(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, •> mopictures Never Gets Old ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS Instructive and Educative. I A ♦ ♦ R. H. ROBINSON Still llna tlw Agency of the HENDERSON FOUR CYLINDER : MOTORCYCLE HE PREHISTORIC MAN had awful enemies to fight which The 1914 Model ia Hard to Beat J we brush aside with a smile. Knowing nothing of future + + + ++++ + + + + + + + + 4 + +4 + + + + + + X + + + + + + + + + + + + + ♦+++++♦ + + + + + 4 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 * struggle was very hard. Thousands of our remote ancestors suc­ ♦ Phone Black 1212. Coolidge Street. ♦ ♦ cumbed to the cold and storms of winter w here now old and young ♦ ♦ enjoy the change, for we are prepared. Matches have been invent­ Build This Spring When the Birds Do, ed only a short time. Warm clothing, and stoves and well-made ♦ ♦ houses are, speaking from an historical standpoint, things of to­ ♦ * f day; and only yesterday our naked, unclothed and untutored an­ Get a Nest of Your Own è cestor lived in a cave or in a rude nest crudely laid up without the ♦ ♦ use of hammer, nail, axe or plane. The early fight against the cold ♦ It will not cost you much you may think, if you employ ♦ and heat and storm was indeed a fierce one, but the fight against ♦ wild animals which liked the taste of human flesh found another ♦ ♦ BEN HOFSTETTER parallel in the fight against diseases. Millions fell in the struggle ♦ : against dread, individual, physical conditions that now are easily ( oiilrachH Mint Builder. overcome as soon as they are met; and the multitudes that have ♦ Milverton, Oregon. . ♦ gone dow n, in what to us would be a senseless struggle is aw ful to ♦ contemplate. But the fight against each other seems the most ♦♦♦ senseless of all. Tribes captured members of other tribes, and like * wild beasts that they were, they devoured them. Then came the idea and the practice of making wives and slaves of captives. Then J Phone Main 2<>9 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 SALEM, ORE. 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 / American and Europium Plan All good outside rooms I gether and gave the best protection possible against the common / CENTRALLY LOCATED 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 J MRS. MAE IVIE, Proprietor possible by the combined work of many hands; and while some of 4 us strut about with warm clothing covering our tender limbs, thou­ sands and millions are still fighting and falling—cut down by the ................ , . . . . only enemy. f <». So it is with disease; he who has the price can have protection IRL B. LYONS 4 even by the use of quarantine from the evils from which his more 4 HOW TO M \KE MONEY. ■f unfortunate brothers suffer; and as to wild animals which former­ ; 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 HOP DRYER PIPES 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 : ard, and you remember that Shakespeare said that “ conscience every other one's throat. makes cowards of all of us. ” So get rid of conscience as quickly as J. H. ' 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. PHONE BLUE 1PJ1 1 ; 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 •1) 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 MEETINGS EVERY SUNDAY AT 2:30 1’. M. 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, ((ueHtioriH. 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 Fi ye- M i nil t e S peer lien. 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? Vocal Music, f> and 12. The woods are full of the worst kind of enemies and they are Short Talka 23 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