T
A.
I'ubliBhail »very Friday morning at Silvarlon.
Orwon. by
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
OF THE STATE
REPLY TO MATERIALISTS
By Guy Eitch Pheips.
world—who make so much of *ci*nce
—to give due credit to the view* of
such men a* Lodge and Wallace. Then
he say* that “the fact that three
scientist* defend spiritualism by no
mean* satisfies . the materialistic
world.” Well, to begin with, the world
is not materialistic. There i* only a
handful of infidels compared to the
millions who believe in a personal God.
But how many scientist* would it take
to convince Infidels ? 1 will mention a
few scientists who have stood upon
the Bible as a foundation, claiming
that it agreed with geology and ar­
chaeology.
Dawson, Dana, Hugh
MP'er, Ba-on Humbolt. Baron Cuvier,
Dr. Kartz, McDonald, Lewi*, Sillman,
Pierce, Guyot. Schatf. Lange. Jameson,
McCosch, Baumgarten, Turner, Rosen,
mul'e .Kaliach, Muhphy, Hodge, Ha-
genbach. Calwer. Keil. Davidson, and
hundreds of other*. Materialism shows
its lowness of brow* when it claims to
have the scientific world with it. 1
cl al'eage materialists to bring a h a 1 f
d o x e n scientific men of first repute
who undertook to account for reason
and conscience independent of a per­
sonal God. Let any materialist who
reads this come on with hi* proof.
THE GEM THEATRE, MO^URES
Never Gets Old
in the Silverton Journal of Septem­
Information About Factories and En­
ber
18th there are materialistic ar­
terprise* That Employ Labor and
ticles
from six different persons: Mr.
ENJOYED BY ALL- CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS
Matter* Affecting the Development
Thompson,
Victor C. Lake. Maud
of Oregon.
Instructive und Educative.
Wakefield, Olin Ross, Elixa Bliven and
F. L. Rod*. 1 will take them in order
Salem, Ore., Sept. 2d. — The La in replying. But 1 am forced to say
Grande $60.WO Elk* Lodge will be that these three columns of matter
erected by the Pa’mer-Ellison Co. of come as near containing nothing as
Portland. It will have Otis elevator* any 1 have ever read. Why does not
and finished in Seattle terra cotta.
Materialism stop snapping at preach­
The new Pendleton hotel costing ers long enough to tell us what their
$130,000 ha* been opened to the grand scheme for the emancipation of
public..
the race is ? 1, for one, shal1 be glad
The $76,000 rock crushin* of the to hear it. Can't you rise above
Cascade Construction Co. at Marion preachers and sarcasm long enough to
PHONE BLACK 681
ha* begun operation with a payroll of put down your dogmas and show your
This paper stand» for freedom uf thought, free- 100 men at $6,000 per month. It is ex­ plans
deui ui the pre«», freedom of «peech, equality of
♦ • •
All work done In the shortest poaaib e time. We *re equip­
opportunity and the religion of ritfhteouaneas. It pected to distribute 600,000 yards oi
radically eppoeed to every form of »upersution crushed rock on the S. P. Co. tracks
ped to handle all kind* of furniture, piano*, etc., with very little
Let
me
say
now
that
1
am
a
Chris
­
and tyranny, or lieenain* or pennituuM any form
danger of any damage done.
in Oregon.
of evil.
tian by profession, <uid 1 hope one by
Cy anide jumping from 10 to 76 cents practice, but 1 believe in the complete
THE IDEAL SHOWS THE TRUE a pound on account of the war is liberty of the mind and press on ail
NO LOAD TOO IIKA'
FOR OUR TEAMS TO HAUL.
hampering the mining industry in subjects. Materialists are constantly
MAN
saying that Christians are set against
Baker County.
By the ideal that a num loves, ana
reason. This is unreasonable as to be
The
new
Portland
post
office
will
by his persistency ui cleaving to it,
silly,
with the maps of the world open |
e
and working for it, shall you know nave two floors devoteu to mail work, to all eyes, No man or woman will
What he really i*. This idem, whatever and seven floors of offices for the ar­ make such a statement unless they ad.
Next comes a short article from
it be, seen and embraced, and my of federal officials and commission dress it to those too ignorant
to ' Maud Wakefield. This name is rather
ers
at
Portland.
melting into a man, constitutes hi*
deny it.
I familiar to me. Some years ago I
WE MUST GROW OR DIE!
