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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1900)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JUNE 21, 1900. 8 tianity there by the Jesuits in Satan or Buck Ague, 1692, but in 1<24 the missionaries I N E W S A N D NOTES. X were expelled. In 1900 they ought E ditor T orch of R eason : ¿ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 to be expelled again. There is I don’t think our brother in the Please remember our Donation neither sense nor reason in out peo- wjjdernegR of Tillamook county Day, July 20. pie sending shiploads of mission- should lay his inability to hit a aries there under pretense of con- 5e a ro n gunday (0 (he Christian’s “Freedom” in the wilderness is verting the heathen, and at the reported as having really killed a is too orthodox. Be same time leaving thousands of candid, brother. Say “buck ague.” bear. heathen here at home who You can’t “gull” an old _____ Oregonian Secretary Geer is expected to be need to he con\erted (changed) wj ^ such thin wind. I ’ve “been in Chicago tomorrow, en route for worse than the Chinaman does. there n p g M Silverton. Let them finish their work at Christian people here say that Geo. Healy arrived Sunday and home before taking contracts the L. U. O. aud the Secularists Notice. at once entered into his work in in other countries and dis are trying to destroy Christianity. the L. U. O. printing office. Mr. turbing them in their religious If Christianity is pulled off the We have just received a hand H. has been with us before, and we worship. Truly yours, government teat, and compelled to J oel M. B erry . somely bound copy of The Woman’s know his work will be done with keep off other people’s backs, will National Military Home, Ohio. Bible, including three essays under dispatch and neatness. that destroy it? Cannot Christian -------- -------- the title, “The Bible and Church One of our good friends writes: ity stand on its own merits? Degrade Woman,” from the pen of O ur S cientific M agi. “ Do the members of the L. U. O. I think that Secularists are only Elizabeth Cady Sranton. Her Faculty recognize the tremendous trying to “choose the good and es works can be obtained from the Concluded from 6th page. responsibility resting upon them? chew the evil” of it. The Christ In view of this general state of European Publishing Co., 68 Broad I think they do, and I believe they ians preach at us to do this, and St., New York, or from Robert are equal to their task.” when we take them at their word thought, the Article we printed last week from the Open Court of Chi Livingston Stanton, Esq., whose Our foreman, J. H. Morris, will they abuse us for it. They appear cago, by Dr. Paul Carus, is very law office is in the same building. take a vacation by moving to his very hard to please. important, for it treats the Magi There is but a limited number of The radical difference between farm at Laurel, Oregon. We are continuously under the light of these handsomely bound volumes, sorry to see him go out of the office, Freethinkers and Christians appear evolution. W e regret that we could so those who desire to have one but his health demands it, and we to be that the latter are all the time not print the whole of it with its ; must apply soon, hope to have him back next fall striving to make facts fit their beautiful illustrations. There can “as fresh as a rose and as brown^as theories, while the former fit their theories to t he facts. The Christian | no more attractive nor useful a berry.” DO NATIO N D A Y FOR T H E LIB clings to theories regardless of facts. “ ate" al for a Liberal to have at E R A L U N IV E R S IT Y . The first and only Freethinker hand. who has responded to our call for The Freethinker accepts facts re But we must now close by calling gardless of theories. help by using the supplement The Liberal University is in great attention to the mental health and headed “Attention!” is Miss Lily Som e H istorical F _ acts . in R egard jLenflml ¡mnnrtdiifp general im portance df oi our our modern mouern need of funds, ’ and . as a “dav ~ of A. Powers of Lakeside, 111. Through Magi, the prestidigitors, or wonder- prayer” would be behind the times, to China. her efforts we received $5.00 this puformers. They should be used we have concluded to appoint July week, which fully pays the cost ol and encouraged as the assistants of 20, 1900, as a Day of Donation. E ditor T orch of R eason : printing the supplements. We earnestly request every Lib As China is at the present time our Scientists. Their public exhi- Our old friend, F. S. Matteson, coming in for her share of the hitions, plainly showing the differ- el al in America to send us a remit- of Turner, Oregon, has met with an spoils and causing