slavery and as great as was the preservation of our Union, yet
greater will be the international victory when the millions of both
white and black toiling soldier slaves have the shackles of ecnomic
slavery, which is the basis of all other slavery, stricken from their
limbs, and all over the world those in bondage are rvally set free.
Œh Silverton journal
Published every Friday morning at Silverton. Oregon, by
J. E. HOSMER. Editor.
Subscription, $1.00 per year, in advance. Single
copies. 6 cents.
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ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS
Instructive and Educative.
E HAVE NO PERSONAL ENMITY against any Catholic
on earth, but we are lighting with all the power we have,
under present limitations, against Catholicism, Iwcause
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but because we an* thoroughly convinced that those in control of f
the organization are planning to get control and Catholicize the I
R. H. ROBINSON
United States. Each human being has a perfect right to believe
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as he or she chooses but when a belief, pretended or otherwise, is
commercalized and organized into a systematic robbery of inno­ : HENDERSON FOUR CYLINDER - - • •
cent victims, that is another thing. Right here in Oregon old fat
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magic charms and public publications to save people from diseases
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government and we have a social cancer that may take an operation
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Build
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Whenthe
Birds
Do,
diagnosed the case the abnormal growth will be removed in one
way or in another. Of course the dear old doctor has been over
worked lately and is a little sleepy, but if we all help him get at the
Get a Nest of Your Own
facts he will certainly show us the remedy to apply.
But the thing for us to do, while the doctor is getting ready, is • •
It will not ront you
much a. you may thiiA, If you employ
to set our house in order; throw up the curtains; let in the light;
throw away the morphia doj>e with the dollar mark on the late)
BEN HOFSTETTER
and back up our prayers with the kind of work that shows that our
Contractor and Builder.
faith is not yet dead. Uncle Sam must be saved from this Roman
Silverton, Oregon.
disease at any cost. If you see the doctor tell him to hurry.
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This paper utanda for freedom of thought. free­
dom of the press, freedom of speech, equality of
opportunity and the religion of riyrhteousness It
is radically opposed to every form of superstition
and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form
of avil.
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Never Gets Old
THE OLD DOCTOR IS COMING.
Entered at the postoffice at Silverton. Oregon,
at second-class rates.
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“CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY.
By J. E. HOSMER
GET AND HOLD.
Get the pennies, get the dollars, get the millions, get the earth;
tearn to love “the root of evil" from the very day of birth.
Rent and interest, toll and profit—think, maneuver, study, fight.
Till your health and hopes have perished in old Mammon’s hellish
night.
LOVE AND WORK.
Love your neighbor, love the nation, love them all—your fellow
men;
Learn to love the truth—defend it, with your voice and with your
pen;
Righ and progress, law and justice—talk and argue, study, plan;
Let your life work shine effulgent, and in dying, die a man.
THE UPRISING.
THE GEM THEATRE,
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N EXCHANGE, in a long article that is a long ways from
REJOICE AND WORK
any solution of the problem under discussion, starts out
with: “The uprising, as in a night, of an army like the
HINGS ARE PRETTY BAD, and when you get wise as to J Phone Main 209
RATES: Single Meal 25 cents
Kelly army in California, is a serious thing, for it carries
how bad they are, it will shock you; but wisdom will also
Rooms 50 cts and up
with it a direct menace to free institutions.” How would it do to
give you the ability to rejoice over the fact that you now
say this in just a little different way and see how it looks? The
know how bad they are and that you thus have the know­
uprising, of the billionaires, the money power in America, while ledge neccessary
help make them tetter. Nobody but a weak­ I
the producers have toiled, is a serious thing, for it carries with it ling will give up to
just
because he finds, conditions worse than he
a direct, a powerful and a continuous menace to the people, and before thought they were.
is the prime cause of the trouble in California and every other
SALEM, ORE.
person with character will double his or her energy, unite
state in the Union. The enemies of the people are getting to­ with A others
and
with
a
smile
forward
march
to
tetter
things.
/ American and European Plan
All good outride nxims
gether because the people are getting wise to their schemes of
Spend no time in vain regretting.
exploitations, and these enemies must unite in order to crush out
f
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Cease this hour all useless fretting.
the independent spirit that means liberty for the masses and
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MRS. MAE IVIE, Proprietor
Fill your heart with hope and gladness,
death to the wholesale robbery of the workers. The great
Shut
and
lock
the
door
on
sadness
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triumverate of the evil band of glutted parasites is composed of
Forward, march!
the socalled great Captains of Industry, the Catholic Hierarchy and
That’s the key note to success, and if there are enough sturdy
the Organized Liquor Traffic. These powers are making poverty,
crime, misery, and the armies of the unemployed, and they will plants in this great garden of humanity to save the world from
IRL B. LYONS
crush “The Silverton Journal" for telling you about it if you lei the horrible conditions that superstitution, stimulants and
narcotics and exploitation has brought us to, we’ll lie saved to the
them do it.
