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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1899)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER 23, 1899. gram from the managers was need- Thus the contest went on, until the varieties of pheasants. My biggest ed to call out a public meeting any- Speaker decided that every member rival is the Philadelphia Zoo, which where in England. Among Brad- had a right to take the oath which has five. BY F . M. HOLLAND. ______ laugh’s hearers in America in 1873 could not be set aside. Bradlaugh “Those beautiful birds in that Clergymen, like Transcendental- were Emerson, Sumner, Garrison, was admitted accordingly, on Jan- other crate are the Argus pheasants, ists in England were generally Phillips and O. B. Frothingham. uary 13, 1886; and two years later They come from the jungles of conservative, or reactionary; and He won soon after a powerful ally he brought about the passage of a Southern Asia. “The Argus pheasant is a bache- the friends of reform were much in a clergyman’s wife, who had hill by which unbelievers were en- more irreligious than in America. been driven from her home by her abled to enter Parliament by mak- lor bird. He fits up for himself a Their appeal against the authority husband because she would not ing affirmation. The Irish rnem- sort of stage where he does a kind of Church and Bible was not to in partake of the communion. Mrs. bers had tried to keep him out; but of cake walk every day of the year not prevent his advocat- for the benefit of the other birds. tuition but to science; and they Besant began to lecture in 1874, this were aided by Lyell’s demonstra and with views like Bradlaugh’s; ing home rule for Ireland, and also He has wings that work in a kind tion in 1830, that geology had sup but her chief interest was in woman for India. From first to last he of socket, and now and then his erseded Genesis. Working men suffrage. Both held strict views fought fearlessly and steadily for cake walk changes to a calesthenic were warned in lectures, tracts and about the obligation of marriage; freedom of speech and of the press. skirt dance, to the great delight of newspapers against immorality in and their relations were blameless. His beauty of character increased his feathered friends on the bleach Bradlaugh’s place in history is his influence. Mrs. Besant is right ers who are taking it all in. At the Old Testament; and even the New was said to discourage resist mainly as a champion of the right in saying: “That men and women certain times of the year he is bald- ance to oppression and efforts to of Atheists to sit in Parliament. are now able to speak as openly as headed and has a blue scalp. “Then,” continued Mr. Daven promote health, comfort and know He was elected by the shoemakers they do, that a broader spirit is of Northampton in 1880, when visible in the churches, that heresy port, “there is the peacock pheas ledge. The most popular of these cham oaths of allegiance were exacted in is no longer regarded as morally ant, of which I have a pair, the pions against superstition and ty the House of Commons. Quakers, disgraceful—these things are very only ones in the United States. ranny was Bradlaugh. He began however, could affirm, and he ask largely due to the active and mili The hen lays two eggs, and her to lecture in 1850, when only seven ed the same privilege. As this was tant propaganda carried on under chicks follow her in single file, teen, and continued for forty years refused, he offered to take the the leadership of Charles Brad sheltering themselves under her to speak and write diligently. His oath, and declared that the essen laugh.”—[Liberty in thé Nineteenth parasol tail, specially designed by atheism obliged him to undergo tial part would be “binding upon Century. nature to protect them from the- poverty for many years, and much my honor and conscience.” This, sun. When she strikes a worm for D a v e n p o rt’s P h e a s a n ts . hardship. He charged no fee for too, was forbidden; but there was them to eat she puts it on the lecturing, went willingly to the much discussion, not only in Par ground and makes four steps for- smallest and poorest places, and liament, but throughout England, Homer Davenport, the cartoon-1 ward. Being a good judge of dis- was satisfied with whatever was as to his right to affirm.' His ist, stood on the Red Star pier Sat tance she calculates it so that when brought in by selling tickets, often friends held two hundred public urday afternoon, and anxiously she stops the worm is exactly under for only twopence each. He once meetings in a single week, and sent watched the operations of several her parasol tail, and she stands travelled six hundred miles in in petitions with two hundred thou tugs that were pushing the steamer still until her babes have eaten it. forty-eight hours, to deliver four sand signatures during twelve Southwark into the dock. “That crate there contains a pair lectures which did not repay his months. The Liberal newspapers “I’ve come down to meet twenty- of vulturine fowls from Matabele- expenses. Many a hall which he were on his