out of this Infinite wisdom came the orvierly forms adapted tu uulaide con­ ditions. Then she tells us that she By Rev. Guy Fitch Phelps. mopictures “thinks the nerves uf feeling pro­ Published «very Friday, morning at Silverton, In my reply to the Materialistic ceeded the brain-cells, or intelligence.’ Oroffun, by But does nut this controvert all we Adi the great generals have con­ matter in the Silverton Journal of Au­ have learned about the brain being the J. E. HOSMER, Editor. gust 2sth, 1 uegui a senes of replies demned war. Wellington said, “take center of nervous activity ? Does a ENJOYED BY ALL-CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS my word for ;t, if you had seen but one to what may Ue run in the materia­ nerve detached from the brain per­ Instructive and Educative. • 1 day of war, you would pray toalmighty listic column ul that paper by Eliza form its normal function? Then why God that you nrght never see such .uowry Lili ven. 1 shall, as far as pos­ c'aiin that such nerves could exist in a thing again;" and U. 8. Grant de­ sible, make these short, only touching the beginning? It would not be hard clared that “when wars do come they such uungs as »ecu worthy of mention tu show that Materialists believe in fa'l upon the many, the producing for any reason. 1 shall du au In the miracles—where they need them. n right spirit, but to the point, as far as class, who are the sufferers.” Next she tells us that atoms “ feel ” possible. If wars are ever abolished it will be Janies Thompson tells us that he heat and cold, as "they melt, change because of an enlightened and liberty was raised in the nudst of supersti­ into gas and become solid.” What reck­ inspired producing class. To the end tions—meaning, 1 suppose, the Chris­ less leaps. I would ask Eliza Bliven .. 1 ■ - 1 1 that the great giant of labor may be­ tian religion—but that he threw these if she does not recognize a difference Subacnpuon, oue per year, in advance. Snud« PHONE BLACK 681 come aroused to action s'ong the lines olt some years ago, uiql is now anx­ between "atoms” and "cells?” When copies, 0 cent». cells form seaweed and worms they of peace and righteousness and ious to spread “ the light of the Torch Advertising rate« made known upon applica­ tion. against war and everything that of Reason." Rut whose reason? The are living matter, whereas, atoms of All work done in the ehorteat poaslb • time. We are equip­ maketh a lie, let every thinking man reason of the savage, the Bushman, matter are dead. Is snow alive ? But ped to handle all kinds of furniture, pianos, etc., with very little This paper sLauda fur frts^iomol thought, free- detn ot uie pre*», trveUuut ol apvecik, equality ul an ranny, or ixeaainy or perinituuM any forat your stamp on the world. Be not a V'sts, who havo changed withthemoun, ui evil. NO LOAD TOO HEA FOR OUR TEAMS TO HAUL. coward; be not like dumb driven cat­ monthly, in their conciusio s? When like atoms or special kinds show the tle. Life is too short to put your light we are commanded to bow to Reason, origin of taste.” Read that slowly. A bKUiUtKu mud Or CRIMINALS under a bushel for a few pieces of sil­ let us specify whose reason we mean. The "absorbing Fke atoms” are res­ ver. Awake! Awake!! Awake!!! 1 have read Lum Paine’s “Age of ponsible for taste.*’ What does she me pnesuiuou 1» a urouiernoou. Reason," and to me it is one of the mean by “absorbing like atoms?” Can They stay w in eacxi other, no muter most unreasonable books 1 ever looked Materialists show one such atom? W > wual happen», anu one ox their most into, lius will seem very unreason­ w uld like to put it under the glass. • ► TWO WAYS OF WORKING WE MUST GROW OR DIE! euecuve, protective stums is to shut able, doubt'ess, to Mr. Thompson. But When did they learn to distinguish be­ tween atoms in this way? And even priest«, to muer uems as soou as s'nee he wants me tu follow my r a»on The Silverton Journal must keep its Subscription list if an atom could absorb, how would their personal crimes are mscovereu growing or it will surely die. We need your help, but we iquicx, active, pooilive wora accom­ ne cannot possibly blame me for doing ny enough people ox one community to plishes mucn wnue »low, lazy anu in- so. uy the way, Friend Thompson, that originate taste? Taste is con­ want to give even more than value received. enuanger tne cuuivn. ineir ueiu is ueuiute wort accouipusnes very litue, now- du you explain the fact that such nected with instinct or reason, and Get us one or more at fifty cent« a year. Use a very large one. It 1' tne whole soon Ians ox ns own weigut unu ui- men as Gladstone, Sir Oliver Lodge the atom has nothing to do with es- the following blank: world. 