T he S ilverton J ournal
VOL. IV.
SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1915
N0 30
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WE WILL AVENGE THE MURDER
OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE KNIGHTS’ OATH
WILL NOT DOWN!
POPE, SECULAR RULER
PRIESTS’ ALLEGIANCE
A Good Man Wat Killed
Because He Could Not
The /Trouble In Mexico Is
Direct Outcome’of
Be Answered
Roman Rule
All Over this Great Republic the Patriotic People are Organizing to Uphold
the Principles of Democracy and Equality. The “One-Man-Rule”
of Popes ¡ and Kings Will be Forever Crushed.
That 4th. Degree will not down.
Romanists are again ut the front
The following is from the Catholic
Sent;»ei of May 13: “‘Congratula-
nagging the President with theii
I
tions are certainly due the energetic
not
intervene
complaints that he does
1 members of Santa Cruz Council,
to restore to their jolts the priests in
Knights of Columbus, who put up
Mexico, and protect thorn In their ro-
such a gallant fight to protect the
day when our ancestors fought the, we must win.
These days of financial depression dence anywhere.
“religious liberty".
good name of their order”. This bit
The direction that the struggle of lingo concernes the winning of a
But let our good people wake up tyrant kings and licentious popes
Citizens may criticise their Country'» 1 our great republic are important
with their degenerate nobles and bas to preserve our liberties will take libel suit against a paper for pub
ays
in
the
struggle
to
hold
the
now.
It
Is
fully
time.
This
is
no
Administration, but in Europe in th«
ho ground we have won for freedom time to be modest. Now is the time tard priests of the sixteenth century. no man can predict, but the strug lishing the alleged 4th. degree
Nupoleonic period, the French tun
One of our legislators in the halls gle is on, and let it take any course, oath. Did any one ever know of the
baaaarlor to the country criticised our nd to extend our foundations for a. to whip the human skunks out of the
, of our national legislation recently even to shameful slaughter, we must Masons, or the Knights of Pithias.
till
greater
home
for
our
Goddess
of
temple
of
Liberty,
out
of
the
man
government, and was promptly sent
Barty. The dangers are applling agement of our beloved country.. It said that this country is in a most learn to unite or our cause is LOST. suing anybody for alleging anything
homoDuring Mr. Cleveland’s airnin
>
those who are acquainted with is time to know our enemies and to deplorable condition and that unless At once we should organize in every about their order? If it is true that
islration, the English embassador di«'
ie
rue and fall of nations. And yet love them toe -..ell to allow them to a radical change takes place very city , villiage and hamlet. We must the present 4th. degree oath is onL
some thing of the same kind, and I
here
is great hope, for if we only destroy themselves and us by ruining . soon a worse anarchy will reign here organize civilly and be ready to or | two years old, as ex-priest Black is
was as promptly asked to depart.
now enough to stem the tide of this the hopes of all future advancement ' than is now in full swing in Europe. ganize millitary. Nothing can win [ credited with offering to prove, what
When all Americans learn that a
reut flood of evil culminations which and our present security, peace and Now that is what we have been try excepting knowledge of the true prin ■ was it before the change was made
priests, faithful to Rome, are no
as come over us we will have learn- prosperity. And who are they? ing to warn the people about for the ciples of a free government for and ' The “American Citizen” says the
and can not be, honest citizens of th«. d a wonderfully useful lesson and They are the hell-bom selfish, Auid last ten years. The worst conditions by the people and a wisdom surpass
i proof was never conclusive as to the
United States, since they are, an.
ill have guinea a wonderful strength who are they but the rich robber rul are upon us, even sooner than we ing the old wisdom of past aget, to | genuineness of the treasonable oath.
ever have been, agent« and rep reset«
> meet all enemies of a free govern- ers of finance, the Roman Catholic had supposed it possible. It will cake apply these principles to the present Watson’s Magazine says that Black
talivee of a foreign political power
management with their criminally cool heads and wise statesmanship conditions. We must unite to study, had taken the oath, and was prepar
icnt in the future.
in Italy, and boldly and brazcnl)
Good people who are always modest crazy politicians and subsidized news now in addition to a people who have discuss, vote and act. UNITE!
ed to make good his acceptance of
claims supreme authority over a! mvo allowed the bold, bad element papers? Now, good people look the been grounded in the great ideals of
And when we have united an l have the $5,000 challenge of the Knight,
the countries and peoples of tb it society to push themselves forward bunch ver and do not be deceived. justice and fair play, to settle the
won a victory for the great cause of of Columbus; but his taking awa,
earth, we will sen«! them, thene me«! and get control. And they ure in I These have the same earmarks great problem and settle it right.
so soon after his offer still left th»
dling priests, to their own over-bow control in dead earnest.
