T he S ilverton
JOURNAL
~ re-
VOL. III.
SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1914
PAPAL NOTES
JAIL STARING HOSMER IN THE FACE
(By L. D. Ratliff)
In his Magazine for September
Thomas Watson goes after Dr. Glad­
den in true Watsonian style. The great
Doctor must feel that for once, at
At last we have an answer to our appeal to the Supreme Court for rehearing. The answer !ea.,t,
it didn’t pay to raise an issue
is NO! We haven't the $200 to pay the fine and we wouldn't pay it
with ail the facts and logic against
him.
if we had $2,000,000. Don’t want to go to jail, but can't
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Rehearing Denied by Supreme Court
see how to keep out So here goes!
The following appeared in the Daily in the controversy. Here is the first
Oregonian W ednesday:
article we published in the Journal
that started the fight;
“EDITOR UUOOBEN JAIL TERM
W hat About It ?
J. E. Hoamer, of Silverton Journal,
The following quotations clipped
Kefuaea to Pay 1200 Fine
from “The Menace" show a very bad
condition on one side or another. If
SALEM, Ur., Sepl.Bth.—(Special.) these are true quotations and if they
—J. E. Hvxiner, editor of the Silverton express the general sentiment of the
Journal,convicted of criminal libel and Catholic church, then it is time that
whoae petition for rehearing waa de­ every true American wakes up, or
nied by the Supreme Court today, will blood will again run in another silly
elect to serve 100 day» in Jail ins lead religious war.
of paying the $200 fine impoaed by the
Read the quotations and think:
court, according to hia attorney,W. C.
Winslow, of this city.
W hat Rome Thinks About Public
Husiner’s offense consists in print­
Schools
ing an aliedged confession of Mary
“Education, outHide of the Catholic
Laaenan, said to be an escaped nun
from the MtAngei convent. In the church, is a damnable heresy.”—Pope
confession she made serious charge* Pius IX.
against the institution and the Catho­
“The public school system is a dis-,
lic priests of MtAngei. Hosmer was grace to the civilisation of the nine­
indited and convicted in the Circuit teenth century."—Bishop Hughes.
Court here and the Supreme Court
“1 frankly confess that the Catho­
several weeks ago sustained the
lics stand before the country as the
conviction, and to day denied him a
enemies of the public schools."—Mgr.
rehearing. There is also pending
Satolll.
against him a civil libel suit in the
“The public schools have produced
Circuit Court here.”
nothing
bu. a Godless generation of
The slimy tentacles of a Romanised
system are gradua’ly drawing us to thieves and blackguards.” — Priest
the pub'ic disgrace of imprisonment Chaucer.
"Swearing, cursing and profane ex­
for what is heralded all over the world
as criminality. We will be locked up pressions are distinctive marks of pub­
for telling the truth while our persec­ lic school children.”—Second Provin­
utors go on with their false doctrines cial Council of Oregon.
and criminal practices.
"The public schools are nurseries of
O, well, it has been this way for vice; they are Godless, and unless rar
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ages. We have been warned to keep pressed will prove the damnation of
our mouth shut and we would not this country."—Father Walker.
listen. Hosmer is a fool, a criminal,
“They who send their children to
on agitator, a disturber of society—
the public schools cannot expect the
“good riddance to bad rubbish.”
mercy of God. They ought not to ex­
But if the editor of this paper can
pect the sacraments of the church in
be robbed of his liberty for publishing
their dying
moments.” — Father
the affidavit of a preacher to the fact
Walker.
that a young woman made certain
"The time is not far away when the
statements (all admit that she made
these statements) concerning the Ro­ Roman Catholics at the order of the
man Catholic church, what newspaper pope, will refuse to pay their school
is safe if it chooses to tell the truth? tax, and will send bullets to the
l.et us again reprint the article that breasts of the government agents
started this controversy and remember rather than pay. It will come as a
that Father Moore of Salem answered click of the trigger, and it will be
this article and others using fully as obeyed as if coming from God Al­
libelous language as any of the others mighty Himself.”—Priest ChapeL
But if these are mis-quot<«tioni< or
i lifted ones made to misrepresent
■hr true character of the church ami
of its many good people, then the edi­
tor of The Menace should be dealt
with and through the courts the truth
made manifest.
The Silverton Journal is open for a
fair justification by both sides.