11 a dear father nas causeu cuuiagus utners wno iiugut hate done and Daniel Webster, have all believe«, tab'ishing it Then comes the most A FREE PRESS tne aeunquency of a minor in Marion »uniuuung later, sue ouienuii uuu, ths “superstitions’’ you have cast oil 4 astounding statement of all. Read it word by word: “ Collections of proto- coun.y there is always an opening lor nai would Like to accomplish some- A ere they not men of the proXuundesi p'asni feeling the effects of the sun­ him in some other state or, xx thought tiuug and Inst something can Ue easily reasons ? light and heat must have developed • • • necessary, in some other country way none il we can get up a quick, active the nerves of sight.” Such a state­ across tne oruiy ueep. Xue priests motion. We are doing au we can un­ Next comes a curious col ection of The subscription price has been changed from >100 to ment is almost a joke. So this is how here are criminals wno nave been sent der tne circumstances anu have actu­ statements by Eliza Bliven. Her par­ the glorious eye caine to be, is it? 50 cents per year. Xruui other places lor a reason, anu ally gut me enemy on tne run. von 1 agraph is given to suppositions. Let "Collections of protoplasm felt the wuen tney are too well known to re* you ever tnuix mat we are not whip­ me quote a few of them, and when the sunlight," axul bejiold the eye uf the <> EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL, main, tne crimiuai exeKange win ping me priesthood, for we are; out reader his seen what a Materialist deer, the eye of woman! What amuses X 8ILVERTON, OREGON. promptly ue mane anu tne game 01 uiuess we lolmw up our worn anu ac­ can accept without untieulty, ne ueeu me is that a Materialist will make a ej.pio,tauuu anu sauslaction will be­ tually drive them out of their uens, not make apology for believing in a Enclosed find $...... .. for which send THE JOURNAL to statement like this, yes and swallow *’ gin ail over again. Now, dear reader, someone else will have the joo to uo Divine, Infinite Being, Creator and ; * the following : it, and publish it, and then call a man tnis is no fiction; we have come into an over again, anu it will ue uaruer ruler of the orderly Universe. She who believes that an Infinite Being possession of tact» that when pub­ next time, tor tney will ue foruueu uy says: “Think how the arger, stronger was necessary to fash'on such a thing lished will make the wheels in your tius expeneuce, iX we ever quit before tluating protoplasm-cells would attract Add rea« as the eye, a superstitious fool. Uh, « head reverse and sing like a buzz saw, me juu is luushed. Inere are inves­ and absorb or attach to themselves wad some poor—” But will Eliza ’ Name and if you watch closely you will no­ tigations to ue maue turn require ex­ the smaller forms.” How indefinite. Bliven tell us why the protoplasm of tice that quite a little army of Oregon pert work, n e are aireauy to puulisu What the real man of science is hav­ today is not in the eye business ? How < ■ Address fathers will become very conspicuous tacts mat win »naae tne old hi irarcny ing difficulty in solving is how Life gut is it that we cannot make a co'lection by their absence. Important business iroui tup to bottom, out bex re we on this planet, and how it was and Name uf the nerves of sight along the bogs at the Vatican may require the im­ print tuese tacts we snuuiu be ri «son- is guided to logical ends. 1 for one and sloughs? How is it that the sun * Address __ mediate attention of some of these auiy sure that we can prove mem. tie cannot think how these cells would has l&st his power with this very sen­ high officials of America’s worst band &eep hoping anu hoping to get auie naturally attract at a1'. Th^n her next Name sitive protoplasm. And will she kind­ of confidence fakers. Hosmer may be unanciaiiy tu uo quick, active, positive statement is of that nature which ly tell us how the protop'asm happen­ * Address in jai' or may be folded to rest in the wont, out ever since last may a cer­ leaves no room for difficulty in Mat­ ed to have that knowledge necessary arms of mother nature, but you may tain investigation whicn would yield erialistic theories. She says: “Lome to make an eye, even if the sun did < > Name be certain that the exodus will be un- a ncn reward for Americanism nas would collect Like the starfish all warm it? Why don’t protoplasm con­ dercaken and will only be a failure on oeen held up just because our strug- around a center, others in sUng< like Address ---- tinue to evolve eyes as it began. Has the part of the fathers who are de­ g e to survive has been all we coma the long seaweed or a crude worm.” evolution become defunct? Then it ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ tained by the criminal laws of Oregon. stand and more too. it is wonderful This is very loose reasoning, rather never existed in the very nature of the Nor need anyone imagine that the per­ in Low many ways the Roman Catholic it is not reasoning at ail, :t is mere case, for evolution, as the order of the sonal defeat of the editor of this pa­ Chui ch, backed up by the criminal “taking it for granted.” Why shou'd universe, could no more be suspended per will stop the game. There are element outside or her folds, can-boy ­ these larger cells form in a center in than could the universe itself. What men who will spring to the front and cott and prevent their opponents from one case, and then logical'.y f»im a has made it impossible for protoplasm keep the banner of Americanism float­ succeeding in any thing, if the liberty seaweed in the next, and iZte* that a to make any more eyes? We demand ing in this great state the minute that loving patriots of America knew wnat worm? Let Materialists get back uf that Materialists shall come along and Hosmer falls. It is exactly as the is at stake and what coaid be accom­ these cells and explain why they did answer this, and do it without calling high official in the Masonic order has plished uy fne Silverton Journal get­ these unexpected things. But a worm anybody hard names, either. declared—“there can be no compro­ ting out oi debt and succeeding to a has Life, and is adapted to the world for MAX BURGHOLZER’S new book of 32 pages Next in order comes Joseph Patrick. mise.