T he S ilverton J ournal
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PAPAL NOTES
SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1Ö14.
RECEPTION FOR SCHOOL
TEACHERS
(Uy L. D. Ratliff)
Drcssod up 'with u pompous ritual
the "Mu«" Is one of the Hierarch’s
moat effective inventions.
• • •
We have out - lawed Polygamy
religion and should now tackle Uonfes.
siunal-religion for the same reason.
• • •
Cluse up the Eccleaiaaticnl sweat
shops, and op< n the convents to public
inspection and supervision.
• • •
Two candidates for the State Su
preme Court carried their pictures in
a Catholic paper up to t'lc May nom
inations. Both were defeated.
• • •
To deny that the Catholic Church
haH designs upon our Government is
hypocrisy or 'gnorance. The very con
stitution vl the Papacy requires it.
• • •
In Spain the Church killed Ferrer,
because he >vas an educator. The
Cati'.ol c papers in this country ap
proved the killing.
• • •
All num. and near-nuns who escape
from convents tell practically the »nine
story and their story is confirmed by
the ex-pnc»U.
• • •
A writer relates how u good Catho
lic wiu> in the habit of cheating his
Lord by confessing to a priest who let
ium oil easy - after being treated to a
< rink or two.
• • •
Two women of Salem, both well
qualified, have entered the race for
slate representative. There is no need
for a non-Catholic voting for Thomas
Brown, a Knight of Columbus.
• • •
I*
* the State Supreme Court covered
a defective indictment with “Preoump.
tion” in order to make it hold an of
fender of Romanism—well, it looks
like a case of Judicial Roinanitis.
• • i
A Catholic authority says a Protest,
ant may be saved if he has been cor
rectly baptised, and is really and truly
sincere in his horcJcal delusions.
Thanks, awfully!
• • •
The method of the Jesuit is to get
into everything and Romanise it from
within. School-Loards, library-boards
^-all positions civil or fraternal. They
are the devil’s leaven in everything.
• • •
If it has now come to the knowledge
of ji dge Kelley that he was made to
play a part in a case of treachery
wherein Hosmer’s chief witness was
k:pt out of court by fraud, he can do
no less than remit Hosmer’s fine.
• • •
The papers reported *he late-defeated
democratic Knight of Columbus, can
didate for Governor if Iowa, as con
gratulating the Knights on having
sent 75 of their members to congress.
The Catholic Church i in politics up
to its ears.
• • •
If it came to the knowledge of judge
Kelley that Hosmer’s chief coulee! had
made pie of the case in the niche of
time, and concealed the chief witness,
he was bound in honor, if not in law
*
to grant a continuance of the case.
• • •
Nearly all the democratic congress
men from the west ai <1 northwest are
Rcmanista. A big peicentage of Wil
son’s appointments are tarred with
the same stick. Evidently the Hierar.
chy :s not flirting with the Democratic
party for nothing.
• • •
Just how much has the Jesuit to do
with prolonging the trouble in Mex
ico? Here is guessing that he hopes
to get Wilson to take a hand in Mexi
can affairs and reestablish the Catho
lic Chr.rch in its old rule and graft,
as Taft and Roosevelt did in the Phil-
lipine Is’ands.
' • • •
“The General Assembly views with
concern the growth and pernicious ac
tivity of the Church of Rome, which is
and always has been a menace or a
blight to civil and religious liberty of
every kind wherever it has obtained
a foothold." — Southern Presbyterian
Assembly May 25, 1914.
• • •
The doctrine of the “Mass,” as a
pries‘'y sacr
*flcial
pretense, was cre
ated and established in the midst of
the “Dark Ages,” when Reason and
Common Sense were discarded for the
most senseless and extravagant super
stition; when to believe in the most
absurd tales of ghostly visitations and
miraculous revelations of dead saints
was evidence of the greatest piety.
• • •
Representative Catholics of Ger
many recently advised the Cardinals
The ladies of the Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Stiver
ton entertained the school faculty,
school board, high school students and
many parents of Silverton at a recep
tion given in the basement of the
church Tuesday evening, Sept. 29th.
t he reception committee was com
posed of Mrs. S. E. Richardson, Mrs.
W. 1*. Hubbs and Mrs. Ed. Adams, who
were most solicitous iu making all feel
acquainted and al home.
Rev. Drown gave then welcoming
u ,re«s, and very welcome it was. ilia
conference stones were fully enjoyed.
