Œh Silöirton Journal
Published »very Friday morning at Sllvertou. Oregon, by
J. E. HOSMER, Editor.
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Thia paper stand* for freedom of thought, free
dom of th« 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.
THE SLIME OF THE SERPENT.
with it. The church does not care to notice such obscenities, blas
phemies and libels because it can hardly imagine that men in our
day, right here in America can lelieve such lies; Itecause noticing
them increases their circulation; and liecause they are short-liveu
—their authors lie too much, defeat their own pur|K>se, disgust
their readers and bankrupt themselves.”
What an awful lie!
“The first jvmn out of the box,” they sued the Silverton Jour
nal for $5(1,000 and arrested the editor for criminal libel for telling
the exact truth. Now they are trying with all their might to put
The Menace out of the mails, and when we realize that the Silver-
ton Journal’s subscription list is outstripping all its coin|M>titors on
the Pacific coast, even rapidly increasing in its own home district,
and that the Menace now has 1,217,162 on its list, it looks as
though a lot of people are getting disgusted with Catholicism, its
disgusting, licentious priesthood, its robbery of honest, industri
ous people and its lies about those who are really and truly "on the
square."
SECURITY
PROMPT
AND
EFFICIENT
SERVICE
are the
HERE IS a Catholic printing concern in St. Louis, Mo., which
OUR PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRIESTHOOD.
Watchword«
is putting out all kinds-of literature in an attempt to stem
the tide of American sentiment that is very liable to soon
of
swamp the old pirate ship of Romanism. Under the title
E HAVE no bosom friends among the priesthood, and yet
of “The Slime of the Serpent,” these sweet “singers in Israel" are
we are more or less acquainted with quite a number of
circulating a pamphlet from which we quote the following:
those who occupy important positions in Oregon's Catho
lic societies. To be sure some of this acquaintance is not
“Why Doesn’t the Church Refute Such Vile Charges?
Is your money working for you.’
of
very
long standing, but sometimes it doesn’t take very long to
“The Catholic church is used to such attacks as ‘The Menace' get acquainted when one is anxious to know people.
We pay interest on Time Deposits.
makes. In every generation they had their little day, and died.
We are delighted and are very anxious for our trial to come off
She has been at the cradle and the coffin of legions of such de- so that other people can be introduced to some of our prominent,
famers. In 1855 the anti-Catholic Know-Nothings had twenty new-found friends. Of course, some of these cultured educators
eight congressmen ranged with them. The church was not so well and representatives of Christ on earth love travel, and, as they
OFFICERS
known as it is today. They died away, and the church became have plenty of money, some of them may be traveling in Euro|>e at
better known. About 1891 the American Protective Association the time of the trial, but all we can do is to do our best and "let the
Eva Coolidge, Prei.
warned the country of the ‘menacing encroachment of the church’ devil take the hindmost.”
A. F. McClaine, Vice. Pre».
and substantiated its statements with forged letters from eight
F. E. Calliiter, Cashier
Rev.
Father (we must leave this space blank for the present) is
Catholic bishops instructing Catholics to persecute Protestants, C way up in office, but say, he’s way down in some very essential
Ed. R. Adams, Asst Cashier
and with forged decrees from the pope calling upon the Catholics ' I points—Oh, well, what’s the use, we can’t tell the names and good
M. G. Gunderson, Asst. Cashier
to massacre their fellow-countrymen around the fast of St. Igna qualities of these new acquaintances yet. We'll just have to wait
tius, 1894. Like their predecessors, these ‘Protectives’ lied too and run the risk of everyone of them leaving the state, thus com
much. In 1894 there were seventy weeklies like ‘The Menace’; pelling us to get acquainted with a new bunch.
