THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVEKION, OREGON, THURSDAY,
The Old and th e N ew .
A n o th er year, w ith its a tte n d a n t
successes and failures, has been covere«l
w ith th e dust of tim e. The g reat e a rth ,
w heeling round the golden su n , speed­
ing on through realm s unm easured and
tllie x p lo m d ,
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.O f I .e I . l i e ,
g reat powers w hich, p erh ap s m ore th an
all o th e rs, m ade jjos.-ibie th e degree of
.reedom we have a tta in e d today.
We
nave seen how the d ark ages, th e m id ­
night of religious rule, were .ighted w ith
the torches of hum an liv e s.
And am id
it all we observe th e irresistib le onw ard
c e I) i ;! p i o g ! e > r è »! : ’ - ! ! i ! g b I V h l W .
JANUARY 14, 1897.
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through th e ever open portals of the through th e centuries we trace its m arch
of
a
W ant Books and
silen t and eternal past.
H opes and and note with w hat heroism , w ith w hat
am bitions, interw oven with the warp bravery and courage it has been a tte n d e d .
S tationery call o n
am i woof of love, lade away like th e We realize the price it has cost tor m an
sta rs of descending night. The past is to helree. Ami why? Because h u m an ity
gone. T he old m ust ste p aside to m ake has preferred bomiage to lreedom ? Be­
way for the ever a tvaucing new.
1 he cause m an is by n atu re, predisposed to
call ( H l
c u rta in is raised ujmhi th e first act in work and act against his own m te resis?
th e new year.
Sprea ling aw iy in the Ah, no, hut sim ply because his ed u ca­
dim tw ilig h t of the future lie th e plans tional facilities nave been d ictated and
SILVERTON, OREGON.
w hereupon new battles are to l>e fought, controlled by those of w hose in te rests it
new hopes and am bitions raised, new was tn a t be should acquire certain n a r ­
glories realized, new laurels won. Upon row and contracted views of life and its
the site of old ru in s, new m ansions will a tte n d a n t duties.
Alan is largely a
be b u ilt; upon th e failures of unw isely creatu re of education. Tne construction
directed energy, new en terp rises will oj d u tie s.
The co n stru ctio n of the
We will p rin t your nam e on a beautiful visiting
build, with the tools of experience, th e hum an brain ad m its of alm ost any
sublim e the ever-enduring glories of the q u ality of th o u g h t and leeling th a t
card nt $1.50 per 100. These cards have the cel­
race. I ’pon th is great picture of th e past,
and e n v iro ire n t m ay d ictate ,
ebrated O tto W e tts te in
we trace the o utline ot th e laces of men ^ re we today less m indful of Ibis fact
an d women wh j have given to the world a n ,j je gg willing to help secure the
the heritage of th e ir intellectual achieve- educational advantages necessary to the
m en ts, and upon whose brow will forever | )ertL m oral and m ental results, th an were
rest th e laurels of fam e. Back in the th e m en and women of tlie past whose
gray «lawn of the seventeenth c en tu ry , heroic bravery in th is line has lighted
when th e m inds of men were clouded tiie vvorlJ w ith th e light of tru th and
with su p erstitio n and ignorance, when liberty? 1 t r u s t n o t. Todav as in th e
th e intellect was the slave of fear am i ,jay S ,,i Voltaire am i Thom as Paine, th e
th e honest doubt was silenced by the voices of th e rising g en eratio n s cry out
b urning sta k e,—back in the dim past
UH ¡or a j(p We should be willing and
neatly lithographed in colors at th e left of your
where only here and th ere th e stars o t anxious to help th em . W e should striv e
tru th shed th e ir resp len d en t light to give them the best possible advantages
nam e. They will talk to your friends when you
ath w art th e gloom of cen tu ries, a brave both social and ed u catio n al. From a
ca n ’t.
sp irit shines fourth with th e bright careful study of th e past,
we are
effulgence of the noonday sun. A light convinced th a t th is can be secured only
from out the darkness, a ray of hope through a system of in stru ctio n basse«!
from out th e density of d e sp air,—the exclusively upon n a tu re and n a tu re ’s
first to b rin k the chains of m ental laws. “ Man know th y self” , was given
bondage by sacrificing his own hloo«l, we by a sage of old, am i we have no b e tter
see h im ,g ram l, im m ortal Bruno perishing
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m ethod by which to secure hap p in ess.
am id a wild h orde w ho bowed w ith fear
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l h a t m a n m av k n o w h im s e lf in th e
an d trem b lin g before a Go«l of iiate.
