Œbr Silerton Jhurnol
Bubll«b«d every Friday morning at Silverton. Oregon, by
J. E. HOSMER. Editor.
ICntared at the poatoffice at Silverton. Oregon,
at second-claw rates.
Hubacription, 11.00 per year, in advance. Single
copies. S cents.
Advertising rates marie known upon applica*
tion.
This paiwr stands for freedom of thought, free
dom of lha press, freedom of speech, equality of
opportunity and the religion of righteousness. It
is radically opposed to every form of superstition
and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form
of evil.
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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!
N THE LIGHT of facts now in our possession, we call on you, O.
S. B.’s, to give one reason why you should not I m ? married, like
other men. If you are living as you pretend, lives of celebacy
and purity, we will never print another word against your
religion!?) or practices. Come now, show up or admit by your
silence that you are living lives of fraud and animalism. We de
mand unconditional surrender! Disband at once! Go to work!
l^et the sisters find honorable homes. This is the twentieth cen
tury, and we, the people, must be free, and your black institution
stands in the way. You can’t escape! Surrender or we’ll fire!
I
tactual sandhogs. We can’t stand the light suddenly, All of us die
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too yqtyng. Most of us have the "bends/*
__ 2 some of those of
and
Silverton
who
can't
get
’
em
here,
go
to
Mt.
Angel and “get on a
bender. »» ”
The saloon system, the white slave trade, the religious, Ix'gging
and robbing institutions who for a price mumble a few magic
words in God’s name to keep you out of purgatory, the asylums,
the penitentiaries, our fake courts of justice and our ever-increas
ing. politically-earned offices, our great concentration of wealth
and our rapid multiplication of poverty's victims, idl show that we
are sandhogs. How can we get over these social afflictions, these
bends? How can we really become civilized?
If we could learn to live and work above ground, in the open,
clear sky of honesty ; if we could work out of secrecy, trickery, and
selfish, hoggish individualism, we would certainly get over the
"bends” and build a different civilization. The world waits the ma
jority to say "1 will” in a united, unselfish, intelligent, forceful, co
operative, fraternal, yet unconquerable direction. The best think
ers and actors in this drama of life are now very busy, and as we
witness their splendid zeal, and see the gleam of hope in their in
telligent eyes, we nerve ourself to the task, and, seizing the pump
handle of our free press (our pencil) we send forth this jet to help
save ourself and our fellow sandhogs from the flood.
“Competition in the means of life is war;’’ "war is hell,
union there is strength.”
PRIESTS’ CARE VS. TRUE LOVE.
SECURITY
PROMPT
AND
EFFICIENT
SERVICE
are the
Watchwords
of
Is your money working for you?
We pay interest on Time Deposit*.
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HE FOLLOWING, from the Oregon City country, shows how
foolish some parents are. Think of giving a daughter into
AFTER THE BATTLE.
the clutches of the devil of Catholicism rather than to let
OFFICERS
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her be true to a sweetheart and love and live her natural
HE BEST THING about this Catholic fight of our is that we life. Here is the newspaper account :
Eva Coolidge, Prêt.
tèiè
will not lose out by our friends forgetting us after the law
“The course of true love never did run smooth, according to H.
k. F. McClaine, Vice. Proa.
suit battle, which is now on, is over. They are not made of Walker, who has discovered that Mrs. George Nadeau is planning
F. E. Calliater, Caikier
that kind of stuff. If the interest in our paper was to sud to send her daughter, Donalda, 16 years old, away to a convent in
Ed. R. Adami, Aaa’t Cashier
denly stop after the suit, the Catholics would have gained a vic order to break up the elopement plans that the two have been
M. G. Gunderson, Asst. Cashier
tory, even if they did not win the suit, for we would surely die. harboring for the past few months.
Our friends know this and that this is all the hierarchy has want
“Donalda is a pretty little dark-haired, dark-eyed girl of
ed. They want to crush us, and, if by loading us down with law charming ways. For some time the two have been planning to
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suits and the debts that lawsuits bring, our paper becomes bank confer with the county clerk about the marriage formalities, it is
rupt, then they will have won out after all. We do not believe our said.
friends will forsake us in principle, nor do we fear that they will
“The parents of the girl have objected, it seems, and lielieve
forget us long enough for the enemy to boycott us out of business. that he plans to kidnap the girl some night when she can steal
Single Meal 25 renta
And this is written this early to put our whole army of workers on down a ladder into his waiting arms and dash away to the home of
RtMinis 50 eta and up
their guard. Our success, our very life, depends on our friends’ a minister, where the knot can be tied.
activity,not on the lies of our enemies. The American patriots in
“In order to prevent this little plan, the mother today tried to
their home cities, towns and country districts will not allow our take legal steps to stop the romantic youth, who is himself not of
work to stop after the trial, whether we win or lose, and thus our age. She was told, however, that the law does not prevent young
work will not have been in vain.
men and maidens from contemplating elopement and that she
SALEM, ORE.
