ntuntuummir
doubtful and small at best. But finally a ticket was announced
the night before election and a few made a des|M'rate effort to
Solid as a Rock.
W. M. Ladd, I reatueni.
over come the early work and well selected ticket of the "wets.”
Published every Friday morning at Silverton. Oregon, by
1 he Mayor nominee for the "drys" had not given his consent to the
HENRY SCHROEDER
J. E. HOSMER, Editor.
nomination and he very much hurt the ticket by posting a notice
SILVERTON, OREGON
to that effect just before election.
Entered at the poetoffice at Silverton. Oretron.
Is the Agent of Columbia Life and Trust Company. Ibis
at second -class rates.
Under these conditions the "dry” editor of the Journal made
is the Oldest I ife Insurance Co. on the Pacific Coast.
Subscription. $1.00 per year, in advance. Single
the prediction that the "wets" would carry four to three and the
copies, ft cents.
following
is
the
exact
proportion
found
when
the
votes
were
Advertising rates made known ui»on applica
Assets, Jan. Ist,$522,HOH.9l
Policyholdeis Satisfied.
tion.
counted: 1537 to 981. This result with the fact that the "wets”
defeated the amendment to the city charter is practically three to
uni
This paper stands for freedom of thought, free
four and shows that we are sound on prophecy if we don't always
dom of the press, freedom of speech, equality of
opportunity and the religion of righteousness It
know enough to get on the winning side or remain silent for fear
is radically oppose»! to every form of superstition
and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form
of
losing trade.
of evil.
However the victory of the “wets” is really no victory after
all for the town remains “dry" and there is no doubt that the
IN ANXIOUS SUSPENSE.
great majority of the jieople here would vote dry today if "saloon
^ pictures
or no saloons" was the issue. Not only this, the enforcement of
TILL WE ARE IN THE DARK as to what the decision of the law can not l>e stopped and we have no fear that Mr. Bowser,
the Supreme Court will be as to our Criminal Libel Case. the Mayor elect, who is a total obstainer himself, will not en
It has been suggested that we will hear nothing until after
to make good, and satisfy the aroused public sentiment
primary election, May 15th. We do not complain, but with deavor
ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS
against law breaking. We must always rememlwr that evil, no
our work and anxio’s waiting, not knowing how soon we will be matter in what form, can never gain a real victory. Permanent
Instructive nml Educative.
behind the bars (for we will never pay the fine) and not knowing victories only come to the cause of truth and justice, light anil
when our work wd! *>c interrupted by the $50,000 damage case, i liberty,
liberty. j And now that this skermish is over, let us all, as good
with threats oi be g murdered in our office and such condem citizens
should, move on to the next battle of ballots with
natory letters m the one we print against ourself in this issue, earnestness,
but with the broad, lenient attitude which is 80
with finances ’— nd expenses in the lead we anxiously wait for essential in our
rapidly, perfecting form of self government.
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the Supreme <. a t of this great state to say whether we were
—
<; Phone Black 1242.
Coolidge Street ♦
justly convict.
the circuit court for criminal libel when we
told the truth ana published what a preacher swore that a nun
TO MEN AND WOMEN WHO CAN THINK.
Build This Spring When the Birds Do,
♦
said. She said that the priesthood is what everybody who is
posted knows it is, and here we are struggling with this mighty,
EOPLE WHO ARE HABITUAL USERS OF ALCOHOL in
beastly power and liable to be devoured at any moment because
Get a Nest of Your Own
any form and those whose brain cells have been ruined
we dared publish in the Silverton Journal what the preacher swore
before
their
birth
by
alcohol
poisoning
need
not
read
this
that she said regarding her escape and the doings of the beast
editorial because their reason is ruined. They can not
that held her in bondage and from which she was fleeing for help. comprehend
or any of the higher ideas of moral truth.