SILVERTON. OREGON
‘they have all gone to glory,’ save possibly one. They barked them
Our Mt. Angel friends started this $50,000 case wouldn’t it be
selves hoarse, curled up and died. (‘Irish World,’ May 11, 1912.)
a good joke if the victim finished it with a grand stamped of An
“Now come the Guardians of Liberty uttering their warnings gels
Switzerland? We have made the statement before, that we
through such throats as ‘Watson’s Magazine,’ and ‘The Menace.' i have to the
goods, and now we want to state that we will certainly de J Phone Main 209
Single Meal 25 cents J
They will lie as their fathers lied, and will die as their fathers died. liver them, barring bankruptcy or accidents.
Rooms
50 c ( h and up v
A Baptist minister said some time ago, ‘AU these things about the
Some
of
the questions that will lie of interest to every lover of
Catholics are true; here they are printed in black and white in ‘The liberty in the world, and also to a number of those who love gold
Menace.’ Let us examine:
and power and lust lietter are: Where are some of the chief wit
“The Menace's Love of Truth.
nesses now? Who are these high Catholic otlicials who play with
“To you in your honesty, it seems incredible that a minister of | life and virtue as children do with toys? Why was the prosecution J
SALEM, ORE.
' dare
'
_ go no farther at this writing,
the gfospel could in public print lie constantly, systematically, dia suddenly stopped? What We
bolically. ‘For,’ you say, ‘if these things are untrue, what motive but friends, get ready for one of the greatest sensations ever re
American and European Plan
All good outside rooms /
could induce him to tell of the pernicious political activity, Jesuit corded. “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” It beats any
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CENTRALLY
LOCATED
f
ical intriguery, wanton cruelty and bestial obscenity of the Catho yellow journalism ever thrown to a depraved public—truth and
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MRS.
MAE
IVIE,
Proprietor
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publicity
is
what
we
want
and
publicity
and
truth
is
what
we
will
lic church?’ Y'et this is what Rev. T. Walker is doing—lying con
,
have.
And
when
it
is
all
over,
perhaps
the
tired
editor
will
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stantly, systematically, diabolically. And the motive? It is either
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hatred or hunger—maybe a little of both. He is a minister who for given a vacation in Europe or a resting place outside of the Catho-
years had no call to any pulpit; yet he needed money, and the ' lie cemetery. We are ready for whatever comes or doesn’t come,
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churches were calling for ministers. In Hampton’s Magazine for and we’ll do the best we can.
:
IRL B. LYONS
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September, 1911, you will see that in 1906 the Baptists had 6302 I
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more churches than ministers; the Lutherans, 3353; Presbyteri
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BY PRETENSE OF LAW.
ans, 2855; the Methodists of all sorts, 20,253, etc. Surely, if Mr.
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Walker were a man fit mentally and morally he could have filled a
pulpit in some one of these 32,762 vacant charges. But no one
E ARE RELIABLY INFORMED that the Catholic paro
I handle Mueller Brass Goods, Standard Enamelware
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wished him. He does not show in his paper so much a lack of i
chial
schools
have
been
allowed
to
examine
their
own
Hydraulic Rams, Pneumatic Water Systems. I can
brains as he does a lack of morals; and we doubt not that it was be
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eighth grade students and that the Catholic decision on
make it worth your while to see me aiiout your
cause he was morally unfit to preach the gospel that no church
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the
standing
of
such
students
is
final
and
admits
to
or
called him. And the morals of his paper prove that the churches rejects from our Oregon public high school work. Now this not
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were right. The Socialistic paper, ‘The Appeal to Reason,’ long only affects the student who enters from a Catholic school, but
ago recognized that the Catholic church is the only organized force also all the other students. Is this right? Should the state go in
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capable of combatting Socialism. If it attacked the church openly with a private institution of any kind and turn over its authority
it could not hope to gain the Catholic workingman to its cause. It to priests and nuns, thus giving one set of students an advantage
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must lessen the Catholic power while seeming not to meddle in re or
a disadvantage over another set?
ligion. But to do this it must get as editor one who would lie
HOP DRYER PIPES
Did you ever hear of the Lutheran schools or the Methodist
shamelessly and tirelessly, about the Catholic church. So it took schools
being allowed such privileges?
