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reproach, and unless there is a
change in the mode of The Journal,
one subscription will do me. What
business is it to you or any one else
what I believe as long as I am
lighting the common enemy — Ro­
manism ? Yours for Improvement,
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SOCIALIST COLUMN
fished out of it. Now 1 will meet
Mr. Van Trump here in nty city on
Culti*atea llwp
No Horae In the
the following points: Lincoln was a
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Garden
Christian man; he believed in Christ
We art« in danger of race de­
as Savior: h« prayed constantly dur­
Published every Friday morning at Silverton,
THE FASTEST. BEST AND
ing the latter part of his life; he generacy.
Oregon. by
Ivliev««! in the bibie to be the in­
J. E. HOSMER, Editor.
When there is nothing between to
spire«! word of God; he claimed to be
catch
it, Socialist argument goes in
The above kindly, though “touchy converted; he believed Christ was at yne ear and out of the other
IN THE WORLD IS THE
criticism” is doubly welcome because God; .he trusted God for constant
The old political parties are ap­
it gives us the opportunity to bring help;’ AND HE INTENDED TO
to our readers’ minds the great ne­ JOIN THE CHURCH AND HF. BAP­ parently seeking foundations rather
cessity of being liberal and not get­ TIZED, and was only prevented from than platforms on which to stand.
ting into a narrow rut such as Ro­ doing so because he was killed. This
The worker with a job is under
manism is itself. In the work! of completely covers Van Trump’s chal­ sentence of hard labor. The worker
lenge.
anil
involves
all
he
is
contend
­
thought the only way truth can come
without a job is under sentence of
out is to “cut and slash” at every­ ing for. If Mr. Lincoln made up his death.
mind
to
join
a
church
it
wus
equal,
thing we believe to be false. The
Entered at the post office at Silverton. Oregon writer of the
The democratic platform of 1912
criticism “cut an«! so far us his views were conceraed,
at
La*« rates.
to doing so. I appeal to The Journal
Of J. E. HOSMER, Inventor and Manufacturer.
. Subscription. 60c psr yosr. in sdvsncs Sinals slashed” at us and at one of our readers if this is not true? I will al­ declared for the independence of the
copies, 5 cent*.
Philippines. How free are the Phil­
writers. He did exactly right because
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Advertising rates made known upon applica­
it was his honest thought. To be so select a jury of twelve men in ippines today ?
tion.
no
way
connected
with
any
church,
sure we must present a united front
This paper stand* for freedom of thought, tree-
It is easier for the child to learn
No Tramping Down Ground
Cultivated Faxt
No l.oat Energy
We ami allow Mr. Van Trump as many
dom of the pre**, freedom of speech, equality of even if we do not all see alike.
challenges as a court of law. Now to walk than for the man to leurn to
opportunity and the religion of righteousne»*. It must learn to give and taxe.
This is
i* radically opposed to every form of superstition
I hold, in view of his challenge, that think, Rut neither gets anywhere itmtmmmnnnttmmmtnmunttttuinmumtnmnttmmmmnnmzmmmmmn
and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form no time to cut each others’ throats,
learns.
of evil.
and we must all learn the lesson of he must accept this — make goo«i his until he
bluff
—
or
stan«l
before
the
public
freedom of thought, freedom of
Just one guess. is it the idle
convicted of willfully slandering
THE MAIN PLANK
speech and freedom of the press, and
workers
or the idle shirkers that are
the fair name of Mr. Lincoln,
lesrn it so well that we will become,
MOVING
Written in Jail.
We will take up his latest bluff'' forced to accept charity in all the
not only willing, but anxious to pa­
cities
these
days
?
PICTURES
The main plank in every great tiently hear the other fellow’s ideas for consideration when he backs |
up
1
this
one.
I
have
this
more
to
’
The man who stays with wrong in
world religion has been, and is, the without getting mad ami pouting like
“golden rule.” The idea of righteous­ a spoileti child or saying. “I won’t say: I will donate twenty-five dol- order that he may be with the mu-
ness, of brotherhood, of being "on the play if you don’t stop.” We all fight lars of the one hundred to Journal jority wi'l join the majority in
dead square,” of wanting to do just the common enemy, Romanism, be­ subscriptions if he will. Mr. Van I death before he gets right.
ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND CROWN FOLKS
exactly what is right, of being ready cause it is an enemy against this Trump, you are cornered, and you
Instructive and Educative.
and truly sorry for mistakes and not very freedom; and those who fight know it. and so do Ute rest of us, j A reformer is a man who tries to
going on and getting into th’ habit against this freedom, silently or and snarling anti calling folks liars bring justice by wishing. A revolu-
tionist is a man who goes after jus-
of making them, of realizing that all otherwise, are giving “aid ami com­ won't change it.