It was but yesterday that Abraham freedom for which Lincoln gave up
This is that the bloody gang of the old
just as we have sent home the med the reason of our financial difficult world had befjre the pilgrim fathers Lincoln gave up his life on the al his life, then we will be avenged and matter unproved.
Black had delivered a ten-days ser-
our revenge will be a noble revenge
d>ing embassadors.
és, that is the cause of our hard came over to thia new world. The tar of Liberty. He was foully mur
ies
of lectures at Perry, Iowa. After
And
let
us
remember
the
words
of
Do we need to quote statements of imes. That k why there is so much European Mtphitis haa changed his dered by the same element qf blind
he had left town, the Catholics a.
leading Romanists in this cuntry, to :riminality and insanity and degen- stripes to some extent, to be sure selfishness that we must encounter. the great thinker who said:
“He is the freeman whom the serted that he hid never been a Ro
prove that in their Judgement, th« •racy. That is why the taxes are but the Mephitis Americana is prov They are much stronger than they
trvth
makes free, and all are slaves man Catholic priest, not even a Cath
Pope is of right a secular ruler an«l «o high, that the divorce courts are ing just as bad and as hard to get were in his time but we, the people
olic, and a Catholic banker, it is al
that the Italian government is crim <o busy and that there is no confi- , rid of as the species of that earlier are also much stronger and we will, beside".
leged,offered $100 on the proposition.
inully robbing and oppressing him
Bkxk immediately challenged them
Do we need to argue that leadin»
HOW ABOUT HANS SCHMIDT? to put up the $100 in the'Securit
Romanists openly say that they an
PUBLICITY MAKES VOTES
Saving Bank, against his equal
Catholic« first, and /.merleau» after
amount, they to chose two, Blac-
wants? Do we need to present evi |
The papers of London have recent- two, and these to choose the fift'
A
Catholic
priest
in
Chicago
went
dence that the prelates and priest,
ly been busy with a big story of judge to hear the evidence that he
of Rome in this country have each n a drunk, stabbed to death an un-
Biggest
graft
on
earth
—
Romanism!
crime
concerning one George Joseph had been a regularly ordained priest
ffending station agent. A Roman- Daddies saying masses to save from
and all of them, taken an oath of al
Smith who is charged with marry- There were no takers, *He also tool
•
•
•
led
jury
acquitted
him.
legiance to the pope as a seculs
purgatory;
A Catholic named Cleary shot to
The treason of an individual is in8 three wives in swift succession, up the K. C. offer of $5,000 for th.«
ruler? To be sure they say that hi
Nunnies shaving top-knota to get ’em
eath
a
young
Protestant
boy
who
nothing to the treason that murdered an<l of disposing of them to get the proof that there was anything tren-
is a spiritual loader and ruler also «
greater glory;
insurance on their lives by drowning sonable in the K.C. oath. In his
ad
married
his
daughter
according
Lincoln.
but this is mere trickery.
each in a wash tub. The story was published challenge he said, “I wi 1
Workers
paying
money
to
help
the
• • •
Pope Bonifiée VIII (A. D. 1294 •’ o Protestant methods. He was ac-
so big and startling as to be cabled I prove that the Knights of Columbu
I pitted by a Romanized Jury.
fools along,
The Roman Chn’ch is based u on
1303. ) on a public occasion, put o: ,
to America where it has appeared ir. oath was, as late as 1912, inconsist
Priest
Smidt
of
New
York
murder-
Then wonder why they’re poor as rats a base, beastly, worldly spirit, It is
armor, and brandishing a sword, d« I
several of those papers which con ent with the duties of an Americar
* ed his sweetheart , cut up her body
not even patriotic.
► clare«i, “There is no other Cesar, n<
ever since they’re born.
tain
“all the news fit to print".
citizen. I will not say what the oat!
and
sunk
it
in
the
river.
