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T wo Presbyter! n Ministers, Far Apart, Write Near the Same Time About the Same Ideau and Almoat, But Not Quit«, Scar« the Poor Editor Out
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$17,700 for 795-acre firm in Asotin,
Wash. Party wuii I h a Minnller im
proved farm.
$30,000 for 240-acre farm in I.a
Grana«*, Or. Fruit and nlfalfa land,
line improvements, will exchange for
income in city, or small ranch.
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$|M,000 — A fine place to sub-divide,
about I1/ on electric line from Oallaa;
will exchange for Portland property.
$15,000 for 200 acre«, tine farm
clone to Brownsville, Or. Hill take
part exchange in Portland property.
$11,000 lor iiUH’j-acrr stock farm near
McMinnville for a gmul iarm.
$15,000 for a g«xui wheat farm in
Sherman county, near Moro: will ex-
< liangc for a common farm, leas value.
W hat have you?
$11,000 291.44-acre farm in Califor
nia. clone to Morgan Hill, Santa (lara
county; wantn Oregon or Washington
land.
$SOOO lor 320 acres near Othello,
Wash., (small lake) 100 acren cun be
irrigated from lake; will exchange for
nmall improved place in Oregon.
$0500 for 320 acren, Othello, Wash.,
good level land, buildings all in culti
vation, "ill exchange for a mnall place
or ntocn I al m.
$6000 for a llnely-equippcd hotel.
Thia in a paying buninenn, in Idaho;
will exchange. What have you?
$6500 for 160 acren on coant, near
Bundon; will exchunge. Make me an
offer.
$9500 for large house and my equity
in 13 Portland lotn. on carline; would
like California property
$6000 for u brick store; also a corru
gated iron burn. Thin in a line chance
for aome one who wuntn to go I.ant.
Property in in Plum City, M in. Come
in und nee photon and make me an
offer.
$1X00 for weil-im iroved 160 acren in
Canada. Wantn mn.ill farm in Oregon
or < alifornin.
$3200 for nice, improved 162 acren,
Munson, i anada; about 90 acren al
ready in crop; will exchange for town
or city property in Oregon.
$3100 for 160 acren all in wheat,
I ranklin county, W’unli. W ill exchange.
W hut have you to offer?
$3200 tor 160 acren, franklin coun
ty, Wash.; homestead, water and out-
nide range. Will exchange for any
thing of value.
$2000 for NO acre i improved, good
buildings, windmill, tine orchard; Ok
lahoma. Will exchange for acieage
or town property in Oregon, Hashing-
ton or Ilia ho.
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Some of our best friends do not like to <••• our paper a free press unles» it leaven out what is against their ideas. If one writes an article somewhat
Social! tic, many ar«- offended; if another ays anything about prohibition, a howl goes up from another quarter; if our friend, Leon L. .Myers, th«-
Cbri tian minister expo k - an orthodox idea, ■ <>rn«- of the more liberal! ?) people show considerable illiberality; if a poor working l«oy tells what he
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our advertising takes a lump, anti if th«- editor says anything at all, he is on the black list with those who don't quite agree with
him. The tendem i thus to hav<- every -park of Americanism and manhood crushed out of us an«l to cater to the trade by saying nothing of any
account. I Hi i < -iirtly what i- th«- matter with the new pap r everywhere, and the cause of this old world being so slow in finding the saving truth
Great m th«- ( < atholic <iu<
< ii lion is, it i not th«- only que. lion before the American people. We want to make The Silverton Journal a free press, for we
that it is
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friends will all do the <ame, be hon<- t enough to forsake error
«rror when convinced, and when victorious, allow "the other fellow” a chance to retreat grace
grace-
fully and in order. I he foil« wing l«-tt«-r,. pointing out alleged errors in our former criticism on the Catholic catechism, certainly comes from good arid
well-established authority, and we v. ill give them careful consideration:
Editor Silverton Journal:
Editor Silverton Journal:
I send you your article, “The Real Original Sin,” in clipping form, the
1 am a subBcriber to your paper, and also sent a email contribution for
children’s catechism of our church, and a clipping giving .Mr. Bryan's idea
your Defense Fund. I have admired your strong position taken in the
of a faithful pa ’or. I sympathize with a businc man arxl patriot who
Roman Catholic question, and it was to strengthen you that I subscribed
hu. been tr«-at«-<i by Rome n you have. <)n«- in your shape, I suspect,
could almost will he «lidn’t have two )«-p. , becau.-e the Catholics are sup-
for your paper. I am sorry that you have weakened your position in the
pur-ed to have two. Hut th«- fact remains that we had best hold on to both
last issue of your paper. In your criticism of the Roman Catholic Cate-
of ours, even if th«- < atholi« have got two. By perusing this little cate
chum, you certainly draw far conclusions, use queer theology, and lose
chism of ours, which i. recited by hundred o' children in the Southern
your point altogether, as well as your supposed argument, which was not
pre byterlan church every year, you will
that the teaching is very
much like that of the Catholic catechism, with the exception of the dogma
argument at all, whatever it was intended for.
