Torch of reason., December 25, 1902, Page 2, Image 2

THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, DECEMBER 25. E. M. 302 ,1902.)
Jong to m any different clans. The THE INQt ISITION IN AMERICA?
unm arried “ .....»»■■u
brothers and
male cous
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ins of the i w o m e n w ere m e m b e rs of i Hnrn< Offerings to God in the Twentieth
the worne ti’s clan, while the various
Century.— Sharp Comments on U. S.
la n s
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husbands were from other c clans
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T his would have been an unim- E ditor T orch of R eason .
p o rtan t m atter if the women had
The following answer was pub-
been rulers. The fighting strength li«hed in reply to a letter signed
a n d a l i t h e re^J 4othority, howev- ., ‘S outherner” which appeared io
>nd d .f.» d th.m MlTM by nUgton u
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So“ ‘herner glories io bis last
M ill« . Only in bis way can they ever ',
;
-'«in th e ir own se lf re sp e c t a n d rig h ts. ,,
b 00(1 a n d
c ru e lty ,
and
says,
P e rh a p s th e n th e S o u th e rn Y ankee
*l a t d o w e c a r e for the opinions
* 1,1 flnd o u t w hat a p p o o w
of the w o r l d ” T h is
w erfu
erfu l l o o p p p p o o n n e e n n t t , ° f t b ®
iie
as ■
Dliiilp
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.. it a public
. . . question, and if
h . h has
« ' • fu
t a r - on M « » ,
I makes
l o u r s fa ith fu lly ,
, u o <z,.,»u
.
A Pooa WniTB Bov. £ Southerner has no sense of
London, August 5,1902.
Phame, then others have the right
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to re8ent tbe disgrace and reproach
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.. i.eo win the ' ♦«- * j ■
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th® men, and tberefofe the
i^ntfo’n newspipe™
i' „.ted g tat«J»are offerv in aih « ♦ '
^ beion2g
o n g s particularly to the
r-
u h c rv iiiff a n o n
m etronym ic cam p or village had
bad no lynching. Among the statem ents the ty ran n v on, r^ « i
of the G reat Republic,
made
lhe ,? r»n »7> GUUrchHK
oppreaaion
and Inin
in.ol- l . worst « parts
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m ilitary or juristic unity.
if a made by S outherner” w a. .h a t erance of other natinne and beain but which disgraces the whole.
q uarrel broke out bet ween t wo clans, Eugliehiuen don I nnderetand the to take me« a urea to eurnrees the
1 he B arbarian Y ankee is the
the men of the same cam p or village Cnnd.tmn, nf the Southern United barbarous and fiendish horrors th at nam e by which the U nited S tates
were arrayed against each other— S a e» .m r.b ea» tn u n d .n g b ea« liality are daily com m itted w ithin its own m an is well known in E urope to­
an occurrence th a t has frequently
M eanwhile A m ericans look
, 3 r t T ’i
i border». The American eve does day.
been observed in A ustralian tribes.
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. le,,Hr- " ,,d then wh“ ' " (>t •** itself. M cKinley, who had on this devil’s work in the South
W ith the transition to p atro ­ F. F. Ya ’ h a s to s a y .J
with supine indifference, while the
so much to say about C h ristian ity ,
nymic kinship, tiie village became
THE LETTER.
H um anity and A narchy, was as stench of its infam y reaches to the
homogeneous in this m atter of E d ito r D aily C h r o n ic l e :
ends of the earth. A narchy in other
mum as the Sphinx upon the ques-
au th o rity and fighting strength.
S
— If
the United States negro is t *o n
negro-burning bv white countries is strongly condemned by
J he men and boys now constitute a th« ’vv h?
the United S tates, and the ignor­
bim 80 ? In B razil an d d e v , b in tb e » •" > « o f J u s ti c e ,
m ajority of the clansm en who lived tfje W est In d ies th e colored people a r e
ance of other nations is com m ented
as free from c rim e as an y people in th e o f . i 2
, , a t n c , a n a ,ld P ^ e i a n
together in any place. The wives
upon sharply, and yet in some parts
world. A re th e o u tra g e s c o m m itte d
tb e S o u t b e rn Slates alike respond
were of different clans.
Conse­
of the South 16 per cent of the
u p o n co lo red g irls, women a n d child-1 l° thH Cr^ o f b ,o o d a n d fire ; i t is
quently, the fighting strength, the ren by w hite m en ev er p u n ish e d in th e their auto da fe and Southern nic- whites , and , 67 P
per cent ‘ ° of ' lbe
the b,acks
blacks
moral auth o rity, and the clan U n ited S ta te s ? S u ch cases are n o t , ;
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p
cannot read—
me,
davs to
tocom
- . a worse showino
snowing th
th an
an
nic, and in days
come e tb
the . U nited , -
relationships were now, for the first ev er c o n sid ere d as crim es from M ary ­
Spain. It is the custom in the
States may have in some parts of
time, united in the same group of lan d to T exas.
