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JÓ T he S ilverton J ournal SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1914. VOL. III. HOSMER CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL LIBEL NO APPEAL FOR EDITOR HOMER. Supreme Court Approve» Conviction of Silverton Man in Ca»e of Mount Angel Convent—Law Define» Libel. Salem, Oregon, June 16.—Conviction of J. E. Hosmer, editor of a paper at Silverton, on the charge of committing criminal libel against the Mount Angel convent, was affirmed by the supreme count today in an opinion written by Justice McNary and concurred in by Chief Justice McBride and Justices Bean and Eakin. The libel was contained in the publication of an alleged confession of Mary Lasenan, a nun, who was said to have escaped from the convent. When the time of trial came the defendant could not locate Miss Lasenan and asked for a postponement of the trial. This was denied by Justice Kelly, and this action of the Justice constitutes one of the grounds upon which an appeal was made. The supreme court held that no error had been committed in this instance, as facts were not presented to the court that the missing witness could not be produced. The court also held that the plaintiff’s contention that the in dictment was faulty because it contained no allegation that the publication was malicious was untenable, in view of the statutory definition of the crime of libel.” This blow fell heavy on the editor who writes these.lines. He received papers from the Supreme Court several years ago which made him an attorney, and from what he knows of law, his idea that justice is bound to win in the long tun, anu the opinions of other practicing attorneys, he was led to believe that the lower court’s opinion would be reversed. But here is exactly how the matter stands to date: For publishing the truth we are convicted of criminal libel. We published the sworn affidavit of a Christian Minister as to what this escaped nun said. What she said is true. That she said it is true. That the minister swore that she said it is true. But for telling what she said we are hauled into court, for criminal libel, and finally, after months of wearisome waiting, we are said to be guilty. We will probably go to jail, for we will never pay the fine. The Hierarchy would break us up as they thave thousands of others. The $50,000 damage case will come up against us next, if The Silverton Journal is kept running, for they want to stop and will stop, if we let them, every free press in America. But our press will run even if we do go to jail. If we go, and although the disgrace, when we look at it in one way, seems more INQUISITION HAS BEGUN INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Hosmer Must go to Jail—What For? OF THE STATE After one of the most unfair and farcical of travesties upon justice it Information About Factories and En terprises That Employ Labor and has been decided that one of our Matters Affecting the Development fe'low patriots must go to jail. The of Oregon. Roman Catholic Hierarchy as it al ways has done carries out its sinister desires by means of seeular power (Compi’ed by the State Bureau of Industries and Statistics.) which they control. This trial was a During the past week the Oregon farce. Hosmer was not given oppor tunity to put on his chief witness, Public Uti'ities commission has fixed Mary Lasenan. He was forced to go standards of quality in water, gas, to trial without being given time to light, heat, and telephone service. Effect of order not yet known. than we can bear, we will go witn a smile and with gladness that secure affidavits from the East which July 1st, the new Workingmen's were necessary to support h's side of we can sacrifice for the cause of human liberty which we have the case. Compensation Act goes into effect and learned to love more than our own life. We do not wish to be The courts of Oregon are under the Ahis is the last date on which manu misunderstood. We do not want to go to jail, but paying a fine domination of the Roman Cathclic facturers and employers can give notice of not coming under the pro where there is such a principle at stake is more of a disgrace than hierarchy as this case clearly reveals. visions of the act. Nevertheless the day is close at hand being locked up. We defy the |>ower of this hellish system that when there will be a reckoning Big strike reported at High Grade has entrapped, not #nly us, but millions and utterly ruined the Note if you please just why these mine, near New Pi«e Creek. lives and happiness of unnumbered billions of the most law courts of justice! ?) are punishing this Work will start soon on the Carne patriotic man. Mary Lasenan an es gie library at Marshfield. abiding and well-wishing people of the world. In asking for paving bids, Albany caped nun from the Mt Angel convent bars bids on concrete paving. is rescued by members of the Chris Klamath Falls is now after the tian church at Silverton Oregon to whom she flees for succor. She tells Bandon Woolen Mills with a free site. The Gleason yards at Cottage Grove a horrible story of abuse suffered at the hands of th« convent authorities. wr'l burn a half million brick. The new power plant for Canby and There hn’t A CRIME contemplated gives u* the right to know your plots Several citizens make affidavit to the Clackamas county is being rushed. fact that this nun to’d this story. in the a leged 4th Degree Oath that and purposes. Lafayette will install a $15,000 Hosmer prints the affidavit. Every you have not ATTEMPTED,OR COM What are you buying those rifles word of it is the truth. The