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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER 2, 1899.
everything pertaining to study is manufactories right here? Nearly the tale of discord and woe. Blood-
disgusting, but in many, many all the vast quantity of farm ma- shed is usually the final result of
cases the nausea has been caused chinery used ou the great fields of religious discord, but the discord
The Only Paper of Its Kind.
by an attempt to digest something our Pacific States are made in the itself is hell.
Published Weekly by tbe Liberal Uni indigestible — a mental stomach East, while our coal and iron lie
A man and wife who disagree on
versity Company, in tbe Interests of ache. And what, we would ask, is undisturbed in the bosom of our the religious question can not have
Constructive, Moral Secularism.
more indigestible than the religion mountains, and our giant oaks wait the same degree of heavenly bar-
J. E. Hosmer,.....................Editor of Jesus Christ, with its miracles to be turned into wagons and plow- mony that they otherwise would
P. W. Geer,.....................Manager and mysteries, its three-in-one and beams or are wastefully burned in have. To be sure they can agree
its every where-preseut god?
clearing the land.
to let the question drop, but there
It is small wonder that religious
Our mountain streams are wait- is very little comfort in being ob-
Entered at the r>ostoffice at Silverton,
Oregon, as seconil-class mail matter.
teachings begin to be prohibited in ing to be harnessed, and thousands liged to avoid mentioning a subject
our public schools; that in the large of our people are longing to show so very important to the well-being
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75 of being burned at the stake; that our land. What a great thing they are right, and must necessarily
Money should l>e sent by registered Christian schools are dwindling will be for old “Web Foot,” but
think of the other’s religious fancies
letter or money order.
while the Liberal University is be what a tax in the form of freight as a weakness, and this does not
ing built, and that the world is we will send out to enrich the rail promote love and happiness. The
Notice!
growing wiser and better.
road magnates to the detriment of children will side with one parent
Thaddeus B. Wakeman, profess- our producers.
A hand pointing to this notice denotes
or the other. They can not be as
that your subscription has expired. of sociology in the Liberal Univer
All these things, with the great discreet as the older ones. If they
You are earnestly requested to re
new so that you may receive the pa sity, continually reminds us that quantity of sugar (we can raise the all side with the father, the mother
per without interruption. We have de we should not “despise the day of sugar beet very abundantly), paper, is hurt, and vice versa. If they
cided that it is best for all concerned
that we do not send papers longer than small things”, and it is good ad cutlery, furniture, etc., etc., that disagree then discord reigns. Now
tbe time paid for unless so ordered. vice, Give our L. U. O. (luo) a could be easily made here makes what is true of a family is true of a
This will prevent any loss and we will
few more years of as healthy this one of the greatest fields for neighborhood, a nation and a world.
know just where we stand.
We request you to send us the names growth as we have had in the last the investment of money, brains
What can’t be cured must be en
of Secularists who might become sub-
scril>erB and we will mail sample copies. three, and the world will have and muscle in the world. From dured, and for many years to come
learned a lesson never to be forgot these facts we conclude that to families and nations may wrangle
ten. Friends of liberty, let us be come West is a great thing for ' and suffer the fires of a discordant
up and doing.
those who are blessed with monev, hell; but when Secularism has
brains or muscle. A nd our young taken the place of all supernatural
M E N T A L STOM ACH-ACHE.
“ While yet ’tis day astir we must be,
Ere comes the night, when no one can but growing institution of Free- religions, from the family relations
see!”
thought education will hail with to the doings of nations the foun
The only true education is the
delight those who tear themselves dations of intercourse will be what
one which leaves the graduate’s
away from the orthodox East to we do know and what we can learn,
mind open to new truth, with an T H E W EST A N D IT S OPPORTUN gain a foothold on the virgin soil and not W
’hat many are trying to
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of
the
more
Liberal
West.
