Œbr Silerton journal
Published every Friday morning at Silverton. Oregon, by
J. E. HOSMER. Editor.
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Thl« paper .tend, for freedom of thouaht, free­
dom of the pre», freedom of speech, equality of
opportunity and the rvliaion of rurhteou.nees
It
• mdlcally opposed to every form of superstition
and tyranny, or Remain« or permittimr any form
of evil.
WORK FOR THE AMERIC AN CITIZEN
Daniel Webster once said that "America has proved that It
is practical to elevate the mass of mankind the laboring or lower
class—to raise them to selfrespect, to make them competent to
act a part in the great right and the great duty of self-govern­
ment; and she has proved that this may be done by education and
the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand
times more encouraging than ever was presented before in those
nine-tenths of the human race who art» lairn without hereditary
fortune or hereditary rank.” Catholicism does not elevate the
mass of mankind. All the good, all the real liberty, all the part
that the common people take in self-government has come in spite
of priestcraft. We hate the pope’s government because it is against
the interests of a free people, and, realizing that our nation is yet
very young, and that as Fisher Ames has said, “Aineeica is rising
with a giant’s strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages,” we can
not remain silent and see the old enemy of freedom atjts hellish
work of destruction.
may l»e able to keep out of jail. The damage cAse will probably
come off in Octolier, but just how we are coining out and how we
are to puy the expenses of these trials and pay our other obliga­
tions we cannot tell our rentiers. But we’ll do the l>est we can ah 1
trust to those in the "Chain Gang” to keep the subs coming in,
as it is the only ho|>e we have of pulling through this critical
period. But, of course, we must not lose sight of the fact thMt
this is also a critical time in the history of the world’s civilization.
We must do our part at pointing out the evil that lias brought
on this terrific war. "The |a>n is mightier than the sword,” and
we hope our friends will use it in this great cause for Liberty and
that they will In Ip us to circulate what the mighty |>en puts in
action. This is indeed a critical time, but everybody can do some-
<mng to hasten on the good time coming when war and its causes
will l»e removed from our beautiful floating earth-island.
T
THE GEM THEATRE,
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
What is the real cause of the war in Europe that threatens to
become a hell all over the world? Of course the causes are various
Hogs want to wallow in the mud. It is their nature, Do you
when viewed from one standpoint but there are some main causes
want
to make money? Do you want to have a good time? Do
and these main causes are what we, the people, want to get after.
We hold that the main causes of war through the ages has been you want to get even with some one who has wronged you? Do
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Do
priestcraft and kingcraft. These two fundamental errors of the you want war? Do you want to dress in he latest la-lnon? can
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human race are much in evidence today in spite of their power to you want notoriety? As a man thinketh so is he, and if we
hide themselve from the people, and they are the direct causes of get at what our chief desires are, we can easily determine what
the Mexican wa; as well as the European war and will be the cause we are, and know if we are of any use to the world. Any of the
of an Americ. i u; if we let them have their way. Priestcraft above mentioned desires, becoming the paramount characteristic
has been pretty well aired in the columns of this paper and a word of men or women make fools of them and dangerous fools at that.
If we have no higher aim than that of making money the very
about kingcraft might not be out of place, it is one o ;•
>» country
in which we want to make the money will become bank­
great arms of the octopus devil of which priestcraft is the other
arm. In a republic it takes on a different form but it is here just rupt and we will hasten on to the time when money can't be mude
the same. In Servia, the bone of contention, as elsewhere, the bv any one. When every citizen has become embued with real
royal family, are almost worshiped and their members are almost patriotism, when he can say that "the world is his country,” and
exempt from prosecution, no matter what they do. This makes it when the great majority of the people care for money, pleasure,
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very convenient for the ruling classes, for if they want any dirty to get even, war, clothes and to be well known, only when it is for
public good—when people are really in love with permanent,
work done they can “let George do it” and no one will be punished the
universal
aod can not be happy unless they are heroically
All work done In the aliorteat pmarib * lime. We are equip­
and the royal bloods can regret the action publicly, condemn the killing evil good
ped to handle all kinds of furniture, pianos, etc., with very little
principles
and
establishing
the
true
ones,
then
we
will
culprit openly while protecting and conniving with him secretly.
danger of any damage done.
be able to beat our gattling guns into auto trucks and our war
Prince George of Servia, who is called the“worst boy in Europe” ships
into
factories
and
the
high
cost
of-living
will
trouble
us
no
is said to be the immediate cause of the war. He has been
allow’ed to do everything bad, even to pillage, drunkenness, profli- more and we can live lives of individual happiness.
