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THE
TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. MAY 18, 1899.
passages from our own Kent and
! For the Torch of Reason.
the
Liberal
University,
and
gave
Abroad.
1 Story on the beauty and blessed-
An Irascible Judge.
me two trilobites, some astiestos
1 ness of olx*dience and absolute sub­
from the Black Hills and some
mission to the commands of the
BY P. W. GEER.
BY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
crystalized carbon, harder and al­
’ husband. Judge Pealxxiy has evi­
most as brilliant as a diamond. I
fCONTINUED FROM LAST W EEK.]
A certain Judge Peabody, in the dently been taking a Rip Van
prize these additions to our mu­
Tuesday morning I took the seum more than anything we have state of Missouri, when on the Winkle nap that he does not know
train for Ean Claire, Wisconsin, received for some time. 1 he t r ilo ­ bench, always has the American the new woman, with our liberal
flag spread out behind him as an divorce laws, can sunder all such
and from there I rode on a freight bites are the first I ever saw.
unholy ties as readily as did Samp­
train down the Chippewa valley to
Several people in Durand are go­ evidence of bis loyalty to the laws son the withes of the Philistines.
Durand, the former home of Mr. ing to move to Oregon to enjoy a and constitution of his state. His
A law that would prevent two
and Mrs. Hosmer. I soon found free religious atmosphere, a milder decision in a recent case of a wife-
Mr. George Dunlap in a store, and climate and delicious fruit. We beater has been extensively noticed strong men from pounding each
he was very anxious to hear the will gladly welcome them to our by the press. The wife’s complaint other when provoked in argument
latest news from his friend, J. L. state. I enjoyed a pleasant even­ was summarily dismissed on the that cannot protect a wife in simi­
Hosmer. Mr. Dunlap is trying to ing with Mr. and Mrs. King and following grounds: The law gives lar circumstances, is a travesty on
shape his business so that he can stayed one night with the Spooner the husband the right to slap his all law. To extend the panoply of
locate in Oregon in the near future, family, where I visited with Mr wife with his hand or fist, provided the law over a wife-beater in the
for he likes our climate as it has Page and his mother, who is well- he does her no bodily harm; that nineteenth century, is a disgrace to
been represented to him, and he is preserved in her old age. My is, he breaks no bones nor perma­ the judiciary. Thomas H. Pea­
a pronounced Secularist. I en­ second night in Durand was spent nently disables her in any way. body should be impeached and sent
joyed several visits with Mr. Dun­ at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rus­ The judge assumes there is no to a lunatic asylum, or be com­
lap during my stay in Durand and sell, and Miss Mabel entertained us harm done when a mother is hu­ pelled to join the Anti-Suffrage As­
will be pleased to see him in Ore­ with splendid music on the organ. miliated in the presence of her sociation. We seem to be pariahs
gon. Mr. H. C. Page, Mrs. Hos­ Mr. Russell is a cousin of Mrs. children and her own self-respect alike in the visible and invisible
mer’s father, is visiting at his old Hosmer. That evening I bade destroyed. This power, says the world, with no foothold anywhere,
home in Durand, and I found him good bye to Mr. Page, and expect judge, is necessary to maintain a though by every principle of gov­
with his sister, Mrs. Hattie Spooner. to meet him in Silverton later in healthy family discipline. 1 he ernment and religion we should
Mr. Page left Silverton a month the season, for I don't think he plaintiff in this case argued with have an equal place ou this planet.
before I did, and had no idea that will be long contented in the midst her husband in the presence of
We do not hold the ignorant
I would follow him. I stepped on of narrowness and religious preju her children, and, probably getting classes of men responsible for their
the porch, and through the glass in dice which prevails in Durand the better of the argument, she pro­ outrages on women, but the pub­
the door I saw “Father” Page en­ The people of that place are not voked him, made him very angry, lished opinions of men in high po­
joying a rest in a rocking chair. only afraid to speak, DUt they are and he chastised her according to sitions, judges in the courts, bish­
I will never forget his look when afraid to even think. There, two an old common law of England ops in the churches, presidents of
he saw me. He gazed at me with things a person may do and be laid down by Littleton, Coke and colleges, editors, novelists and
his eyes wide open, then looked at popular—pray and drink whisky. Blackstone, and re-echoed by our nnpfs. a ll tanaht. bv the canon and
bis sister and again turned his gaze Durand is about the size of Silver- own Story and Kent.