S. E. lie hard »on, the Sunday School
Superintendent in his talk extended
u hourly invitation to attend the Busy
Bee Workers of the Sunduy School
Class. He was kindly particular to
include the school ma’ams.
The entertuinmeul included a beau
tiful duet: “Fly away, Birdie,” ren
dered by Mrs. Richardson and Mrs.
Main and accompanied by Miss Steen.
Cecil Brown gave a cornet solo, which
was also encored and highly appre
ciated.
The closing address given by Prof.
James in reply to the {welcome ex
tended, upon a vital question of edu
cation, was excellent. He said in part:
In behalf of the teachers of the Sil
verton schools I wish to thank the
people of this church for this well
planned reception. We appreciate it
very much.
We are glad to see that you realize
that the teacher is a social being.
This, wc believe, will be the beginning
of a closer relation and co-operation
between the home and the school. We
believe that the teacher should know
the condition under which your chil
dren live in order to do their best
work with them.
We have a great work to do: that
of making the boys and girls of today
into men and women of the greater
tomorrow and we can do that work
well when we have your heart-felt
sympathy and support. We want the
kind of cc-operation that will cause
you to go to the teacher and pronounce
the sentence: well done, when the
work has been well done or to give the
quiet word of advice, when there are
things we do not seem to understand.
We ask your support in what we are
undertaking tuis year. We are work
ing on tiie theory that it is the whole
child, a social being, that you are
send ing to us: that the child is more
than a book worm and that these ether
natural activities must be recognized
and directed properly if we are to do
our whole work.
So we are trying to do somethng
along the line of supervised play.
In our high school we have not
room for another student, yet others
are coming that we cannot turn away.
The community that refuses its chil
dren the privileges of an education is
a' ■ ur.iing a terrible burden.
We are confident that you will pro
vide us the room and facilities to give
them that which is their right.
This was followed by refreshments
of wafers and punch. The success of
the reception was evident in the glad
smiles and happy faces of all.
that Germany is lighting for the Ro
man Catholic Church. They may be
right. Germany violated every prin
ciple of national honor in overrunning
a neutral nation, then exacting a war
tribute because the people resisted.
If this is not barbarism then there is
no such thing. Yes, it looks very
much like a Jesuit tight.
• • •
l'riest Schmidt, of New York, had
a sweetheart; to avoid causalities and
exposure, he murdered the girl, cut her
body in pieces, and sunk it in the
river. Afte.ward, when overtaken, he
confessed, and was sentenced to death.
But meantime he had been ministering
at the Altar, say nig Masses and ab
solving penitents. A Catholic paper
says, “His ministrations were as ef
fective as those of any other priest.’*
Come to think of it, of course, sir, of
course, just as “effective.”
• • • •
R. H. Thompson, ex-Secretary of
the U. 8. navy, in his book, “Foot
prints of the Jesuits,” says: “The Jes
uits teach that the state must be re
united with the Church, and be re
quired to obey the spiritual commands
in the enactment of laws; that the Ro
man Catholic religion shall be estab
lished by law as the only religion, and
every other form of religion treated
and punished as heresy, that the
clergy of the Chur h shall be exempt
from obedience to the laws as other
citizens, and shall obey only such as
the Pope may prescribe.”
DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIO
NALISM
HOPEFUL SIGNS
We are writing 1914. The 20th cen.
tury is getting under way. Surely we
are living in an age cf “Rapit Tran
sit.” How old things (and thinks) and
methods are changing in our busy
work-a-day world? With what rap
id ty and peisistqncy nefw ideals and
innovations are knocking at our doors ?
The speed with which Europe plunged
into this awful war, nearly took our
breath. May the end and blessed peace
come as speedily.
What changes are coming into the
political ideals of the peoples of the
Firth! There will be no more kings
when the nations of Europe come to
their sober senses and begin to count
the terrible cost in life and money,
Out of the old monarchical nationa
lism will rise a democratic internation
alism such as the Socialists of Europe
have advocated fur years. It really
was a pity that the latter did not
have sufficient power and numbers in
each country to have vetoed this
king’s war game.
How the light and hope of Democ
racy is qu'ekening men’s hearts every
where ?
Look at Mexico! Another revolu
tion brewing there. Why? Because
Carranza has not been faithful to his
word! There Will be no compromise
so long as Villa draws the breath of
life, and every true patriot and lover
of humanity will wish him a long so
journ among his Mexican countrymen.