Proposed plans for the improvement
true and essential nature, and reveal*
challenged this Woman to debate, but
itsfif in all he thinks and does. They of tl e old St Johns road out of Port­
The Silverton Journal must keep it« Subscription list
First comes James Thompson’s ar- because of certain physical condition*
tell us, and truly, that it is not the land calls for an expenditure of $170,-
growing
or it will nurely die. We need your help, but we
;
on
her
part
the
meeting
did
not
take
ti*le.
He
says:
“
If
I
can
do
nothing
educated and refined only who have 000.
want to gi\e even more than value received.
but destroy, to clear the ground, my ■ place. Perhaps we may touch blades
their ideal,—that every man, even the
Albany is calling for bids for a new efforts will not be in vain.” That is i after all. She devotes her article to a
Get us one or more at fifty centa a year.
Use
most illiterate, has an ideal; whether $60,VW high school.
the following blank:
a fine definition of Materialism. What tirade against God for not stopping
he knows it or not; that is, every man
Portland banker* recently returned can you expect of men and women who i the war in Europe. Why do not Ma­
A FREE PRESS
has something which form* the ruling from the bankers conference at Wash­
teach that the human being is an ani­ terialists apply their reason to such
thought, the main desire of hi* life. ington, D. C., state eastern factories
mal without a soul; that there is no things, seeing that reason is their
The beggar in his rag* is not without are running night and day to fill or­
God and of course no difference be­ boast? This article proves that Ma­
his ideal, though that probably does ders brought about by the European
tween right and wrong. Certainly teria''sts are bluffers, and that they
not go beyond plenty to eat and drink, War.
they will te’tr down, they will destroy, believe, with the rest of us, in a per­
The nubwription price has been changed from $100 to
and a comfortable house to live in.
European War has demoralized the and that is what they have been doing sonal God. No one can really believe
50 cents per year.
fruit industry and freak labor laws since the first one came to the front to in his own bei-’g without believing in
tell the weary world that there is no antecedent being—God. If there is no
OPTIMISTS WORK — PESSIMISTS are crippling the canneries at home.
EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL,
ARE AFRAID
The Heppner Milling Co. distributes hope and no remedy. For remember, God why do Materialists spend their
SILVERTON, OREGON.
my materialistic friends, you have time talking about one? Let Materia­
annually $10,VW in wages.
lists explain the war from their stand­
, for which send THE JOURNAL to
Enclosed find I
By the way some people are point­
Pilot Rock has great need of more no.hing by which to heal the ache* of point, it is their chance to solve one
the heart of the world. You have
the f(¿lowing:
ing out the evils of our time you dwellings.
made tears but you never dry them; big thing without God. God says in
would think that they are the most
McCully and Rumble of Joseph have you have taken hope away, but you the Bible that “Whatsoever a man
Name __
pessimistic people in the world, but
just completed s. concrete office build­ have never kindled it. What is this soweth that shall he also reap.” That
this is far from the truth. The people
Addre*«
ing.
which Mr. Thompson wishes to de­ law appl’es to nations as well as in­
who have no hope and are pessimistic
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Gresham will soon have a new can­ stroy? We know well. He wants to dividuals. God says, “thou shalt not
from the ground up are the fellows
nery.
:
teal,
”
but
men
steal
and
get
into
take every bible out of the world,
who are doing nothing to make the
Add re*«
Bids being received for the recon­ every hymn book, he would stop every prison. God says, “thou shalt not kill,”
wor'd better, and are always found on
Name
the side of the conservatives who are struction of the headworks at the in­ religious song, tear down everychurch, but men go to war and kill. Christ
afraid to say anything that would take on the East Fork of Hood River destroy every Sunday school, quench said, “A new commandment give I un.
Address .
change conditions. We believe that we and construction of Main canal for an prayer, remove the restraint of a be­ to you, that ye love one another.” If
men
would
do
that
there
would
be
no
lief in a personal God, destroy all fa'th
are living in the most progressive pe­ approximate distance of six mi'es.
Name
riod of the world’s history and this
Work on the Sutherlin Coos Bay and based on fact (faith is always based war. But they won’t, so what is the
Addreaa
makes us optimistic; but it also makes Eastern Railroad is being pushed rap­ on fact); in fact everything that had sense in blaming God? There is a
command
in
the
Bible
which
says,
“
be
to do with man’s spiritual nature he
us want to hurry up the good things idly.