Mr Walker, a minister whom no church would have. And now he
But what about our juvenile courts turning girls over to their < ►
J. H? DAVENPORT
IF YOU THINK OF BUYING A MOTORCYCLE
SEE THE
makes his living with his lies; and he will lie so long as he can get institutions?
Do
you
know
that
there
are
young
girls,
just
blos
JOBING
A
SPECIALTY.
PHONE
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a dime from his readers.
soming
into
womanhood
who
are
enslaved
in
Oregon
Catholic
“He finds a market for his wares chiefly in parts of the country school pens—girls who want to get out, but are watched every
FOUR CYLINDER HENDERSON
where the Catholics are few. Naturally, the Catholics being little moment
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girls who slave for the hierarchy every day and who will < ►
known, are misunderstood. To such regions he sends all the lies'
You can get a demonstration by seeing
nothing excepting what the slave-drivers please to give them?
that a depraved imagination can invent; and to give plausibility to get
Americans,
are we going to stand this thing which has come upon < »
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“SHORTY” AT THE BILLIARD HALL
his lies, he gives names of persons that do not exist, or gives ad-1 us? Must we let our public school system be dominated by its ene
dresses that are vague or untrue, or places that are not on the mies, and our American girls be held in bondage through pretense
map; gives names of notaries before whom sworn testimonies were
law? Where will this thing end, if it isn’t stopped now? There
made, notaries not listed by the state; or he takes the testimony of of
is
a
big work for all of us to do and one of the first things
depraved women whom the courts had committed to reformatories, is to mighty
get every liberty-loving man in this great nation to know
and makes their testimonies read as though the writers had been the truth about our greatest enemy. Help us find the truth. Help
‘confined in convents,’ and sells these lies to you for the nominal us spread the truth. Help us to arouse those who know the truth,
sum of 50c a year. It is a bad bargain; because, if you wished to, to
prompt undaunted, unconquerable, effective action.
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you could sit down and manufacture all these lies for nothing. But
you do not wish to. No one does that has respect for God, one’s
Four quires to a pound.
neighbor, or one’s self.”
OUR FIGHT NOT PERSONAL.
ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Yes, Old Beast, it is true that the “Menace” people all down the
ages have tried to get rid of you, but your hellish, Jesuitical meth-1
Envelopes to match, 2 pkgs, for 25c.
ods have still left you a victor at the cradle and at the coffin of
UR FIGHT AGAINST CATHOLICISM is not personal in the
legions of your victims. But your days are numbered. Although
least. We have nothing against any priest, officer or mem
your secret agents, your spies and sneaks have broken up many.
ber of the Catholic church. But we do hate the rottenness
SALEM. OREGON
attempts to save the world from your tyranny, yet the spirit of the
of the priesthood, the false doctrines and practices of the
“Know-Nothing” movement and the A. P. A.’s are still here. Not church and the ignorant, superstitious condition of the great mass
only this, the individuals who have been crushed by your iron heel, of its poor, deluded people. But if the priests were as a rule |>er-
and their children, and their children’s children are here and fectly virtuous and good, if most all their doctrines were true and
ready to use the sharp two-edged sword of truth on your old licen if nearly all their practices led to better citizenship, and still one
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tious anatomy to its utter death and destruction. The Guardians certain teaching and practice remained, we would fight against
of Liberty are here, indeed. The fraternal societies, which you their organization. This teaching and practice is that of purgato
FORESTERS’ hall opera house building .
have kicked once too much, are here. The protesting churches are ry and securing money for getting loved ones out of its awful imag
uniting against you. The Socialists are on your track, and even inary torments. This one thing puts the Catholic church in the list
the great guns of the printing press are being trained on your of the greatest criminals of today and of all history.
strong forts.
A darling child of a Catholic parent dies, or a beloved mother
“The Menace”—Rev. T. Walker, is telling the truth about your or a life companion, and here, at this time of abandonment in sor
institution and your priests, and the half has not yet been told. row, comes the agent of this hellish band of robbers and steals
The Program for Next Sunday.
