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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1900)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, JA N U A R Y 18, 1900. other side to this question! H e told of his personal acquaintance N E W S AN D NOTES. mks . emily l . wakeman on “ the with Elizabeth Cady S tanton, and ) < X X X > -0 -0 < X X > < > < > 0 o o o o o o O O O O O O HISTORY OF WOMANS SUFFRAGE what a pity it is in his estim ation E xam inations all along the line and its future . th a t such women as she and the . n • < * i- speaker are not allowed to have a again this week. An unusually intelligent audi- » _ , , , , .. r , , 1-.oi . t •» i u n c vote. He told of his personal Business Manager Geer spent last enee was se e n at Liberal H all, b u n - , . . r n t, knowledge of the good effects of S aturday in P ortland. day evening, and an unusually in- W om an’s Suffrage in Idaho and teresting subject was up for discus- The fairest of w eather in Silver- sj(?n, Ope„ jng argum ent to he Colorado, and gave the audience to ton at this writing. made by a most capable person. It understand th a t he will cast his See “ TopHy T u rv y ” at Liberal was th e'first .im e a woman had ap. vote for woman ami her rights next June. He requested each voter to H all on the 27th. Dance after the P-a r“d »" a leadCT of lhe T h° " 8 bt ask tiimself this question when he play. . ., i s goes to the polls next J u n e : I f a H J The choir gave us the usual s e l- , 6 r . . . . . , • . woman wants to vote, have I a right Mias Mary Ch.ldera ,a do,ng ect.on of music which was excep- nQt?„ splendid work as S uperintendent in tionally sweet on this occasion, and J Mr. Lou Ames told of w hat he blended with what was to follow. the Prim ary D epartm ent. After listening to the reading of had read of woman voters being a Next week we will p rin t a letter the m inutes of the preceding m eet nuisance in Denver, but said he from G. J . Holyoake on the In g er ing, the audience was all attention hoped the am endm ent will carry in soll C hair proposition. and Pres. Brewer announced the Oregon next Ju n e, and he intends to vote for it. Prof. Cooley is now teaching the speaker and her subject. Adda D avenport-M artin asked There wrere no further prelim in L. U. O. band and orchestra and for some one to take the opposite the stu d en ts are taking great in aries, and the audience were glad side, but no one responded. of it, for they were there to hear terest. President Brewer announced in a M rs. W akem an on the subject th at We are having spring w eather in her m ental developm ent, her educa few well-chosen words th a t he will Silverton now and will soon w ant tion and her past life so well fitted vote for W om an’s Suffrage next to build again. Can you make it her to handle. She told of the June. Miss C lara W akem an pleased all m any trials and hardships of Eliz- possible for us to do so? ! abeth Cady S tanton, Susan B. An as usual by her well-chosen re The new workshop for the young thony and others in th eir first a t m arks and an appropriate q u o ta students is a grand addition to our tem pts to free woman from the tion from Ingersoll, which brought facilities and the little ones appre slavery which she seemed reluctant well-merited applause. Prof. Buff took m any notes and ciate it, too. to leave. T h at these two women finally arose to speak. His re Quite a q u a n tity of ripe raspber are still alive, and th a t they are m arks were local and som ewhat ries were exhibited by Prof. Buff able to see so much th a t they have personal. He told of the absurdity this week. The winters in Silver- accomplished is som ething unusual in the history of reforms. Mrs. of driving intelligent women away ton are very m ild. W akem an’s personal acquaintance from the polls to m ake way for M aster Sidney Rogers arrived with so m any of these bright wo drunken men. Prof. W akem an spoke by request, from M ercur, U tah , F rid ay evening men made her discourse all the saying th a t he did not want to and will be with us in the L. U. O. more interesting. the rem ainder of the year. We were told of the attem pt be m ake a fam ily affair of the m atter, fore legislatures and the struggles but the audience seemed willing Mr. John Scott is with us again, at the polls, and while the women for it to be a fam ily affair so long he having arrived on the noon train were generally baffled, still they as it was the W akem an fam ily, and from Spokane, W ashington. Jo h n ’s have won a m agnificent victory, ^ iey listened intently to what the m any friends are glad to see him and four States in the U nion allow Professor had to say. He did not back. women to vote. Oregon will put warm llP as on the former occasion The dram a “ Topsy T u rv y ” will herself on record one way or the when he had opposition on the be presented by home talen t in S il other next Ju n e. If every voter in spook question, but bis few convin- verton S aturday evening, J a n u a ry Oregon could have heard Mrs. cing rem arks were a su b stan tial 27. Admission 25 cents. No ex W akem an last Sunday, I doubt not backing to w hat Mrs. W akem an had the am endm ent would carry. W hile to say. tra charge for reserved seats. Mrs. W akem an then took a few the speaker did not get down into Prof. W akem an lectures in U ni the depths of the philosophy of m om ents to tell of w hat success the ty church, Salem, next Sunday W om an’s Suffrage (for th