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TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH 13, E. M. 302 (1902.)
Commencing with Astronom y
la-1 P a ll, the course has passed on
All Tendencies, Parties and Views Find through Physics, C hem istry, Dy­
in Its Existence and Welfare Their
The O nly P ap er of Its K ind.
namics, (E lectricity, etc.,) to Biolo-
Judge and Human Limitation.
gv, Psychology; and now com para­
tive or anim al Sociology, is the in ­
P ublished W eekly bv th e Liberal U ni­
Many reformers are at fault, in troduction to hum an association
v e rsity C om pany, in the In te re sts of
P u re Science, applied to E ducation, that they give the people generally, a n d g o v e r n m e n t.
R eligion and P ra e tm a ’i Lite.
tne notion that they are “ possessed
The fact that Science r e v e r s e s the
by ideas, ideals, reforms or tenden­ Bible, is an old story, hut to have
T. B. W a k e m a n ................... E d ito r
cies which they are trying to run
P. W . (je e r..........................M an ag er to ruinous extrem es. A good cause, it reverse Shakespeare, too, is some­
thing rare. But when his descrip­
or healthy tendency, when pushed tion of the polity of the bee-hive,
E ntered a t th e postoffice at Silverton,
in th at unlim ited m anner, defeats (H enry V, 1, 2), came up, it had
Oregon, as second-class m ail m a tte r.
the good it really stands for in to stand generally reversed. T here
SU B S C R IP TIO N R A T E S .
Scientific Republican Sociology.
was in the bee-hive no “ king and
One year, in a d v a n c e .......................... $1 00
Thus it is considered an objec­ officers of worts,” nor soldiers, nor
Six m o n th s, in a d v a n c e ....................
50
T hree m o n th s, in a d v a n c e ................
25 tion or “ answ er” to “ socialism ,” that m erchants, nor executioners, nor
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
one prefers to own his own clothes, hardly a thing or object as the
in advance.......................................
75 bed, house and farm with his fam i­
great poet supposed. It was found
Money should be se n t by registered
ly, and have some result propor­ to be a socialistic republic with
letter or m oney order.
tionate to his work.
drones instead of kings, and only a
T hursday , M arch 13, E. M. 302.
The A narchist who really w ants “queen” as the egg-layer and no th ­
civilization, and lives by virtue of ing more: while the workers prac­
E V O L U T IO N IN O H IO .
it, has given the general notion th at tically iun every other part and
he sim ply wants others to vote and function of the colony in a purely
Shall the Churches Capture or k ill the
pay taxes for his protection and republican fashion, by committees ,
Ohio State University ?
benefit, while he plays drone or re­ and w ithout any officers at all, on
former. N ow , if a man has any the basis of
Our correspondent discloses a
sense, “com m on” or other, the time
E ach fo r A ll,
sin g u lar state of affairs in Ohio.
and place to show it is in the a d ­
All fo r E ach ;
N othing less than a covert attem p t
F ro m each his h ig h e st d eed ,
vocacy of the changes or reforms
To each as he m ay need.
to extinguish the little touch of free,
which he proposes for the benefit
scientific, higher education there is
The A nts run their polity in a
of the Republic. W ild and incon­
in th a t state. We mean by “ free,”
sim ilar republican way, except th a t
siderate talk means sure defeat.
untheological— or beyond the con­
From every point of view' we they make captives.
trol of churches.
The B eavers , the most Sociolog­
m ust remember that the Republic
The T orch has all along taken
is it , the thing , the supreme . It ical of all bipeds, for such they real­
the position th a t nothing is now
is the n atu ra l and inevitable co­ ly are, are also thorough republi­
nxne necessary for the Republic
operation of Each for All, and All cans and dem ocrats, and do their
than a “ higher education,” “ free”
for E ach; all “ isms” are limited by work en masse, or by com m ittees.
in the sense of being beyond the
w hat is best for it . Every one of N atural selection (N a tu re ), elects
control of either church or state.
them , however good, if carried too the Republic every time, and is
Our appeal lias been, and is, to those
far is destructive and ruinous. Each, only beaten by the am bition and
who have means, to lose no tim e in
like Socialism and A narchism , are greed of u nnatural individuals of
having it applied to institutions j
necessary tendencies which must be the hum an species. The Republic
like L. U. O„ where the T ruth can
balanced and co-ordinated for the is the n atu ral governm ent of m an,
be taught and dissem inated w ith­
common good, in order to be good . first recovered and im proved in
out fear or favor of gods or devils,
The real patriot should he like America.
priests or politicians.
W ashington, and the true Sociolo­
We had hoped th a t Mr. Carnegie
gist, above all parties, and able to ARE SOCIALISTS P A T R IO T S?
m ight see things in this light, and
use all parties and tendencies for
rear institu tio n s of learning which
Do they Act With The Churches, Mor­
the general good of the people—
could furnish use and readers for
mons And Anarchists Against U. S. ?
which m eans the Republic, under
his libraries, which otherwise will
its suprem e law :—S alus P opuli
It is not for nothing that we have
practically go for little or nothing.
