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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, DECEMBER 14, 1899.
womanhood very rapidly. The had a dozen lives and millions of
Liberal University is organized for money it would be just the same.
The Only Paper of Its Kind.
the purpose of converting that If this devotion is worth anything
to the Liberals of the world it
large portion of the world that is should be recognized before the dev­
P ublished W eekly by th e Lil>eral U n i­
still in ignorance and superstition otees are forever beyond the reach
versity C om pany, in the In te re sts of
to the religion <Tf Science and Hu- of appreciation and help. Time is
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
inanity, but its work will be long very precious and the world awaits
delayed unless it can have the our uniteli action.
J. E. H o s m e r,........................E d ito r
wherewithal to bring to the minds
P. W . G e e r,........................M a n a g e r these years.
OUR F R IE N D S .
-------------------------------------------- : There is scarcely a man who is of its students, and through them
Entered at the postoffice at Silverton, educated enough to be fit to occupy and its paper to the minds of
O regon, as second-class m ail m a tte r.
There has been very erroneous
a position in the state schools or others, the knowledge of cosmology,
universities of the United States, biology and sociology—that is nec­ impressions made upon the minds
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
who does not know that science is essary in order to dispel the thick of both Christians and Infidels who
know hut little about our Free-
O ne year, in a d v an c e ..........................$1 00 diametrically opposed to the re- fogs of mysticism. •
S ix m onths in a d v an c e ....................
While in Portland last week we thought educational work. This
ligiou of .Jesus Christ, hut with few
T h re e m o n th s, in a d v a n c e ................
exceptions, only those remain to­ visited the new public museum and impression is that we have only a
I n clubs of five or m ore, one year,
in a d v a n c e ...................................., , ,
75 day who are willing to “keep saw some of the finest of specimens few friends and that they ate those
Money should be sent by reg iste red mum” or lie for the sake of “what
of shells, corals, bones of whales, who cannot or will not help us in
le tte r or m oney order..
there is in if.” The consequence is tusks and teeth of the mastadon, any material way. This idea is
that the schools are filled with in­
keeping many from casting in their
¿Notice!
structors who have been culled as etc., etc. These were all beauti­ mite towards completing our build­
it were from the most intelligent(?) fully exhibited; hut what about the
ing and suitably beautifying our
A h a n d p ointing to th is notice denotes frauds in our country. Is it any interpretation of the wonderful
th a t your su b scrip tio n has e x p ire d . wonder that so many college grad­ speech that they utter to the visi­ grounds. To remove this false im­
You are e arn estly requested to re ­ uates turn out badly? Is it any
pression is the purpose of this ed­
new so th a t you m ay .receive th e p a­ wonder that so much emphasis is tors? A Christian is only filled
p er w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . W e have de­
with awe at the wonderful works of itorial.
placed
on
“appearances”
and
i-o
cided th a t it is best for all concerned
There are many who desire this
th a t we do n o t send papers longer th a n little on genuine worth? Is it any his God and goes home still cling­
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. wonder that so many of our people ing to his crucifix and counting his false impression to be made upon
T his will p rev en t any loss and we will are looking for a heaven in some
heads. Only a few have had the the minds of those who would be­
know ju st w here we sta n d .
We request you to send us th e nam es other sphere, away from this “vale training necessary and can fully come our helpers, but we have hun­
of Secularists who m ight becom e su b ­ of tears?”
dreds of true, staunch friends here
scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies.
The whole system, from the pri­ appreciate and understand the lan­ in Silverton and thousands of oth­
mer to the highest college course guage of these great teachers. They
ers in other parts of the world.
THURSDAY, DEC. 14, E. M. 299. has been dominated by hypocrites. need to be classified and compared
Add to this the instructions of the and the great lessons of evolution Robert G. Ingersoll was our friend,
Christian church and Sunday taught by competent teachers— and he was a host in himself. He
T E A C H E R S.
was just about to write an endorse­
school and we have two of the
teachers
who
dare
tell
the
truth—
ment of our work when his hand
largest factors in the world’s de­
“The faculty of the Liberal Uni­ pravity. O, that educated( ?) men teachers who are not dependent on and mind became stilled forever.
versity, Oregon, is the finest look­ and women would sav what they the church or politics for their po He was to give a lecture and de­
vote the whole proceeds to the work
äitions.
ing group of educators in America, », think !
here
in Silverton, but his promise
We need to have our rooms fin
are the kind and complimentary
and its influence is all we have ev­
TIM E IS TOO PR EC IO U S TO
ished;
we
want
glass
cases;
we
words of the December number of
W A ST E .
er received, for, instead of receiving
want
tables;
we
want
taxidermist’s
a letter from our peerless friend, as
the Freethought Magazine, publish­
ed by our friend and co-worker,
Time is valuable, and if the Lib­ materials and a taxidermist; we per agreement, we received the sad
H. L. Green, of Chicago; and if our erals expect to liberalize the world want help! Without a fine museum, news of his sudden death.
