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tTHE SILVERTON JOURNAL
"I believe in the enforcement of all
The great magnate summoned hi»
the law».”
private secretary.
Several candidates have used this
“Have you attended to all the in­
quotation in their declaration of plat­
creased price» that 1 ordered?’’
form. 1» It »ufficient? Some con­
"I have, air."
"Did you order my steel company tend that it i», but to us it appears
to a»k more for steel rail» and other meaningless and is used, a» a usual
material that enters into railroad thing, to blind the eye» of the"very
elect."
construction ?"
It is the custom, practice anil pop­
"Yea, air. That has been provided
ular thing to refuse to enforce the
for.”
“Has it been arranged that my loco­ liquor law», to lay everything in the
motive works »hall increase the price way of their enforcement, and the
of engines and that my car factories man who content» himself with the
»hall increase the prices of freight ■tatement that he bePeves in the en­
forcement of all the laws, mean» that
and passenger cars?”
“Ye», sir. That a)»o is thoroughly he believes in the enforcement of all
understood by our different boards of th laws which it is popular to enforce.
At this time when liquor laws have
directors.’
“Have you seen to it that my coal so uniformly not been enforced, and
mine» have tacked on a good, round when the people have awakened to the
increase in the price of coal which necessity of thi-'r enforcement, no
man who refuses or neglects to speci-
my engine» burn?”
"Oh, ye». We have been pushing fical'y state his position concerning
their enforcement is worthy of the
up tiie price of coal steadily.”
“That’s good. And have you ar­ vote of any person who desires to see
ranged that my lumlier companies Oregon dry.— Pacific Patriot.
Yes Siree gentlemen, and no one
charge me more for ties than 1 have
who refuses to express hi» opinion on
been in the habit of paying?”
"Yes. Your 'umber companies are any or all important questions is
charging so much for ties that your worthy of an American’s support or
ra’lroad companies can hardly afford vote. The time is coming and now Is
when public office in Oregon will not
to buy them.”
“That’s good. And, of course, you | be used to bolster up a shameful sys­
have seen to it that my banks are tem of any kind or a private graft.
refusing to lend money to my rail­ Ix't’s make candidates show their
roads except at a much higher rate hand or die in the attempt.—Ed.
of interest than has prevailed here­
Want» Loan of Gun.
tofore.”
The
editor
of a paper over on the
"Yes, sir. Your banks have inform­
cast
»ide
states
that he picked up a
ed your railroads that money is very-
Winchester
one
day
and started down
scarce and that no financing can be
the street to deliver <t to its owner.
done except on shorttime notes at high
The delinquent sub-criber» got it into
rates of interest.”
their heads that he was on the war
"Well, yien I guess we’re about
path, and everyone he met insisted
ready to make our next move. Have
a petition prepared to. the Interstate on paying what he owed the editor.
One man wiped out a debt of ten
Commerce Commission setting forth
that owing to the greatly increased years standing. On his return to the
office he found a load of hay, fifteen
cost of running railroads, it will be
bushels of potatoes, a load of wood
absolutely necessary for us to have
and a barrel of turnips. Will some
a substantial increase in freight and
one please lend us a gun?—St.
passenger rates. Understand?”
Ingnatius Post.
"Yea, sir. Anything else, sir?"
"Nothing else, except, of course, to
The cigarette-fiend is still showing
notify my newspapers to support this himself to be an enemy of everybody
proposition valiantly in the name of else as well as of himself. Twenty-
the public and to listen to no argu­ four miners were killed by an explo-
ment against it.”—Life.
s:on in a Russian mine the other
day caused by a miner recklessly
opening his safety-lamp in a gasfilled
THE EDITOR’S SONG.
chamber to light his cigarette. If the
• How dear to my heart is the steady loss of life and property which is
subscriber,
chargeable to careless smokers could
Who pays in advance at the birth be know'n it would prove to be one of
of the year;
the biggest taxes that society has to
Who lays down his money and offers pay. It is bad enough, God knows,
it gladly,
when an individual injures l.imself by
And cast 'round the office a halo of his vices and unwholesome appetites,
cheer!
but it becomes a crime when he
sacrifices his fellow-beings on the
Who never says, “Stop it; I cannot alter of his own petty indulgences.
afford it!”
