THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, OCTOBER 11, E. M. 300 (1'J' iuj
N EW S AND NOTES.
The people of the L. U. O. are
busy as busy can be.
Mr. L. D. Leonard is digging a
well for the University building.
Our business manager was in
Portland Monday and Tuesday.
The most beautiful weather i n i
maginable is being enjoyed by the
people of the Willamette valley.
The captains of the Y. P. S. S. C.
chose their sides last Friday
evening and are all ready for busi
ness. Miss Mills will lead off next
Friday evening with a good p ro -
gram.
As we go to press a telephone
message comes that a Freethought
sister, Mrs. West, of Scappoose,
Oregon, has just died. One of the
L. U. O. faculty will deliver the fu-
neral address.
We have just purchased a 2o-
horse power boiler for steam heat
ing purposes in the L. U. O. hull -
ings. Steam will also be utilized
in running printing machinery and
water works.
géant at arms, Ada Page; Cap
tains, Miss Kitty Mills, F. W.
Hofl'mann.
A W ell Pleased Subscriber.
E d ito r Torch of Reason: —
Dear F riend: English Secular
ism came to hand in good condi
tion and it is a good friend and
companion. I am much pleased
with it and the Torch.
If only
people would read some of the
Liberal literature, we would have
nothing of narrow mindedness and
creeds aud dogmas. I, for one, am
glad that I have bursted the bonds
of mental slavery. With many
thanks, I remain one of you.
Mrs. F. E. Luce.
Philadelphia, Pa.
It Is C onstructive Now .
The Ingersoll Chair.
D. E.
The amounts subscribed and paid
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in for the Ingersoll Chair are set
At the recent convention of the forth below. This sum is actually
Oregon State Secular Union, Pro- ju the hands of our treasurer to 1*
fessor Wakeman told us that the safely invested, the income only to
destructive period in Liberalism be used.
£ a.
had passed, and the era of con-
George A nderson,
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struction had arrived. It was easy yjr A lfred M aish ,
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work to demolish the old theolog-
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ical systems, and scatter their idols
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to flinders.
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easy to construct a new fabric that
j ohn Leach,
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shall win all hearts by its truth, , Mr.
Byron Smith
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utility and beauty. Nevertheless \jjS8 p h ip s o n ,
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the attempt should be made. Per- A.
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diversity of opinion
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very nature of things must always ^jr a . S u m n er,
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rs. Daniel B aker
exist among Liberals.
But while M
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no one is required to surrender his Mr. Ja s . W allace, S cotland.
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L. P. M axam , M id i..............
individual opinions, may he not Geo.
5.00
N. H ill, B oston, M ass.
50.00
keep his peculiar views in the back Eva Ingersoll Brow n, N. Y.
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Prof. Daniel T. Am es, C al. .
ground, and emphasize and act up Benj.
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on those views which are held more Ed. Secrest, R an d o lp h , K an sas
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in common? ‘‘If it he possible, as H elen H . G a rd en e r, N. Y . C ity
much as lieth in you, live peace i< X X X > < > C < > < X X X X ) o o o o o o o o o o o o
ably with all men.”
by
TO R A ISE $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 .
Circulate the Petition.
T h is
is O u r B u ild in g F u n d
C o n tr ib u tio n B o x .
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A petition numerously signed
Previously a c k n o w le d g e d .. $435.90
should be sent to President Mc
H . Row ley, New Y o r k ........ 50.00
Kinley urging him to withdraw
O. T. G len n , C in c in n a ti----- 25.00
This number goes to one thous
the American missionaries from O- E d. Secrest, R an d o lp h , K s.. 2.50
and Freethinkers who are not yet
1.00
China in settling our present diffi M rs. M. A. R eynolds, K s . .. lo.ooS
subscribers.
We hope that many
M. P ritc h a rd , Cali f o r n ia .. . .
culties with that country. It is
of the thousand will join in our
Minnie Page Hosmer.
well known that the aggressive na
rapidly increasing “Torch” light
State Sup’t Secular Sunday Schools. ture of Christiauity is the cause of
procession and help spread the
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the present trouble.
Let that
gospel of Science and Humanity.