NO I OAD TOO HEA
FOR OUR TEAMS TO HAU!
But before everybody can be converted to this simple but all
acy and murder, ending in the assassination of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand. This gave an excuse for another of the royal family powerful religion of unselfish service, there must l>e some work
who has been crazy for a long time to own the earth, to declare done to open up the way, and there is still much need of pioneer,
volunteer, self-sacrificing, undaunted, never-give-up circuit riding
war.
Why wasn’t this “dare devil of Servia” taken care of long ago? It preaching. Time has made the old methods of no account to be
is for the same reason that the priestly crimes in Marion County, sure, and many of the accompanying doctrines have proven of no
WE MUST GROW OR DIE!
Oregon go unpunished. It is because we still permit priestcraft use, untrue and burdensome, but just in projiortion as has the >
minds
of
the
most
civilized
people
developed,
just
so
much
fiercer
and kingcraft to rule the world. There is work for you to do, you
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has waged the conflict and in order that civilization may not l>e
free American citizen. Will you do it?
entirely overcome by wrong incentives and abnormal growths of > growing or it will surely die. We need your help, but we
what might be right ones, somel>ody must raise-the banner, even ; want to give even more than value received.
Get us one or more at fifty cents a year.
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in the face of the howling mob who deride and spit upon even the.
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very signs of righteous ideas. The world needs real men and - the following blank:
women now and it needs them so much that it will die without I
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The Catholics’ rotten doctrines have kept the people of the them; but only those who cannot or will not think of conditions
world in ignorance and taught the rulers the ruinous game of ex­ can drift with the tide or go with the crowd and enjoy the swinish
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ploitation, deceit and brute force to accomplish their selfish ends. fruits of selfishness; for the precious principles which have cost so
Austria-Hungary is the center of this world’s war and it is one of much are s*ill in the balance.
Life is short. It will soon be over. Under different circuin-1
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the most superstitious countries of Europe while Mexico is known
as a Roman Catholic country and it is another sore spot that may stances, when suffering and misery and crime and hell are the
50 cents per year.
yet endanger the whole life of civilization. And in our own exception instead of the rule, you might properly want and work
country the most corrupt and ignorant centers are Roman Catho­ for an individual happiness. But heaven can not exist in hell and ; EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL,
lic cities. The reason for this is that the Roman Catholic religion you are throwing away your life if you, in this age, want and work ■
SILVERTON, OREGON.
is based on a lie. The priesthood claim it to be Christian, but this for anything less than the common good by fighting for those uni-1!
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falsehood must be evident to even the lay members of the church, versal, basic principles of justice and truth •which aione can give ;
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when they realize that the simple doctrine^ of Jesus are crowdec us, and those who follow us, the true liberty of a real civilization. ; the following:
out by the ceremonies and mummeries of the church and an in­ What do you want ?
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fallible God is crowded out by the idea of an infallible man, the
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pope. Not only this but the test “by their fruits ye shall know
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them” when applied, anywhere and everywhere the hierarchy has
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a foothold, show’s them to be thorns and thistles. Nor must we
be satisfied in merely talking about these evil doctrines and their
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Man is superior to the brute because he has the faculty of
corrupt advocates. We must actually pull up these weeds and reason
better developed, but reason, like food, water, fire and our
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throw them over the fence. We are told that this very “Order own inventions,
«)
may
be
wrongly
applied
and
bring
sorrow,
sick
­
of Saint Benedict” (O. S. B.) was run out of Switzerland and ness, crime and death.
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everybody knows that, for good reasons, they are “getting what
Very slowly, and at times seemingly almost stopped, reason,
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Paddy gave the drum” in Mexico, what they were in the Phil- scientific
and righteousness, are coming to govern the
lipines and what they are in corrupting politics and social life world, and wisdom
Address
the reason they have not come long before this is be­
even in Oregon.
cause
men
in
high
positions
arrive
at
false
conclusions
from
their
The A. P. A. movement died down and the Romans ¡¿ugh at wrong methods of reasoning, and then get the multitudes to act
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it, but that is no sign it was not based on the correct theory of wrong
because of much faith in their heroes, the false prophets.
