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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1899)
t h e TORCH o f REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 28, 1S9ÍK 2 water can be run across every foot so much, w*as not at home, and I that it would l>e well for me to see was sorry to be deprived of a visit of the land in the vicinity of the Abroad. the University’s »ew possession«, I with him. I found Mrs. Meakin at ditch. Artesian water is easily ob decided to take a trip to Mosca, a home, but only stopped to ex- tainable anywhere in the valley. BY P . W . G E ER . station on the narrow gauge rail- Now this farm of 320 acres be ’ change a few words. 1 was greatly «1 mnri four miles from the farm. pleased to meet Mr. C. O. Hjerm longs to the Liberal University and In Colorado the T he’train was delayed several hours stad, brother of Dr. Hjermstad of lowed to vote, an 7 p ueb)0 on account of a washout, is valued at $8,000. Mr. \\ . F. Cincinnati. Both of these gentle allowed to vote in d(!8ire to a„d we did not arrive at Salida un- Jamieson, the Freethought lecturer, men are enthusiastic in the Liberal gome of them may n w|lere j changed cars to who used to own the place, claims cause and are congenial company. vote, but In that Cy caJ9t 0 BOU,b. Passing over the great that it will be worth twice that I couldn’t leave Salt Lake City forced to go to the pill i.,.licl,a Pass we could see for miles amount as soon as it is seeded to without a visit to the Mormon tem their ballot. I know several men 1 " " ^ ¿ “X e l stretch of land to alfalfa, which would not be expen sive. While there is a sufficient ple and the great tabernacle. \ is- itors are. allowed to inspect the tab » l.W » 8 •» . o| , ia.. This i. income on the laud to pay good in ernacle, both inside and outside, from voting. 1 he m J < ; „ j a prettier terest on $5,000, although in the hut the temple is not for unrepent women would enjoy their privilege San Luis valley, a a p _ valley was never formed between hands of a renter, still the Univer ant sinners to see save from out of voting if it were granted them, sity is more in need of the money mountains. side the fence. Salt Lake City has and I have always claimed that if a than the land right now, and we On the east rise the Sangre de many attractions. It is situated at woman wants to vote, no man has desire to sell. Who will bid the Cristo mountains in a ragged range the base of towering mountains, and a right to say «he shall not vote* highest? Remember, the money extending in a southerly direction rapid mountain streams come rush The women have the same right to arising from the sale will go to combine and deny men the privil to Sierra Blanca mountain, near benefit the Liberal University, and ing through the canons and are led the New Mexico line. On the west into the city, where clear, cold, lim ege of voting that the men have to you can afford to take a deeper in deny the right to women, but the are the Cochetopa hills and the terest in the sale of the land on pid waters sing a pleasant song as San .Tuan mountains, between which they sport and play along the sides women are not as selfish as men. that account. Please help us sell When the laws allow equal right« the Rio Grande river has its ori- this farm, if you can’t buy it your of the streets, where they are con ducted through the entire city. The self, kind reader. streets are lined with beautiful ment in both society and politics. which, in connection with these Mr. Terry and I drove hack to other mountains, form the great trees, and the low and picturesque The men do not feel quite so im Mosca over a different road, and portant, and the women feel that basin known as the fean Luis val passed eome lovely homes and well adobe houses harmonize in their they have been raised a few notches ley. This valley is 120 miles in kept farms on our way. In the cool, quiet tones with the extensive in the estimation of the men and length and averages 65 miles in town is a good hotel, some well orchards of fruit and gardens of even in their own estimation. I width, and there is every evidence stocked stores and two large grain flowers. Passing the ecclesiastical build conversed with one young lady on that at one time it was an in elevators. One of these belongs to the question of woman’s suffrage, land sea, and the water has left the farmers and is conducted in ings, I climbed up on the “bench,’’ and she said she had never voted it aa level as a flour. In the center heir interest. I climbed to the which rises abruptly back of the and did not care to exercise her of this great valley is a half section jOp of this elevator and had a citv near the mountains. It was right in that regard, as she was not of land, which is not unlike the rest splendid view of the valley and evening, and, as I turned to the informed on the political questions of the 7,800 square miles of fertile surrounding mountains just as the west, the sun, low in the horizon, was shining on the great Salt Lake, of the day, but still I could see that soil around it, but it is of more im sun was sinking in the west. portance, to me at least, because it which reflected back the rays of phe talked more intelligently on the The train left Mosca at 7 o’clock