THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JUNE 14. 19Ô0. 8 Federation Song. and so the amendment was lost. Lick or Stephen Girard were alive But “a question is never settled un- today. I believe that Courtland [After having changed one word, the , tj , u ¡H Setlled rjght”. Palmer, if alive, would set the following song, which has been adopted , * by the State Federation of Women’s T • i .1 , T rr Liberal University in such shape Clubs, is very appropriate for our noble Louis Rauch, the popular L. I . that it would become for all time Freethought women.— E d .] I O. student, was in attendance as a the Home of Evolution. So long i e.op'i'ar’s ' ' I aughUf di . reedbui'Srrf.ii, as you teach pure materialism my Ready with heart and hand, Convention, held at Astoria, Ore., Strong for the right! strongest sympathy will go with this week. Now raise your voices high, you. In one clear song reply To L ife’s appealing cry We expect Miss Katie Matteson J ohn M. L ogan , M. D. F o r love an d h ^ h t! to return to the L. U. O. today. Shelby, Mich. W hy stand we here today? She has had a few weeks’ vacation, Why, but to make the way and will now return to her duties For Hope’s glad feet. Bidding the world aspire as librarian. “ Freedom” in the Wilderness. To purer aims and higher, Air “ A m erica” . That Home’s own altar fire Burn bright and sweet. Daughters of Freedom’s land, • Holding Truth’s torch ye stand, Crowned with all grace, That this great age may see How fair its destiny, And they who come may be A nobler race. d' “If we don’t hang together we will hang separately,”is ver.y applic- able to those engaged in tearing down the old world of myth, and building “in its place” a new world of truth and love. We may not “hang by the neck until dead,” but nevertheless we will surely he sus pended unless we learn how to co operate. The Freethought Maga zine, edited hy H. L. Green, 213 E. Indiana St., Chicago, 111., sets us all a good example. Mr. Green might have thought that a new Freethought journal, such as the Torch of Reason, com ing into the field at this time would lessen his subscription list and thus lessen the chances of his success; but no, he most heartily welcomed us and without hesitation began to advertise our paper and the Liberal University as a move in the right direction. This has helped us won derfully, as many a subscriber to the Torch can testify, and you may be sure that, if we can help it, we will not let it hurt our noble friend, who has so fully demonstrated the fact that he is really and truly a Liberal. The Freethought Magazine comes to us this month full of the best of thoughts of some of the most pro gressive men and women of our time, and the editor has given eight pages of his valuable publication to the work of the Liberal University and its workers, including the frontispiece, which is the portrait of our own dear fellow-worker, Pearl W. Geer. We are very anxious for every Freethinker in the world to read the Freethought Magazine, for we know that to read it means to become interested in Progressive, Moral Secularism and an Emanci pated Education. Students who want their grade The following quotations from cards may have them by calling at the L. U. O. office or by writing Prof< H°ffmann’s last letter may for the same and enclosing a two interest some of our students and cent stamp for reply. friends. We are sorry not to he Hon. T. W. Davenport and wife, able to publish the whole letter, >O K X X X > C K > < K H X > < X X X X X > (X X X X > < > i of Silverton, are reported as having but lie’s a “heavy-weight” and w’e arrived safely at the home of their are “light.” See? N E W S A N D NOTES. son, Homer Davenport, the car > o < x k x x x >< x >< x x >< x x >< x > o <><>- o < x x > < Mt. Sinai. toonist, in East Orange, N. J. Help the Torch to blaze! My Beloved Christian Brother: The L. U. O. people have plenty Since your welcome news came Chas. Page has returned from of work to do during their vacation, to hand I have acted upon your ad Zena. but a labor of love is always a Farmers are haying in the Wil pleasure, and then we are rewarded vice, and now I spend my leisure hours “fasting aud praying,” and lamette valley. with berries and cherries and new am happy to say the blessed angel We hope to have our new cata vegetables, fresh from our own gar has appeared, and now “I am happy den, and with many other blessings all the day.” Praise the Lord I logue out soon. to thank each