When
over
• • •
• • •
vking, nor emperor, than I, the so«
That reminds us. Was there
is now, for my evidence does not cov
taken
he
confessed
the
deed
and
was
ereign pontiff, and successor of tk
The priests are not truly educated a Hans Schmidt, a holy father
er the last two years, and there i
hang. But it has been Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you"
apostles." For centuries the pop«! sentenced to
but
are only victims of a hellish sys- Rome, who married himself to
but his professed agents seem to
a probability that the oath has bee '
and
he
don
’
t
hang,
and
a
long
time,
have claimed this supreme authority
tom of mental suppression and per- Anna Aumuller and disposed of
changed for this very purpose of
likely
to.
is
not
at
all
have
things
pretty
well
tangled
up
and, so far as circumstances have
version.
in New York by means of a bath tub bluff,,.
A bishop < of Massachusetts was in Europe. What about America ?
• • •
permitted, they have meddled with
when her presence threatened to in- The K. of C. had also offered another
. for knowingly appoint-
• • •
sued
in
court
the political affairs of all the Ns
edi-
The
same
power
that
put
the
terefere with his holy calling? Did $5,000 for proof that the alleged K.C
priest to a parish
Toryism first laughed at the pa tor in jail would burn you at the
tions, anil have sought to rule them. ing a libertine
Schmidt not confess long ago that oath that had been circulated th»
where
he
f
rcibly
assaulted
a
girl
in
triota of 1776 as it has in our time stake. Are you going to let them
When the game is tried here, natur
he murdered the womari that he had last two years was true. Black res
his
church,
in
consequence
of
which
a
at the A. P. A's but a question is get control of America ?
ally every genuine American objects
made his wife, and hasn’t there beer, ponded thus: “I will prove that th"
to this domination of a foreign ,aby was born. The court let the never settled until it is settled right.
• • •
remarkable silence?
Knights of Columbus oath circuln
>ishop out on the ground that rape
• • •
power.
How is it that the enterprising, ted during the last two years was
If there ever was an idolatrous
»•as a stronger offense than he
When, one-hundred years ugo, the s-ould nnturally expect from a sensu
A man's a man for a’ that, and people it is the Romanists. Look at sensational-searching press of the true in word prior to 1912. and >
people of Mexico revolte«! against al priest. Well, what about it? It so it is a sure thing that their morals their graven images at MtAngel and metropolis has so long overlooked the true in spirit at the present time "
Spain, they took from the pope is a part of the Roman Catholic con will be corrupted if men are placed in think.
news value of our own Hans Schmidt
On Nov.llth. 1914, Black swore to
much of the political power he had
• •
while importing the details of the the challenge. Did the Knights ac
tention that the Catholic clergy is such a position as the priests find
previously exercised. The priests in above civil law, and subject only to themselves with their maiden sisters.
The woman who washed Jesus’ G. W. Smith affair from overseas? cept the challenge? Not a hit of it
Mexico have ever since been schem ecclesiastical authority. In the last Can’t you see what the result has
Ex.
Watson says that it was at St. Pau1
feet with her hair couldn’t have Where is Hans?
ing to defeat democracy, and return c.se the bishop appointed the priest been ? And you are paying taxes to I
in 1913 tha a new oath was cococtc’
been a nun for they have their hair
the pope to full control. They have knowing his sensual character and support the result, even in Oregon. a” shaved off.
to fool the people. Black was ev’
SALVATION LIMITÉ!)
been permitted to control worship, proclivities, so we may infer that“ec-
dently making for the Knights an ir
and even the education of the young, clesiastical authority" would not be
to’erable situation, and it is too bad
The Pope’s Bull, In Coena Domini, that they shot him instead of ac
so that, alth ugh for a few years very sever? in this case. With an
HELL AND ITS CREATOR
FROM HIGH AUTHORITY
Protestants have been doing work awaking interest everywhere in
has been ratified or confirmed by cepting his challenge. It looks o'
in Mexico, it is doubtful if one in, this land, all such cases cut a figure
more than twenty popes whose names its face that they did not dare mee‘
fifty of all Mexicans who make any in the voting. What wonder that
In an excellent article on Mexico
William E. Gladstone, one of the and constitutions are prefixed to the l.im in a fair investigation, that the
profession, is other than a Romanist. 48 Papal congressmen were knocked George Rutledge “winds up" as
fol- greatest English statesmen ot mod Bull itself. It is published in Rome dared not let hir.i continue to mak"
Romanists claim that many Mexi out last election.
his charge and publish his challenge
Iowa:
ern times, says of the Roman Cath
every year. One section reads as
can priest«
priests have l>cen
beon abused,
abuzed, am!
