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T he S ilverton J ournal
VOL. IV.
SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1915.
No. 16.
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PAPAL NOTES
Uy L. D. Ratliff
A CONSPIRACY TO RUIN OREGON
ROMAN PRIESTHOOD CAPTURING EVERYTHING
A POPE - HIS ACTIONS
In this controversy we must ever
remember two things—(I)
Rome
claims »hat »he is “Holy" and that
her leaders are "Holy” and her pope
is “His Holiness.” We are concerned
to know the facts..
A stream of water—fresh and pure
from untainted mountain snows, may
oe poured into a reservoir, every foot
of whose lining is stacked with filth
—bow long will that water stay pure?
And what of the taste of that
man who drinks from it, instead of
going a few rods further up, and
drinking of the unpoluted waters of
the living stream?
On a former occasion we told of the
enormities attending the
selection
of a man to hold the plain title—
“Bishop of Rome”. We now speak
of a man, and his selection to an office
that gives him the name of “His
Holiness— tl e Pope”. Our account
is drawn exclusively from a Romanist
book, "The History of the Popes”—by
Dr. Ludwig Pastor, written under the
eye and by the authority of the late
pope Leo 13.
If one should dispute with a priest
it might be impossible to induce —
or compel him to admit that any of
his popes have been monsters of in
iquity. But this work, published by
highest authority, proves, not alone
that leading and representative men
among their popes have been utterly
devilish in both word and life, but,
notice it— The existence of such book
proves that every posted leader in
«he Roman Priesthood perfectly well
knows the facts in the case!
Pope Sextus 5 died Aug. 12th. 1484.
A riot broke out in Rome. “In a
short time the city, to which all the
armed vassals of both parties flocked
in crowds, had become an open camp,
Civil war threaten**! to break out
every moment. All shops were
closed—the palaces were changed into
small fortresses. The whole town
was in arms and uproar. Roderic
Borgia (afterward pope Alexander 6.)
was trying his utmost to obtain the
tiara. Jakob Burchard, who took part
in the Conclave, relates that Cardinal
Cibo won the votes of his future elec,
tors by signing petitions for favors
which they presented to him during
the night, in his cell. He had two il
legitimate children, a daughter,Teo-
doria, and a son, Franceschetto.
Lorenzo de Medici proposed marriage
of his daughter to the pope’s son; and
afte some delay, it was consumated
in the Vatican. Pastor says! “This
was the first time that the son of a
pope had been publically recognized,
and, as it were, introduced on the po
litical stage.” During the same
year the daughter of the pope’s daugh
ter was married, also in the Vatican.
This pope called himself Innocent 8.
He found it very difficult to get
enough money to carry out his wishes.
“In the bull increasing the number
of the College of Secretaries from six
to
thirty,
want
of
money
which had obliged the pope to pawn
even the papal miter, is openly assi
gned as a reason for this measure.
The office of Librarian to the Vatican
was now for rale.” Henceforth this
office, which had hitherto been be
stowed as a reward for industry, faith
fulness and eloquence, became simply
a marketable commodity. The cor
ruptibility of all the officials increas
ed to an arlarming extent; carrying
with it general insecurity and disorder
in Rome; since any ertmmal who had
money, could secure immunity from
punishment. The conduct of some of
the members of the pope’s immediate
circle gave great scandal.
Innocent’s disregard for the estab
lished rules of his church, aside from
any question of spirituality, was not
marked, Lorenzo de Medici wished
that his son, Giovanni, be given offi-
cial rank in the church. Before the
boy was eight years otd, his father
had him made an abbot; and he was
promoted from time to time, with in
crease of revenue. Now he must be
made a “Prine of the church”— a
cardinal. The rules forbade giving
such office to a child, of course; but
Lorenzo was incistent; and when at
last the boy had reached the age of
sixteen years and three months,
he was admitted to the Consistory as
a cardinal- Later, at the age of thir.
ty seven, this person became pope un
der the name of Leo 10.
"Innocent invented now ways and
means of extorting money from the
churches. This pope, however, de-
serves considerable credit for his en-
ergetic efforts to suppress sorcery
and witchcraft, and the remnant of
the heresy of John Huss.”
O yes— it is a credit to any pope
to burn some heretics 1
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Rome in the Legislature.
