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About The Silverton journal. (Silverton, Or.) 191?-1915 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1914)
Œh ^ilbfrton «Journal Published every Friday morning at Silverton, Oregon, by J. E. HOSMER, Editor. in the lead of real progressive states and make it more like a land ot the free and a home of the brave than any other spot of Uncle Sam’s domain. Look up the law and study it. Take no man’s word but think, and we know you will vote for it. It’s name is, “A I .aw for the Establishment of a Department of Industry and Public Works.” Solid as a Rock. HENRY SCHROEDER SILVERTON, OREGON Is the Agent of Columbia Life and Trust Company. 1 his is the Oldest Life Insurance Co. on the Pacific Coast. Assets, Jan. 1st,$522,808.94 Policyholders Satisfied. ttmnnm:nnnmim;::nn::n::::n:n::nn:u:nnnjnn:n::nnnnn:nnnnn::n:un Entered at the poetatile« at Stivar ton, Oregon, at aacond-clast rates. Subscription. $1.<M) per year, in advance. Single copies. 6 cents. Advertising rates made known'upon applica* tian. This paper stands for freedom of thought. free dom of the press, freedom of s|»eech. equality of opportunity and the reliirion of righteousness. It is radically opposed to every form of superstition and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form of evil. THE DEVIL’S OUTFIT. The throne of the Devil is a three-legged stool; His fork is a sharp, trident sticker; His imps are all taught in a three sided school, And his dope is a three colored liquor. When Saten takes stock of his outfit of Hell, You’ll find there three marks on each item; He’s used them since first from high heaven he fell, And you’re gone if you don’t help us fight ’em. Let us look for ’be marks on the legs of the stool— There is “ruia • e ’ ju- as true’s I’m a sinner; And look! There is “priest”, or by Jove I’m a fool— And the other?—"A Capitalist Skinner”. STRIKE FOR LIBERTY! REAL THINKING. E, THE PEOPLE, know more than we used to, thank the Lord, and we are beginning to think. This thinking will certainly lead to something good and the good thing that it will certainly lead to, ’s the final enjoyment of the blessings of lilierty for ourselves and our posterity. But there are still many things that keep people from really thinking and therefore many people have just a sort of brain action that doesn’t do much good, neither for themselves nor for their fellow men. There are natural born fools, and the reader Is certainly one if he thinks without a purpose. One who has no aim in life is to lie pitied and is to lie taken care of as any other non compos mentis. But such a one may do less harm than the idi< t who thinks of nothing but himself. Such a one may not wish to harm anyone else but he is like a monkey, who, having learned how to start a blaze, sets the ship on fire to warm his hands. But perhaps the most thoughtless human after all is the one who believes that the proper thing to do is to build up himself at the expense of others. He is a vicious, animal fool who harks back beyond the animal man, back, farther back than the wild wolfish hyenas of the most ferocious poc, back to the devouring, crawling snake creatures of the reptilian age, back, back to the Devil him self. O, you monstrocity, you viper! Two thousand years have passed since Jesus used that word viper in speaking of these thoughtless, human exploiters, and yet to day Scribes and Phar- asees are doing the very things he condemned. Thinkers, real thinkers, you understand the causes of things and will unselfishly work for the salvation of all. Ye are the salt of the earth indeed —a city that is set on a hill. You have written books; you have preached the real unselfish gospel of humanity; you have studied the great book of nature; you have labored to get a true concep tion of human history; you love your fellow men; you are for getful of self—you really think—you need no priest and no mat ter what the non thinking world may say of you, your name will be written in the real “Lamb’s Book of Life.” W. M. Ladd, President. W THE GEM THEATRE, mo S r ES Never Gets Old ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS Instructive and Educative. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ o Phone Black 1242. Coolidge Straet. ♦ Build This Spring When the Birds Do, ♦ Get a Nest of Your Own It will not coat you so much aa yor may think, if you employ UT SIDE OF IGNORANCE, the love of money or what that expression seems to stand for—selfishness is the cause of all, or at least nearly all, the sorrow, misery and BEN HOFSTETTER shame in the world. But there seems to be three channels Contractor and Builder. through which this ignorant selfishness manifests itself, or three Silverton, Oregon, main pillors on which it stands, or three causes for its existance - ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ in this late, enlightened age. These three great factors in the hell o£ poverty and degradation and in the fool’s heaven of glutted desire and idle luxury are the use of thought destroying, health destroying stimulant narcatic poisons, taught in the evil schools • .................. ... . ar. . . . called saloons; the enslaving and stultifiying superstitions of a dark, ignorant age, taught to the fullest and upheld with force TO THOSE ON THE FIRING LINE. t IRL B. LYONS and fraud in the evil schools of Romanism; and the exploiting, poverty-creating, profit system of industry which already gives E ARE STILL AT LARGE. Neither the authorities nor the to one hundred little families in this great, wonderful, resourceful “Cats” seem to want to put us behind the bars. We are country of ours over one half of all the wealth. so frightfully busy that we have scarcely time to eat or We believe that when the good honest American citizens under This we regret for there are many good letters 1 handle Mueller Brass Goods, Standard Enamelware stand these enemies they will arise in their might and restroy we should sleep. have answered that are still neglected. But let this Hydraulic Rams, Pneumatic Water Systems. 1 can them root and branch. It matters not which is the worst, nor hastily written editorial answer many at one shot, and perhaps make it worth your while to see me alsait your . which is the father or mother of the others. But as far as de we can get time to answer some time soon—when we are all by stroying them is concerned, it can not be done too quickly. Some our-self in a little jail-room. We have heard nothing and do not HOP DRYER PIPES may say, and truly say, that the settlement of the economic evil know what is to be done with us. We will not pay one cent of the will solve all the others, but the economic problem will be a long J. H. DAVENPORT ♦ time in being solved by a lot of “half shot” crazies. And the fine no matter what happens and so we work and wonder what JOBING A SPECIALTY. PHONE BLUE 1191 : next. This week we had much work and our machinery broke same can be said of the Roman evil As long as our people shut down twice, which caused us some delay, and so we are not doing . ...... t • . . — • • • > •—V. . ».. . « their eyes and open their mouths like young robins to take in any dope the harlot mother of Rome drops into it, just so long will all we wished to but are doing our best. Investigation is needed several important lines, the results of which we had hoped to it be impossible for them to think for themselves and become fit along give to our readers before this, but this fight is no child’s play and ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ for self government. If there are three wild, devouring brutes we all need a very great stock of patience. Let me thank those tiyu.v to destroy your home you will not stop to philosophize as who sent in their much needed help. If it were not for your work WE MUST GROW OR DIE! to which one of the devils is the worst, but you will shoot the we cculd not have survived but we begin to think that the real The Silverton Journal must keep its Subscription list first one that sticks his head in sight and you will keep shooting patriots of America are going to see to it that our paper will live growing or it will surely die. We need your help, but we until you and your loved ones are out of danger. in spite of Rome, their proscutions, their fines or their imprison Let’s be practical: The lawless element in America uses ments. want to give even more than value received. Get us a club of live or more at fifty cents a year. Use Î every fair and foul means to prevent the people from removing We are indeed working in a noble cause and though our work their costly crime-producing saloon system. And when laws are the following blank: may be unsatisfactory at times yet we must ever keep the main made in some localities, they defy and break them in every way object A FREE PRESS in view, and, in the broad sense of our country ultimately possible. The Roman Church is exactly the same. It does not ♦ being the world, let us keep Daniel Webster ’ s noble words ever in ♦ believe in the principles on which our government was established ♦ mind: “ Let our object be our country, our whole country, and and it violates these principles in every way, and even now con ♦ THE SILVERTON JOURNAL ♦ trols our largest cities, our highest officials, and very largely, the nothing but our country. And, may that country itself become a ♦ ♦ government itself.. Then the few wealthy families are united as vast and splendid monument,not of apprehension and terror, but of $1.00 Per Year — In Clubs of 5, 50c of peace and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze ♦ to their wealth producing interests, but woe