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SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY !, 1915.
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
PAPAL NOTES
Ry L. 1). Ratliff
Out of u vote of 272, Mt. Angel
gave a majority of 200 for the saloon.
Thio is tiic Roman Cutholic center of
enlightenment fur Marion County.
MI m * Lauenau »aid u part of her
duties ut the convent al the time of a
banquet was to hand up the liquor
from the baaemenl.
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In Mexico before the flood, — that
ia, lie fore Villa upaet the Religio-
1‘o'ilical system — the practice of
aolf-turture by fluying with cactus or
column«, taila, to appuaae the Roman
Catholic goda and aainta, and to get
their heavenly favor, waa one of the
fealurea of the auving grace of the
great and only true and Holy Church
However, we don’t read that any of
the fat prelalea look the fleah-torture
cure.
The Capital Journal, December 21,
calla down the Catholics for trying to
force thia country into a war with
Mexico, and teiia them that country's
ullmra ure “reuily no business of the
Cutholic Church in the United States;”
that their efforts will "intensify the
unti-Cauiolic feeling that exists in
many quarters, without reason,” and
that “Madero, Villa and many others
of the reu’ leader., of the Mexican
people were no doubt working toward
end of separation in reality of
Chuich und State; while Huertu, the
bloody, represented the clerical party
which dominated the Diaz regime.”
The Journal further says, “Men of the
stunding and character of Judge Mun-
sense, and a broader patriotism than
to allow themselves to be used as
tools by a designing influence which
fulls to recognize the meaning of our
free institutions bused on the broudest
liberty of conscience."
The Journal is just in its criticism;
but what it fails to say is that it is
just this fact that an uttempt ia be­
ing made to separate church und State
that distresses the Catholic Church.
A loyal Catholic is 1 ound by the basic
inflexib’e constitution of the Papacy,
and the fundamental Canon Lraw of
his Church, to resist such separation.
He can have no genuine “patriotism"
toward a government “by the people.”
The Catholic Church is an uncompro­
mising enemy of any system based
upon “I’berty of conscience." The
Moyal Catholic, who ia intelligent, gives
assent to free institutions only from
"motives of expediency," and only un­
til such time as the Church feels
strong enough to strike them down.
The Journal's statement that the
anti-Catholic feeling is "without rea­
son” is, in part, contradicted by its
own criticism of that old political
buccaneer.
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Roosevelt has taken up the cudgel
in defense of the Catholic Church in
Mexico. From the number of priests
and bishops he quotes it is evident
his flirtation with thut bunch of trai­
tors is of the familiar and congenial
sort. One of the dastardly things he
charges upon the Rebels is that they
fed the "Sacred Host” to the horses.
Well, now, that was bad; for what is
the “Sacred Host 7” It is a piece of
bread that the poor ignorant dupes
think the priest has turned into the
actual body and soul of Jesus Christ.
Another great wickedness was in
deporting the foreign priests. Well,
Villa illustrated his motive when he
named a small city in which were 14
Catholic Churches, and as many
priests who were “living off the poo
pic like lice,” while the people wore
kept in the most wretched poverty.
Another infamy (ns per Roosevelt)
was the deporting of many of the nuns
and closing the. nunneries. Well, in the
last few years, tho “Red Light” of
many cities has been closed out. A hy ?
Because that institution was ,not
thought to be good for the social or­
der. One historian says the nunneries
of the Middle Ages competed the
brothels out of business. Wi ether
•those of Mexiico had reached that de-
Igree of success deponent sni»h not, but
probably the Rebel lendnrs wh > are
on the ground know best what is for
the good of the country.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS THROTTLED
IN MARION COUNTY, OREGON
Father Gregory, in the Oregonian,
December 20, says, "The Catholic
Church has survived the crash of na­
tions, the fall of governments, the evo.
lutionand hanges of civil governments
and 2000 years of persecution. What it
2,000 years of persecution. A hat it
ia today is in fulfillment of the prom­
ise that ‘The gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.’ ” The argument
of a great Catholic Cardinal is also
to the point: He says, “If the Catholic
Church had not been of God she never
could have survived her own wicked­
ness.”
Well, Buddhism has survived the
"fall of nations.” Freemasonry, which
the Catholic Church is sure belong.,
to the devil, has also lived through
“the clash of nations.” The “Gates of
hell has not prevailed” against these,
eh? It is true that "Hell has not
prevailed
” against the Catholic Church,
Truth may be crushed by fines and
imprisonment but it will rise again. for Hell has no controversy with her.
