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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1899)
’I HE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. APRIL 27, 189». 4 — « f r> -o n Heretofore, so-called Freethought Secular Union, however, «wo ot lorcn or Reason h. B bee„ largely doI ¡nale(1 frw. then, thH thir., ref„s. A BIG T H IN G In endeavorin to buH(1 a The Only Paper of Its Kind. love, free lust, free wh.sky and tree ing an office on account o f h.a w.gh to _________ ________ __ _______everything excepting free thought other work. Now, Mrs. Haight is --------- ------ --- -------- jovciy * 1 . . . j * j - fice anything. We believe that and scientific, up-to-date morality, not a member in good standing - . , , . , r , . . - » r e , « on. Freethinkers would live much hap- versity C om pany, in th e In te re sts of The twentieth centurv will see a and neither is Mr. Steiner. lhe C onstructive, Moral Secularism . . , » • the T ? a „ ’ as Mrs. m u Haight • u « calls n o pier, change, for those in Free- “ Liberalists, * ’ do better in every wav and . , ranks i who v believe i i- - moral, - i us, are consulted u i as , to what v » plans help » along our glorious cause more i J. E. c h Editor thought in Hosmer...................... Editor Hosmer,.....................uuuor & , , ’ - - a if they could h e together, so as to f > k v n «r Manager scientific, Secular education as the the University shall pursue, and P. W. Geer,.....................manager > / plan our work and get the benefit __ panacea of human ills are being the Oregon State Secular Union, at , , , , „ ------- --------------- 1 , , , , r , j of each o th ers sympathy and Free- Entered at the ^ o f f i c e at Silverton, drawn closer together, and wh.le ,,s last convent ,,.n fully indorsed Oregon, as second-claw mail matter. number so far counted is not our work. Mrs. Haight does not K _- . . , . .. I , .. , name of go(o)d prevents? Me are large, yet, when the right time stop at exaggeration when she ' , . , 6 ’ J . . . . j not sods, and so need help to do SUBSCRIPTIO N R A T E S . comes, it will be found to be legion, speaks of the “ prompt and con- g , , . ’ , ... , a *• ! this business. Just how to do it One year, in ad v an ce.......................... $1 92 We have no quarrel with those certed action of the representative 111 Six m onths, in a d v an c e .................... ™ who believe the old, promiscuous Liberals ot the state in informing sq u irts earnest, inU lgen T hree m onths, in a d v an c e ................ wav the best; they in a small way the legislators of the true status of ’n& an Iar< wor 1 avp ’ In clubs of five or m ore, one year, may do some good, but there is the Liberal University Company. . , . , , in ad vance.......................................... Money should be sent by registered only one best way to convert the Her words are perfect humbuggery. (^ur sc ,<>o 18 8tarte an growing, le tte r or m oney order. world to Freethought and Common o She herself wrote one w of 2^*’ r.€' ?re 2 nun,^er °f trile him ne n crseu w r o ic a a letter i c i i n to u» <,uv Sense, and that surely cannot be the representatives, libelling us, ! Secularists here who are willing to Notice! Of by sanctioning, either with voice hut he promptly referred her letter do th- ir 'ihar*>- i,nd m" re course there are some drawbacks; Mr. Geer and it had no A h a n d p ointing to th is notice denotes and pen or with silence, those to th a t your su b scrip tio n h as e x p ire d . things which science proves to weight whatever, for thia same there always are. One thing, the You are earn estly req u ested to re hard to land here is quite high, but there is new so th a t you m ay receive th e p a be humanity’s greatest stumbling representative worked per w ith o u t* in terru p tio n . We have de blocks. get us $10,000 instead of $5,000 as a reason for that; it is very valu cided th a t it is best for all concerned the bill called for, and in able. We must have more manu th a t we do n o t send papers longer th a n th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. the bouse it only lacked one factories, and no place in the world T his will p revent any loss and we will or two votes of being car offers better chances for manufac know just where we sta n d . “ OREGON SE C U L A R IST S E X O N We request you to send us th e nam es ried. Mrs. Haight is too well tories of all kinds than right here of Secularists who m ight becom e sub- E R A T E D .” known in this state to hurt us here in this great, growing West. scriliers and we will m ail sam ple copies. To those who are fit, willing and much, ON'I and the onlv reason we UIUUU, »..V/ vzti.j The Truthseeker, in seeking for Write this is on account of those of able we wish to repeat that we want THURSDAY, A PRIL 27, E. M. 299 truth last week, found something our friends who live at a distance, no one to sacrifice or lose any thing, hut we hope you will come, A GOOD T E ST . that needs some subtractions and and who might be led to think if you can, and help us and help additions in order to give its read that we are bad by reading the • yourselves at the same time. Y’ou z Truthseeker article. A Freethinker, under normal ers an idea of the real truth. The Mrs. Haight says that the Ore must expect to commence building conditions, is very apt to think right; “thing” referred to is a letter by gon State Secular Union