and
The bible predicts that the devil will olic Church, “It is an outrageous follows: “We do, on the part of Al Anywav, five of them armed them
that on a single occasion, 150 nuns
selves, went to his room, threw him
caricature of Christianity, which for
who were being sent from Mexico Government of Mexico, has been only eventually be cast into his own hell, centuries has flung its baneful shad mighty God, Father, Son and Holy off his guard hy a civil request for
City to Vera Cruz, were taken from secondary, a sort of second mortgage, And history proves that, in the end, ow over the world. It can bv called Spirit, and also by the authority of an interview in his room, then whe-
the train. Well suppose that all when the first mortgage covered hell always burns it creator. “The i Christian in no sense except apostate
he was in their power seized him am'
this was done, and by Revolutionists, everything, and would take every way of the transgressor is hard,” i Christianity. It is corrupt in doctrine; the blessed Peter and Paul, and by shot him.
what then? This: EVERY ONE of thing. They knew too, that as rep whether the transgressor be a Indi lit is infamous in morals; it is despot our own, excommunicate and curse
The murder of William Black hr«
the Revolutionists involved was born resentatives of the pope, the priests vidual, an institution or a nation. lie in spirit; it is voracious in claims; all Hussites, Wickliffites, Lutherans, confirmed in the minds of many pen
It took the Catholic Church a long it is pitiless in its methods; it is in Zwiglians, Calvinists, Huguenots, An pie the conviction that the alleged
and brought up a Roman Catholic! have claimed, and usually secured,
Every one who has had any education absolute immunity from the civil law, time to create the Mexican hell, but tolerant and selfish in its demands; abaptists, Trinitarians, and Apostates 4th. degree oath as circulated w”
f
received it at the hands of priests for any immoralities and crimes they she kept working at it until she got it is ready to plunge nations into war from the faith of Christ, and all and substantially correct; for of whet
and nuns. And MANY HUNDREDS have committed. We all know that it hazing. Then she fell into the if only by war it can clutch power; sundry other heretics, by whatsoever avail is it to deny the letter of it
if not thousands of the Revolution when a priest is prosecuted for crime flames and began screaming and ap- it weaves its cunning network of name they may be reckoned, and what while exhibiting its spirit?
“R”
ists are the bastard sons of the in our own country, there is always peJmg to Uncle Sam to pull her out. proselytism over the earth for the ever sect they may be; and those who
priests, who now, for the first time, plenty of money to defend him. One But the old gentleman has been purp08e of catching the unwary; it believe in them, and their receiver:, i Preacher Ostrom, who held th'
have an opportunity to hit back at of two things must be true—the scorched several times and doesn’t! aims at the suhjug,.tion of the
abettors, and in general, all their de great tabernacle meetings at Salem
the adulturous villains who begot priests are personally richer than like fire. consequently, while he human race"
fenders whatsoever; and those who In February, jumped on the Chris
‘“¡rtinn
ho
he Was Gladstone right? Is the Cath without our authority and that of the tian Scientists, the Unitarians, th"
them, in revenge for the wrongs done the public has supposed, or criminal sympathizes with ‘ her affliction,
their own mothers. Remember these priests must have a rich uncle some hesitates to venture near the edge olic Church such an institution? If Apostolic See knowingly read or re Mormons, and whatever else did no«
where. We know that the Romish of Mexico. But he’s determined the Papacy is not a curse, what tain, or print, or in any way defend accord with his idea of a savinc
facta.
The Revolutionists, bom and rear sysem is full of grafting schemes, that the Catholic Church shall not means Protestantism ? Let the Sa the books containing their heresy, or faith. Privately he admitted tha‘
treating of religion.” Be dad. Pat, the Roman Catholic teaching am>
ed as Romanists, have fully known but evidently we have not learned build a bond-fire in his yard—that’s lem Ministerial Association answer.
the “all and sundry" means you, and system is paralyzing and ruinous
that the priests in Mexico are, and the amounts produced thereby,. Now why he’s getting ready to undermine
In trying to serve God and Mam you had just as well put on jlour as but he had not the grit to tackle the
all the time been,, the sworn agents American Citizen, you had better get her political -ml itions and make her
hi8 other mon the Papists have made an awful bestos fire-proof, for you will have monster openly. Possibly he feared
uown to the level or
of hig
and representatives of the pope, nnd busy learning what these oath hound I | slide «own
“J” | I churches.
muss of the whole business.
to go to the furnace.
that any pretended allegiance to the | foreigners are doing.
the Salem Ministerial Association.
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