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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1900)
4 TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 2, E. M. 300 (1S00.) Porch o f >.•*.« *»J»Z Reason raised to some extent, but most ought to pay our friend, the editor genuine infidels and meeting places varieties do not ripen as well here of the Tillam ook H erald, the same, for their dupes. The Only Paper of Its Kind. as in the valley. The clim ate, es in order th a t our opponent may The “ Iufidels” of our tim e are pecially in the sum m er and fall, is not receive an advantage, through not infidels. We who are faithful P ublished W eekly by th e L iberal U ni perfectly delightful. us, over our friend. F rien d s of to our honest convictions regard versity C om pany, in the In te re sts of But even here, as civilization th e Torch can, if convenient, less of consequences, we who in the C o n stru ctiv e, Moral S ecularism . takes the ¡»lace of the barbarism of patronize the Tillam ook H erald to face of ostracism , boycott and the original natives, the old Jew ish the extent of one dollar arid seemingly devised trap s of G od’s J. E. H osm er,........................Editor barbarism of oithodoxy follows twenty-five cents, at least, and anointed will neither ta lk with P. W . G eer................. . A> M -------- a n a g e r - ’ifh” f'.f.S?,’ ! sa iri/'to the account of double - aot keep silent, we •» f '■>* 1 • ’> viie-'-Sniiiy barnacle- oh i V fi« lu a n T ifte g ru y . *****— ---- -* ' we who so love lioerty, yet accept E n tered a t th e postoffice a t S ilverton, the body of a great fish. Some people th in k we are too th e slavery and h u m ility of the Oregon, as second-class d -c1“— m — ail :l m — a tte — r. A great “ revival” plague visited radical, but when we witness the misjudged, are not infidels. We the little city of Tillam ook last degradation, hypocrisy a n d ’ crime have fidelity, but the men and SUBSCRIPTION RATES. year, and the harvest of its evil th a t has been propagated and women who today, by their m em One year, in a d v a n c e .......................... $1 00 e ^ ef3s are already being felt. The nourished by the C hristian dog bership in the church, say to the Six m onths in a d v a n c e .................... 50 people (even the church people) mas, we feel as though it ig time world th a t they believe in its ab In clubs of five or m ore, one year, , are alm ost hopelessly divided, the for some one to he radical and surd creed, and thu s m isguide the in a d v a n c e ........................................... 75 members of the different churches eradicate the m ain root of hum an young, are either w eaklings or infi M oney should be sent by reg istered I bating each other as m uch as God m isery. The trouble in Tillam ook dels of the worst kind. I hated his enemies, or as much as is no exception to th e rule. The W hat a world this would be if Jesus hated the scribes and P hari- schools, the m orals, the w ealth, the infidel “ Infidels” and infidel C hris Notice! sees; and wile they are thus d iv id happiness and the progress of the tian s would learn to have fidelitv! ed, the young people, who should whole world are forever kept back A h a n d poin tin g to th is notice denotes th a t y o u r su b scrip tio n has e x p ire d . be ta u g h t the great tru th s of R ight by the ignorant, superstitious and GOD'S M ERCY. You are e arn estly requested to re new so th a t you m ay receive th e p a Living— those who need help the ever-present priestly lies of the p er w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . We have d e worst are neglected— are “ going to dark past. Silverton, th at most “ God’s w ord” is full of co n trad ic cided th a t it is best for all concerned the dogs.” Liberal little city and the home of th a t we do n o t send p ap ers longer th a n tions. In Ex. xxxiv. 6-7, we find These contending creeds have the only F reethought school in the th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. the following: “ And the Lord passed T his will p rev e n t any loss am i we will divided and ruined the public world, is to have a B aptist preacher know ju st w here we sta n d . before him [Moses] and proclaimed We request you to send us th e nam es school work for the last two years, for the principal of its public the Lord, the Lord God, m erciful of Secularists who m ig h t becom e s u b according to good au th o rity . The! schools. This would not have oc scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. and gracious, long-suffering, and P resbyterians hired the principal, curred if Liberals were as radically a b u n d a n t in goodness and tru th , and war ensued. This so ruined L iberal as C hristians are radically keeping mercy for thousands, for T hursday , A ug . 