THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JUNE 21, 1900.
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tianity there by the Jesuits in
Satan or Buck Ague,
1692, but in 1<24 the missionaries
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were expelled. In 1900 they ought E ditor T orch of R eason :
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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threaten all sorts of prosecutions tempt was made to establish Chris-1 tect us from the old.
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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.”
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