MATERIALISTS' COLUMN.
..THE SILVERTON JOURNAL
Edited by Eliza Muwry Bliven, Brook
lyn, Conn.
DRY COLUMN.
DRUNK ENNESS IN MASSACHU
SETTS
Appalling amount of arreata for
drunkenneaa under the licnese
if God were a reality, we would
ayatem there
know of his existence and peculiari
is up-to-date, with NEW, MODERN MACHINERY. ties, as we do know that the sun exists The Christian Register uf Beaton
and gives us heat. But no one has
We do “QU ALIIY” job printing promptly and neatly. ever heard or seen God; and the Uni ntalea that the arreata for drunken
verse moves on godless just the same. neaa in Massachusetts amount tu 105-
God is not a creator: but a creation 000 per year under the license system
of superstitious minds; and like a in that alate. Speaking about the coat
dream, will vanish under scientific in of drunkenneaa under the licenae sys
vestigation. All gods of the past and tem in that atate, the Preliminary
present can not even produce a shad Report of the Massachusetts Commis
ow of truth, because there are no sion on Drunkenneaa, issued January
20, 1014, aaya:
gods.
“It ia impossible to estimate in
Time and space with all it cm tains
doilara the yearly cost of drunken
can not be created nor destr -,ed,
neaa to the Commonwealth. The
: lienee a creator of the Uni"«» ;e is
expenditure for penal treatment
i superfluous. The laws of natuie coi>-
ia but a small fraction of the total
i trol us all, and build and rebuild of
—
yet the expense arising from
t the same material; but nothing is lost
03.4 of ALL arrests, and 67 per
' nor added to it. The U* uverse is
cent of ALL commitments to pria- I
j eternal and self-sustaining; so m be-
son
made, during the year (end
i gaining or an end can never take
ing Sept. 30, 1012), together with |
1 place. A hundred years from now, we
a considerable percentage of the i
' will be where we were before birth,
cost of probation, trial and trans-'
I and the elements of nature will con
portation of prisoners, is due to
tinue to build from the ruins of o’d
public
drunkenness.
j without a god or a dictator.
.Nature is supreme ruler of the Uni
verse; it has no sympathy nor eks
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PROTEST AGAINST SLANDERERS;
UF KANSAS
revenge. An innocent child la often
struck by lightning, while a criminal
The agents of the Eastern liquor'
is saved; on the other han I. a whole corporations, operating in the Pacific
city is blown up by a cyclone while states under various disguises, are
a child is found in a cradle undis spreading abroad a deluge of fake
turbed. It is all done by nature's statistics about conditions ia Kansas. ,
laws; and the more we know of these t hese statistics are chiefly garbled I
laws the less we believe in a God.
from the Census reports and twisted
A. Butlerman, Ackley, Iowa. to suit the purposes of the liquor men. ■
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in a protest against these outrageous >
Does anyone know God and Jesus': fakes, the Temperance Committee of
Recently a gentleman replied to one the Methodist church (General Con
of my articles in a Golumb is paper, ference) whose headquarters are lo
and in doing so put my “imaginatii.n,” cated at Topeka, has issued the fol
as he called it, up against hid ",)>si lowing statement:
live knowledge." He ciu.-..
The Truth Badly Wanted
intimate personal relations with these
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Liquor
advertisements in the Pac
distinguished gentlemen of the skies,
ific
coast
states point out the fact
God and Jesus, and to know them
that shipments of liquor, 00 per cent
well.
As
there
are
millions
wno
claim
INTERTYPING SOLICITED
to know God and Jesus, 1 wuih to say of which was beer, amounting to 90,-
062 quarts, were received in Topeka,
a
few words:
It is better than Linotyping
How can a man know God and Je Kansas, during the month of Septem
sus T If they have an existence, he can ber, 1013.
“Elementary fairness would lead
only know them as he knows other
things, and that is by th»: use of the these people to state the truth that if
senses. To know God or Jcau.t. a man Topexians consumed an amount of
must be able to see them, or heal, liquor equal to the per capita average
smell, feel.or taste them if a man of the country as a whole, these ship
claims, for instance, that he has sme't ments would have amounted to more
God and Jesus, how does he know that than 400,000 quarts.
“Prohibition decreased the consump
it was God and Jesuv? it may have
tion
of liquor in Topeka, Kansas, in
been somebody else tha. ne smelt; and
this applies to hearing, seeing, feel September, 1014, 75 per cent by actual
government records.”
ing or tasting them.
