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Paine he did believe in some sort of cr.n testify to, all of it seems to be God, buj not In the chief dogmas of an a>t*ful reality, ail one needs to do the Christian religion. 1 have not is scare th; press. Then such arc the space to go into the proofs of the sta effects of a ausc; that cause lies in P By Olin J. R om . Editad by J. E. Blaser tus of each of these men, nor of some the private ownership of the meaca of A» to the men of straw which he other phases of Mr. Phelp’s reply. life and the tyrannical management »aye 1 hit at, they are hie own men “CHRISTMAS EVE“ Columbus, Ohio, December 3rd. of same. not mine. To keep him from evasion, Before Christmas can mean much Once again comes that much cel I quoted whut 1 was hitting at. lie to the toiling masiKS, we must abolish REPLY BY ELIZA MOWRY HUVEN ebrated day — of good cheer? Once might us well say that he did not nay again, this day is looked upon “by the present system of Capitalism, that he did. Guy Phelps demands that we Mat millions” as mere hypocrisy, that which is competition in the means of He ependa the lurger part of nearly erialists evolve an eye, hair, brain means nothing tr the hungry, home life and -ub-titute therefore "Co- three folumna in uno for.n or an lher cril, etc., »rd transform a horse Into a less hosts, who wander aimlessly operatio.i,” the brotherhood cf man, in challenging the Malerialiata to pro cow. We cannot do either, because it through a world filled with greed on the emancipation of a world of work duce an eye, u tip of u iiair or trans took thousands or millions of years of one side, ignorance and indifference ers. You say how can this be brought form a horse into a cow, etc. We'l, aoout? 1 say by the organization cf the strivings of some live creature and on the other. man by using artificial means has tne woikers of toe world, and no its dependents for food, protecti n or Was there ever a time when this changed the seeded into seedless apt le l>'easure, to develop a special organ or day meant less for the many than it other oigamzation of man or women und orange, the long horned cattle into set of organs; then the use of the docs at the present time? What can w 11 ever bring emancipation; it must short horned, the wild horse into the ■imn foods and habits through many Christmas mean to the man out of ue by the workers’ own efforts und pacer, trotter and heavy roadster. generations established the species. employment, who hua a family to sup not by any outside force. 1 agree Many of tho changes in unimal organ The weaker with defective organa per. port, little ones at home crying for a with President Wilson when he said isms and natures have come about in ished, while the stronger survived anti mere crust of bread, grocery bills long in part: 1 challenge tne world to only u few years. How long it would multiplied. Yet some great cata- past due, house rent months behind show me one insta-xe in all .ustory, take to make an eye, a tip of pair, or stroi he could destroy many species in and oasibly a sick wiio whom one day where freedom or liberty was lia.uied change u horse into u cow, no man a year or a day. he promised to provide — until death down from above. knows, but we do know that chunges But if each species and every organ did part them. 1 say again, what can of “peats on earth” — in a world of have taken place in the eye, the hair were created by his God, by instanta tie the thoughts of this man as he war •' d Svriife? “Good will to men,” and the ehupe of animals in the lust neous miracle, and Guy Fitch Phelps passes the windows, the gay theaters when us a matter of fact wc p/actice fifty years. This being true, it would is a chosen son of God to teach the and those large buildings called only competition, which is “every certainly be absurd to say thut great- people, since his God in the Bible Churches of God (wherein on this man’s hand against every other L*r changes did not tuke place in the promise to answer the believers’ eve much is said of the brotherhood man’s,” or social and industrial strife? ^course of millions of ycuis. Prayers then Rev. Phelps can by fuith of man and the fatherhood of God, Do away with “private ownership in When he triumphantly asks mo to and prayers receive power to create who’s doors are closed so far as this the means of life” and you will have make an eye, a tip of a hair or