What is wrong in Mexico? Nothing!
The democratic awakening in Mexico
has gone a little deeper than in other
places; that’s the only thing that’s
wrong. Mexico is to have real deliv
erance, not mere surface pretense.
Some one in Mexico has gained a real
appreciation and understanding of
fundamental facts in popular govern
ment. No people will ever be politically
free who are mental’y, morally and
spiritually bound! With our free sec
ular education under absolute state
control there will never be freedom!
Ecclesiasticism and Democracy will
never thrive under the same roof!
The future and present happiness of
the Mexican people demand drastic
and revolutionary methods cutting out
the old cancer, which has eaten at her
vitals. Villa is determined that the
b' od of his patriots shall not have
been wasted in half measures of sur
face changes, but he is insisting upon
the only sure way by which justice
shall insure the peace and happiness
of his people. Wish the world had
more such rebels, but, signs are hope
ful everywhere.
“ A PRISONER OF THE LORD !
brought n revelation of truth that
should completely revolutionize men’s
views and conceptions of life, of na
ture, of man and God!
Into this hierarchical despotism Je
sus brought a new song of democracy,
of mutual helpfulness, of human
brotherhood by sowing seeds of love
into the hearts of men, by sowing
seeds of hope into their deadening dis-
pair!
Truly the gospel of Jesus is a gos
pel of the hope of life! Truly it is a
gospel of the higher 1 berty which is
by the knowledge of truth!
Truly it is the one great world-gos
pel for all humanity, when understood
in the simple naturalness of its found,
er! When freed from the priestly per
version and pagan corruptions of su
perstition and supernaturalism; when
freed from the phantastic somnambu
lism of methaphysical moonshine and
miracle 1
The cornerstone of the religion of
Jesus is Man! Humanity is the tem
ple of the living God! In Humanity,
in Man the divine lmmage is to be
realized and fulfilled! (In society.)
The recognition and cultivation of
the higher spiritual possibilities in
mon is the means and the way by
which man shall overcome all limita
tion and attain unto Freedom and
Power and the fuller Life!
No magic, no miracle in this per
fectly natural and normal process of
the unfolding of the inner life.
The hope of the purpose and mission
of Jesus is deliverance from any and
all bondage! Freedom! Liberty 1 Life!
this is the Goal of man’s high calling!
For this grand ideal, for this noble
gospel he suffered persecution and
death 1
For this same great hope and gos
pel of deliverance Paul became im
prisoned and suffered martyrdom.
For thi® same glorious vision, hope
and inspiration thousands of the nob
lest men and women have suffered
and paid the price at the hands of the
same old persecutor.
And—the battle is not yet won! The
victory is not yet gained! The hope is
not yet realized!
By Faith—by our vision, by our
dreams of the “To Be” we are still
led!
The power of darkness Is still seated
upon the throne! Pagan idolatry still
rules the world! Gold is still the God
of calf-men (!) in the wilderness!
Mammon still rules the hearts of
men!
The old pagan Trinity of Monar
chism, Ecclesiasticism and Capitalism
is still holding the scepter and per
secuting every voice, every ray cf light,
every precious promise that leads or
points toward that higher freedom
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 5)
Ephes. 3, 1. “For this cause am 1,
Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for
you Gentiles.”
The parallel in brother Hosmer's
case is most striking. Paul, who
through the »(wakening of his own
higher spiritual self came to realize
the error of the old way. He came to
realize the falsity of the old system,
in which he himself did service as a
persecutor. Paul, when the light of a
higher revelation flashed across his
awakening consciousness, beheld the
c'd shadow monster of pagan idolatry
and of priestly perversion. The re-
v olted, and, led of the new found light,
turned from persecutor to defender.
Paul became the greatest champion
of the new world-hope which, the new
truth of Jesus had begotten in men’s
souls.
Paul became the living voice to car-
ry the glad message of deliverance
and of emancipation from all ano
every form of bondage to the Gentiles,
and, throug' the Gentiles, throughout
the world. Paul it was, who entered
most fully into the spirit of the new
dispensation of life and liberty which
Jesus had declared, for which he lived
and died! What was that great gos-
pe' of Jerus? What was its effect?
What was its purpose and mission?
What was its scope? What was its
hope and spirit ? Jesus, the Carpenter
—Prophet of Nazareth (read his call)
came to reveal the way out of bon
dage toward freedom! Jesus came to
liberate the hearts, minds and con
science of men!
