T he S ilverton J ou
VOL III.
SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1914
r
Hop Growers’ and Dealers’ Association
Important Letter and Our Answer
WE DEMAND UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER!
The Silverton Journal was offered advertising which had for its object the defeat of the dry forces in destroying one
Roman Catholic Church Must Go!
of the greatest evils in the world. We refused to take money for such work. The children, and others who suffer,
would arise in our conscience and smite us. But this is a free press and we invited our friend, the enemy, to use our The history of Spain, The Phillipines, France, Austria, Italy,
columns free with the understanding that we are to answer his contentions. At our regular rate we lose one hundred
Mexico and now the United States, proves that the
dollars in the deal and we need the qnoney, but a dry state is worth many times that amount and a clear conscience
Hierarchy is a Menace to Society
is worth more to us than gold or even what most people call success.
Hop Growers’ Letter
Portland, Ore., Aug. 14, 1914.
J. E. HOSMER, Editor,
Silverton Journal,
Silverton, Ore.
Dear Sir;
Your refusal to take our advert)»*
ing matter against prohibition is of
course strictly a case of exercising
your own "personal liberty” in ths do
main of thought and action and to
Riat no »ane man can object. If we
■uid compel you to take thia adver
tising in violation of your conception
of what ia right; then the freedom of
the press would be gone and your
right to control the vehicle through
which you express your personal con
victions would be taken from you, just
mm you seek to take from other» the
right of exercising their private Judg
ment a» to what beverage they »hall
use when nature demands liquid re
freshment.
We accept your challenge to write
un article which you say you will print
and answer, and this letter you may
consider the article. You of course,
wll agree with me that the liberty oi
the press should not be interfered
with even if some editors do abuse
that liberty to the extent of viilifying
innocent women; and you should, by
every rule of logic and Justice, as
readily agree that my right to obtain
without restriction a glass of wine, or
beer, should not be interfered w..
t>ecau»e some other man abuses that
right to the extent of almost lowering
mseif to the plane of a detainer ol
omenhood.
The tone of your reply to our loti,
leads me to believe tliat you are very
much opposed to the use of liquor,
and your refusal the ret ore to take ad
vertising against prohibition must be
on the basis that prohibition is a rem
edy for intemperance.
Sixty year» ago the theory of pro
hibition had one tenable count on
which to Justify itself, that was, that
it would decrease intemperance; every
other count then was as now, against
it.
Since that time prohibition has been
slammed up against the cold logic of
experience and has been proven an
absolute failure so far as any claim
that it is a remedy for intemperance
is concerned.
The most rabid prohibitionist extant
must admit that the great majority of
the people of uny state, county or
city in this country are opposed to
drunkenness and all the evils that
can be laid at its door. If this is
ranted and it must be, then it is up
> you to explain why only nine states
are now in the prohibition column al
though twenty-four states have in the
Vast inflicted upon themselves this un
holy, unrighteous, un - Christian and
un-American law.
Among the twenty-four states that
have tried prohibition are the six
New England states; today only
Maine still has the law. Prohibition
received a thorough trial In New Eng
land and failed miserably. Vermont
stuck to it for fifty-three years; New
Hampshire for forty-eight years, the
others for lesser periods.
Maine adopted constitutional pro
hibition in 1884 by 44,632 majority
and only retained it by 758 in 1911.
Dare any sane man accuse the peo
ple of New England of being in favor
of intemperance because they repealed
thia law.
Increased drunkenness and lawless
ness brought its repeal as it will in
every other state that now has it with
.the possible exception of Kansas and
Jthat state will still continue to be
short-handed at every harvest because
labor is robbed of its liberty and the
workingman jailed as a hobo at «very
other season of the year.
Our Answer
It has been proven beyond a shadow
of a doubt that the Roman Catholic
Church is a block to progress and a
corrupter of all governments, in
Oregon, in Marion County—tv ry-
where it is rotten in theory, corrupt
in practice, fraudulent in busHess,
tyrannical in government and criminal
in everything. There is no doubt of
this in the minds of those who know
th'» by experience, and those who have
investigated it most thoroughly, claim
that the stories told by those who have
escaped are practically all true.
But for the sake of saving time, the
Hierarchy should surrender at once.
We should ail be doing work that is
more like a civilized people than fight
ing each day. They, should now
voluntarily turn over their property
to the state as it was secured by fraud
and this should be done for their own
benefit as well as for the benefit of
noncatholics.
