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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1900)
4 TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER 22, E. M. 300 (1 9 0 0 .) Torch of Reason who never can tell the cuckoo’»! All forms of C ristian ity and Im - Mormon votes, this tim e for a Re eggs from their own until they m ortality are sim ply th e feeders publican. There is not tim e for T h e O n ly P a p e r o f I ts K in d . are hatched, and h ard ly then, and confirm ants of these delusions, more details. , 77 ; 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 T h e y ,e t th e s e biR « ra n g e rs grab This is a new and im proved form Now a few words for the rem edv .T.Uw I n l X l c f " «>• food from th eir own yonng nn- of Bible C h ristian ity , a , every If the “ God in the C onstitution til t h e y are throw n out of the nest ? A U .k .m .n R d itn r !>y 'J'* “ 9tarVe’ and thB m oth,'r p ' W . (le e r .................. M a n a g e r hlrd 'h « ,l k n °w 9 no belter th an to ............... ‘7 . go on feeding the big robbers as E ntered a t th e postoffice at S ilverton, t h o u g h sh e was th eir m other in- Oregon, as second-class m ail m a tte r. stead of th eir slave. S trange freak subscription RATES. of nature, all agree. Then let us ask our Uncle Sam uel to retire the s " x \ S b » Dii™ v an ce ::.':::::.':.'* 1 w! A m erican E agle from th is ruinous ~ T hree m o n th s, in a d v an c e ................ 25 business at once. C onstructive, Moral S ecularism . In clubs of five or m ore, one year, in a d v an c e .......................................... 76 Money should lie sen t by registered le tte r or m oney order. point, and it is alm ost exactly ad- Fellows,” were the only T heocrats i U9ted ,o ,he wa,,t9 of tlle maH9 of »» he met, the indifference of Liber- the people they address. It is the als and P atrio ts m ight be intellig- Theocratic and T ribal Com munism ible. But back of them stand the and Socialism of th e Hebrew tribes R om an and the Mormon H ierar- and of the New’ T estam ent com- chies, and hack of them all there bined. T heir C hristian opponents is of C h ristian ity : and they all are having forced them out of polyga- the deadly enemies of this Repub- my, can make no fu rth e r consistent lie, which is to be replaced by ------- against . .. ---- . . case them ; and where the “ thy . kingdom com e” and the evil is to end, no one knows. “ reign” of C hrist on earth . W ith The Roman C atholic C h ristian s th eir ascendency this Republic Those Mormons Again. present the sam e T heocratic diffi- would not last one presidential The exam inations which a few i Culty an e n la rked for“ - 1» >9 '« m . They cannot he separated Notice! h o u rsen ah led us to m ake of th e »be old story o f “ im perium in im- from C hristianity, of which they M orm ons and th eir doings in and j Per*° »P® R epublic with two are the most living parte. T h is fact A h a n d pointing to thin notice denotes about S alt l.ake C ity shows th e * Rcocratic em pires w ithin itself can no longer be put o nt of sight. th a t , ^ r e ^ S j . i ' X ^ d e m , ir « : .Mormon problem to he as ,a r a8 j e « in g out i t . vitals. T h e j a c t is ! They can only be defeated Yoy are earn estly requested to _ .... «za ....... ____ P _ 1 r . . ~ new so th a t vrza.a you m ay receive th e p a - ! ' ever from solution, It is one of p e r w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have d e - : , , . cided th a t it is best for all concerned th e g re a t d a n g e rs th a t im pends ov- th a t we do n o t send papers longer th a n e r the Republic. For as long as th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. , t> u, . .. . . , , T his will p rev e n t any loss and we will th e B ib le , C h r is tia n ity a n d th e doc- know ju st w here we sta n d . trin e of the Personal Im m o rtality We request you to send us th e nam es ! . . of Secularists who m ig h t become sub- , 18 s u s t a i n e d , the Mormons have the scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies, decided advantage of all “ religious” t O 17 ftln > x , , aB (luV day t. th Il a H t t. hfl both of f h by the defeat of <A C L h ristian ity these concerns are sustained by To do th a t the Religion of C h ristian ity . Indeed, they are the ' Science and H u m an ity , which is most taking forms of th a t craze, the only religion in harm ony with The Mormon sain ts in th eir late a republic, should take its place, m anifesto say: “ M ormonism is In a word, a R epublican religion not the work of m en, but is the m ust take the place of the Theo- Its doctrines have cratic religion. sects m aintaining those dogm as. work of God. been established for a wise purpose | Now th a t the election is over, is T hursday , N ov . 22, E. M. 300. T heir avowed but doubtful “ su s pension” of the practice of polyga in Him to prepare m an k in d for | there not time for R epublicans, my has very greatly added to their C h rist’s second com ing, and reign Dem ocrats and Populists to con- REPUBLIC VS. THEOCRACY. sider what |h e reaj cjaUger of the power. ■J And th eir secret, but well on earth. In short, so-called M ormonism, Republic is, and to join in support know alliance with the R epublican The American Eagle and Her Black party in the last election, puts them broad in scope, to le ra n t, truthseek- of the F reethought, L iberal and Cuckoos. in the position of the most favored ing, is the gospel of Jesus C hrist, Secular Congress and its au x illiary religion. Wa have only to com arid as such is destined to be the Unions, by whom alone th a t d an g Its tru th s er is really opposed? W in k w of the illions v. hen we .vx> th vuiun. me m u jiiiu jiin p pare a r e the me m m ajority a j o r it y of oi Ol,UUU to r religion of the future. ----- — --------- 51,000 for of church property exem pted from B ryan in 1896 with the 5,000 for • built upon ^ ’rect revelation from tax atio n , an d th a t all of th a t prop- M cK inley this m onth to see bow ‘ God, are co n stan tly gaining ground The Mormons Not a Model. pro- well the state state of of U Utah can be a " d correspond corr<i9Pon,i perfectly to the erty is a direct tax upon the pro well the tah can be and J ________• _ Z . 