(O? Silerton «Journal
Published every Friday morning at Silverton. Oregon, by
J. E. HOSMER. Editor.
Entered at the post office at Silverton. Oregon,
at second -c la»« rate»
Subscription, #1.00 per year, in advance. Single
copies, 6 cents.
Advertising rates made known upon applica
tion.
This iwiper stands for freedom of thouirht. free
dom of th« pre.*».-, freedom of speech, equality of
opportunity and the religion of riffteteousness. It
is radically opposed to every form of superstition
an»! tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form
of evil.
THE FIGHT.
literally a Rict, it is time American citizens are waking up to their
slavery and the still worse slavery that is to come for the poor fool
children of us |H»or fool slaves.
it is ceitain that our present way of producing and distribut
ing wealth is very wasteful. In one little banking company in
Oregon’s metropolis, there are fifty agents in the real estate tie
part meat alone. Here these titty men sit and wrestle with facts
and figures day in and day out, from one year’s end to another.
Their splendid energies are absolutely wasted, but the system of
individual wealth gathering demands it, and when we take a bird’s
eye view of the whole United States, and think of the awful waste
in the real estate business alone, it makes us working people look
something like fools, now doesn’t it ? Anil just think of it! All this
useless burden is on the backs of the real producers. And that is
not al!. Real estate is only one of the small packages handed to the
workers by this wasteful system. The newspaper advertising itself
is all a waste. No one person is to blame and the writer is a heavy
advertiser and has sold real estate, but under right conditions all
this would be unnecessary, and it is a fact that the producers, who
are also the consumers, pay for all this advertising.
Die radicals claim that capitalist concentration is mercilessly
crushing the class of small business men and driving its members
into the ranks of property less wage-workers. The overwhelming
majority of the people of America are living forced under a yoke of
bondage by this soulless industrial despotism.
Now, if this is so, and if it is true that the workers’ energies
arc being so wantonly wasted, it is no wonder that multitudes of
unemployed walk the streets of our cities or trudge from state to
state a • aiting the will of the masters to move the wheels of indus
,’v, . nd that farmers in every state are plundered by the increas-
in mi es exacted for tools and machinery and by extortionate
rent, freight rates and storage charges.
Then added to all the waste spoken of, we have the increasing
burden of armaments, the poverty, slums, child labor, most of the
insanity, crime and prostitution, and much of the disease that af
flicts mankind, all l»ecause we are selfishly fighting as individuals
for existence, for a living, for a home or for wealth. It looks to a
"feller up a tree" as though industry has been carried on long
enough for private greed and that it should now be managed by
the people themselves for the general welfare of society.
Is it so, and if not, why not? This idea of a government such
as Lincoln advocated, “by the |>eople and for the people,” is bitterly-
opposed by the Roman Catholic church toward whom the great
bloated capitalists are beginning to turn for protection. Friends
and patriots, there is no mistaking the issue; there is no doubt as
to war being declared; there is absolutely no esca)>e from this con-
llict between the idea of "government by the people,” and the idea
it "one man" or one set of men governing for the privilege of liv
ing in luxury and ease and for their progeny to do likewise. The
issue is, as of old, liberty against slavery.
To help arouse the jieople against the enemy, who has already
too much power, is our mission and we hope to do our part in
bringing about a better civilization in a world that should belong to
the workers instead of to the shirkers, a world of happy industry
instead of a world of wasted energies, a world in which all can
work to the best advantage of all—a world in which "if any will
not work, neither shall he eat."
1 HE GEM 1HEATRE,
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mopictures
Never Gets Old
ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS
Instructive and Educative.
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Still llna tlw Agency of the
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HE PREHISTORIC MAN had awful enemies to fight which
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weather prospects, and not being able tojeason much on its
relation to himself if he had, he was surprised in camp w hen
extreme cold or heat attacked him;'and being all unprepared his
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struggle was very hard. Thousands of our remote ancestors suc
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cumbed to the cold and storms of winter w here now old and young
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enjoy the change, for we are prepared. Matches have been invent
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ed only a short time. Warm clothing, and stoves and well-made
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houses are, speaking from an historical standpoint, things of to
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day; and only yesterday our naked, unclothed and untutored an
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cestor lived in a cave or in a rude nest crudely laid up without the
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use of hammer, nail, axe or plane. The early fight against the cold
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and heat and storm was indeed a fierce one, but the fight against
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wild animals which liked the taste of human flesh found another
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parallel in the fight against diseases. Millions fell in the struggle
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against dread, individual, physical conditions that now are easily
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overcome as soon as they are met; and the multitudes that have
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gone dow n, in what to us would be a senseless struggle is aw ful to
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contemplate. But the fight against each other seems the most
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senseless of all. Tribes captured members of other tribes, and like
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wild beasts that they were, they devoured them. Then came the
idea and the practice of making wives and slaves of captives. Then
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came wars for the possession of territory and other property, until
we come to the fight of today. Of course, all through our history
the individual fight of different members of the same tribe has
beeu going on; hut this kind of struggle was much reduced when
the common enemy needed the undivided attention of all members.
