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T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, N O V EM B ER 8, E. M. 300 (1900.)
doi.’t they speak for them selves?”
Torch of Reason stop
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ot growth by eating Do you ask? We answ er: w hat is
holiday very much as we now have
on C hristm as. The only law needed
The Only Paper of Its Kind.
each o th er op.
I he first duty of everybody’s business is no body’s; about it, would be one m aking it a
every Liberal is to subscribe for, and th a t is more th an doubly true general holiday, so th a t no m anu-
P ublished W eekly by th e L iberal U n i­
and circu late L iberal literatu re, when Religious and Theologic dur- facturing or large em ploying husi-
versity C om pany, in the In te re sts of
C onstructive, M oral S ecularism .
and this he can do best by club- ess, abuse and social ostracism etc., nest could be legally done_rnak-
bing with readers and publishers, etc. falls, often in ruinous doses, ing it a “ dies n o n ” for all such
T. B. W a k em an ................... Editor
upon every single person who dares purposes, like New Y ear’s Day. If
P. W. Geer..........................M anager
to speak up for our Secular Repub- anybody interferred with the equal
Liberal Work and Hope.
lie, as against the grasping Gods right of others to keep the day as
E n tered a t th e postoffice a t Silverton,
Oregon, as second-class m ail m a tte r.
and Churches and their zealot they preferred, they m ight be ar-
W e referred in the The Torch, owners and slaves.
O nly the few rested and fined for disorderly con-
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
under date of October 24, to an im ­ who are brave enough, and clear duct or m aking a nuisance of them ­
One year, in a d v an c e ........................ $1 00 po rtan t editorial in the New York enough to be heroes dare to do that
selves. T hus all of the “ Sabbath
Six m o nths in a d v a n c e ....................
50
T
ru
th
Seeker,
which
seemed
to
he
25
aloue.
In so doing, they m ust law s” would disappear at once, and
Three months, in advance..............
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
a sort of wet blanket for our C in­ stand together, while they stand
the day would become a public hol­
75
in arl v a n ce ..........................................
cinnati
Congress
about
to
he.
It
for, and represent the whole repub­ iday for “ reading, rest and recrea­
Money should lie sent by registered
seemed to show th a t the last tw en­ lic, and the silent masses who are tion.”
le tte r or m oney order.
ty-five years of Liberal work, cen­ really for it— hut who dare not or
So with T hanksgiving Day, the
tered
in
our
congresses
had
not
ac­
cannot
speak!
Notice!
law m ight declare it to be the last
com plished much.
F or this gran d reason, let the Thursday of November, and a pub­
We
replied
by
showing
th
a
t
the
next Congress be sustained in a lic holiday, as above suggested for
A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes
th a t your su b scrip tio n has e x p ire d . said L iberals had accom plished a way worthy of the great Secular
S unday. 1 here would be no more
You are e arn estly requested to re ­ great deal by placing a dam across
cause
it
represents.
To
do
th
a
t
new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa­
awful and h u m iliatin g proclam a­
per w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . We have d e­ the on-rushing stream of Theo­ will take tim e, money and some
tions from political and religious
cided th a t it is best for all concerned cratic aggression; and then d iv ert­
sacrifice,
but
these
are
the
only
th a t we do n o t send papers longer th a n
hypocrites,— and w hat a relief th a t
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. ing its arrested and stagnating m eans by which an y th in g great
would he to the honesty and moral
T his will p rev en t any loss and we will waters into new and useful c h a n ­
and
good
dhn
be
done
for
the
Re­
know just w here we sta n d .
sense of the C om m unity?
Jeffer­
We request you to send us th e nam es nels and the irrigation of fruitful public and H u m an ity .
They can son’s exam ple would thus become
of Secularists who m ight becom e sub- deltas.
be served in the only Secular Con­ a law and a relief.
scriliers and we will m ail sam ple copies
We are pleased to see th a t the gress as effectively as on th e b a t­
I hen those farces called ch ap ­
T ru th Seeker of Oct. 23, en terta in s tle field!
lains might go too, under a general
T hursday , N ov . 8, E. M. 300.
very much the sam e view after all.
law, providing th a t the arm y and
It says in substance th a t this
Secular Transformation.
navy regim ents and vessels should
Unite The Liberal Press.
winter the “ God in the C onstitu­
b e provided with sufficient advisory
tion fellows” and the S abbatarian
We have said th a t the great ser secretaries, or other officers to act
There are few things more im ­ Theocrats will be before Congiess
vice of Liberalism in this co u n try as instructors, friends, advisors and
p o rta n t th a n the presence of the and the state legislatures, for a
has been not only in darning up letter writers, as the men might
Liberal Press of every variety at revolution of our governm ent from
and arresting the inflow of Theoc­ need or wish, so th at no real bene­
the C incinnati Liberal Congress. the “C onsent of the G overned” to
racy, which would destroy the R e­ fit to the service would be lost. As
Let it be there by its papers and their “God,” and “ His H oly D ay,”
public, but also in the further benef­ to legislatures, as they exist “ by
publications and by its editors or th a t is to them , and for all of the a p ­
icent work of diverting its old m i­ the “ consent of the governed,” and
some one to represent them and propriations of pelf, plunder and
asm a breeding sloughs and pools for their will and benefit, a ch ap ­
to speak for them .
