Œbf ^ilhrton journal
Publish««! every Friday morning at Silverton. Oregon, by
J. E. HOSMER. Editor.
Entered at the poetoffice at Silverton, Oregon,
at «•cond-cla»« rate«.
Subscription. >1.00 per year, in advance. Single
copies. 6 cent«.
Advertising rate« made known upon applica
tion.
Thia paper aland* for freedom of thought, free
dom of the pre««. freedom of speech, equality of
opportunity and the reliirion of rigrhteouanv««
It
io radically opposed to every form of superstition
and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form
of evil.
A TRUTH SEEKING AGE.
secret societies. The following clipped from a Catholic paiieri
shows exactly where the shoe pinches:
“There is religou m the lodges, but it is not the religion that is
taught in the Bible.
“To many men, the lodge takes the place of the church.
"Some would have us believe that membership in some of the
I resent day lodges is a sun* passport to heaven.
"All that is good in the lodge is in the church in greater degree.
"There would be no foundation for the majority of the lodges,
were there no church.
"One lodge of 250 members raise«! $10,000 in a year for a new
home. Think of the sacrifice necessary to raise a similar amont
for the church.
" Men cheerfully give a dollar or two to the lodge each month, < >
but when they go to church they finger over their change to find
a cent for the collection. If they be real generous they give a
live-cent piece.
“The so-called lienevolent orders will keep a member in good < >
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standing only as long as he can pay his dues.”
The $10,000 raise«! for a home and not for the Church, and the < >
small collections, is exactly what makes the dear holy fathers
frantic. But when the lodge builds a home for orphens, every
body is welcome to go in and see what is going on inside, in fact
the management is anxious to show the public all about it. But
what about convents and monasteries? And how would it be if
the lodges would all disband and give liberally to the Catholic < >
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Church?
"For the love of Mike,”
Keep up the fight,
Nor let U S die
Of Roman blight.
THE GEM THEATRE,
mo S r ES
Never Gets Old
ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS
Instructive and Educative.
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(oolidge Street.
Plume Black 1242.
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Get a Nest of Your Own
E THE PEOPLE (the majority) have been very narrow
and have allowed ourselves to lie cooped up in some lit th*
It will not rout j<»u no much uh you muy think, if you employ
dogmatic creed and refused to investigate any other.
These old days of clannishness are passing away, and it
is now held to be the part of wisdom to investigate all creeds, all
Contractor anti Builder.
religions, all political systems, and to give every intelligent in
dividual a hearing. Because of this new and broader view of
Silverton, l)rex»n.
things our universites are giving courses in Socialism and other
proposed economic changes; free presses are publishing long lec
tures on Christian Science, Adventism and other systems of re
ligious thought; schools of Mechano-Therapy, Osteopathy anil
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Chiropractic theories are springing up in our large cities anti the
RATES: Singh* Meal 25 cent«
Phone Main 209
lines between the old schools and the new schools of thought are
Rooms 50 et h and up
gradually fading away. This is to be a great truth seeking age. IXIIISI’RIU. REVIEW OF STATE. of promoting industrial development
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Saturday,
April
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Truth is what we want, no matter where it is found and it is a
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Astoria
is
putting
on
a
strong
cam
very’ silly thing for us to cling to our ideas with out careful and Manufacturing Enterprises and
paign to secure th«* us«* of woim I blocks
frequent examination with the light from the other fellow’s lamp. proveniente Providing Payrolls
for pavements in that city in future.
The Silverton Journal is an open forum. The Catholic people, Promoting State Development.
The use of Oregon building stone
SALEM, ORE.
as we understand it, are not allowed to attend any church but
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opposition to further legislation
their own. Their priests thus oppose the principles of freedom and Prepare«! by the State Bureau of
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All
giMxl
outside
rooms
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American
and
European
Plan
against
industries
will
be
th«*
two
the sacred duty of investigation, and yet our columns are open
and Statistics.
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slogans at Eugene, May 9.
CENTRALLY LOCATED
even to the Catholics. We would be glad to know more and to Industries
A creamery has b«*en secured for
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have our readers know more about the Catholic’s claim, from Heppner,
FOR EXCHANGE
but the packing house ha-**
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their own point of view.
been
dropped
for
the
present.