other for. J. H. Morris, our foreman, talks I am glad to know that Geer has of taking a vacation. » o o o - o o o 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 o o o - o o o o -o o -o o -o < struck “oil.” You may now pour it upon the “troubled waters,” and Miss Ada Page has been engaged CORRESPONDENCE. I hope to see them made smooth as cook at Wolfard’s Hotel. > 0 0 0 0 -0 -0 0 -0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 0 -0 0 ( and the sails of the L. U. O. filled Notice the offer above our “con Improvement. to their utmost capacity. Have tribution box”, on this page. you the force at work on the build E ditor T orch of R eason : ing? Today’s warm summer rain will The neatly-bound copy of “En make the Silverton gardens grow. glish Secularism” just received. I am with a Liberal family, although they do not recognize it. Freethought exchanges are here Many thanks! The Torch is im They will before long! by invited to exchange electros with proving with each issue. Your Oh, yes. I heard that you had great, good work is not all confined the Torch of Reason. within Silverton walls, but is felt quite a scare over the night when Mr. Kautz is making arrange and highly valued far and wide. you so mysteriously passed from the ments to move his family to Sil dining-hall to your bedroom. “Mat With best wishes, I am, verton this month. ter passing through matter.” Who Fraternally, is it that jokes you over that event? G. L. G ullickson . Our building will look much bet You see I hear from Silverton, Dixon, 111. ter when finished than the picture once in a while. which has been given in out an I had a deer hunt last “Sabbath.” nouncements. Religiously Damned. A Liberal Offer. The good Lord sent an ugly black Secretary Geer’s address until bear down to punish me. I gave A good friend of the L. U. O. has June 21st will be 213 E. Indiana E ditor T orch of R eason : him an invitation of three leaden offered to donate Two Thousand I received yours of May 10, and St., Chicago, 111., care of Free- as sure as you are born I felt, on bullets and Mr. McClane did the Dollars in cash to our institution if thought Magazine. same with five. But, “matter pass other Freethinkers will raise it to reading the letter, as though I had Mrs. Wakeman, the L. U. 0. gone to hell and struck congenial ing through m atter/’ the bear es Five Thousand. matron, says that Oregon is the company. O, Lord! how I did wish caped. I think it was Satan. To Let us fill up the contribution greatest place for roses she ever saw*. morrow I go on another bear hunt. box! for Horace Green, or Elizabeth C. They are indeed beautiful. One has been prowling around just Stanton, or Aunt Elmina, or C. C. across the creek, and I mean to >■0-0-0-0-0-0000-0-0-00-0-0-00-0000-000 l We made a mistake last week. Moore, or some other rock-bottom T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . The “prominent pillar” of Silver- crank for just ten minutes, I need- send him to H-------- (heaven, of course). T h is is O u r B uilding Fund ton did not lose ten dollars on the a second and a referee to kick Well, three weeks have gone— C o n trib u tio n Box. up a beautiful ruction (ethical) election. He won the bet. right here on the ould sod. I want but there are nine more to come. ; o o o o -o o o o o o o o o - o o -o o o o o o o o o ! Master Owen Wolfard, one of the you to understand that old Doc. Time goes quickly now. I made a Previously acknowledged__ $45.50 L. U. O’s hard-working students, Logan has for many years been, visit to the beach last Saturday, has been engaged to help on the not socially, financially or com- a,ld naxt Sunday I’m going “clam- building during his vacation. mercially, but religiously damned. ,nin8- In those parts of the state of Or- Such is the price we must pay for Remember me to all my Silverton egon where any effort was made, having the courage of our convic- friends, and especially to your wife, Mrs. Agnes L. Davis................. $1.00 Miss A. Schachtel.................... I.OO Women’s Suffrage carried, but the Hons. the Wakemans, and Mr. Kautz. politicians know how to work I send you twenty-five names of Tell him his boys are becoming things. Some of the leading(?) la- persons who are Liberally inclined, »ages, dies were induced to circulate the 1 am poor in purse, hut I can and Sincerely, idea that it was best to keep quiet I W’U help, in some way, the best F reedom W. 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