On Januury 21, Hon. W. P. Laferty
offered in the House, "by request,”
a bill to provide for the inspection of
convents and other institutions. The
bill was referred to tne committee on The Politicians are out after the jobs and have lost their manhood. They are worse than the hobos, for they want
Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry.
nothing but “dough,” while the knights of the road will work a little and are satisfied with a doughnut The Hie
I his committee is composed of Plow
rarchy,
taking advantage of this weakness of the crazy office seekers and having plenty of “dough,” are getting
dr Scott (Cath.), A.C. Smith (Cath.),
J. E. Anderson, J. H. Culllna and G.
almost everything they want and will ruin our great state, unless the lovers of liberty unite and that at once.
W. Works On Feb, 3d the commit
tee reported the hill back to the
House with the recommendation that
The immorality—drunkenness, sod Church. These large sums of money, worry, but, even now, we can’t get
it "Do not pass." Tom Brown (Cath.) omy, white Hlavcry, adultery, rape are paid to the Home of the Good the necessary work done to make our them to this company in good faith.
We had sent them work before and
moved its indefinite postponement. and child murder spoken of in our Shepherd, the St. Mary’s Home, the
paper half the success it should be it had been done to our satisfaction,
’Not a voice was raised in its fuvor. last week’s issue is not the worst side St. Ague’s Assylum etc.,etc., and these
because the hierarchy has the strangle
Even the accommodating Lafferty, a uf the Romun conspiracy. These girls are fed like prisoners and work hold on nearly every business on so we had great confidence in them.
We wrote them to make the zinc etch,
Presbyterian, and the Rev. Elmore, things are awful to be sure, but they ed at laundry and other things for
which depends our success.
ings and to get one to us by Thurs
President of the Baptist College at are only the weaknesses und personal a profit like slaves that they really
On this page right now there should day noon if possible.. Imagine our
Brownsville, were as quiet and docile crimes of the priests, bishops, arch- arc.
have
appeared this week a fine car. disappointment and chagrin to have
as deud clams. So the bill was laid oishops, abbots and the popes them
In 1911-12, 120,285.44 was paid to toon if something wrong had not the drawings returned and followed
to rest, — but likely to appear in the selves. You usk, what can be worse?
the Catholics of Oregon out of the happened to prevent. A friend of our later by the following letter:
next campaign.
I rcuson! Treason against the liber taxpayers' pockets and these Oregon work had drawn a number of fine
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Portland, Ore., Feb.15. 1915.
ties of the people. Treason in trying
Hon. G. W. Weeks was on the com- to destroy the American institutions, girls who were in many cases fooled cartoons which would have helped our
mittee that turned down the bill for whose destruction meansdeath todem- into captivity, worked for their paper very much, gotten us lots of j The Silverton Journal,
Silverton, Oregon.
convent inspection. We will try to ocracy and the establishment of a board, lodging and lying instructions naw subscribers and thus helped us |
in
ways
mysterious
and
the
profit
of
in
solving
the
financial
problem
that
Gentlemen
:
remember him next campaign.
government of * favored few — a their hypocritical jailors.
is
almost
making
us
crazy.
The
cost
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In reply to your letter of the 13
tyranny which ultimately means the
In 1913-14 the amount paid these of having the cuts made bothered us inst. we are returning the cartoons
When any body uf mon set them- downfall of all civilization. To prove
Romen inatituions in Oregon increased for several weeks,but we finally con under separate cover by this mail.
selves up as instructors of morality, that we are right, let us look at
to
$40,566.83, making a grand total cluded that we must have the work
Will say that we are not in a posi
their fitness for the work, and the seine of ths work of this priesthood
for thia Roman graft, for that short done. We wrote for prices to a well tion to make the platee from your
way they go about it, are fit subjects und the priest governed politicians of
period, of $82,129.01. Add to this known engraving company in Port copy.
for discussion and criticism,
It Oregon for the last four years.
that we are paying Catholic priests land and received the following re-
Yours very truly,
These fixers got our legislature to
touches the public welfare and is
hundreds of dollars every year for ply:
fix up u law so the Roman Catholic
therefore u public matter.
Beaver
Engraving Company.
their silly services in the penitentiary
Portland, Ore., Feb. 12, 1915.
Church would get a big graft. This
< Many of the priests are worse than The Silverton Journal,
By Wm. J.Koch, Pres,
The Free School book law was re- they did in spite of our constitution, many of the inmates.) and also pay
Silverton, Oregon.