A man’s feelings of elation or de The Committee of One Hundred, the
; * Joyful Childhood
Beautiful Womanhood «
pression about God and Jesus do n< t organization under which the Oregon
> "All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.”—Gibbon.
prove their presence, not any mor: business men are conducting the cam
.
than a man by being enthused or de paign in behalf oi tne ary
pressed about Shakespeare proves has taken a census of the mayors of
that Shakesspeare is in him or near Oregon cities on the wet and dry prop-
him. If a man said that he knows .oil.on. Of the 86 mayors who res
God and Jesus as one knows Shake ponded, 58 were dry, 26 wet and two
speare, that is, by hearsay and by non-committal. The drys won by a
Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes
reading what Shakespeare wrote, one majority of more than two to one.
the curse of his neighbors.”—Farror.
could understand him; but that is rut
the kind of kowledge the Christian
WHY I AM AGAINST THE
Noble Manhood
Happy Old Age
claims to have when he says th.»i he
SALOON
personally knows God and Jesus, .-uch
1 am against the saloon because it
people, following the instru< tiem
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>1 takes all 1 have and gives me no equi-
—! people who knew no more that they
va'ent.
themselves know, <pi aa uf knowing
I step into a shoe store and pur-
their old friends, Go-i on J Jesus, just
- a pair of shoes; result, my feet
as a man would, who had ta'ked last are kept warm.
night with Shakespeare and had slept
I step into a clothing store and pur
with him. I .ay, that wh
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a Chris chase a suit of clothes; result, my body
tian says that he knows God •> d that is protected from heat or cold.
Jesus comes to turn, and wstch
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I step into a grocery store and pur
him, or gets into him, his testim<.nj chase bread, meat potatoes; as a re
is worth no mure tnan that of a mar. sult my body is fed and made strong.
who would go about ciaimi'ig that
1 step into a book store and pur
Shakespeare visit«! him, ale ui’n Lun, chase a good book; result, my mind
ta'ked with him and spoke with him is fed and enriched.
every night. To claim thi« i« fo claim
1 step into a saloon and take a
that when a man becomes a Christian drink. As 1 wish to be regarded as
he acquires an extra sense. much as a good fellow, I take another. Soon
if by becoming a Christi--' an extra my brain is less clear, my hand less
thumb and finger grows on ea.-a na.id. steady, and my walk less firm. Soon
Olin J. Ross, Columbus, Ohio.
my value as a doctor, a lawyer, a
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merchant or a mechanic is lessened.
The Materialist puts his “positive By and by 1 cease to have any economic
knowledge” up r.gainst all spiritual or social value. Finally I am an out
“imaginations,”
All Christians arc cast and a wanderer.
My opposition to the saloon and the
early taught to imagine there is a
God; that he is a spirit and cannot be liquor traffic is simply a matter of de
?c.i, but he is everywhere, knows cency and manhood. It is simply say
verything and does everything. Then ing that I prefer prosperty to poverty,
they are taught to imagine he has sobriety to drunkenness, and honesty
done everything the Bible (ells about to dishonesty. It is but an expression
him. Once get that idea fastened of a preference to remain clean and
thoroughly into a child’s brain, it is strong and manly.—Rev Wm. 1’urns,
•asy to make him believe that after in the Amethyst.
death he will become a spirit and live
t iever, in a hell or a heaven. Then and a spirit devil furnishes the evils;
.i fear of a hell makes him the slave and their prayers win God’s protec
of the priest or preacher through life, i tion from those evils. Do they ? Man’s
and ready to pay them any amount, knowledge of the material causes of
or do anything they require, if he can, evils and using his intelligence and
abilities to choose the safe and bene
he saved from an eternity in hell.
So the believers in spirits attend ficial and avoid or destroy the harm
church, support preachers and mis ful, are his only protectors.
All gods, devils, hell, heaven, future
sionaries, or priests and convents, or
mediums or other religious leaders, life, angels, fairies, witches, ghosts,
and are afraid to doubt and investi Santa Claus, Jesus and all other kinds
The above resurrection is for the purpose of asking gate to find out whether there is any of bodyless spirits are “imaginations.”
is no God nor future life.
you how many little booklets of cartoons with write-ups, proof of a real God or any kind of, There
Materials and the force of every
spirit life. They pra;r, but they have
which have appeared in the Journal, we could sell at 25 to do whatever is necessary to sup atom in the Universe do everything.
life and to gratify their many Whatever you do is by using the
cents each. Suppose we get up a neat, little book with port
material desires, using materials for forces of the atoms in you, and by
tasty colored cover. How many will purchase? These food, clothing, shelter, for e-rery kind choosing and using the materials out
of employment and enjoymei it, and to side. Cultivate intelligence and learn
booklets would be fine to set people thinking, and that protect themselves from the material about materials and nature’s laws and
which is "positive knowledge.”
is what we want. Write to The Silverton Journal, causes of all kinds of evil s. They doings
imagine a spirit God helps 1 ;hem and Al' spirit-beliefs are "imaginations.”
Eliza Mowry Bliven.
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