Professing to be publishing a "free
press” how could we refuse Father
Moore the Catholic, space? How could
we refuse the 2x4 Farmer space to
reply; and when Rev. Leon Myers
wanted space to give hia ideas bow
could we have refused him ? Being the
Notary Public before whom Mr. Myers
and his associates made the affidavit,
we knew that they swore to it ann
any editor with anything but a »hoe
«triiig for a back bone wo.ili have
lone as we did.
But dear friends, patriots of Ameri­
ca, of the world, listen. The priesthood
k ew that the escaped nun was the
right one to prosecute, for she was the
one who told the story. Mr. Myers
was the next guilty one, for he made
it public; he was the one who pub­
lished it. We only printed and circu­
lated it at his request. But Hosmei
was the thing they wanted to get at.
The press is a mighty factor in mold­
ing public sentiment, exposing the rot­
tenness of society, getting at the
truth and bringing grafters and crim­
inals to Justice. So the $50,000 dam­
age suit was instituted. How Hos­
mer’s enemies, the whiskeyites, blind
piggers and criminally inclined re­
joiced and how they will rejoice now,
but wait, a little touch of high life in
the "jug” won’t hurt Hosmer. He’s
tough. Take him over, give him a
crust, a glass of water, paper and
pencil and notice the moving pictures.
In our work of cleaning up the dirty,
lying, licentious house of Popedum w<
have just commenced.
"Let us have faith that right
makes might, and in that faith
let us to the end dare to do our
v- duty, as we understand it.”
Lincoln.
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The following was just received as we were closing up the forms to go to press
W. C. WINSLOW
Attorney at Law
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Salem, Ore., September 9, 1914.
Mr. J. E. Hosmer,
Silverton, Oregon
Dear Sir:
The Supreme Court yesterday denied a rehearing in your case. I pre­
sume the mandat« will be down shortly.
Very truly yours,
W. C. WINSLOW.
STICKERS
Band of bad, bachelor bums,
WonderfuHy wronged and wasted
womanhood,
Plenty of poor, priest-produced, para­
sitic progeny,
Hard working, hen pecked, humbled
and heart broken husbands,
Crawling, cringing, cowardly, cada­
verous, “cultis” citizens,
States stuck in slime of sinful, so-
called statesmanship,
Uncle Sam unable to untangle the ug­
ly, un-American, ulcerous union—
Peace loving people, for pity sakes,
pump popedum plum full of propa­
What can we expect when our Pres­
ganda with patriotic platform, pro­
testing pu’pit and purified public ident goes to mass ?
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prera.
More than one American citizen is
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in jail while foreign spies and trait­
When a butcher of Beaverton, Shrai- ors live in luxury and ease.
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ner by name, complained about the
Say daddy, who was the exceedingly
life a certain priest and housekeeper
fat lady who left your sheltering roof
were living, the priest ordered his
on the train one day this week ?
parishioners to boycott him. The but­
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cher, Protestant, still trades here how­
The jail will be a good place to
write editorials, and perhaps we will
ever.
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have time to write a book.
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It is no kindness to evil-doers to
Will there be any virmin in the
say nothing and let them go on in their jail worse than the 0. S. B. bugs out­
self-destroying crime.
side?
The trouble with the average Cath-
ol’c is he thinks he is a part of the
Roman Church, when, in fact, he is
only a subject and a victim of it. He
has no more to say about its direction
and policies than a dead clam. In de­
nouncing slavery we do not blame the
slave.
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The point was made against a con­
gressional candidate in the Augusta
district, Georgia, that previous to mar­
riage he had signed away his man­
hood in Rome. Though he attempted
a defense by claiming to be a Pres­
byterian, and was maintaining a mis­
sionary, the fight was made on his
anti-Americanism, and he was badly
beaten.
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In a book recently issued from the
office of the “Irish Messenger
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“Socialism and the Working Man,” on
page 30 we read: “There is no author­
ity on earth but that which ultimately
comes from God. Hence such phrases
as the ‘sovereignty of the people,’ the
’supreme will and authority of the
people,’................. are nonsensical and
meaningless." On page 31: "Man is
not free to worship God as he pleases.
He is not free to choose any religion
he likes. God has established one
form of religion, and only one, to
which all must belong. There is no
such thing as liberty of worship.”
Th:s is the Catholic spirit that is
back of the Home Rule movement for
Ireland.
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On May 24, 1911 Pope Pious X is­
sued an encyclical in which he s*id,
“We, by our apostolic authority, de­
nounce, condemn and reject the law
for the separation of Church and State
in the Portuguese Republic. This
law despises God and repudiates the
Catholic faith. ... We proclaim and
denounce as null and void, and to be
so regarded, all that the law has en­
acted against the inviolable rights of
the Church............ If you strive to
meet and resist such a design on the
part of these men, and such a crime,
with all your might, then certainly
you will have done well for the good
of Catholic "Portugal.