The individual names of high of
ficials and
nearly all the priests
can be put before the public if neces
sary. Bills can be introdued into our
legislature, and even the referendum
can be used. But this takes much
time, money, prosecutions, persecu-
tions and sometimes even murder fol
lows the work. Therefore we hereby
plead with the powers of the Roman
Catholic Church—we demand imme
diate surrender. Deed your property
over to the state for educational pur
poses and show proof that your
priests intend to live honest, virtuous
lives as by law required of other men.
This we demand in all kindness but
with a determination that knows no
defeat.
The Kansas home owner ships his
Silverton, Oregon.
at present is Just tiecause such b irt-
liquor in by the barrel, case or Ji g an i
less wretches as Use the name Hop
shouts for prohibition, but the work Hop Growers' Association
v.rowers' Association" to deceive the
ingman must either get his at a blind
and Voters of Oregon
people for the sake of dirty dollars,
or choke.
have lied, bribed and hoodwinked the
Eeiluw Citizens:
people and our legislatures into de
While you are answering, this one
We are on the way to a geat feating the cause of truth and right
will give you a beautiful chance to in
battle.
Tins light between the dry these many years. The unholy, un
dulge in a few mental gymnastics.
righteous, un-Christian and un-Ameri
Is beer made in Washington, Cali lurces and the wet forces of Oregon
Dear priest-brothers, you are in an
can
saloon with the greedy brewers
fornia, Wisconsin or Missouri less in is a light between right and wrong,
evil
cause.
You are victims of the
and
distillers
have
defeated
the
peopn
toxicating than beer made in Orcgou? it is the civilised wuy of lighting and
old
pagan
net
you are spreading for
and
when
good
laws
have
been
passed,
the ballot is lite weapon. The women
and become loyal American citizens,
You know of course that the com as well as tiie men are now armed these harpies of society have unlaw
better for you and for us ali for you
mittee of One Hundred cut out the and will line up with their husbands fully and villainously disobeyed them
u xorsake the old, sin-soaked derelict
word “distribute” from the original and brothers and help settle this and then cried that “prohibition
and become loyal American citizens.
draft of the constitutional amendment >aloon question in a most beautiful doesn’t prohibit.” The best peop'e of
Surrender now or we will be obliged
to be voted on this hall, so now only and orderly manner. No one can New England and of every part of
ti expose you, from the highest io i,.c
the "manufacture or sale” is prohib truthfully say that this is not fair and our great country are not only in
unest. Do you want the light turned
favor
of
temperance
but
also
of
pro
ited. Why? Will you please answer. the only sensible way to settle ail
/>n
full force? If not, surrender and
hibition,
but
they
have
been
often
de
Distribution from other states still questions that come up in our great, feated by illegal voting and all kinds
save very much personal shame, sor
,{<>ca. This is “duck soup” for the progressive state and the only ques of chicanery. Because the rummies
row, contention, litigation, peace and
timber barons who dominate that com tion now remaining is as to which rush a lot of illiterate Romans into a
your opportunity to help in the grand
mittee, they can still gel theirs whole side is right.
and glorious work of establishing a
state to save their saloon business is
The
Hop
Growers'
and
Dealers*
As
sale, but Hill, Jack O>e and Hans will
real, genuine, universal brotherhood
no sign prohibition is wrong. Every
nave to gut their little nip from the sociation of Oregon is sailing under a point which Mr. Tribe tries to make
with peace on earth and goodwill to
blind pig at $ LOITper pint or be good, wrong name. It shoo'd be called the in favor of the saloons is remarkably
men. SURRENDER!
when his boss has bunked him into Brewers’, Distillers’ and Saloon Deal false and the truth proves beyond a
ers'
Association.
They
start
out
to
voting away a priv lege which he may
fool the people. The name is a false doubt that prohibition is not only
■ iuw exercise or not as he sees lit.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
STICKERS
hood, fur very many hup growers right morally but will be one of the
greater
and
best
financial
investments
in your answer will you please tell have nothing to do with it and the
Oregon ever made. Space forbids
To the Editor:
.»ay it is that Holy Kansas has main object is to save the saloon. To
answering all in detail. There is not Little drops of water (holy)
du
this
look
how
our
friend
Tribe
more prisoners in her penitentiaries
A defender of Christian Science ap
a single sound argument in his let Little grains of sand (gall)
in proportion to population than sinful wiggles and twists. He says that we
pears
in last week’s Journal. Luxe
ter. The following from the anti Make the mighty ocean (of stupidity)
iregon; more Juvenile delinquents in ‘seek to take from others the right
a*l his kind, he is amusing. If “God
saloon
league
press
answers
many
of
And the pleasant (?) land (of untixe-1 is All,” the “only Cause,” the “only
proportion to population tiuui Oregon, of exercising their private judgment
the questions relating to Kansas;
church property).
and a’so if that is why we should vote as to what beverage they shall use
Creator,” and he is “good,” and ail his
Eaking Kansas Statistics
• • •
“dry” to “save the boy"; more pris when nature demands liquid refresh-
creation is like him, why teach Chris-
oners in county and city jails in pro nent.”
