THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH 22, 1900.
enemy appeared Let our theorists edly im m o ra l^ ? wrong; but who t h ^ between a s m ^ r i m T ^
take a lesson from those brute w ouldw ishtosee.be power taken doctrine-seaeoned information and
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‘‘front to the foe”, ever though they Jesuits? How can any one, know-i religio^d'nom h” tion 7 ^ p ^
be but children of the common tog the history of the church, ever pared to allow, iu this counts,‘ at
herd”.
In Place of C hristianity:
suppose that Romish priests could least.
Our public school system has manage the concerns of the com- ' U’h™ u
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1 Can Sins be Forgiven?
been in operation for several centu - munity to a better effect than the scienHou cnmi
. ‘T " ’ 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil
ries, during which time our Ameri - United States government? Where- ch H d ren ?
ization?
’ 8e"dlng
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children
to
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school
supported
by
can people have been steadily grow-
are these priests anv b e tte r or <‘ 11 Uren to a sch°o1 supported by 3 3 Is Religion
Religion or Science
ore Reliable?
Reliable?
Science M
More
¡ng
in all
all the
the arts
arts that
that adorn
adorn hu-
hu- wiser
wiser than
than the
the average
average run
™. of
,.t men !.
ing in
th e o ris t, ,heT niaJ’ be set down as * ^ “hon “ d Comparison of Religions
their motives are so o Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
man life, while a large part of in power? Or what evidence can
6 Immortality or Annihilation?
Europe, nuder the incubus of a cor- they show that education and intensely personal that argument
JU ST T H E T H IN G
rupt priesthood, has' been either morality have flourished more with them would be futile. Why
grossly illiterate or only slowly under their management than do such people conscientiously Vo hand to your Christian friends. Send
2 cents for 6, or 6 cents for 25 tracts,
emerging from ignorance. It is our under the governments and insti- drink the water which association
to E liza M owry B livrn , Brook
and
corporate
authority
seud
lyn, Conn., or send 10 cents
American example that European tutions of more Secular countries?
for 50, either kind or as
uations are forced to follow at the
By reference to the foreign conn- through the water pipes of their
sorted kinds, to
cities?
\\
by
walk
without
scruple
present day, and not that set them tries on our northern and southern
by the priesthood. Nor is the mor- boundaries, where the Romish on the streets which public policy THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO.,
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Oregon
al condition of society any better priesthood is in power of sufficient lays out and taxes them for, con Siker,0B
under the rule of the Romish dimension» to contend against the science or no conscience? Why
priesthood than it is where the government, we can see what the use the results of the surveys
schools are under the control of the tendency of the priestly power is. which government only could make
State. In the face of such facts as I hough Mexico has been occupied in a satisfactory and authoritative
these the claims of a set of ecclesi- by Europen races a hundred years manner? A system of public edu
asts to take the management of ed longer than the United Slates has cation ¡» as r reasonable and neces-
ucation from the State is but mere been, yet the condition of that sarv as a system of sewerage in
impudence, which can not be sanc country is but just emerging from large cities, and it must be watched
tified by being offered in the name the ignorauce and barbarism of the as vigilantly and kept in good
order, as a preventive of moral and
of religion.
middle ages; and in Canada, we
1 he Romish clergy talk of our | are told, it has been almost impos mental pestilence and stagnation.
IS A BOOK OF
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public
school e system
not being sible for the government to insure Are the opponents of public in
American! While they themselves sufficient protection against the struction also opposed to public
are acting as a European advance smallpox, owing to the character of sanitary measures? They should
guard, striving to check here at its the priest-given education of a con be, according to their own methods
of reductio ad absurdum reasoning.
source the liberalizing tendencies siderable portion of the people.
What right has the State to
of America upon the old, priest-
It is very plain that if one or teach, any more than to feed, its
ridden institution of Europe: while ganization is suffered to order
they are seeking to serve Europe American children out of the pub citizens? What right has the State
On the following and
rather than America, they com lic schools into its own schools, to tax A to educate B’s children?
kindred Subjects :
plain of our schools uot being Amer then every organization, whether But it has the right to feed and
clothe its citizens, and it exercises
ican.
Mormon, sectarian or secret, Tnay
U,« p e n i t e n t i a r y - Up o n | S e | f C o n tro l
Tne idea of the American school claim the same privilege; and in i,
is that the citizen controls and di this way children would be taught the individuals as the policy of our
rects the State, while that of the a narrow spirit of faction instead enemies has encouraged to grow up S e lf R e s p e c t
Romish clergy is just the opposite of a generous love of country. But in ignorance. Something more W h a t is M o ra lity ?
that the State is to control and it must be remembered that the than intelligence is needed to in
direct the citizen. The whole scope Jesuit organization is a foreign or sure morality; hut little or nothing W h a t is Ignorance
and aim of the Jesuitical education ganization, not an American one more than ignorance is needed to Fraud a C rim e
are to teach the citizen that he is It is Latin, not Saxon, in its ori foster viciousness and crime.
Sectarianism is the personified H a b it, 2 n d N a tu re
to be controlled and directed by gin; Romish, not Protestant or
higher powers than his own in re Catholic, political, rather than re enemy of public instruction, yet, P oliteness
contradiction, we owe the
ligion and politics, instead of his ligious, making use of religion for I strange
.
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almost non-sectarian character of W isdom
controlling and directing them.
crafty politic uses: and its ideas
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our schools to this very agency
A great respect is claimed for are not . suited,
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public instruction, they were so
which is placed above the State; is
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, numerous that all had to be kept
Worth more to
but the object is clear—it is to take which . aims
to place all the threads t
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at a civil distance. This distance
control of the family in educational of r political
Price of thejbook.
action in the hands of „ .
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matters from the Slate and turn it ¡the Romish clergy, the natural a llb u ,o n e
reltg.ou. or-
over to the hierarchy of the Romish civil head of which is an emperor i “a" lza' '' ’n are stl11 wlilln8 to main-
. . IT SHOULD BE IN . .
church. No practical evidence,
The Darties fondest of a h n .in .r* " 1' 1*'a,. o"e has h<'en Proiec‘-
however is advanced that the in- , he public schools are in the h.hi. L X raV w ar'on ^ 7 sys.TiT'There
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the ®omman,ty would ,ie of saying that they should not be j„ fighting ahead,
ere by this arrangement. Dial taxed to support schools to which
,
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our publicschoois may be improved, they cannot conscientiously send
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■«very true; but their defects are , heir children. It should be borne I 7 " [ '
m^ e ‘i* BC1hO° l8
llot due to the system on which ,n n jjn H however that these verv 8tr . y secular. The friends of
and receive a
they j are
based
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public
schools
can
defend
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find fault with the general system iegiti ma tely possible, and that they I‘
g'’‘" e88 8' h?°'8 ' ha"
of
nuhlie e education
d n e n tin n shows
ab<vwu as
aa are
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itt e practical sense as it would to vvho can hold untaxed property,
give a high price for a few saints’ When t |iey a i w „e the prPrOgative
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