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Roman Rottenness and it doesn’t prove that the people of this
As
we
write,
thousands
of
the
dead
bodies,
of
what
a
few
country will forever put up with what is so un-American and so
damaging to our republic. A priest ruined a young lady not long hours ago were strong, active men, lie putrifying in the hot sum­
sun in western Europe and the wail of agony is going up
ago only a few miles from this city; another committed adultery; mer
from
old fathers and mothers for their boys whom they will
another w’as proven guilty of sodomy; another one who shows the never, dear
never see again, from young maidens who will never get
brute in his face is now a father in fact as well as in name; an­
other was advised not to become a priest, because he liked the over the sorrow at the loss of their noble brothers or intended life
girls too well, but he has been ordained, we understand, and prob­ companions, from little fatherless children and stricken wives.
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ably learned to better deceive the public. If this is true of little Look at them there. Why must the very air be poisoned by those
Marion County, what about Multnomah and what about all the who would be the very life of a civilized nation? Some one’s
counties of the United States? Look at New York! Isn’t rob­ reason was faulty. In Mexico the people have suffered for years.
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bery and graft and rape and sodomy and adultery and murder The story of the whipping post, the robbery, the poverty, the
just as bad here as it is in Mexico? Haven’t these devils fooleo murders and the blighting ignorance is awful; and now comes
us long enough? What are you going to do about it? You are the climax of a horrible war, and another and still another, with
going to let them control Oregon and the United States and send the unimagined anguish, remorse, disease and despair. And all
reckless sinners like Hosmer to jail for telling the truth, that’s this because of the lack of the power to reason out things to a
what you’ll probably do; but here goes. Read the first page of true conclusion. Nor is this lack confined to our rulers. News­
men, teachers, preachers, business men and everybody are
this issue and wake up! Take an interest, if you can, for this is paper
still
slow
to reason properly and to apply their conclusions to the
your fight. Don’t believe everything you hear, but please in­ right thing
at the right time. Then those who do reason correctly
vestigate and get at the real truth of things; and if you find that are overcome
by the mob who still worship at the shrine of
we are telling you the truth for the love of Liberty, do something. pomp, power and
mystery instead of taking the pains of knowing
the truth.
Thus we are still in darkness and have gone down to the hell
It’s a good one to read and pass to a neighbor.
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ?
of war; and we would not be surprised now if those whose inter­
ests are in the sale of weapons of war or of bonds or in political
or
economic advantages will try to draw our nation into a world
It doesn’t usually take long for the hierarchy to down anyone destructive
Meanwhile, however, we must not forget the
who dares to oppose it and show it up to the public, and we find efforts that war.
are being made through false reasoning to destroy
that the same old methods are being used to down the Silverton
good in Oregon. The election next November is as
Journal. Will an awakened public take a hand and save us from everything
important
and
probably more so than the European war. ' Every
the same fate that has befallen thousands who have dared to face argument put out is either true or false. Voters in a government
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one of the worst enemies that the world has ever seen or will the like ours must learn to distinguish between sound reasoning and
steady, persistent boycott, lies and bribery prevai' and finally ex­ selfish; destructive, false reasoning. Some things which sound
haust and put us on the scrap heap of wasted entfeavor? One very plausible, when carefully analyzed often prove to be simply
thing is certain and that is that we have put our hand to the plow devilish. And what is the remedy? Learn what reason is. Take
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fending ourselves against the courts which are more or less dom­
inated by the Roman Church and the political influence which it
wields. But we have promised our little band of helpers that we
will never give up and we never will as long as there is life enough
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though everyone forsakes us we will do all we can atone to save
We have just what
The great European war will take up the attention of many
the blinded people from the swindling, confidence game of priest­
you are looking for
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out of business with this spirit of uncompromising, determined, periods, not only in the world’s history, but in the history of our There are so many things that ■ubs. It is the only way we can unn-
life-time warfare against what we most thoroughly believe to be trial for libeling Josephine Hess and for $50,000 damages to the we have that you need, just as vive. i. Thia is your fight, aa well as
the worst devil in the world, remains to be seen. If we were abso­ Wt. Angel holy Sauer Kraut joint. The libel case is now again good as new. Come in and see.
ours, Let’a each do his part well and
lutely alone we could put up something of a fight and could hold before the Supreme Court in the form of a motion for a rehearing.
CHARLES
WEBB
If
this
is
granted
we
will
have
a
chance
for
a
new
trial
and
thus
a great victory will be won.
out quite a while, but, “thank the Lord/’ we are not entirely alone.
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