The agents of the foreign liquor
tain Science? And to what do you
All evil is united against righteous
What an unreasonable statement. corporations who are conducting the
portion to population than Oregon.
teach it? “Mortal Mind,” a “False
No one will contend that the people wet campaign in Oregon and Wash ness—the priest is not usually a prohi- Belief,” do you say? But in what
While on this subject you might have not the right to demand anyone
ington have been putting out a lot of btionist, but sticks close to the does Mortal Mind or the Faise Be
explain how it would reduce tuxes if of us to refrain from drinking that
fake statistics about Kansas, pretend evil that “biteth like a serpent and lief reside ? Is there really a false
sinful Oregon shpuld get as bad as which makes us unfit to perform our
ing to compare its bank deposits and stingeth like an adder”.
belief? If so, then all is not Divine
tkly Kansas on these counts. After duties as citizens. If his contention is
• • •
penitentiary statistics with similar
Mind. If there is no false belief, then
you have explained this, you might correct, then butchers could sell and
statistics of other states.
some
things are evil just as we con
Let
no
Catholic
be
elected
excepting
tell us how it happens that Oregon fathers could feed poison meat to
In comparing the bank statistics, it be with catholic votes, for no one ceive them to be.
has fewer homicides in proportion to the children; anyone who wished
the liquor men only credit Kansas
Is it not a fact that so far as we
population than Kansas.
could drink carbolic acid or deal out with the deposits in the national else will be elected with their votes, can Know God from nature, or from
unless
it
is
a
tool
wigeon,
a
stool
pig.
morphine, cocane or absynthe hit or banks, as given in the report of the
ourse'ves, he is related to a Principle
Bulletin 121, U. S. Census 1010, will
eon or a fool figgum.
miss to the children or to the victims comptroller of the currency.
of Development, which necessarily
back up all the statements I have
they had wheedled into their dens.
They wholly ignore the deposits in.
implies imperfection.
made, and it will hard'y be an answer
Private judgment must give way to the 933 state banks whose deposits
just to call me a liar even if it is the
Hi diddle diddle;
L. D. Ratliff.
the public welfare. The liberty of at the time of the last statement
easiest way. While the explaining is
The “dry«” play the fiddle;
the press is to the advantage of the amounted to $108,000,000.
good, you might tell me why it is that
The “wets” are holding their breath;
public. This is proven to the satis
In their Kansas Penitentiary Statis The little “kids’ laugh to see so mucn
Oregon has >209.74 per capita banking
A Good Letter From the Home of
faction of the majority, but Mr. Tribe tics, the liquor men include the pris
resources, against $145.83 in Kansas,
sport,
our Childhood and early Manhood:
has no “right to obtain without re oners in the Federal Penitentiary at
and $145.85 individual banking depo
And the women are tickled to death.
striction a giaas of wine, or beer, or Leavt nworth, which are n t Kansas
Arkansaw, Wis., Aug. 8, 1914.
sits against $100.34 per capita for
• • «
whiskey, or anything that will make prisoners at all, but who come from
Kansas.
Mr. JOHN' HOSMER,
him crazy and dangerous to be at all over the country. Under date of
There is no other industry in the
Silverton, Ore.
Can you tell me of some prohibition large, or anything that creates an un August Sth, Warden Morgan of the state that can compare with the saloon
state where the men are cleaner and natural appetite that leads him and Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth | business for putting criminals and lun. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Hosmer:
keener, or the women more virtuous those dependent on him to become a wires the Anti-Saloon-Lfeague Press atics in Salem for the taxpayers to
You may be somewhat surprised to
and better loved and protected that menace to society. The use of these Bureau that there were 1031 Federal ' support. The average catholic takes
near from us. We first found out
things as a beverage h* s caused a prisoners confined there on that date.
they are in Oregon?
to this business like a duck to water.
loss to the state of Oregon many
Responding to a telegraphic request Why ? Ignorance and the attitude of where you were through the Menace,
If the passage of this law is a curt times more than all the hop industry for information as to the number of
and later on we got some copies of
your paper. I wish you good success
for the sin and intemperance, why not has ever brought in, but if the state prisonrs in the Kansas State Peniten their god, the priest.
pass a law-^against all other sins end goes dry we will not only save all tiary, in reply, Warden Botkin tele
in your work. Where is your sister
close the churches? As a Christian thut but we will still have the h°p graphed as follows:
Minnie? I would like to get her ad
Oregon, in spite of the false argu dress.
gentleman you would hardly consent industry also, for the hops raised in
Lansing. Kansas, Aug. 8, 1914.
ments and criminal actions of the
to this, but the logic of prihibition Oregon are not used to any extent in
Enclosed you will find $2.00 for
Anti-Saloon-League
Press Bureau,
drunkard makers, there are men who four subscriptions to the Silverton
takes thia purely moral question away Oregon.
