THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JU N E 22, 1899.
nia,|, u- fr< < , -ucli d ^ iiiih work I to OOOM.lt
Torch of Reason
will forever disappear.
pbM «M and our and we will be easily induced to
own financial interests, we would ; come again.
M Board,nan, win. need« no in- never aek any one to donate to any-
Early Tuesday morn,ng nearly
to Oregon Freethinkers, thing, and at once let the construe- all the convent,oners started for
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. ¿ e n . e s a t the hotel and live work lapse Into , he do-nothing their home., which he in so many
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versity C om pany, in the Interest« of
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
our wheel-horses a little fresh air But no; we mist go on, let the and his better ha f cone u e to
and oil and cantered away over scoffers scoff, and, with the help of stay one more day with their most
J. E. H osm er,........................Editor the hills to Caleb, where lives an-1 our noble, generous friends, build exce ent rien s, e ‘ n- _ * an
P. W. G eer,....................... Manager other wicked Infidel known as Jake this living monument to -mental get rea y or
e n o ce-sem -
likely,
boat-railroad ride to the land of
E n tered a t th e nostoffice a t S ilverton, Barr house. Mr. Barnhouse gave
Sunday morning finds us on our Wel.foot, where the work of erect­
Oregon, as second-class m ail m atter.
us a hearty welcome, and his son
Dick and Aubrav \\ olford, with way to Strauhe Brothers’ ranch, ¡ng the great Freethought Umver-
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whom all Liberal University peo- wliere we enjoy a good dinner and sily awaits their supervision. We
a good visit, and then start hack cannot fully express our thanks for
advance...................
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pie
are
well
acquainted,
helped
to
One year, in
Six m o nths in a d v an c e ....................
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// make our welcome complete. Mrs. to the Barnhouse ranch, where we the kind treatment we received at
finally arrive, after getting lost on Dayville, and we will never forget
T hree m onths, in a d v an c e ................
Barnhouse
proved
to
be
an
exce,-
hi clubs of five or m ore, one year,
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lent hostess and entertained us the way and wandering over the to pray (wish) for the noble Sccu-
Money should be sent by registered
,]u|cjmer music, a very laugh- hills for some time, hardly recog- lai souls (minds) on the John Day
le l„ T or „.oney order.
D
a c c „ ,l n ,
m a n nizing the house or the barn until river.
who had recently fallen from his we saw some of the Barnhouse D R IN K A N D SU P E R ST IT IO N .
Notice!
horse into t h e creek and lively con- famity.
Leaving Mrs. Hosmer and her G ive him strong d rin k , u n til he w ink,
A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes versation, which helps so much to
th a t y o u r su b scrip tio n haH e* P irt\ 1/ Ret people acquainted. So here we brother Charles to work out their
T h a t’s sinking in d e sp a ir;
You are e arn estly req u ested to re-
t
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’ liquor guid to fire his blu id ,
new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa- a r p among friends, only anoui salvation by the sweat of their
T h a t’s p rest w i’ grief and care.
p er w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . W e have de- , .
n i i j e8 from Dayville, where brows, we come in on the ‘‘home T here let him t»ouse, a n ’ deep carouse,
cided th a t it is best for all concerned
m .ic o .
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W ith b u m b ers flowing o ’er,
th a t we do n o t send pap ers longer th a n th e convention is to be h e ld , a n d it stretch” to Dayville and pass under Till he forgets his loves or d eb ts,
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. .
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d a y s b e fo re that important the wire at the happy home of Mr.
A n ’ m ind his griefs no m ore.
T his will p revent any loss and we will ;
'
(P ro v . 3 1 :6-7.)
—B urns.
know just w here we sta n d .
event will take place. Mr. and and Mrs. A. P. Snyder, who were
We request you to send us th e nam es
Barnhouse have very much expecting us and welcomed us as
Christian people who claim that
of Secularists who m ight Ixicome sub-
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VY
k ple
tai copies.
k T k 1 4* S - work on hand at this time of the life-long members of the Free- every word of the Bible is the word
scribers
will
m
ail a
sam
year, it being sheep-shearing time, thought fraternity know how to of God, and who, at the same time,
THURSDAY, JUNE 22, E. M. 299. and Mrs. Hosmer is already at welcome one who dares to wear an believe that it is a sin to drink or
work in the kitchen and the editor Otto Wettstein badge. And here gey intoxicating liquors, should
ALL a b o a r d :
talks of being initiated into the we are, answering the letters which rea(] their bibles more carefully,
we find awaiting us and getting The above short poem was written
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' secrets of sheepcraft.