civil law. It is a sad reflection,
at me. He looked out of the win­ ton and has twelve saloons; Silver
Sustained by such an array of that the chains for woman’s bond­
dow to see if the scenery belonged
ton has only one. 1 took the early judicial authorities, what folly for age have been forged by her own
to Silverton or Durand, and then
morning train for Eau Claire, and a wife to complain or for a hus­ sires and sons. Every man that is
pinched himself to see if he were
Mr. and Mrs. Russell were kind band to hesitate in using his high not for us in this prolonged struggle
a liv e . Siftisfying himself that he
enough to get me up and feed me prerogatives. It was bad enough for liberty is responsible for the
was alive and in Durand, \V ¡scon-
before 5 o’clock. Their kindness to argue with her husband at any present degradation of the mothers
sin, he ventured to open the door
and hospitality will never be for­ time, but in the presence of their of the race. It is pitiful to see how
to feel of me and see if I were a
children, most demoralizing. The few men have ever made our cause
Geer or a ghost. Well, we had a gotten.
I expect to remain in Wisconsin question might arise, whether a their own. But, while leaving us
jolly visit, and enjoyed myself vis­
to fight our own battles, they have
iting with the relatives and friends another week, and will visit differ heated argument was worse for been unsparing in their criticisms
of Mr. and Mrs. Hosmer (or “John ent parts of the state. The general their children than seeing their of every failure. Even those claim­
and Minnie,” as they are called by appearance of the country is simi­ mother chastised according to law. ing to be our friends have pub­
The judge says that women
every one). I saw the house that lar to Western Oregon, but there is
lished with alacrity our blunders
John built and recognized it, be­ one exception I could never become know when they enter the marriage to the w’orld. Of all the battles for
cause it looks just like Hosmer. I accustomed to—there are no or­ state that strict obedience is re­ liberty in the long past, woman has
visited the old home of Mr. Page chards. It seems that fruit ought quired, and they solemnly promise been left to fight her own, with all
to growr here since there are so at the altar to obey, honor and
and saw where John and Minnie
the powers of earth and heaven,
did some of their “sparking.” many trees, but I suppose it is too love their master. On the con
human and divine, arrayed against
Among the delightful visits was cold. I hope to soon be in the trary, women do not understand
land of Secularists and accomplish the significance of these pledges her.
three hours spent w’ith Mr. I. D.
something for the Liberal Univer­ nor the laws on family discipline.
To those who have a proper
Alkire in his museum. Such a
sity and the cause in general. I They have not attended the law’ pride of sex, who have labored half
collection I never saw before. I
wish to make our people in differ­ schools nor heard of the vagaries a century for woman’s emancipa­
wish I could have spent a month
with Mr. Alkire and his curios. ent parts of the Urion acquainted of Coke or Blackstone, and per tion, her present helpless position
There are specimens of the earth’s with our work, and Torch of Reason haps never seen their theories il­ in so many situations is aggravat­
crust from the different periods or subscribers should not be surprised lustrated at the fireside, and pos­ ing and depressing. In hours of
eras; there are many kinds of shells to see me, no matter where they sibly never heard of Judge Peabody! solitude, alone with nature in all
American men, in general, as her grandeur, I have asked the
aud corals, besides a great variety live, for I am on the fly and am
lovers, are so courteous and tender, everlasting hills that in their up­
of petrifactions, ores and minerals. liable to light almost anywhere.
Eau Claire, Wis., May 4, 299.
so subservient and worshipful dur ward yearnings seem to reach the
What a mixture of Indian relics,
ing courtship that women are heavens; I have asked the majestic
spears aud old swords I He has
samples and evidences of animal
Secularists would you not like to wholly unprepared for this trans forests and mighty rivers hastening
life from the lowest forms. Of have some letterheads printed with formation of the lover to the hus­ to the sea; I have asked the sun,
course, Mr. Alkire is a Freethinker; Secular sentiment and Wettstein’s band. If Judge Peacody has re­ the moon, the stars, that have for
no one could be such a student of Freethought badge, to use in corre­ vealed to woman her true status as ages looked down on human weal
nature and be orthodox. Ortho­ spondence with your friends? We a wife, every honest lover should aud woe; I have asked my own
doxy is unnatural, and Alkire is will furnish them to you with give the key of this situation to his soul, in moments of exaltation and
close to nature. He is gathering your name and address printed on fiancee. Instead of reading beau­ humiliation, if woman was made to
his collection for the benefit of edu­ them for 75 cents per hundred, tiful poems on the divine passion, be forever the subject, the slave of
cation in Durand, and the citizens SI.50 for 250, or $2 50 for 500, post the uplifting spiritual essence of another human will, and in solemn
of the little city ought to appreci­ paid. Let the people know where love, as set forth by poets and nov­ chorus one and all have auswered,
elists, he should read to women No! No!! No!!!
ate his labors. He is interested in you stand.