change by m racle any quantity of new spe man and his family are concerned) made Cl r.slmas a reality and not a tho form of an unimal, he might as cies: Eyes, hair, toes, also new organs, and finally reaching his place of pov dream, ycu will have a world where well triumphantly ask me to muke a a <1 he can change a horse into a cow. erty and misery, he calls home, he is sorrow and suffering is no more, war lump of coul, a strata of rock with Thus he will convince all of us infidel« confronted by those little ones crying and strife ’s not known, poverty ard its fossils, or produce u diamond. He crime a re’iic of the dark ages, Vhen that there is a God and he created for smething to eat and wear? m'ght as well say, since coal is inude people were not civilized. A word of , everything and answers prayers. I 1 ask you, dear reader, in ti*s face of out of wood, and there is plenty of demand that G y Fitch Phelps furn these facts of which you know to ex advise: If ycu would have Christmas wood, if you cannot make coal it a day of joy, aon’t be content with ishes us with just that kind of proof, ist (it is needless to plead ignorance), proves that coal was mude on the that there is a God, and all species what can Christmas mean to this man anything loss. Ever search for the spot at one ami the same time by light cf true working class solidarit. were crested instead of evolved. and his family? It makes no differ understand what that means fcr th special creation, just as these animuls ence whether this man has ignored workers and their families. It means wore made. My answer as to why I opportunities or no: “There is no just That masters ar.d idlers will have t< cannot make a lump of coal or a stra reason why he should suffer” in a na go; that never more will this earth be ta of rock, is much after tho answer 1 tion ana world filled to overflowing, of cursed by slavery, oppression, war and would make as to not Ix-ing able to which large daily papers boast of strife; tha, child slavery, an institu rmnkn an eye, tip of a hair, or a horse continually and Fourth of July orators tion of the past which kills the life or cow. It took nature, with a shift tell you, “You are living in the most of the boy or girl, >« needless even in ing environment, milictMi of years to make a lump of coal, and it undoubt prosperous nation on earth,” such we an uncivilised state of society and MIND know to be the truth; but I say right edly took her millions of years to Strength of mind is exercise, not here that this wealth and prosperity shall no more be tolerated. Christmas produce a i eye, a hair, an animal may mean something to the masses rest. — Pope. is not enjoyed by those who have pro (some day), but i, will not be till the form. As the soil, how rich it may ba, can. duced it, but by those who deal in the many learn rganization for the in It either took an immense interval of time, with muny shifting environ not be produ tive without culture, so blood and bones of labor (be that in terests of the many as against the ments for nature to muke a bone, a the mind without cultivation can nev the mine, mill, farm or factor}), who few; you will first learn cf Co-opera- prolong their rsign by working upon hr ir, an eye, a cow, a horse, a man er produce go d fruit. — Seneca. Mind unemployed is mind unen the urej< d ces of the producing class, tio i in organization for your emanci or it was all done on the spot and in pation, before Christmas will mean buy the press, the pulpit and the anything to you and yours. You can a few days as the Bible says, und as joyed. — Bovee. The inind i H its own place, and in pi: ces of learning to fasten this hold hasten that day or delay it, just as ^1r. Phelps says, too. As to man, there are many evidences that we itself can make a heaven of hell a upon the backs of the toiling mass.