The Jesuits were driven out of Por­
tugal for the country’s good, but they
took refuge in an old convent in Italy,
where they carried on their plots for
the repub’ic’s overthrow. The Italian
government later drove them from
there.
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With Mary conceived immaculately,
and Christ in the same way, and Jo­
seph acting the part of a man mar­
ried, but without a wife, and with a
child in the home that is not his own,
but is his wife’s, and she a Virgin
Saint, and translated to heaven body
and soul and now the dispenser of all
graces and Mistress over purgatory,—
or, Mary, the creature, the Mother of
her Creator, the Creator the son of
his own creature, and God the Father
of his own Mother:—If you don’t be­
lieve it you are not a Catholic, and
are no entitled to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. But for one to
believe it it is necessary "that the
proper teachers seize him early,
isolate him from the normal, envelop
his plastic brain in swaddling clothes,
feed his mind on baby-food, and never
let it go out into the outer world of
actualities without a nurse to hold the
leading strings.”
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A new “American Party” has just
been organized in New York state with
William Sulzer at its head for Gov­
ernor. Its 8th plank reads as follows:
“We stand for freedom of worship;
for the freedom of conscience; for
economic and industrial freedom; for
the right of lawful assembly; for free
speech; for a free press; for civil ard
re'igious liberty; for equal and exact
Justice to all men and women; for
equal rights to all and special privi­
leges to none; for the old integrities
and the new humanities; for the com­
plete separation of church and state;
for free public schools; for free homes
for the families of our toilers and
producers; and we demand that no
public money be appropriated for any
school hut a public school, and that
there must be no innovation or abridg­
ment of these sacred rights and fun­
damental principles of the joint her-1
itage of every American.”
No. 45.
PAT AND THE PRIEST
THE UNFAIR RACE
Twas old Father Dugaa Oi met on me
In no line of human conduct do the
way
; people approve or permit such unfair
To visit the fair on a beautiful day. ■ disc rim'nation betwee” individuals as
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Th
praste, loike mesilf, waa a trudgin' i in regard to inheritance of income-
along
; <1.awing property. Viewed from one
An’ pairin' the toime wid a bit of a j standpoint, a prominent part of the
song.
I life of most people is spent in a race
“Ah, Patsy, me bhoy,” said the praste for a living with a comfortable life as
ax we met,
the price to be won. The overshadow­
“Yez look in foine fettle, an’ yet Oi ing importance of this race is gener­
will bet
ally recognized and nearly ail parents
Yer moind is unaisy because of yer no matter how poor, do the best they
loife,
k ow or can to prepare their chiid.'m
Yez ought to behave ye an’ git yez a for success in this most important
woife."
race. However, in any ordinary race
the people insist that those who take
Oi couldn’t imagine whativer he mint,
part in the race be given an even start
Oi ’d paid up me tithes an’ Oi owed
or nearly so. Li a dozen children of
him no rent.
a certain age were to run a foot race
“Begorra, yer riv’rence," Oi said wid
for a valuable prize the people present
a smile,
would demand an even start for the
“Oi care for my mither, an’ yet for
r cers. If some of the children were
awhoile
p rmitted to -band a hundred yards or
Oi 'll hev to be patient widout a go 4
or a hundred rods ahead of the others
woife
the people would vote such a race un­
To give me the babies an’ bother me
just
and void. Yet in regard to the
Loife.”
race for a living we find over nine-
Bad cess till the praste, but he wouldn’t
tenths of our voters cast their votes
agree
for political parties who stand for an
But what a good woife was the best
industrial system under which some
thing fer me!
children are started in this race with
“Ah, Patsy, me bhoy, ivery mon a million dollars or more to their ad-
vartage while millions of other child­
should be wed
Thot he may have childer!" Thot’s ren, equally deserving and equally de­
sirous of a successful, happy life are
what the praste said.
“It is the great duty he owes till the practically started as paupers. Even
in a horse race or dog race we demand
church!
If a" were loike you we’d be left in that the animals be given an even
start and it would seem that human
the lurch!
No wan shou’d shtay single ef he is a beings ought to be as much entitled to
equal opportunity according to ability
man!
An’ he who would marry will find as animals. Every child born has a
natural right to an equal start with
thot he can!