of the "Immaculate c«»n< « ption,” which i- of course erroneous. Mr. Bryan
You ridicule the Catholics with holding to the old views of the Crea
has our idea of teaching the young, a well as preaching the gospel to
tion,
etc., and class their statements as “lies” etc., stating that “up-to-date
mature Christians. Give young and old the sincere milk of the word and
ministers of the best Protestant churches do not take the Old Testament
ground them well in th«- faith once delivered to th«- saints. '1 hen they
will know what is right, love it, and by th«- grace of God have power to
stories as necessarily true,” and mention a .Methodist minister who has
o
do it. There is no depth or length or breadth of science that we hold our
"also studied science,” (I should like to know how much of science he has
mini '<-r back from, but we want them a children, youth, young men and
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studied) and an educated Roman Catholic priest to substantiate your
mature leailers to know God as a personal Savior at first hand. Then
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argument.
nothing
in
all
their
research
will
tempt
them
to
turn
away
from
God,
but
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love him mor«- and erve Him an«i their fellowmen better as they see His
Now, perhaps I am not “an up-to-date minister,” but I have a very
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handiwork and
how marvelously the word of God. th«- work - of God, in
nice field, am a regularly ordained minister in the Presbyterian denomina
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♦ creation and providence and the work of the spirit of G««d in the personal
tion, and 1 absolutely hold to the LITERAL statements as given in the
♦ experience of the Christian, agree and upplement each other. The cate-
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Old Te.-tament regarding the creation, the fall of man, and all the rest of
chi. m which I . end you is a fair -ample of the great bulk of Protestant
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teaching throughout the world. Christ and the apostles lived some 1400
it: and I happen to know some of the leading men in the M. E. church who
year after Mo.-es. The Old Testament wa their only Bible which they
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hold to the same views, men who are known all over the Christian world
studied, believed arxl treat««! with great respect (the story of Jonah and
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by their prominence in the pulpit and their many writings published and
all.)
<'an
we
afford
to
do
less?
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sold all over this and other lands. I also happen to know many prominent
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The Bible was not written to teach .science, or history, or geography,
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but to tell the story of redemption, a true story, however, whether in
men in the Presbyterian church, known all over this land, many of them
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parable, vision or ve ritable history with living, breathing personalities. I
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right here in New York, many of them in Philadelphia, and other cities,
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trust you will understand that my letter is not in the spirit of controversy
who hold the same views, men who are leaders in their denomination.
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nor fault-finding, except a a fnend, but 1 want you to succeed, and you
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Every summer I have had the pleasure of listening to some of the best
cannot if you alienate the great Protestant church, who must lie your
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known men in the world, ministers of different denominations, and almost
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chief backing in your and my fight for truth and liberty. Higher criticism
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without exception (as far as I now remember absolutely without excep
( <•«• New England) nor infidelity (-«e France) have ever battled success
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tion) they stand by the same old faith of our fathers, and the same Old
fully with Rome. They cannot produce life—character. Orthodoxy has
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Testament that their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ accepted and believed.
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an<l can, and it is the only answer to any form of error. When the Men
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Last summer one of the “up-to-date” men appeared on the same platform
ace wa one year old. J wrote them that I rejoiced that they battled as
for a week, and with an intelligent audience, far above the ordinary in
Christian and not as infidel. As far as I have noticed they also seem to
intelligence, being largely composed of school teachers, Bible workers,
lx- orthodox. Not having had th«- opportunity to study theology, you are
returned missionaries, ministers of ail denominations, etc., and he, this
at a great di -ailvantage. So take the advice of a friend and keep close to
“up-to-date” man,” with his “up-to-date” ideas, was the very most unpop
shore until you have studied thoroughly a normal species.
ular man who spoke on religious themes. And this was not in a corner of
Your true friend and fellow servant,
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the world, but at one of the most popular Chautauquas in the U. S. A.
R. J. M’lLWAIN,
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These “up-to-date” men are getting to be "behind-date” men, for the 4
Presbyterian Mini ter and Home Missionary.
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leading thinkers in all denominations are against them, and their numbers
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Monroe, North Carolina, February 19, 1914.
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are growing fewer constantly, in proportion, and their old arguments are
“A Faithful Minister,” by W. J. Bryan.
getting threadbare.