Since the occasion of her escape the editor has had the pleasure But to those justice
who
have
been warped beyond any civic use we
of talking with this good woman who could not stay in such a appeal. Action now is not
BEN HOFSTETTER
the
order of the day. The effects of
hell-hole as a nunnery and we have learned that there is much alcohol on the human system
has
l>een
taught
in
our
public
Contractor and Builder.
more of the story than what we published and we now understand schools; lecturers have done excellent work; churches and the
Silverton, Oregon.
how it is that the darkest deeds of this monster evil are smothered W. C. T. U. have preached and prayed against the saloon system
and kept from the public. Even the evidence of a cloud of wit and every well ballanced citizen has done more or less to show • ►♦♦♦♦♦>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
nesses can be overcome by a cloud of false witnesses who are up this curse which has destroyed more than all the wars, pestil
permitted to do anything for the good of their“holy church.” So ence.
and floods in the history of the world. Now the
what can a few witnesses do? Patriots of America, it will take whole earthquakes
Pacific
Coast
country and other states are in deadly battle
the united efforts of every one of you to overcome the evil, against this powerful
enemy of our race. This is a noble fight
cancerous growth of the Roman Hierarchy. The workers now for it means salvation for
both sides.
IRL B. LYONS
on the firing line can not hold out long without reinforcements.
The
Saloonatics
are
like
babies who fight against their own f !
Do something, and do it now, to help destroy this brazen wrong good and who will receive even
benefit if they are defeated
that will surely destroy our free government if we permit it to do than will their opponents. But more
these
ruined and warped minds
so. Write us a letter. Send us names. Make suggestions for will follow, in great numbers, their money
mad dispoilers and vote
we are not infallible like the pope. Our cause needs every kind of for their own and the future citizen’s damnation;
therefore it is
1 handle Mueller Brass Goods, Standard Enamelware
help that a friend can give, and it needs it now as much or more necessary for the forces of sobriety, genuine prosperity
and com
Hydraulic Rams, Pneumatic Water System«. I can
than ever before in the history of this struggle of Americanism mon sense to immediately get into action.
make it worth your while to see me about your
against paganism.
The time has come when silence means that you are a saloon-
HOP DRYER PIPES
o
atic or a coward. Business interests demand that you come out
<,
in
the
open
and
take
a
stand.
You
can
no
longer
hide
your
head
HEAVEN AND HELI
4
>
J. H.U DAVENPORT
or bushwhack around with both sides to this controversy. The
fight
needs
you
now,
and
you
are
one
thing
or
another.
You
are
JOBING A SPECIALTY.
PHONE BLUE 1191
ESUS TAUGHT THAT HEAVEN IS WITHIN US, and John
• ••••••• «••••>••«••• »ff
the Revelator plainly showed that the great celestial city either openly for a dry state and will use every means at your com
was to be among men. God is love. Heaven is the con mand for the next few months to fight the enemy to a finish or
dition in your life when love rules. Hell is the condition you are a cowardly traitor to your country and to your fellow man.
in your life when hate and the other painful emotions have control. Get into action! Put a card in your window “This is a Dry
The language used by the divine (wise and loving) teachers of past Home.” Talk to your "wet” neighlior and try to get him or her
and present is sometimes figurative and the child minds of the to reason. Circulate every good article on the subject you can
early peoples and the weaklings of the present day have believed find. Write an article for your home paper. Drop all personal
the illustrations to be the reality, and in their mental blindness prejudices and all minor controversies and stay with this fight
have lost the real, redeeming truth that heaven is here on earth till after the November election.
The “Dry” people are very confident of a victory but the other
in the lives of human beings. When all men have heaven within
them, when love and kindness and sympathy and forgiveness are side has great financial power and are as full of political tricks as
the rule instead of the exception, then heaven will have come an egg is full of meat, therefore the fight may be closer than any
to earth; but the old, selfish sticker for the individual heaven in of us know and your efforts, if you secure but one vote, may lie the
the sky w’ho is not willing to help start a heaven here, is apt to trump card that will win the day. Every thinking man and
never see any real heaven at all. For selfishness can not enter woman should at once enlist for five months and stay in the field
$500—Some hoUHe with ■ Rood lot,
the Kingdom of Heaven. For this reason a rich man has no real till Oregon goes dry next November.
lawn, garden and fruit, not far out.
heaven and it is very doubtful if he ever will have, for his whole
A nnap.
life is a selfish, greedy, anarchistic hell, and he has become so
MISTAKEN
THAT
’
S
ALL.