An unmarried man is the scum of the every other child and any laws that
set aside this natural right are unjust.
earth!
And also a nuisance of mighty small The reason people put so much import­
ance upon a proper start in races, con­
worth!”
tests etc. is because our condition and
“Dear Father Dugan, it is true what the outcome of our very lives depends
yez say?
very much upon a proper start. In
A bachelor's loife is the thing that many cases a wrong start can never
don’t pey?
again be overcome and proves fatal to
Yez hev no rispect fer th’ single gos­ success—yes frequently prematurely
soon?
deadly to life itself.
Ye’d rather see ivry mon lamin’ to
Even in a brutal prize fight of pu­
spoon?
gilists a measure of fairness is secured
Yez think its disgrace not to hitch to by the ruleo demanding that the fight
a dame
be voluntary; that the fight be of
An’ have a few childer to bear me short duration, interspersed with fre­
good name?
quent rests, that the fighters be class-
Then Father Dugan will yez tell me fied as to weight—the feather weights,
fer true
middle weights and heavy weights
If married loife wouldn’ be better fer each by them selves, that only trained
you?
fighters enter the roped arena, that
“You call yersilf “Father,” an’ mebbe the pugilists fight with padded hands,
not kick, not strike be’ow the belt and
thot’s right!
You MAY hev some childer thot’s not strike an opponent whe.i he is
dov ». and U'at tven the loser be gi'«,n
kept out o’ sight!
Yez hevn’t bin married, so you must a part of the prize or gate money.
In no case woui we think of p,t.:i -
be scum,
ing
strong men and frail women
An’ ez fer a nuisance, you’ve proved
against each other in the pugilistic
yersilf some.
Yez toil not ner spin, yet yez live fie'd but in our preseri. stores, for in­
stance we set men and women against
loike a king;
Yez take from the poro an yez give each other and if a woman hrough
necessity offers to do the work of a
not a thing
Except yer bold lies about heaven and man for less wages we put her to work
ard set the stronger man to loafing;
hell,
All faked by yersilf ez yez know and if an orphan girl can not work as
cheap as a girl who can get assis’ance
mighty well.”
(or her board) from her parents we
The praste was astounded, he stut­ send the orphan out on the street—
tered and shwore:
no matter what becomes of her—and
An’ cal”d me bad names thot was fol­ employ the assisted girl at reduced
lowed hy more.
pay to increase the profit of the em­
He threatened to sind me to hell whin ployer.
Oi die,
—Max Burgholzer
An’ sure there was blood in the tail
of his eye;
The following letter with the names
He called me apostate an’ heretic, too,
of many of our best citizens went fly­
An towld me the horrible things he
ing across the mountains and plains
would do;
He’d bum mv foriver in sulphur an’ of this great republic this week. Sim­
ilar letters went from every nook and
pitch,
orner of Uncle Sam’s domain:
An’ cover me hide "wid perpetual
itch!”
Silverton, Oregon.
Oi laughed at the praste An’ Oi towld
him, bedad,
Oi hadn’t the fear of him onct thot
Oi had;
No longer Oi trimble at mintion o’
hell,
An’ pur-go-to-ree Oi hev banished as
well.
His divils an’ saints a'l belong to the
past;
Oi think fer mesilf, an’ 01 shall till
the last!
Oi niver wear gowns an’ Oi know
Oi’m a man.
To prove such a thing fer himsilf no
praste can!
Bertuccio Dantiino.
To the President of the United States
Washington, D. C.
It is said that Dr. Gladen got a
“LL. D.’’ from the Notre Dame Col­
lege (Cath.).
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A Catholic paper of Omaha, Ne­
braska, threatens to use guns against
the officers of the law in case an at­
tempt is made to inspect the convents.
What hell-holes these places must be!
Now that it is decided that Hosmer
must go to jail, we wish to request the
happy, angel creatures who will re­
main outside—those we call “free Am­
erican Citizens” to see to it that this
poor criminal creature has pencil and
paper, a crust, a jug of water(not
holy), a mess of pig-weed greens
occasionally and plenty of vinegar.
We, the undersigned citizens of the
city of Si'verton, County of Marion,
and State of Oregon, respectfu'ly and
most emphatically urge you to advise
congress to enact a law prohibiting,
until further notice, al' exportation of
food from the United States. We are
opposed to feeding fighting Europe at
the expense of peaceful America. We
believe that the exportation of all
foodstuffs from the United States
should be prohibited at the earliest
possible moment, and, as the urgency
is great, we request you to advise Con­
gress as to this matter forthwith.