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KAXSAS CITY MISSOVPI. THURSDAY DECEMBER 2i, E. M. 303 (1903j
VOL.
O nly Paper of Its Kind
T h e T orch of R eason is p u b lish e d w eekly by th e
1 ib era l U n iv e rsity O rg a n iz a tio n in th e m te re s t of
p u re S cience, a p p lie d to E d u c a tio n , R eligion a n d
P ra c tic a l L ife .
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Thaddeus B. W a k em a n .......................... Editor
Pearl W . Geer .....................................M anager
'E n t e r e d M arch 21, 1903, a t K a n sa s P ity , Mo as
•>d-class m a tte r, u n d e r A ct of C o u g re ss Meh. 3, IS a J.
(S u b s c rip tio n an d a d v e rtis in g r a te s o n p a g e L ) _
THIS TORCH sheds light on the following subjects:
fused to act about the Canal; the choice was
to take N icaragua’s route, or to see what ad­
justm ent could be made by Panam a. H er
secession and self government recognized by
her own people, and by the civilized world,
has been so unanim ous that the m atter is de­
cided, and it only rem ain» to determ ine what
share of the Colombian debt she ought to
pay. The true Statesm an and P olitician-is
known by his ability to see when a case is de­
cided; to keep up opposition and a fight after
that, is only a m ixture of ruinous obstinacy
and stupidity.
RENUNCIATION.
BY AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL.
I will re lin q u is h a ll, yet to m y life
I He sh a ll be real as th e S u n to th e D ay.
1 m ay u o t serv e, as siste r, frie n d o r wife,
Yet w heresoe’e r h is liue of life m ay lay,
I will e x a lt him w ith th e s tre u g th of p ra y e r,
A n d he will n ev er know th e w hence o r w here.
A ud every eve w hen fall th e 9h*dow s dow n
And sta rs peep sh y ly tb ro u g h th e tw ilig h t d im ,
A rray ed again in L ove’s own lily gow n,
I ’ll s it beside h is c h a ir an d ta lk to h i m ;
A ud th o u g h to sig h t ’tis b u t a n e m p ty c h a ir,
Yet 1 sh a ll sen se th e halo re s tin g th e re .
by current editorial COMMENT
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Portrait of M. M. MANGASARIAN, Editor “ The
Liberal R eview ’ ’
Poem, “ RENUNCIATION”
by Augusta Cooper Bristol
“ WORKING GIRLS” Concluded, by Col. Ingersoll
“ SOCIOLOGY, SOCIETY BUILDERS, ”
Intellectual Forces, by Prof. Lester F . Ward.
“ ECONOMIC EVOLUTION,”
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thought Magazine One, to Appear Feb. Next;
Our New Call and Career; Spencer, Paul and
Death; Should We Die Intoxicated? Whence?
Why? and Whither? False and True Answers;
Our New Poem and Goethe’s Tale
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M ay v a u q u ish E ate, if th o u c a n s t h o ld it
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The Rev. Clergy are still making a
great “rum pus” about divorce, but are
utterly im potent when
THE CURE
M. M M A N G A SA R IA N ,
they meet the difficulty.
EDITOR of “ THE LIBERAL REVIEW ,”
FOR
As Dr. Roberts said
Freethought Magazine and Torch of Reason, Consolidated.
DIVORCE.
last Sunday about brib­
The Yule-tide, or Sacred N ights (W eih-
ery and corruption: the real remedy is
not in the torture of iron laws and cruel pu n ­ nachten), as the Germans call them, has its
ishments, but in prevention from a union of
roots deep down in the Solar
THE
lives and purposes for the betterm ent of each
System itself, as the shortest
HUMAN
other, and children (if any), and of their
day, the W inter solstice, the
CHRISTMAS.
community, and the world at large. The old
beginning and marker of the
Religion of Heaven and H ell appeals to the year. I t is thus the fundam ental Festival of
selfishness,' greed, fear and anarchy. The all N orthern nations and religions—always
new Religion brings the altruism and devo­ has been and always will be. “Merry C hrist­
tion above referred to—only a touch of which mas!” or its equivalent, will last as long as the
makes any divorce, that is not proper, im pos­ hum an race. The attem pt of the C hristians
to appropriate this festival is the absurdest of
sible. Rev. Sir, think that over!
the myths connected with it. The only way
out of th eir myth is to pu t tru th and sense
W hen the use and reason ceases so does in it by reading it in the light of modern
the law, and the sensible opposition, political Sociology: viz., the “C hrist” was at first the
and other. So is it now with personified “soul” or “body” of the tribe,
SMOOT
urnarn y
Senator Smoot and Panama. state, people, nation, and now of
AND
T heir cases have been tried itself. As such, the birth of new sun and
COLOMBIA.
and the result should stand. year w ithout the home, and of the children
W hen the Mormon presented his credentials w ithin the home, is the great true feast of
as U. S. Senator, that was the tim e to show N ature and M an united. So let us learn o
the fight if any was to be— and wre said there place the N atural and H um an, th at is the
’ Christm as in place
were good legal and Liberal grounds for op­ true scientific am’
dy is grander than
position, to be passed upon THEN but not of the m yth. 1
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now . So with Panama, when Colombia re-
(F rom Dresden E d itio n , V ol. 8.)
H O P E the Press will keep on. I
hope that it will expose every
horror that it can, connected with j
th e robbery of poor and helpless girls,
and I hope that it will publish the
names of all the robbers it can find,
and the wretches who oppress the poor
and who live upon the misfortunes of
women. The crosses of this world are
mostly borne by wives, by mothers and
by daughters. T heir brows are pierced
by thorns. They shed the bitterest
tears. They live and suffer and die for
others. I t is almost enough to make
one insane to think of what woman, in
the years of savagery and civilization,
has suffered. Think of the anxiety
and agony of motherhood.
M aternity is the most pathetic fact in
the universe. Think how helpless girls are-
Think of the thorns in the paths they walk
of the trials, the tem ptations, the want, the
misfortune, the dangers and anxieties th at
fill their days and nights. Every true man
will sympathize with woman, and will do all
in his power to lighten her burdens and in ­
crease the sunshine of her life.
Q uestion . I s there any remedy?
A nswer . I have always wondered th at the
great corporations have made no provisions
for their old and worn out employees. I t
seems to me th at not only great railway com­
panies, but great m anufacturing corporations,
ought to provide for their workmen. Many
of them are worn out, unable longer to work,
and they are thrown aside like old clothes.
They find th eir way to the jioorhouses or die
in tenem ents by the roadside. This seems
almost infinitely heartless. Men of great
wealth, engaged in m anufacturing, instead of
giving five hundred thousand dollars for a
library, or a million dollars for a college,
ought to put this money aside, invest it in
Kinds of the Government, and the interest