8 >O KXKXXXXXXXXXHXXX)<XXXX><) THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 24, 1900. The cost of living in the Willam ette valley is said to be less than in the Eastern States. Farming tools, etc., , are . perhaps . furniture, . . . r a little higher here than in manufacturing districts. We ought to make our own shoes, tan our own leather, TT < n. O li I Drt I: ci’/tij, mruitur *, tools, etc., and we will in time. And now we have a new element N E W S A N D NOTES. that is fast becoming a means of enslaving our people, it is that of )<KXXXXXX><XXX>0<>O<><X><><XXX><z t , . T u i u nt t personal aggrandizement of wealth, East Lynnel i t Liberal Hall! June ~ and it is to meet this great question 1, 1900! and successfully solve it, that many Strawberries and cream are be communications from God, and this 2!. r e l i g i o u s c r a z e , w i t h a d e s i r e to c o n - a r e d e v n r . - v A L r . - x Silverton is fast becoming strict q u e r the world, is what binds the attention. ly a Secular community. Help it Let u us, s , each and all, do our The W. S. S. C. closed its work people together. In them we have a along. for the season last Saturday even good example of physical and men share of this great work that is be We would be pleased to receive ing with a social at the home of tal slavery, and in the Liberals of fore us, and so prepare ourselves letters from all our friends once Mrs. Lou Ames. After the secre the world we find a good example of that we may enter upon the duty In our own beloved of playing our parts of the great tary, M. P. Hosmer, read the re freedom. each week. country before the Civil War there drama of life with our “lines com Mrs. H. C. Page and Mrs. M. P. port of the year’s work, an enjoya were many examples of the horrors mitted.” Hosmer are visiting relatives at ble program was rendered, consist ing of vocal and instrumental mu and cruelties of physical slavery, O h , F re e d o m ! u n d e r th y b r ig h t a n d jo y Zena this week. o u s ra y , sic and a short address by Prof. T. but the war did aw’ay with that and H. C. Page’s neat little cottage B. W akeman. Then came delicious left only the mental slavery, which, T h e tro u b le s of th e w o rld w ill p a ss a w a v . near the University grounds is near refreshments of ice cream and cake, though not so easily removed, is L ouie R auch . ing completion. and the good time closed with mu gradually giving way to the forces FREEDOM VS. SLAVERY. The Turn Verein of Portland sic, repartee and good will. The of Science and Humanity. Our main object is and ought to A free country, containing a free, made Silverton a big visit last Sun evening will long be remembered be to help the world by setting good happy, useful people, is one of the day. See editorial. by all. examples ourselves and by ac most beautiful things to be im Subscriptions to the Torch begin A blind friend in California quainting every one on every pos agined. to roll in now in good shape. Keep writes: “If you publish it in pam sible occasion with our views and Freedom and happiness go band them coming! phlet form (speaking of one of Prof. the light in which we stand, letting in hand, for without both mental New subscribers should me'ntion Wakeman’s lectures which had been the consequences be what they and physical freedom true happi the fact if they want “English Sec read to him), you may send me 25 may. ness can not exist. cents worth, and probably I will ularism” as a premium. Freedom, like the eagle which is order many more. I handed the S c ie n c e w , e th s ta e n tr d , u e fo u n d a tio n o n w h ic h I its symbol, soars above all else and It will almost break our “hearts” Torch to a news agent here. I am M u s t a n d s h a ll b e t a u g h t th r o u g h o u t is cherished in every clime by each if we can’t begin work on our build th e la n d . blind and poor, but am doing what man, woman and child, although ing again by June 1st. O llie K. G e e r . I can to further the cause of pro some there are so low in the scale We received a large number of gress and humanity as I see it. I of life that they have very little FREEDOM VS. SLAVERY. books for our library from the am heartily in accord with the Sec conception of freedom in its truest Freedom in ancient times was sense; yet even these enjoy a sort United States government this week. ular Union and its work. I keep almost entirely unknown, and in of freedom, though of a very differ Silverton needs manufactories. the Torch moving and it is well its stead there was slavery. The ent kind. To have enough to eat, There are many ways in which cap liked.” If all will do as much for inhabitants of the Nile valley sel to be able to exercise when they wish, to go when and where they ital can be invested to good ad the cause as this blind nobleman is dom, or never, enjoyed that ease of please, is all that is consistent