th a t most people do in the evening gave good satisfac­ The w orkm anship is very good,
O ur ex-Catholic friend said that
not see the ridiculous side of the tion. But if the elements which and, as a work of art, it is q u ite in ­ it m ade him sick to look at these
prayer on such occasions; but look are at work to rob our citizens of teresting.
On the side are w ritten pictures, and he generally sat off at
the
power
to
think
for
them
selves
at it a m om ent. Amid the shouts
the following words; “ O, all ye th a t one side while the more curious
of joyful youth, am id the tu m u lt were elim inated, how much closer pass by this way, attend and see if ones exam ined them . A ud when
caused by shouts of “ lemo, lem on­ the people could be united. How there be any sorrow like to My we th in k of the valuable time, the
physical and m ental force, and the
ade,” the music of the band, the much more energy could he ex­ sorrow.”
money th a t he, in com m on with
squeaking of the m erry-go-round, pended for the general welfare?
Of course, to a F reethinker, the m illions of others who were born
and the shooting of lire crackers, a How much more good could be ac­ idea of a god having sorrow is Catholics, has spent a t such places,
we do not wonder at the nauseatiug
m an, who knows how, is allowed to com plished?
sim ply ridiculous; and when we feelings of our freedom-loviug
shoot off his m outh a t his God, tel­
If we want to level down the thought of his long white dress frieud.
B ut never m ind, Free-
ling him things th a t any god ought classes, and be a united happy dragging on the ground, as shown thought friends, the movement now
to kuow, and m aking believe th a t people—if we wish to elevate the iu the representation, the whole on foot will m ake a different world
the people believe such heathenish masses aud an n ih ilate hum an thing took on one of those serio­ of this old planet. The Protestants
nonsense.
We should think th a t m isery— if we wish to save the comic aspects th a t it is im possible who choose to rem ain superstitious
after such good lessons of politeness world from its ignorance and cor­ to explain. To th in k of full-grown will be driven into the Catholic
church, and the great body of pro­
we sometimes hear from the C hrist­ ruption, one of the first things we men being so perfectly silly as to gressive people will then have a fair
ian pulpit, th a t those who believe m ust do is to cast out the evil kneel down to these pictures, and chance to pit the powers of Science
in such absurdities would have re­ spirits which are still tearing to
m um ble over old worn out prayers against the powers of superstition.
Never fear;
Science will winl
spect enough for those who do not, pieces the m iuds and bodies of
to ease their minds of their burden Money and m assive stone struc­
to wait and pray in their closets, as m any of the best citizers of this
of sin, is so sad and yet so perfectly tures cannot be com pared with the
iheir g<> >d book teaches.
greatest of nations.
ludicrous, that one doesn’t know principles of Liberty and T ruth.
Torch of Reason