enue and to awe the credulous
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Socialism and Romanism.
human family to the severest
into submission and obedience,
test of the ages. Great ma­
L. D. RATLIFF.
chines, owned by a few, turn “Socialism is an enemy of the Church the purveyors of salvation ex­
Published every Friday morning at out great quantities of product* and opposed to Religion.”- A Chorus tended their jurisdiction into the
Stiverton. Oregon, by
realm beyond the grave, invent­
today. The individual with old- of Holy Catholic Prelates.
Whether this Holy Judgment ed a system of incantations for
J. E. HOSMER, Editor.
time methods is being shut out
MRS. b'. H. MINGERS. Prop.
from the race of production. is correct depends upon the point the dead, created a purgatory of
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•pace you may know that your time ha* «Mpirvd
brain and brawn counted for Christianity was Democracy and into the grip of the priest. Then
and that wo ar* aakinc you to «end or hand u> a
dollar.
success, it is money that counts Brotherhood. It was featured in the doctrine of “Indulgences”
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today, and these old-time powers Common Ownership and Co-op­ a money measure for sin. Even
The Gods’ Return.
must be used to secure big profits eration. It was on this basis the priest does not have to be
’Twas free debate and oratory inspired for the other fellow who has that Jesus put forth the doctrine moral his Holy Church relation
With public good. the civic mind had been born rich, oi, by accident of a “Kingdom of Heaven on makes valid his act remitting
fired.
or otherwise, come into posses­ Earth.” Jesus’ primary object sins. Many of the popes were
That made of ancient Greece the won­
was the Social Salvation of the devils; some guilty of every
sion of a “big wad.”
der of the world
world. This was possible only crime; but the Holy Church de­
There
is
no
one
on
earth
with
A nd o’er the mighty nations her flag of
any sense who will not agree on the basis of Democracy, ex­ crees them all alike “Holy and
progress furled.
And when we wake, in larger day and that conditions are much changed pressed in mutually useful ser­ Infallible” which shows that
and that it is necessary for so­ vice on the part of all. The Re­ goodness is not essential even in
realm.
•r
With that sweet goddess. Justice, at ciety to change, and for success­ ligious background to which he an Infallible Vice-Deity. Thus,
the helm;
ful individuals to change, in or­ appealed was Social Justice. The logically, may every member of
When private greet! and lust give way
der
to meet the requirements of prophetic vision of Jesus’ mother the Sacred Hierarchy from the
to public weal.
tne
general
change. The people saw the people of low degree ex­ Pope down to the common priest
And every man the larger, broader
of this century must change alted, those of high degree be a devil while they yet per­
good can feel.
Oh, then relate, ye page of holier worth, their ways or be knocked in the brought down, the hungry tilled form their holy work remitting
A mighty brotherhood did cover all the head like a fool bird who has with good things, the rich sent sins and relieving sinful souls in
earth.
never heard of a hunter, or hide empty away. “A rich man can purgatory! Let him believe in
That cast the ancient nations ’ever in their heads in the sand and be no more enter the kingdom of the system who can. I am con­
the shade.
With resource* of over SIX HUN­
captured for the world's histori­ heaven,” said Jesus, “than a cerned only with the nature of
And of this lovely planet a home for
camel
can
go
through
the
eye
of
the
despotism
and
its
effect
upon
cal
menagerie.
gods was made.
DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS,
The struggle has produced a needle.” When a rich man social and political life.
thi* bank is equipped to handle
many kinds of humans some came to him asking how he could
In Jesus’ time the Roman oli­
An Unsnlvable Puzzle.
your butine**, whatever it* require­
fitted for this change and com­ enter into life, Jesus told him to garchy was the supreme de­
The craziest puzzle in the work ing fight and some to be knocked give what he had to the poor structive power of the world.
ment*, and offer* it* service to in­
is the one that the majority ol out and to become extinct In and de-class himself. The agri­ It consisted of the union of the
dividual*, firm* and corporation*.
people seem to be trying to solve. order to become one with char­ cultural magnate who would exploiters of a thousand centers
It is how to talk right and act acteristics fit to survive, the juild greater barns for his of population. It held a hun­
right so as to make friends! ?) young man and young woman of products was called a “fool.” dred million slaves, and had the
OFFICERS
out of the opposing factors in so­ today should study well the The rich man at whose gate the vast populace always on the
ciety. This is probably because kinds of men and women in the jeggar got his food was sent to verge of ruin. Everywhere men
Eva Coolidge, Pres.