with doing, we’ll see a wonderful victory vantage here. conscience and happiness that free their idea of freedom. They do not for Secularism even in our day. Everybody in Silverton (with few dom always brings us. They had know what mental freedom is. exceptions) are “praying” for Sec no eagle—the emblem of freedom— None would willingly be slaves, retary Geer and the cause for which Specim en E ssays by S tu d en ts of to look to and receive inspiration yet many consider themselves free, who in reality are not. They may the Liberal U n iversity. he is so nobly working. from; but, on the contrary, they have perfect physical freedom and were continually in fear of being yet he mental slaves, as many are While in Washington, D. C., Mr. We select for publication the fol tortured by their unmerciful mas today, whose minds are over Geer attended the meeting of the Secular Society of that city, and he lowing short essays from the ters; or, worse yet, of being made shadowed bv superstitions and dog late examination work. They were subjects of eternal tormeut to mas. The sooner these people can reports a rousing good time. give up the old ideas for those of appease the wrath of their gods. science, the sooner will they have The persons taking part in East written by members of one of the They were in a state of both and enjoy their full freedom. Lynne are devoting their entire rhetoric classes, from a simple out mental and physical slavery, the A new era of mental freedom is time to the play, and are doing all line given by their teacher, Mrs. M. dawning and it is our duty to help former being perhaps a greater within their power to make this P. Hosmer: misfortune than the latter, for the those who need help in every way celebrated drama a success. possible, for each in his own small FREEDOM VS. SLAVERY. physical forces are largely controll way can do a great deal to bring The drma at Liberal Hall Fri- Many are the beauties of a free ed and kept in harmony by the about mental as well as physical day evening, June 1, 1900, will be life, unhampered by superstition, mental forces, and if we can bring freedom, a source of education as well as e n - The minds of the free can soar like about freedom of the mind O , F r e e d o m ! m o re g lo rio u s t h a n a ll th e r e s t, tertainmeut. A ou cannot afford to the eagle, because they are not physical freedom will follow as a \ \ e love th e e w ith t r u e a n d p a tr io tic mi88 bound down by the fetters of ignor- matter of course. Then the first z e s t. L ora A mes . Fiue, large pictures of Robert G. ance an(i fear’ which aJways rob great struggle was to gain mental Ingersoll and Thomas Paine now nien ant^ women of their freedom, liberty. This was a long and hard decorate the walls of the L. U. O. ^ rfe ^rcc to study sci- struggle, and many of our greatest <XH><H>O<XXXXX><XXXXX) OOOOOO ( study room. Ours is the “only ence ^or ^ear °f finding something thinkers had to sacrifice their lives T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . school of its kind in the world”. which will destroy their faith in a for the cause and suffer every pos T h is is O u r B u ild in g Fund The general passenger agent of h6’, ^ 0" 8 a“SWer “1°! sible torture that their barbarous C o n trib u tio n Box. the Southern Pacific R. R. writes “ T man< 'n8tanCes Can be age could contrive. o <*< k ^ < x x x x x )< x x x x x x > o <> o < k > After an elapse of many ages a ns that he will soon make Silverton °f P°°r’ m'8'ed CreatUre8 wh° are thus afraid, yet claim to be as sufficient amount of mental free- v P r e v io u s ly a c k n o w le d g e d ___ $10.00 a visit, and will then discuss mat free as any one. dom was gained to cause the strug- & ters pertaining to their local agent’s The contrast between mental gle for physical freedom. conduct. slavery and mental freedom is as Then ensued innumerable wars, If every subscriber would write great as that between physical one of the last of which we had in W . A. C r o f f u t............................... $10.00 to us once a week it would help us slavery and physical freedom, but our own midst, when the negroes of much. Get the young people in- the world, unfortunately, cannot as America had gained enough men terested and have them write. It yet be made to see it in this light, tal freedom to excite sympathy in will be a benefit to them and keep In many foreign countries they have their behalf. Then took place a us from being lonesome during vaca- not half the freedom which we en- great struggle in which many of tion* joy, and it will probably be years our master intellects were sacrificed. < > < X X X X > < X K X X X X > < > < X X X X X > C h X > < < j i before they are brought to realize what great advantages our system of government gives. In Russia the power of the czar is absolute, and he is looked upon as being al most divine, i. e., as receiving direct