THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1897.
steppe.! forward to put th e noose com ing out ahead. P ity he d id n 't tenon sunshine or a B aptist Ju n e th e most im portance it seems is to
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about his neck.
a \i a
a I'PvJutmr,
leu d atio n . rru~
1 he Bible
al- as to speak of a denom
accum ulate p ‘ r o p e r t y . ’ ” ®eems, is to
•‘Not VHt,” sa id M orton
ways foils ju st in the nick o f time, university.
T t,t. t . . . . .
“ W hat’s tlte u s e of w aiting?" said J u s t when we w ant to k n o w M.me-
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*Get VO, X p ^ X n S after
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supper we’ll hang him .
“Oh, no. I couldn’t eat m y
supper with a good conscience, if i
d id 'th a ,.”
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I,- 'u u n b ) w> nt re s to y on, L bar- therefore, we do not need anym ore,
he. I think we can present a re- Quite true; we need no m ore like
sp e e ta b le o n n o sitio n ”
thoC« t i
‘ i t s.e m e d 'a s C h a,lie m hd.t win ' u
J '"
t
hut Big Dick was more determ ined’
i ^ X t 'X Z ° \ h X
m m .7
“ Listen to me, m en,’’ said Mor- th an ever. He was one of those M io v f ti
ton. “ Why are you in such a devil- stubborn folk, rudelv conscientious nroniiw
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ish h u rry ? C a J t you w ait? There’s ........s w a y , th a t only grow more X X o J t
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not too severe but it is most
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a ’ ' r,lt ier more pessi-
»*<'»* th an the facts will w arrant,
• H u n ia” —
- » o u t the sam e
m a n y gi in rai ton th a t it was in the
•’" 'v,' " ll"8 generation. People do
no“ :h a “ 8e suddenlv, though at o „ e
time enough. The hoy can ’t run
off. A w'eek hence is ju st as good
as now, if th e th in g is the rig h t
thing to be done. Don’t m ake a
m istake. L et us be sure th a t this
poor child is a crim inal. H e’s not
a m an th at we should fear him.
stubborn the more you undertake would h ,h ,>nK>rr‘>' ' ’ ell" c a ' lon
-o reason with them. H e was Z
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’'n,'.
thoroughly convinced th a t little ,,o7 7 iv e rs T ti7 s h U h c t o ^ ' T
Pete ought to lie hung, and he was Most o f , I , .
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determ ined th a t he should be h u n g I of them is t h a t ' 7 f V i". 7 7 nM
at the shortest possible notice
He trvnn»n«inr
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** ,ernian
was stil, hacked up hv a m ndt
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7 r
m " - SCh7 " L
or m ore m e n ; but he’s« m en
mo«, , , ,v i
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No of them , did n o t fee! like , e k litm
‘" “ t he elo«,,! by Ihe pohee. But
» '» ‘’ 'h ere m ay be m anifestations
‘>f ,h « lo^ * '» a - u r e which a t other
" 7 reetrai,'ed, or which
' ' ’ p a y tliemselves in other ways,
Ul" *'r otl"‘r forms.
Men and
are as good now, probably,
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r oi a cen tu ry
Com e, give him a f a i r , r ia l.'’
TherV " “ Va8t am0Unt
m oral worth which d Ws not ap p ear
Still there was no answer
w ith su7l, d e t e r m i n e d f i g h t s as
a 7 7 " " Wrober°.f ,h e 8 ,r" n^ '
<‘"d is not as readily
one dared to speak first, though
I i.u iu u n g n ie rs «8 I and freest, the genuine university
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seen in public as is m uch th a t is
perhaps m any would have spoken Charlie and Joe and Jim
spirit is found in the highest degree, open to criticism .
Greed is ag
“ We are going t<> hang this boy,
second and th ird in favor of the
h or m ore o f these g o o d ones there gressive, v an ity flaunts itself in the
and it’s useless for you to resist.
boy.
“ You m ight as well give up, Dam n it, we’ll kill you all, if need is a crying dem and. A school can face of everybody and vice is often
M orton,’’ said Dick. “T here’s no be. We won’t have horse-thieves rise to be a university only when u tterly sham eless; and thu s the
body to stand by you. The boy’s and m urderers protected. I’ll give its teachers are university men- had of hum an nature obtrudes
not worth the game. Give him you a m inute to drop this thing. when they are men trained to face ¡t-elf upon th e public when the
directly ar.d effectively the prob virtues and the innum erable acts
up.”
If you keep it up, by God I’ll shoot
lems of n atu re and of life.
“ I will not give him up, and, I you. Get ready, m en.”
of disinterested kindness th a t m ake
A
university
could
not
be
other
will sell m y life as dearly as pos
There was heard on all sides the
life worth living are practiced in
wise
th
an
free.
Its
faculty
could
sib le.’’
om inous clicking of pistols.
private and make no show w hatever.
respond
only
to
the
noblest
influen
He drew both p istols,and fronted
B ut th e m inute w asn’t half up
A bank robbery is proclaim ed
ces.
To
a
university
men
and
women
the crowd like a lion a t bay.
before Bill and Jen n ie came upon
throughout the la n d ,b u t the hon
go
for
individual
help
and
training.
“ T h at puts a new complexion on the stage of action. Jennie had
esty of thousands of bankers whose
A
pretender
in
a
university
could
the m atter. W e don’t w ant to kill hastened to the cottage of Bill on
names do not come before the pub-
not
give
such
help.
