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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
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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