Now a word about the dead in­ tice with the ballot as a stick.
have weaknesses and that all crime is fort to the enemy.” And. in the very
only a mistake, and forgiving all men, words of our critic, “what business fidels of Silverton. Mr. Van Trump
Capitalism is destroying private
thus learning to sympathize with and is it to you. or to any one else, what is very angry at me because I will property. More than half the prop
really learning to love our enemies, I believe, as long as I am fighting not admit that my informant falsified erty of America today is corporate
this is the main plank. If all other the common enemy — Romanism, or about the way many of the Infidels rather than private In nature.
planks of all the religions were lost better yet. that narrow exclusiveness connected with the school at Silverton
Suppose we have an intelligence
it might be better for the world, for and slavery for which Romanism I left the world. Hardly! I have every
all could then unite on this one main stands? Our friend signs his name reason to believe he told the truth, test instead of a literary test. No,
plank; and what a world we would after the glorious words, “Yours for and when it comes handy I will call that would not do, for then many
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soon have! What noble citizens would Improvement,” and so say we all — that bluff also. Now I want you to fools upon whom the ability to read
' notice the word "OFFICIAL” which and write is thrown away, would be
be evolved, and, if as some believe, Amen.
All work done in the «horU-st possible time. We are equip­
i
has crept into Mr. Van Trump’s last exclude«! from this country.
there is a happier world hereafter,
ped to handle all kinds of furniture, pianos, etc., with very
! remarks on this point. He says he
how welcome would be believers and
little danger of any damage done.
Do you call this the lantl of the
REPLY TO VAN TRUMP
doers of such a creed in the "realms
I i will give me so much money to prove free? What Is It to he free from
beyond the skies!’’
I that one of those OFFICIALLY con­ King George and continue the slaves
Guy Fitch Phelps
No Load too Heavy for our Team« to Haul
nected with the school used a shot­ of King Prejudice? What is it to
Did you read Van Trump’s classic gun. I said nothing about the of­
FOR SAPHEADED PROTESTANTS in The Journal of March 5th? It is ficial members at all. He refers to be born free and not live free?
Thoreau.
, elegant, read it. Let me bring to- the faculty and the trustees, I sup­
“The first definition of “saphead” , gether a few of his honied remarks: pose. I said that I was informe«! by
Plutocracy, operating through
in the dictionary is “a blockhead.” “Falsehoods,” “slanders,” “fallacies,” one, whom I fully trust as to truth democratic
administration.
And the same reliable source of in­ “misrepresentations,”
“false
pre­ and honor, that a majority of those achieved its ideal of low wages
formation explains that a "block- tense,” "I called him a liar,” “wolf of who were prominent supporters of the to a panic, and high necessities of ■ >
WE MUST GROW OR DIE!
head” is “a person said to be desti- a preacher,” “a criminal falsehood,” school and backers of the League life due to conspiracy. Great is the • i > •
tute of understanding as if his skull "a common, malicious liar,” “an idiot there had gone out of the world by democratic party!
The Silverton Journal must keep its Subscription list
enclosed a block of wood in place and a liar,” “the gangrene of false­ the back door. I am as sure this is
growing or it will surely die. We need your help, but we
When President Elliot, of Harvard,
of hemispheres of brain.”
want to give even more than value received.
hood and sophistry,” “reasons with true as though I had lived there. To
They are the people who maintain his sweetbreads,” “rot,” "a man who be sure, I u ed the word “shot-gun” talks about the rights of labor, the
Get us one or more at fifty cents a year.
Use
that black is white, and insist that a deliberately publishes falsehoods.”
the following blank:
| figuratively; they might have used well informed man wonders why that
five foot book shelf of Elliot’s wasn’t
blast of thunder is the song of a
When you read these just remem­ horse pistols or winchesters. I advise
A FREE PRESS
bird. The great Teacher evidently ber Van Trump once taught — so he Mr. Van Trump not to run his bluff made a bit larger, so that Marx’s
“
Capital
”
couhl
have
been
squeeze«!
had them in mind when he said: says — in the Infidel school at Sil­ too far on this line.
The man who
“Their ears are dull of hearing, and verton, and I suppose it was in some told me this, had lived there; was in.
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their eyes they have closed.
