THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JU N E 21, 1900.
takes pleasure in hie anesthesia, but For th e Torch of Reason.
The Moral M an.
his pleasure is not worth having.
At b irth all men are helpless,
BY T. J . BO W LES, M. D.
but they soon learn to help th em ­
selves and, finally, to help others.
I nder the glitter and gloss of
This ab ility is the m easure o f our
our C hristian veneering, we are at
worth, and the youth who improves
heart but polished savages and
his tim e in tho u g h ts and pursuits
8tili retain the vicious iustincts o f 1
which educate and elevate will find t
cruel auim als. The construction
th at instead of becoming a useless,
o f vast arm am ents by so-called
unhappy man he will have a m ind
C hristian nations for the d estru c­
well stored w ith th a t which fur­
tion of hum an life dem onstrates
nishes him self and his friends much
th a t we are nothing more aud
pleasure and profit of the right
nothing less than well-dressed b ar­
sort, while he whose selfish object barians.
begins and ends in wealth or
W hy is it that the so-called
pleasure will retu rn to hie first
civilized nations are still engaged
condition of helplessness long b e­
in the wholesale m urder of th eir
fore his time. It is inevitable th at
fellow m en? W hy is it th a t men
frequently d u rin g the life of one
everywhere are still toiling and
who is chasing worthless wealth or
sw eating and bleeding, and w ithout
pleasure, he will see its u tter w orth­
any hope for the morrow? W hy is
lessness; and the tim e come3 in his
it th a t m an, the highest product of
m aturer years when lie clearly sees
E volution, is far more unhappy
its u tter insignificance: and then
than the beasts of the forests?
what? The rest of his life is spent W hence comes this awful perver­
in a fruitless endeavor to m ake up
sion of our nature and this terrible
for lost time, or in the darkness of load of sorrow and affliction? There
an aim less existence.
is a cause for all things, and there
The m erchant who arranges his m ust be a cause for the social dis­
goods w ith nothing but money in tem pers and discords, the agonies
view, seldom does as well as he and
the
sorrows,
by which
who loves the beautiful effects of his happiness has been banished from
work. The a rtist, whose chief the earth and m ankind made
motive in p ain tin g is the pay, is cheerless and hopeless and desolate.
not an artist, and u ltim ately fails.
The answ er to these m om entous
The inventor who loves a for­ questions is not far to seek nor
tune more th an his ideals will h ard to find. The deadly poison
be disappointed. The playw right th a t häs blighted the hopes anc
who counts his receipts above the the happiness of the race through
entertainm ent of his audience will, all the ages is orthodox religion.
sooner or later, receive hisses in ­ Its exterm ination is an im perative
stead of applause. A teacher who necessity. Relief for the race can
“ keeps school” for “ w hat there is in never come until N aturalism over
it” dots not teach school. And, throws supernaturalism ; until ethics
finally, the hum an being who is is substituted for religion; until all
wholly selfish, spending all his tim e the high stations in life now
in getting, and plan n in g how to save usurped by the priests are filled by
his gains, or in throw ing away his the teachers; until Science is sub­
golden hours in profligate pleasure, stituted for revelation; until the
has lost his life and is not much moral m an is substituted for the
religious m an in all the stations of
better th an his brother, the m on­ life.
key, and often does much more
The moral m an has already made
mischief.
his appearance, aud he will con­
tinue to increase and m ultiply
He w ho’d be h ap p y on life’s sea,
until he spreads the net of his do­
H ie w ealth w orth having, g aining,
m inion over all the discordant
Must trim his cra ft afore an d aft,
And spend his tim e in sailing.
races of the earth. We already
have glimpses of the good tim e
I be low ering sails for p leasure light,
com
ing when the m oral m an shall
Or tre a su re -isla n d s seeking,
rule the world. The L iberal U ni­
" ill soon req u ite him day and n ig h t,
W ith d isa p p o in tm e n ts reeking.
versity of Oregon has commenced
the work, and when the work is
rb en up Piy sailor la d s; Yo, ho!
com
pleted, and surely it will be,
We sail b u t for th e season ;
the right will then trium ph over
But while we roam th e o cean ’s foam ,
the wrong; virtue will trium ph
Our pilot will be R eason.
over vice; physical and moral
And when we lan d , as land we m u st,
beauty will then trium ph over
Our a n c h o r g ently loosing,
physical and moral deform ity;
Ere we d e p a rt w e’ll will o u r c h a rt
order and good governm ent will
fo those w ho’ll still be cru isin g .
then trium ph over disorder and bad
governm ent; hypocrisy, sectarian­
ism, hatred, vengeance and war will
Spread the News.
then give place to the blessings of
m orality, love and peace.
Every man who has been em an ­
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