The Silverton journal., February 13, 1914, Image 1

T he S ilverton
VOL. 111.
SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1914.
OUR GOOD OFFICERS HUN OUT
OUR COURTS USED AGAINST US
Policemen Who Do Their Duty Are
Arrealed, Fined or Scared Into
Serving Our Enemies by the Polit­
ical Machine.
The governor of our state can’t get
justice done through the courts and so
hr has to resort to military force.
There is another way in which the
Catholic and lawle - element arc con­
trolling the courts to the cverlu ding
damnation of our government. Good
police officers can not lay on the force
for they arc forced off, or scared off,
arrested, sued, fined or imprisoned off,
and do-nothing lick-spittles put on in
their place».
Silverton bus just hud un example
of t his very thing. One of the best
policemen we’ve ever hud. and we
huve hu<t some mighty good ones, ,s
Lu Fayette Yates. Mr. Yules doe
what he thinks is his dut y. He i« not
one bit hull-headed und gives every
wrong-doer fair play every time, but
he is in for living up to his oath of
office and does his duty as police ami
has worked like a Trojan on our
streets ami everywhere, doing much
more than simply earning his «alary.
Now, this fuitnful officer bus been
convicted and fined. What for? Well,
the 26th day of last July, after being
instructed by his superior officers to
enforce the liquor laws right up to
the ffinit in order to stop the law­
breaking blind pig. and bootleggers,
he arrested a young man who wa:
marching up und down with eight bot­
tles of beer in his arm:, und snouting
"I’ve got the booze!” The youngster
bail brought this liquor from Mt. An­
gel, thus bringing intoxicating liquor
into dry territory und that, too, with­
out being properly labeled.
The chief intended to arrest the
young man for lieing drunk and dis­
orderly, but the governor’s agent, Tom
Kay, being in the city and insisting on
his being arrested on the charge of
bringing liquor into dry territory un­
lawfully, lie did so, confiscating the
liquor.
This led to Mr. Yates being sued for
$ HMM» for unlawfully arresting and
holding the young man for three hours
and for holding his property, the beer.
We do not profess to know the exact
religious or morul temperature of thia
particular court, but we do know that
in many of our courts no attorney or
client who is known to be opposed to
Catholicism or to the liuuor traffic,
can get a decision in his favor. Thia
fad is making American patriots have
but very little faith in the justice or
legality of any of the decisions. We
don't know! We do not have the faith
that we should have in these expensive
courts of law, ami for very good rea­
sons. The good there might be in a
trial by jury is defeated entirely in
every case where the judge wishes to
defeat it, and that is practically be­
coming so in every case all over our
great country. The game is quite a
simple one. A judge wishes to throw
a case to a certain attorney to pay a
polit'eal debt. Or if he is a secret
agent of the hierarchy he wishes to
defeat the Catholic's opponent. How
can he do it with a jury of yeomen
sworn to render a verdict in accord­
ance with the law and the evidence in
the case? That’s easy. He simply
shuts off all the essential evidence on
one side by rendering decisions in fa­
vor of hiH pet attorney and against
the other, and when the case goes to
the jury, they huve heard only one
side. Ami the judge, of course, has in­
structed the jury as to the law in such
a way that they can not help in nine
cases out of ten, to bring in the desir­
ed verdict for the learned judge.
We do not pretend to know if this
was done or not in Mr. Yates' case,
but it does seem that a good officer,
right in line of his duty, ought not to
be punished for doing just what he
thought right ami what the governor's
agent told him to do. The tendency
of this dec'sion is to make our officers
too careful. It is a very easy thing to
just let everything go, excepting draw­
ing the salary at the emi of each
month, ami we’ve had enough of that
kind of work all over the state. In
view of these facts the people of Sil­
ver! n ought not to allow Mr. Yates
to pav the fine, nor any of the costs,
but we should in every way encourage
him in doing his full duty and to fear
to do nothing he thinks is necessary
in keeping inviolate his oath of office.