I nited States to hold indignation
its
glorious
country,
real
P
laza de
S
ev
eral
y
e
ars
ago
in
W
estern
M
ary­
individuals.
m eetingsaixl condemn
condemn and
and denounce
denounce
lan d , a lm o st in sig h t of th e dom e of tb e R emaduras for public spectacles of nth
I he tran sitio n to patronym ic re­ C a p ito l b u ild in g a t W ash in g to n , D. C., ,u .
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p ^ ia c ie s of other nations for want of iustiee
lawless |ynch burnings, as in th e la u d mercv
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lationship made the religious com ­ a w hite m an was a rre s te d u p o n th e s u s ­ days of the m agnificent Spanish United Stales
^
le , <>f the
m unity also homogeneous. As was p icio n of having c o m m itte d a m u rd e r Inquisition.
United States send m issionaries
—it
was
said
th
a
t
a
p
re
ju
d
ic
e
ex
isted
explained, the religious com m unity
The Southern Y ankee has no in ­ and Bibles to lands not so uncivil-
a
g
a
in
st
th
e
m
an
because
he
was
su
s
­
ized as some p arts of th eir own
includes, besides its living hum an
pected of having been born in E n g la n d . tention of ever dealing square and
^ b e , a „ tbe friendly .p irita £
honest by the native colored citizen. country. The m orality of A m eri­
and g h o s ts , and all t h e n a t u r a l oh- ¡sev eral m eetin g s, a n d a fte r d e lib e ra t- They are to be forever kept down ' can ° opinion
seems to
to sir>k
sink lower
lower
p,U,on 8eems
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jects th a t are supposed to be of the ing over th e su b je c t c o n c lu d e d to l j nch by the brutal ty ran n y of th
e s- 1
° Wer’ and
dm e ifc m ay b«’
the e d des­
kindred. In m etronym ic toternic th e m an to save th e ex p en ses of a tria l, potic whites. The S outherner is come necessary to im port T urkish
society, the religious com m unity as th e y claim ed th a t th e c o u n ty was still secretly m ourning “ the lost and Moorish m issionaries into the
p o o r a n d th e e x p en ses w ould com e o u t
thus includes hum an beings, plants, of th em in tax e s. So th e m an was cause.” They say of the American United States to introduce better
anim als, stream s, rocks, m ountains, hanged by his n e ig h b o rs to save th e colored race, “ They are ours. God forms of religion and ci vilization.
ghosts and whatever else is wor­ ex p en se of a fair tria l.
F. F. V a .
made them for our slaves.” The
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case
dow
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S
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of
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shipped. In the patronym ic com­
S outherner takes his revenge upon
m unity, the principal spirits and p la n te r who w ent to a tow n a b o u t the helpless race whom they robbed
C omment : The above letter came
tw e n ty m iles aw ay to draw a sum of
to the T orch under a Spanish
gods are the ghosts of departed
m oney from bis b a n k e rs. H is horse and outraged for generations, be­
stam p, with a defiance to publish.
hum an members of the group. The cam e hom e frig h te n e d a n d bloody,
cause they failed with their S o u th ­ It may help us to realize the p rayer
religious com m unity has thus come fh e fam ily an d frie n d s g o t to g e th e r to
and wnat
what a a Uon-
Con of B urns:
lo o k f o r h im
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I ern Confederacy,—
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to consist chiefly of living hum an sc e n t of b lo o d ,a n d t b X d v 'w H ^ L V m fed e raC ? U w ,,u ld h a ™ b^ n for the
“O wad som e pow er th e g iftie gie us,
beings and hum an spirits, and to be sc e u t of blood, an d th e body was fo u n d
l o see o u rse ls as ith e r s see u s .’’
world
to
point
a
t—a
Republic
with
w here it had been d rag g ed . T he o n ly
in a high degree homogeneous. s tr a n g e r know n to have passed on th e
There is no way we can get th a t
a constitution of “ liberty,’’cemented
The chief result of this greater road was a Jew p e d d le r, who had in his
lesson
more effectively than by
of u despairing
slaves;
nao in nis with the blood vi
e s p a i r i n g slaves*
homogeneity is a great stren g th en ­ P^8S''ssl,,n a soft hat and a haudker- anarchy, lynch-law and the black- external criticism . How can we
ie f of th e m urdproH
r n an
«_» n , which,
• *-• V. th
_ _ e !