They are the worst enemies any man or any business ever had. uttermost. Be strong therefore. Rejoice in your work for
They are enemies of the people because they are enemies to a righteousness, no matter what happens. Forward march!
government based on equality of opportunity. Every one of these
1 handle Mueller Brass Goods, Standard Enamelware
powers want to use the people for their own enrichment and they ;
WAR NO MORE POPULAR.
Hydraulic Rams, Pneumatic Water Systems. 1 can
have become so glutted, bigoted and overbearing that scarcely any­
make
it worth your while to see me about your
.
one dare say a word against them*. Then they have thousands
HAT SENSE is there for any country to declare war with
and millions of their victims buncoed to such an extent that even
HOP DRYER PIPES
out soldiers? And do you know that the thinking |H>ople
the brains of many of the working people work in favor of these,
of all the civilized countries are against all kinds of war,
Successor to
their worst enemies.
J. H. DAVENPORT
excepting in actual self defense in case of invasion. There
The exchange mentioned, speaks of the abuse of free speech, is no danger however of any invasion whatever, either of the
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and thinks that a certain well known speaker’s mouth should be United States or of England or of France, Germany, Russia or of 4 : JOBING A SPECIALTY.
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quarantined. But free speech can not be abused, and this same Scandinavia. Therefore war is a dead issue. To be sure in case
quarantine business is only another way of opposing free speech. big business precipitates war with Mexico our regular soldiers will
The enemies of the people, the enemies of justice and equality wil be forced to go, but even then, with no patriotic citizen soldiers to
all appland and patronize our capitalistic exchange for working back up the movement, it will be a tame affair like going out to
MEETINGS EVERY SUNDAY AT 2:30 1’. M.
for his rich advertisers, but it’s a long road that has no turn in it, butcher a few of our neighbors cattle that have destroyed some of
and thinking people are beginning to see that this system of ex­ our rich relatives grain, It wouldn’t last long and would only he
ploitation contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. another lesson in true political economy which will finally result
Do as this plutocratic exchange advocates—“teach the boys to be in no wars at all.
industrious, honest and progressive,” and with such enemies as
But what will the smart rich do when the fool workers von’t
the great powers controling our industries, and our government, fight any longer? In tht first nlace they will have m<»e respect
they will join the hobo crowd by the thousands. The more for the workers, In the second place they will begin to be a little
workers there are the less the wages, so, when the wages get so more careful how they exploit the workers, and in the third place
low and the cost of living so high that the workers can not live they will, voluntarily or by necessity, join he real industrial work­
without stealing or vagging, then many of them will stop trying ers ot the world and because good, productive, useful citizens, and
to work. It is impossible for every one in the United States to be rejoice in the great reward of “a more perfect Union."
industrious and saving to the point of having even a thousanc
dollars ahead, for there is not that much money or wealth left from
or favor in order to make his religion
THE FORWARD LOOKERS
what the workers produce after the millionaires and billionaires
powerful or popular. He does not
take what they claim as their share. There must be hobos and “Concluding remarks in an address seek
to supplant the governor with
unemployed as long as there are a few families wno have the by Dr. John Emerson Roberts on the pri«
st or the president with the
power, through theft, inheritance or manipulation to own the “The Jews’’ delivered at Howards pope. He
is self-centered, satisfied,
earth and the fullness thereof.
Theatre, Chicago.”
sincere. With dignified exclusiveness
Yes, indeed the uprising of the Money Power of this country “And the world has learned the best i and proud independence, he main-
and their work of crushing the workers to the point of despair, lesson
of all, I think, from the Jew
his faith and cherishes his ideals
ruin and hoboism is a serious thing and unless this uprising begins in this: The Jew has shown how a . tains
and asks no favor but to be let alone.
to subside the mob will crush our much boasted civilization and man can be intensely loyal to his re­ He is the world’s forward looker; in
Cut thia out. sign and tend to the Secty. J. E. Blazer. Silverton. Oregon
we will follow in the footsteps of our illustrious predecessors, the
and keep that religion to him­ that at least let us join him, let us
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE
ancient nations that fell when a few smart ( ?) Captains of Industry- ligion
self. The world has been reddened believe that the time is yet coming,
owned nearly all the wealth.
SOCIALIST PARTY
with blood because of the wretched that the years are on the way, when
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EVERYBODY
THE COMING EMANCIPATION.
MAN OVER SEVENTY YEARS OLD who fought in the
Civil war to save this country from dissolution, is charged a
dollar a day as taxes on his little home and a small piece of
property he fought for after the war. He now says that a
man would be a fool to go to Mexico and stand up to be shot at to
protect “big business.”
