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
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mks . emily l . wakeman on “ the with Elizabeth Cady S tanton, and
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HISTORY OF WOMANS SUFFRAGE
what a pity it is in his estim ation
E xam inations all along the line
and its future .
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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
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goes to the polls next J u n e : I f a
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woman wants to vote, have I a right
Mias Mary Ch.ldera ,a do,ng ect.on of music which was excep-
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splendid work as S uperintendent in tionally sweet on this occasion, and
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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.”
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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.