They are in exact agreement.
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On December 13th some Catholics
Show me a celeb ate priest and I’ll
show you an abnormal human or a in Portland resolved that “We de­
fool; show me a priest who docs not nounce the unspeakable crimes com­
keep his vows and I'll show you a mitted against the Christian people
bilk of a liberti e. Take your choice. of Mexico,” etc., etc., and “that a copy
of these resolutions be sent to our
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senators and representatives in con­
Why don’t the merchants of Silver- gress that an investigation of the Mex.
ton advertise in The Journal now that ican situation may be undertaken,” etc.
we have a much larger subscription To ,what end, indeed, should there be
list than when they did? Are they a congressional inve tigation ? Sup­
afraid of Rome? Are they cowards? pose congress should find that the
Catholie Church had really made a
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The more one .earns about priest­ “Hell-Hole” of Mexico, as the Catholic
craft the more he wonders how such Sentinel calls it, what then? Villa and
Co. seem to be getting rid of the pests,
corruption can exist in America.
and we should not interfere lest we
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hinder the good work.
The priests are victims -’f a pagan
The editor of The Menace, armed
system and should be pitied, but at
the same time their hel'ish work with a court authority, took an officer
should be stopped for the sake of hu­ and recovered something like 50,000
old envelopes from the Roman Cath­
manity.
olic German society rooms in St.
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Louis. They had been stolen from
It would be safe to offer 110,000
The Menace office.
reward for a priest who really be­
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lieves what his dupes think he be­
Writers tell us of Hindu fakirs who
lieves.
lie down on a bed of spikes, or other­
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wise torture the flesh to gain merit
If you don’t want to go to jail, don’t from their gods. In the Philippine
tell the truth, the whole truth and Islands where the Catholic Church has
nothing but the truth. The safest dominated for 400 years the same
way is to study for the priesthood.
things, or worse, are still in practice.
That church, you know, is the world’s
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Ruined girls by the thousands are only and great • Enlightener.
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slaves for the priesthood. They wash,
My
Catholic
Friend,
your Church is
laundry, set type, cook, etc.
simply a conclave of bigoted bachelors
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and you are nothing but filling. So far
Imprisoning victims in times of as any personal rights, or freedom,
peace and shooting them down by the are concerned, you are of no more con­
thousands in times of war, will not sequence than a dead clam. You dare
save a false system from destruction. not criticize the Hierarchy, nor sug­
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gest reform. If you do, you are a
Some of the priests have said very heretic, and get the curse of the
damaging things about our public church. Why don’t you get out and be
schools, but if we publish a sworn a man?
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statement regarding their institution,
Po^r
Mt.
Angel!
Dry! sigh! cry!
we must be severely punished. Why ?
lie! die!
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WHO ARE THEY AFTER NOW?
We were jailed for shooting at the
ravenous old beast of Rome, but great
The Roman Catholic bunch of the Roosevelt wil’ probably be nominated
State of Oregon are now understood in 1916, while he has actually shot to
death many an innocent and harmless
to be out after the scalp of one of the little creature, while feeding taffy to
most fearless of our public servants, the old reptile.
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a high officer of state. For the pres­
What
a
silly
idea to regard as holy
ent we will not mention names, lest
the
rotten
lives
of a lot of bull-necked
in doing so we embarrass our friends,
bachelors (priests) in the same house
but it is pretty generally understood with a host of maiden worshipers
that a prominent Roman Catholic (nuns). Bah!
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judge will soon resign and make a
It is a fool idea to use the same
tour of the state for the avowed pur­
pose of defeating, tpvo years hence, crime as a remedy for itself. We
have enough anarchy. We don’t want
the re-election of the fearless official any more. Individualism is a failure.
to which allusion is herein made. In­ Co-operate!
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cidentally, we are informed that this
sa.ne “Old Roman” will preen him­
The priests do not believe the doc­
self for the United States Senate ship trines they teach. They are crimi als
now held by Senator Harry Lane. of a very dangerous type.
Thus goes on, from day to day, the
IS AMERICA ROMANIZED ?
program of the Hierarchy to “make
America Catholic.” We expect to make
The President of th:se United
definite announcement regarding the
above soon after the first of the year. States is in danger of being aseassin-
r.ted. Why? He has dared at last to
refuse to obey Rome’s demands. WHl
THE OLD EONOMICS
Rcosevelt be our next President ? He
Teach the children all about banking; is indersed by the priesthood. Why ?