But some claim that big business pays a much larger tax than
this old soldier and if big business didn’t the old soldier’s taxes
would be still higher. But if a man has a million dollars and even
pays half of it for the privilege of staying in a country saved by
the old soldiers he would then have half a million left which would
be more than the old soldier has left after his risk of being killed
to save the country and his hard work of getting his little home.
In fact a half million is a monsterous amount for one man to
possess when many of the old soldiers haven’t even a home of their
own. The unpatriotic citizen who stayed at home and laid the
foundation for a million dollar fortune, while the patriotic soldier
volunteered to go and fight for the Union, can now easily pay a big
tax and still ride in his taxicab, while the old soldier can go afoot,
meditate on the rewards of patriotism and worry about raising
enough in some way to pay his taxes after keeping the wolf from
the door another year. But the soldier in actual war is not the
only one who suffers from an unjust system. The men and women
who in the industrial war make way for our country’s progress can
pay all the surplus they are able to save in a year for the privilege
of owning a home, while those, who, through speculation theft,
accident or inheritance have secured a thousand times more than
any one man could possibly earn in a whole life time, can pay a
much larger rate and still own money power enough to create, in
one year, more wealth than a thousand workers possess. Is there
anything just in the present system of taxation?
After the Civil war was over, Abraham Lincoln expressed fear
of this very thing that has come upon us. He was one man in ten
thousand that could have helped the country from falling into this
pit which the love of money has dug for us, but the Catholic
Hierarchy put him out of the way and who will now lead us out of
this last and worst slavery ? We evidently must lead ourselves out
this time, and it will need many united on the intellectual plane
in this war, for as great as was the emancipation from black
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egotism of religions which have said, we shall outgrow our dogmas and
“We have the universal faith, the overpeer our religions; when we shall
gospel that must predominate,” and have no religion but justice, no God
it doesn’t make any
difference but liberty and no service but that
whether the saying is “The world for of man of man.—Contributed
Mahomet” or “The world for Christ,”
it is the same thing in effect.
DRI NKARD FACTORY
“A great majority of the people in
this world haven’t any more use for
Saloons can no more run without
Christ than they have for Mahomet boys than a flour mill can run without
or for Zoroaster. If the nations of wheat, or a lumber mill without logs.
the world have any right at all, that As drunkards die off, boys must take
right is to make a religion that suits their places. Drunkards are the nat­
themselves. There is nothing more ural product of the licensed saloon,
grotesque, more ludicrous, more inde­ and some man’s daughter must be
fensible, than our Christian egotism the wife of a drunkard. If a man
which says that we must take our could realize that he had to furnish
Bible, our God, our Christ, and our th' boy to make the drunkard and the
plan of salvation around the whole girl to make the drunkard’s wife, he
world. The Jew has been modest. would not be a true father if he in
His religion has been good enough for any way encouraged the liquor traffic.
him. He has not tried to proselyte.
I believe that every man who, in
The man who advocates a plan to take j . any way, encourages the continuation
America for Christ, or the world for 1 of the liquor saloon deserves that his
Christ, and receive thousands and i | boy die a drunkard and his daughter
thousands of dollars in advance pay- j i live and die in the embrace of a
ment for the job are simply capitaliz- I | drunken husband.
ing the ignorance and prejudice of
If not, why not? He knows that
God’s elect. A man has not great some father has to furnish them.
faith in h’s religion unless he is Does he hope it will be your son or
satisfied it will stand the strain though daughter? If so, he is as mean as the
it stand alone in all the world. If he devil, for the devil himself couldn’t
has confidence in his religion, he does do worse.
J. G. ADAMS.
not ask to have it substantiate by the
crowd, or by numbers, or by the en­
FEARS DEATH.
dorsement of high heads or low heads.
The Jew stands apart and alone. He
Hans Schmidt, convicted of the
asks simply to be let alone in his re­ murder of Anna Aumuller, and sen­
ligion. He does not walk in the tenced to die in the electric chair,
street garbed and gowned in such a has abandoned the sham that he want­
way as to proclaim his faith. He ed to die, and was not in favor of the
does not ask for political preferment effort of his attorney to free him of
WELCOME
I, the undersigned, recognizing theclaa« struggle Ixtwren the capitalist class and the
working class, and the necessity of the working class constituting itself into a political party
distinct from and opposed to all parties formed by the capitalist class, hereby declare that I
have severed my relations with all other parties, and I indorse the plat form and constitution
of the Socialist Party, including the principle of political action, and hereby apply fur ad­
mission to said party.
Name__________
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send the J ournal to
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the criminal charge. The pretense
failed to convince the jury that he
was insane. Hence there is no
necessity to he insane. The new
course is to prove that the death of
Anna Aumuller was the result of an
illegal operation. On this appeal,
Hans Schmidt has heen granted a
stay of execution, and will no doubt
be given a new trial.—Ex.
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