T H E TO R C H O F REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, F E B R U A R Y 22, 1903.
Free Public Libraries.
Six Tracts to Promote
S c ie n tific
Spring of 1900
is Up and
a Com ing
A circular letter on the ab^ve
subject, endorsed by th e Library
O ur Big Shipm ent of Spring Shoes has A rrived. Tan Shoes
Committee of the Oregon F edera
will be the Correct Style for Spring W ear. See our A ssort
W is d o m
tion of W om en’s Clubs, has been
m ent in
In Place of C h ris tia n ity :
sent to the diffent clubs throughout
B A B IE S ’
* 1 Can Sins be Forgiven?
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! the State. It has been endorsed by
C H IL D R E N ’S
2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil- th e W o m a n >8 s ^ - i a l Science Club of
ization?
M IS S E S ’
Silverton. I hope the women will
3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable?
be successful in startin g libraries
L A D IE S ’
4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions.
all over the S tate. The following
= G E N T S ’
5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
is an ex tract from the letter:
6 Immortality or Annihilation?
At S ilverton’s Largest and Busiest Store.
“ To the C lub Women of Oregon:
JU ST T H E T H IN G
to h a n d to your C h ristia n friends. Send The library d ep artm en t of the Wo
2 cents for 6, or 6 cen ts for 25 trac ts,
m an ’s Club of P ortland, after a
to E liza M owry B livbn , Brook
thorough exam ination of the Con
lyn, C onn., or send 10 cents
PRODUCE TAKEN
for 50, e ith e r kind or as
stitution of Oregon and all its laws S T R IC T L Y O N E P R IC E
sorted k in d s, to
pertaining to education, has discov
THE LIBRAL U N IVER SITY CO., ered th at not one d ollar of the State
Oregon or City funds could be legally ap
Silverton
propriated for the establishm ent or
m aintenance (»f free public lib ra
ries. Oregon stands alm ost alone
in this respect.
$ TORCH OF REASON
“ P resident Strong, of the State
U niversity, in an able address re
cently said, ‘the key to the educa
tional future of Oregon lies in its
U niversity,’ and C arlyle has said
‘the treu university of these days is
a collection of books’. T he great
est question therefore before the
IS A BOOK OF
club women of the State today is,
can Oregon any longer afford to be
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w ithout thiH most necessary means
i
of public education — free public
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libraries?
Realizing th a t unless
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libraries are established, giving to
the masses this only m eans of con
s
tinuing th eir education after school
“Truth bears the Torch in the
On th e follow ing and
days have closed, Oregon— the mo
k in d re d S u b je cts:
search For Truth.”
£
ther S tate of them all— will fall be
-o'-
hind in th e com petition for first
1
S e lf C o n tro l
place in th is struggling galaxy of
N orthw estern states. The library
S e lf R e s p e c t
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S IL V E R T O N , O REG O N:
L IB E R A L U N IV E R S IT Y PRESS
d ep artm en t of the W om an’s Club
1899
W h a t is M o ra lity ? has determ ined to present to the
W h a t is Ignorance next legislature a bill praying th a t
í o ^ o ¿< o :
1-5 of a m ill tax be levied or set
PRICE TEN CENTS.
Fraud a C rim e
aside for library purposes in every
H a b it, 2n d N a tu re town of a given num ber of in h ab
ita n ts in the s ta te .”
Dreyer & Craig.
RIGHT
LIVING
Song
Book
S ix t y
E x c e lle n t
C h a p te rs
P oliteness
W isdom
E tc ., e tc ., e tc .
T he proposed tax would be but
$1.00 on $5,000.00 worth of proper
ty, and when the im portance of li Our Job D e p a rtm e n t
braries is understood our legislators
-ALWAYS GIVES
will surely not hesitate to do as the
women advise them .
Prof. W ake
m an’s speech Before the S tate
T eachers’ Association shou’d be
---- BECAUSE IT GIVES-----
read and circulated to help this
m ovem ent.
P. W. o .
HONEST STOCK, FINEST INK AND EXCELLENT WORKMANSHIP
. . . Satisfaction
O ne of th ese c h a p te rs is
W orth m ore to
Y oung and old th a n th e
P rice of th e book.
IT SHOULD BE IN
EVERY
HOME!
I wish you to understand th at I
speak with all literalness when I
say th at there is not a rite, a sym-
bo’, a cpremony in the church to
day which is not older than the
church, which is not pagan in
a n d re c e iv e a
its origin. The cross was a relig
n e a tly c lo t h -
ious symbol in many pagan nations
b ound co p y, post p a id .
before C h ristian ity • whs horn. Holy •
w ater, the eucharist, baptism — al-
A G ENTS IJ ANTED.
most all these th a t are sacram ents
and sym bols in the C hristian
church today an,I are regarded as
of prim e im portance, were known
and practiced in ancient Egypt and
-A D D R E S S -
in other nations hundreds, perhaps
thousands, of years before the Naz-
arene was b >rn.—Rev. Minot J.
Toitch ©f ¡Reason
S ilv er to n
O regon
Savage.
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w hen S toll ’ s P ink H eadache
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C apsules lib erally for suffering
Liberals.
will cure all kinds ol
L
iberals. They
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headache in iron twenty to thirty min-
d ^ it^ ^ h e ^ te ll
him to get them. Sent on receipt of 25
cents to any part of the Union,
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