founded at the very bottom, for at present and if one thinks right, he or she is Mrs. Haight, of McMinnville, Ore the Liberal University, but she things are not all painted, wtriped very apt to act right. The best gon, which, following in the wake does not tell the whole truth. The and varnished, ready for you to step in and enjoy; but if a few ret I test, then, of a real Freethinker is of Steiner’s late criticisms, shows present members of the Liberal Secularists, who know how and his or her actions. By “right” we that they have at last found what University Company were the real have a little of the stuff’ that “makes founders. They made a mistake in mean that which is beneficial to they want—something about the putting their work into the hands the mare go,” can get together here, one’s self and also to others—an Liberal University with which to of the Oregon State Secular Union, they can accomplish great things . injury to no one. Freethought find fault. The Liberal University and had a hard struggle to get it COMMON S E N S E . too often stands for those who are is a private institution, and so is out again when they saw that it radically opposed to the orthodox the Truthseeker Company. Would was impossible to successfully con “Wisdom is common sense in an religion. The opposition to the Mrs. Haight advise the Macdonalds duct such an institution with a to at once put their publishing shifting, heterogeneous, conglomer uncommon degree.” It is not reas- ---” <7 J — f old dogmas and the belief in the house in the hands of the Free- — ate, go-as-you-please mob, which onable to suppose that the great complete secularization of our gov thought Federation? largely made up the Union at that majority of people will at first have ernment is Freethought as far as it The fact is, that the antagonistic time. The transfer of the Liberal common sense in an uncommon de gree when a general breaking up of goes, but to be a mental slave to elements in that society make it University —-- - — to its original founders I — — one evil is not mental freedom, impractical to do so. Failure tw’o years ago w*as at a regular, ad- old habits of thought is taking even if we are free from others. would be certain; therefore, no one vertised board meeting of the place. This is an era of great To be sure, we are all slaves to our would advocate such a step unless Union, and the very best Liberals changes. The old religions are tumbling about the ears of their habits, but if we wish to be real it was to injure them by showing of the state sanctioned the trans devotees. It is as it always has Freethinkers we must be slaves that they were running their bus fer and did what they refused to do been during such times throughout only to good ones, not to those iness for “personal aggrandize before, i. e., at once helped all they history. Some are running this which rob us of the power to think, ment.” There is one difference, could afford financially. T he Torch of Reason is the way and some are running that, but those which help us gain more however, between the Truthseeker power as we happily serve them. Company and the Liberal Univer adopted official organ of the Ore- endeavoring to find shelter-some In ascertaining what is an injury sity Company. The editor gets gon State Secular Union, Mrs. settled abode for their troubled to ourselves and our fellow men, more pay for his work than we do, Haight to the contrary notwith- thoughts. Those to whose interest Science must be our guide for indi but nothing is thought wrong standing, and the responsibility of is to induce tenants to come aud viduals and also for organizations, of that. It is right that he should the late appropriation hill lies abide in the shelter they have builo the heavier weight of evidence of be paid for his labor, but we ask gently upon the shoulders of those ed are on every hand,calling, coax- our reason being the final court of ouly the privilege to live and work. whose enemies are enemies of the ! ing, threatening, promising, and in appeal in the one case and the ma The Liberal University has no right sort. If the parties who so every way endeavoring to corral legal connection now with the Ore readily and so severely condemn the prisoners who are trying to es- jority of the voters in the other. Freethinkers, our success does gon State Secular Union, but it is us for introducing Senate Bill No. cape from the old towers and rook not depend on numbers; it does because such Liberal characters as 209 never did anything worse, eries of superstition. Spiritualists, not depend on oratory or the Mrs. Haight and Mr. Steiner made they could certainly pass in a free lovers, theosophists, Christian ability to down an opponent in an it impossible to successfully carry crowd of liberal Liberals; but as it scientists, the so-called mental s< argument. It does depend on our on the work under the auspices of is, may God, or some other spook, • » I entists, faithistp, etc., etc., all stan Knowieuge of 01 an me eueuucs meu- that mat organization. uijpmwiuuii. The * nr members .m.nv.. pity the crow'd that is led astray by ready to take in the mental wa knowledge all the enemies ui of men- tai freedom and our willingness of the Liberal University Company such gentle shepherds and shep- derer who has broken the bars o and ability to overcome them. I are members of the Oregon State» berdesses. 1 one cage only to l>e caught — ' w r