THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, FEBRUARY 8, 1900.
those virtues and conditions and, if subject peoples down by armies, as W H A T WE HAVE
necessary, those sacrifices by which did Rome, and make our Earth a
TO S E LL .
it
was
originally
called
into
exist-
“slave
pen.
Isn
t
that
a
pretty
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ence.
Let
us
do
for
it
in
1900
what
“Ideal”
for
Republicans,
Democrats,
means of living, in order to work
By T. B. W akeman , w ith p ictu re
Jefferson
and
the
Republicans
did
and
Populists?
Instead
of
that
an
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3. Religion and Education, for for it in 1800; what Lincoln and kind o f “Expansion,” let us have
the freedom of which our ancestors the Republicans did for it in 1860 “an expansion of Republicanism” Emancipation of Education.
In au g u ra l A ddress, by T. B.
emigrated and suffered everything, —save it from itsiN T E K N A L enemies — by Republics, securing the peace, W An
akeman , D elivered on th e incor­
have to make alliance with the that
_ it may stand invincible as our welfare and happiness of Mankind! p oration of th e L iberal U n iv ersity .
money-changers whom “the Son of hope, and the hope «and light of the
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little regard to regularity. Even
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muflled or gagged in the interest of change brought out some points of course; and then if we were honest,
Mammon, or run directly as a part interest after the address
since we can not annex them as a Freethought Magazine
P rof . B uff wished for the birth State, we must set them up as a Re-
for S ep tem b er, Ingersoll m em o­
of financial monopoly.
rial
r;
O ctober,
w ith
4. And now we have been forced and death dates of Thomas Paine’s pablic. Why not do this before we W a k e n m u a m n ’s b e speech
; N ovem ber,
into a foreign war, contrary to the life.
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nies”or“theterritory”except as adja­ Europe and America during Paine’s that, and on Republican and equit­
cent and preparatory States. Paine life-time. Make a desperate effort able grounds, because it is right,
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over, sympathetic with the United as the “Father of Republics,” and tecome fashionable, and have the
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friend. They would cry out with containing an interesting letter vor; we would soon make that Mod-
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horror at the very idea of our be­ from Paine, and much new inform­ el dominant in the future of all na­
coming “Tories”, and sympathizing ation from Mr.Conway,and from the tional changes, and thus surely in-1
with and trying to beat even them editor of the Truth Seeker.
troduce the Federal “Republic of
M
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.
B
rown
:
Will
Mr.
Wakeman
in subduing foreign peoples to our
he*World”, that hope, ideal and
e d if w e fail. A ny one sen d in g
domination. Especially a people tell us what ought to be done about initiative “Paradise” of mankind sk O e tc ur h lee a n re d tu d rn
e scrip tio n of a n y in v e n tio n w ill
p ro m p tly receive o u r o p in io n fre e co n cern in g
where the climate forbids us to live the Phillipines?
th e p a te n ta b ility of sam e. ‘ H ow to O btain a
on Earth!
P a te n t” s e n t u p o n request. P a te n ts secured
Mr. Wakeman: Certainly. We
and work healthfully, and by a war
th ro u g h u s a d v ertised for sale a t o u r expense.
P a te n ts ta k e n o u t th ro u g h us receive sp ecia l
debt which we must pay, for our ought to do just what we have by
notice, w ith o u t ch a rg e , in T h e P a t e n t R eco r d ,
A descriptive catalogue of all the an illu s tra te d a n d w id ely c irc u la ted jo u rn a l,
“subjects” cannot, even if we sub­ Laws of Congress promised to do
consulted by M a n u fa c tu re rs a n d Investors.
S e n d for sam p le copy FREC. A ddress,
best
Freethought
works
free
on
ap­
for and with Cuba—that is, make
due them.
V IC T O R J . EVA N S A C O .
(P aten t A ttorneys,)
5. But why rehearse these facts? the Archipelago into an Indepen­ plication to Dellquest & Andrews,
Secular
Booksellers,
El
Paso,
Texas.
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Do they not mean that the motive dent Republic, under the protection
power, the great boiler that sets in and moral aud civilizing help of
motion the political machinery of the United States. That country
e h a v e p l a c e d ©uif tr ju m p Gai[d a n d
this mighty Nation of States, is no and Cuba came to us under similar
longer the people , as the constitu­ circumstances, and like treatment,
§ e e t h e f r u i t s o f © u iîç iîa n d t/ic-
tion intended, but a few political that is equality among equals, is tu o n .
bosses, doing that work for the ben­ the only equity. Such is the funda­
efit and behoof of the mighty Mon­ mental law maxim of equity, aud if toifvj a g a i n s t c o m b i n a t i o n s a n d t r u s t s
opolists of money, trust-production, we do not live up to it we put our
b y H e a d in g ©uit a d . in t h e ¡gilV eifton
commerce and land? Does it not selves in the wrong.
mean that the people can not have
Mr. Geer asked the other night,
a dollar, not even a paper dollar, “How are we, then, to make the A p p e a l .
unless they have paid usury on it Pacific Ocean ‘an American lake’,
at least twice? In fine, how many and secure our commercial superi­
are compelled to cast their vote not ority, if we let up on the Phillip-
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as the voice of an independent citi­ pines?” The answer is easy. A true
zen and patriot, but as a depend­ America aud a true American is Re­
ent trying to use it in the interest, publican,and whenthe Pacific is sur
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What means this social oligarchy and we wju fl0 it then without an
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