The Silverton journal. (Silverton, Or.) 191?-1915, July 02, 1915, Image 2

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    THE BIG PAPERS MCZZLEI)
LINSCOTT SOBERING VP A BIT CATHOLICISM
IN
THE
FARLY
DAYS OF CREGON
There would be no use for the Sil-
I notice that the Journal has is-
, verton Journal nor for any other anti­ aaed a challenge for a public diseus-
Published Every Friday Morning At
By Cordite.
THE FASTEST, iEBT AND
Catholic paper, if the daily press of sion on re'igion.
Silverton, Oregon.
Now
it
Is
not
my
our gicat cities and our countr.' news
JOHN EARL HOSMER, EDITOR pai>ers were not entirely muzzled. desire to enter into any religiuu#
One of the most stirri ig event* of
You can’t get one of these papers to controversy, Arguing religion and The Pioneer Days of Oregon was the
piint a word in criticism of the papal the differences in churches never massacre of Dr.Whitman, his wife
IN THE WORLD IS THE
system while at the same time you raises us to a higher plane of sp rit • ami nine other persons at the Waii-
1 latpu Mission, on the 28th day of
can read very severe criticisms on
or spiritual life hut it always irritate#
November 1847. Dr. Whitman had
everything
else. “Awed
by the
blunderbusses of Papal puppets they the spiritual mind. 1 am not a mem­ teen at the Mission for eleven years
dare not open their mouths in defense ber of any religious organisation bu*. and was getting along with the Indi­
of our institutions’*, although the I hold that it is our duty as loyal; ans in a very satisfactory manner,
priests are continually attacking our -Americans, to uphold and maintain when the Catholic Vicar General,
public schools. Now why is it that every religious organization in our Brouillet, with u party of priests and
nuns, arrived in the country. In this
the press of our country has been
Entered at the postoffice at Silver- thus humbugged into shielding the land. Religion is something that has article 1 will quote much from the
Of J. E. HOSMER, Inventor and Manufacturer
ton, Oregon at second-class rates.
rotten foreign system in its attacks never done humanity one bit of harm, life of Joe Meek, written by a party
¿subscription, 50cU. per year in ad­ against our American institutions and but it has always raised us to a who knew the circumstances first
SILVERTON, OREGON
__
against our government itself? It is higher plane of religious or spiritual hand. Mr. Spaulding, one of the
vance. ¿Single copies 5 cts.
because of the unprincipled, anarchis­ life. While many do not approve of missionaries, sa,,s that he aid Dr. I Na Tramping Down Ground
Cultivates Fast
No Loot Energy |
Advertising r tes made known up­ tic methods of the Roman system the Catholic’s mode of worship, I hold W'.’iinan convent,d on the danger
on appdeation.
against its enemies. It does not live that, under the constitution, of a free which threatened them from the muummmmumuœmmmunutunumntuttniuttunuœœtummmmmmnn
t
up to the golden rule in any degree country, they have a right to wersnip Cu'.holie influence. The,’ N It
but if any one offends them, they God in any way they see fit, and no sickness then among the Indiunslthe
THE FOURTH OF JULY
immediately unite in putting the of honest American can deny it. We measles) affvded the Catholics a
fender out of business by fair or by must acknowledge that the Catholic favorable opt rtunity to excite the
MOVING
Î
Our glorious country is yet very foul methods, legally or otherwise. church
1
is the mother church of the Indians to u.,ve them from the
PICTURES
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young. Counting two score years Therefore they have almost every- ' world. Its ancient doctrines have country, and ull the movements
and ten as a man’s average time body hoo-dooed, and you who read I been handed down for many genera­ about them seemed to indicate that
to live, our nation is less then the life these lines ought to do something this 1 tions. 1 can see no reason why we this would soon be attempted if not
time of two men. But wonderful very day to help support the papers i should try to harm or to destroy it. executed. Such was the suspicion in
ENJOYED BY ALL — CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS !!
things have taken place since 177& that are patriotic enough to stand out He who tries to destroy it reminds the minds of all the Prodestants.
That
night
they
were
in
the
lodge
There have been changes in our against this great wrong.
me of a boy trying to kill his mother.