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full stre n g th of his m anly and noble
“ A pin whose torch and golden sheen,
On T hursday, th e 1/ day of F ehurary
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n a tu re , his niim l m u st he free from the
W ould grace th e breast of S h eb a’s queen ;
1600, th is illustrious m an was burned at
fetters of fear and faith . H is reason
And will len«l grace (now and) in com ing tim e
th e stake. Upon the sacrificial a lta r of
m ust lie a t liberty to com bat, accept or
To queens of beauty m ore su b lim e .”
th is m a rty r the E ra of Man arose,—the
reject. T h at his reason m ay he able to
lig h t of a new daw n w hich was destined '
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• i . . d e c id e upon anv question 1 he m ust lie
Should be worn by every m an and w om an favoring
to dispel
th e shades of th e long n ig h t ot n llo
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At fter hearing
allowed
to hear all sides. A
su p e rstitio u s rule. Before the close of
all sides and his opinion is form ed, then
the cause of F reethought and reform . See design
th e century in which G iordano Bruno was
he should be upheld and protected in the
hurtled, another intellectual force sprung
in beading of this paper. Now is the tim e to buy.
expression of th a t opinion, no m a tte r to
in tlie mi«lst of th e corruption and slavery
w hat e x te n t it may differ from the
of France. For a thousand years the
This is the aim and
common people had been subjected °P*n ions of others
u n til t h e , were redu.-ed to a co ndition o ,' ^ -t « iS w o U n M n : (reedon, oi th o u g h t,
in com m on w ill, th e heasta. O u t ol «■'eedon, ol apeech.
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.i th e rig h ts of a l l ; when m en and women
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He struck from the brain the fetters «if I shall lie judged by m otives am i respected
S poon , and the beautiful F reethought B adge . Es­
faith , sympathize«! with and anted the i for w hat they are, ra th e r th a n for w hat
tablished in Rochelle, Illinois, in 1857. Send for
oppressed, and labored to establish they p retend t« he; when universal
charity
shall
take
th
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place
of
universal
univeisal to leration.
But th e tnle of
price-lists of goods and work.
when deeds of love and
progression has sw ept to the w estern censure,
shores of th e A tlan tic. Surging w ithin tru th am i kindness shall he th e index to
th e h earts of th e A m erican people was genuine m anhood ami wom anhood, th en
th e sp irit of conflict—the irresistib le im ­ will the m em ories of th e present creed-
pulse of th e new to free itself from the curse«! am i hypocritical age recur to us j
th rald o m of the old.
W here was the as befitting a barbaric or sem i-civilized
pow er th a t could d irect th e course oi race.
A grave responsibility, th e n , falls upon
th is restless and m ighty tide and secure
us as liliertv-loviiig people, to guar«i the
th e b irth of a republic? In 1737 a child
rights of our children to a broad, liberal
was (torn in th e south of E ngland th a t
e«lueaticn th a t shall enable them to $
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was destine«! to become th e lilierator of
m ake th e very m ost of th e ir natural
his people— a child w ith in whose brain
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powers to prom ote the happiness ami
was sown th e seeds of the g reatest c h a r­
welfare of h u m an ity . To the attain m en t
acters in the w orld’s history.
B urned of th is end we seek lo e s ta b lis h a Lilieral the Oregon State Secular U nion on dem and, for the erec­
in to his very heart was the feeling to Univ« rsity and we are assured the true tion of a Liberal U niversity at Silverton,. M arion countv,
w hich he gave u tte ran c e in th e w ords:
S ecularists of th is state am i nation will Oregon, provided, th at the sum of five thousand dollars
“ W here liberty is not, th ere is my
give 11s th e ir earnest and hearty co­
is subscribed by good, responsible parties before said de­
c o u n try .” And so we find him in France o peration.
N ettie A. O lds .
and in A m erica d u rin g th e «larkest days
T u r n er , Dec. 31, 1896;— T«» th e m and is made.
of th e ir history. B runo broke th e fetters
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freedom, and universal iilierty found an
unparalleled exponent in the mighty
brain of Thomas Paine.
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I have briefly alluded to three of the
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