This Roman enemy of a free press started in to kill us off. They could do nothing until after the act was committed. In order to
will not be allowed to do it. A word to the wise is sufficient get around the new problem that now confronts her, the mother
/ American and Eurtqiean Plan
All good outside nx>ms
Friends on the firing line, we look to you.
seems to have decided upon sending the girl to a convent, where
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bolted doors and high fences will keep out the romantic fancies of
the two until they forget their elopement plans.”
THE CARDINAL GIBBONS GIFT
J
MRS. MAE IVIE, Proprietor I
If these young people were allowed to marry, it would l>e far
ERO WORSHIP is bad enough when the hero is a real hero, less wrong than to imprison one of them and ruin the lives of both.
but when a man stands for the worst tyranny on earth, They are the best judges of their love and if the parents had the
when he is one of the main factors in robbing the workers good sense to be friends to both parties, outside help, as a rule,
IRL B. LYONS
of the fruits of their toil, when he stands for the same old would not be necessary, and in extreme cases, our public institu
false doctrines and stultifying superstitions of the past, dark and tions are far less dangerous than the priest slave pens of iniquity
evil ages, when he is an enemy of American principles—it is time where indeed the sweetest "romantic fancies” of life are too often
for every patriot to frown down, talk down, write down and knock crushed out and the poor victims put forever beyond any possible
down the false and foolish popularity and worship, worked up by notion of elopement.
1 handle Mueller Brass G cmx I s , Standard Enamelware
No true parent, with a knowledge of what the Catholic priest
the knights of the traitorous hierarchy.
Hydraulic
Rams, Pneumatic Water Systems. 1 can
The newspapers all over the country are boosting for this ig hood really is, could thus forever damn “a pretty little dark-haired,
make
it
worth
your while t<> see me alwiut your
norant, superstitious old deceiver in such a false and silly fashion dark-eyed girl of charming ways.” Help the girls and boys to have
HOP DRYER PIPES
that it makes a white man almost ashamed of his country. And self-respect and self-control. Help them to know how to find their
then, when a fellow who is working with all his might to advance own life partner, and then no prison will ever lie necessary and
Succeaaor to
J. H. DAVENPORT
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the principles of true Americanism, and is worrying over the awful much less a priest-prison, with bolted doors and high fences, the
expenses and the cowardice of those who could help themselves, keys of which are in the hands of worse enemies than youthful
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JOBING A SPECIALTY.
help us and help the great cause of liberty so much by advertising iovers.
in our paper—then when we read that Cardinal Gibbons, the false
old faker, gets a $500,000 gift from the Knights of Columbus, it
THE PRIESTS’ ARROGANT AUDACITY.
makes us sick.
We want to build a university in Silverton, a school in which
IF YOU THINK OF BUYING A MOTORCYCLE SEE THE
HESE ROBBERS OF WIDOW’S and orphans, these divine( ?)
the students will be taught to think for themselves. We have the
fakers,
these
pious
beer
guzzlers
and
wine
bibbers
are
the
ability to build such an institution, one that will send out young,
most audacious set of hold-ups on earth. Think of these
FOUR CYLINDER HENDERSON
active men and women, equipped with the weapons necessary to
men, whom we know to l>e immoral, teaching morality.
kill off the enemies of Americanism. The writer has graduated in
You can get a demonstration by seeing
a scientific school for teachers and has several titles of far more Think what the temperance forces have to contend with in them
in
trying
to
blot
out
the
awful
saloon
evil.
Think
how
they
pretend
practical weight than cardinal. Among these is B. S. D., which
“SHORTY” AT THE BILLIARD HALL
means scientific teacher. Add to this eighteen years experience in to know all about the nine classes of angels, holy spirits, the future < ►
the school room, as good recommendations as the country affords, life and everything, when the fact is that they are simply using all 1♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦>
and habits that draw the line on the right side of all stimulants and this as a patent medicine faker does his lingo to rob the people of
narcotics, and why can Cardinal Gibbons get $500,000 to use for their money Think of their telling young jieople to be good when
promoting a false education, a blighting superstition and a de they are so corrupt themselves.
Dear friends of truth and right, if we live, definite charges will
grading stultification while our ideas of freedom of thought, scien
tific truth, the cultivation of the higher faculties and the religion be made against these “bad actors” as fast as we can get to them.
Their present tactics of holding a $50,OOH suit over us and thus
of righteousness must go begging?
PUT UP IN POUND PA KAGES
• Listen! The Catholics had secured pledges enough in Silverton keeping us from doing anything, will not last much longer. The
Four quires to a pound.
to warrant them in buying the university building that was prac time of this term of court has l>een extended and they may yet
tically stolen from the writer. They had an option on this building have the case set for trial, but whether they do or not, we will "hew
ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
and were going to start a hospital here, as an opening wedge. A to the line and let the chips fall where they may.”
Envelopes to match. 2 pkgs, for 25c.
few weeks ago we hit the proposition a slight jolt. Do you notice
When the right time comes we will definitely name the men and
that the deal is all off ? Can’t you guess why ?
the women who are criminals, and their crimes will make our
Ifi.'l Commercial
Now is our opportunity. How would it do to build an anti printing the sworn statement of a Christian preacher look like the
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Catholic institution here? There can be no compromise. If we old New England crime of kissing your wife on Sunday.