$550—Neat little frame houae, on
acclimated that he could not enjoy the atmosphere of heaven.
good atreet, juat off Water atreet.
But the millionaires and billionaires grow less and less, and the
Dirt cheap.
PEAKING OF THE PRIESTS, Lawrence E. Nugent, an
workers grow more and more, and bye and bye there will come a
$550—Four-room houae, two large
ardent Catholic, in the Sunday Visitor, a Catholic paper,
condition in which service will be rewarded instead of selfishness,
lota in Cowing addition. Thin will
says: “We know that after twelve years’ study, they take
and then heaven will grow and the fires of hell will be quenched.
beat paying rent.
solemn vows of ...............
chastity, . -before
becoming
priests. - We
'
‘
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your
$600 down will buy a 7-room houae,
good works and glorify your father (love) which is in heaven know of many of our friends of both sexes, that lead chaste lives
nice large lot. $600 long time, if you
without any vows, and we know that our priests could, if they
(on earth.)
want your moneyn worth, call and ace
this.
.........
Men and women all around us hate, and do those things which would, lead pure lives. But it seems as though about one in a
thousand
have
been
proven
false
to
their
vows.
One
traitor
produce hate. Children are being born in hate, tagged for hell
A few nice houaea, well located, $1,-
000 for new 4-room houae, large lot,
before they started on their journey to this earth. It is very among the Apostles did not affect the loyalty of the others or the
nicely located, near Water atreet.
hard for even those who at times have the vision of the higher and teachings of the Master. If a non-Catholic minister was ever
Terms.
better condition to keep the eternal fires of hate and envy and guilty of a crime it is no argument against the rest or against
$1000 for a nice new 4-room and
greed and lust and deceit and selfishness from burning them their religion, but if there be one bad priest, all the rest are the
pantry; lawn, large lot, Guiaer addi
same,
and
the
whole
Church
is
corrupt
(as
every
reader
of
the
while they writhe and twist with the imps of this earthly hell,
tion. Ter ma.
but from the works of the best men and women we have must Menace readily understands and lielieves.)”
$1200 will buy a 7-room houae and
Now friend Nugent is mistaken regaiding his main statements.
come the change that will some day break our chains and make of
lot in Guiaer addition; half down.
this earth a paradise. To those then who have the dream, the He places his guess at the numlier of priests who prove false as
$1500 will buy a 7-room houae and
hope of higher things, we address this request: quickly banish one in a thousand. Now if he could know the facts and discover
lot near Depot Hotel—$300 down.
that
it
is
about
one
in
a
thousand
who
keeps
his
vow
of
chastity,
any lingering clanishness and know that all men are fieirs of the
$1500—Seven-rooms,
pantry and
kingdom. Forgive everybody everything. Lift up principles of then he would reverse his whole contention and help such earnest,
large lot; aouth aide, nicely located;
well
informed
men
as
Mr.
Walker
and
Mr.
Brown
to
save
the
truth, not men. The days of hero worship should be over. Crush
one-half down.
people from the exploitation of the priesthood. We believe that
evil principles without being a respector of persons.
1500—Four large rooma, ahed, very
Hurry, for life is short. Wonders can be worked in the name there are men who would be willing to give $1,000 for one priest
large lot, paved atreet, aouth aide.
Thia ia a caah anap.
of love, but do not be selfish and expect or require anything. in a thousand in Oregon or in any other state who has kept his
Never give up; remember the kingdom of Love has not come yet; vows of chastity for a period of ten years, and we believe it
$1000 for a 5-room cottage, close in
on Water street; $M00 down; eaay
be brave, and when the flames scorch and sear your very soul, would be a safe proposition taking the United States as a whole.
terms.
stand firm and soon the way out will be revealed. Everything These priests are deceiving you dear brother Nugent. Things are
$2000 for a 7-room houae and oth
that your conscience condemns, condemn. Test your conscience. not what they seem. Dig into the matter a little for yourself
er buildinga, fine orchard and garden
and you will be astonished. It’s a great thing to have faith in the
Go over the ground often and follow up every avenue of light.
with one acre. Cash.