—Exchange.
Or, “I’m getting more papers than
The McCorkle Sub-Division.
I can read!”
But always says, Send it; the family
1 have about 400 acres, all level,
all like it—
well located in the heart of the best
In fact, we think it a household farming district of the Willamette val­
need!”
ley, on Howell Prairie. This tract is
cut to suit purchaser. Each 10 acres
How welcome he is when he steps in facing a public thoroughfare. No rock,
the santum!
no gravel, no hardpan, no sloughs, all
How he makes our hearts throb! gm>d, deep, rich, black sediment loam
How he makes our eyes dance! soil. Prices from $90 per acre and up.
We outwardly thank him-we inwardly Terms to suit the purchaser. If you
bless him—
are looking for a home nicely and con­
The steady subscriber who pays in veniently located, and one that will
advance.
pay on the investment, and one that
Exchange. will make an ideal home, call or write.
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HELP AROUSE OUR AMERICAN PATRIOTS!
J. E. HOSMER, Silverton, Oregon
Second Hand Store
We have just what
you are looking for
BIG SAVING ON FIRST COST
There are so many things that
we have that you need, just as
good as new. Come in and see.
CHARLES WEBB
BE SPECIFIC, GENTLEMEN!
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 do his part well and
a great victory will be won.
This tardy subscriber is a sensitative
brother;
The humbly made “statement” he
spurns as a "dun;”
He’ll pay when it suits him, he tartly
informs us,
And hints rather broadly about a
shot gun.
The Davenport Estate.
Finest location for business men,
most sightly and attractive lots in Sil­
verton, an ideal place for retired farm­
ers to build a modern home in a quiet
close in and attractive part of town,
lots that will increase rapidly in value.
If you are looking for something that
is unequalled in situation, price, qual­
ity, beauty and convenience, you
should see these lots. I am at your
service; no trouble to show property.
You will get the lowest cash price. I
will sell one or thirty-one. You can
have reasonable terms. These choice
lots are level, streets paved to part,
sidewalks in on part. Wake up! Think
of it! Study the location. There is no
other such opportunity to purchase
close in. well-located homes in Silver-
ton. Call andsee me. Get the prices.
So we’re singing the praise of the
steady subscriber
Who gives the poor editor a sort
of a chance—
The smiling subscriber, the honest
The Old Donation Land Claim.
subscriber,
Have you heard of the Waldo Hills?
The steady subscriber, who pays in Have you seen the choice fruits, hops,
advance.
grapes. English walnuts and garden
Exchange. stuff which the Waldo Hills produced
in 1913? Would you like me to give
you the names, or would you like to
HELP THAT COUNTS.
shake hands with some of these pros­
Mondoni, Wis., April,15, 1914. perous farmers? Would you like the
facts demonstrated and proved to you
Mr. Hosmer, Sir:
I rece’’ved your bundle of Journals that the Waldo Hills is the most all­
which answered my inquiry. Thanks. round successful farming land in Ore­
And while soliciting for the Menace gon? These low-rolling hills, almost
I also did some soliciting in your be­ level land, partly in fruit, partly in
half. Six gave me from 10c to 25c grain, can be had in lots from 8 acres
and I helped make it $1.30. This is and up; prices from $10 and up to $150
not very much but if all Menace read­ per acre, on easy terms. I have a
ers would do as well as that, they number of very choice and attactive
would not miss it and you would feel little homes about three miles from
it, and I believe all would be thankful Silverton. Can give terms to suit the
if it would be the means of your win­ purchaser.. .Call and see me. or write.
H. E. Brown, Silverton. Ore.
ing. I have more promised.
When the trial comes off if there
For Sale •
is a full account of it published in the
400 acres in tracts of 10 acres and
Journal please send me a copy for
each one who has donated. I hope up. This is very best garden truck
land, close in near Scandinavian
and pray you will win.
Church, will sell this on easy terms.
Yours for Liberty,
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H. E. Brown, Silverton, Oregon.
A Few Reasons For The Abolition of
The Up-to-Date l.ie.
The State Senate.