You are a sweet lot to talk about Mr. Walker’s lack of brains and away the hard-earned coin of months and years. Why do they
lack of morals, and, if he were ever so bad, it would not help your take this way to get the money? Because the law allows them to
Opening Song.
case in the least. You state that no church would have Mr. Wal do it. In many states fortune-telling and fake future forecasts
Roll Call, with voluntary reaponaea.
ker. This is a lie and you know it. You say he gives names and ahd silly spiritual sight-seeing for money are prohibited. Why
Inatrumental Munie.
Addreaa, “The Dying Hour« of Capitaliam.”
addresses that are not true and notaries not listed in the state. can’t Oregon make a law to protect the innocent victims of the
Oueationa.
Again you lie. The writer is one of the notaries used by the Men agents of Romanism?
Vocal Solo.
ace, and the party who sent in their sworn statement was obliged
We have no fight against individuals only as they represent
Five-Minute Speechen.
to prove the authenticity of the document before Mr. Walker evil principles, but we will fight such giant wrongs as this teaching
Cloaing Song.
Social Time.
would publish it. The Menace, like all active enemies of the hier and practice, which with their awful results, is all the hell there is
archy, has one awful thing to contend with, though, and that is the in it, until it is frozen over, and then—well, we’re good on skates.
EVERYBODY WELCOME. COME!
stories against Catholics and Catholic institutions which the
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priests get up for the purpose of discrediting all that their enemies
Under the big heading “Reason,” the Rainier beer people are
say against them.
Cut thlz out, Ilirn and tend to the Kecty. J. E. Blazer, Silverton, Oreicun
Down through the ages this has been the Jesuitical method of putting out false reasoning that might catch some who are not
breaking their opponents’ ranks. They have “escaped nuns” out wise as to their motive and to the weakness of their logic. They
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE
talking to Protestant audiences, agents occupying Protestant pul say that we should eat and drink in moderation and try to carry
SOCIALIST PARTY
pits, public school teachers, Masons in high office, editors whom no the idea that this means that it is all right to drink their beer in
I, the unilonignnl, recognizing th«clami ztriurgle between the enpitalizt cla»« and the
one suspects of being in the Roman ranks and servant girls by the moderation. But the same argument would hold good for any in
working claaz. and the nec.HzIty of the working cla»» constituting itm-lf into a political party
dl.tlnct from and opposed to all parties formed by th.-. nnltsll.t cla»,. hereby declare that I
thousands as detectives in the homes of rich and influential fami jurious, poisonous drink. 'We should eat and drink in moderation,
hay« •ev«rod my relations with al other parties. an<l I Indorse th« platform and conatitutlon
lies. But we will close with a Roman lie that will show their to be sure, and some things we should not drink at all. The ques
of the Socialist Party, including the principle of political action, and hereby apply for a.I-
mission to said party.
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method of saying one thing and doing just the opposite. At this tion is, is their beer one of these things. They claim that by divine
moment they are using every effort in their power to put the authority we are required to practice temperance, which means
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Menace out of business through the United States government that we may use and enjoy Nature’s gifts. But beer is no more
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authorities. Now how does this fact tally up with the following Nature’s gifts than morphine or carbdlic acid. They lay great
statement taken from the little pamphlet from which we are quot stress on man being allowed to choose for himself what he shall
City.
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eat and drink, but as social beings we can only be allowed to
“We have been asked so many times, ‘If the Menace is lying choose what the majority thinks is for the best interests of so
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Citizeft
or NO)
about the Catholic church, why doesn’t that church deny the ciety for us to choose, and if it is for the public good that we re
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charges made?’ that we take this opportunity of telling you some frain from drinking Rainier beer or eating ptomaine poisoned
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thing about that paper, and the reason the church hates to bother beef, Mr. Brewer will be obliged to “take his medicine.”
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