..Ask
about
these
beautiful
lots
in
By giving every one a chance, Truth will finally conquor all its
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fruit ami vege- th«* town of ( loverdale,. Sanomn. Co., 4
enemies and the human family thus be saved from the awful West Salem has a ¡»laut
ready for: California, one of the most, prisluct-
punishment now being suffered in nature’s reformatory for our table evaporating
business.
ive and th«* finest climate in any part
errors.
The psalmist has said: “Who can understand his errors? Cottage Grove is within a few hun- of California. .The price of these lots ...... ,................................................... ♦ • • *.............................. ...................... . . .
dollars of having a cannery.
is from $150 to $200
Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also tired
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IRL B. LYONS
In many counties legislative candi
This is your golden opportunity .
from presumptuous sins; let them not haw dominion over me: dates
are ¡>le«lging themselves to in the Golden State of Sunshine. The :
then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great enact no
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more laws to interfere with lots are free and clear of debt. I will
transgression.”
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or business.
se'l or exchange all or any ¡»art of
He or she who has an intellect has a great power for good, a industries
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Caples
an«i
Co.
are
erecting
a
two-
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20
lots
for
anything
anywhere.
Mak«*
great light, but if it is hidden in a dark alley, if it is kept secret, story brick general merchandise store,
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handle
Mueller
Brass
Goods,
Standard
Enamelware
me an offer!
if it is used only to lighten the pirate ship of greed or if it becomes
Hydraulic Rains, Pneumatic Water Systems. I can
by 70 feet, at Forest Grove.
H. E. Brown, over Journal Office.
presumptious, taking undue liberties, then it becomes worthless, 66 The
make it worth your while to see me alxiut your
North Bend Lumber Co., will
a false pilot for its owner and a menace to our race. The Brother extend its docks to the harbor line.
HOP DRYER PIPES
hood of Man will be very near to us when the investigation has Astoria will erect first unit of a $25,000 for Exchange.
360
acres
good
land,
40
reached the point where all theological fences have been broken
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million dollar public dock.
acres in cultivation, 80 acres good pas
J. H.U DAVENPORT
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down. The coming race will be without dogmatic creed or clannish half
Toledo Lumber Co. resumes opera ture, good new house and barn, well
religion. To establish verifiable Truth and to live in its sunshine tion
JOBING A SPECIALTY.
PHONE BLUE 1191
of sawmill and logging camps. and creek water; 15,000,000 feet yel
will be the religion of all.
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Over twenty persons are already low fir saw timber, donkey engine, saw
We have been living in our own little valley and just across the employed,
besides the Commissioners, mill planers, everything including a
mountain the enemy lived. They were our enemies because we did
$3600. ¡»er year on the new work full equipment of tools goes with the
not know them. Our medicine men, economic, religious and at
ingmen
’s compensation act.
place. Will take up to $16,000 in trade
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political, have ignorantly and selfishly kept us prejudiced. They Sheridan
has organize«! a fruit or cash and give terms to suit pur
have dreaded, and hated the change that might come over us if
’ cannery association with chaser.
For further information,
we caught our neighbor tribe’s ideas. Out of this narrow, clan- ! growers
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$8,000 capital stock.
write
to
or
call on H. E. Brown, Sil
nishness, we are now happily evolving, but we are not out yet, and D. A. Paine will erect a two-story verton, Oregon.
“therefore is judgement far from us, neither doth justice overtake concrete warehouse at Eugene.
us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity, for brightness, but we One of the latest Oregon industries
For Sale.
walk in darkness.”
is a sugar of milk factory that utilizes
$10,300
for
almost
acres on good
The people over the mountain were all right, in many respects, the whey from the Tillamook cheese macadam road, close 104
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Silverton, 8-
they wære in error and so were we. False patriotism is being factories.
room house, 3 large new barns, 85
wiped out as we know them better and we no longer want to force The Eugene school board will go acres in crop, balance fine pasture;
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our creed or our system onto them, but with them, we wish to dis ahead
with plans for a high school well, creek ami spring water. Fences
cover the best, which alone is based on the Truth, and then we will authorized by the people, in spite of all new, woven wire. Family orchard,
live the Truth and enjoy it with all.
of referendum.
berries ami garden; enough fir and oak
HERE IT IS, ( HEAP FOR ( ASII
Reader, have you any holy oil of mental liberty in your lamp, threat
The Northwestern Fru»l Exchange wood for fuel; $5000 cash, balance 7
Will give reasonable terms:
or are you at this twentieth century feast like one of the foolish w'll erect a warehouse at Hood River ¡»er cent, terms to suit. This is the
If you are looking for aomething
virgins ?
to handle this year’s crop.
best-paying farm for the price which
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COTTAGE HOTEL
SILVERTON’S PROGRESSIVE PLUMBER
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THE RIGHT WILL WIN.