Name
sober;” but men go and become drunk­
which we see in the future when the
Joe Knowles got what he went after would “tear down,” leaving man, of ards. There is another which says,
Address
evi's of our time are blotted out. —pub'icity, the greatest Oregon prod, course, on the level of the brute cre­
ation, a thing of instinct and animal “be pure," but men practice vice, and
Therefore we are hunting down every ucu
desires. But if you coul4 do all this, die in lazarettos. Men are free agents,
old thing that looks like a serpent, so
Prineville needs more modern hou­ Mr. Thompson, what would you put in and God permits them to sow and
we can “fix him plenty.” We find that ses.
the place of what you would take reap. If he did not he would be hated
there is work to keep us busy and we
The Willamette Pacific expects to away? Have you anything to offer the by Materialists, and they would charge
are at it, for while we do not for a
have rails to tidewater before the race that would bring it more peace, him with what they hurl at preachers,
moment forget that the world is grow­
rainy season sets in.
comfort and moral strength? You say that they want to bind the people.
ing better and that there is already
The
Sutherlin
Railroad
has
been
you want to remove the thistles: what This inconsistency in infidels proves
very much of the good, the beautiful
granted a franchise on Sutherlin will you plant where they grew ? Come their lack of sincerity. They hate
an . the true.
streets.
now, tell us what you would build preachers for trying to shackle the
The Pacific Coast Condensed Milk when you get the ground cleared? minds and wills of men, and then
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES
Co. ;will immediately proceed to en­ Give us a blue print of the house you snarl at God because he don’t. Oh, you
for MAX BURGHOLZER’S new book of 32 page«
large its Hillsboro plant to meet the would erect. Don’t you kow, Mr. infidels, you are a brilliant parade.
No one can love his enemies unless demands of the constantly increasing Thompson, that you could not imagine But what strikes me as funny is that
he understands the nature of wrong offerings of milk. The new building a desirable state without putting the these folks who utterly disbelieve (?)
doing commonly called sin. To the end
will be of concrete, 140x140, and when principles of Christianity at the base in a God, forever write and snarl
that we may really reach up to this
completed will give the lo^al plant a of it? Do you claim that a belief in about things just like there was one.
high state of perfection let us look at
God has no restraining influence? They want to know why God does not
capacity of 200,000 pounds a day.
what sin is for a minute.
do this or that, or solve this or that
During the harvest season to save Material'*« will have a better hearing
There are two factors which make
condition, etc., etc., etc. But infidels
when
it
shows
the
world
that
it
has
every form of organic life, including crops farmers must work 12 to 14 something better to offer it than what should solve them without reference to
man, just what it is at a given time. hours. What will an 8-hour law do to Christ gave it in his teachings. Yes, God. We are asked if this God can
These two things are the inherited tha farming industry ?
infidelity is a tearer-down, but it never give back the body of the sinking boy
The Standard Oil Co. is preparing
traits of the individual and his en­
constructs. Like swine in a garden it (in the sea), to the arms of a loving
It’s a good one to read and pass to a neighbor,
vironment. Now when a person places to erect supply tanks at Lebanon, mak­ tramples and smirches and ruins, but mother. I am glad to answer that he
himself in the attitude of an enemy or ing this point the distributing center it plants no goodly seeds for a better can: “Now when he came nigh to the
fwhen we consider him as such, these for that part of the county.
growing. It will chip "I am the res­ gate of the city, behold there was a uttmmnnmttnjtœtttmumtxmtnmmmmtmttmmmuttmmmnmmmmmu:
two factors in him and in us are abso­
Portland will soon erect another 24 urrection and the life” from our moth, dead man carried out, the only son of
lutely the whole cause of our enmity class room school at a cost of $160,- er’s tomb stones, but it has nothing his mother, and she was a widow....
and he and we are not to blame. If 000.
to put in its place. Stop snarling at And when the Lord saw it... .he came
this is true, and we hold that it is
The Marion county court Louse is to preachers long enough to tell us what ah'l touched the bier........ and he that
self-evident, then our enemy is no have a new heating plant installed by you have that will build a better state, was dead sat up.... and he delivered
more to blame in the sense that con- T. M. Barr of Salem.
make better men and women, take him to his mother.” (Luke 7, 12—16.)
