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TH E TORCH OF 1 EASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JU N E 30, 1S98.
ment, while those who do not la­ little piece and speak it up good
bor for the community will only and loud. Let us throw policy 0
receive the dividends on their in­ the winds and work for our highest
vestment. For example, suppose ideals. The world is moving raj ij.
the company decides to manufac­ ly today! Help it to move in the
ture brick, and the wages for expert right direction. Down with old
brick-makers have been placed at lies! Up with the truth!
11.75 per day, and the wages for
common laborers at $1.00 per day.
A L ib e ra l S c h o o l.
Now if there is a kiln of 200,()00
The Liberal University cannot
brick burned, each la’oorer gets pay
for bis work, and if, when the brick narrow itself down to one particu­
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tru ly patriotic people th an has are sold, it is found that there has lar course, as most schools do. It
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wonderful growth toward high* $400, each laborer will get his course must he a special one in the
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L oving tlie g o o d in a ll equal share in common with sense that it must be made the very
Money should l»e sent by registered „ations,
she sent her citizens all members of Secular Home. In best. It must include a school of
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abroad to learn of better ways. A h , this way we can do much more Oratory, a school of Science, a
NOtice!
th is teachable spirit is one of the than can possibly he accomplished school of Moral Philosophy, a Nor­
by the old methods of co-operation. mal school, a Kindergarden,a Com­
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paramount elements in patriotism,
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subscription will ex p ire w ith the next a n d what a wonderful love for their Our ideas of Secularism can go mon School course, an Industrial
n u m b er. You are earn estly requested ¡8i a n d home <lo th e rulers of th e s e forth from our press; our workers school, an Art school.
In fact,
to renew so th a t you m ay receive th e pa­
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We
have de- dusky people of the east s h o w , who are financially unable to live parents who wish to educate their
cided th a t it is liest for all concerned w h e n (h
d e p p j8e „ „ t the good in without labor will be assured of children free from superstition, it
th a t we do no t send papers longer th a n
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th e tim e paid for unless so ordered, other lands.
Let not our citizens good work and fair wages. Those matters not what work they wish
T his will p revent any loss and
we wil1 L h i n k t h a t p a tr io tis m is synony- who are able and wish to assist the their boys and girls to follow,
know ju st w here we sta n d .
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We request you to send us the nam es mous with bigotry— let them be cause by building a fort and organ­ should not be turned away.
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of Secularists who m ight become 8U,>-1 teachable—let them have that love izing a Secular army may do so, us make this the best school in the
senlxjrs and we will mail sample copies.
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— for our home of the brave that will and at the same time make a good world and one that is Liberal in
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, E. M. 29ft keeP il a lan<1 of the free’ a,1<1 then investment which ought to produce every true sense of the w’ord.
we will he a nation of patriots more than good interest.
whose patriotism will become a rich
There are many industries that
T h e C o n v e n tio n .
patrimony to all who inherit the can be profitably started here in
T h e F la g A b o ve
Before the next issue of the Torch
this great, growing empire of the
earth.
th e C ro s s .
west, and we have selected a par­ reaches our readers an important
ticularly favorable part of the rich­ event in the history of Secularism
The old-tim e m y th s of priest I
D o You W a n t to G e t In?
est valley in this particularly fa­ will have taken place. The con­
and jiope,
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ft
W ith blight like arctic frost, ft
In any great undertaking it is vored state, being as it is the gold­ vention of the Oregon State Secu­
S till linger, but our greatest hope,
lar Union at Wagner is looked for­
O ur S tars and S trip es, m u st proudly best not to be in too much of a hur­ en mean between the extremes of
ward to with great hopes, and we
float
ry, hut one must be content if his north and south.
Above th e bloody cross.
There are some drawbacks, to be fe T that no better place for our
car is moving in the right direction.
Let m o th er church and d au g h te r church
The best advice, perhaps, that has sure, but none that cannot he over­ council of war against ignorance,
P ra te of th e ir gain and loss,
Ami heaven above for freedom search,
come if a few with the right kind bigotry and creedism could have
been
given
to
the
world
bv
a
great
Old G lory leaving in th e lurch,
educator is to “make baste slowly”, of metal in them will invest. Re­ possibly been chosen. There are
B lood-stained, b eneath th e cross:
hut when the time is fully ripe for member that our plans are yet in many Freethinkers in Eastern Or­
B ut we will proudly do and dare,
Remove the ancien t moss,
a great movement which one thinks an embryonic state and that we egon, and as Wagner is the place
A nd, in th e torch of reaso n ’s glare,
is the alpha and omega of human need help. Those who wish to re­ where our martyred Secular hero­
l ’luck laurels for C olum bia fair,
W ith flag above th e cross.
progress, it is criminal to delay, ceive the advantages hiven char­ ine, Katie Kehm Smith, died, there
could be no place in the state het-
Down, ty ra n t king, w ith hireling sa in t! and so, as our plans for the great ter members should write to us at
I ter suited to arouse us to patriotic
Y our gold will tu rn to d ross;
hegira of Secularists to Secular once for further information.