Instructive and Educative
methods of production, transportation,
Just because we do not believe in of Sticas visiting the sick. In the
navigation, education and protection.
worshiping in the same way our eleven years they had lived with the
THE
GREATEST
FAILURE
But in all these wonderful changes
gr;: i.lmother does, is that any sign Indians they had taught them to
we never have lost the idea on which
that we should try to kill her? What cultivate the soil, to live in houses
Of course, under present conditions, we need is more consecrat -d iovt and and to provide for their families.
our government was founded, the
idea that governments are for the it is almost necessary to have money more divim brotherhood. Each and Each morning a good breakfast was
protection of the governed in the . to do anything, but to live a lifetime every one cf us should recognize the prepared for them. It consisted of
’ rights to life, liberty and the pur­ with no higher ambition than for the divine and sacred right of thb other. beef, vegetables and bread. All this
suit of happiness. But neither has accumulation of weaith is probably Me must realize that we are all the shows the improvements of th«: In
thé element in our society that op­ the greatest failure that a human be­ children of God. It will only be a diana. The day, being Sunday, was
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posed this idea changed either. Ln ing could make. John M. Works, in snort time when we will al' pa*#. Wc observed with as much decorum as in
fact, this disturbing power that was an article entitled, “The Failure of are all striving for the same place. u white man’s house. After breuk-
All work done in the shortest possible time. We ere equip­
brought over with us from the tyran­ Success” puts it in this way:
We have all got to face the same re- tast Dr. Whitman crossed the river
ped to handle all kinds of furniture, pianos, etc, with very
“
There
is
no
way
in
which
a
man
nically governed old country and
oeemer, and this religious strife and to visit the chiefs who had sent for
little danger of any damage done.
which has been coming in great ship can make a more complete failure hatred should cease. I suggest that him. Their names were, Tan-i-tan,
loads ever since has grown and of life than by spending his life in the Silverton Journal quit the anti­ Five Crows and Yam-ha-wa-lis. Dr
grown until it has become here as in the accumulation of wealth. Such a Catholic nonsense and turn its guns Whitman returned about four o'clock
No Load too Heavy for our Teams to Haul
the country from which we fled, the life a«sassanates all the higher ideals on the damnable economic robbery in the after noon saying that he had
¡greatest menace to our government and causes him to grow downward ‘ tat is casting every working man in­ token tea with the Catholic Bishop
and to its free institutions. The toward the brute.
to a blazing furnace of an economic and two priests, at their house, which
Roman Catholic Church can not log­
And yet, preposterous as it is, such heli. If we all turn into paupers belonged to Tan-i-tan, and they had
ically celeorate the Fourth of July. ignoble failures are what some peo­ and tramps with a handful of multi­ promised to visit them in a short
That day stands for the principle
ple mean when they speak of “suc- millionaires who revel in idleness, lux­ time. He then left for the Mission..
NOW LET US UNITE IN MIGHTY PROTESTI
independence. She stands for depen­ cessful men.”
ury an«! crime from the products of On the following morning Mr. Spaul­
dence of her subjects. It stands for
Who are successful men?
our labor, how can we expect to sup­ ding, who was the Nez Perces missi­
the rule of the majority. She stands
They are the men who have risen port any organization of righteous­ onary at Lapwai, could no longer re­
main in uncertainty and started out
for the rule of the minority, even for above mercenary motives, They are ness and love?
STANDING FOR AMERICANISM
for
Waiilatpu. As he mounted his
the rule of one man. 1. stands for the men who have spent their lives
Now Mr. Editor, don’t get it into
to
depart,
an
Indian
woman
horse
50 Cento Per Year
a government by the consent of the assisting the upward urge of the hu- your head that the Catholics will not
governed. She stands for a govern­ man race in many ways.. Some of stand for economic justice, for the placed her hand on the neck of his
ment by a fa’se idea of a “divine them have undergone persecution and very existence of their organization horse, and, pretending to be arrang­
EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL
ing his head gear, said in a low voice
right”. It stands for a free democ­ public ignominy while serving the depends upon it.
SILVERTON, OREGON.
to
the
rider,
“
Beware
of
the
Cay
uses
racy, She stands for a monarchy race. All of them have made the
I have nothing personally against
at
the
Mission.
