4 THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JANUARY 19. 1899. screw, rack and faggot are no more. tag»‘S we have this year, and so we dollars is a very important thing. Disfranchisement has been given must bend every effort to raise the We must all “take hold” or our up. Ineligibility to office is nearly money now’, and then, as soon as work will take a backset. It would The Only Paper of Its Kind. gone, and those who were fortified spring opens, begin work on the be an awful blow to have no school building. next year, and now is the time to Published Weekly by the Liberal Uni in ridicule are crying “enough”. versity Company, in the Interests of Through all ages Christain sol Now, if we had the money we prevent it. T his T wo T housand Constructive, Moral Secularism. diers have hacked up against the would ask no help, but we haven't, D ollar F und will take the place of J. E. H osm er,....................... Editor wall of Ignorance and cried, “Y’ou and so we must tell you about it. the Five Thousand Dollar Fund, P. W. (Jeer......................... Manager can’t tell all about this wall, there We dislike very much to leave the which we will now drop. Those fore Christianity is right.” When school, even for a short time, but it who signed fifty dollars on that Entered at the postoffice at Silverton, Darwin made known to the world may be best for us to enter the lec fund may pay it on the Two Thous Oregon, as second-class mail matter. and Dollar Fund, if they w ish. the results of his wonderful studies ture field. If anyone knows of a better plan, We believe, if we all do our very of the life forms and their origin SUBSCRIPTION R A TES. and manner of evolution, a great write to us at once. We must have best, we will have the two thousand the two thousand dollars and we dollars in a few w’eeks, and what a One year, in advance.................... $1 00 howl went up from the God camp. Six months, in advance................. b0 “The missing link” was hurled at are willing to make any honorable load will he lifted from our work. Three months, in advance.............. 25 his noble head and all who dared sacrifice to get it We can finish paying for our lum In clubs of five or more, one year, The school will he left in good ber; pay up a few other obligations in ailvance.................................... 75 think he was right. This kept their Money should sent by registered feeble ranks from total disband hands. The students have already which need immediate attention, letter or money order. ment and an orderly retreat was learned to love and respect the and commence wrork on the building begun at once. But even the work of building a real “free” school as soon as fair weather comes,which Notice! “missing link” has fallen to the and ’hey are fast learning the great is very early in the Willamette val lesson of self control. ley. No one hut religious fanatics A hand pointing to this notice denotes ground! From its high estate,from that your subscription has expired. its proud position between man What a great work it is, and how should be expected to try to pre You are earnestly requested to re and the man-like apes, it has we hate to be absent even for a few vent the establishment of a Free- new so that you may receive the pa- j>er without interruption. We have de fallen down, down to the humble days, hut, for the sake of better thought University, and every real cided that it is best for all concerned position between the lowest rhiz- conditions for next year, we must freethinker should do something that we do not send papers longer than do something at once. There is no to help it along. the time paid for unless so ordered. apod and the simple crystal. This will prevent any loss and we will What strides has infidel science more important work in the world, know just where we stand. We request you to send us the names made in the last few hours of the and we must remember that life is T h e Cause. of Secularists who might become sub struggle for Truth! Shall we con short. Now is th'e time to work; scribers ami we w ill mail sample copies. The cause o f Secularism in the quer? We have conquered! All there will be t:me to rest “in the United States is not what it should sweet bye and bye.” we need now is to erect our ram THURSDAY, JAN. 19, E. M . 299 be nor what it might be. and, we We must not be, and are not, parts of Science that we he not hope, not what it will he. again overcome by the forces of su weary in well doing; and, although, The Freethought papers and mag S c ie n c e H a s C o n q u e re d . perstition and that future genera as our friend says, our patient and azines are doing something, but A common soldier in the Great j tions may reap the benefits of our untiring efforts, and we wish to add, the patient and untiring effort! what can a few, say six or eight Rebellion might not have under glorious victories. heterogeneous weeklies and month of a few who understand the fai stood just how the Union forces lies, do toward building “something were pushing the Confederates to W o rk N ow ,' R e s t in th e S w e e t reaching influence that our work i- bound to exert, may be worthy o: better” on the ruins of old ortho the ragged edge of defeat. Even in B ye an d B y e . doxy? better results, yet viewed from an the last battles