Jesus came to teach men, through
the knowledge of truth, the laws and
ways of life, by which men should en
ter into the fuller joys thereof 1
Jesus came, a light of truth, into the
the organized darkness of pagan cor
ruption.
And—the organized powers of dark
ness persecuted the God-sent messen
ger of light, truth and liberty!
Jesus—prophet and leader of men—
y/as put to death by the despotic pow
er of organized darkness! by the god
of Tyranny!
By that old pagan monster of dark
ness reflected in the holy trial or trin
ity, of Monarchism, Ecclesiasticism
and Capitalism, of which Gold is God!
whose God is Gold!
Into thl dark night of corruption,
idolatry and usurpation came Jesus
with his truly divine message of the
larger hope of the higher life, of the
larger and fuller freedom!
Into this stifling atmosphere he
brought his blessed gospel of the di
vine sonship of man!
Into this idolatrous perversion he
No. 48.
SOCIALIST COLUMN
Edited by J. E. Blazer
For a hundred years, in full swing,
capital.-m ha. sqwn the wuid, and now
ti.e whole world reaps a whirlwind of
blood and fire.
Th3 unu-.erablc horror of the situ
ation is that it is overtopped by the
ignorance a>in stupidity of the average
man and woman whose conduct has
made it possible. This human heca
tomb was the inevitable result of cap
italist, society, and that the average
man cannot see and dues not under
stand it is the most depressing cir
cumstance of all, because it forebodes
a possible inability to grapple with the
problems which the next few years
wiU present.
Capitalism, or the Third Estate,
inarcned into this world’s arena with
iron sandals and the mailed fist, and
in every cuun
*ry
its accoutrements are
the same.
The French revolution was not the
birth but the baptism of European
capitalism, the cannon first spoke then
effectively, and the solid battalion and
guillotine overwhelmed the shell of
the ancient regime.
The old traditions and establish
^
*
religion were modified for a reign of
reason, and personal Eberty, commerce
and free trade.
Local industries have expanded into
national and internatioal markets, and
to market its product, capitalism has
reached into the most remote places
in the world. The African jungle and
the oasis in the garden of Allah are
reached by a portion of the Zu,JOO
miles of railroad that almost surround
the borders of the dark continent.
South America is a staked territory;
the Orient has been broken from its
dead isolation of centuries. Frozen
Russia is putting on the habiliments
of capiiali.ru. Every capitalist coun
try is struggling for markets and fail,
ure to dispose of its surplus product
means death and destruction.
The very necessity of capitalist life,
i. e., the profit system, is extension,
expansion or death. Surplus products
must be forced into the most remote
portions of the earth, »nd there are no
deserts or seas that can resist its on
ward march and its struggle to live.
The commercial rivalry between Great
Britain and Germany *s the same in
principle, object and purpose as that
which exists between rival railroads or
steal companies. Since 1870 the cap
ita’istic development of Germany has
bem growing at a tremendous rate. In
the last ten years the exports of the
United Kingdom increased only twen
ty-four millions, while German exports
increased over one hundred and ten
millions. For the last two years,
closing 1913, German exports in
creased thirty-four millions; that of
the United Kingdom only ten millions.
Germany, feeling its right to Eve and
grow, has reached out thousands and
thousands of miles and 1ms established
nerself on Chinese oil; occupied east
and western portions of Africa; has
built a railroad from Bagdad to the
Persian Golf and you can travel in
their trains over the land of Cambeses
and Nimrod. The German consuls are
trained in the language, the habits and
the requirements of the countries
where they are located. They were
commercial agents for German enter
prise. The kaiser has been spoken of
as the greatest drummer for German
goods. German commercial progress
is a constant menace and challenge to
British capitalism.
For markets which are essential to
t'ae life of the capitalistic class, it wi'l
scruple at absolutely nothing. It will
choke its factories with infants whose
lives it transforms into dividends. It
destroys motherhood in the shop,
bends and breaks the form and soul of
working men and starves them during
its industrial depressions. England
has been forced to reduce her army
standard twice in recent years, so
fearful has been the onslaught of her
factory system upon the working class
of the Brit’sh islands. Those who are
familiar with the brutality of our fac
tory system, our finance and commer
cial system during times of peace,
have no reason to be surprised at the
European conflagration. We Socialists
knew it was coming, gave our (warning
and t fell upon deaf ears.