“I de ire my minister to preach every Sunday the simple gospel. ‘The
Now, I lift my voice in protest against this insertion in your paper, of
Old, Old Story' never wearies the average congregation, if it comes from
an
item, evidently dragged in from afar, which can do no possible good,
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but really strengthens the position of the Roman Catholic church, for the
<> a devout mind with preparation in the message. My ideal sermon is one
<> which has an appeal to the unconverted and a spiritual uplift for the
vast majority of Protestants hold to the very same belief, and which will
Christian. I want my minister to be abreast of the times on all new the
have a tendency to drive away from you your subscribers. I am very
ological questions and research, but I do not want him to bring them into
sure that I, for one, would naver subscribe for any paper (had I known it 4
the pulpit. I have formed certain fixed views of Christ, His Gospel and
before subscribing) that would publish material so offensive tc the most
the inspiration of the Bible from a careful reading of that Book of books
of Protestant people who think upon religious matters.
and of the Shorter Catechism, and it will not make me a better Christian
When you publish anything you wish to have influence against the
or profit my spiritual life to unsettle the <• views by a discussion in the
Roman Catholic church, it would be well to make a more wise selection,
pulpit of new theories of Christ and the Holy Scriptures. Finally, I want
and you will not be so likely to alienate the very best people who are sup
my minister to act upon the belief that Christ’s Gospel is the surest cure
porting you in the battle against the Roman Catholic church.
of ali social and political evils, and that his best method of promoting
Hoping that you may not again enter into the field of supposed higher
temperance, social morality and good citizenship, is to bring men into the
criticism in your little paper, and wishing you every success as a real
church. In a word, I want my minister to emphasize in his life work the
newspaper, as well as a patriotic one, I am
declaration of the most successful preacher, Paul: ‘It pleased God by the
Very sincerely yours,
G. E. SEHLBREDE.
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.’ ”
737 Sixth St., New York, N. Y., February 21, 1914.
These letters ar«- honest friendly exprv sions and are just what we need, for in the battle against the Roman Beast we must learn all we can about
our own army, as well a.- about the enemy. Space forbids an answer in full, but some people who are not orthodox at all, work for the orthodox “Men
ace,” lx-«-au-<- it is lighting a common enemy. This is right and the good Presbyterians should not undertake the Catholic stunt of suppression nor fear
the free expre- don of thought. We could leave out all ideas conflicting with their views, or conflicting with our views, on the stories of the Old Testa
ment, but is it fair to smother others’ thoughts wh > wish to help in this fight against a common foe. It matters but little what two brothers believe
shout the supernatural when they are lighting together to save a sister from a burning building. We understand our two friends’ fear that those who
might support us will let their prejudice keep them from the good work, but no one can afford to be so narrow and if there are a few who haven’t yet
been cured of this old Roman relic of domination or ruin, there are surely liberty-loving people enough to help a brother to “a cup of cold water” even
though he be so awfully wicked as to doubt the literal interpretation of the story about Mother Eve being made out of a rib, or about Jonah and the
whale. Whether these things are true or not we ought to all pitch in with all our might to save that sixteen-year-old American girl who is now in the
clutches of the ( atholic priests, and who is worse than a slave. We ought not to quibble over “theological trust until the blood about our hearts is dry
as dust.” No. brothers, W. J. Bryan's idea may not be just right for an out-of-the-pulpit fight. We need your help. We thank you for your past fa
vors, and for your good, frank letters, but we beg of y ou to remember the words of the carpenter’s Son, which clearly show that he did not believe in
forever dinging to old laws and traditions, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you, that ye
resist not evil,” etc. In Hi- celebrated sermon on the Mount, He repeats several times this wonderful unorthodox. un-Catholic idea, “Ye have heard
that it was said by them of old time,” and then he went on and gave His more up-to-date ideas. The Romans didn’t like His doctrine and the orthodox 4
Jews helped to crucify Him. lie careful, brother.-. You may be wrong, and if not wrong in your theology, you would certainly be in trying to suppress
another’s honest thought, or in trying to induce him to silently lie in order to succeed in his work.
We can work against Catholicism and other evils with those who differ from us, and we hope they can work with us, but we will not purposely de
ceive, for we still believe that “the worst sin in the world is a lie, and that there is no monster god who made a mistake in making a weak man to fall.
Woman is not the sub-creature Rome would have us believe. The only serpent that has ever deceived man is ‘a lid-,’ and the Roman hierarchy keeps a
big ¡«ox of them on tap ali the time, and this one about the forbidden fruit, taken literally, is a regular rattler.