S SOON AS THE PEOPLE FIND OUT that any idea which
they have believed, is wrong and doing them harm they
are not slow to drop it. To be sure, it sometimes takes a
long time to get the truth in the minds of the majority
where error has had control for years but that it can be done is
evidenced by the "dry” territory that now covers Uncle Sam’s
map and the happy prospect of its vast extention. Lie after lie
from the lips and pens of financially interested parasites have
held us in bondage for years. One of these lies has recently been
demonstrated to the full satisfaction of Oregon people.. The lie
in question is that the expulsion of the saloons would leave vacant
buildings in a town, that people would move out and that the place
would become a dead town.
Salem, Silverton and every other dry town in the state
knocks this old falsehood into a cocked hat, and the best of it is
that no one can ever again really believe it. Salem went dry only
a few weeks ago and already all but four of the former saloon
asylums are filled with respectable and useful businesses. One
contains a barber shop, another a feed and seed store, another a
billiard hall, three others are being fixed up beautifully for store
building, another for a confectionery store, another for a Woolen
Mills store, and another for a meat market.
In Silverton the story is the same. Never before has the city pros
pered so rapidly, and every one of the buildings which these saloon
schools of iniquity used to hold out of decent trade is occupied by
businesses that we are all proud of. Where the notorious Mehan
outfit used to commit crime, Slade and Bowen sell as fine clothing
as can be bought in any large city. C. M. Wray’s fine up-to-date
hardware store is where the C. M. Matlock dive doped its victims,
some times to the tune of $90.00 each. Where William Haack
thrived off the earnings(?) of his model saloon, the Variety store
conducted by the honorable Mr. Lukens and his good wife dispenses
thousands of useful articles and toys which cost less than whiskey
and delight the children who once were beaten by a drunken father.
The Rosy Brooks place where absynth was found under the bar
when the raid was made is now occupied by the United States
Government as a post office—every building is full and now the
reign of rum is over, other fine buildings are going up and Sil
verton is worth putting on the map.
The writer has fought the saloon evil every since he was a
boy. When he joined the Good Templars in Durand, Wisconsin
and took the oath, it meant something to him and never for one
moment has he fallen back in the ranks. It does us all who have
fought, what at times w'as seemingly an almost hopeless battle,
much good to at last see the dawn of a happier day—a day w hen we
can turn our attention to what will sometime seem a more reason
able fight—a day, now in sight, when Oregon will be “dry” and all
the other states of this glorious union will not be “wet.”
LODGES VS CATHOLICISM.
HAT THE FRATERNAL LODGES have taken considerable
support and patronage from the Catholic church is certain
and as the Catholic church is a money proposition first last
and always with a humbug, insincere lot of lies to catch
suckers, it is no wonder that the priests have gone to war against
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Salem postoffice is to have a $40,-
00(l improvement.
Ten uollars per week is to be the
minimum wage in Washington, while
in Oregon it is $9.25 for Portland, rest
of state $8.25.
German Reformed Lutherans will
erect a $10,000 church at Salem.
A $50,000 Girls Industrial School
and a $27,000 Implement building for
the F’eeble Minded Institute are to be
built at Salem.
April 1st, work started on the
Willamette Pacific tunnel at Schofield
creek.
The new State Fair pavillion is to
cost $44,700.
Permits for fifteen houses were
taken out at Eugene during March,
and Bandon has a strong building
movement.
The National Amusement Company
of Portland will erect an $100,000
theatre.
The Petzell estate has built and is
operating a sawmill across the river
from Stayton.
Wm. Parker of Santa Maria, Calif.,
w’ll establish the Royal bakery at
Roseburg.
The North Bend city council has
ordered $23,000 new street work.
The Savage Tire Co., the first
automible tire factory on the Pacific
coast, has established a branch at
Portland.
The Sutherline Brick and Tile Co.,
will operate with $10,000 capital.