“This is a king’s war,” says a maud,
lin saphead. “It is a war for an idea,”
says naive and simple H. G. Wells. “It
is a war party’s sport,” replies an
other group of ivory heads. "English
freedom is at stake and the English
never shall be slaves,” sings the pov
erty stricken wTetch who is fighting
for his lord and his capitalist’s factory
or diamond mines.
The veriest flubdub to hide the basis,
the underlying strata cf it all. Did the
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 6)
A LETTER
From Leon L. Myers
La Grande, Ore., Sept. 26, 1914.
Mrs. J. E. Hosmer,
Silverton, Oregon.
Dear Madam.
One of the pluckiest fighters of Ro
manism now lingers in Marion coanty
jail, refused the permission of writing
for hu paper, or any liberty whatso
ever, and what for? Nothing in the
world but telling the tnith about Ro
manism. The Romans care little about
Hosmer, but they are determined to
close up forever, if possible, his Utt'e
red not anti-Roman paper, which has
done so much to stagger the beast on
the coast. Hosmer could get out of
jail if he wanted to. He could pay his
fine but that would be a sacrifice of
principle, and this step Hosmer pre
fers not to do. Nay, verily he would
rather die than make this sacrifice,
ilosiner is made of such stuff as mar
tyrs consist. He will never surrender
to Rome. His plucky Uttle wife has
now shouldered the responsibility of
managing the paper until Hosmer is
set rt liberty. Three cheers for Mrs.
Hosmer! Let the nation send up a
cheer that will bring to the Silverton
Jo mal an avalanch of subscriptions
at fifty cents each.
Remember, fellow patriots, that Hos
mer was never tried for any crime. He
was betrayed by his leading lawyer,
Frank H. Kelley of Tacoma, Wash.,
who made it impossible for lam to
reach his chief witness at the right
t<me. He was brought before a judge
of Salem, Oregon, who refused to
grant him an opportunity to get this
witness. It became impossible for
Hosmer to get a fair hearing, so he
refused to put on any evidence. The
e .tire court system of Oregon, by this
test case, have proven itself on the
side of Rome. Hosmer has been re
fused justice on every turn, and even
now behind the bars the Roman assis
tants of Marion County take delight
in their nefarious persecution. What
shall we do?
1. Let the writers who dare to speak
against Rome keep Mr
*.
Hosmer sup
plied with the best fresh material
within their reach for the pages of
the S'lverton Journal. Let it be done
at once and free of any charge.
2. Let as many as you can do so get
subscriptions for the Journal, let us
not permit Rome to succeed in her
nefarious attempt to silence this great
paper. The North West needs this,
the only anti-CathoUc sheet within her
borders. Everybody help!
3. Let every patriot write Gov. West
-in protest against this nefarious piece
of injustice wrought within the State
of Oregon. To arms! Fellow patriots!
To arms!
4. Keep watch of Rome. America’s
future depends upon the patriots of
this country being vigilant. Americans
on Guard! Only last week Dr. E. J.
Bulgin and myself prevented as fine a
girl as ever lived from being sent to
the House of the Good Shepherd at
Portland. It was a good Protestant
girl too. Rome is after them and you.
Hosmer is now where you and I will
soon be if we do liot check this hellish
institution in her designs upon our
country.
5. We are after this Frank H. Kel
ley, hot and heavy. He will render an
account here on earth, if the courts do
not throw the case against him out of
court, because it is against Rome.
Fellow patriots! Let us come to the
rescue of this American nobleman.
This is a real fight. I never was so
busy in my life as at this time: Fight
ing Rome, Rum and their Boss, the
Devil, besides managing an evangelis
tic campaign, together with pastoral
\vork in a large field in the West, is
some job, but I will furnish an article
against Rome for the Silverton Jour
nal each week while Hosmer is in jail.
Let us do what we can and the next
few weeks will be the most blessed
weeks for Hosmer and the Journal.
Truly,
LEON L. MYERS.
A Popo died the other day. It was
given out that he died of a broken
hcaii because of the war. The “Black
Pope” (head of the Jesuits) conveni
ently died the same day. The late
Pope was a friend of Austria, that
country, by agreement, holding the
vote on Popes. The new Pope belongs
to another political ring, which is
friendly to France. One writer sug
gests that the late Pepe and the late
Block Pope were sent to death by
chemistry to clear the way for a
change of policy The history of the
Church shows that Ecc’esiastical poli
ticians of the Vatican school have nev
er been averse to that sort of thing
when it is “for the goed of the Holy
Church.”