THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 30, E. M. 300 (1900.)
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NEWS AND NOTES.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.