HOW THE PRIESTS
’
A D V E R T IS I’ T11 F. M S ELY ES
When the Equitable Life building
was destroyed by fire in New York,
the greatest feature of the story was
the “heroic” act of a Roman Catholic
priest in administering extreme unc­
tion to one of the tenants who had
been caught by the debris.
Since that time there is hardly a
train wreck or fire but the public
is regaled with complete particulars
of some Catholic priest giving ex­
treme unction to one or more victims.
From the Chicago Tribune of Octo­
ber 27 we lind on the first page, as one
of the "feature” articles, an account
of the burning of the Goodyear Rub­
ber plant in Milwaukee in which seven
firemen were killed.
In the display head th«' public is in­
formed: “Priest Hero of Blaze.” In
the body of the art’cle is found the
following information:
“Priest Hero of Blaze.
“Father Francis Murphy was the
hero of the fire. When the flames were
sweeping over the debris under which
the buried firemen were hidden. Fath­
er Murphy crept in, sheltered by a
sheet of water from fire hose near by,
and with water playing over him to
keep his clothes from burning, gave
extreme unction to the dying men un-
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VICTIM
seen below the wreckage. Then he
turned in with the firemen to recover
the bodies."
This form with variations is fea- i
lured in every large daily in the coun- ■
try, whenever there is u fire, train
wreck or other catastrophe. The priest
is always “Johnny on the spot” and ,
“shows himself a hero.”
The New York Tint's of June 13
hu»l a two-column article, with picture
of a priest named Anton Berhely, who
fioured in th»- Stamford, Conn., wreck,
with the usual limelight playing on
»urn. We clip u few lines of Priest
Berhely’« story:
“I kept wondering bow main were
duud in the Pullman car and I went
there again. I met uriothrr priest who
hud come from Stamford.
"'Have you the holy oils?’ I asked
him, ami he said he hail not.
" ‘Run, run for the oils, for there
are people dying,’ I tmd nmi. and he
ran away, I did not Hee him after
that."
No mention i made of any Protes­
tant ministers who may have been on
the train, ami who may huve perform­
ed just as heroic serv ce. Nor do we
read uny more of the physician who
muy have rendered valiant aid to the
wounded.
The
ubiquitous
priest
“hogs” the whole story.
No doubt it will not be long until
every ruilroad coach will have its bot­
tle., of holy oil and package of blessed
candle alongside the emergency axe
and hand grenades. Nor would we be
surprised to ¡earn that some one of
the more enterprising passenger
agents w»ll soon install an “official ex­
treme unction administrator” on his
crack train, along with the barber,
lady manicurist, tailor, etc.
The
Christian.
An editorial in the Sunday Orego­
nian, entitled “The End of Liberty,”
shows on which side of the law en­
forcement fence the editor of that
great paper stands. He is again, t
Governor West’» plan of enforcing the
law ami he would probably t*e against
uny plan the governor might have.
He is against the abolition of the sa­
loon system and he is ugainst'anything
that he thinks doesn't carry the larg­
est sack, it certainly is a deplorable
condition when the -overnor of a
great state can see no better way than
to call out the mil tary force to enforce
the law. a Governor Wai t »ini at < op
perfield. But that condition is here, I
and Mr. West was obliged to do as he
diil or violate his oath of office. The
civil courts are too often controlled by
law breaker.- and are becoming utterly
worthless in enforcing any law that
they do not like. This is a bad condi­
tion, but it is the same that has come
to every country under the sun when u
few men or families possess nearly all
the wealth. The United States may
go down and out as other great na­
tions have done and a military despot­
ism is one of the first symptoms of de­
cay. The closing paragraph of the
Oregonian is to the point. It says:
"If we despise and neglect the
courts ami the authorized officers of
civil government, how long till there
is a general breakdown of all constitu­
tional guarantees and a complete
usurpation by the military power?
What then becomes of the republic?”
We would ask the Oregonian man
how can the people ami their governor
help despising and Neglecting our
courts and resorting to other means to
get justice when the courts are in the
hands of saloon owners and law-bfeak-
ers as at Copperfield ?
The Oregonian asks:
"If the civil law is to be ignored, as
at Copperfield, for any reason, or for
no reason except that an end suppos­
edly desirable is to l»e attained
through the militia, what becomes of
the civil power?”