d'tions, prenatal and postnatal, have
more gloom from the grave, build bet. Take another case, that of Lazarus,
made him as he is, than we are, and
ter characters, make better children, recorded in the eleventh chapter of
A great many people have gone
how can we blame him then? We
create more honesty, make purer wom­ John. Also the statement found in
South
to escape the March winds;
should not blame or condemn or pun­
en, than real Christianity. If you Revelation, 20th chapter, last part:
ish vindictively. We should use love their own climate is not conducive to have the thing that will do it, I pledge “And the sea gave up the dead which
and reason and gentle force to bring health—they are afraid they will get you that I will adopt it instantly when were in it." Certainly Mrs. Wakefield
ourselves and our enemies into har­ la grippe if they do not get away into it is shown, but so long as you only w"l reject this “dope." Well she would
mony on the broad basis of justice and another one. Now, carry this into the “Tear down” and leave the world in reject it also it a thousand witnesses < >
right. Let us first love our enemies. region of thought, for the source of ruins you must expect those who have testified that they had seen a man
Let us reason together in a spirit of agreeableness or disagreeableness is souls and loved ones they hope to meet raised from the dead today. I have
fairness. Let us apply the law when in the thought life we lead. It is in again to give you a very critical hear­ long since learned that infidels are
necessary, but always with the idea of thought that the climate is made. ing. Strange, isn’t it, that those who married to their doubts, and they
If Elected, the most Careful, Conscientious and Talented Legal
testing the questions in controversy Think pleasantly and you will act claim to be the worshipers of “rea­ would even hate the one who could
with the hope of gaining the victory pleasantly, and this is so tremendously son” will be unreasonable enough to prove them wrong. Mrs. Wakefield
Service will be given to the People of the State.
only when we are in the right. This vital, or it affects not only your own believe they can make man happier says: "Don’t go to the Bible to find
lesson may be a hard one for us to character but also the characters of and better by convincing him that he an answer to the above questions; we
Study the Principles he Advocates.
master, but nevertheless it is neces­ those who are around you. Take, for in­ is only a beast of the field, a creature are overstocked with Bible dope. Give
stance,
a
scolding
woman
—
a
mother
sary before we can fully enter into our
us some flashlight from your own
of instinct without a soul ?
inheritance of the great brotherhood. who always sees the faults of the
brain.” But it is B'b'e “dope” that
« • «
children and is always bringing their
Mrs. Wakefield needs, and—dreads, as
Next comes a little squib by Lake
faults to the front, so that her chil-
MAKE A PLEASANT CLIMATE dren are always anticipating a scold- of Chicago, in which he tells us that do all infidels. Do you notice that she
asks that some one else shall give a
AROUND YOU
Sir Oliver Lodge and Alfred Wallace
ing!
“flashlight” from their brain? Why
If you live long enough you will have disgraced themselves by believ­ don’t she give us the flash that will
I received a letter a few days ago come to a time when a beautiful ing in spiritual things, that is, the
explain the problem? Poor, poverty-
in which a mother said something memory will be so much to you. I things which go with the future life. stricken infidelity—skin and bones—no
about a daughter that I wish all moth­ would net take anything for the mem­ He claims that Mr. Lodge has uccpled more.
(Continued in next number)
ers could say of daughters. In speak­ ory of a little after-breakfast talk the teachings of Madam Pa'adinu.
ing of her brightness and sweetness with my son who is dead. He said to Here we see the dishonesty of infidels.
she said, "She makes a climate for me: “Mother, I don’t think I have ever This statement is not true. Sir Oliver
The Lebanon Lumber Co. will soon
n e.” I had so often felt the truth of thanked you for my happy chi’dhood. Lodge bases his bel'ef on sounder
begin
to ship logs to their mill at that
th's—but had given it another name I remember it so well. You never principles than those advanced by a
town
and
the mill will be run to cap­
fake
woman.
I
am
convinced
that
seemed
to
think
that
I
would
do
any
—but I like the word climate. I had
acity.
so often been impressed with the at­ but the right thing; you always trust­ materialists are not looking for proof
Wm. Kyle and Sons Co., salmon can.
mosphere people carry with them, and ed me. You never said, 'Now, don’t that they are wrong, and they would
I am satisfied we can carry a June at­ do this,’ nor 'Don’t go there.’ ” You fight desperately if anything were nery at Florence, has started operation
mosphere instead of a March atmos­ don’t know how much the memory of found to prove that point to them. and will distribute $20,000 to the work­
that liftle talk is to me now.
Sei. Honesty would compel the infidel ers during the season.
phere if iwe only will.
J. E. HOSMER, Editor.
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