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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1900)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, AUGUST 16, E. M. 300 (1900.) 6 Travels: Astoria and the Astors. iu the upper part of New Y orkj be with his salary of $10,000 a year it fore il can be occupied it m u.l be , , laid out and improved by a boule- BY T. B. WAKEMAN. ----------- vard along the “ knob” or crown of 11 was decided that Mr. and Mrs. the elevation with parallel, ter- T. B. W akem an ought to become raced avenues, and cioss-street« in- better acquainted with Oregon <lur- tersecting iron, the ba J over to the I h is up the Columbia to The Dalles, ar.d then returned to P ortland, and thence home by a sail up the \\ ill- am ette. The thing th a t impressed us most tiers, for they have not the m eans; the state and general governm ents have not the power to m ake such special im provem ents. The best positions for our great cities must |jk e Rockefe| | er couid be in- creased, and he could give more i \ / \ / g - f c jg i^ n O P 3 n C 6 money to a church, or hire another iirJ o C r i rr* A professor to experim ent upon «iiid , , _ t . But spf speak >»g H a b it, 2 n d N a tu re teac^ theories. But from in all ail this tm s country, c o u n t r y , aside a s iu e .r u m the mv great variety and beauty of th e scenery and the productiveness of land and w ater (fishery), was the great capacity of the country for 8 vo, J im provem ents, which m ust come in time. Some of these im provem ents, like break-waters and river-locks, will be made the State or N ational Governm ents. But not a few m ight be made worthy m onum ents of in- dividual beneficence. The develop m ent of the locations for the cities which sre to come are among these, This th o u g h t cam e up at A storia, theu lost they ar- m e n be oe to s t u unless n ie s » m e y a are .e ar- ranged and prepared for settlem ent by indiv id u al munificence. In Europe, Peter the G reat could build his great city as the o u tlet of as we stood ou its tongue of land which extends for several miles out into the beautiful bay, which is the inner side of the m outh of the Col- um hia— there some twelve miles in w idth. On the southerly side of th is tongue of land lies Y oung’s River, a fine in lan d stretch of water opening up access to the inland roads and railroads of the State, in clu d in g the roads to Seaside and th e ocean beaches. This location was selected by John Jacob, the founder of the A stor faaiily, as the place where the great city of the great river of the W est was to grow up in the future. But it has been outgrown by the later- discovered San Francisco, and th e Puget Sound cities of S eattle and Tacoma, and even the W illam ette VaTley city of P o rtlan d . Y et the A storians still dream th a t their city m ust have a great future. For th a t is the n atu ra l point of distribution of the commerce of W estern inland America and the vast Pacific, w ith its countless m ultiplicities of trade, ’ No o ther city can have th at and also have the m ighty Colum bia back of it, with its thousands of pire of a great people. Suppose the Astor family had followed the in itiativ e of their ancestor in real- izing his suggestion of a great city at the m outh of the C olum bia? It was the fur and oriental trade from this coast th a t became in 1811 the beginning of their for- tune The city of New York has increased their investm ents to a fabulous sum. Instead of expend- ing it in London in ways th a t can only b r in g dubious honors to an A m erican, would it not be in every way appropriate for a fraction of th a t fortune to return to its birth- place? W ould not the honorable connection of the A stor nam e with the great city of the West he the best assurance of its fitness to live through the countless generations who would thus be com pelled to remember it— and with sentim ents allied to g ratitu d e? H ave we not in city p lanting and im proving of this kind a new way of achieving th a t “ earth ly im m o rta lity ” which the greatest oi the hum an race have “ hungered and thirsted after,” toiled and battled for, through the ages? miles of productive inland navi- ----------------- . • . fishe rie s a n d of J Man , in Sm all _______ . B usin ess. President Harper, of the Rocke- lu m b e r in te re s ts , fe lle r U n iv e r s ity but of those who thus use it but few live there, and the city itself has but a slow grow th, which makes it often the b u tt of ridicule to its u p start rivals. The reason why is plaiu _ . ... .1 vt’ 1- a It is like the W ash ington w. level ,kl_ ous to increase it, uo as u he ft rn; m ight do [ an em pire on a B altic sw am p; F rederick the great did the sam e ou the sand dunes of the Spree, but we have no em peror, as yet, ready to place the m etropolis for the vaster em pire of the Colum bia at its m outh. Il m ust be done by some A m erican who has the m eans