*’ It is a fight to the finish, and point ox quick, active, positive work, in which he lives. Did these larger He tells us that when he was 35 yean the finish will see liberty and justice n ore of them would certainly patron­ cells understand what a tiorm would of age a religious exitement started conquer, and put to flight this brother­ ise us aim not leave tne burden all on want to eat, and that he would need him to thinking, and that he began hood of criminal deceivers, despoilers the shoulders of a few. There is a to be made so he could contract his looking for something more reason­ and murderous anti-American traitor . wondirful work that call be done if body to move? If so who told them, able than Orthodoxy, and that he each subscriber would send in just one and who guided them in this logical stumbled onto the “Age of Reason.” new subscription. Think of what 50c matter to a logical result ? If it takes What else could you expect of a man on the part of all would mean to the reason to make a watch or a toothpick who had never been et to thinking OUR HOPE mly free press on the P-cific Coast. what did it take to fashion the mouth till he was 35 yean old. But, friend Of course we expect to succeed any­ of the worm so he could eat ? If blind, Patrick is not the first one who has The optimist lives happy, makes way and we have succeeded. The unaided (I mean in the sense of per­ been set to thinking by a revival. In the world better and dies happy. “To It’s a good one to read and pass to a neighbor. priests are afraid to coma into court sonality) cells could fashion a living fact, some of the brightest thinkers him who in the love of nature, holds with their $50,000 case, for they dare worm, why may they not fashion a the world has ever known have been communion with her visible forms, she not face the facts which will be watch? If It is unreasonable to sup­ the fruits of revivals. For instance tttmmmmttmmtttttmmmmmttmmmmtmmmmttttmmmnmttmmnmmi speaks a various language,” but with brought out against each one person­ pose they could make a watch is it Butler, who wrote the Analogy, a book the optimist her language is always I .■■I ally. We are in the best position pos­ not more unreaso able to say that so profound that few Materialists can ——1 11 H llll l'im full of hope and sunshine. The Euro­ sible to put old Rome on the bum, but they could fashion a living worm? grasp the power of its reasoning. Al­ pean war makes this a day of mourn­ She then makes a rather j.leasing the work is too slow. We should fol­ so, Paley Natural Theology, and Dr. ing, but we do not mourn as he who low up our victory and route the ene­ admission, when she says: “We can­ Townsend Evolution or Creation. has no hope. In our grief at the aw­ my or the work will have been largely not tell how the first brain or nerve Books by men who swept the fields of ful spectacle of millions of our broth­ in vain. We must have money, and cell was evolved out of the chemical reasoning power, and died convinced ers tearing and stabbing and shooting the best and easiest way to get it is collection of atom forces, so that 8»me forever of one tremendous fact—God. each other to death we fall sobbing • • • 0 to sell subscriptions to the Silverton collection of protoplasm moved be­ Brother Patrick, your trouble is you onto the bosom of mother nature and cause it wanted to instead of just be ­ Journal at fifty cents per year. This began thinking 35 years too late. 6he says: “This life, this nation, this accomplishes much more than just ing attracted by another.” I wish all • • • earth—even the solar system and all securing the money. It tells the story Materialists were as frank as this. the hosts of heaven are only transient. The next is a quotation from Dar­ to thousai ds who would never know But I am sure Eliza Bliven realized Death is no more to be regretted for win. This calls for scarce a comment, -- as she wrote this that she was throw ­ what has been accomp'ished. It will the individual or for the nation or for because Mr. Darwin acknowledged his inspire them to do something in their ing up her hands right where all rea­ the world than is birth. If we had failure to establish his views, and soning creatures demand a clear ex ­ localities and thus the whole United been taught for thousands of years floundered in a fog-bank of specula­ States will soon be posted and ready