Mrs. Minnie Page Hosmer, whose clause be abrogated which guaran
A Liberal Offer.
We regret to say that we will not portrait appears above, has been tees protection to Christians and
A good friend of the L. U. O. hfti
be able to paint the University actively engaged in the Liberal missionaries there, and they will
building this year unless we re work in Oregon for the past five at once withdraw, or, if desirous to offered to donate Two Thousand
ceive more money. How many of years. She was elected vice presi become martyrs, will remain at Dollars in cash to our institution if
our readers will pay for one gallon dent of the Oregon State Secular their own peril. It is but just other Freethinkers will raise it to
of paint each? Paint is $1.25 per Union at the seventh annual con to China that her choice in this Five Thousand.
Let us fill up the contribution
vention held in Portland, E. M.
gallon.
matter should be regarded. We box!
295. The following winter and exclude from this country certain
The many improvements we
L ater —Mr. R. C. Burtis of Mich
spring she, with her husband, con
have made on the buildings and ducted the work in the Portland classes of Chinese that are not ac igan adds one thousand dollars to
grounds of the L, U. O. this year Secular church and Sunday school. ceptable to us and by all means let the above offer. . At this rate we
require the expenditure of a great They then moved to Silverton us grant a similar privilege to will soon be able to go ahead with
them. Somebody stait the peti
amount of money and we hope our to
our building. “A friend who helps
assist
in founding the
friends will remember to help the Liberal University, where Mrs. tion. Fifty millions of people in quick helps double.”
the United States are ready to
building fund.
Hosmer is exceedingly active in
S till L ater .—A friend in Silver-
sign
it.
Mr. Henry Browne, wife and two the work and devotes nearly her
ton offers fifty dollars on the above
children, of Wisconsin, have ar entire time, in school hours, to
plan. The amount already re
Our offer to give a copy of George ceived and acknowledged in the
rived in Silverton, where they will teaching. Outside of school hours
reside in the future. Mr. Browne she devotes herself to books and Jacob Holyoake’s English Secular Contribution Box, goes to help
is an expert printer and will be various lines of work, aud is always ism with a year’s subscription to make up the balance of this fund,
seen slinging type and kicking on hand to assist the members of the Torch of Reason for one dollar which now lacks only $1514.10 of
press in the Torch of Reason office. the Y. P. S. S. C. in arranging and has met with such a hearty re being complete.
practicing for entertainments. She sponse that we have decided to
L ater S till .—A friend in New
Miss Sophie Wolf, our former
has been one of the principal work renew the offer. I his book is cloth England has sent us a draft for five
professor of elocution and music,
ers in the Silverton Sunday bound, gilt top, 150 pages, and
left last Monday for Boston, where school and her experience along sells for 50 cents. We give it free hundred dollars, which now leaves
she will spend the winter in the that line certainly fits her for the with a year’s subscription to the only $925.60 to complete the fund
Emerson College of Oratory. Miss office of State Superintendent of Torch of Reason, or a renewal. We and give “Luo” a big boost. Who
Wolf’s many friends will miss her Secular Sunday schools in the Ore have only a limited number, so will be the next?
during her absence from Silverton gon State Secular Union, to which order at once.
Secularists would you not like to
and hope for her safe return,
have some letterheads printed with
office she was elected at the con
Send 10 cents in silver or stamps
sentiment and \\ ettstein’s
The following officers were elect vention just closed. Anyone con to the Liberal Subscription Agency, Freethought badge, to use in corre-
ed at the Y. P. S. S. C. meeting templating starting an organiza 128 Locust St., Ottawa, Kas., and spondence with your friends9 We
tion or wishing information re receive (luring the next month will furnish them to you ’ «h your
last Friday evening:
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name aud address printed on them
President, Charles L. Page; Sec garding the Secular Sunday school
copies of all leading Freethought, for 75 cents per hundred, $1.50 per
retary, Minnie Robison; Treas work will do well to address Mrs.
| Liberal and New Thought papers 250, or $2.50 for 500, postpaid. Let
urer, Elvin Ames; Sergeant at Hosmer, in care of the L. O. U.,
,
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1 the people know where you stand.
Silverton,
Oregon.
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magazine«.
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arms, L. Rauch; Assistant Ser-