”
Now
more
than
and a forced democracy among her mercenary their slightest motive.
tne editor.. In fact there are many
Enclosed find
for which send THE JOURNAL to
slaves for the support of the mon­
To do good is the only real success things about the editor of the Jour­ ever disturbed by this intimation that
the
following:
it was the Mission that was threaten­
archy.
there is in the world. Ail else is nal which I admire very much. H
The enemies of this government sham, pretense and unreality. It character is beyond reproach. One ing, he hurried forward, fearing for
Name
have not all died since George Wash­ does not matter what money or pos­ could not talk and write as much as his daughter ».nd his friends. He
proceeded
without
meeting
anyone
un
­
ington fought the red-coats. They ition one gains, unless the world is he does without saying many goo
Address.... .....
have increased very rapidly ami to better and humanity higher for Ids things. We will give him full credit til within sight of the lovely Walla-
Name
day the flintlock the drum a- d fife having lived, he has been a flat fail­ for a'l the good things that he has Walla Valley, almost in sight of the
Mission itself, when suddenly, where
and the glorious stars and stripes ure.”
said and done. All who know broth«
Address.
in the hands of brave patriots should
We believe that the above is as Hosmer know that he is subject to the trail passes through a little hol­
Name
move f orward igainsi th* envmie’s true as anything you can read in the these infidel fits and that he is liable low, he beheld two horsemen advanc­
camp with a firm and steady tread, bible. And believing it to be true, to be taken with one at any moment. ing. He watched them with a flutter­
Address....
remembering that the real'y progress­ we also believe that if anyone goes to We have got to overlook his short ing heart, longing for, yet dreading
the
news
which
the
very
air
seemed
ive and civilized among us «relieve in hell it will be the man or woman comings in this line. In reply to my
Name
the new methods of warfare whos? who hangs on to his or her money bag former article, he said that my nat­ to be whispering.. The two horsemen
Address
victory is a real victory and whose and lets the Roman Catholic Church ural wit might have stirred leg«da- proved to be the Catholic Vicar Gen­
eral
Brouillet
and
his
half-breed
in
­
captives are set free.
get control of America to the ever­ tive bodies to holy actio-. I only
Name
terpreter. Both men were known to
lasting damnation of civilizati n. wish thet I could stir the Silverton
Mr. Spaulding, and, as they drew
Address
i al to noly action
There are thousands of people who J
reign, he inquired, “what news”?
IN DISTRESS
profess to be on the side of patriot­
—Elw i A. Linscott. 1 “There are very many* sick at the
ism and many of them will be stirred Editorial Note:
Whitman station”, answered Brou-
We thank brother Linscott for his
The Silverton Journal is in real dis­ by great waves of sentiment tomor­
illett, with evident embarrassment.
■
tress and all our rea<*ers nave to do row when they see old glory floating kind words as to our personality. We "How
is the Doctor and Mrs. Whit­
▼
if ti.ey want the paper to suspend in the breeze, but they will hug tneir hope to deserve it, but our poor, , man?” asked Mr. Spaulding anxious­ I Phone Black 1242
Coolidge Street
until the editor can earn enough nt gold and see the patriotic press of warped friend need not worry about ly. The Doctor is ill—is dead”,
other work to pay up and get enough this country boycotted out of busi­ stirring us up to holy action. That added the priest reluctlantly. “And
to start again, is just to do nothing. ness and its editors sent to jail f«. is what we are trying to do to him Mrs. Whitman?” gasped Spaulding.
We must have One Thousand Dollars telling the truth , and never put up a and the other booze-soaked and Cath- “Is dead also. The Indians have
General Contractor for Commercial and Industrial
him killed them.” “My daughter?” mur­
in order to go on. Wc have been red cent to help them in the awful clici'-ed citizens. When we ________
Building
fighting off the coming of this bad struggle against the big BEAST full of Mt. Angel’s un-holy wat\r an id mured the agonized questioner, “Is
condition for months, but at last it which also has the money-bag disease. rti.d his attempt at defending th« ! safe with the other prisoners’’, an-
EXPERT ENGINEER
_
has fully arrived and, unless those Of course when one of the tight wads tr-ito’ous, unAmerican organization
, swered Brouillet.