1 _ i .1 . . ' .. . . . rt o fx rl a r t f f l i o a f r o O ductive energies of the people; th a t handled by the priesthood; and if needs of the age.” * • The heaven of this religion is to It seems a little sin g u lar at first, all of th a t p roperty is non-product you ask the reason in S alt Lake ive, and yet is held and used to City, y,,u are placed on the role of be in no sky-parlor, but on the th a t ho great religion was ever wean the people from this world “ blessed innocents.” The policy of plains they till now, or elsewhere started by a priesthood or by paid and the republic, and to bring a the “ sa in ts” is to become solid with on this ea rth , when C hrist comes advocates or apostles. P aul, M a “ k in g d o m ” in which a “ C hrist” is the p arty likely to win, before elec- to call “ the quick and the dead.” b °m et, George Fox, and Joseph to reign, to take its place, the iu- tion, and then to ju m p iu ou the A nd they are all preparing for Sm ith seem but sam ples, not only nocence of our people as victim s w inning side and realize. T his is him by sending out colonies and °f no Pa .v, but of sm all m eans, and present, and to be, passes belief, done OnSevery issue, national, state, j m is« °n a rie s 80 th a t tb ey will have of le8s common sense. The Mor- Because churches churches do do not not avowedly avowedly citv d o w n to t’n the I homes in Mexico and our states, noons seem to be working on a Because city and and countv county, down The Tem ple at Jackson, M issouri, sim ilar plan in sending out th eir co-operate it is not observed th a t sm allest issue or officer. they do so practically. They are The attem p t, if it ever was m ade, from which they were driven in m issionaries. We were told th a t ju st so much of the energy an d to increase the population of U tah !tb eir early histo ry ’ tbpy are now the Religion of Science and Hu- production of our people taken from by general im m igration is no long- engaged in rebuilding. The com- m anity m ust have a sim ilar un- them and lost, for the purposes of er keeping the Mormon m inority mon schools they favor and pat- paid advocacy in laying its foun- this w orld; as much so as though where it was. The church im ports ronize> 80 as t° get them in th eir Nation am ong the people, they had com m itted suicide and its “ converts” from nearly every Pow er5 but tb eir education is al- If the new religion was like the throw n all th a t property into the p a rt of the civilized world, an d way8 com Plete(i bY th eir theology, old, based upon a craze of super sea. But far worse, for all th a t they being of the poorer classes, or they say: n a tu ra l hope and fear, evidenced energy and property is turned can be settled and m ade contented “ Besides the in stitu tio n s of by nervous spasm s, and all the re- against the republic whenever an in a inode of life th a t would be in- learn in g founded by P resident su it of childish illusions about the opportunity arises. It is constant- tolerable to o rdinary im m igrants. Young, P resident W oodruff a few parth and sky and dream s and ly in oo-operation with the ene- Besides they have caretak ers an d years ago, realizing th a t tru e edu- spooks, it m ight be so. But now mie8 of Republicanism abroad; it is friends of the incom ers who m iti- cation is based upon a correct the- the world of the intelligent is to be the ally of every influenc of the few gate their hardships, and the con- °l°gy> counseled the organization reached and moved, it can only be against th e masses of the people in solations of a religion are at once a a church school system which done by men of intelligence, scien- this country. Its spirit and policy home m aker in this, as well as the has grown until nearly all the t ’bc education, firm ness of charac- ter, and love of their fellow men. can never change for it is not only next world. They have enough to states have th eir academ ies.” the rival of the republic, but it can eat here, and oceans of m an n a and Men and women of th a t descrip- The cuuningness with which never succeed in this world or in nectar, all sure in the world to this Theocracy works out its plans tlon m ust not only be favored by any other w ithout the extinction come; in which they are to be res- would give the Jesu its lessons in nature, but education m ust render of the republic. Yet the rebublic urrected on this e a rth , in the body, their “ wise as serpents, and harm - the g’fts of nature effective. 4 . _ exem pts its property, and spends and with all .L the fam ily and saints less as doves” policy. T he S a l t ’ These results cannot be attain ed no little of its tim e and energy in nnre- „ . ¡t0 help t0 reallze glory of the Lake people are much am used at w ithout means, time, study and and i ^’’1 't ° IC HU 8tren 8 tb -1 ’atriarch al system of the Bible, for the way good Mormons were nomi- sacrifice. One of the greatest bless- Pa y ing i s w ay ., C hrist shall surely come ju st as he nated on the Dem ocratic ticket, to -ings to the world of a Liberal Uni- There are certain innocent birds said. be defeated most strangely by the rersity will be the possibility of __ ______ 1 ____ I A 1 - 1 1 i . HOW lla in now d8 as t plain