ŒbF Silbrrton «Journal
Published every Friday morning at Silverton. Oregon, by
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dom of the press, freedom of speech, equality of
opportunity and the religion of righteousness It
is radically opposed to every form of superstition
and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form
of evil.
labor. Then with the money we earn ourselves, with our own
name on it, money which will be of no use to any one else, the
abnormal love of the present day kind of money, whicîi comes from
the blood thirsty greed-appetite created in our still savage minds
by overpowering our fellow man through shrewdness, deception ;
and other brute instincts still lingering in the human soul, will
pass away, and with the root dead the tree of evil will die and we
will have learned the great lesson, which Jesus endeavored to
pound into our fool heads two thousand years ago, that we love one
another.
THE GEM THEATRE, mo & es
Never Gets Old
ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS
Instructive au<l Educative.
THE SHEEP AND HIE GOATS.
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OD IS LOVE. But of course the real true God must be the ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦ -
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highest kind, the real true Love- love that is as broad, and ; Phone Black 1242.
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as deep and omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent as the
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great universe itself. There are some men and women ♦
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who seem to be just full of this kind of holy ghost, and many
THE GOOD ROADS CAMPAIGN IN M ARION COUNTY.
ot them have symptoms that are a sure sign that they have • •
Get a Nest of Your Own
HE FOLLOWING, which has been handed in for publication, at least been exposed to its wonderful influence. But, it is sad < ►
contains some very good pointers on a very important to say, that there are those who seem inmnined from anything
Il will not coot you mh much a* you may think, if you employ
subject. It means much for the progress of our State, and everything but selfishness. I’hey are the goats of humanity,
and for mankind in general, for where is there a people in the l ake such a one and test him or her by asking yourself if you ever
whole world who reached a high state of civilization without knew or heard of the specimen doing, trying to do, or talking < ►
building their way oil of the woods?
about doing, anything for the Determent of mankind.
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Contractor and Builder.
“The eyes of ti e state are upon Marion County. The people
It a goat ever takes part in social affairs it is to nang some one
Silverton, Oregon.
of Oregon, especiall.. of the big progressive counties like Mult­ who dared try to do good in ell'egy, daub the front f their build­ ♦
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Marion county come through and vote the bond issue of $850,000 lies about those who dare try to enforce the law or help mob a
for her share of permanent highways?
faithful sheep. The goats and sheep may both enjoy a social
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When Mui : > .. 1 is building the Columbia scenic highway up dance; they both may work for money; they both may make mis­
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and down the river, and spending a million on the interstate bridge takes; but the goat only dances, works for money continually
IRL B. LYONS
at Vancouver to let in the tourist travel of Washington, will makes the mistake of upholding evil doers, hates every thing that
tends to up lift society and is only a blank in the progress of.the :
Marion, second ¡¡chest county in Oregon, wake up?
The bond issue has been apportioned so that every section world. Here they are, on the right hand the sheep and on the left
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of the county, every principal center of population, will be con­ hand the goats.
nected with the Capital city and the great Pacific highway. There
•The work of Love in the world is to increase the sheep and A
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is not a town or city in the county that will not be benefited bvs to eliminate the band of selfish goats. Goats are hell producers.
Hydraulic
Rams, Pneumatic Water Systems. 1 can
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being placed on a permanent highway. There is not a town or There would be no just laws, no change from bad to better, no • •
make
it
worth
your while to see me alsMit your
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city in the county that can afford to tight this proposition. There such grand and saving sentiments Its are reflected in the Declara­
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is not a producing acre of land in this county that will not be tion of Independence and no civilization, if this world was all a X ■ •
brought nearer to the markets and made to become more pro­ pasture for Billy and Nanny goats.
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fitable to the owner by the building of these highways. There is
Some people think that little children are just kids, but they .
J. H. DAVENPORT
not a home but will feel the added comforts from better and are not; they are all lambs. To keep them from straying away : JOBIN'G A SPECIALTY.
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cheaper means of travel.
and running with the band of goats, is a great work. To bring |
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No one can argue against good roads. No one can deny that those who have strayed, back to the fold and convert them to the ..............................................................................
