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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1900)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 30, E. M. 300 (1900.) JO xxxHXXXKXXXXKXXXXXXXXX) NEWS AND NOTES. ;<xxxx>oo<xxz<>o<xxxm(XK><xx) Lift up the Torch! Work od our fine large hall is in very active progress. The fall term at the Liberal Uni versity begins Monday, October 1st. Hops are being picked in the Willamette Valley. Big crop! Read “A Liberal Offer” on this page, and note the change this week. children, Julia and \ ance, spent several days at the L. U. O. home this week. Mrs. Clymer is a resi dent of Arizona, but enjoys visit ing her friends aud relatives in her girlhood home, the beautiful Will amette valley. Since last week’s issue we learn of the death of one of the L. U. O’s staunch friends, Mrs. L. E. Fuller, of Corvallis, Ore. Mrs. Fuller has been a life-Jong Liberal and a sub scriber for the Torch of Reason ever since it started, and has aided the Liberal University in many ways. She leaves many friends to mourn her loss. We are sorry to learn of the death of our friend, Mr. Lewis Mof fitt of Seward, Neb. He leaves a loving wife and a large number of relatives and friends to mourn his loss. Mr. Moffitt was an enthusi astic Liberal, and his wife writes as follows: “My husband had been told several times that he would recant when he was on his death bed. He did not say one word about God and the future, and there was not one word said about them at his funeral.” He was loved and respected by all who knew him, and such a man as Lewis Moffitt “is found but once in a while.” Can we paint our building this fall? It should be painted at once. The Torch aud Weekly Oregon ian one year for only $1.75 if you order at once. Three more carpenters will begin work on the Liberal University building this week. Mr. J. H. Morris is with us again. Mr. Morris is working on our new catalogue, which will be out soon. Prof. Freedom Hoffmann’s sum mer school at Dolph has closed and he is with us again, ready for work in the L. U. O. For a limited time we will give the Weekly Oregonian and the Torch of Reason both one year for only $.75. Order at once. A Contrary Effect. The basement of the L. U. O. is at last being finished. When com pleted, the L. U. 0. and surround E ditor T orch of R eason : I am in receipt of a letter from a ings will be “a joy forever.” New England friend of the L. U. O., Remember you will get Geo. J. who, it seems, has been advised by Holyoake’s “English Secularism” if some so-called “ Western Liberals” you send in a dollar for the Torch, to not contribute further to the either as a renewal or a new sub Liberal University for certain rea scriber. sons, and I think an extract from The carpenters, masons, printers, the letter will be interesting to our teachers, stenographers, writers, readers. He says in part: cooks—all at the L. U. O. are very “I have been watching the Torch busy getting ready for the winter’s of Reason for the result of the Five Thousand Dollar boom, but regret campaign. to find instead of success, reports Don’t forget to subscribe and get from prominent Western Liberals subscribers for the Freethought that after their work and sacrifices Magazine,published by H. L. Green, have made the conditions favorable 213, E. Indiana St., Chicago, 111., for your work, it will not be a suc cess, because those who are able at $1 per year. I t’s up-to-date. will send their children to better- Mr. C. W. Thompson, our former equipped schools, and Liberals are carpenter foreman, is with us again. either too poor or too stingy to sup port the L. U. O., and they predict Mr. Thompson’s brother and wife, that in less than five years your from Kansas, whom he has not pet project will be a gigantic fail seen for 35 years, arrived in Silver- ure. So I will enclose a draft for five hundred dollars to help over ton Tuesday. the gloomy result which they fear Notice what a jump our “Con (or hope for), and I hope this will tribution Box” and “Liberal Offer” encourage others to come to the took this week. If some of our rescue and soon make your Hun friends don’t “watch out” it will dred Thousand Dollar boom a reality, for we must have some reach the five thousand dollar place for the Ingersoll Chair that mark, and some of the latter-day our English friends have started. prophecies will not be fulfilled. Then we will all rally to storm the Gibraltar of Orthodoxy.” Next week we will send out one I I regret that I cannot give our thousand extra copiee of the Torch as samples to people in all parts of readers the name of this good man the United States and Canada. This who has come to our assistance so nobly and so generously; but he issue will be an extra good one, and prefers, for certain reasous, to have if you can use a few copies to good advantage we will send you some. us withhold his name. No doubt the “prominent Western Liberals” Mrs. Ida Clymer, Secretary Geer's who have predicted our failure will sister, and her two bright little, recognize him by this letter. 