Editor Silverton Journal;-
One of your readers wishes to call
Our senate is an imitation of the attention to an up-to-date lie as told
British House of Lords, which re ' against the unimployed of our country.
present» the nobility. We do not We hear the remark made by some one
have the nob’lity, therefore, that rea­ every day, “what is the use to bother
son for our senate does not exi»t.
about the unimployed for they would
It is claimed that two houses are a not work if they had a job.” Instinc­
check to hasty, ill-considered legisla­ tively we think of tramps when we
tion. They serve as a check to as speak of the army of the unemployed,
many good measure» as they do bad but the mas» of jobless people are not
measures.. The demand of the age that. The unimployed are mai(g up
is efficiency. We wish to know how for the most part of willing workers.
to do, and not how not to do. The It’s a reserve army, and it is the pride
initiative and referendum provide a of the capitalist system. When a
better check.
wage earner complains that he isn’t
The two-house legislature double.- getting enough money to support hi»
the opportunity for trading and log­ fam’ly, Mr. Capitalist System points
rolling.
out of the window and says, “if you
The one-house legislature will make don’t want your job, there are a
an end to pa.-sing bills in one body anil thousand people waiting out there
using every means to kill them in the ready to take it," and then Mr. Wage
other.
Earner closes his face and stays hum­
In a two-house legislature each ble. In the mean time how do these
house depends upon the
other. thousands on the outside live? Some
Neither house is as careful as if all don’t, but those who hang on—how do
responsibility rested upon it
they do it and still let the boss raise
In a one-house assembly the greater the house rent?
localizing of responsibility would ex­
[One Who Has Been There.
pose bad men and reveal good men.
The pre,ent devious, underhanded,
WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRADE
-ecret methods would be far leas suc-
sful. Candid, open, honest methods For two acres, fine black soil, right in
Silverton? $800. Also—
would lie demanded and obtained.
5-room house and bam on a good
The memtier of a single-house lot, A for
$1200. Both places can be ex­
legislature will feel a greater re­ changed for aecreage near Silverton.
How about this farm ? Four acres
sponsibility and a greater pride in his
work. It will attract the highest on Water and Smith streets, with all
of orchard, berries and garden.
capacity and integrity in the state. kinds
Modern improvements, buildings of all
We need better men for legislators. kinds; hot and cold water; $4200. Is
The present system is “extremely this, or is it not, a snap ?
I have a score of other good proper­
cumbersome, outrageously extrava­
ties to sell and exchange, which I
gant and woefully inefficient.” The would
like to advertise. However I
two houses almost double the expense must leave a small part of it out, hop­
of a legislative session and the cost ing you will come in and let me tell
of litigation resulting from in effici­ yuu about it. It doesn’t matter where
you want it, or what you want to pay,
ency is beyond estimation.
or exchange for it, I can get you what
The Constitutional amendment to you want. Call or write,
abolish the senate is short and to the
H. E. BROWN,
Box 145, Silverton, Or.
point, there is no danger of confusion
or uncertainty as to what is wanted.
It reads as follows:
SOME SNAPS IN REAL ESTATE.
ARTICLE IV.
Almost 5 acres in Silverton, all good
“Section 32. The senate and the
office of senator in the Legislative new buildings, and fully equipped for
chickens and cow, good income or­
Assembly of Oregon are hereby chard, berries and garden, for $3500.
abolished. All provisions of the Con­ Is this a snap ?
Eighty acres, about 10 miles from
stitution and laws of Oregon in con­
flict w:th this section are hereby ab­ Silverton, on county road and near
railroad, $2000. This is a nice little
rogated and repealed in so far as they dairy' ranch, with good outside range,
conflict herewith. This section is in al) good buildings, spring water, plenty
respects self-executing and immedi­ of fruit and berries. W’ll sell and give
terms, or take part cash, part trade.
ately operative.”
A well-improved, paying 23-acre
farm, 5c car from Silverton, for $5000.
This amendment will hit the spot You will have to see this to appre­
and do the work. By having but one ciate its value, as it is one of the pret­
body in the legislative assembly each tiest homes and best money-makers on
th e market.
,
member can be more nearly held re­
H. E. BROWN,
sponsible for his every act, and the
Box 145, Silverton, Or.
legislature may be organized as a re­
Keep Posted
presentative, business body, and not
Those
who
have bought land and
a political institution organized for
live in and near Silverton, and those
se’fish purposes.