And we would ask the Oregonian,
what has already become of the civil
power when it is in the hands of the
saloon system and its law-breakers as
in the Copperfield case?
There is only one thing to do under
the conditions and that is to enforce
the law. and that is exactly what Gov­
ernor West is doing in spite of law­
breakers and their most powerful
helper, the Oregonian.
Of course, when the newspapers are
really free, when our courts are not
dominated by the Roman hierarchy
and their fool assistants, when we
have a government by the people and
for the people, and the people can all
get good work and the full social pro­
duct of their labor and it is no more
necessary to go into the poisoning sa­
loon business to get a goon, easy liv­
ing, then we will need no military to
enforce the ' simple rules of action
made by an enlightened, sober, honest
people. But we may have to labor and
wait for s me time yet as we have
never learned how to convert the big
Oregonian or any of the little, fool
Oregonians to common sense and we
fear that their wiggling "tales" will
not die til I <fter a blood-red sun-down.
LINE l i’ AGAINST ALI. EVIL
Some people are very much afraid
of destroying our civilization by de­
stroying the evils in it. It will destroy
itself unless such people wake up. Be
not deceived; every evil, no matter
how small, if left alone, will increase
until it controls and finally destroys.
Every good citizen is interested in ev­
ery forward movement anil every bad
c’t'zen can be known by his position
in the fight against any destroyer.
This is the great battle of the twenti­
eth century. Let us drop our narrow
prejudices and line up against all evil.
FALSE SYSTEM
OF CATHOLICISM MUST DIE
Electric ( hair for Schmidt, Whu Mur­
dered Anna Aumuller—We Must
Destroy the False System That Pro­
duces Deceiver« and Murderer«.
The following tells only a part of
the story:
New York, Feb. IL-—Hans Schmidt,
convicted murderer of Anna Aumuller,
was sentenced today to die in the elec­
tric chair during the week beginning
March 23.
Schmidt, a former priest, killed Miss
Aumuller, cut up her body and drop­
ped it, piece b’- piece, into the river.
Sentence was pronounced by Justice
Vernon Davis, of the criminal bench of
the .-tate supreme court.
Schmidt Htood erect as a soldier
throughout the ordeal. He showed no
emotion whatever and paid no atten­
tion to the spectators in the court­
room.
“I have nothing to say.” he replied
when asked if he wished to make a
statement. He smiled faintly, how-
ever, when motions by Attomey Mc-
Manus for a retrial 2nd a stay of sen-
tence were overruled.
appearance
Schmidt’s
improved
since he was last in court was mark­
ed. He wore a long fur coat and kept
his beard tucked down under its collar.
His eye wa.- bright and his color good
When sentence was pronounced.
Schmidt turned and held out his hands
while Deputy Sheriff Bowers put on
the handcuffs. He was taken immedi­
ately to Sing Sing prison to await ex­
ecution.
Before he went inio court, newspa­
per men asked Schmidt if he wished to
make any statement. He sent back a
note pe ned as follows:
“Beyond this vale of te» rs
There is a life above.
Unmeasured by the flight of years
And all that life is love."
But this part of the tragedy is only
a si
small part of the whole drama. Hans
was undoubtedly a fine little baby and
the right environment would have
brought him to an honorable, useful,
happy manhood. He was caught.
Many priests, even in Oregon, have
committed crimes and never been
caught. Nearly all of them are living
lives of deception, for no sane man
with a knowledge of history and of
science, can really believe what they
teach to their poor submerged people.
Poor Schmidt! Poor Anna! Poor
priests! ' Poor dupes! Poor Mexico!
Poor Spain!
Patriots, hesitate no longer.
_
The
worst enemy our country ever had is
at our gates—yes, within our walls!
Let not our future history read: Poor
America!
THE RIGHT SIDE WINS
Justice may be delayed because of
ign rance, but be assured that the
right side will win in every upward
marching civilization such as we find
in this age of great accomplishments.
