TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. MARCH 16, 1899. avail themselves of the combined advantages of the divinity school and the state university. The four y ears’ divinity course includes elo- cution and several philosophical and classical studies in the uni- versity.” If the university admits divinity students to twelve of its classes there must be a loss of time or an increase of expense to the state, The facts are,that we have a Chris- tian state university, several Meth- odist and one Campbellite state normal school, and yet the people are made to think that they are non-sectarian, and go on paying taxes to the tune of millions of dol­ lars and then have turned loose upon them every year a gang of preachers to defraud them with real estate booms of a country above the clouds. Eternal negligence is the price of slavery. E n e m ie s in C a m p . schools that are reallv and truly sectarian. Was it wrong for us to help save the state several thous- and dollars, as we certainly did? But suppose we had, in our anx- iety to build a school, made a mis- take iu asking the state to aid us; is it the manly thing for the editor of a Freethought paper to endeavor to prevent people who are interest- ed in our work from helping us? Is that the kind of Liberalism the men possess who are asking the people for sustaining money? We would like to see his Freethought organ well sustained; then why should he try to tear down our work? It might lessen his subscription list a little to have another Free- thought paper in the held, and for a short time our school might at­ tract some attention from his little corner, but in the long run it will be a benefit all along the line, and what possible harm can come from a school that teaches all the natur­ al sciences, and that from a Free- thought (non-sectarian) stand­ point? Why, oh why should those who are endeavoring to do some­ thing for our grand cause be oblig­ ed to fight those who should lx? their best friends? We are not perfect, and may make mistakes, but unselfish ( friends of mental liberty will help and kindly advise us. They will not be found thoughtlessly and self- tiyingto tear us down, ....The.... 5» MZ & MZ MZ MZ mz MZ mz MZ MZ MZ T H E O NLY S C H O O L MZ MZ OF T H E K IN D . MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ F ree from S u p erstitio n MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ S trictly N on-Sectarian MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ I 1 MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ P upils are Given Every O p p o rtu n ity to Learn MZ M> MZ W ith o u t Being H am pered by S u p ersti­ MZ MZ tions and Dogmas. MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ L o c a t i o n H e a l t h f u l MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ S o c ie ty G ood. MZ MZ MZ E x p e n s e s M o d e r a t e MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ MZ A Splendid Corps of Teachers and Good F a c il­ MZ MZ MZ ities for Teaching. For inform ation, MZ \IZ w Liberal University M uch depends on the work of the coming year. If the Liberal Uni­ versity is finished, it will put us in an altogether different light before the world. Our institution stands for an Infidelity that cau and will be respected. The other tribes of the house of Freethought, that is, those who cling to creeds worse than the orthodox, will, of course, combat us to some extent, but we are bound to win, for sensible peo- pie are the ones who can help us and they are the ones who will T h e C o m p a n io n 's F i r s t S u b s c rib e r. soonest find out what a great boon T he Y o u th ’s com panion is probably our school will be to the cause. th e only periodical in th e world seventy- As we struggle along toward suc­ tw o years of age, whose first su b scrib er cess, we can see why it is that free­ is still living and still a c o n sta n t read er th e paper. The su b scrib er who enjoys dom of thought has been so long of th is u n iq u e d istin c tio n is M rs. H an n ah held back. It is because many of U. P arsons of B rooklyn, N. Y., now in the very men who are loudest in h e r 85th year. She was th e little siste r shouting for freedom are those who of N ath an iel W illis, fa th e r of N. P. W il­ combat every honest effort to bring lis, th e poet, an d founder of th e Y o u th ’s C om panion. W hen Mr. W illis h ad re­ it about. One of the monthly Free- solved upon p u b lishing a new p a p er for thought organs, which, it seems, is young people, his friend had him p u t becoming somewhat fossilized, tried down his s is te r’s nam e as th e first su b ­ to hurt our work in its last issue scrib er. T he C o m p an io n ’s first issue was by condemning us for our work in d ated A pril 16, 1827, and for m ore th an the legislature this year. The ed­ seventy years th is first su b sc rib e r has co n tin u ed to read and enjoy it. itor tried to make it appear that D uring th e re m a in in g weeks of 1869 we were doing the very thing we th e C om panion will m ain tain its fresh condemn Christians for, that is, a n ,l varied in te re st for all subscriliers, asking state aid for sectarian pur- o,<1 and y°un>?,by p resen tin g a volum e of •* ii l poses, and he _____ unmercifully bom- deligfitfuf . .. stories and articles . surpassing , , . . . . 111 a ttra c tiv e n e ss those of any form er a r t s t e 1 ea of e v e n building a vear> T he m ost p o p u lar of living w rit-j Liberal I niversity at all. en* will give th e beat work of th e ir best Now is this kind of w’ork right? hours to th e e n te r ta in m e n t of th e h u n - Why should this editor try to de- dre(ls of th o u sa n d s of households in feat the work of other Freethinker«? which the Youth’8 C om panion ia every qai • „ • , week a welcome guest. \IX is certain y a re a s o n fo r it, New subscribers will receive th e beau- . » i* . ini this very thing has kept back tiful C om panion calen d a r — th e m ost >»ur cause more perhaps than the beautiful one ev er given to Com panion enemy outside our camp. read ers—in ad dition to th e Com panion W We made no m istake in askine ‘«f « V -tw o week«, a full year, from the tho ° i time subscription ia received. 5 Address, <4/ address J. E. H O S M E R , Ph. D., B. S. D„ /I. regon for help. We knew just Ave., B oston, M ass. V what we were doing, and while we \|f •Ld not expect the appropriation, Ho you want to take the Weekly yet it set thousands of people to Oregonian? You can get it of us thinking about how wrong it is for at ^ e regular price, $160 a year the ♦ i i , and we w,'l 8ive yQU the Torch of .... P ° Pay thousands and RfeagOn for a year absolutely free, u ions of dollars to the support of Think of it! Send in your orders. * P R E S ID E N T , SILVERTON.