Nearly every old “ wheel horse”
desire to make the world better they should bestir themselves. The which can be easily started when of any note in the Liberal ranks is
makes us good looking, we are great aristocratic church societies, we have money enough, our school our friend. Men who were the ear­
not very ugly, but what cau with their millions, are hiring, forc­ can not possibly do its best work. liest pioneers of the Freethought
we say of the thousands of teachers ing and fooling the people of the We are holding the fort, but in work here have done and are doing
who are holding their positions be­ white races into the errors of ortho­ order to make a charge on the ene­ all they can. . Henry Allen, Peter
Rauch, the Ames brothers, T. D.
cause of their hypocritical silence doxy, to say nothing of the mil­ my we must have more ammuni­ Allen,
Ai Coolidge, Frank DeGuire,
or pretentious utterances of a be­ lions of dollars they are gathering tion. A good collection of geolo­ Julius Fisher, Adolph Wolf, John
lief in the old dogmas? And what j up to trick the blacks and brownies gical, historical and natural history Porter, M. Cooley, H. E. Klein and
can we say of the awful Christian into “jumping out of the frying- specimens, scientifically arranged, scores of other “old wheel horses”
condition that forces many of the pan” of heathen paganism “into attractively exhibited and properly are our friends and helpers. And
interpreted would do our school
among the younger workers
most intelligent men and women of the fire” of heathen Christianity. and the world untold good. If we then
we can count a host right here at
our time to thus play the hypo­ It takes time to convert people to had money we would not hesitate; home, while from abroad the num­
crite?
the religion of Humanity, because we would at once have a fine col­ ber of our frinds is beyond our
Many do not realize that the it is a scientific religion. It re­ lection, a good microscope and ability to compute. Of course
young who come under the instruc­ quires reason and judgment to teach other much-needed apparatus, with­ many of these friends are, like our­
out which much of our labor will selves, very limited financially, and
tion of hypocrites are affected for and to understand it; hut to he- have been in vain.
the burden rests upon the shoulders
evil to the full extent of the hypoc- come a Christian one needs only to
The fact is, the salvation that of the few. It takes money to buy
lisy. But it is true, and, as Jesus have faith, and the less reason he! saves needs its missionaries and land and build a University, so of
is made to say in the fable-story of has and the more ignorant he is, ; financial patronage as well a» do»*s course our w’ork moves slower than
religion of Jesus Christ. Give many would like to see it, but we
the Bible, “O generation of vipers, the easier it is to simply cling to the
us this aid and (the prophet of God must be patient and some Free-
who hath warned you to flee from the cross, to have faith as a little to the contrary notwithstanding) thought Rockfeller may yet “strike
the wrath to come,’ we are justified child and to believe and believe there will be something “ new under oil” and come to our rescue.
in saying, O, generation of hypo- that he is saved by believing rather the sun-” The way our work is
There are quite a number of “old
now
managed,
it
is
impolitic
and
wheel horses”, we will admit, who
erites, who will warn ye to flee than know, and kDow that he is
impossible
for
the
work
to
be
done
have been fooled into withholding
from the damnation of a guilty saved bv knowing.
in any other way than strictly “on their support from this the greatest
conscience? We will warn you to
We are living in an age that is the^ square;” and it looks as though undertaking that Freethinkers
the extent of our power, And if yet but the childhood of our race.1 with the education nal aid we now have ever imagined, and these “old
this
warning should chance Christianity „ and other
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r _______ J iave> that the Lil iberals who are wheel horses” are used m turn to
to fall into the hands of one whose religions are the earlv backwoods able t0. a'.d us ,financial|y eould be prevent, others from helping, but
salary depends on his hypocrisy, we schools whose crudities and punish­ as patriotic and generous as Christ- nothing of any importance to the
hope he will repent and try the ex­ ments must give way to better and ians are to their cause. 1 hat we human race was ever done without
woefully need help and that we some opposition, and we must not
periment of saying just what he higher methods. But how long need it at once is known by all expect to be an exception. We who
thinks.
He will be very much will it take to convert the world to j wh? understand our gigantic under- understand conditions can only do
pleased, for what is money compar- reason and common sense?
taking. Those who, are actually all we cau and hope that soon oth-
ed with liberty? There is no dan­ L nder right conditions vouth de engaged in the work are giving era will come to our rescue and help
their all to the cause which is as to make the yoke easy and the bur-
g e r that we will die of starvation, 1 velops into perfect manhood
and dear to them as life itself. If they den light.
Torch of Reason
or that our loved ones will suffer
very much. We can only live and
die at best; then why not say what
we think and be our honest selves?
Think how the world would ad­
vance if it could once be rid of its
hypocrites and the miserable creeds
that have been making them all