Silverton is learning the most won­
derful lesson ever taught by the civil­
izing forces of righteousness. Every
citizen who has sense enough to re­
view the doings of our city during the
past few years can see that the right
side wins. Victory after victory has
rewarded the efforts of those who have
dared to stand firm against that which
destroys. And following our moral
and law-enforcement victories, we
may be sure will come mental and
economic prosperity. Already Silver-
ton begins to grow in a way never
heard of before. We are a sober, in­
dustrious, thinking people and are be­
ginning to understand that it pays in
every way to put our foot squarely on
the neck of every evil. We are learn­
ing to come down with all our united
power on what is against public wel­
fare. Sooner or later we will have a
large, beautiful brick school house.
Another railroad will have a depot
within our city limits. Another saw­
mill—some say the largest in the
world, with a capacity of 300,0(M) feet
per day, is now in sight. Schmidbau-
er’s bakery building and Eastman’s
large brick, which are now being rush­
ed to completion, are only a beginning.
And when the people all over the Uni­
ted States learn what a beautiful,
clean, moral, educational progressive
little city we have, thby will come by
the thousands to help us prove to the
world that “the right side always
wins.”
And don’t you doubt that the Silver-
ton Journal has had a hand in this
game. Some times the work goes too
slow to suit the nervous, cranky
pen­
nicy pen-
cil-pusher, but his fund of patience is
one of the wonders of the world. He
never knows enough to give up when
believing he is in the right and even
this week he is negotiating to pur­
chase the Liberal University propertv
to establish a hospital and a school.
Are you in on the deal? How much?
We need to raise at once $5000, and
the deed will be done.
Here is the starter. Boost it along
rapidly!
Patriotic University Fund.
A Friend............................................. $250
STICKERS.
Yes, ridicule the priesthood, it’s the
only thing ’twill count;
To them, appeals to justice to nothing
will amount.
They’re steeped in self-importance, in
ease and crimes most foul.
Till they’re slippery as the Devil and
tougher than an owl.
♦ ♦ *
It has always been the duty of the
rabble to crucify the one who points
out the evils of his time and to release
the criminal.
• • •
If all the bones of the saints used to
fool the devotees of Romanism were
used for fertilizer, they might keep
some poor "Mick” from going to pur­
gatory before his time.
Two things the good sister nuns es­
cape—hobble skirts and rats.
* ♦ *
Send The Journal man a new sub­
scriber and he will guarantee that
your soul will not stay in purgatory
over ten days at most.
• • *
The Christian Standard, referring
to the president's attendance at St.
Patrick's church, says:
“Is this our friend Woodrow Wilson,
who put the ‘dent’ in precedent by
reading his own message to congress?
What an opportunity he here had to
celebrate Thanksgiving by putting a
‘cus’ on this ‘custom established by
previous presidents.” And what genu­
ine thanksgiving there will be in this
country when we have a president who
will refuse to cater to the arch-enemy
of our government, the Roman Catho­
lic hierarchy.
• • •
The Roman Catholic hierarchy is
openly and avowedly the enemy of our
government. This fact can be fully
proved in any court of law. Does this
mean anything to true American citi­
zens ?
* • •
Is Rome arming ana getting ready
to change our government to fit the
church ?
• • •
If, as is claimed, “Priests are the
roses in the Lord’s garden,” it would
seem that Schmidt is “The Last Ros»
of Summer.”—Beacon Light.
* • •
If the Catholics “get there” and
they will if the hierarchy can turn the
trick, then we will have the union of
church and state with the church in
full control. Do you want it?
* * *
The president is a good politician or
he wouldn’t have been elected. The
Catholics will elect him again if you
don’t wake up.
payments on the new press and inter­
type had to be met soon; most of the
merchants were still afraid to adver­
tise in the free pre.-s and yet the edi­
tor “with the bits in his mouth” was
grinding away getting copy for the
next issue. The cheapest and best
help on earth, the good wife, brought
the mail from the postoffice, and care-
les.-dy the editor ripped open an enve­
lope which he noticed had a cute little
gold seal on the back with the initial
“.M,” in the center.
What? And he looked again! And
sure as you live it was a draft for
Fifty Dollars. Faint away? O no!
