T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , O REG O N , D E C E M B E R 13, E. M. 300 (1900.) 4 theological solution of the world Torch of Reason 1 and of M an’s lot and fate therein raled, the Agent of hie Holiness let th e facts to The Torch. Im m edi them know th a t the Pope would ate legal action m ay be necessary, is not true , and the in q u irer be- inform them th a t th eir salvation and only effective when taken at The O nly P ap er of Its K ind. comes em ancipated, th a t is, a true depended upon th eir obedienee to once. Liberal— one freed from all of the M other C hurch, and their work for P ublished W eekly by th e L iberal U n i churches, spooks, dogm as and its interests; and then he wound versity C om pany, in th e In te re sts of L. U. O. Abroad. up with a detailed description of a C onstructive, M oral S ecularism . creeds of the past. -----I Here he stops and rejoices awhile “ m iracle, ’ the “ liquifaction” afore- The presence of the Business W akem an E d ito r by way of celebrating his indepen- said. He assured them th a t “ it M anager of L. U. O. and of the E d T. B dence. But he is hum an and soon was a m iracle,” All acted, if they itor of the Torch, a t the Secular P. W . G eer..........................M an a g er finds th a t he cannot enjoy his lib did not express, their approval. Union Congress, and on the route, The affair was a b rillia n t success, erty nor secure its perm anence has made The Liberal U niversity a E n te red a t th e postoffice at S ilverton, w ithout its triu m p h through the and both parties in New York are fact to thousands who never realiz Oregon, as second-class m ail m atte r. co-operating liberation, help and stanch friends of “ the C hurch,” by ed what it m eant before. We find joy of his fellow men a n t unen. means of its w o rk e rs , and they ex that the great m ats of the Liberals This grand and indisper.sible re pect political as well as religious are solid for Liberal E ducation and SUBSCRIPTION RATES. sult can be attain ed only by o r m iracles in their behalf, if they stand by our I Diversity as at pres The ganization, and so he becomes a Lib faithfully serve its wishes. ent the most worthy and decisive One year, in a d v a n c e .......................... $1 M Six m o n th s, in a d v an c e .................... . 50 eral of the T hird Stage or Degree effusive account of this political re exponent of it. They will stand T hree m onths, in ailv an ce................ -5 — an organizing, constructive build ception in the newspapers has by us. Every Liberal organization In clubs of five or m ore, one year, ing Liberal. Not only free himself, brought a broad smile of amused in New’ Y ork gave us active a p in ad v a n c e ..'....................................... ^5 he is convinced th a t the great use disgust to the face of every true proval in words and means. M oney should be se n t by registered and glory of his life will be found American who saw it. B ut it m ust F riends every where! We ap pre letter or m oney order. in educating and m aking others so. be met with more than a smile? ciate your earnest kindness and F or a q u arter of a century the support. W e cannot reply to you Notice! Liberals of America have wandered Bad News From Home. all as you deserve, and as we would in the wilderness, and struck down like. But we will make th a t U n i W hile we were hopefully speed the idols, and blown aw ay the A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes versity a su b stan tial Liberal Suc th a t your su b scrip tio n has e x p ire d . spooks of the old creeds. Now is ing hom eward over the broad cess, and on less means than any You are earn estly requested to re plains of the W est; while we were new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa the tim e for them to become Ma other U niversity has ever succeed per w ithout in te rru p tio n . W e have de sonic, i. e. building L iberals, p u t laughing at the Papal genuflec ed upon. Take th a t as our answer! cided th a t it is fiest for all concerned tion of those fairly oui-w itted poli ting up th eir real homes in the th a t we do not send papers longer th a n And when th a t success is assu r th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. new world, the “ promised la n d ” of ticians at New York, sim ilar news, ed the success of the Lib ral Cause T his will p revent any loss and we will far other than am using, strikes us E volution, in which they are to know jn st w here we stand. is assured. W hen the T rue, Scien We req u est you to send ub the nam es settle, and their children to inherit from our Oregon home on the other tific Solution of the U niverse is of S ecularists who m ight become su b shore of the great, and we hoped the “ E arth ly P aradise” to be. scrib ers and we will m ail sam ple copies. made the basis of life, in d ividual Every reader of This means th a t the old Liberal free Republic. and social, all other E ducational societies, however called, m ust be the Torch m ust have been struck In stitu tio n s m ust line up to th a t T hursday , D ec . 