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have any at all, it must be Catholic or anti-Catholic. Let’s build a
So, St. Joseph’s Blatt, remain quiet. Say nothing sister. Dear
non-seclarian, protesting, liberal, anti-Catholic, patriotic univer holy father, counsel patience. But don’t forget that we know how
sity. Give us the money and we will save America. The writer to play this waiting game also. Your long-time-practiced trick of
will give his life. What will you give?
“hide-and-go-seek” won’t win out in this case, for we’re on to you,
MEETINGS EVERY SUNDAY AT 2:30 P. M.
Shall we name the institution “The Patriotic University?” If and the holy humbugs of your so-called church, as well as your
you are interested, please write to us at once. If we have any crimes, are going to be exposed P. D. Q.
foresters ’ hall opera house building .
encouragement, we will start “The Patriotic University Fund”
next week? Who will start it?
There is quite a difference between a “free press” and a slave
We must meet Romanism now with modern weapons or it will
crush the very life out of everything that true Americans hold press. A free press is open for the fair discussion of all questions
of interest to the public. Some narrow-minded people do not like
most dear. “The night cometh when no man can work.”
to give other people the same chance that they want for them
The Program for Next Sunday.
selves, but broad-minded people are not afraid of other people’s
ARE WE AS A PEOPLE REALLY SANDHOGS?
opinion, if they themselves are given the same privilege of express
Opening Song.
ing theirs. The Silverton Journal numbers among its best friends
Roll ('all with voluntary quotations.
HE TW’ENTIETH CENTURY civilization is not perfect by many people who disagree with the editor on different vital issues,
Music.
any means. There are a great many things that are just but the principle of liberty of thought and of the freedom of the
Address—“The Root of All Evil.”
awful, and perhaps those known as Sandhogs furnish us as press is so basic that sensible men or women can not afford to be
Questions.
good an example of what our greedy contract system has personal enemies inside of its protecting folds. The real enemies
Solo.
brought us to as anything we can find. These workers go way of our movement, our paper and of our person will be found, when
Voluntary five-minute addresses.
down into the earth and excavate for building foundations to large examined carefully, to be enemies of these American principles.
Social
time.
bridges, such as span our mighty rivers. The dangers are many. Dear reader,-do not expect that what our paper contains from week
EVERYBODY
WELCOME. COME!
Any little accident may mean immediate death. The air has to lie to week will exactly agree with your ideas. Its columns are open
supplied artificially. The water has to be pumped out as the to all, and any Catholic, Socialist, Anarchist, Buddhist, Moham
work is carried on. The pressure becomes so great that the worker medan, Christian, Republican, Prohibitionist, saloon keeper or can
would die if taken to the surface of the earth suddenly, and as it is, nibal is welcome to express his or her ideas. The editor has very
Cut thia out, alini «nil »end to the Swty. J. E. Blazer. Silverton, Oregon
none of them live very long. A large number of these under definite opinions of his own, but he is. anxious to know the truth
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ground workers are afflicted with what is known as “bends.” This and is willing to listen to the other fellow. Ix?t us be broad-minded
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disease is a sort of cramping, over-powering affliction of the mus and if there are any ideas afloat in the land that need to be killed,
I, the underelirned, rerotriilzlnir theclaan «trimale bet ween the capltallat ciane and the
cles and the victim thus suffers everything imaginable for being let’s use The Silverton Journal as a free-press galling gun, that
working ciana, and the neccnalty of the working dann eonatltutlng Itwlf Into a nolltieel
distinct from and oopoaed Io all partie, formed I,y th....phall.t “a." h r .by I w ire th.M
too industrious.
tyranny may die and that truth and righteousness may not perish
have «.ver.nl my relation, with all other parti«., and I Indorne th. ,7¿t?. rrn Ind 7on.ilt.ill.m
Our system of government, based as it is on competition in the from the earth.
of the Socialist Party, Including the principle of politi. .I action, and heX app i for id
miision to »aid party.
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means of life, is, figuratively speaking, an under-ground business
from start to finish. Each individual, as well as our officials, from
Name
dog-catcher to president, is forced to cultivate secretiveness and go
There have been many developments in this Catholic controver
just opposite to the doctrine of “whatsoever you would.” This sy which we cannot just yet give to the public. We must complete
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brings us a very foul moral atmosphere. The damp, cold flood of our evidence in order to play safe enough to win, but some wonder
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hate may drown us at any time, and it is all our co-operative ful things of more than life and death importance to many will be
pumps of free schools, free press, churches and fraternal societies revealed in due time. Things have taken place with some of the
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can do to keep the old coffer dam from springing a leak right now, principle actors of this life drama that are astonishing. Crimes
in spite of Wonderful Woodrow Wilson’s wise ways.
have been committed and honor bartered and sold like poultry in
We have been born and brought up moral, physical and intel- the markets. But in this case “Murder will out.” Wait!
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