Down Breaks.
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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!
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