At Mitchell we bad a good audt-! We were never better treated ready for the convention which may hv a man of great intelligence, and
ence. The seats were all full and than at Mr. Barnhoiise’s, and we mean so much to Freethought and he undoubtedly believed that the
Bible sanctioned the use of strong
some were obliged to stand, and find that these kind-hearted people to the evolution of our race.
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drink; and there are many who
from the applause we concluded are in perfect sympathy with our
after the convention .
have gone to drunkards’ graves
that we are doing good work for constructive, moral ideas of Secu-
There was not a very large at- who had their god’s word that it is
our great cause. Before we reached larism. They not only gave us the
the city we met a Methodist minis­ best food and beds their comforta tendance at the convention, and a wise thing to drown their troubles
ter, with whom we had a little de­ ble home affords, and it affords the there were a number of things with that which God knows, at
bate. The tables are turned and most excellent, blit they gave fifty which conspired to binder our bav- least his word(?) says so, “at last
we Secular preachers now endeavor dollars more to help on our work, ing that success which we antici- biteth like a serpent and stingeth
to convert these poor, misguided and assured us that their son Dick pated. Dr. York, for some un- like an adder.”
creatures to the true religion of will attend the University again known cause, failed to be with us. | As there are many Liberals who
Some of our singers had such colds use intoxicating liquors, it might
Humanity. Our debate was free next year.
from all unkindness, excepting the
Saturday morning Mr. Rauch that they could only croak a little, be “policy” for us to keep our
last idea expressed by this servant and the editor started to visit and through a little personal spite opinions to ourselves, but that
of Christ. He expressed the hope friends on Waterman Flat, which work the business was not entirely would be the act of a coward. We
that we would break down in our is twelve miles from Caleb. The harmonious; but there were some hate “policy” and believe that a
lecture at Mitchell. This, it seems roads were somewhat rough and very pleasant and profitable fea- large portion of the misery of the
to us, is not the spirit of love and hilly, but we reached Mr. and Mrs. tures of this eleventh annual con- world is caused by hypocrisy, de-
shows that Christianity, although McKay’s large possessions of about vention of the Oregon State Secular ceit, fraud and policy.
Let it be understood that we
it claims to be a religion of charity, 3000 acres at noon with no acci­ Union. The Secularists of Day-
is really
of hate. We dent excepting
W a religion
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O a » punctured tire, " ville entertained us with such a blame no man for bis weaknesses,
did not break dowr, however, anj although they were not at degree of hospitality and friendship We are what we must be. Free
them, moral agency is a humbug. Our
which is another proof of the use- home, w’e were made welcome by that
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lessness of the prayers of preachers, their Secular workmen, among Their conduct gives us another les- inherited trails, coupled with our
The night of our lecture some them Mr. Sharp, with whom we! son in the true and only elevating environments, make us just wliai
. i endeavored
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_. to « became acquainted
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I religion—the
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1 we are.
a re *
religion an of
truth <
and
We a ttmut
must not AfAnJamn
condemn,
poor, deluded mortal
the conven-
burn up the town. He turned all tion last year.
Mr. and Mrs. love, the religion of this world, the hut we must listen and then judge
the water out of the irrigating McKay came home in the after­ religion of humanity. The lectures for ourselves what is the truth and
ditch, climbed to the roof of the noon and made us doubly welcome, and other exercises were well re- on what side of every question our
hotel, the Puett House, and with Mrs. McKay, formerly Mrs. Smith, ceived, and the dance on the last influence is to be cast. We believe
oil, pitch and kindling set a fire, will be remembered as one who has evening was well patronized and that the habit of drinking poison-
ous drinks is a relic of our past ig-
In a few minutes more the whole liberally donated to our cause for enjoyed very much.
Mr. C. E. Glaze, to whom we are norance and that, like superstition,
town would have been doomed, but several years. Some thought that
the landlord discovered the blaze, when she married last year that all very much indebted for his un- it will have no place in the grand
aroused the people and managed would end her Freethought work, tiring efforts in decorating the hall civilization of the future. Mep
to prevent the fiendish work just in but we found Mr. McKay also very and in attending to all those make good livings selling these
time. Whether our Freethought much interested, and before we little(?) things which go to make false stimulants and, like the min-
work had anything to do with this went away, without solicitation, he up the success of such gatherings, inters of Jesus, they usually protect
from the brethren many their business as best they can;
ruthless attempt to destroy prop- sat down and wrote us a check for collected
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erty and life or not, we do not $25. Such friends as these are sheckels of silver for the lecturers, and to be honest with our readers,
know. This we do know, however,' friends indeed, and we will never This, with many compliments and we must say that we have come to
that when the old creeds of hate forget them. It is hard work for} hearty handshakes, made us all respect the saloon-keeper and those
are forever gone and the truth has us to ask for help, and if we were 1 feel well paid for our endeavors, i who drink “open and aliove hoard
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