Make them take it
take a spanking; Were the priests and nurtu killed in
Mexico iarecent or were they trai­
Train their selfish expectation;
tors?
Arc they traitors in the United
Admit no other explanation;
Stites? Should we kill Villa or should
Success depends on exploitation.
we bring the traitors in this country
Religious liberty does not extend t justice? Who will say, and who
to treason and other heinous crimes. should be entitled to say, “Sic semper
Read Crowley’s book.
tyrannis ?”
When Sheriff William Esch Refused to Allow the Editor of the Silverton
Journal to Send Copy to His Paper, We Believe He Showed
Himself to be a Romanized Tyrant and Unfit to Serve
the People of this Great Country as its Chief
Executive—What Say You?—Read the
Censured Articles and then Judge.
When Hosmer, the editor of The
.Silverton Journal, wax put in prison
fur telling the truth about the Roman
hierarchy, he thought he could write
his editorials and get up his iirst page
copy frum behind the bars just as
well us frum his uftice desk.
He had planned to send it to his
wife, and although she was already
duing mure wurk than she uught, with
the mailing list, corrections, orders for
pamphlets, etc., besides her many
household duties, it was agreed that
she could manuge the thousand and
ono things which had fallen to the edi­
tor's share, or let them gu und >ne. But
imagine the fledgling jail-bird’s as­
tonishment when he found that the
emperor William, who occupies the
sheriff’s office, not only read all out­
going and incoming mail of the pris­
oners, but that his (Hosmer's) tint
copy was handed buck to him with
the information that such stuff would
not be allowed to go out from the
Marion County hostile.
What a blow! (Questions arose in
the prisoner’s mind fast and furious.
Is the shentf a Catholic? How in the
world can we do anything if we can't
write from here? What will be the
horrible financial result? Will the
paper be obliged to suspend? There
was nobody to talk to. The time was
going by and as a last resort we con­
cluded to suspend the paper until we
were at liberty. The sheriff claimed
that the copy was just such stuff as
we were in jail for printing and that
it could not go uot from that institu­
tion. That night, as we lay on our
hard cot between the cold walls of
a fellon's ceil we studied hard, till
the wee small hours of morning, and
at last came to the conclusion that we
would lie obliged to suspend the pa­
per until we were again a free man.
The next day the letter was written
telling the waiting ones at home to
shut up the office, but before the let­
ter was mailed Mrs. Hosmer came to
THE DEVIL’S ATTEMPT
By J. E. Hosmer.
One day while working on my press,
a little “off my feet,”
I saw the Devil everywhere, espcially
on the street;
And, when I went at noon to dine, 1
met him face to face —
“A business deal,” his majesty con­
sidered “no disgrace."
He wanted me to work for him, his
"dope” to advertise;
He said, “while truth is good enough,
the mun 's in telling lies.”
I grabbed the Devil by the horns; he
tried to “get my goat,”
But, jerking off his forked tail, I
rammed it down his throat.
The Devil took a hike for Hell, a
howling every jump;
They say he’ll “graft” his tail upon
the lacerated stump.
'Tis hoped 'twill keep him t>UBy, giving
editors a chance,
’Twould surely help poor mortals, and
hea en’s work enhance.
But priests say I’m a wicked man, to
spoil Gods work on earth,
While others say the i riests are imps,
that Satan gave them birth.
The preachers say — they ought to
know, and surely can not fail,
That 'twas the Devil that I fought,
’cause god aint got no tail.
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visit her caged pencil pusher and de­
clared that she could keep the paper
going until our return. Her pluck
sav?H the day, and here we are, and
n t an issue has been lost.
But what was the awful copy cen­
sored by our Romanized jailor? We
will print it 1 ere on this page and let
our readers see for themselves if it is
true or false and if the taxpayers want
to pay a dictator a good salary to sup.
press our great American idea of a
free press. Following is the copy,
that Wii'iam Esch, the sheriff of Ma­
rion County, censored for the editor of
The Silverton Journal:
OUR FIRST DAY IN JAIL
VICTIMS IN, REAL CRIM­
INALS OUT
Our false system causes innocent to
suffer for guilty. 100 days long
time, but may ail be far the best.
Little offenders in, holy (?)
priests at large.
Experience is a great teacher. We
know now something about the feel­
ings of the poor victims of a false
system who must be robbed of their
liberty. We are behind the bars. Our
head whirls. We can’t think what to
say. It is all so strange and new to
know that we can’t go where we
choose to go. But thousands upon
thousands have had the same sensa­
tions and our optimistic nature
whispers, “it is all for the best; be
still sad heart and cease repining; be­
hind the clouds is the sun still shin­
ing; into each life some rain must fa'l,
some days must be dark and dreary.”