13, E. M. 300. revived and recruited, and new dum b with wonder, a t the a n T ru th , or become hack num bers. auxiliaries m ust be formed wher- nouncem ent in our last num ber, Then every L iberal will be re V THe New Century of Liberalism. ever two or three, or five can be th a t S tate School S uperintendent spected as th e em bodym ent of hon had sanctioned the got together as a nucleus of the A ckerm an Liberalism is called to a new N ew L ife . In this way the next reading of the Bible and the L ord’s esty and tru th . N othing will add step of progress, a new birth for Congress will be largely one of act Prayer as part of the exercises of more to th a t respect than to find bis nam e on the Roll of H onor, the the new C entury. Its first n ational ual delegates, th a t is a real Con our public schools. list of the first founders and su p organization was the Am erican T his is a m a tttr of extrem e seri gress, as the original intention was. porters of L. U. O. Liberal League, a t P hiladelphia, at We will not rush into Then Liberalism can show its num ousness. the great C entennial, 1S76. D ur bers and will be a power in the hasty com m ent or condem nation. ing the 25 years since th a t tim e it land. The rights of L iberty will We will hope th a t there is some Prayer and Bible in the Public Schools. has tiad a checkered fate of m oult- Only the docu be respected. The education of m istake about it. ir.gs and transform ation. ItH next The decision of A ttorney-G eneral Liberty will become a fact. The m ents, t h e “ best evidence,” can Congress is to be held at the C ity greatest glory of an American will convince us th a t such is the fact; B lackburn authorizing the L o rd ’s of Niagara Falls, consonant with be to sav I am a L iberal , “out in for we know S u p erin ten d en t Ack- prayer and Bible reading in our the great American F air, which is the clear,” with a soul and a life erm an, personally som ew hat, and public schools under p enalty of to inaugurate the new century for th at is my own! and expulsion, has by reputation well, and we thought suspension Am ericans at Buffalo next fall. th a t he would he the last m an in aroused such a storm th a t one For to do so, the m ayor of th at city would suppose th at it would be the world to do this thing. Political Genuflection, Amusing and has kindly invited, and the late If it is a fact every Liberal, ev abandoned at once out of respect to Otherwise. Congress of the F reethought Fed ery friend of religious liberty, and a m anifest public opinion and eration and Secular Union at C in of a Secular republic, has no alter- wish. cinnati unanim ously accepted the A rchbishop Michael C orrigan, n a tive. This is the entering wedge In the last Torch we gave an a d invitation. the bead of the Romish church at th at m eans the destruction of the m irable editorial against the whole From th e s p irit of th a t Congress New York, has been over Io consult Republic. It has been tried ov er business from the P o rtlan d Oregon aud the general sentim ent of m any | hi^ H oliness and obtain his in- and over again ¡D nearly every ian, the leading new spaper of our leading L ibeials we have ta lk e d ' structions about the m anagem ent state, and it m ust not succeed in state, which ab u n d an tly represents with since, in traveling from New of affairs in th a t great state, and Oregon. Ii is in violation of the the great business and secular York to Oregon, it is m anifest th a t this republic generally. tw o-thirds of He also constitution ai d laws of Oregon, m asses— probably a new E ia of Liberalism , the T hird went down to Naples lo see with and of the constitution of the our people. Degree, the Degree of O rganization, his own eyes the an n u al “ m iracle’ U nited States. In this Torch appears from the See A m endm ents will he entered upon at it.- n e x t of the liquifaction of the blood of | and 14 Religious freedom, and Oregonian of Dec. 2, the im p o rt C ongress. T h ese degrees of L ib e r S aint Ja n u a riu s. 1 bis is a notori- “ im m u n ity y" ” irotn from religious religious impo impo- an t letter of the Rabbi, Rev. Dr. N. a lis m — ilirre in iiU in M , w o e co m ous old fraud. On his return he gjtion is now a C onstitutional right Mosessohn, who represents the H e m en ted on at itie C**ngresH, a n d announced a reception, to which of ail Am erican citizen by virtue brew people w ithin our borders. have been quite fully explained in The Torch. They are sim ply the n atu ral stages of Liberal evo.ulion: T he first is th at of aw akening, in- quiry, exploration, etc — in a word, the stage of F reeuiought : the sec- ond is th at of conviction, that the politicians were invited Loth of the great political parties put in a splendid delegation as it weie, of th eir leading bos-es and workers, judges, etc; for not to be there m eant a loss of votes. W hen they were ail Ihus cor- * - t of the U nited States C onstitution, of which no state law or official, not even a, schoolm aster can de prive him. But the price of Liberty ¡a etern- al vigilance. Please to send the • docum ents and a full statem ent of a I Next Torch will contain the voice of our C atholic fellow-citizens, and then the Liberals and others will follow, with practical suggestions as to th e way out. We are pleased to see th at S uper intendent Ackerm an is not really