and the will to identify his name and fame with the com m ercial eno- gation, now to be com pleted by ^¡g the river locks a t T he Dalles. Astoria is now the center of large n 6 not IS A BOOK O F . . . if all workingmen and their fam ilies would consum e only 15 cents’ worlh of food per day each. If the food of a fam ily of five can be pro cured for 75 cents a day, and equal ¡ ^ j ^ r n y is exercised in o th e r' di rections, and the wife and children earn a pittance whenever they are able to do so, a man ought not to ^ j ^ X c o m ^ ' o F p'hllantY /opIstli . is RIGHT LIVING enough to he laid out by the eircu- lation of the cows, as was the case with the older cities of New York and Boston. It requires hum an genius, foresight, skill and money to lav the foundations of a great city on lands th a t are not suitable for a cow pasture. This great work cannot be done by the early set- . la n d It ing this sum m er v a c a tio n . So a little over a week has been spent in a trip from Silverton to P ortland, a n d from there to A storia at the m outh of the Colum bia. Thence a visit down to Seaside, the watering- place most frequented by the Ore- gonians. H aving thus paid our respect to the one boundless ocean on our planet, we m ade a voyage . riv e r. <•<>« necessary iu hi» case. may be th at .P resid en t H a rp e rs theory a n ij experim ent have been gUggeBtec| by Mr. Rockefeller, who thinks ordinary workingmen are paid too high wages. His own in- X T a 'x i - ’ of C hicago, is of the opinion th a t a person can live com fortably so far as food is con- cerned, on 15 cents a day, ajid th a t ^or a ^ m ily of five persons < 5 c^nts tarperà ex p erjment> anf] experiment> an(J the the theory theory which it is expected to uphold, are very sm all, “ m easly” business for a m au in his position. W hen th e lo-eent- a ']a y men become lu m in o u s in , this country, it will not be n t for a (kcent 8elf respecting man or woman to live in. President Hi H ar- per would be in far better and more useful business if he were tr y ing to better the condition of work- "7", 7 ,^ ^ | th» m how they c((u|d obtllin lnl)re comfort, and light, and sweetness and pleasure iu life, ra th e r than how they could live on 15 cents a jjay. [P o rtlan d (O re.) Evening Tel egra I I I I I O V U U l l l i y « IV W i l l ••V rV — On th e follow ing and k in d re d S u b je cts: S e lf C o n tro l S e lf R e s p e c t W h a t is M o r a lity ? p o |jte n e s s W is d o m * © t C . , 6 *tC . One of th e se c h a p te rs is W o rth m o re to Y oung an d old th a n th e P riee of th e book. V P ractically speakiug, ail the col- leges and universities of the world had become eith er Rockefellered institutions, big-salaried, political prizes, or fanatical, religious houses for the propagation of absurd, dog- m ade, unscientific, m ind-destroy- ing creeds. For years the best in terests of civilization had de- tnanded a “ luo” university. At last it came, and is here to stay! And while circum stances force those whose whole lives are bound up in the work of building this forerunner School of F reeth o u g h t to subsist on the R ockefeller-H ar- per 15 c e n ts per day, tiie tim e is com ing when an em ancipated edu- cation will rapidly establish at) economic, political and religious equilibrium which will give the people of the world the golden streets of equality on which to build their beautiful earth ly p ara dise. Dear reader, read the above 15-cent story again and think. Is not our work of building the L ib eral U niversity the greatest, the grandest undertaking of the age?— [ E d . S ecularists wduld you not like to have some letterheads printed with Secular sentim ent and W ettstein’s F reethought badge, to use in corre- spondence with your friends? We will furnish them to you with your nanie an<i address printed on them . ' table, and announces that he'is go- 75 enough. j nK to prove this theory bv per- or for n • v* ' i r i 1 . i , i i H eights sonal experim entation — though ¡th e people know S ix t y E x c e lle n t C h a p te r s . . IT SHOULD BE IN . . EVERY HOME! $ 0 O o . ® S ® ® ® a n d re c e iv e a popy p p s t e lo th - A G E N T S W ANTED. -A D D R K S8- ^ © p g^ © f j^ e g g © © O regon . S iL VERTON . F o r s t n e r ’ s. ir IS INVALUABE TO C a r p e n te r s a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g , such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak e s th e place of chisel aiid gouge; to C a b in e t M a k e rs , for in la id w ork, dow- elling, p atch in g , rem oving sp lits and k n o ts. In fact, no W a g o n o r P a t t e r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r e r of pianos, o rg an s, sew ing m ach in es, ag ric u ltu ral im p le m e n ts, sash, b lin d s, fu rn itu re , n o r Any o t h e r W o o d w o rk e r, sh o u ld be w ith o u t it. AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED. 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