C. E. SPENCE. who contemplate the purchase of pro­
perty here can keep posted as to local
Rockford, Iowa doings and developments by subscrib­
ing to the Silverton Jouma1, a paper
Mr. J. E. Hosmer,
which faithfully reflects conditions as
Dear Sir:
Enclosed please find one dollar for they really exist. This is the best
your paper for a year, to be sent to way for the seller and the buyer to
Mr...................Rockford, Iowa. This is keep in touch with the advancement
my son and he is very much interested and rapid growth of the country.
in you and your paper, as well as I The Journal is a weekly paper $1.00
per year, send subscriptions to the
am. I enjoy it very much.
Wishing you God speed I am very editor, J. E. Hosmer.
I also find the paper an excellent
respectfully yours,
Mrs. * • * advertising medium.
H. E. Brown
So you don't believe in advertising?
You are satisfied 1« think that you HERE IT IS, CHEAP FOR CASH
have been in business so many years,
Will give reasonable terms:
people know you and your establish­
If you are looking for something
ment, and will buy from you any­ that will make you a nice home and a
way ? The big business enterprises nice income, and a good investment
of the world seem to think otherwise. on your money, you should look this
The names of some of them are on up.. .Investigate! I have 160 acres
every tongue, yet they spend about near Molalla with new 6 room house
six billion dollars a year for adver­ and other buildings, all kinds of fruit,
tising. Why? Because it pays. If 30 acres in cultivation, 40 acres in
it didn’t these shrewd and experienc­ good pasture,and one of the best water
ed business men would invest other­ powers on Cedar Creek. There is a
wise.—Wabasha Herald.
cruze of 1.000.000 ft. of fir saw timber
and 100.000 of piling. You will find
More than fifty thousand troops this is an Ideal place for the price,
representative of all the great nations $6,400. I have not told all the good
of the world, are expected to partici­ qualities, but if you are interested
pate in the greatest military tourn­ come in and we will talk it over.
ament ever held, upon the grounds
of the Panama-Pacific International
103 acres near Silverton, 80 rods to
Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. good school, 2'2 miles to station and
The invitation extended by the War store on Main R. Route, telephone in
Department of the United States to house, on Cream Route, every con-
the foreign nations to send troops to ' venience and an up-to-date farm, 35
an international military encampment. acres under cultivation. 6 acres hops,
family orchard, berries, good garden.
An international fleet of more than 7 room House, 2 large barns, sheds
two hundred vessels, including repre­ and smoke house, a good new Hop
sentative types of battleships from house, hop press and all kinds of farm
the navies of all the great maritime equipments, also 4 good horses. 4 cows
nations, wil’ gather at Hampton Roads and about 12 head of young stock,
in January 1915, and proceed upon fine broode sows, chickens, wagons,
a cruise through the Panama Canal harnesses etc.. .The price of this is
to San Francisco harbor reaching their $8,500; will take part cash and some
destination early in March 1915. and good city or income property.
shortly after the formal opening of
WHAT ABOUT THIS?
the
Panama-Pacific
International
Exposition.
26 and two-thirds acres close to
Salem, 5-acres in good cultivation and
For Sale.
about 12 more easily cleared, good
$10.300 for almost 104 acres on good creek and well water, fine pasture for
macadam road, close to Silverton, 8- 6 cows, oak and fir wood, fruit and
room house, 8 large new barns, 85 berries and 5 choice walnut trees.
acres in crop, balance fine pasture; The buildings on this place are all
well, creek and spring water. Fences new and up-to-date, on main country­
all new, woven wire. Family orchard, road, 3 miles out from Salem. This
berries and garden; enough fir and oak handsome little farm is to exchange
wood for fuel; $5000 cash, balance 7 for Silverton property, or part ex­
per cent, terms to suit. This is the change and part cash, or terms. A
best-paying farm for the price which ¡small payment down will handle it.
I have on my list. It will easily run 40 The buildings cost about $3.500.
If you want to buy or exchange see
cows and twice as many hogs. For
me, over Journal Office.
particulars see the exclusive agent,
H. E. BROWN, Silverton, Ore.
H. E. BROWN,