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of commercialism and the sel­ world, the system that has pro­ “hell.” Private riches come by were being sold into slavery for
A. F. McClainc, Vice. Pres.
fish, deceptive lesson it has duced them, and the probable robbery, by theft, or by grinding debt, and their wives and daugh­
F. E. Callister, Cashier
ground into the minds of all result We have men and women the poor. They represent injus­ ters taken for the use of the
HH Ed. R. Adams, Ass’t Cashier
classes.
M. G. Gunderson, Asst. Cashier
who are workers for higher and tice. Moreover, riches are di­ Roman masters. On every high­
The purpose of this article is better things, students of Soci­ visive in society, which is con­ way the bodies of slaves dangled
to point out the evil of trying to ology sailing under different ban­ trary to the spirit of Democracy. on Roman crosses. But Rome
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do this and also the remedy, If ners, but all trying to bring Jesus was charged, and rightly was not yet at her worst. She
one starts in to solve this puzzle, about the proper adjustment of so, with “stirring up the peo­ had been going down the tobog­
he or she is sure to be known as things in some way or other. ple.” His appeal was to a world gan slide of wickedness and cor.
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in the world, self respect.
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The woods are full of just such and all sorts of products of the and treason, a charge that, in in hand the interpretation and J
creatures, and many of them are old system of individualism.
effect, was true: For denouncing direction of Christianity. Rome
beyond help. But the man or The following, clipped from an private wealth and calling the was not Christianized—she went f
SALEM, ORE.
woman who wants to be really exchange, tells the story of one masses to Democracy was, in­ on to the devil. Christianity
and European Plan
All g<xxl outside r<x»ms
and truly happy, even in the kind of human that will probably deed, treason against a military was Romanized —took on the na­ I American
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ture and spirit of Rome. Then
pain, imprisonment and death, coming, and with it we will close
MRS. MAE IVIE, Proprietor
At first the working class dom­ followed centuries called the
must learn to be “out and out this attempt, hoping that some inated and directed the Church. “Dark Ages,” in which the
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what he or she is.” It is always of our young people will profit She was persecuted by the grind­ world was intellectually and mor­
best to be slow in expressing by the account and be prepared ing masters, but she grew to im­ ally dead under the reign of a
one’s opinion until thoroughly for the change now taking mense proportions and became a debased religion. Not a scien­
convinced that it is really one’s place, which will surely elimin­ disturbing menace to the ruling tist or independent thinker was
opinion, but when once con­ ate those who are not fitted for oligarchy. Thon she was cor­ permitted to live. Priestly of­
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vinced, all the big ones on earth, I he new order of things when rupted by ambitious bishops, per­ fices went to the highest bidder.
Manufacturers of
and in other places, should not “work and worth go hand in verted from her original charac­ Indulgences were sold to the
swerve us, without reason, from hand”:
Artificial Stone and Marble
ter, captured by the ruling people for money, or for service
our position or scare us from its At Atlantic City a funeral pro­ masters, finally annexed by a in killing heathen and heretics.
advocacy at any and every reas­ cession was halted at the en- crafty ruler, and was forthwith The Church extended herself
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onable opportunity. And this is rance to Pleasantville cemetery. made a part of a military des­ meanwhile by the butchery of
colors or designs. Counter tops for Butchers, Confectionary,
the way the world must advance. The chief mourner was wealthy potism. From an -economic re­ millions of people, and made
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BroLhers and sisters in the Mrs. Catherine Carter, of Mem­ volt inspired by religion, Chris­ converts by the use of every de­
nickel plated rims to protect edges.
cause of progress, speak out now phis, and the departed was her tianity was turned into a religion vice of torture known to the
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tial bravery in other men will permit,” chorused a group of sacrifice which, by a sort of In 1864 Most Holy Lord Pope
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rise to meet with yours to drive waiting cemetery officials.
priestly magic, can be repro­ Pius IX, infallible by decree of
the darkness of ignorance, super­ Mrs. Carter was indignant. duced at any time for the living Most Holy Roman Catholic
stition, selfishness and hypocrisy She gazed with eyes blurred with or the dead.
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she made of herself an absolute ligious liberty and the separa­
dulged in lifelong practices The procession wheeled about despotism, created a Vice-Deity tion of church and state; assert­
which, in a more sane age, will and returned to the Hotel Iro­ for her head and clothed him ed the infallibility of the Pope,
look very, very silly, 'Tis said quois, where Mrs. Carter will with authority to declare the the exclusive right of Romanism
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the sand, and a sort of partridge fuse sepulchre to a feline of ped­ of the Church order is a series non-Catholic religion, the power
of the far north will stand per­ igree and position.
of despots, ranging from the of the’ Roman church to coerce
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fectly still and let the huntei
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