He just danced a jig and then ran to
the “good help” and read the following
to her astonished ears.
Des Moines, la., Feb. 5, 1914.
Editor Silverton Journal:
Having been on a farm 57 year., of
my life, and knowing the record of the
Roman Catholic priesthood, I will
leave it to any intelligent stockman if
it is not an insult to our field stock to
l»e compared or classed with a Roman
Catholic priest.
Please find enclosed draft for $50,
from yours “On the Firing Line” to
stay. Yours for the truth,
MRS.------------
WHAT SHOULD A
CHRISTIAN STAND EOR
Many are the comments made on
this all-important subject. There is
no question but what in practice, the
world is looking toward the Christian
element of our civilization for the
remedy for present evils. Wherever
there is a hard fight on for righteous­
ness, there is generally a Christian or
Christians bearing the burden of the
responsibility. This is true of the anti­
Catholic fight, of the anti-rum fight,
and of every fight waged for the ex­
termination of evil. More than that,
all the non-religious element look to
the Christan people for an example
of true morality. I am going to men­
tion a few things for which a Chris­
tian should stand in order to properly
impress the community in which he
lives.
He should stand for purity. Let the
Christian be pure in his speech. It is
far beneath the level of a Christian to
engage in the telling of smutty stories.
These are usually idle, and are used
thoughtlessly with no intent to in­
jure, but they are very injurious both
to the one who tells and the one who
listens, as the influence of a dirty sto­
ry goes directly to the brain where it
serves to distort the moral caliber of
each. These apparently little things
are the things that go to develop char­
acter and make up life. Let the Chris­
tian be pure in his life. Let him be
unselfish, honest in his relations with
his fellow men, helpful and ever ready
to do that which will serve to help the
most people in the very best way. Let
him even seek to compel others to be
clean. An example will serve best to
illustrate my meaning, viz.: It is well
known that here in Silverton there are
minors w’ho use cigarettes. Let the
Christian demand that those responsi­
ble for the fact that c;garettes are to
oe obtained by these non-responsible
youngsters be brought to justice for
thus corrupting the morals of our
young people. The same idea may be
carried ut in regard to the illicit sale
of liquor, and the dfsgusting appear­
ance of certain dances tnat work their
way into the community and serve to
lower the standards of the community.
In short, the Christian should adopt
the position that no sin should be al­
lowed to pass unchallenged where
that sin affects in any way the moral
atmosphere of the community in which
he lives.
The Christian should stand four­
square for personal purity. Can the
Christian cigarette-user say to the
moderate user of liquor, “You should
not thus undermine your manhood?"
Can the Christian who curses softly,
say “Thou blasphemer” to the individ­
ual who makes the air about him ap­
pear blue? No. the inside of the cup
must be clean, as weit as the outside.
Can a Christian who never reads his
Bible say to the person wno spends all
Sunday reading the daily paper,
“Thou foolish one?” Can the Chris­
tian who slips into the back end of a
barn to wet his whistle, say to the
“blind pig,” “go to?” No; clean the
insiue of the platter as well as the out­
side, then the Christian is in a position
to command cleanliness in others.
Next Sunday night I am going to
begin a series of sermons on the sub­
ject “What Silverton Needs to Elevate
Its Moral Standing.” I invite all to
come and hear. The first sermon will
be careful, as they all will be, but we
ho»»e to increase the value of the
points made by illustrations from real
life, as they actually occur or as they
may be brought to pass, from day to
day.
" LEON " L. ------
MYERS.
Christian Minister.
The convents and nunneries must be
vile, unlawful, and all wrong, or every
man except the priests, and their bish­
ops would not be shut out. It must
be contrary to law or they would have
no objection to our officers and citi­
zens going in. They must be opposed
to purity, holiness, and all that is
righteous and good, or why confine
them so closely, and so determined to
kee;> them from all communication
with everybody but “mother superior”
and that licentious priest, and possibly
a few more, who are thus confined?
Is it possible for any person to tell x,f
HELP THAT HELPS.
what benefit, of what good, of what
Money was getting very low; the use are the convents and nunneries?
taxes on our plant were about due; —Selected.