a t was not women have had in W yom ing, m orning and evening. Rev. W. E. her them e), still she gave the his- and other States, which is food for Copeland, the pastor, will speak be tory of it, and those connected with thought for the voters of Oregon, fore the Silverton T hought E x its early history, and a glimpse at She had no critics to answer, for change Sunday aud Monday even its probable future, in such a man- they all sided with her, and after ings. ner th a t the philosophy was plain- the meeting closed m any of those Miss W akem an returned from ly visible, and so convincing was who were supposed to oppose her Portland F rid ay evening. W hile ^er argum ent th a t not a person rem arked th a t they may vote for absent from Silverton she visited cou^(l l)e found in th a t vast audi- the am endm ent when th e time A storia aud the seaside. She is f ence who would argue against the comes. W ho is responsible for very favorably impressed with the 8Pea^er °f the evening. this declaration. I he w riter an- old Pacific, which she says is grand- ’ e a r^ • ^ eer was asked by some swers: “ Mrs. \\ akem au. er th an the A tlantic. one to ta ^e opposite for argil- The ladies’ trio gave us a splen- m ent’s sake, but he replied, on tak- did selection, and the president an- Mr. H arry T. S m ith, of New ing his place before the audieuce, nounced th a t Rev. W. E. Copeland, Y ork, writes: “ I am glad to hear th a t while he m ight be persuaded of Unity C hurch, Salem, will speak th a t you are doing so well with the for argum ent’s sake to take a side on “ V oltaire, Paine aud Ingersoll,” U niversity, and I think your ulti- opposed to his views on some sub- next Sunday evening. The audi- m ate success is certaiu. \ o u made jects, still on this subject bis con- ence was then dism issed, and m any a great stroke when you interested science would not allow it; and in the crowd were loth to go until the \ \ akem ans in the most up-to- even it it should allow -it, it would the speaker of the evening was per- date school in the country.” 1 still be impossible for there is no*sonally conngratulated. r. \v. u. )< h x >< x x >< x >< x x x ><>< x k x x ><><>< x >< x >^ ¡M i S ilv e rto n T h o u g h t Exchange. P rof. E rn s t Haeckel on Soul and Im m o r ta lity . C o ntinued from 5th page, when he reaches the moral and re ligious or higher n atu re of m an, in.-tead of pursuing the scientific m ethod, the only way of finding out tru th , as D arw in, H uxley and Haeckel did, drops th a t m ethod, and betakes him self to “ S p iritu a l ism ”. T his he does without reason, and under the influence of se n ti m ent as unscientific and ch ildi-h as was th a t of Sir Isaac Newton in dropping science for a lot of the wildest possible speculations on “ The Prophecies”. These are now rem em bered only as a contrast of the weakness of his sentim ental and religious, in contrast with the greatness of his scientific develop m ent. Indeed, no giant is great in science except as he adheres to its laws and m ethods of correlation, causation and verification. W ithout th a t the g ia n t’s great strength o n ly leads to a more hum iliating pros tration, as in the case of Newton and m any others we m ight name. In the presence of superstition the giant is perfectly powerless and prostrate. Therefore we say in re gard to Haeckel and all other sci entists, follow up the lines of the evidence and causation by which th eir conclusions are reached and sustained. T hat is the reason we shall p rin t more from Scientist Haeckel and others on this subject, all of which will be noteworthy. Indeed, the evidence from correla tion in the physical sciences is a b solute dem onstration. By w ay of contrast let us refer to a late work by H enri C onstant, a French “ philosopher” of a type quite the reverse of the French and G erm an scientists, Topinard and Haeckel. Our friend, Mr. D. E. Sw ank, had very likely seen this work of Constant, if not he would probably at first be delighted to find one who has said “ his own good things before him ,” but on second th o u g h ts he m ight realize the u tter folly of trying to found the hum an future upon sentim ental im aginations, from the scientific point of view as wild and ground less as the tales of the A rabian Nights. J u s t sample ar.d question a specimen. Here it is: — “ When the soul has acquired in one w orld(?) the sum of progress (?) which the state of th a t world ad m its (? ), it departs to be in c a rn a t ed (?) in another world more ad vanced, w’here it acquires new know ledge; and in as much as now the incarnation in a m aterial body is no longer useful to it, it lives an entirely sp iritu al [?] life. There it progresses in another sense and by an o th er means [?]. A rriving at the culm inating point [? J of progress, it enjoys suprem e felicity [?], having been adm itted into the counsels of the A lm ighty.” [?J “ The soul has a fluid body (?), the substance or eseence of which is draw n into the universal cosmic fluid (?) form ing and nourishing it (?) as the air forms (?) and n o u r ishes the m aterial body. This state of the soul is more or less eth er eal (?), according to the worlds in which it finds itself, aud the degree of its purifictaion. (?) Look a t poor In d ia and see what the effect of this “ Asiatic mildew” is upon this world. Unless evolu tional altru istic Science can dissi pate this egoistic fog, w hat hope is there for m ankind on this E arth? T. B. W.