2, E. M. 300. th e school work th a t even some of C hristian, and the spirit as well as giving in iq u ity and transgression the F reethinkers patronized the the letter of our state law, th a t no and sin, and th a t will by no m eans “ P ro crastin ation is the thief of C atholic academ y, th in k in g th a t of religious o ______ ________ teachings shall ___ be per- clear the g u ilty ; visiting the in tim e,” is tru e of our work of build- two evils they would choose m itted in our public schools, would iquity of the fathers upon the • _ T~N A I « 4 t 1 « T T _ J .. * 1 a 1 . • . . • « - __ ing a F reethought school, and if the least. U nder right conditions, not be violated. To the C hristian it children and upon the ch ild ren ’s • 1 a i A 1 T TT 1 1 i A ~ O 1 _ 1 • A • I • • we wish to get the L. U. O. well i. e., under Secular conditions, pu- is very im p o rtan t th a t the children children, unto the th ird and to the under wav before our lim e comes, pils of Tillam ook could go to the and the heathen C hinee learn th a t fourth g eneiation.” we m ust “ strik e while the iron is public schools and prepare them -J Jesu s died th a t they m ight be A m an who would puuish his h o t.” _______________ selves for the higher work and then J saved, but to us it is very im port- worst enem y’s children and g ra n d finish in the academ y; but no, j a n t th a t our youtlt learn the tru th s Secularists should study well the those who wish th eir boys and girls of Science and have instilled into children and great-grandchildren fundam ental principles of Science, to be educated free from the old I th eir m inds such a love for hum an- for what th eir parents had done, L et every soldier in our ra n k s falsehoods m ust send them “ out-1 itv th a t no son of a god nor men would be a most despicable brute; u n d erstan d and know the im port- side,” and u n til lately there h a s ! women and children will need tJ but God, who brags of his mercy ance of the ideas o f ihe indestructi- been no place where F re e th o u g h t1 be put to death in order to save and goodness in one b reath, de clares him self a tyran n ical, blood bility of m atter and the conserva- p aren ts could send the voung peo- them . tion of energy, for ignorance of pie w ithout the danger of th eir be- How long m ust the children of th irsty villain in the next. The these great ideas is the ch ief bul- ¡ng led into some one of the priest i the T illam ooks and Silvertons be fact is, th a t no God ever said it. wark Of orthodoxy. We should traps. i 8acrificed ,Q , he q( . uce? The inspired w riter was not inspired read and study, and be not cow- The a ttitu d e and influence of How long m ust the heathen peoples with the love of telling the tru th . a d y in u s in g the weapons ag ain st C hristian teachings was very nice- of the world he sacrificed to the god The Bible is not the word of a god superstition th a t we thus obtain. ! )y illu strated by one of the p u b li-; of w ar? How long m ust H um an- at all. I he story of the fall of man, and his redem ption by the d eath of • cations in which we published our ity hang on the cruel cross of a god’s son is a farce, and those T IL L A M O O K . “ I hallenges.” We made ourselves priestcraft between the two thieves, who are try in g so h ard to believe known to the editor of the H erald, P rotestantism and C atholicism ? what the priests and preachers are L ast week we wrote most of our and he kindly consented to publish telling them are a poor, deluded set editorials while en route for the it. The editor of the H eadlight R E A L IN F ID E L IT Y . of suckers. There is no use of Pacific coast, and this week we also did the sam e, but the Head wvite while seated in our cosy tent light m an proved to be a Presby- T he preacher who stan d s in his m , incing these m atters an y longer. quicker we brand these lies as in b ro th er M asons front yard in terian, and after getting the notice n n l n i t a n d r u n to « k « .,* t d , The . TiUaPZ r Ve 1Ì,,le C° a8t Cky ° f d T T fid " Tillam ook county differs in m any twenty-five cents; but we explained del H e is infidel (unfaithful) to" I “ ] ’ respects from the rest of Oregon th a t we understood th a t he was to some of the d o ctrin e, of J e s u / he ' “ th and from the rest o f the world, T h e sum m ers are cool and very pleasant here, w ith occasional showers. The w inters are warm , with much rain. No railroad has ever blessed or cursed this little re- public, yet its resources are very p rin t it as a local, w ithout charge, but again we learned the lesson th a t C hristians fail to study the ’ Serm on on the M ount and th a t the “ root of all evil” is sometimes rooted deep in the brains of brother editors, provided th a t one is a which he professes- he is infidel to what he knows to be the tru th - he is infidel to h is f 11 w f k h know ingly deceiving them for th e « ..U n fL -'« ' »k 8 • r the cliurch ^ ^ J h” ' ” ' T i ? himse f Th t ‘i \ '° W ‘° UBe the9e ‘‘aVe ,cleaned out ' b . 8e ° J lhodox cessP °ol"> tb «t some- m dy Erow where they en^um ber tbe ground- if " be SUre it’’ “ d irt7 j ° b> but fa turn UP th eir rjO8efl and P ^ s WÌH 06 poisoned for generati° " 8’ a " d thu8 be fui- great. No country can boast of and the other a “ lam b of the upper been tau g h t b v ^ 1 08 I fiI.led tbe ch u rch ’» divinely inspired better or more ab u n d a n t grass, fold.” The m oral of this storv is f l 8 \ " bo are l11] ' raifl9Ìon °f punishing the children butter, cheese, beef, honey, shell- th is: If we are fooled into paying fl<x* u n f ^ ^ ^ a,ld the ch ild ren ’s children for m any fish, salm on, trout, tim ber, roots one dollar and t w e n ^ - f i v e ^ n T t o and uni'a R h h iV tn ’t h ^ . ^ ‘ h " " • e — r a ‘j 0 " » I t ¡s our d u ty to tear and bulbs. G rain and fruit a r e .t h e C hristian editor we u 1 k . , . 1 tbem s‘‘,ves> have dowu th at we m ay build up. Let's ,m e v n n s tia n editor, we really become nothing but rendezvous o f , up and at it!