The democratic platform of 1912
such place he acquired such elegance educated and fair-minded. He spoke
Protestants there are a-plenty who of expression. Here is the curled lip of it with sadness. Katie Kehm declared for "the enforcement of the
The subscription price has been changed from $1.00 to
never protest, because they see and of infidelity so you can see it. And Smith was connected with the infidel criminal as well as the civil law
50 centH per year.
hear nothing in Roman Catholicism this same blood-thirsty hatred of God schools of the valley, and she die«l against the trusts.” Suppose you • >
that is to be feared. But their pro­ and Christ burns in this man’s breast, •9 east of the mountains calling upon name the trust magnates that have ►
EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL,
tests are long and loud when some just as it flames toward me because God for mercy. I have made much been sent to the penitentiary since
SILVERTON, OREGON.
one makes a speech, publishes a book I believe in Christianity, This is the of this Lincoln challenge because it then.
or writes an article against Roman real spirit of the infidel: bitter, dis- shows up not only Van Trump, but
Enclos««1 And $
for which send THE JOURNAL to
The Morgan interests, since the
Catholicism. They consider the anti- honest, dreading nothing so much as his gang of curled-lippers, just as
the following:
Papal writer or speaker an alarmist, ‘f a man who can meet their positions. they are, a bunch of bitter, unreason­ investigation of the foundations, have
Name
and frequently refer to him as a Every i-fidel is a hypocrite, because ing God-haters; willing to believe cut the wages of 5,000 steel work­
ers
to
accord
with
the
raise
they
man without culture or mental bal- he is DETERMINED TO PROVE anything rather than the truth re­
Address
ance or charity. In other words, THE BIBLE FALSE, AND IS UN­ garding their Creator. I want you to made in steel prices to European na­
Name _
they hesitate not to protest against WILLING TO GIVE EVIDENCE ITS read his last article and get its spirit, tions. J. P. does know a few things,
in
spite
of
his
testimony
of
ignorance.
Protestantism.
TRUE WEIGHT WHEN APPLIED and then remember — THAT IS IN- ■
Address
But their tribe is decreasing rapid­ TO RELIGION. As to tie rest, they FIDELITY! Two things show that | ____
_ the past eight years the
During
Name
ly these days, and soon tney will dis­ are like young swallows, hey simply there is much in the matter of how , United States spent t on her navy
cover that the molders of thought in open their mouths and (fawn it goes. the Silverton infidels — as a class — $983,531,636, while Germany spent
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the realms of “culture” and “balance’’
Mr. Van Trump says le will not have finished their courses: First, it on hers in the same time $678,651,595.
and “charity” are about as scarce as debate scientific things with me be­ is such a sore spot with Van Trump. Germany’s navy amounts to • some-
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he hides
behind « the
word
thing, while
the
jingoes say Amer-
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years hence the preachers who apol­ friends. Well, he has misrepresented “OFFICIAL.” ”
He says none of ‘ the ¡Cii’s navy is a joke. Nothing c uld
ogize for Roman Catholicism, and the my Best Friend, and calls him a officials killed themselves. I*
Name
Ha, , " ha, . he plainer than that the fellows who
writers who cushion their pens when bastard. But that is not the reason. how many “officials” were there? 1 want more naval contracts have
Address
referring to it, will be brushed out Van Trump has been running a great, Ah, Van Trump, you had better drop cheated the government and should
of the way by a vigorous, onward- big, cheap bluff on himself and the out; you are easy, easy. My! my! now be turned down cold.
I
marching Protestantism.”
community for years, and he KNOWS fellow, wake up, what’s the matter
The above from the Christian THAT he cannot defend himself be- with you?
Not race suicide but race degen-
Standard shows the exact conditions. fore an enlightened public. I have
Mr. Van Trump says: “My grand- era«y is the curse of the daV- This
There are many blockhead protestants Darwin’s works here and Haeckel’s, father made his living killing snakes furnishes the constant stream of de-
and so-called freethinkers who do and I challenge him to debate their for the British government in India, fective humanity that is pouring into
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not protest against the robbery of contents. If I have misquoted the and HEREDITY is VERY STRONG , our prisons, reformatoi-ies and eleemo-
our liberties or think at all, excepting authorities let him show when and IN ME.” I should judge by this ar- synary institutions for imbecils and
how to touch the hem of the garment how. I assure my readers I have tide that he not only killed them, but degenerates, Hence the state is
of the goddess of Liberty on the al­ quoted things correctly, and they can that he ate them, and that will ex- as
’ culpable as the thief, and a con-
General Contractor for Commercial and
mighty dollar. There were blockhead trust what I Fave given, for my plain Van Trump's conscious heredity, dition i of society that produces
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protestants and thoughtless free­ authorities are the very best, and I But worse things may be said of thieves, liars, murders, parasites and
thinkers in Lincoln’s time, "but you am careful. I shall not call Mr. Van Van’s grandfather. He was once a prostitutes is, as a whole, no better
EXPERT FzNGINEER
can’t fool all the people all the time,” Trump a liar, or say that he reasjns real snake himself (you know Van than its productions.