But what of today’s battle? Some, especially the weak, the
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aged and the young, in and out of pur large cities, are fiercely
fighting the cold. The ties of the early tribes which bound us to
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gether and gave the best protection possible against the common
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foe, seems to have been worn out, and only the rich, or at least the
well-to-do among us, are safe and sound in warm houses, made
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possible by the combined work of many hands; and while some of
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us strut about with warm clothing covering our tender limbs, thou
sands and millions are still fighting and falling—cut down by the
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So it is with disease; he who has the price can have protection
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even by the use of quarantine from the evils from which his more
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unfortunate brothers suffer; and as to wild animals which former
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ly devoured us, the man with the big stick, called money, can use
N THE FIRST PLACE you must have a strong desire to make
them as playthings for himself and his children. Nor do our mod
it. This is called love of money by some, but never mind the
ern, civilized nations capture wives or slaves from each other. As
I handle Mueller Brass Goods, Standard Enamelware
croakers.
Forget everything else and put your mind right to
the struggle against outside forces and peoples have lessened, our
Hydraulic Rams, Pneumatic Water Systems. 1 can
the
work
until
there
is
nothing
else
worth
while:
Then
the
main fight seems to be man against man. We seem like a pack of
make it worth your while to see me alxiut your
wolves which have no other game to fight for, and have turned battle is more than half won. But one troublesome thing that
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against each other, till every mother’s son of us seems to be at often keeps people from success( ?) is cowardice. Don’t be a cow
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ard,
and
you
remember
that
Shakespeare
said
that
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conscience
every other one's throat.
makes
cowards
of
all
of
us.
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So
get
rid
of
conscience
as
quickly
as
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DAVENPORT
The old enemies can all be easily vanquished by modern man.
In fact, the old-time enemies are summed up in one word—"Ignor possible and your battle for money-getting is about won. Of :r JOB1NO A SPECIALTY.
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ance.” The knowledge of how to build, and weave, and weld, and course, although you have lots of money, you have lost a very val
raise, and harness, and regulate, has overcome to a wonderful ex uable thing if your conscience is entirely leaked out, and again you
tent the early enemies of mankind. But the devil of “Ignorance” have lost many opportunities for self-improvement, friendships
has taken on another form. Tribes took good things from other and one thing and another that would have been nice to possess,
tribes. They learned to take what they had not produced. In bdt you can’t get something for nothing, and you've got what you
other words we h'ave learned to live on the fruits of other’s labor, love most, so hug it to your leadened heart till they both are melt
and this habit, now being turned from its old-time course, runs in ed with fervent heat. "There shall be weeping and gnashing of
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another channel: We rob one another and call it business. We teeth.”
There
is
no
sane
man
or
woman
in
the
world
who
can
believe
are so hardened that the best of us sit down to a meal of good
things and many times never thing of the poor old, feeble man or that this present day race for money is worth while. It can only
little child, of the same tribe, next door, perhaps, who is still fight result in one thing, and that is the destruction of civilization itself.
Money begets money and a few families are sure to come into pos
ing the old-time enemies of cold, or hunger, or disease.
What is the cause of the crimes of today, the suicides, the session of practically all the wealth of the world. Now suppose
wretchedness, the little pinched faces of starved children, the look that these families unite and force on to their subjects the kind of
of care and fright on the faces of thousands of helpless aged men government and the kind of religion they think best fitted for
and aged women? The cause is the same that allowed the cave slaves. And this is just what will happen. It is just what is nap I
bear to devour our children and our old, helpless grandparents pining right now and we are so stupid as to wait and wait for
when we lived in caves and went out to search for food or to fight son; •♦■ring to save us when the only way we can possibly be saved
an enemy. It was lack of knowledge then—it is ignorance now. is to save ourselves. Do you know how many Roman Catholics
If the old grandsire who was left in the cave with the children had there are in New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco com
possessed a Winchester rifle, the monstrous bear would have do pared with all other denominations? The facts are startling! The
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nated his warm coat to the family instead of dining on their flesh; great monied interests with the co-partnership of the Roman
and today, instead of our modern sable-toothed tiger taking from Catholic church and its parasite, the liquor traffic, intends to con
our storehouse of wealth, food and clothing and shelter to the tune trol this whole great country. Are we going to let them do it?
of $92,160 per day—a dollar every time our poor old grandpa’s | If we intend to do anything about it, it would be well not to wait
heart beats, every time our poor little piched-faced, starving baby’s and lock the barn after the horse is stolen. Every state should lie
heart beats—instead of this, we repeat, if we had knowledge of the | thoroughly organized at once. Every anti-f'atholic paper, every
necessary economic principles of society, they would be harnessed anti-trust paper and every anti-saloon paper should be kept run-1
The Program for Next Sunday.
with the rest of us to the chariot of success, and all men would 1 ning. The candidates for office should be forced to show their'
Opening Song.
hand so an intell gent vote can be obtained, and a law should be at
lie wording for the good of all.
Adilri-MH—“Problem of lite I nemployed."
