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 b** 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. ■ • • • 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 “ 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 * >1 takes all 1 have and gives me no equi- —! people who knew no more that they va'ent. themselves know, d that is protected from heat or cold. Jesus comes to turn, and wstch » * ever 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 • • • 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. furnishes all the good things they get, Silverton, Oregon. PRINTING OFFICE SEND ÜS YOUR WORK! Silverton Journal, THE FREE PRESS VOTE 1914 OREGON DRY 1914 «amtnnntm m tmtnmntnmmmnn n tnnwnmnin i mnnimiii i iiiinnnt i iiiiimt Brokerage Conveyancing Phone Green 991 CASCADE REAL ESTATE CO. MR. and MRS. G. H. DEDR1CK, General Manager» OFFICE IN HOSMER BUILDING Room formerly occupied by H. E. Brown SILVERTON, OREGON A BIG BARGAIN. 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