Thus our work which we tried to
pealed. It provided for free books which says:
ing them for other religious! ?) 8er‘
"No
money
shall
be
drawn
from
the
plan
was ruined and we were forced,
Gentlemen:
to the schools of any district so vot
vices in The Boys’ Training School
ing, but guve sectarian schools equal Treasury for the benefit of any reli and we have a fine problem to solve.
In reply to your letter of thelO after waiting and expecting to get
privilege with public schools. Cath- gion or theological institution, or
inst. the (8) zinc etchings about 4H one essential feature of our paper
The Silverton Journal is trying to inches by5tk incl es will cost you thir. fixed up, to change our plan and to
olics put up u fight against the re- shall any money be appropriated for
the payment uf any religious services tell the people about this awful con- teen dollars and si»ty cents ($13.60) sustain the loss of the hurry and de-
peal.
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in either house of the Legislative As- dition, and what is the Journal man NET payable upon receipt of the en lay which every- newspaper man un-
getting for it? He is getting just gravings.
derstands. What is the reason for
American Party Platform 1856 I inibly.”
what
anyone with common sense
how
they
are
doing
it:
Here
is
this, other than that the cartoon do
(Art. 5): “No person should be sel
Thanking you for your enquiry and
A fund of 114000 was appropriated would expect from any band of crim
not suit the big dominating beast
ected for political station who recog
trusting to be favored with the order,
inals
who
had
usurped
the
power
of
for
tho
support
of
wayward
biennially
that is devouring the liberties of the
nizes any allegiance or obligation of
We remain, Yours very truly,
American people? And where does
any description to any foreign prince, girls between 12 and 18 years of age. government. He has not only been
This the legislature increased to imprisoned, he is not only under ar
the freedom of the press come in?
Beaver Engraving Company,
potentate or power.”
$20,000 in 1913 and it was fixed so rest again at this moment with a
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By F.H.Schoene, Sec. and Treas. Where can we get the work done?
long, costly trial waiting for hi., anu
that
no
state
institutioi.
for
girls
could
How long can we hold out against
The Hierarchs should lie disfranch
draw on this fund, and the corse, perhaps another jail sentence, he has On the eceipt of this letter, although this octopus whose tentacles arewrap-
ised. Not only so, but if permitted
not only been plunged into a d'bt >13.60 looked like a lot of money to ped around the body of every individ
to run at large, they should be re quonce has been that taxpayers have
which makes a jail look almo«t I - « ou. struggling business, we rolled up ual, every business and every govern
been
robbed
in
this
way
and
in
a
garded as traitors out on parole.
place of refuge 'rom over work and the -ight cartoon drawings and sent ment under the sun?
Why? Because they are oath-bound thou, and other ways by tho Catholic
to a foreign pretender who is a dead
-
ly enemy to liberty.
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The Catholics also fought the
Girls’ Industrial Home in the inter
est of their own institutions, and
brought to bear all kinds of pressure
to have it abolishetl. But the women
from al) over the State protested with
such vigor, that it looks now like the
institution would lie retained.
A Big Protestant Protest
Read and get others to read these
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The killing of ax-priest Black the
other day at Marshall, Texas, by
Knights of Columbus is exactly in
line with the methods of the Cath
olic Church against free speech. She
never has tolerated freedom anywhere,
when she had the power to suppress
it. She simply cannot stand the light
of exposure.
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"Entrance into the shadow of con
vent walls is entrance to the shadow
of death, — deah to parents, death
to friendH, death to the world, and
death to self-physical, intellectual and
spiritual decay, destructive of all the
finer attributes which God has be
stowed upon human kind.” — The
Menace.
"It would be impossible to live in
Mexico even for a few months and
not know the corruption of the Ro
man Catholic Church. But while The
people have long known it, yet the
public conscience has been stupefied
by the power of the Church, criti
cism has been effectually silenced and
opposition has been rendered virtual
ly impossible. Now we find all this
changed. If ” — H. A. Phillips, in As
sembly Herald.
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Three Catholic Knights of Colum-
bus at Marshall, Texas, take with
them an i armed negro, go to the hotel
of ex-priest Black, shoot him down,
bus at Marshall, Texas, arm them
selves, take with them an armed negro,
go to the hotel of ex-priest Black,
snoot him down.
No shot was fired by the ex-priest;
no shot fired by the negro; but Mr.
C. F. Hall, who was with Rlack, had
his proper nerve and sent two of the
Knights of Purgatory. Thus we arc in
the fight of tho Middle Ages over
again for free speech. There will
probably he many such killings, which
is the price we must pay for harbor
ing the deadly old serpent in our
national bosom.
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