8 A Liberal Offer. Fail in five years because we are not well equipped, will we? My dear“prorninent Western Liberals,” A good friend of the L. U. O. has which is better—cry us down and offered to donate Two Thousand use your time and means to defeat us, or put your shoulder to the Dollars in cash to our institution if wheel and help move the load like other Freethinkers will raise it to this prominent E astern Liberal Five Thousand. has done? This friend was not in Let us fill up the contribution fluenced by you in the way you in box! tended. He said: “Here, if the L ater —Mr. R. C. Burtis of Mich L. U. O. is not well equipped, let’s equip it so the Liberals will patron ig an adds one thousand dollars to the above offer. At this rate we ize it.” Three years ago these very same will soon be able to go ahead with so-called “prominent Western Lib our building. “A friend who helps erals” kicked out of the L. U. O. because they couldn’t run their quick helps double.” S till L ater .—A friend in Silver- hobbies into it, and at that time they predicted our failure in less ton offers fifty dollars on the above than a year and called us all sorts plan. The amount already re of names. That work didn’t suc ceived and acknowledged in the ceed any better than their present methods have. It is peculiar and Contribution Box, goes to help amusiug to see the way they change make up the balauce of this fund, base. which now lacks only $1514.10 of But, Liberal friends, let me tell being complete. Can’t we, by a you that the REAL“prominent West special effort, reach this amount ern Liberals, whose work and sac rifices have made conditions favor before September 1st? L ater S till .—A friend in New able” for this movement, are still working and sacrificing for it and England has sent us a draft for five are staunch supporters of the Lib hundred dollars, which now leaves eral University, and like this and only $1014.10 to complete the fund other prominent Eastern and West ern Liberals are contributing to its and give “Luo” a big boost. Who support financially and otherwise. will be the next? Instead of crying down the L. U. O. because it lacks equipment, they The Ingersoll Chair. have helped us to equip it, so that, with the faculty we have employed, The amounts subscribed and paid we defy any school or university to compete with us in real teaching. in for the Ingersoll Chair are set Please judge us by the students we forth below. This sum is actually have and the knowledge they ac iu the hands of our treasurer to be quire at our hands. safely invested, the income only to People who employ their time be used. sending out reports like the one £ s. above quoted are not “afraid” we Mr. George Anderson, England 5 0 3 0 will fail, they hope for it, as our Mr. Alfred Marsh, Mrs. E. Holyoake Marsh, 10 friend puts it. And why do they Mr. Rol>ert Applegarth, 10 hope for it? Simply because they Mr. J. M. Gunson, 1 0 cannot succeed in making the Lib Mr. Arthur Ginton, 1 0 1 0 eral University illiberal by running Mr. Sidney Ginton, Mr. John Leach, 1 0 in their bobbies. Pay no attention Mr. o 0 Thos. Allsop, to them. First they called us Mr. W. Holyoake Byron Smith 5 0 thieves, next they said we were Miss Phipson, 1 0 10 Orthodox, and now they are “afraid A. H. Dr.-G. Sworn, 1 0 we will not get patronage!” Mrs. Holyoake Smith, 1 0 Yours for Truth and Justice, M iss J u lia C. S m ith , 1 0 P earl W. G eer , Mr. T. R. Mudie, 1 0 Mr. A. Sumner, 5 Secy. L. U. O. Mrs. Daniel Baker 1 0 Herbert Spencer. 2 0 1 0 O. S. S. U. Twelfth Annual Con Mr. Jas. Wallace, Scotland. *1 0 .0 0 L. P. Maxam, Mich.......... vention. Geo. N. Hill, Boston, Mass , 5.00 Eva Ingersoll Brown, N. Y. Prof. Daniel T. Ames, Cal. The Twelfth Annual Convention Benj. Duval, Col................. . 50.00 . 10.00 . 1.00 of the Oregon State Secular Union will be held in Liberal Hall, Sil Q Q < X X X X X X K > 0 < X > < > < > 0 < X X X > C > < X > < X X )0 T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . verton, Ore., September 28, 29 and 30, E. M. 300 (1900). Much bus T h is is O u r B u ild in g Fund C o n trib u tio n B ox. iness of importance is to be trans acted and new officers elected. A > ( X X X X H X X X X X K X X X H X X X X X X X K ) 5 Previously acknowledged.. . |428.90 very interesting program, with re G. Lincoln, Hartford, Conn. 5.00 ceptions, music, lectures and ball, A. Vanderpoel, Lodi, Wis. . 1.00 is being prepared. The L. U. O. M, Miller, Sr., Dayton, Ore. 1.00 will have its opening exercises on Monday following the convention. Questions as to further union, or ganization and propaganda will be proposed. It will be a most lively aud interesting occasion. A ll peo < X X X X X )< X X X X > 0 < X > < > C K X > 0 < K X X > < X > ( ple of Liberal sentiments are cor dially invited. Those who can aid Secularists would you not like to by contribution of means or by tak have some letterheads printed with ing part in the program are respect Secular sentiment and Wettstein’s fully requested to communicate with Freethought badge, to use in corre the present officers. spondence with your friends? We T. B. W akeman , President, will furnish them to you with your Silverton, Ore. name and address printed on them C lara B ailey , Secretary, for 75 cents per hundred, $1.50 per 91 N. 9th St., Portland, Ore. 250, or $2.50 for 500, postpaid. Let Dated August 30, E. M. 300. the people know where you stand.