Marion county, that gets two-thirds of all the monej’ spent by the true religion is another great work. To organize to fight the old
state on its institutions, is better able to build than any other united Billies who want to make the boys and girls all into goats j
county in the state except Multnomah. Multnomah is spending so they can exploit them is another great work. There is plenty
practically two millions this year on permanent highways and of work to lie done, but when completed, love and truth and i
bridges, largely through unproductive territory. Every mile of brotherhood will reign supreme.
the proposed permanent highways in this county will go through
In this figurative explanation of the status of human -affairs 1
rich farming regions.
it must be remembered that there are no fixed conditions and that
The only argument left is that taxes will be raised by the some people are good at times and bad at other times and we must 1
proposed bond issue. That can easily be shown to be a fallacy. always remember that the goat business is unnatural and that the
Marion county in now raising annually two hundred thousand great tendency of the human animal is to be good. This is posi­
dollars that is spent on dirt and gravel roads. Those dirt and tively proven by the fact that we are all born good.
gravel roads become mud roads in winter and will never be any­
This gives us hope and hope is necessary for our salvation. |
thing else. The interest and annual sinking fund on the$850,000 There are only a few real thirty-three degree goats any way, only
$500—Some I ioum * with u kihh I lot,
good roads bond issue will be $90,000 the first year and each year a few who have graduated in selfishness and who are beyond the ;
lawn. garden and fruit, not far out^
less after that. It will properly come out of the $200,000 now reach of the great redeemer of Love and who can not be brought l
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spent annually on dirt and gravel roads and not add a dollar to into right conditions. And better yet, the future looks bright
$350—.Neat little frame houM*. on
taxes. The main roads permanently improved will be taken otf with the promise of conditions in which no lambkin will ever be J
good atreet, juat off Water atreet.
Ihrt cheap.
the hands of the taxpayers, and there will be more money for the neglected and allowed to broWM >n the bitter weeds which poison
building of the branches.
its little brain and which cause it to stupidly wander from the fold-
$550—Four-room house, two large
lota in lowing addition. Thia will
With the main Pacific highway built north and south through of truth and love. Don’t be a goat!
beat paying rent.
the county, with the other principal roads built permanently, and
$G00 down will buy a 7-room houae,
the whole placed under the supervision of the state, the other roads
BE ENCOURAGED.
nice large lot. $000 long time, if you
will have more funds for THEIR improvement.. Localities not
want your money'a worth, call and aee
HE AMERICAN PEOPLE are not slow to fix things right
on the permant highways will have only a short distance to
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when they once see the point. The people are like an in­
build to connect with the hard surface roads, and will be stimulat­
A few nice liouaea, well located. $1.-
dividual. They go along for years in a sort of a stupor,
ed in that direction. Marion county will be lifted out of the long
000 for new 4-room houae, large lot,
going through the motions, running their life car along in
era of mud roads and placed in the front rank of progressive
nicely located, near W ater atreet.
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counties. If Marion county people do not take their stand on the the same old rut, realizing perhaps in a vague way that things are
$1000 for a nice new 4-rooin and
side of progress and modern ideas we will suffer a permanent in­ tough, that their burden is almost more than they can carry, but
pantry; lawn, large lot, (iuiaer addi­
jury and become the subject of unfavorable criticism for being all the time waiting, waiting for the right time to fix things right.
tion. Ter m a.
non-progressive.”
The hard row is nearly hoed. The rest, the pleasure, the hoped
$1200 will buy a 7-room houae and
for
condition
is
almost
reached
and
only
a
little
awakening,
a
little
Everybody has been howling about good roads ever since Adam
lot in tiuiaer addition; half down.
was a little boy, and perhaps it is as good a time as ever to get extra effort and the thing is done.