-s; you will, but it lies in your power and came from the lower order of animals, hell of heaven. — Milton. yco, the salt of the earth. in yours alone, “the secret of free Sublime is the dominion of the mind a shifting environment making it nec The abeve picture which I have dom.” over the body, thut for a time can essary to develop some particular fac pail ted is not an isolated case, but Read carefully the following poem ulty. or power in order to preserve make flesh and nerve impregnable, t. ere ire 1 undreds of thousands in clipped from “The National Rip-Saw:” life, until at last his mental status and and string tho sinews like stool, so tills our land of the ri h rnd the home physical form were changed. The hu that the weak become so mighty. — cf the slave. And what is the out- 0 Merry, Merry Christmas, Some Day! man body shows, as 1 recall the num Mrs. Stowe. lock for thise who are in such straits? By Henry M. Tichenor, the Rip- ber, some two ’ undred rudimentary Does it look ><t all premising? Can KINDNESS Say Poet. organs, muscles, etc., — tl.at is, or one begin at any time and climb to So good services; sweet remem gans and muscles that were necessary t"«- top of the ladder? What is a man There’s going to be a Christmas, some in some remote manner of life, but brances will grow from thorn.—Mme. going to do who wanti work ard can- dr.y, which by a change of environment be de Staei. no, find it ? Now as a matter of fact In honor of Jesus’ birth, To cultivate kindneM is a valuable came useless, and therefore shriveled don’t you think that such conditions When devils won’t be running things Pup. The body was originally covered part of the business of life. — John make for crime, robbery and. ever their way, with longer hair than now. That he son. growing disregard for law ? Don’t you With hell turned loose on earth! 1 had rather never receive kindness, walked on four feet, is shown in part think this is the leaven for a mighty There’s going to be a Christmas, some by the fact that babies do not walk than never bestow one. — Not to re rev •’ jt’on ? Cr.n it go on and on like day on two feet until trained to do so, and turn a benefit is the greater sin, but this forever without comi g to the When the masters are no more— not to confer it, is the earlier. — by the further fact that when on four breaking poiit? We are told by sci Tke devils shall not be here alway, feet, that is on hands and feet, every Seneca. entific me- that insanity and crime To curse mankind with war! hair of the body points downward, the A word of kindness is seldom sp ken are increasing four times faster than purpose of nature, or rather the ne in vain, while witty sayings are as the population; that 83 1-3 per cent of There’s going to be a Christmas, some day, cessities of nature, being to form a easily lost as the pearls slipping from the people do not ow? a home; that When the Comrades all shall sing watershed for the rain. I remember a broken string. — G. D. Prentice. two million child slaves are employed Ask thyeslf, daily, to how many ill- getting a book out of the Ifbrary, when in the W. S. A.; that on an average A joyous loving roundelay, Of a world without a king! a boy, where there were some stories minded pex cons thou hast b I i ran a kind thiee million men are jobless fcr the told, said to be fact, where children disposition. — Marcus Antonius. last thrse winleis; that those who do 0 do your veiy best, my brother, Kindness is the golden chain by Do a’l you can I pray, who had been raised by wild animals, nothing have veryt ing; that it is a ran on four feet, instead of on two. which society is bound together. — crime fcr a workingman to use bis For t’e love of one another, To hasten this Christmas day! But, whether these stories were true Goethe. own b loins in the intcrestr cf his • • • or not, it is a fact that the natural class, the workers; that if a man tells PATIENCE mode of locomotion for humun beings the truth he is sent to jail, when h? O Merry. Meny Christmas, sime day! How poor are they who have not is on all fours, as shown by creeping In honor of Jesus’ birth, becomes a pre Sessional liar he is given babies. It is very doubtful whether yationce! What wound did ever heal some office of public trust, and forth When devils won’t be running things the child ever would walk on two feet but by degrees. — Shakespeare. their way with becomes a highly respectable Patience is not passive: on the con citizeo. Now then, much of this we to thia day were they not so taught With hell turned loose on earth! trary it is active; it is concentrated by paren's, or by observation. strength. — Bulwer. On the other hand, what is the evi Patience is the art of hoping. — dence of special creations by a sup The greatest truths are the sim Three may keep a secret, if two of posed Supreme Intelligence called Vauvenargues. plest; and so are the gratest men. — them ari dead. — Franklin. He that can have patience, can have God, except what we get out of old, To