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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,
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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
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personal aggrandizement of wealth,
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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
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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
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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
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the Southern Pacific R. R. writes “ T
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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
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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.
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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