$1500 will buy a 7-room houae and
In this great work of trying to rid the world of that dark blot
modem highways now when we have a chance. It seems at times
lot near Depot Hotel—$300 down.
that we are bonded to death already, but we must have good of Roman sujierstition, Roman tyranny and Roman ambition to
$15 00—Seven-rooma,
pantry and
roads before we can pull out of the mud and have time to pay up, usurp the American government, we are apt to think the coming
large lot: aouth aide, nicely located;
and there is certainly no sense of throwing away any more on the of victory so far away that we pass into a comatose condition and
one-half down.
then the work does drag and it is dragging because there are so
old out-of-date patch work system.
1500—Tour large rooma, abed, very
Good road building will give work to thousands of men and many real patriots who are self hypnotised into the waiting sleep.
large lot, paved atreet, aouth aide.
But thank the Lord there are some who are not asleep and we
teams. It will bring thousands of new settlers. It will introduce
Thia ia a caah anap.
many new industries. It will give the start to the great home can be encouraged for the work is almost done.
$1900 for a 5-room cottage, clone in
A few bold spirits who know how to do and dare can now up
city of the Pacific coast Country in which Marion County is to be
on Water atreet; $800 down; cany
the center and it will take the moss off the back and the webs set their whole system. We want agitators every where to talk
terms.
from between the toes of many an old time Oregonian and make i “Government Investigation of Private Institutions.” They must
$2000 for a 7-room houae and oth­
us all a happier, more progressive people, in line with the spirit sing it, talk it in their sleep, write it to their friends, write for the
er buildinga, line orchard and garden
with one acre. Caah.
of the age which has already produced telephones, automobiles, papers, send literature every where, and almost before we know
electric lights, electric cars, flying machines and the Panama it the old beast will slink out of America more completely than
$2000 for a 5-room house, barn and
canal.
it has out of the formost counties of Europe. Be encouraged
one acre in fruit, facing Water atreet.
Cheap for caah.
friends. It has been a long fight and a hard fight but Luther is
Let’s have good roads—make or brake!
not dead. Chiniquy in not dead. Lincoln is not dead. And the
$2500 for a 7-room cottage and
one acre, one-half block from Water
fruitage
of
their
noble
work
is
to
be
fulfilled
in
our
time
if
we
are
THE] HEART OE THE DEVIL.
atreet, close in; will give terma.
not dead. Everybody swing into line for we are going to win.
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BEN HOFSTETTER
SILVERTON’S PROGRESSIVE PLUMBER
IRL B. LYONS
FOR SALE!
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0 YOU BELIEVE THE SCRIPTUPvE STATEMENT, “the
love of money is the root of all evil”? If you de, listen!
War is an evil, and if the love of money is the root of all
evil it must be the root of the War in Mexico. The Saloon
system is an evil and if the love of money is the root of all evil the
root of the saloon system must be the love of money. The white
slave traffic is an awful evil and for the same reason as before the
root of this evil must be the love of money. And so it is with the
long category of greater and lesser evils. Now if this root of
evil could be destroyed, evil would die. But how can we destroy
the love of money without destroying this civilization’s very use­
ful and almost necessary medium of exchange? What causes
people to love money so much as to engage in evil in order to secure
it? Is it not caused by the wrong methods used in securing it?
Money obtained by labor alone does not create such an abnormal
love for it as is seen in those who get it in other ways. When
money begins to create money then comes the love of it and the
root of all evil (love of money) can be destroyed by destroying
its power to multiply itself. By destroying this power we would
very much increase the reward for labor, thus increasing the love
of labor and entirely destroy the love of money itself. Money
now begets money through interest, rent and profit.
To destroy the root of all evil money must be made non
transferable and only secured through labor. In this way and in
this way only will wars cease, the saloons and brothels and gambl­
ing dens and white slave pens and priestly traps and penitentaries
and high taxes and mob violence and armies of unemployed and
hold up’s and cowardly newspaper men and injunctions and bull
pens and black lists—The wrong methods of getting money has
created an awful abnormal love for it and this love is the root of
all evil. Let labor get its full reward. Let all produce or help in
production for use and not for profit. Destroy the root and the
tree and its forbidden fruit will wither away and die.