W hile on th e rack your victim s faint,
One industry, and one that prop­ action.
W e’ll spite of hell your preachers Home become more mature, we
Our w’ork of organizing churches
p ain t—
hasten to reveal them to our erly comes first, has already been
K eep flag alx>ve th e cross.
friends. Of course they are not started and is now well under way, and Sunday schools in the past
complete, and it may take much and that is our University. Come, I year has been almost entirely stop­
P a tr io tis m .
discussion to decide all the minor join our ranks, and we’ll compel ped on account of lack of funds,
One who loves his country is points, but those who are interest- our adversaries to respect Free- but now that our constitution pro­
called a patriot, hut what is meant ed may be thinking and helping to thought, and pave the way to the vides for a fund for that purpose,
we certainly will do some good
by one’s country? If there are plan our future modus operandi. secularization of the w’orld.
work the coming year, if the con­
traitors to everything that is good The colony, or community, is not
vention does its part and every
—if there are evil laws passed by to he composed of individuals who
N o w ’s Y o u r T im e .
member is “inspired” with the
those whose power has been gained have been robbed of their liberty
It does not pay one to crawl “spirit” of Secular endeavor. Hop­
by deceit—if there are those who by and who will be obliged to work
stealth and greed and love of pow- under a task-master or be expelled, ¡away from the warm corner of hu­ ing to be able to give a good ac­
er try to rob the offspring ol those hut our constitution will provide man sympathy into the cold, dark count of a glorious time at the con­
who died that this might be a land that each member will own his own cellar of pessimism, and it is equal­ vention, and that the celebration of
of the free and a home of the brave, home and work when and for whom ly foolish to cultivate the absurd our great republic’s birthday may
must men in silence bow and be he or she chooses. Each member traits of a blind optimist. The be a practical council—one worthy
thankful for what comes or doesn’t wiil be allowed one vote only, and world is advancing! And we enjoy of the memory of the brave men
Come, as if it be from the gods?
members will be given the prefer- many things that our forefathers of who in 1776 talked, and worked,
No, a thousand times no. A true ence when workers are selected, a hundred years ago would have and fought for liberty, we decamp
patriot will work , will fight , will each one receiving the wages agreed pronounced beyond the shadow of a for the battle field east of the Cas­
dik to preserve his country from upon, for that class o f labor, by the hope of attainment, and yet, as w’e cades.
evil of every kind; and as he grows community in council assembled. If advance, and greater power than
The attorney-general of Missouri
in patriotism his love crosses the at any time a Secular citizen wish- ever before is possible for those who
artificial boundaries of his home es to work for himself or others, he once get control of the situation, we has given his opinion that it is a
and encircles bis brothers across will have perfect liberty to do so, ought to be awake. Eterual vigi­ violation of law’ to make pupils re­
the line. To him the boundaries and still get his share of the divi- lance will truly be the price of lib­ cite the Lord’s Prayer, or for teach­
ebange as his sympathy expands, dends. In this way those who la- erty when we get to running at a ers to read from the bible at the
and by and by he is a full-fledged bor will get their wages and also twentieth century speed, and it is opening exercises of the public
patriot, whose country is the whole , the dividends from their invest­ i time for honest men to speak their J schools.
world, and whose religion is to do
good.
To apply the wind patriot to one
The Only Paper of Its Kind,
whose narrow mind only embraces
publish ed W eekly by th e Liberal 1 ni* his own individual good, or the
versity C om pany, in the Interest» of
good of his own class, or the good
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
of his own town, state or nation, is
J. E. H osm er,.......................Editor
to misapply it; for such a one does
P. W . G eer,.......................Manager
not have enough appreciation of
E ntered at th e postoffiee at Silverton, his country!“ powers for doing
Oregon, as second-class m ail m atter.
good, to love it. Perhaps there can
he found in) b e tte r e x a m p le of a
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