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 < > < > 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 < > I • 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. >• •« < >♦♦♦•>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ (oolidge Street. Plume Black 1242. : 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 .« f 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 f on Saturday, April 4. Truth is what we want, no matter where it is found and it is a f 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 f ami opposition to further legislation their own. Their priests thus oppose the principles of freedom and Prepare«! by the State Bureau of f All giMxl outside rooms / American and European Plan against industries will be th«* two the sacred duty of investigation, and yet our columns are open and Statistics. f 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 f have our readers know more about the Catholic’s claim, from Heppner, FOR EXCHANGE but the packing house ha-** MRS. MAE IVIE, Proprietor f 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 4 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 f : 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 4 more laws to interfere with lots are free and clear of debt. I will transgression.” < 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 < ■ Caples an«i Co. are erecting a two- T 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, I 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 •s- million dollar public dock. acres in cultivation, 80 acres good pas­ J. H.U DAVENPORT T 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. • ».................................... ........................... ..................... 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 5^* 7* 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 <• $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 to 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; 4 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 W J J BEN HOFSTETTER COTTAGE HOTEL SILVERTON’S PROGRESSIVE PLUMBER IRL B. LYONS i 'll I SALE! I 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 T 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 ? I have on my list. It will easily run 40' cows and twice as many hogs. For particulars see the exclusive agent, $ 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. ! ■ $ ? f FOR EXCHANGE $ 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. » I 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