Torch of reason., March 19, 1903, Page 4, Image 4

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THE TORCH OF REASON, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, MARCH 19, E. M. 303 (1903.)
rorch of Reason o under
nly 8e government
e tllat if R control
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were tio,18> tells wh»‘ practical, common
or em- sense Socialism is. Can anythin./
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T't- „ Only P aper of Its ■ Kind.
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ploy, they would lie less effective! be Now more im portant to millions
. By all means let us turn the navy of readers?
Since the author
P u b lish e d W eekly in th e I n te r e s ts of over to J P Morgan «t nr.r-M
e r 10 • 1 • A io r g a n a t once. lie wrote this m atter he has (very re.
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S cience,
cience, a a n p n p lie
lie d d m
to E d u c a tio n ,
R e lig io n a n d P ra c tic a l L ife.
may be able to hire and coax our icently) been made President of
Princeton University, a position
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tion, that they must proceed to do
it themselves? This is the very
ra te s an d privileges a t th e K a n sa s C ity , f
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rates .
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M oney s h o u ld be s e n t by re g iste re d
le tte r or m oney o rd e r p a y a b le to Tone m
of R eason .
All le tte r s an d c o m m u n ic a tio n s for
th e T orch of R eason sh o u ld he sen t
c a re U n iv e rsity B ld ’g, K a n sas C ity , Mo.
pox or the deadly plague. There
are no diseases more terrible than
the nervous diseases, the result of
falsehood. They renderthTwhofe
life a deceit, a fraud, a wrong, an
injury and a final nothingness,
than which it were far better never
to have lieen born.
room
changed any views set fo rth in h is A u - IhVie
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lo r Truth
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n n m m s th is W’orld T Theologian,
h eo lo g ian droD
those
, k ? e S ta te ” If " d° 80 falsehoods t,ef.,re
the“ drop those
falsehoods before they worse than
learn, the T orch will notify its kill then .,,.,1 ti
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ill thee
thee and
and <>«>**>*
others!
readers. If you see any views k,U
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first law and duty of all govern- j which ought to be changed, the
th at of self p reserv atio n and T orch will gladly present them ?
INGERSOLL AND WAGNER.
welfare.
On th is g ro u n d th e
D iscussion next week.
T orch has urged people and th e ir
The Emancipation of Music.
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polit lcians to have U. S. proceed
RELIGIOUS DISEASES
at once to control, ad m in iste r and
K an saa C ity, th a n k s to C rw a to re ’s B aud
a n d th e O p era Co., h as of la te had
enlarge these g reat tru n k lines; Their Cause
and Cure.
The Denver
flue to u ch e s of h ig h er M usic, e sp ec ­
also th e people’s supply of coal
ially W ag n er’s.)
Jumpers.
and oil, where complete p riv ate
T hursday , M arch 19, E. M. 303.
If there is anything we think of
ow n e rsh ip p rev en ts all co m p etitio n
I pon our recent journey from as free, and wild as the winds and
as
to
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aterial
and
labor.
THE TORCH DELAYED—
Silverton to Kansas City, we had the air, of which it consists, it is
m e rit
a stop over at the pleasant city of music . Yet aside from this, its
THIS BRINGS US TO CONSIDER Denver, there to confer with some material or objective side, music is
Liberal friends and to obtain such a subjective or human Art, and
AGAIN—
The removal of the T orch from
information as we could in regard never can be free until it becomes
Silverton, Ore., to Kansas City, Practical and Common-Sense Socialism. to “the Jum pers,” a new religious
the highest and complete expres­
Mo., has resulted in its suspension
affliction that had recently de­ sion of a free soul and a free people.
for more than a month instead of
We believe that all parties and scended upon that lofty town. It is therefore, in it3 advanced and
the promised ten days. That was especially the Socialists have much From one of its most reliable
free expression, the voice especially
n o to u r fault. O ur “rush car” of to learn from the recognized Soci­ papers we p rin t so full an account, of those who, having had a vision,
freight left Oregon before we did, ologists who have been prom inent which we found upon personal in ­
ideal or foretaste of liberty, as did
and we have been here more than in opening up to the public the quiry to be true and fair, that
the (for 16 years) political exile,
a month urging for it by every greatest economic and social ques­ there is nothing further left to do
VS agner: or of those who have had
possible means of pen, ’plume and tions. The T orch will, therefore, but to recognize squarely that this
such free aspirations denied and
tongue. The state of the case is continue to present the ablest arti­ jum ping epidemic is a late and
repressed. Very likely it was this
interestingly described (p. 3) by cles it can find on these subjects. serious phase of religious disease.