•
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u rd e re d m
learn not to deserve it, is for us the
ing of social bonds, especially of ch ief
snake
whip,
these
three
principal
those th a t unite one generation to p e d d le r said , he had fo u n d in th e road. planks in their republican platform , im poitant question. We pray our
T he le a d e r of th e m ob a t once con- *.......... -
—v.. «^puuncan piatlorm , Southern friends and especially
another and increase the au th o rity d em u ed th e Jew to be hau g ed , d e sp ite &nd “ new
Bible saying: “ Suf- newspaper exchanges, to m ake a
of tradition.
his p lead in g s for ju
tic e an
iu s sticn
««a d to give
_ fer fer
onl
v littln
l i p children . to _______
only
little » b white
come note of the m atters here referred to
him
tim
e
to
send
word
to
his
frien
d
s.
I ribal f EUDALI8M.— P atronym ic
not only in their colum ns but in
unto me.”
their
hearts and future purposes.
tribes in which chieftainship has ears a fte r th e sam e bank n o tes th a t
W it bout doubt there is more th an
become hereditary have usually, had been paid by th e b a n k e rs to th e double the am ount of crim e in the 1 he m atters concern us all as a
m u rd e re d p la n te r were tra c e d to th e ! r
1 Q.
a ra ° U nt
in th e people, and dem and of U. S. a care­
sooner or later, undergone changes le a d e r of th e m ob who h an g ed th e Jew . 1
felate8 t b a n ln
E u r o p e . ful review of our position before the
of organization th at have greatly
Does th e w hite fiend of th e S o u th
P a r t8
tbe S outhern S tates world and our future.
modified the original tribal c h a r­ th in k th a t his o b jec t-le sso n s in c ru e lty ! »either a Sheriff or U. S. M arshal
W hat Ingersoll thought on these
acter, and have established a rude ave no in flu en ce fo r evil ? C a n n o t dare go to make an arrest
T h e topics, see in D .esden E dition, vol
8,_p. 272; vol. 9, p. 573; vol. 11, p.
kind of feudalism .
e - * » m o o , 158, vol. 12, p. 322, where he sums
Observations of tribal society in race on e a rth who has k in d e r feelin g s re ,a tlO n s H nd f r ,* » d s. T h e t h e f t of it up thus;
every p art of the world have es-
“ These outrages, these frightful
m ore g r a titu d e a n d h o s p ita lity th a n a razor*baek hog, a d i s p u t e o v e r a
ta h lis h n d I ho O n n n l n a io ..
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tablished the conclusion th K * at
it is
th e negro. In th e ir sim p le lo y a lty ? a m e of « u t - t h r o a t p o k e r w ith fo u r crim es— m ake the sam e im pression
the habit of tribesmen to bestow th ey were tr u e an d fa ith fu l to th e ir b its in t h e p o t, th e b lu n d e r s of a
on my m ind th a t they do on the
large gifts upon their chieftains.
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b,U“ 8ya dHncer at a
calico m inds of all civilized people. I
Especially is this true when the w h o o L ‘“
know of no words strong enough,
tribes are much engaged in war or
a«e. T hey a re people e asily led by
am on« neighbors, a little bitter enough to express my in d ig ­
in plundering expeditions. The justice aud kiuduess, and have always w b,sky» or politics, alm ost any-
nation and horror. I am u tterly
successful chieftain receives from
religiously inclined.
thing can be the cause of a m urder- at a loss for words. Are the white
bis followers a large share of the been
In a few y e ars th e R om an C a th o lic o u s c o n te s t t h a t m a y in t h e c o u rs e people insane ?
bootv of conquest. The riches thus
‘A nation th at caunot or will not
obtained, be, in tu rn , is able to be-
protect its citizens in tim e of peace
-tow upon his personal favorites. m ake a bid for th e c o lo re d p eo p le of
‘ <>uthern “gents” shoot an has no right to ask its citizens to
By this means, he binds to himself
protect it in tim e of w ar.”
those followers who most faithfully th e S o u th , a u d ta k e th e m in h a n d e n e m 3' o n H,8 b t, o fte n in a crowded
Then have our S outhern friends
m inister to his am bition. These are Then th ey will be sch o o led a u d ta u g h t r a d w a .v t r a i n o r stage c o a c h , w ith -
reflected
upon what will be the pos­
T ^ . “ m d8, HUd " '8° their ° " 1 ' he
about
the prim itive forms of commendatio
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I "J 1 become central- killing strangers in his ouarrel or ition of the Negro under the C ath o ­
and KENEFiciUM.
lic C hurch—as in the West Indies?
< ♦ an, aught how to band together women and children.
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