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worse thoughts than we do, have many friends, or think they have,
Published every Friday tnorniu« at Silverton. Oregon, by
because they "just say nothing and saw wood”. Suppose any one
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J. E. HOSMER. Editor.
of these merchants had published as much of his own thoughts as
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we have during the hist year, on the very subjects we have written
Efflvrrd at the poatortice at Silverton. Ore<on,
Is the Agent of Columbia Life and Trust Company. This
about, how many friends would he have and who would trade at
at second-claa» ratea.
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opportunity and the religion of righteousness It
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\\ hy is the silent business man silent? He is afraid to speak
and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form
of evil.
out. He is afraid of you. He sees how you boycott Hosmer ami
lie can’t afford to ruin his business. So he soft peddles when you
i are around. But what a monster you are to force him to la* silent.
TUDENTS OF HISTORY have read of the Scythian hoards Why not let everybody be free? You’d better find out what that
which swept down over the great Persian empire; they have , fellow you are patronizing thinks la'fore boycotting the fellow who
read of the Visigoths, Vandals and other Germanic tribes says what he thinks. You patronize many people who think
that came from the north, covering the whole territory of
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Southern Europe; they have read of the great Trojans and Grecian worse things even about you than we do. You just don’t know it
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warriors, the .tenihe battle at “The Thermoybv” and Ciesar’s that s all. Will the time come when all business men and the
Gallic Wars. ’! hey have been thrilled with the story of Wash- public press will dare express their honest thoughts on all mat
ington at valley F< . e and Sherman’s March to the sea. But how ters of importance? The editor of The Silverton Journal has lost
many realize that, right at this moment, history, that is as im thousands of dollars and practically given the greater part of his
r vriiten, is being made.
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But the Scythian hoards of Europe are upon us. Vast numbers do so. So here goes you poor fault finding louse. Wake up, for I I ■ •
of Roman < . t! lies are landing here aad there seems to be no this is the twentieth century and there is something doing all the
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limit to their numbers nor to America’s undoing if they continue time. Let’s lie friends and debate as friends through the public
to come. To counteract this however, large numbers of most press and otherwise, but don’t let’s be hypocrites. Say what you
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excellent citizens from the more enlightened countries of the
think,
and
don
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forget
to
think,
and
don
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t
forget
to
keep
sweet
world are coming also; therefore hope may still spring eternal in
It will not rout you no much ax you may think, if you employ
the heart of America. On the other hand the great black pro when we say what we think. You can’t help being what you are
blem is still with us. The negro population increases very rapidly and we forgive you freely, even if you don’t do just what suits us
and it is still held by many that brute force is the only way to at times. But let’s get at the bottom of the great problems now
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keep the black men, in a very large portion of our union, from confronting us by boldly and bravely expressing our honest opin
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enslaving the whites. Yet the chance to ship them all back to
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ions,
even
if
we
die
for
it.
The
time
will
soon
come
when
the
ene
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in some way some time.
The warriors of old with their strength and skill have gone do on the fireing line is worth infinitely more than all the wealth
forever and the more wonderful engines of war and explosives and all the milk-and-water friends gained by cowardly silence.
and airships now make the twentieth century story a thousand
times more wonderful than in the times of sweet Helen and her
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captors.
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Even Washington and his brave patriots with their flintlock
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rifles and rousing fife-and-drum martial music, look small and
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the civil war, of only fifty years ago, is to modern soldiers very
HIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE COUNTRY, but we are
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crude, without telephones, auto trucks, rapid firing guns and the
not all quite free when we are forced to pay for prayers ;
thousands of other wonderful inventions that have come to the
which are an insult to any kind of a decent God and a ’
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world since the union boys, with their Yankee Cheese box, knocked
criminal graft on the people. Here is a clipping that shows
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the skippers out of the Rebels’ Cheese. But better than all is the that a war with Mexico is of interest even to the sweet, pretend-1
make
it
worth
your while to see me about your
fact that the thought of war as a game of barbarians is becoming ing followers of him who didn’t believe in war but in peace:
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time and all the human lives that are invested in fighting is worse
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than wasted. Reason, arbitration, the great peaceful force of
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united civilized nations, are the weapons with which we must teered to President Wilson to serve as chaplains in the Army or
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fight if the world is to ever become truly civilized. There are Navy in the event of war with Mexico.—Oregonian.
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still vast hoards of semi civilized men but a united civilized
The dear fathers wish to save the souls of our American boys
world will make short work of the necessity of self defensive war who go to kill other dear Mexican boys, and perhaps even some
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The greatest danger is from the uncivilized ideas of the of the Mexican Catholic l>oys could lie safted also. Wouldn’t it lie
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thousands in our midst, in all the so called civilized countries. glorious to see them Hying about the throne and playing golden
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Nor must we think that it takes no skill for this work nor that it the hog-grunting prayers said and we suggest that one of the
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certain* for the line up is intelligence and love of mankind against grace, what a travesty on the religion of righteousness, what a
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O, you rich devils, you sons and imps of hell who sit in high
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many other things which look absurd to us. Will there
be changes in our customes of worship and of disposing of
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Even now we know of people whose bodies were cremated, and,
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location of their remains. Will this be a universal custom some
that he is a Jusuit, has the Jesuit ideas and is every day
time and what arguements are in its favor?
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