His
presence
you, hut we’ll have to, if you don’t the first alarm , for her w om an’s
lieassociated with dishonesty, n o th
drop them things. I ’ll be dam ned heart beat for the little fellow who is soon detected by his fellows and ing is said. A m an or woman
by his students, the latter he could whose nam e is brought into the
if I don’t see justice (loin ! I never was so hard pressed.
“ Not to late,” cried Bill. “ W e not harm , for lie could not retain divorce courts is a subject of com
undertook to hang a horse-thief vet
m ay have to light, but I ’ll save him. them. By the side of his fellows mon talk, but of the thousands of
but what I succeeded.
“ Hold on there!” said Paddie A h, Charlie; you are ahead of me. he could not m aintain himself. No husbands and wives who
live
body
of
men
is
so
insusceptible
T
h
a
t’s
right,
I’m
with
you.
This
John, who hitherto had been a some
bappy, harm onious lives, nothing
of coercion or contam ination as a is «aid.
A m urderer’« career
w hat indifferent spectator of the hoy shall not be lynched.”
“ He shall not, ’ cried Jennie, university faculty. A scholar is a usually becomes a m atter of gen
scene. “ I t ’s getting serious now.
t
m o n
U o I. n
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I d id n ’t care much for the hoy, hut who also drew forth a couple of re free m an. He has always been so. eral knowledge, but of the m illions
I do for Charlie. H e’s my friend, volvers. “ I can shoot, too; and bv He will always rem ain so.
who have never com m itted m urder
the
eternal,
I
will
shoot
”
A
university
is
sim
ply
a
contri-
and, as he has chosen to fight the
the world at large knows nothing.
Jennie wa« a Jack so n ian Demo vancc for m aking wisdom effective And so, though ihe papers are full
thing out, I guess I ’ll take my stand
crat and, though she co u ld n ’t vote, by surrounding wise men with the
with him; so y o u ’ll have to kill me,
of accounts of crim e and vice, sen
she
could
say,
“
By
the
etern
al,”
conditions
most
favorable
for
ren
too, Big Dick, before you get th a t
sational reports of which are often
and
she
could
shoot
as
straig
h
t
and
dering
wisdom
contagious.
boy.
dished up for p ru rie n t tastes, yet in
D avid S tarr J ordan .
It makes an infinite difference quick as any m an.
spite of this fact a large proportion
The
sudden
addition
to
C
harlie’s
when there are two instead of one.
of the population in every com
A fle lio r is tic V iew .
It begins to look like a m ajority. force m ade the crowd back o f Big
m unity is intelligent, self-respect
Dick
hesitate
still
more.
They
One man is a very insignificant
I t is often asserted tb it there is ing and honorable.
spectacle, but two men will com hardly wanted to fight a woman. and has been during the last q u a rte r
S till it m ust be adm itted th a t
Besides,
Tim
Baker
was
one
of
Big
m and a certain sort of respect; for
of a century a
m arked m oral there is the dark side of life, and
nearest
and stanchest decadence. One w riter says: “ It the question is how the tendency to
one man may be crazy, but it is Dick’s
very seldom th a t two men arecrazy supporters, hut, when he saw Jennie is really not worth one’s while to greed, selfishness and sensualism
together on the sam e subject. It on the other side, why, then, like a live any more, swept along in the can be overcome. The work of re
is evidence of your sanity, when very obedient spouse, he lo o k his current of licentiousness and im form is not one th a t can be accom
another m an th in k s exactly as you place beside her. He knew better m orality which now obtain. There plished in a day. It m ay be aided
by educational m ethods and by
than to fight his own wife.
do.
is no longer to be found th a t high whatever will lead to the im
“ I guess I ’ll do the sam e,” said
Tobe, C ontinued.
sense of honor and p u rity which provem ent of the social environ
Jim m y.
A U n iv e rsity M ust Be L iberal. ° ” Ce could be seen in some lives in m ent and lesson tem ptation to
‘‘C harlie’s on the growing side,
evil doing. V irtue is a p la n t of
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every
com
m
unity,
and
which
served
growth, and the tim e when men
and I ’ll hoist his colors. I can
M e are indebted to the Forum as an exam ple for the young, at slow
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and
women
will have noble aim s and
shoot pretty straig h t, too. My for the following ex tra ct:
least, to em ulate.
Life has been high aspirations and will realize^in
prayers don’t am ount to m uch, hut
A 1 niversity is not a school lowered to the love of anim al enjoy- character and conduct lofty ideals
1 ve a couple bullets th a t can ac m aintained for the glory or the ex- rnent and all high ideals sacrificed ° f llfe’ ifi DOt near a t h a n d - But if
complish a good deal. They are tension of any denom inational body, to the dom inant idea of getting all
look th ro u gh the sunny
as heavy as serm ons, but a heap
<ha- tan an ism . I r u t h i s as broad as
»n s already on the a n x io u s seat, the universe; and no one can search
b* don’t know which Side to tak \ for it between an y artificial boun-
for he don’t know which side is daries. As w e l l . s k for Pre«.,y-
g (.oiiMc ion.
t‘
tin
one’s self.
To be a good man
now adays is to he a dream er with-
out influence or a find in t h e
opinion of X ’ workL
W hat iso f
George E lliot, be m eliorists, be^
15evprs in th.e im p ro v a b ility o fh u -
i*1™ c o n d lt1i.o n s an(1 w o r k e r s for
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