Don’t look for praise. Expect condemnation, for this is hell, right thing, but faith in the Roman priesthood is not only mis
$2000 for a 5-room house, barn and
It is war and war is hell. It is still war between individuals. placed but is one of the most rotten spots in our corrupt and lazy
one acre in fruit, facing Water street.
We call it competition. This war produces hate (hell) and war social and political system.
Cheap for cash.
(hell) between nations. It is the cause of poverty. It keeps up
$2500 for a 7-room cottage and
the saloon system. It advertises cigarettes and ruins the boys
one acre, one-half block from Water
POWERFUL
AID
TO
TYRANNY.
who grow to be middle aged and aged imps of hell who leave
street, close in; will give terms.
weakened imps to dance in the flames of torment. The idiotic
$.1000 for an H-room house, barn,
HE ELEMENTS OF TYRANNY in the government of these
laugh of such is hard to hear and it sends a chill to your heart, but
one acre orchard, harries, garden, on
United States are being pushed closer and closer to the
if you persevere and let love and truth win over hate and selfish
weal side Water street; $1000 down;
terms to suit.
brink of their ruin. They are fighting and will fight every
ness, you will certainly receive all the heaven there is for you in
inch of the ground and will die hard. In their extremity
the Training place of Love, or as the writer of those wonderful
$3100 for a strictly modern 6 room,
basement, bath, toilet, 1>4 acres, or
word pictures called Revelation has it. “To him that over- they will accept any aid they can get and the last chance of the
chard, berries, garden, lawn; about
cometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the money kings in this country and age will be the same as it has been
half down.
in
all
countries
and
in
all
ages,
the
most
conservative,
the
most
Paradise of God.”
$3600—Nine-room residence, close
powerful and the most ecclesiastical Church. This is the Roman
in, Water street. This is a snap, and
Catholic Church. A former United States Commissioner once
a small payment will handle it.
THE CITY ELECTION.
said. “Only the great powerful Catholic Church can help us.”
$4200 for 4 acres in town, facing
Of course the Commissioner did not mean the common peo
Waler atreet; I acre peaches, other
AST MONDAY was Silverton’s city election. The des ple when he said “us.” He meant what he conceived to be the
orchard, berries and garden of all
perate “wets” had been desperately busy, and had used United States, the wealthy classes, and it is absolutely true that
kinds; nice buildings. Terms.
every means at their command to prejudice the voters there is no salvation of the old system of exploitation excepting
$3700—20’/2 acres just outside city
against everybody and anybody who might be selected as through the “might-makes-right” idea of this great political
limits, all kinds of orchard and gar-
***’•?■’ ,H'r,,orn house, large harn, rock
candidates among the drys. The idea that the “blind piggers,” factor known as a church.
JJJ*’* . ,UBe’ walpr piped
in houae.
and especially Lewis Johnson, were being persecuted instead of
But it is too late. The battle may be a hard one but the
I his is an ideal place; part cash.
prosecuted, that Leon L. Myers, the paster of the Christian workers will win. The idea of a pure democracy is in the world.
Church and J. E. Johnston the detective and everybody else con It has grown to wonderful proportions. Catholicism is only
nected with the law enforcement movement are dirty, good-for- powerful because of the ignorance of its folliwing. The very in
nothing characters, and that the whole effort to elect any other ventions of travel and communication and the multiplication of
ticket than the beautiful wet one was just personal spite work, good books and magazines and all that makes for freedom of
was hashed and rehashed until it was swallowed by many voters, thought will defeat her and her“dear sons,” the rebels against
BOX 145
chunks, strings and all.
union, and on the rock of equality will be reestablished the true
SILVERTON, OREGON
Those calling themselves “drys” could find nobody who want church of brotherhood and a more perfect government of social
ed the nomination. The fight was too dirty and the reward very and industrial democracy.
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