T he S ilverton J ournal VOL. IV. SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1915 N0 30 T 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 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. ---- 1 *