To destroy interest, rent and profit looks like an impossibility
to some, but it is the simplest and easiest thing in the world and
some day people will wonder why we allowed these foolish ferti­
lizers of the root of all evil to exist. Besides if they are not de­
stroyed and if money is not made nontransferable our civilization
will be destroyed and the whole world made transferable into such
a hell of waring individuals, corporations and countries that peace
and plenty, love and liberty will never come.
Let the people have direct control of the government; let them
be the government, and then let them own and operate all the
means of production and each get the full social product of his
$3000 for an 8-room houae, barn,
one acre orchard, barriea, garden, on
weat aide Water atreet; $1000 down;
terma to auit.
$3400 for a atrictly modern <> room,
basement, bath, toilet, 1' ( acres, or­
chard, berriea, garden, lawn; about
half down.
$3000—Nine-room reaidence, close
in. Water atreet. Thia ia n anap, and
a small payment will handle it.
$1200 for 4 acrea in town, facing
Water street; 1 acre peaches, other
orchard, berriea anti garden of all
kinda; nice buildinga. Terms.
$3700—20G acres just outside city
limits, all kinds of orchard and gar­
den; 8-room house, large barn, rock
milk-house, water piped in house.
This is an ideal place; part cash.
THE GREATEST SERMON
HERE WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST, if not the great ist,
sermons recently preached in Silverton that ever was de­
livered any where. It was at the Gem Theatre, ami was in
the form of moving pictures. The subject was “Satan”
and we feel sure that there would have been a much larger crowd
present if the people had known what was coming.
Everybody should have been there. The mythical and tradi­
tional fall of the Angel and his Adam and Eve temptation stunt
was good, but the parts that were best as a sermon was the
Devil’s part and the result shown in the invention of murderous
weapons, the discovery of absinthe, of fermented liquors, and his
Satanic’s role in modern society. O, it was simply great! But
we understand that there were some present who did not like it j
very well—wonder why.
But every lover of truth and right ought to take a hand in
throwing that Satan Movie on the screen again in Silverton and .
in every other city in the world where his hellish work is still
going on. Ministers, teachers, intelligent citizens, officials, you’d
better look into this great educational picture business and see that |
more of our people see it. What can we do? Please do not pass i
the question lightly for truly it is one of the greatest pictures ever i
seen by a sin cursed world.___________________
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H. E. BROWN
BOX 145
SILVERTON, OREGON
WAR AND WAR.
HE WAR IN MEXICO is a war for the benefit of Capital
and Capital’s Champion, Catholicism. It is not for the
benefit of the working men and women of the United States
nor out of pity for the poor slaves of Mexico. But its
object will be defeated. It will not detract as such wars have
before from the great war that is actually going on here in dear
old Uncle Sam’s own home country
And do you know that it has been rumored that an actual war
between labor and capital is seriously talked of right now. We
hope it can be avoided but the conditions are actually serious.
There is in this country a large class of workers who believe in
“direct action,” and if at any time they should see fit to raise an
army and declare actual war against the capitalist class it would
throw our beloved country into worse condition than exists now in
Mexico. Property and lives by the millions would be lost and it
would take years and years to recover from the awful plunder,
ravage and murder. This is no dream. In fact we hear rumors
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young, active, well poster I. W. W. said to us in a private argue-
nient for and against direct action. He said that one must “learn
to put the cold steel into the heart of a capitalist if necessary ami
do it with a smile.” We said, “you don’t mean that; why that
would be horrible murder.” Our young friend then become excit­
ed and asked, “what are the capitalists doing but murdering, and
worse than murdering, hundreds and millions of the workers ail the
time?” “But you mean Capitalism and not individual capitalist ;.”
said we. “It will do more harm than good to start killr.g people.
We must change conditions with the ballot and then things will be
better, but the use of murderous brute force only makes brutes,
and brutes of one kind are no more fit for a condition of liberty
than another.” But there is danger from this idea as in French
Revolutionary times. Truly has the poet said "a time like this
demands great hearts, strong minds, true faith and willing hands!”
of the organization of such an army and of the preparation of
frightened capital. The spirit of revolt is best shown by what a