The jail is fairly well equipped.
Our cell companion proves to be a
refined, educated old gentleman who
is very interesting because he is not
only educated in books, but he has
traveled all over the world, and hav­
ing been a magazine writer, he knows
how to tell the most interesting of
stories. In the morning after being
let out of our cells, 1 find that all the
prisoners are a good hearted, kindly
disposed bunch, all anxious to make
a newcomer’s life as happy as pos­
sible under the circumstances. One
thing astonishes us, and that is that
none of the prisoners here hesitate to
tell all about the cause of their im­
prisonment and strange to say, as far
as we have heard during the first
say's experience, there is not one of
them who has not been more wronged
by society than has been his real crim­
inal intent. Men here who have drift,
ed into the drink habit and have done
things wrong when drunk are not as
bad as a society which allows the
evil schools called saloons to educate
the boys to drink, rob them of their
money and then brand them as crim­
inals and lock them up. One man be­
hind the oars here for committing
adultery, only neglected to have the
woman he was living with go through
the costly process of getting a di­
vorce, and by this mistake he is in
durance vile, while vile priests are
allowed to have their freedom while
causing the the delinquency of minors,
committing sodomy and adultery con­
tinually. Of course two wrongs do
not make one right, but when this
cruel system of profit making is over
and a sane one of co-operation put in
its place, then the merchants, profes­
sional men and so-called Christians
of these United States and other so-
called civilized countries will not be
afraid of those agents of freedom,
justice and righteousness which are
the only means by which we can be
saved from ignorance, superstition,
kingcraft, priestcraft, graft, greed,
war and hell.
If this is somewhat rambling and
lacking in sense, excuse us, for this
is our first day in jail. J. E. HOSMER.
STICK E RS
When time rolls round, and darkest
night
Of victims crushed has turned to light,
Then Johnny’s jail-made dynamite
Will blow the priesthood out «f sight.
A REPLY TO REV. GUY FITCH derstand the situation, but from the
PHELPS
few ideas I am able to glean from Mr.
Phelps' latest Sahara of words I judge
By S. K. Van Trump, Mt Angel.
that he is s'ightly wounded by some­
thing that I said in my “little piece”
"I am a Christian • * • no Christian of November 11. I can’t understand
will lie. See, Mr. Van Trump?” Rev. why he should take offense in a little
Guy Fitch Pheli s. (Nothing else adds game of fairplay. At the very first
such dignity to an essay as an opening he begun to attack the Materialists
quotation from an eminent author. I with the edged too's of Christian cul­
alwuys like to open my essays that ture by calling them “white slaves,”
way.)
“bomb throwers,” “gamblers,” etc.,
I awoke one morning and found my. etc. Mr. Phelps had made a very
self famous. The Rev. Mr. Phelps did serious and as I knew libelous
it. It was a slick trick. And how charge against the Freethinkers of
easy; and dirt cheap tool It cost only Silverton. What I said in my "little
three columns in The Silverton Jour­ piece” about him was all on the give
nal and a pint of Christian culture and take principle which is the lule
(a small pint) and the trick was done. with Materialists. I didn’t know that
And now I can stand before the world with preachers it was all give and no
unabased, for I am known, aye, I am take, but I understand their rules bet­
famous. My obscurity shall no longer ter now.
oppress me, my vanity no longer be
Mr. Phe’ps comes out with a very
vexed. I can now forget the small “frank” explanation of how he came
achievements and “doubtful honors” to pri t that falsehood about the
of the past end look to a future of Freethinkers of Silverton. Take no­
fame and glory. And the benevolent, tice now, everybody, and we will
the magnanimous Mr. Phelps did it. briefly inspect this "frank” explana­
He “gav« me a chance." How can I tion from Mr. Phelps. He says: “I
ever thank him, how adequately repay rece’ved my information from a gen­
him ? I wo.Id gladly do as much tleman who was and is well acquaint­
for him any day; but then, you see, ed with the facts and whose word I
he doe«n’t need it and besides I am certainly think "stands as high as Mr.
limited in knowledge, the three col­ Van Trump’s, etc., etc.” This man
umns of The Journal I can’t command told me incidentally (I wonder if he
and of Christian culture I have not a spoke out loud? V. T.) how quite a
rag. I am somewhat at a loss to un­
(Continued on Last Pago)
CATHOLIC REASONS?