Portland, Oregon.
are cleaner than they were when the Journal.
from the domain of the church and
Prohibition is a remedy for all
Seven
hundred and thirty-three saloon were allowed to rob and cor
places it in the hands of the secular kinds of evil. It is successfully used
From Mr. and Mrs. x x x x x
law. No true Christian can advocate against stealing, swindling, gambling men. Twelve Kansas women. Thirty rupt them. It is so in Silverton. The
this.
and even murder. Why should we eight Federal women. About eight men will be cleaner and keener, the
not use it against the sale of alcoholic per cent of men here through liquor women more virtuous, better loved
A STATEMENT
I regret that owing to innumerable
poison ? Of course a gang of thieves and dope. Very large percentage of and better protected, and you know it.
office details and the placing of
will defy the law and at times almost these not Kansas citizens but floaters The people have the right and it is
truths and facts in newspapers of
make it appear that “prohibition from other states. Prohibition has their duty to pass a law against
Patriots of America: — I am still
Oregon 1 have been unable to take up
doesn’t prohibit," but our friend need greatly diminished crime among Kan every sin even if it closes every church under arrest for alleged criminal libel
this letter earlier. I thank you for,
not worry his head off about that. sas citizens. Contrary reports false. in the land, and the fact is that the with a $50,000 damage suit hanging
the invitation to write this letter a'
J. D. BOTKIN, Warden.
confessional of the Catholic church, over me. All the lawless elements of
The main thing is to outlaw the evil,
thank you for your promise to pub
No one deceives Bill, Jack, Ole and its getting money under false preten society are combined with the power
whatever it is, first and then enforce
lish it
it as best and as fast as possible. The Hans more than the “tribe” of Saloon ses, its enslavement of defenseless ful Roman Catholic Church to boycot
If you feel more inclined to study saloon has at last “been slammed up Growers’ Association deceivers. These girls, its untaxed property and its the Silverton Journal out of business.
c facts against prohibition, I am against the cold logic of experience money-drink-mad deceivers not only exemption of its priests from acting This is your fight as well as ours.
sure I would be pleased to accept and has proven an absolute failure so want the worker^ to become “good as witnesses should be prohibited.
J. E. HOSMER.
your advertising rate and I will say far as any claim that it is a “public customers” and then kick them out The saloon business is not altogether
after their money is gone, but they a moral question and there is no ques Editor Silverton Journal:
that not a single statement will b< benefit.”
want
to fool them into voting to keep tion of public welfare that should not
Prohibition
has
proven
itself
the
on
made without absolute authority and
Enclosed find $........... to help you
up
the
robbing, cut throat business by be in the hands of the secular law.
ly
remedy.
It
does
prohibit.
It
pro
couched in perfectly respectable Eng
I
thank
Mr.
Tribe
for
his
offer
of
in
your fight for a Free Press.
working
on
their
prejudices..
hibits in this city and as we write
lish terms.
Yes we can tell of a prohibition the advertising at our regular rates.
there is no saloons, no drunkenness
Name.................................................
and no one in jail, all because of pro state where the men are cleaner, keen The space offered would give us $100
Very truly yours,
Address................................................
hibition. And this is why Tribe and er. and the women more virtuous and easy money, but if the Journal man
would
take
money
for
this
with
the
better
than
they
are
in
Oregon.
”
Now
h
;
s
trihe
are
spending
money
like
Hop Growers’ and Dealers’
water to break down the truth and listen you “mutt” and get ready for bright eyes of little Oregon boys and
Association of Oregon
save their money-making but man your “mental gymnastics.” The state girls looking into his, what wouldn’t
New Defense Fund
of Oregon, after next November, will he take money for? No, we would go
hood destroying saloons.
C. H. TRIBE,
The only reason that only nine he such a state if the saloon is driven to jail or starve first. Vote Oregon C. J. Lundt..................................... $1.00
W. H. Keyes........................................ 50
states
are in the prohibition column out. In every dry city and town in Dry I
Publicity Bureau