keep your secret is wisdom; but Hare. mouldy legends, which were written what he will. — Franklin. to expct others to keep it is folly. — Simplicity, of all things, is tho hard Patience is so like fortitude that she by a cla-B of men wh<> did not know 0. W. Holmes. est to be c pied. — Steele. seems either her sister or her daugh how a c’oud was made, a rainbow ap Where secrecy and mystery begins, ter. — Aristotle. peared or a dewdrop was formed. To A patient, humble temper gathers vice Or roguery is not far off. — John put up what these men wrote in the blessings that are marred by the pee son. A BIG BARGAIN in a business remote past as against the discoveries vish and overlooked by the aspiring.— building and a small lot with go d of modern science is to believe the SILENCE building a1 ready for business can be astrologist as against the superintend E. H. Chapin. The temple of our purest thoughts had by applying at the offi’ce of the Patience is power; with time and ent of the Lick Observatory and yet Cascade Real Estate Company. Price the church, as it were, teaches people patience the mulberry leaf becomes is silence. — Mrs. S. J. Hale. Silence is the understanding of only |500. The location is on a prin to take the word of the astrologist as silk. — Chinese Proverb. fcols, and one of the virtues of the cipal street and the terms are easy— against that of the astronomer. JOY just like paying rent. • • • wise. — Boileau. He who can conceal his joys is Mr. Phelps claims that Washington Speech is gr at, but silence is great, and Lincoln vere good, believing greater than he who can hide his er. — Carlyle. Christians. Well, Ward H. Lamon in griefs. — Lavater. This is such a serious world that we o • • • « • • • • • • • A man would have no pleasure in should never speak at all unless we • his life of .Lincoln tells about Lincoln, • SILVERTON TIME TABLE while he lived atSa’em.Ill., writing an discovering all the beauties of the uni have sometlung to say. — Carlyle. • • — infidel book, along the lines of the verse, even in heaven itBelf unless he Fellows who have no tongues are Age of Reason by Paine, and that one had a partner to whom he might com often all eyes and ears. — Halibuiton. • Arrive from Portland 8.25 A.M. « of his friends, fearing the effect on his municate his joys. — Cicero. 44 44 • 11.05 A.M. e The unsp ken word never docs Joys are our wingsT sorrows our rising popularity, secured the manus 44 44 «4 • 4.30 P.M. • harm. — Kossuth. cript and threw it into the stove. Nich. si urs. — Richter. it ÍÍ 44 • 8.20 P.M. * Silence is the ecstatic bliss of souls, True joy is only hope put out of olay and Hay, his biographers, tell 44 • " Salem 10.59 A.M. • that by intelligence converse. — Ot about him being un unbeliever in the fear. — Br oke. 44 44 44 o 5.05 P.M. • The very society of joy redoubles it; way. * inspiration of the Bible, the divinity 44 • “ Brownsville 9.15 A.M. • of Christ and other dogmas. John so that, while it lights upon my SIMPLICITY • o ----- t E. Remsburg, in his book, “Six His friend it rebounds upon myself, and Nothing is more simple than great the brighter his candle burn-i, the toric Americans," Paine, Franklin, Jef • Depart for Portland 7.30 A.M. e ferson, Washington Grant and Lin more easily will it light mine.—South. ness; indeed to be simple is to be • 44 44 H 9.15 A.M. • great. — Emerson. coln, shows that they were all unbe 44 44 44 • SECRECY 2.00 P.M. • Simplicity is the natural result of lievers, almost equally with Paine. As 44 44 44 • 5.05 P.M. • How can we expect another to keep profound thought. — Haxlitt. to Lincoln he cites over a hundred wit 44 • “ Salem 8.25 A.M. e When thought is too weak to be nesses, including members of his cab our secret if we cannot keep it our 44 44 44 • 1.00 P.M. • simply expressed it is a clear proof inet, his own wife, his Executor David selves. — Rochefoucauld. 44 • “Brownsville 4.30 P.M. • He deserves small trust who is not that it should be rejected. — Vau- Davis, his Biographers, aforesaid and other eminent men of that day. Like privy councellor to himself. — Fird. vanarguos. MATERIALIST COLUMN SOCIALISTJCOLUMN FROM THOUGHTS DIC TIONARY Conveyancing Brokerage Phone Green 991 CASCADE REAL Estate Co. MR. and MRS. G. H. DEDRICK, General Managers OFFICE IN HOSMER BUILDING formerly occupied by H. E. Broum SILVERTON, OREGON A BIG BARGAIN. 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