the government ence between t^e actual facts and tance on that day, if it is no more accident. While riding up a steep officials at Washington some little laws of Nature and Mind, and the than twenty-five cents. The name grade the hack seat turned over, uneasiness about a lot of soul-savers pretended miraculous and super-, and address of each donor, with the throwing him to the ground, break they have sent over there, we pro- natural, are needed now more than amount given, will be published in ing a rib and otherwise bruising pose in the following to give a ever. For, as Dr. Carus points the Torch of Reason. “ In union him up. He writes that he is tak short historical account of the out, our regular Scientists, instead , there is strength.” ing the “cherry cure,” and can tes country, together with a few of our of being the most competent, are Address, J. E. H osmer , Silverton, tify to its pleasantness and efficacy. private opinions on the idea of one very often the most incompetent to Oregon We are in receipt of a kind letter government interfering with an- detect the mediums, Shamans and from our friend, Elizabeth Cady other in its religious affairs, while medicine-men of our modem Thau- A Liberal Offer. at the same time one is just as maturgists. But our people atj Stanton. A valuable literary con tribution from her pen will appear liable to be correct and honest in large are absolutely at their mercy; A good friend of the L. U. O. has in the Torch next week. Mrs. its religious devotions as the other, they have no defense against the offered to donate Two Thousand reference to history, we find ordinary tricks of necromancers Stanton also sends us a handsomely \ By / , , ' , . . , , nn nnasihlp wnv of Dollars in cash to our . institution if . . . . bound volume of her Woman’s that the Chinese empire was found- and jugglers, no possime way or other Freethinkers will raise it to Bible, which is indeed a valuable ed 2100 years before Christ. But understanding or exposing them. Our modern Scientific education Five Thousand. work and should be in the hands its history does not extend above Let us fill up the contribution of every intelligent man and woman the Greek Olympiads. The first should make U a point to furnish dynasty was when Prince Yu this defense. This necessity has box- in the world. reigned, which was 2207 B. C. Be- not been wholly overlooked at our fore this time Chinese chronology Liberal University. M e have had Notes and Com m ents. is very imperfect. By some, Fohi some expositions of the Black T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . is supposed to be the founder of the Art,” and sleight of hand and eye; T h is is O u r B u ild in g F u n d ! BY F. S. MATTESON. empire and its first sovereign, and more are in prospect. Honesty C o n tr ib u tio n B o x . must be protected from the super ! < X X X X X > < X X X X > 0 0 - 0 - 0 < X X > 0 < X X X X > One Sunday morning, the boy 2247 B. C. Literature revived natural by a thorough knowledge of who acts as janitor for the M. E. and the art of printing was Previously acknowledged... .$47.50 practiced, 206 B. C. The first its “Arts,” and so should acquire, church, rang the bell early and kept it up for half an hour or more, history of China was published by as a needful element of education, steady riuging. He, with some Sematsin, 97 B. C. Its first grant the dexterity, cunning and rapidity other boys, did this for amusement, was the island of Macoa, at the en- of act and glance which has en trance of the Canton river, to the abled illusion, delusion, disease and apparently. Mr. Wm. St.agg.........................$2.00 Suppose Secularists should do Portuguese in A. D. 1586. The fraud to victimize our race. We Mrs. j . H. Dingweil................. 2.00 country was then conquered by the must have our Scientific and ex Miss Lily A. Powers................. 1.00 such a thing, and “harrow the air with a thundrous din” for a half eastern Tartars, when the emperor pert Magi, as the detectives and hour, on Sunday morning, wouldn’t and his family killed themselves, guardians of an honest and healthy the Christians howl, though, and This was in A. D. 1635. An at- mind. The new Magi must pro- ^<XXKKX><XXX><X)(XX><¿>C(KXX:<^ î threaten all sorts of prosecutions tempt was made to establish Chris-1 tect us from the old. 6 0 > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 for “desecrating the Sabbath day,” committing a nuisance, etc. The difference would be that one was their nuisance and the other wasn’t—that is all! “Sauce for the goose” ought to be “sauce for the gander.” But Christians very sel- dom do to others as they would have others do to them. Their maxim should be: “Do as you please and compel others to do as you want them to—if you can.” f