Come
intense desire to learn more. There
believe, through their fear of priest
and seel
ly theories, concerning godish de
are those who are not capable of
It is perfectly natural that we
vils, devilish gods, a worthless pre
being educated, and there are those
who are building an educational
sent and a “dreadful to be.” Then
who are faleely educated. They
H E L L —AN O F F SP R IN G OF R E
discord will cease; wars will be a
institution in the West should try
LIG IO N .
are stuffed full of dry mental food,
nightmare of the past; good and
to induce people to “come over into
or with false mental stimulants,un Macedonia and help us”. But we
Every thinker knows that all not God will be worshiped; earthly
til they can not assimilate what is try very hard not to exaggerate, our ideas of a hell have been forced angels will bless the earth, and
a great treat to more healthy and what we say in the Torch upon us by the supernatural reli heaven will be here!
about the great West is exactly in gions of the world. The idea-hell,
minds.
is the only hell there is, excepting
The active yet tender brains of accord with our convictions.
T H E W A Y TO H E A V E N .
The
physical,
mental
and
finan
as the word is used as a figure of
our youth, like their stomachs,need
cial condition of the individual who speech to represent the misery here
Harmony is heaven, but discord
what they crave. They want the lands on the Pacific Coast of course
simple, wholesome truths that lie makes a difference, but looking at on earth. Now it is plain to all and war are hell; and the greatest
all around them. Nature has paint it in a general way, we can’t con Freethinkers that religioh is at controversies that the people of the
ed the fruits of the earth in the ceive how people can make a mis fault, not only for the horrible idea world have ever had has been on
most beautiful colors and placed ake by coming to the vast wonder which has frightened and stunted account of the different ideas re
them within easy reach of all. We and of natural resources “where so many millions of minds, and garding the stories of the priests
thus prevented the intellectual and prophets of more ancient times.
may have to climb a litte, to be rolls the Oregon”.
growth of the world, but the hell For, whenever new truths have
sure, but w7e have the necessary
There are great opportunities here we have on earth has been kept up been discovered, they have most
strength. So it is with the mental
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.for the investment of capital, and and its fires fed by these hell-begot always contradicted the old reli
fruits in which all youth so much
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‘ those who have money and know ten and hell-begetting religious.
gious stories, and of course the
delight.
1 he child’s onen-eved
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- , < how to use it will come and are
Harmony is heaven; discord is priests would naturally try to pro.
wonder, and its desire to handle
u
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coming where the raw material is hell. And where in all the uni- tect their own theories by sub
and taste every new' thing it sees
,
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.
’ at hand and where the market is at verse can be found anything that duing the new ones.
are as we
nown as lts ion<ine8s the doors of the manufactories. Mil- has propagated more discord, more
Thus we read of the thumbscrews
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Ii0n9 of P°und8 of
’hipped war, more bloodshed, more misery,
with which innocent, but progres
ex^n in ,hUCT h”' , I"e'!,U" 0,,S’ «way East, made up into clothing than the supernatural religions?
sive people were hung up by the
except.ng the Liberal Un.versity, and 8bipped llack
We bav*
But the Christian religion Is a re thumbs until they
promised
etther g.ve to them students the as good a bide prodl)ci
count
ligion of love, says a dear sister; to believe their own hard-earned
potsonous frutts o ancent myth or a9 13 in tbe wor,d. and plenty o'f
but let the suppressed historical discoveries no more. People have
fact once lie known and thoroughly been burned at the stake. They
have to swallow doses of miracles acrQ8s the
" n d o u r A « . digested, that the Christian religion have had their limbs pulled from
has caused more blood to flow from their sockets — murdered in hun
ftn<i (1 i\ init.¡©8 arc not Rot to h&vc
r
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p
uave (billions of them every year! are the veins of innocent men, women dreds of awful ways for the
mental stomachs fit to digest th e 1 u-
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we shipped from the extreme East
and children than any other reli sake of what they knew to be the
truths of science or to enjoy the
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under
these
conditions
wholesome fruits of reason. A man ’ wnllm
unions, gion, and then it will be abhorred honest truth. In barbarous coun-
would it not pay Eastern canital. as a religion of hate. But the blood- tries this warfare between priests
or woman may j not know J just wny
why jl8ts tQ
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ca*llal
ghoe
shed story is only a small part of * and honest, advanced thinkers, is
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