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About The Silverton journal. (Silverton, Or.) 191?-1915 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1913)
Down Breaks. j Friend Linscott on Socialism. gilVirtonJIournal from Every doing, time you do. or refrain Silverton, Ore., July 18, 1913. anything wrong, Editor of Silverton Journal: DOOMED TO A LIVING DEATH. Cottage Hotel F re noh Convict* L*av» Hope Behind When They Inter Cayenne. I understand the editor of the Cayenne- rod |>epper to the world at Published every Friday morning at just for the sake of business, you bell to tbe few thouaand of con- help push the whole world deeper Journal is a Socialist, which he large, Silverton. Oregon, by victo tramiported to thia taolated into hell. Principles should guide has a perfect right to be. If uortbeaateru corner of equatorial South J. E. HOSMER. Editor. men and women and not selfish this is true we wish to commend America Here. It waa rumored, dial ed one of the world'a moot antiquated Entered at Silverton. Oregon, poetoffiw business or love for money. You the editor on his good judgment and revolting |>eual eyatema. where at «»cond-cia«» rates. are in the world and if the world in not preaching radical nocialism. thouaanda of men are eitled and doom goes, you go. “It’s a goin’ all Preaching radical socialism does «d to* living death Men from French Subscription $1.00 a year In advance had lutimated comilitona which not only create uneasiness in the Guiana right D’ye get me?” Singla coplea 5 conte. vied with tbe crueltlea of tbe old con Statistics show that we are working ranks and unrest, but it vict ahlpa. ADVERTISING RATES. going wrong at a very rapid rate. poisons the minds of honest Groupe of convicta lounged about or Made known upon application lay alck and Incapacitated oo the ve How can we stop? Down breaks! working men towards honest ra udaa At night the barred Iron door employers. Any person with of each dormitory la locked, and out- When you w» • ml pencil mark around thia But how? apace you may know that your lime haa expimi Help the Silverton Journal to sound reason and judgment aide pacee a guard, revolver In band. and that we are aaktn* you to Bend or hand ua a Soiuetimee under cover of darkneea the survive the boycott so it can knows that such a change as Inmate» dollar. aettle feuda Occaalonally to continue to tell the truth. Help radical socialism can not be eatabllab Iceder» rival ganga light with I other forces at work to enforce brought about in a moment cudgela. knlvea and even pavlug atone» The Big Rush. other» dead, tbe moot the laws of this state. Read. While it is possible that many of Some dina bled, are reconciled and form a Last week in a little Wisconsin Get wise as to what are the real the planks of the Socialist plat Indomitable tyrannical aecret aoclety. Chippewa Valley community breaks on our downward course, form will prevail in the next Many a poor wretch dreada tbe there were five cases of destruc the upholders of good govern generation, it is absolutely fool night houra. and one auapected of In may be aet upon by an en tion by lightning. Most of the ment and right living, and throw ish to preach it in the radical forming rage«! pack Occaaionally murder la cases were animals killed in the your whole weight where it is ! form today. We must bear in committed In profound alienee, and Onda a dead or dying convict field, one being a horse worth needed. Down breaks! mind that it is not every work daylight In the paaaageway or entrance Quee $250.00. and one case was that of ing man that is a profound think tionlng la uaelemt, and few guarda will a house being partly wrecked Smile or Take a Chance. er, and they are easily led riak life I j entering the barrack* when I «mothered crie» and curalnga warn and a little baby violently thrown Did it ever dawn upon that estray and into misery and want them of Interual strife onto its head and almost killed. great mind of yours, dear reader, by the slippery-tongued agitators All the men I talked with were well Every summer, throughout the what an awful bunch of cowards who are invading the Pacific dlapoaed toward me. one In particular— whole Eastern, Northcentral we all are? Hold on, we didn’t | Northwest today. These agitators a tall, well educated man with a pair and Southern states one takes mean to say that—it may hurt | are a c‘ass of people who never of dark rimmed glaaaea and large eyee fearfully atralued through Inability to the big chance of destruction by our business, but then it's said! produced a dollar s worth of secure proper lenses. lightning. Here, in the Wil “You muat not loee hope." I told a and we can’t take it back, ye8j wealth in their life, and with I group and almoat ewallowed my own lamette Valley, there is but very cowards. We scarcely say any. their slippery, oily tongues and word» “Hopef burnt out th» rich, little danger of anything of the thing for fear it will hurt our|cunn’nK devices live from the tremuloua voice of the tall man. “It la kind ever happening. Beautiful business. And it does hurt bus-1 proceeds of honest toil. There always tbe name; there la no hope here.*' “No: no hope bereT waa the summers come and spring-like iness to tell the truth—just think ■ *3 n°t a man *n this state that echoed murmur of bta comrades — winters go, and there are no of it, great, beautiful, saving j has more respect for the true I Charlea Welllugton Furlong in Har tier*» Magazine storms to worry about or to destroy. 1 Why can’t the great, struggling mass of population east of the Rockies get it into their heads that it is for their advantage as well as ours for them to join us in building up this Home Valley of the Pacific? Perhaps it is because they are too busy dodging the lightning and shoveling snow to spend time in looking us up. But we are here anyway, a few more keep coming, and by and by, when the Silverton Commercial Club gets its moving picture machine on the road, there will be a rush Westward that will astonish the natives. Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! A Call For Recruits. truth. Crucify this most glori- eause of labor than the writer of ous principle or be crucified your- this article, but I believe that self. the agitators that are invading If one tells the truth about the I this country are a menace to the increase of crime, the whole cause and should be supressed by bunch of criminals are on the authorities of this state. his back. Speak of purity These agitators do not only place of character and every prosti the working man in a hard tute. male and female, are his position, but it is very embarass- bitter enemies. Try to point out ing to corporations and companies where the law is being disobeyed that are doing business under and every lawbreaker wants to our present social system. We break your head. Tell of politi do not want to imagine that the cal corruption, and every politi monied class are receiving all of cian and office seeker in the the happiness in the world. I land will show you up as the believe the captains of industry vilest thing that ever squacked. that are working their brain to Point to the fact that the child revolve our great commercial ren of Go(o)d are all divided up wheels are the most restless peo into war-like camps, parlying ple in the world today. We cannot give either class over silly, supernatural things, or the best methods to take their full sway. If we do we will fall. initiatory bath, and you are rele I believe if labor had full sway gated to the bottomless pit and it would be just as tyrannical in kept going lively in search of the its oppression as the greatest « money trust in the world, while bottom. on the other hand, if combined Well, it’s no wonder we’re capital is not rebuked, it would cowards. If you want to succeed and really get on in the world squeeze the life’s blood from you’d better be careful—just labor. smile and proceed to pick the This great question t>etween other “feller’s” pocket Of capital and labor is going to be course there are exceptions, and adjusted, and it is going to take if you wish to take a chance, men of great wisdom and right even on a small scale with that eousness to accomplish it When great brain of yours, at being a it is accomplished humanity will brave man or woman, after the be linked together with strong type of our immortal Lincoln, links of brotherhood, and the why just tell the truth and stay light of God will illuminate the with it, otherwise it’s better to horizon of the whole commercial stand in with the gang and boy- world, cott any “darned” fool thing E dwin A. L inscott . that comes in the way. Smile? Take a chance? 11 ■ ....... The intelligent wrong doers are such because they first did wrong ignorantly, and the con ditions were such that they con tinued, and then they concluded that everybody was against them, that they were naturally bad, that wrong doing after all was not wrong, that there was no use trying to be good, for it was too late for them, etc. But there is not an intelligent, live wrong doer in the world who can’t overcome every one of these false reasons and become active in the good work of mak ing a better world for ourselves and for our posterity. All have done wrong. There is not a person in the world who has not made mistakes. One of the worst mistakes is continuing in doing wrong until it becomes a ‘ Let ’Er Go.” bad habit. But even this bad Silverton, and a surrounding habit can be broken, and it is a country of exceptional productiv fact that all good people are not ity, all cut up into little homes, only anxious to help reform those with the aid of bicycles and who have “gone wrong,’’ but, motorcycles and automobiles, having made mistakes them and new roads and streets being built everywhere, and new rail selves, and understanding human roads headed this way, is one of nature, they freely forgive. the most wonderful places in the No sane person is naturally world, and it is having the most bad. We are all inclined to be wonderful growth of any country good, for all wrong emotions are under the sun. How many places there are that remain about the painful—that is why they are same for years and years, but wrong they injure us, and every this is changing for the better intelligent man and women who every day. But one of the very has had the advantages of our best things about it is that this modern society with its good fast blooming country has here tofore had a rather slow growth. books and papers and orators and This gives it a solid foundation, teachers knows the bad, and the different than many places that fact that in many cases the bad spring up in the night». We also faces a fight of conscience to the have better laws and better point of surrender showed that methods and means of enforcing laws, so that our progress, it was bad. There is always our which a few years ago would hope as long as there is life. have been considered a break Many of our greatest workers neck speed, is stable, although for good have come from the very rapid. As individuals we lowest ranks of wrong doers, and must learn to harmonize with the take advantage of the no matter what our sins have times, better methods, help to keep our been, it is a matter of common ship of state balanced, throw off sense for all to join together now “every weight, and the sin in this great twentieth century which doth so easily beset us,” world movement toward higher and the blood-sucking parasites have clung to our hull from and better things. We don’t uhat theputrid waters we have passed have to be perfect to enlist. ;h rough, “and let ’er go.” I Fall in! Do it now! Hurrah for Silverton! MRS. F. H. MINCERS. Prop. Home Cooking Meals 25 cents Booms 50c and up Board $1.25 per dan By the week $5.50 OREGON. * lHr<£IamF, I ’ (Jooliiw BANKERS SECURITY AND With resource* of over SIX DRED THOUSAND this bank is HUN DOLLARS, equipped to handle your business, whatever its require ments, and offers its service to in dividuals, firms and corporations. 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