side; but the Method six passengers,” he said. “They’re land that have faces like Mark had engaged was closed against ist and Episcopalian pulpits re not people; something better— Hanna, and I ’ll bet they know him; and he was thus obliged to sounded w’ith denials of the right of they’re pheasants. When I get a lot about the Boer situation if speak in the open air one rainy Atheists to enter Parliament on any them out to my home in Jersey I they could only tell it. There are Sunday, when he had two thousand terms. Among the expounders of shall own the biggest and fiuest also a couple of spicifers or wild hearers. At such times his voice this view in leading periodicals collection of pheasants in this peacocks, a pair of malnoti from pealed out like a trumpet; his in were Cardinal Manning and other country.” Japan and many others. formation was always accurate; prominent ecclesiastics. They had The tall and quaint Oregonian “Those peacock pheasants live in opposition quickened the flow of the support of the Archbishop of was certainly the happiest man the low canyons of Asia, in a sort ideas; and he had perfect com Canterbury, as well as of many who boarded the vessel to meet of steam heat. I have just ordered mand of the people’s English. His petitions from Sunday - schools. friends. He chased down a com twenty tons of coal to keep my great physical strength was often Public opinion showed itself so panion-way and, as if by instinct, birds warm this winter, for they needed to defend him against vio plainly that Bradlaugh was finally found the route to the birds and are nearly all tropical.” — [New lence, sometimes instigated by the allowed by a close vote to make satisfied himself that they were all York Journal. clergy. He had much to say affirmation and take his seat. He right. [Mr, Davenport is the pheasant against the Old Testament; but no was soon forced to leave it by an “Look at that Ternmichs trago- struggle for political liberty, wheth adverse decision of the judges, but pans,” the cartoonist cried enthusi king of America as well as the world’s greatest cartoonist. While er at home or abroad, failed to re w’as promptly re-elected. astically, pointing to a gorgeous ceive his support, and he was es Again he offered in vain to take pheasant that looked amiably at he takes great piide in his foreign birds, none are more interesting to pecially active for that great exten the oath. After several months of his new master. him than those from his old home, sion of suffrage which took place in litigation, and many appeals to “Look at that which?” asked a Silverton, Oregon. He has recently 1867. His knowledge that women audiences which he made almost friend. ordered a pair of Oregon native would vote against him did not unanimous, he gave notice that he “Oh,” said Mr. Davenport, “I prevent his advocating their right should try to take his seat on suppose to you it’s just a pheasant, pheasants to more nearly complete to the ballot; but it was in the August 3, 1881, unless prevented by but to me it’s a Termichs trago- his collection.] name of “the great mass of the force. It took fourteen men to keep pans, and the only one in this English people” that he was an him out; and he was dragged down country. The other bird in the The philosophers who have fig early supporter of the cause of stairs with such violence that he same crate is a ‘Mrs. T. T.’ Those ured on the condition of things at Union and Liberty against the fainted away. His clothes were birds live on the snow line of the the earth’s center give opinions slave-holders who seceded. badly torn; and the struggle Himalayas and drink ice water. which vary widely. Some think In 1866 he became president of brought on an alarming attack of You’ll always find them where the that the earth’s interior is composed the National Society of Secularists, erysipelas. A great multitude had snow melts. I shall put an ice of white-hot molten matter. Others who believe only in “the religion of followed him to Westminster Hall, water tank in their pen, but I’m are of the opinion that the pressure the present life.” Most of the mem and there would have been a dan afraid my New Jersey home won’t * is so great that all substances have bers were Agnostics; and one of gerous riot, if it had not been for look the same as India to them. been condensed beyond our powers Bradlaugh’s many debates was the entreaties of Mrs. Besant, who “All those birds 1 secured from of conception. Dr. Young goes so with Holyoake, the founder of Sec spoke at Bradlaugh’s request. His the Zoological Society at Antwerp, far as to say that a block of eteel ularism, on the question whether next move was to take the oath and they cost me a large number 10 feet square would be pressed that term ought to be used instead without having it properly admin of pounds sterling and nine shil into a block only 2 feet square if of Atheism. The society was so istered. He was expelled in conse lings and eleven pence three far taken 4,000 miles below the earth’s well organized that only a tele- quence, but re-elected at once. things. I now have twenty-five surface. C harles B radlaugh.