Some plan power they can get,— for they “ in ­
into bayous and health y channels lain to inform them of the will of a
should he devised and there pre­ herit the e a rth .”
for navigation and irrigation.
“ king’ somewhere, seems too great
sented to have the Liberal papers
The T ru th Seeker intim ates
This great service of Liberalism an inconsistency and im pertinence
become more co-operative and help­ rightly, th at all of these attem pts
to the world was not alluded to to be continued.
ful to each other.
As it stands will he taken as unopposed and
when the T ru th Seeker w’as show­
As to the In d ian s, let us entirely
now they are like the S u lta n ’s chil­ argely consented to, unless there
ing how little the L iberals had ac­ drop the farm ing of them out to
dren. It is the interest of each to is a decided Liberal opposition,
com plished; but it is included in C hristian Sectaries, and see th a t
kill all the others, or to swallow representing the Secular spirit that
its editorial of Oct. 27, on “ The they have practical S ecular ed u ­
them alive.
T heir real interest is founded the governm ent, and the
God in the C onstitution Fellow s,” cation and supervision, so as to
to enlarge the Liberal reading pub­ real wish of the masses of the peo­
where it says:
“ We are sorry, ex­ m ake good civilized people of them
lic, so as to have good p astu re and ple now.
trem ely so, th a t th e prospects of or th eir children, as soon as possi­
support for all.
Suppose the re­
The T ru th Seeker says th at this m aking a sim ple secular holiday ,
ble.
duced price of subscription for more has been done by the Liberals con­
out of the religious H oly-day called
As to the Bible, the only law ne­
than one paper he recognized and tinuously since 1876, and of late,
S unday, is much dim m er than cessary is to keep it out of the
extended to this effect.
Books or especially by P resident P u tn am ;
this T heocrat would have us be­ schools and
public institutions.
papers obtained or subscribed for and th a t now provision m ust he
lieve.”
Then it also says: “ There Then let it be discussed and ex ­
through the Secretary of the A. S. m ade to have it continued, and of
is fortu n ately a tendency to rele­ plored as a part of the past su p er­
1 . should be at a discount anyw ay course, as effectively as possible.
gate th e Bible to its place in litera­ stitions and poetic lite ratu re qf the
aud th a t discount be increased in
Now this is a very im portant ture as one of the m any express-
world, and soon the old notion of
proportion as more than one p ap e r'b u sin e ss affair, and " a practical
ions of m an ’s superstitous nature; infallible inspiration etc., etc. will
is subscribed for.
Thus it would reason for m aking this congress to
he the interest of the readers to be in fact, w hat it is theoretically, hut th a t is the principal gain the become too absurd for an y th in g
subscribe for more than one paper, to-wit: a great representative body. world has m ade iu recent years j hut a pitying smile,
As to the churches, they should
«and to get up clubs to subscribe For however great or sm all it may along the lines the Theocrat fol-
j pay th eir taxes like other property,
for as m any as possible for com­ be, it is the only organized body i° WH’
We are glad to find these sen- or be used at least to some extent,’
mon reading. At the same tim e it th at stands up for the Secular
would be the interest of all editors foundation upon which the Great fences in the T ru th Seeker, for for public and Secular purposes,
and paper owner» to have other R epublic rest», and equarely op- they illu stra te w hat we m eant by like school aud other buildings. It
the great progress of L ib e ra lism in is absurd to have the m any m illions
paper» subscribed for and to sue- poses the efforts of the Gods and
th e “ diverting or bleaching out, in- of dollars th u s invested in these
c e e d . f o r i n so doing each would ' Devils and th eir “ m inisters” who
share in the common benefit, by would underm ine and overthrow stead of the destructive and Icono- buildings untaxed, and yet stand-
ing idle except for a few m um eries
their own increased circulation, it.
T his Congress th en , is the nu- clastic m ethods.”
For instance let us apply this on one or two days in the week,
Secietarv R eichw ald, at Chicago as cleus which represents the whole
m ethod
and Kel,g'
Relig- Let
Let U8
us h have
law ^ th a a t t will
will m
m ake
a center, and the Liberal p u b lis h -' American people as to th eir d Z
V , to the Sabbath
T
a ™ a a law
ers could certainly make this p la n ’est interest 1 /d m ost n r ^ i ,
a8 the T ru th ProP ^ y th at is held aw ay and in
I
effective.
But if poeeible, . URg, . , .
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better t,( < v to apeaT t o , 7 h X ^ - W h y
h o rr° ^
'b e public, put to some
r
uem.
hj J would have a general aud a hum an public use.