S uprema L ex ! Reconsider in the pointed out th at, when the old
The “ higher education,” th a t is,
last T orch the little editorials on “ Kingdom of H eaven” vanishes
the learning and culture above the
the (5th page), “ Let the Republic with the old Sky-Heaven and T he­
common schools, m ust have cen ­
C ontrol.” “ The Real Test.”
ology, the Republic of the U. S.,
ters , “ sm all colleges,” as Mr. Bryan
Reforming without the Republic,
and finally the Federal Republic
calls them , to which the people
is as idle as the attem pt to paint of the W orld, scientifically, logic­
may have ready access, and from
a picture on a canvass w ithout ally, and socially, takes its place.
which the influence of a higher re­
stretcher or frame. It is sailing
This was the program of Paine
publican life by Science, precept,
w ithout Port or compass.
and the Republican F athers of the
books, and the exam ple of noble
Revolutions of ’76 and ’89. B u t
men and women, m ay become the
PRE-HUM AN REPUBLICS.
the Cornerstone of that Republic of
independent and common in h e ri­
tance. W ithout this influence there Nature Votes for the Republic Every Time the W orld was to be our Federal
Republic, and its symbol, “Old
will in time he no Republic, for
Now the trouble is th a t
Few things can be more in terest­ G lory.”
there will be no independent repub­
lican life or influence to sustain it. ing, instructive and useful, than the Reformers of the world are con­
Io »he m eantim e, all of the state the general view’ of the Sciences vincing the people th at they are not
co leges and universities should he given at the m orning openings of really Republicans at all. See how
sustained, and he made as scientific L. U. O. It is a shame th at some­ it is;
The C hristians and Mormons
and as thoroughly unsectarian and thing like them cannot be given
before every school and college. Then are praying and working, not for a
secular as possible.
every patriot in Ohio write the people would have some chance republic, but for a “ kingdom to
Now to h i ’ member of the Legisla­ to know what the true Bible and come,” and they expect it soon.
tu r e to defeat th a t covert sectarian revelation of the w orld, in their real, The A narchists are sim ply C hrist­
conspiracy to cripple or destroy the “ religious” and general relations, ians gone to seed; that is, each A n­
archist, finding th at the old God is
really are.
U niversity of his state 1
Torch of Reason
THE
R E P U B L IC S U P R E M E !
gone, is try in g to take his place
w ithout regard to his fellows or any
Republic or governm ent at all. The
Socialists act like foreigners, and so
as to m ake the people feel th at they
will have the “ bloody flag” in the
place of the “ star spangled” ; and
th at their “ in tern atio n al conven­
tions” are to stand in the place of
the U. S. Congress, Uncle Sam, the
Spirit o f ’76 and Am erican P a trio t­
ism, as the inspiration of U. S. and
of the F ederal Republic o f the
Nations and Peoples of the world.
W ith this foreign heart and “com­
plexion” can they succeed in A m er­
ica?
Can there be any doubt but th a t
Paine, Jefferson ami W ashington
were right about this R epublic’s
future ? Is not the science of po­
litical Sociology with them ? If so
the tim e has come to “ n atu ralize”
these socialistic reforms, and get
them into the line of the political,
social and patriotic evolution of the
American people.
Now they are
cut off by them selves, and stand as
if little m etaphysical, theological,
foreign, and “ class” m ovem ents.
They appear as if at heart and
logically against our Republic and
our flag? They m ust become part
o f U. S. or die? But, as Mr. C harles
Southeran of New York has shown,
they were indiginous to the A m eri­
can soil and people; as such they
m ust be reclaim ed and cultivated
for all they are w orth?
SOCIALISM,
W ill It Commit Suicide in Oregon ?
When hunters w ant to clear out
game, or m ake an end of anim als
undesirable, they try to corral,
shew, or dog them together for the
slaughter; hut if the game have no
better sense than to get together
them selves—all the b e tte r—for the
hunters! T h at is to say, th a t new
m oral, social, Liberal, economic,
political, and other reforms, make
a fatal m istake when they bring
their candidates to the polls before
they have strength enough to at
least hold a balance of power there,
and so compel the respect of the
greater parties. As soon as they
take such can d id ate action, their
votes are throw n aw ay, and th eir
worthy purposes are m isrepresented,
corrupted, lied out, bought or stolen.
They become at once the political
enem y of every partizan, and of the
mass of people, ig n o ran t or ill in ­
formed, as to their motives and real
objects.
The Socialists at Salem last week
organized as a political part y. They
then rose and w ith hands lifted to
high heaven swore by the E tern al [?]
that they never, never, never, would
“ fuse” with any other p a rty ; ad o p t­
ed a class platform , th a t, w ithout
explanation, excludes the farm ers
and a large m ajority of the people;
and then nom inated a full ticket of
candidates to be voted w ithout a