f object of politics than the average belongs to the Liberal University, that evening, and I hade farewell to light in brilliant sparkles. I was woman who has no legal right to in the interest of which I have tak my friend Terry and started for at once taken with a desire to see vote, and in spite of herself I could en this long trip. Oregon. It was dark when I ar this great inland salt sea, and im I arrived at Mosca in the after mediately started for the depot, see that she appreciates her rights, rived at Salida, and the tiain for although she has refused to exer noon and found that I had hut the West was a few hours late, so I where for twenty-five cents I pur cise them. The majority of the three hours in which to investigate had a lonesome wait. Shortly after chased the privilege of riding to Colorado women vote, and I can’t the farm and surrounding country midnight the express train came Saltair and back again. Across see that any had laws have been and catch a train returning to Sa along, and I was glad to secure a the marsh we sped, and the odor enacted on that account. Women lida. I soon found Mr. W. H. good comfortable seat in a chair reminded me of a visit to China town when the cabbage has boiled are holding positions of trust and Terry, who has the farm in charge, car. honor, and I understand that they and he kindly drove me out to view In the morning we reached Lead dry. The terminus of the railroad the Liberal University’s posses is on a pier constructed on the are a credit to the offices they hold, ville among the clouds, and a little sions. The farm is four miles west and give entire satisfaction. later passed Glenwood Springs, a Moorish plan, and is very artistic of the little town, and we were not in design. This pier contains the The voters of Oregon are to de beautiful oasis in a desert of moun cide next June whether or not the ong in reaching it. I found it wel tains, and then we sped away down largest pavilion in the world. I w men of the state are to be en 'enced and a neat, though not ex the canon of the Grand river, where saw the white folks dance and ihe till* d to the right of suffrage, I pensive, house and barn, with an magnificent walls in various colors darkies walk for cakes, while the hope that when the men go to the artesian well spouting forth a gooc tower from the river to the sky. band played Georgia Campmeeting polls on that June day in 1900 they sized stream of water. A beautiful The onlv objection to this scenery and the wind played havoc. 1 will bear in mind that, while there green patch of alfalfa surrounds the is its absence of vegetation, which never experienced so much wind in are tome women who do not care to house and barn, and a few tons of adds so beautifully to the artistic so short a time. People stopped vot there are thousands in the state hay are stacked in the corral. All effect of cliffs and precipices along bathing down below, but some of the land can be cultivated, and, al wh»> are anxious to have the right us took a hath on the upper deck the old Columbia in Oregon. though this has been a dry season, extei ded to them, and then I hope Night had fallen before we had from the spray which was blown up the crop of grain looks very well and the men will ask themselves what reached Salt Lake City, and I had by the wind. I had seen a cake will yield many bushels, which find moral right they have to deny the to wait until morning to view the walk on the water before, but I had ready sale at the elevator in the women the same right they de home of the Mormons. I owe much never seen the wind and water town. The farm extends for a mile m *nd for themselves. Even if but of my success in Salt Lake City to make such a fuss about it. I would east and west and is half a mile in one woman in the whole state o Dr. Leonard of Silverton, who, for like to see Christ walk on that width. The Prairie Ditch, which Oregon wants to vote, no man has several years, was a resident of the water. the right—the moral right—to say carries sufficient water to irrigate place and is quite favorably knowu It was late that night when I all the farms in the neighborhood, she shall not vote. I know that to many of the people. From reached the city, and next morning flows the full length of the south woman’s suffrage is a good thing in him I received some original aud found me on the road to Oregon. I line. Four shares of stock in the Colorado and Idaho, and it wil unique letters of introduction to only stopped when the train stop ditch belong with the farm and have a like effect in other states. several parties, at whose hands I ped, and lost no time in getting to The Liberal University possesses this affords plenty of water for ir received splendid treatment. Mes Portland. The trip across the des rigation. This is better than de- a farm in the me beautiful ucuumui San Luis ----- — ------ ert of Idaho was neither new nor valley, in southern Colorado, which pending on God to send rain. The srs. Clarke, Chapman and Rogers attractive. The Columbia river was given to the cause by Mr. Gris- ditch is taken out of the Rio are among the number whom I met. scenery is always new and attrac- wol I of Connecticut. Thinking ’ Grande river near Del Norte; and j Prof. Meakin, of whom I had heard