to the wolf who gets wisdom, ♦ SUBS( R1PTION BLANK ♦ hurt. These trained, soft haired, blood-thirsty human carnivora with admiration forever.” ♦ will devour one of their own kind without remorse at the first EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL, opportunity. Thus their number grows less and less as their A BLESSING IN DISGUISE. SILVERTON, OREGON. power of great wealth grows more and more and the workers’ struggle becomes harder and harder. Enclosed find $ ............. . for which send THE JOURNAL to Y, DEAR BROTHER, how do you reconcile the awful Americans, it is time to act. These three enemies, Rum, activity of that human enemy, the papacy, with the prom the following: Romanism and the “Rockies” are the three main camps of the ise that all things work together for good to those who Devil’s Army. They are even now really and actually storing up Name .............................................................. serve the Lord? Is it not true that this old beast’s threat guns and ammunition to shoot the lives out of the liberty loving ening attitude is just the thing that is driving you out of your nar Address workers of America; and the time will come, unless we unite and row, selfish, theologic attitude and making you think of joining prepare to fight, that the Devil himself will be turned loose for the ranks of the broader creedits of righteousness against the com Name a thousand years. mon enemy ? Whether it is the Lord ’ s doings or not, you will be Address ♦ We have one advantage which gives us courage. Our enemies to come out or be devoured with the rest of mankind by the ♦ kill each other and thus help us. Even now the wealthy and the obliged beast. And suppose that your theological idea is correct, and that Name .. Roman camps may consider the saloon system a weak wolf and turn the other fellow is in darkness, didn’t the master choose even the against it. If they do it’s a goner. But Big Business and Rotten publicans Address sinners as his disciples? The most orthodox of his Rome respect each other and will mainly fight side by side till the time were and too theological to suit him. They were not broad Name victory is lost or won. Get together! Get ready! Strike for enough to see the need of a real, practical salvation, and you are Liberty! Address surely no better than your master. Therefore join yourself with all those who oppose the union of church and state and the other Name Roman idea of government for revenue, as did the disciples of that UP IN ARMS. earlier time of rotten, Roman usurpation and cruel, slavish rule, Address HE “INDUSTDIAL NEWS BUREAU and Publicity De and make Rome’s modern aggression the sign of her death. “And when a man can live apart from work on theologic trust, partment of the Pacific Coast Manufacturer” seems to be straining every nerve and muscle to prevent the people of I know the blood about his heart is dry as dust”. THE GREATEST SYSTEM OF To the Chain Gang: Oregon from providing a means to give everybody work. CULTIVATION ON EARTH Send in as many names of friends The “Bureau” seems to be more like that other piece of furniture, Progress is slow because people do not want to know the truth, of freedom as you can. We want to formerly used in back-woods schools, called the "dunce block.” It, the “bureau,” seems to fear that putting the people to work and or at least there are so many who do not want to hear, or haven’t send them sample copies and sub. The price of the Gravity Ha d Cul giving them fair pay for it will destroy “all incentive to economy, the mental strength to grasp the thoughts of others, if these blanks. Do it now! tivator is |8. all intiative and private enterprise and all inducement for capital thoughts happen to be new ones, and to weigh them, and to select The price of the Gravity Junior is to invest in this state.” Perhaps if we had a little less capital in 15. In his very able lecture, “The Passing vested for a short time and put the unemployed to work, they, the the truth from the error. The price of the Gravity attachment unemployed and their children would become wealth producers to of the Devil’’, last Tuesday evening Edward Adams Cantrell very is $2.60. such an extent that we would save some taxes and other expenses nicely showed the cause of this lack to be the arrested growth of These inventions are beyond ques from the criminality that is arising. If billions of capital comes many of our workers by the over work and under feeding of their Guaranteed Wear-Ever Hoaiery For tion the greatest that were ever used Men and Women. to a state that has been exploited to a point where all are tramps, parents. This seems to be the main cause for the process of evo in a garden. thieves and the confiscators of the wealth which really belongs to lution being so slow. Mr. Cantrell also unintentionally