R. I). Hoke has been given a free
site and may establish a cannery at
Medford.
J. H. Fitzhugh of Coburg has moved
a broom factory plant to Eugene from
Lewiston, Idaho.
LaGrande is trying to locate one
of the Heinez pickle factories.
The Marble Quarry on Williams
creek, owned by C. B. Perkins, of
Portland, is being developed.
The North Bank road will erect a
temporary freight house in East
Portland, and promises an $800,000
structure later.
C. L. Holliday will have a choose
factory in operation soon at Langell,
Klamath County.
Portland mon will erect a 65,000
capacity sawmill at the mouth .f the
Toutle river.
Eastern Oregon newspaper men
met at Pendleton and discussed ways
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I have on my list. It will easily run 40'
cows and twice as many hogs. For
particulars see the exclusive agent,
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H. E. BROWN,
Silverton, Oregon.
Exchange.
$9360 for 117 acres, black loam soil,
Clackamas county, Oregon, timber is
fir and cedar, creek water, good build
ings. This property is for exchange
for southern property, Union county,
New Mexico, (»referred.
$5000—320 acres, 50 acres in culti
vation, 200 acres pasture, small house
and bam in southern Oregon. This is
for exchange. What have you? If
you want to swap come and see me, or
write to me.
H. E. BROWN,
Silverton, Oregon.
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FOR EXCHANGE
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640. acres black loam soil, enough
timber for farm and fuel, spring and
creek water. A part of this land is
in cultivation or has been; twelve
miles to-good rail road town; 114
miles to school and church; all fenced;
no buildings. This is an Ideal stock
or dairy farm as there is abundance
of grass. Abopt 300 acres of this is
fine for farming, land is slightly roll
ing but not to steep to farm, Price
of this 640 acres is $40 per acre. It
is free and clear of debt, and is one $
of the best states in the Union, Old
Kentuckey. Will exchange all or a
part for anything in the west of good
value.
If you want to get a fine piece of
land that will grow anything that
grows in Kentuckey with wood, water
and grass, close to good market and
school, now is your chance. Make me
an offer for any part or all. What
have you ?
H. E. BROWN,
Box 115
Silverton, Ore.
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For Sale.
Satin-finish, silver-plated J. W. York
alto, used about four months, with
good case. Will sell reasonably. Jay
E. Myers, Journal office.
Use the subscription blanks we en
close in The Journal to get us new
subs, It is the only way we can sur-
vive. This is your fight, as well as
ours, Let’s each <lo his part well and
a great victory will be won.
that will make you a nice home and a
nice income, and a goo«l investment
on your money, you ahould look thin
up...Investigate! I have 160 acres
near Molalla with new 6 room I iouhc
and other buildinga. all kind»» of fruit,
30 acrcH in cultivation, 40 acres in
gotxl pasture,and one of th«* best water
powers on Cedar Creek. There ia u
cruze of 1,000,000 ft. of lir hhw timber
and 100,000 of piling. You will find
thia la an Ideal place for th«* price.
$6,400. I have not (old all the good
qualitiea, hut if you are interested
come in and we will talk it over.
103 acres near Silverton, 80 rods to
goo«l school, 2'j miles to station and
store on Main R. Route, telephone in
house, on ( ream Route, every con
venience and an up-to-date farm, 35
acres under cultivation, 6 acres hops,
family orchard, berries, good garden,
7 room House, 2 large barns, sheds
and smoke house, a goml new Hop
house, hop press and all kinds of farm
equipments, also 4 good horses, 4 cows
and about 12 head of young stock,
fine broode sows, chickens, wagons,
harnesses etc...The price of this is
$8,50(1; will take part cash anti some
good city or income property.
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WHAT ABOUT THIS?
26 and two-thirds acres close to
Salem, 5 acres in good cultivation ami
about 12 more easily cleared, good
creek and well water, fin«* pasture for
6 cows, oak and fir wood, fruit and
berries and 5 choice walnut trees.
The buildings on this place are all
new and up-to-date, on main country
road, 3 miles out from Salem. This
handsom«* little farm is to exchange
for Silverton property, or part ex
change and part cash, or terms. A
small payment down will handle it.
The buildings cost about $3,500.
If you want to buy or exchange see
me, over Journal Oilice.
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H. E. Brown
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Box 145
Silverton, Oregon
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