Nor must we imagine that the great thick-skinned, ravenous once passed to m pect every public institution including convents,
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human tiger like the one above described, is the only kind of dread monasteries and schools. This can only be done by our anti papers,,
Inatrumental Mimic.
animal among us. The hold-up’s, the lazy tramp, the confidence and their boycott must be overcome by subscription support. There
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man, the hypocrite, the grafter, the procuress, the proprietor and is certainly something worth more than money and what is it un
"Why I Am a Soeialiat," 21.
the private agent of the dive, and thousands of human animals less it is the preservation of our liberties, and their enjoyment,
Debate, 13 ami 19.
who care nothing for law or truth or brotherhood, are everywhere. after a well-earned victory, by ourselves and our postwity?
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The woods are full of the worst kind of enemies and they are
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creeping in upon us, dragging hundreds of thousands every year
Mimic and Social Time.
THE LOST SOULS.
from our homes and devouring them.
EVERYBODY WELCOME. COME!
Life is a great struggle. Time is passing. In the great and
glorious future civilization, when the enemies which now destroy
HE NOBLEST SOULS who have ever lived have been lost in
our happiness have been conquered, and Jhe fight toward the light
the fierce fire of human greed or the confusing battle of
has succeeded, and true political principles are understood, and all I
Cut thlH out, Rt»rri and send to the Secty. J. E. lllazer, Silverton, Oregon
man’s inhumanity to man. To be great a man or woman
the modern tigers and bulls and bears have taken on a different I
must be mentally well balanced, be broad-minded, have keen
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE
form—have been tamed and domesticated—how crude will our I perception and natural goodness, be filled with love for the truth
SOCIALIST PARTY
methods of warfare look to those blessed creatures who have been and with an overwhelming desire to be of great service to his or her
I, the under>li<n<v1, reeoirnlzlnv therlaaa atrmrirle liatween the rnpltallzt rlanr and the
freed from the enemies of the twentieth century. With what horror fellowmen. Such a man or woman quickly comprehends the right
working cl«»«, and the nt" exzlly of the working < In-» rontilltiitlnir Itaelf Into a political party
and pity will they look upon the death of a child by starvation in a -id • to all great public questions and is brave enough to point it
dlrtlm t from and o|,poned Io all parti, » formed by the rapltahal clam,, hereby declare that I
have H-vrrol my relation» with all other parile», and I Indome the platform and ,'onatltutlon
land of plenty, or the forced suicide of a mother, or the murder of a out, but it is sad to say that such have thus far been lost to the
of the Sociali»! Party. IneludinK tlo- principle of political action, and hereby apply foi ad-
miaaion to »aid party.
brother for gold! We look back at the cave man; they will look world because of those who oppose the truth. Up to this point
back at us. The cave man did his part; we will do ours, and the ¡ only those who have seen one unrecognized truth, or at least only
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great, noble men and women of the future will have their duties,' worked in one field of advanced thought, have survived, been rec
their struggles also; but, as their enemies will be less, their happi ognized and followed as great leaders. The broad-minded, best
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ness will be greater and their progress much more rapid toward types of our race have been lost forever. And why, do you ask?
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perfection.
Because there has never been a large enough number of people
who thought right along all lines to save him or her from the ig
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IS IT SO?
norant mob or from the king, the priest or the priestly powers.
These enemies would destroy the smartest, the bravest, the wisest,
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in declaring that the capitalist system has outgrown its his mere dislike and those who have been most nearly right in every
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torical function and has become utterly incapable of meet thing, lost support in one direction because of the wrong ¡fleas of
ing the problems now confronting society? Should we de or e class, in another direction because of the ignorance of another their lips, even if only in a whisper, and treasured it and passed it
nounce this system as incompetent and corrupt and the source of and in another direction because the prejudice against his or her down until today some truth has been won and now enjoyed by all.
unspeakable misery to the whole working class?
truth discoveries was too great to overcome.
O, the cruel past and the still cruel present! Will there come a
Some even go so far as to claim that the industrial equipment
And so the majority of men and women have been forced to time when a majority of the so-called civilized world will be willinga .
of the nation has passed into the absolute control of plutocracy, agree with their adversaries quickly or the adversary would de and anxious to know the truth even if it upsets some preconceived '
which exacts an annual tribute of hundreds of millions of dollars liver them to the judge and the judge deliver them to the officer, notions or interferes with business? How else can this be done ex
from the producers, and that, unafraid of any organized resistance, andpthey would be cast into prison, crucified, hung, burned alive, cept by giving every one a careful and golden rule hearing? We
it stretches out its greedy hands over the still undeveloped re or in more modern days, black-listed, branded as crazy, ostracised still poison every Socrates’, crucify every Savior, burn the Brunovs
sources of the nation the land, the mines, the forests and water- and lost forever to the world of thought—lost, did we say? Yes at the stake and dance around the golden calf or fall on our faces to
powers of every state in the Union.
;n«l no. Lost for the great wonderful good that might have been false gods while “Love” is blasphemed and the sons of Love de
If this is not figurative language, if it is really and truly and done, but not entirely lost, for some one heard the truth from scend into hell.
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