In the Design and Construction of Beautiful Homes,
who owe us pay up, renewals pay in reads this he will give some kind of that, above all others, has caused the
We can see from the above that
advance , new subscribers flock to a grunt of an excuse and we do not enslavement of the workers in every the leading Catholic knew all about
Business Houses, Schools and Churches
our standard or some other long expect to change the grunt of a hu­ country where it has obtained a foot the massacre. Brouillet had offered
SILVERTON, OREGON
hoped for evidence that The Silver- man swine any more than we do the ing, we are stirred mightily, and we no resistance to the Indians in the t
t
ton Journal is wanted to the extent 3pots of the leopard, but it is some promise ourself and brother Linscott cold blooded murder of their Protes­
satisfaction
to
know
that
we
now
to
keep
stirred
and
stirring
as
long
of One Thousand Dollars, this will
tant minister. In fact he was ceg-
be the last issue for such a time as is have the Iberty to tell such just what as we live, to the end th3t sometime nisant of all the details of it.. It
necessary for us to get that amount we think of them, thanks to the brave the minds and bodies of ALL MEN looks as though he was the instiga­
in some other way. We hope that it men who, in the past, thought more will be free from the slavery of RUA. tor of it. He saw the Indians muti­ aimtmmmmttmttmmmnmmntmtammmntnmmmumtmmmmMmmmtt
will not take over one month, and if of MAN than they did of MONEY. and ROMANISM.
late the bodies of the dead, but he
New, up-to-date Machinery
Experienced Machinist
we do suspend, for this length of time
offered no remonstrance.
Work Absolutely Guaranteed
we invite our interested readers to
( To be continued.)
THINK OF IT!
A CALIFORNIA PATRIOT
s<’i.d us any suggestions or informa­
In a private letter, in which one of
tion that will be of as->:?tance ir our
When the editor was in jail, Gover­ our staunchest friends of California
campaign of “gathering up the slack’’.
IT IS NOT FAIR
We may be obliged to retreat, but nor West wr.s the Executive officer sends us four subs, he says that the
Garage and Machine Shop
watch for our smoke just over the cf this great state of Oregon. Gov- paper .«a:, vzondei fully improved, but
Thc editor of the Silverton Journal
other side of Bunker Hill. 1776—1915. enor West had pardoned many a that we shou'd lay by some grub as
criminal, even Webb, the acknowl­ the wor.t is yet to come. ’He be­ was wrongfully forced into costly lit­
edged murderer. And yet with a lieves that the whole United States igation, falsely imprisoned, sat down
great petition, signed by a multitude will soon go under -alamity and that on Ly p political Supreme Court and I Cor. First and Lewis Sts.
TRAITOR BY DEFAULT
Phone Bine 951
of the best citizens of our state, he there ¡3 bound to be trouble with
frightfully boycotted by cowardly
uii»iin»»»i»n»m»Hu:mn»nn»n»t«:»»»»imtiii»miHimHmiiiiiiniui»aà,
In tl ; fight again t the monarchial could not or would not pardon out the “those hellish Catho'ic and Tumulty business men
who were foolishly
editor who had offended the Catholic and Wilson meddling”. But he ad­
principles which are sure to ruin our
Hierarchy. Then the balance of the vises us to hold the fort and not afraid of the Roman anarchists. So
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i.'nat country, he or she win doe» fine which was $60. was tendered to give up. He says many other good
the Silverton Journal will have to
nothing is a traitor. There has now the court but it was not accepted things and regarding politics speaks
suspend until the editor can get out
b«< n a vast a nou it of publicity wor1, and the prisoner, who was afterward# of the Catholic Governor of California
and earn money enough to pay the
d ne and there is t o excuse for any­ shown to be innocent of any crime as a verv devil..
one to be idle. The opportunities are by the grand jury not bringing in a
On uccount of such friends as these big taxes on his home and office,
multitudinous to do good service true bill on the same charge, was held and the loss of time in a great cau'-e, while his enemies have no tax what­
against the Roman Power which is one thirty long days more.
we ha” j fought an awful hard bat­ ever although they own millions of
Our friends and the friends of jus­ tle and have hated to cume to the dollars worth of fine property.... There
with the Money Power that would
crush out every hope of the great tice and right should never forget point where we would have to suspend is nothing fair about this. It is a
majority of men ever being anything this and should at once Jay «heir but at last we are actuary forced to shame and - disgrace that our state
like free citizens of a really free plans to forever oust the power de­ do so.; but we promise all our friends allows this injustice to go on, and
_____ __ in this
T__ country that to be back on the job as soon as we we promise you that it won’t go on
country. It is your duty, and it is hind the throne
YOUR work as well as ours to do is making a farce of what jught to possibly can and we went everyone much longer if the patriotic press of
be a home of the brave and the free. vzho enn to help us "get there”.
SOMETHING now.
the United States can be kept alive.
Easiest to Run Hand Cultivator
Gravity Hand Cultivator
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