rebound against repression, which
one o f our besought K. K. friends. We think that one presented (p. 1)
As such it is only to be under­ is thus inherent in all great and
T h e q u e s tio n r e c u r s : “ W hose this week will be found of excep­
stood when considered as one of a good music, that made Ingersoll
FAULT IS IT ?”
tional interest. It is an extract, large class of nervous afflictions its great lover and greatest eulo­
T hat question involves lives, bearing upon Socialism, etc., from
and derangements which under the gist. Oppression, mental or other,
sufferings and losses to millions as the concluding part of a treatise
old inspirational and reveiational is not likely to break forth in m u­
to which those of a horrible war on “T he S tate .” by Woodrow
religions have been and are ever sic or song.
are a small affair. And yet the Wilson, first published in 1895
liable to be a dreadful scourge. For
The alliance therefore between
millions who endure are patient, (by Houghton, M iflin & Co. N. Y.),
as long as those old “religions” ate the Liberal and great human m u­
and even our business friend takes nnd which from its position has I propa£ ated among innX*ent and
it, and seems to think all should m ocr rear icd as it should, the unscientific people, they will re sic, is natural, fundam ental and
everlasting. Em ancipation from
take it, as a m atter of course!
public who would be really inter- su]t in conversions, contortions,
the old religions means our h ig h ­
Not so! The first duty of gov­ cstcl m it. rherefore we venture quakinga, jum ping, trances, hyp-
ernm ent.that is of t hose conducting o p r,n t h.s extract and to call nt- Iloti8In a„d other m anifest forms est, truest em ancipation! I t follows
it, is prevision in order to make tent.on to the importance of the L f nervous disease, always fam iliar that the musical departm ent is the
first to be proposed for organiza­
provision for the inevitable. Every work itself It is only by at ten- to those whose business it has
tion at L. U. O., and th at its out­
Secretary of the Interior and every turn to works of this kind that we |)ee„ «ml is to treat the insane,
line and material are already being
President and Cabinet Officer for may hope for scientific answers to
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1 nat these old religions are the sought after and are beginning to
the last twenty years has known questions of e great moment such as
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are m e appear.
these*
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causes
of
these
afflictions
old
and
perfectly well that the terrible state
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j new*, is as thoroughly proved as
The greatest difficulty many
of obstruction descrilx?d was in ­
If society is an organism devel- anything possibly can be. If any Liberals have with the higher
evitable, unless at least three oping according to natural laws, one has doubt about th is .a n d d is -
double track passenger and freight « hat do they show to be the proper j trugt8 practical medical works on music is its use of the old theo-
railroads ( north, central and south­ ” ’¡Y*S ‘’f ‘ i.1; bt8te a,;d o f lndiT><l- this subject, he has only to refer to logic and m ythic names, charac­
ters, machinery and symbols. The
ern), under U .S . control, should be ual l.le
What are the considers- the work of Prof. W illiam Jam es
provided. It was the evident duty (tons winch determ ine the prece- of H arvard College (our leading efforts to turn the libretto into an
o f the proper Secretaries and Pres­ deuce of each over the other? How p , ychologi. t) on -V arieties of Re allegory around the “Holy G rail,”
idents to advise Congress and the cau each be best attained for the ligiouB Experience,” to find that 'or instance, is worse than working
People and to take no answer that common benefit. W hich arc the theoretical and practical Science the “heart of religion” out of
Dante’s Vision or M ilton’s P ara­
would not be effective.
natural lim itations of Socialistic ' nre one on this subject,
dise, or finding the substance of
This was a duty just as im pera­ ami of Individualistic measures?
The result of this inquiry is the
M an and his F uture , in the Sec­
tive as that im pending upon the
II n «1 t le measures projected unpleasant tru th th at our reverend ond P art of “F aust.” We ask:
W ar and Navy D epartm ents not by each end in advantage, a m i, frientlB, tl,e clergy, are often uu-
Must we work for the highest
to leave our country defenceless. " hC?v w
""*• d,saPP°int- wittingly doing the people they pleasures and delights of Art as
Lands, monies and credit sufficient nun
ow can parties extensive would serve the greatest injury,
to render this service over and enough in common interest be A11 teachers and distributors of though we were in the higher
over again have been voted to law- r >ug i o t it support of each ? j those old and unscientific modes of mathematics? The A rtists simply
reply that, you have your choice:
made monopolists with this result,
If there is any such Science as “religion” occupy the awful posi- which is your measure —how high
which is both ridiculous ami trag ­ Sociology and who dares to say i tion of those who should make it
can you, or do you wish to, go?
ical.
there is not? its unfoldm ent so as their business to spread through
W hat W agner thought of this
Ami vet our astute friend ( an to give answers to the above ques- the community the virus of small-
work, and what Ingersoll thought
For Want of Practical Socialism.
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