courts water plant. St. Johns is providing a street for for? MITTED. send Hosmer to jail. The priests can an outlet for the Western Cooperage Why are you doing all of this continue their beastly conduct and Your 4th Degree men are armed Co., that employs 200 men. secret drilling? continue to ruin the young woman member» of a Treason league, and All the principal streets of Heppner Why this “Militia of Christ,” which hood of this nation. the law ought to break you up—just Archbishop Quigley boastfully de The courts will call them father. ' are to be oiled. as the law broke up the Mollie clared was ready to fight, when the The nuns can continue their business Andrew Kennedy is putting in Maguires and the Ku Klux Klan. machinery and a plant to manufacture Italian pope gave the word. | of white slavery and the courts w’i’l Your Treason league is a more Who is it your Italian boss wants reverent'y cal! them sisters. These coal brickets on Coos Bay. dangerous enemy to the general wel you to fight? The skyscraper limit has been iecherous imposters on the human fare of this country, than the Black When do you expect your orders family control the courts of this our raised at Portland from 160 feet to Hand ever wa»—more dangerous than from Italy? land of the free!?), /'nd an editor 200 feet. White Slavers are! The McKenzie river hatchery is to What sort of Christianity is it that who dares to tell the truth must go You are bound by oath as vassals of needs so many secret societies, so to jail. The courts by refusing this be increased in capacity to 2,000,000 a foreign potentate—a usurper at that many secret oaths, so many secre. «nan a fair and impartial trial may fish annua1 ly. and the vilest of impostors—the dead, drill-masters, so many swords and put him in jail but they can not Warrenton, Clatsop and W st Side liest enemy to democracy, to labor, rifles ? put in jail the tide of public sentiment towns are to have telephones. to self-government, to Home Rule, to Hood River Royal Anne cherries all Do you think we are blind ? Do that will be aroused against this morality and true religion. you iaiagine that we will allow these I n«farious piece of business when the sold to The Dalles at five cts. Seaside will have a 200,000 per d iy You have no legal right to vote, menacing preparations for war tc public finds out the truth. Every day serve on juries, or hold office: by the continue indefinately ? shingly m:'L that Hosmer is in jail will only add oath you take you voluntarily Become Engin- ers are working on a $350,- Do you fancy that the Italian priest, {to the fire of wrath already started aliens; and you should not be allowed wearing the triple crown, can take | by the nefarious activities of »he 000 foothills ditch to irrigate 8600 to exercise any civ'l right, or politi Lis own time and us? hi; own methode | Roman Church. acres at Medford, to be completed by cal privilege, that other aliens are not to subvert ourdemocratic institutions ? Let every patriot w».o reads the. <? 1915. permitted to enjoy. 1 l.c campaign for a tw o-mill limit Already your brutal mobs have at lines immediately send to J. E. Hos If you were coming into this coun tacked our churches, beaten our mer some sum of money to assist him on state taxes will be made by the try from Italy, you should have to speakers, threatened the lives of i in paying expenses while he is forced taxpayers direct in the Willamette swear off that treasonous oath, before others, and shouted in the str“ets of to remain away from his business in Valley. Brick manufacture is being estab you could become naturalized citizens. such cities as Brooklyn, “DEATH TQ order that he may satisfy the desires lished at S’sters. If you were Italians, living in Rome THE PROTESTANTS!” 1 of a heartless hierarchy. Remember Mosier wants a fruit cannery. and bound to the Italian pope ns you Already your Quigleys and your this that their great desire is to ruin New’ school houses are going to be are now bound, it would not be any Phelans have insolently told us that his paper anu to stop its publication of our business; and you would not your Itilian boss has the right to because it tells the truth about the built in Lane county, cost $60,000. be a menace to our liberties. Willamette Pacific tracks ‘ are to "punish” Protestants, for being Prot Hierarchy. Patriots to the rescue! • reach tidewater by October 1st. In The fact that you are spies and estants, just as the State has the right LEON L. MYERS. al’ 1500 men are employed. traitors, inside our citadel is what to punish criminals for being Douglas county will finish planking constitutes our danger from you, and criminals.—Sei. A SENSIBLE REQUEST the road over Camas mountain. Bandon will erect a municipal dock. 1 he Coudersport (Pa.) Enterprise STICKERS same if Hosmer had been a Catholic Ashland has voted $175,000 bonds recently contained a novel paid ad L'ttle drops of priest-craft, priest? “Nit”! to develop mineral springs and baths vertisement. It was three columns Little poli-tics, • • • wide and twelve inches long, and it on a large scale. The Pope, Lord of America, Governor West announces that 2000 Were Adam and Eve Catholics, and was an application for a license to And Columbia in a fix. acres of the Tumalo project is ready if so, who prayed them out of purga steal horses! • • • for settlers at forty dollars per acre. tory far eating that apple? The petitioner said he was willing O yes, we know the Hierarchy is H. C. Sampson of the North Pacific ♦ * ♦ to pay liberally for the privilege, and the greatest organized power on earth, Fruit Distributors Association says in view