the common sol To be sure the Freethought Fed The following extract from a per other standpoint, what better re diers on either side did not realize the critical condition of the South sonal letter speaks for itself. If all suits could we expect in so short s eration and American Secular Un ern cause. So it is with the for Freethinkers would help our cause 1 time? The results are really won ion meet, collect a few dollars, lorn hope of Christianity. The as much as the one who wrote it derful. Think of it! A Freethoughl spend it f r stamps, etc.,but what it common Freethought soldier as has, we could build several Liberal school has been successfully con does is so “mighty small” compared well as the Salvationist can not re Universities. ducted for nearly three years. And with what should be done, it seems am very sorry to see that help for like nothing, or the next thing to alize what has been done in the the “ I University the best of it is that we are in bet building is so slow in last few years. The readers of the coming in. Your “ An Appeal” in the ter condition today than ever be it, and, if reports are true in regard Torch are not (or should not be) last Torch makes me wish that I had the fore. We started with no buildings, to the class of people who largely common soldiers. At least the means to respond in a way that would no press, no books, no grounds and control it, it is altogether a minus Torch family understand the con place the University beyond the neces no experience in running a Free- quantity. sity of such appeals. I think, not | The Oregon State Secular Union ditions much better than those who only the object, hut your patient and un thought journal or a Freethought has been in the same fix. No real have not received the commission tiring efforts, are worthy of better re University. that comes from interested thought, sults.” What have we done in less than permanent work has ever been done. We have met once a year, reading and active service; hut We arc somewhat sorry ourselves three years? We have a beautiful it may inspire all with renewed en and yet we take it very philosoph piece of ground for our school. We but what real good has it ever done ergy in our future work to review ically, and will “ fight it out on this have given instruction that will do excepting for a few to show their long after we have ceased to colors and their weakness? some of our victories and examine line if it takes all” our lives. We good think. We have a good dining hall, We hope that there is now to he the condition of the enemy’s forces. have engaged another worker, Miss with kitchen, wood shed and sleep In the first place, we must re Jennie Cline, a well known Secular ing apartments for students. We a change for the better, but there member that the war between Su teacher, who will he a very valua have the stone basement of our will not be unless we wake up. We have, as you will see by the perstition and Secularism has been ble addition to our corps of work main building up and the lower story partly raised. We have built printed constitution in this issue one of ages instead of years. In ers. This will give us more time to sidewalks. We have nearly five and the fact that the 0. S. S. U. has the past, scientific knowledge, the devote to raising funds to pay for hundred excellent books in our li helmet, shield and sword of Secu the necessary material and for com brary. We have advertised our been re-incorporated, placed our larism, has heeu held in the dun pleting our building. Miss Cline school through the Torch and selves in a position where we can do geons of Ignorance and in the last will begin work next Monday, and through aur many pleased patrons something if we know enough. The Torch of Reason is the of few years only has there lieen any next Monday we will begin to study »0 that, as soon as our building is completed, we will have a large at ficial organ of the Oregon State thing like a fair fight. But behold how to raise two thousand dollars. tendance. And we are now building the results! Their strongholds This is absolutely necessary to large gymnasium, with gallery and Secular Union, and we should-dis cuss freely through its columns have been captured one by one. straighten up our accounts and fin bathroom. We are going to make a splendid ways and means of doing construct They have rallied only to be driv ish the University. You see if we en farther and farther from their wait till spring to raise this money,! success of the greatest of Free- ive work and we should begin at thought undertakings, because we original fortifications until, in the it may take all summer to do it, know it takes patience and hard once. The constitution now pro words of the Oregon senator, it is and when the fall term begins we work, and because some of our vides for a test of membership, and hard to tell ‘‘where they are at”. will be in the same condition we’ friends have stood by us and help when w’e get a person to join our Not long ago their strongest fort were last fall. We can not teach ed 119, for which we trust they will ranks, it means something of some was persecution, but the thumb-, again under the same disadvan-I never be sorry nor ashamed. ' Now, account to our cause. this raising of the two thousand We think we should have an Torch of Reason