showed We recommend the Gravity Hand Ladies' Special Offer the producers, what good will the capital do? There never was why his audience was so much smaller than it would have been if Cultivator for large gardens and for a greater freak than this “bureau” which is afraid that the Oregon he had advertised that he would black up and dance a jig or that splendid deep work. The Gravity Ju State University, the Socialist party, the central Labor Council he was able to create a great revival in the churches of Silverton. For Limited Time Only— nior !s a lighter machine and is espe and other factors at work against unprincipled Capitalists’ ex No one is to blame for the lack of his own inherited weak Six pair of our finest 36c value cially adapted for women and children ploiting game of manufacturing armies of unemployed and then nesses, but as we begin to leave the old superstitions and begin to ladies’ guaranteed hose in black, tan with small gardens. The Gravity at adding insult to injury by asking these same exploited workers to understand the modern biological and psychological truths the or white colors with written guarantee, tachment works on the same principle vote against the only remedy in sight. The worst I. W. W. on whole world begins to change and and we begin to nave a mighty for $1.00 and *0c for postage, etc. but is attached to other tools, such as Special Offer For Men the face of the earth is a prince in comparison with the H. B. F. hope that happiness will some day reign supreme in this beautiful a pointed hoe or rake, and it is one of For a limited time only, six pairs of who is doing all he can to give aid and comfort to those old world of ours. If the Silverton father whose son is now in our finest 35c value Guaranteed Hose the finest things any gardener ever who do not need it, and who is helping to rob the homes of Oregon, disgrace had paid more attention in his home to the lessons of self- color with written guarantee and used. With any one of these machines sending the fathers and brothers out on the road as tramps, and respect and self control and had not advocated tar and feathers for any a pair of our well known Men’s Para the worker can do the work of five or the mothers and sisters into unmentionable depths of degrada those who were trying to help the boys to become real men, he dise Garters for one dollar, and 10c six men and do it much better than tion and despair, just to induce capital to come to our state and would have received greater dividens on his investment than he for postage, etc. a hoe or with the old style push keep workers out. Give us men, real men who know how to work ever can on his “first class merchandise at very reasonable prices’’. You know these hose; they stood with machines. The Gravity cultivates deep the test when all others failed. They and Oregon will become the wealthiest country in the world. The The young people should not be suppressed but helped to have real foot comfort. They have no or shallow; it works vrry rapidly; it voters will soon have a chance to vote for a law that will put a good time which is due every child bom into the world, but in give seams to rip. They never become loose does the work better than any other every man to work who wants work. If it is passed there never order to do this work properly the parents must understand the and baggy as the shape ts knit in, not hand cultivator in the world and it in. They are Guaranteed for again, in Oregon, will be an excuse for an able bodied man to be idle great laws of life. Better posted parents is one of the essential pressed fineness, for style, for superiority of does it so easy that gardening becomes nor for his children to cry for bread. Vote for it. It may not factors in building a better civilization, and, as commercialism material workmanship, absolutely a pleasure. Write for information or please some of the hard hearted exploiters but it will solve a gives way to a higher and better mode of existence, the fathers stainless and and to wear six months with send the price and we will ship a ma- mighty big problem and make Oregon in the Union what America and mothers will have more opportunity and more desire to know out holes, or anew pair free. chin’’ at once. has been to the oppressed of all nations. Vote/or It! It will in the great truths of good old Mother Nature which means so much Don’t delay send in your order be J. E. HOSMER, fore offer expires. Give correct size. crease the wealth of the workers. It will greatly lessen the taxes. to the children who are in turn to become the parents of a still WEAR-EVER HOSIERY COMPANY Inventor and Manufacturer, Silver- It will beunfair to no human being on earth. It will place Oregon more intelligent and stronger race. Dayton, Ohio ton, Oregon. 0 : W IRL B. LYONS I M T SPECIAL HOSIERY OFFER