planation. It is incumbent on Mate­ If Elected, the most Careful, Conscientious and Talented Legal that death for ali is rest—perfect rest tion. The facts are, no species has to drive the robbers out of business. rialists to tell us how just this thing and the happiest condition to which we ever become another. I challenge the happened, and if they cannot let them Service will be given to the People of the State. We could not have Lived and labored can come and that not one single hu­ who'e tfor'd of Materialists to prove as effectively as we have if it had not admit they know nothing of their case. man being will ever awaken to suffer, it. Yon can modify the sheep, but been for the help of the few who have Why did these cells (jnally move “be­ Study the Principles he Advocates. then we might not grieve at all over never make him anything but a sheep. cause they wanted to? ” And where sent us money for the defense fund whatever comes and be really a philo­ And this is true of everything that and for subscriptions. We fully ap­ did they get the want to? And then ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ sophic, optimistic and truly civilized lives. Prof. Francis M. Balfour says: 4.4. preciate this, but we can only reward where did they get the wisdom to people. If “whatever is is right,” as “All these facts (he is speaking of them by succeeding in the work which move reasonably to the building of Pope declares, then even this awful this very point) contradict the crude they have so bravely backed up, and bodies and nervous systems ? Let war is probably necessary in order to ideas of those so-called naturalists like as not, and would start a cyclone MARION COUNTY SOCIALIST Materialists explain this first or cease we can only succeed through others still,bring the human family to the who state that ond species can be if your wife went to church. We TICKET their rather loud claims for later facts. t. king right hold in their home towns point of accepting, securing and for­ transmuted into another.” He said have you, friend Ross, pretty well Representatives: E. W. Ross, S*'- Let her answer these questions: Can as these brave pioneers have done. ever appreciating peace. War is reason come from matter? Can love this fully acquainted with Darwin’s figured out. There isn’t enough in your verton; Fred Haa k, Marion; L. D. bad, but there is a fundamental, un­ One of our attorneys is out near'y come from matter? Can law come views. part to merit a reply, so we rule you Ratliff, Salem; Allen Hutcheon, Sa­ • • • derlying evil that must be worked out a'' his labor in our case thus far and from matter? Can form and pattern lem, F. J. Von Behren, Aumsville. off the page. • • • of our minds before we can ever have $80 in cash besides. He does not come from matter? If not—and who Sheriff—J. E. Blazer, Silverton. Then follows a closing article by or enjoy a permanent peace. Jhe idea complain but we want him to go ahead would be so rash as to claim it—then Olin J. Ross, which begins with this In conclusion I have a few questions Clerk—T. Y. McClellan, Turner. Re­ that “might makes right” must go, or w:th the work. He can’t do this with­ where did they come from ? Here we question: “What is the size of God’s to ask Materialists and God-rejectors: corder—Lyl’th M. Cannon, Salem. war will frequently come. “Right out some assurance that he can “make see where Materialism leads its fol­ brain?” How does that strike you for 1. Can life come from anything but Treasurer—R. R. Ryan; Salens. Com­ makes might” and if wars ever cease a live of it,” and so our work drags. lowers. To the believer in God there John Sullivan science? This man can antecedent life? missioner,—F. C. Ramp, Brooks. Cor. and the peace of a universal brother­ There must be some way out of this is no difficulty at all. He puts Infinite only measure things by size and quan­ 2. Can yQU have law without a law­ oner—Bernard Pehr, Salem. Survey­ hood ever reigns it will be because financial difficulty and if you know wisdom and power back of the cell and tity. He is an ideal Materialist. Then giver? or—Jean B. Hoss, Salem. the people of the earth have learned of any better way than sending us in. the worm and the forest and the world he proceeds to say that if there is an 3. Can you have order and adapta­ this great saving truth. one or more subscriptions kindly write and man and he is on a sure founda­ infinite intelligence it must exist tion without reason? A BIG BARGAIN In a business The greatest minds of all nations to us at once. Every dollar that comes tion. But remove the idea and fact either in the “boxed or unboxed form.” 4. Can intelligence come from in­ building and a small lot with go <1 and of all times have declared against will be used in this fight, against one of a Supreme Being from the Uni­ That one statement introduces us to animate matter? building a'ready for business can be war and have labored for peace—uni of the greatest enemies mankind ever verse, and see what illogical notions you, friend Ross. You are very con­ had by applying at the offee of the versa' peace on earth. One of these ha