of the licenses granted to Those who know enough to “say but give up, NEVER! They can cut the Panama canal will bring large Hosmer’s legs off at the knees, put nothing and saw wood” get rich and others to carry on the business pro shipments of German beer and the his eyes out, and force him to dig don’t have to go to jail or pay a fine. ducing at least three-fourths of the vessels will take fruit tonnage back crime committed in the community, dirt and wheel it out of one of their Hosmer is a fool! with them. he did not see why his request should • * • underground dungeons, but even then The Oregon grain crops are esti not be granted. he would be free to think and plan Is it or is it not a fact that the Hie mated at 69,024,000 bushels by the He considered that the business of and defy the the hellish beast of rarchy has been fitting young men to Department of Agriculture. Rome. occupy positions on the supreme bench horse-stealing, for which he asked a Lumber shipments out of Columbia license, would do far less injury to in our state and in our nation ? If it the community than that of selling river ports aggregated 6,118,000 feet, Machine politics had something to is so what are you going to do about and Coos Bay 9,316,000 for the last intoxicating liquors. do with the decision against Hosmer, it? two weeks of May. He pledged himself not to take • • • don’t you think ? O, it’s a great sys A million pounds of wool sold at away the senses of any man, or cause tem and if you like it, keep it. One of the best Jesuit stunts is to Shaniko last Thursday, 16 to 20 cts. any man to beat his wife or to commit * • • educate young men to fill judicial po murder. A new industry in Oregon is the Would the Macks and the Micks sitions and then attend to their elect eastern demand for husbands. He promised not to steal horses on the Supreme bench have voted the ion. It’s great! Eugene engineers are promoting an on Sunday or on election day or on 100,000 drainage project. legal ho'idays or after ten o’clock at night. He also agreed not to steal Monmouth, Oregon--------- A FIGHT TO THE FINISH! * colts, or horses that have no sense, Dear Mr. Hosmer:— Patriotic Reader: • or old, broken-down plugs. I am enclosing 20 cents for one copy I have been boycotted, slandered, persecuted, prosecuted and now * He reminded the court to which he of each of the “Escaped Nun and the convicted of criminal libel for telling the truth. I do not like app’ied that “the community could June “Protestant.” to tell you this nor what I am about to say, but I do not want to not be run without license fees,” and Mr. Hosmer, I enjoy your editorials. be crushed entirely. I think I can do much good if allowed to that “if he did not steal horses some I know that they must be the result continue in my work. So listen! The enemies of free speech and * one else would,” and that “all at- of much thought. Wh:,e I fear that a free press have compelled me to go in debt. I owe $4,837. This temps to prohibit horse-stealing only you somewhat overdraw the Roman may not look like a large debt to some people, but it is a mighty result in sneaks and liars.” He also situation, I believe that the Catholic big burden under present conditions and I fear it more than going directed attention to the number and Church is an enemy to our public to jail. It should be paid at once, and then, even if I go to jail character of those subscribing to his schools, Freethought.and Liberty such for three or four months, I can write from there and with good petition, which included Eaton B. as patr’otic Americans understand the help in the mechanical department and the good wife in the businss Merry, Barr T. Ender, Wurse N. Use term. As a teacher and student of office we can print the SILVERTON JOURNAL in spite of the ♦ less, A. Ward Heeler and Justwon History, I am wondering what will be Catholic Hierarchy. But listen! This is not a begging letter. Iwish * Glass. the result of Roma’s aggressiveness. to give more than value received. I want 10,000 subscribers to This bright advertisement is one of It is gratefying to know that the ten the Silverton Journal at 50 cents per year. This is a square deal the shrewdest temperance arguments dency of Protestant churches is to and will be the best answer we can give to Old Rome’s attacks. ever set forth. And why is it not a consolidate—this they should have It will pay all our debts and make us sing like a lark on the way * perfect legitimate argument? Prac done long, long ago. But Rome will to jail. The subscription price of our paper is one dollar per year * tically every one acknowledges the compromise NEVER. It is too bad, hut for the next thirty days we will cut the price in two to every- * harmfulness of the saloon. If we indeed, that Napoleon did not raze the body. Send in one subscriber, or as many as you can, at 50 cents. * license it, why not license less harm Vatican and exile the Pope. Yes, per Lets’ pull together! Do your best and I'll do mine! ful sins also? haps you are right in saying that did Yours for “Staying With It,” • If the advocates of license were cap His Holiness(?) have his way, you J. E. HOSMER • able of seeing a point, they would see and I would be burned at the stake. this one.—Ex. Yours for Liberty and Freethought. Catholic Priests in This County Who Have Com- milled Adultery, He Who Committed Sodomy, Those Who Have Committed Child Murder and Those From Whom the Nun Escaped Are All Free; but Hosmer, Who Told the Truth, May HOT SHOT FROM TOM WATSON. Go To Jail tor He Will Not Pay the Fine. The following appeared in the Oregon Daily Journal last Tuesday: NO. 33.