"Man is naturally good and as a rule the sweet little babies of our race would grow to be honest, happy, progressive citizens if it were not for just
such serpent lies as the old O. S. B ’s tell them, teaching them to Be also. Yes, hate sin, my child, and especially that awful father of all sins, called ‘a
♦ lie.’ ”
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When, during a period of unparal-
1«. led development in the state, it is es
tablished beyond doubt that an army
of hundreds of men and hundreds of
women are out of employment a.«d
thousands are in need of the neces
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entered into and become crystallized
as the unemployment problem which
now confronts the people of Oregon,
and promises to be long in solution.
Among the elements to be considered
are:
The wholesale distribution of highly
colored and untruthful advertising of
the advantages offered prospective set
tlers in Oregon.
Impractical boosting of communities
where failure was almost certain to
follow attempts at development unless
large sums of money and much time
were taken into account.
Speculation in land values to the
limit where the man of ordinary
means—much less the man with neith
er money nor experience—is unable to
acquire even a small tract of land
from which to coax a meagre living.
Advertising logged-off lands and
arid lands as baits for the uninitiated,
when it wa.- known that the cost of de
velopment would be greater than any
man could bear with profit from the
effort needed to do the work.
“Homeseekers’ Excursions,” which
in reality have proved to be workers’
delusions, which have given induce
ments by cheap fares to men w-ith no
means to come west and cast their lot
with thousands of others who have
been induced to leave their homes in
the eastern or central states under the
impression that easy money was plen
tiful in Oregon.
Advertising the wonderful possibili
ties of “irrigated projects” when as a
matter of fact the “projects” were
largely imaginary, or in case of devel
opment, would show conditions which
would make it impossible for a man
without means to make a living for
himself and family, much less to pay
for the land and the water rights.
Efforts of employers of labor to in
duce skilled and unskilled mechanics
to come west—and to Oregon in par
ticular—w-ith the understanding that
wages were much higher than they
really were and that work was plenti
ful everywhere.
Combinations of commission houses
and dealers for the purpose of control
ling markets, which, while forcing the
cost of living to the breaking point,
have resulted in making the produc
tion of any but staple crops in Oregon
unprofitable and almost impossible,
thus opening local markets to New
Zealand butter, Chinese eggs and Ar
gentinian beef.
Unscientific efforts of near-sighted
employers in Oregon to maintain low
wages and long hours in industry; ef
forts to make the working season
Ahort instead of extending labor over
as many days of the year as possible,
thus forcing thousands of men into in
voluntary idleness in winter time and
leaving huge plants as liabilities
against industry.
Recognizing the importance of thor
ough understanding and hearty co-op
eration between all the people of the
state in any movement for betterment
of conditions, we recommend the fol
lowing remedial measures to the care
ful consideration of all citizens:
First.—That none of the taxpayers’
money be spent in immigration boost
ing schemes, either in this country or
abroad, and that action be taken look
ing to the repeal of the law creating
the state immigration commission at
the coming session of the legislature.
Second.—That it is in keeping with
sound business practice that the
“homeseekers’ excursion” plan be
abandoned for this year oy the rail
road companies in an effort to allow
industrial conditions on the Pacific
coast to become stable again.
Third.—That instead of boosting the
game of land sharks, an effort be
made to control values within the lim
it that can be reached by actual set
tlers, either by law or by creating a
healthy public sentiment against the
evil, and that instead of building up
schemers who may rob newcomers, an
efforts be made to build up the people
already here, the people whose success
must first be assured before It is wise
to flood the country with those who
may be seeking wider opportunity.
Fourth.—That the governor be re
quested to appoint a commission rep
resentative of all interests in commer
cial life whose duty it shall be to in
vestigate the conditions under which
the provision business in the state is
conducted, to report on marketing sys
tems and methods of distribution tend
ing toward the build’ng up of the agri
cultural, dairying and horticultural in
terests of the state and on the unjust
combinations of dea ers in products of
the farm.
Fifth.—That the people of the state
irrespective of vocation, profession or
calling, be urged to study the problem
of unemployment as it is related to
seasonal occultations, and that so far
as possible the work day or the work
week be shortened to the end that a
greater number of workers be given
steady employment.
Sixth.—That the newspapers of the
state be urged to aid in a movement
against the exploitation of people,
whether native or foreign born, in the
firm belief that in the true develop
ment of natural resources and square
dealing among men can Oregon come
into real greatness.
J. A. MADSEN,
A. H. HARRIS,
RICHARD DROPISCH,
C. H. THOMPSON,
O. D. FORTE,
M. J. M’GUIRE,
J. T. TUCKER,
E. H. PICKARD,
T. H. BURCHARD,
E. J. STACK,
PHILLIP R. POLLOCK,
EVERETT LOGAN,
H. M. LORNTSEN,
J. C. WECKWORTH,
C. M. ANDERSON,
Committee from Oregon State Fed
eration of Labor.
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