In
the
Design
and Construction of beauti­
and so that grand protesting free- with his “sweet breads,” or that he is believes in reptile evolution). Worse
ful
homes,
business
houses, schools
thinking statesman did something to “a wolf of an infidel.” But one thing yet, he was once a wolf, then a mon­
and churches.
make the world better, even if the I must say is that he practiced de­ key, then he killed snakes, and Van SOCIALISM NOT OPPOSED
CATHOLICISM
traitors did kill him, and he still ception regarding Lincoln, AND says, that “heredity is VERY strong
SILVERTON, OREGON
lives and helps us, in our time, in KNEW HE WAS DOING SO, and in him.” We believe you, neighbor,
the fight against a debasing, de- trusted that the public would not and seeing that you admit it, we for­
There is a vast difference in
generating slavery!
take time to look it up. Van Trump give the snake and wolf and monkey cialism opposing the Catholic church
knew all the time that Lincoln was a elements which appear in your nature , because of its misrepresentations of
A “TOUCHY” CRITICISM
man who believed in the entire and published articles. Meantime I Socialist principles, and in opposing
feed
scheme of Christianity, and he tried am waiting for that hundred dollars i its religion. But Verne E. Sheridan But it is not opposed to, nor in favor than beef.
of,
the
religion
of
either.
Lampreys
upon
child
flesh;
it
makes
the
mistake
of
making
no
dis
­
The following "touchy” criticism once too often to bluff his way on the Lincoln challenge.
As a "class conscious Socialist and cheaper than mutton. Christ
tinction. Individual Socialists oppose
was recently received from Roseburg: through. If he has the evidence that
, all religion. Others oppose Infidelity Materialist,” I heartily concur with cussed the question with men of that
Lincoln never confessed Christ as
Editor Silverton Journal:
A Catholic paper says the city of and all forms of Freethought; but as Miss Sheridan in the hope that day as to whether a man wus any
Savior let him meet me on the
I am writing to say that I have terms of his own challenge. Why Brussels erected a monument to the an organized body they oppose when the workers get in control the better than a sheep. The religious
been a friend to The Silverton Jour­ did he back down aftqr issuing it? memory of Francisco Ferrer (the neither. Socialism does not concern Catholic church will be knocked into and political leaders took the neg­
nal, but how in Sam Hill do you He thought I was one of these little educator killed by the Spanish Cath­ itself with religion in any way what­ smithereens; but I just as ardently ative of the question, Christ alone
expect to accomplish anything against tea-party preachers who would not olics), but that the German governor ever; and this is the sense in which hope that the Protestant churches took the affirmative and a religion
Romanism by cutting and slashing at cause a stir on such matters. First of Brussels on Jan. 24 ordered its re­ Fred D. Warren makes the claim that will, too. I want this done, how- that is not formed on Christ’s teach­
all other religions? We have got to he sent me a challenge to meet Ed­ moval after declaring it a public Socialism is not oppose! to Cath­ ever, by educating the masses out of ings and cannot save society from
their superstitions, not by physical hell here, will, I fear, fail to Have
present a united front to Rome if ward Cantrell. But Cantrell had to scandal. It seems the Kaiser’s forces olicism.
Chas. F. Randall.
souls from hell hereafter.
we ever down her. Now what I am go east suddenly. Then he issued are coddling the Papes just now quite
It is true, as Miss Sheridan says, force.
getting at is the dirty diatribe in a his Lincoln challenge offering me one a bit.
that “the Catholic church stands to­
recent issue on spiritualism and the hundred dollars to prove to a Chris­
Jesus Christ taught the world no
Romanism frankly asserts that day where it has always stood, on
The Hierarchs raise a mighty howl
slanderous lie about Ella Wheeler tian jury that Lincoln ever confessed Protestantism has no rights where the side of the class power, on the greater lesson than that of the value about the godlessness of the public
Wilcox, that she connived with, and Christ as Savior, or joined a church. Popery is triumphant, and the bish­ side of the employing class, which is of humanity, When Jesus was born schools.
They would discredity^
aided and abetted a fraudulent me­ But why has he not met me? I ac­ ops take an oath tnat binds them to i the master class.” But this is equally in Bethlehem of Judea 70 per cent the public school to get it out of theV
dium. I denounce that as a dirty lie. cept the challenge, save that Lincoln persecute all who will not bow to i true of the Protestant churches. And of the population was in slavery and way of the parochial incubator of
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a lady above did not join a church. But he craw- “our said Lord and his successors.” | in this, Socialism is opposed to both. serfdom; human flesh was cheaper treason.
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