Daniel Webster once said that "America has proved that It may l»e able to keep out of jail. The damage cAse will probably is practical to elevate the mass of mankind the laboring or lower come off in Octolier, but just how we are coining out and how we Œbr Silerton journal class—to raise them to selfrespect, to make them competent to are to puy the expenses of these trials and pay our other obliga­ act a part in the great right and the great duty of self-govern­ tions we cannot tell our rentiers. But we’ll do the l>est we can ah 1 Published every Friday morning at Silverton. Oregon, by ment; and she has proved that this may be done by education and trust to those in the "Chain Gang” to keep the subs coming in, J. E. HOSMER. Editor. the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand as it is the only ho|>e we have of pulling through this critical times more encouraging than ever was presented before in those period. But, of course, we must not lose sight of the fact thMt nine-tenths of the human race who art» lairn without hereditary this is also a critical time in the history of the world’s civilization. fortune or hereditary rank.” Catholicism does not elevate the We must do our part at pointing out the evil that lias brought ubecription. Soc p*r year. in ad vane*. Single mass of mankind. All the good, all the real liberty, all the part eoptea. Scent«. on this terrific war. "The |a>n is mightier than the sword,” and Adrertiain< rate* made known upon applica­ that the common people take in self-government has come in spite we hope our friends will use it in this great cause for Liberty and tion. of priestcraft. We hate the pope’s government because it is against that they will In Ip us to circulate what the mighty |>en puts in the interests of a free people, and, realizing that our nation is yet Thl« paper .tend, for freedom of thouaht, free­ action. This is indeed a critical time, but everybody can do some- dom of the pre», freedom of speech, equality of very young, and that as Fisher Ames has said, “Aineeica is rising kingcraft. These two fundamental errors of the you want war? Do you want to dress in he latest la-lnon? Do human race are much in evidence today in spite of their power to you want notoriety? As a man thinketh so is he, and if we can Instructive and Educative. hide themselve from the people, and they are the direct causes of get at what our chief desires are, we can easily determine what the Mexican wa; as well as the European war and will be the cause we are, and know if we are of any use to the world. Any of the of an Americ. i u; if we let them have their way. Priestcraft above mentioned desires, becoming the paramount characteristic has been pretty well aired in the columns of this paper and a word of men or women make fools of them and dangerous fools at that. about kingcraft might not be out of place, it is one o ;• >» If we have no higher aim than that of making money the very great arms of the octopus devil of which priestcraft is the other country in which we want to make the money will become bank­ arm. In a republic it takes on a different form but it is here just rupt and we will hasten on to the time when money can't be mude the same. In Servia, the bone of contention, as elsewhere, the bv any one. When every citizen has become embued with real PACIFIC TRANSFER CO. royal family, are almost worshiped and their members are almost patriotism, when he can say that "the world is his country,” and exempt from prosecution, no matter what they do. This makes it when the great majority of the people care for money, pleasure, PHONE BLACK 681 very convenient for the ruling classes, for if they want any dirty to get even, war, clothes and to be well known, only when it is for work done they can “let George do it” and no one will be punished the public good—when people are really in love with permanent, and the royal bloods can regret the action publicly, condemn the universal good aod can not be happy unless they are heroically All work done In the aliorteat pmarib * lime. We are equip­ culprit openly while protecting and conniving with him secretly. killing evil principles and establishing the true ones, then we will ped to handle all kinds of furniture, pianos, etc., with very little Prince George of Servia, who is called the“worst boy in Europe” be able to beat our gattling guns into auto trucks and our war danger of any damage done. is said to be the immediate cause of the war. He has been ships into factories and the high cost of-living will trouble us no more and we can live lives of individual happiness. allow’ed to do everything bad, even to pillage, drunkenness, profli- NO I OAD TOO HEA FOR OUR TEAMS TO HAU! acy and murder, ending in the assassination of Archduke Francis But before everybody can be converted to this simple but all Ferdinand. This gave an excuse for another of the royal family powerful religion of unselfish service, there must l>e some work who has been crazy for a long time to own the earth, to declare done to open up the way, and there is still much need of pioneer, war. volunteer, self-sacrificing, undaunted, never-give-up circuit riding Why wasn’t this “dare devil of Servia” taken care of long ago? It preaching. Time has made the old methods of no account to be is for the same reason that the priestly crimes in Marion County, sure, and many of the accompanying doctrines have proven of no Oregon go unpunished. It is because we still permit priestcraft use, untrue and burdensome, but just in projiortion as has the WE MUST GROW OR DIE! and kingcraft to rule the world. There is work for you to do, you minds of the most civilized people developed, just so much fiercer > free American citizen. Will you do it? has waged the conflict and in order that civilization may not l>e The Silverton Journal must keep its Subscription list entirely overcome by wrong incentives and abnormal growths of > growing or it will surely die. We need your help, but we what might be right ones, somel>ody must raise-the banner, even ; want to give even more than value received. in the face of the howling mob who deride and spit upon even the. Get us one or more at fifty cents a year. Use DECEIT AND CRIME AS BAD HERE AS ANYWHERE very signs of righteous ideas. The world needs real men and - the following blank: î women now and it needs them so much that it will die without I A FREE PRESS The Catholics’ rotten doctrines have kept the people of the them; but only those who cannot or will not think of conditions world in ignorance and taught the rulers the ruinous game of ex­ can drift with the tide or go with the crowd and enjoy the swinish ploitation, deceit and brute force to accomplish their selfish ends. fruits of selfishness; for the precious principles which have cost so I THE SILVERTON JOURNAL Austria-Hungary is the center of this world’s war and it is one of much are s*ill in the balance. the most superstitious countries of Europe while Mexico is known Life is short. It will soon be over. Under different circuin-1 « ► The subscription price has been changed from $100 to as a Roman Catholic country and it is another sore spot that may stances, when suffering and misery and crime and hell are the 50 cents per year. yet endanger the whole life of civilization. And in our own exception instead of the rule, you might properly want and work country the most corrupt and ignorant centers are Roman Catho­ for an individual happiness. But heaven can not exist in hell and ; EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL, lic cities. The reason for this is that the Roman Catholic religion you are throwing away your life if you, in this age, want and work ■ SILVERTON, OREGON. is based on a lie. The priesthood claim it to be Christian, but this for anything less than the common good by fighting for those uni-1! versal, basic principles of justice and truth •which aione can give ; Enclosed find > ...... , for which »end THE JOURNAL to 4 falsehood must be evident to even the lay members of the church, ♦ when they realize that the simple doctrine^ of Jesus are crowdec us, and those who follow us, the true liberty of a real civilization. ; the following: out by the ceremonies and mummeries of the church and an in­ What do you want ? Name ...... fallible God is crowded out by the idea of an infallible man, the I pope. Not only this but the test “by their fruits ye shall know Address ...... them” when applied, anywhere and everywhere the hierarchy has OVERCOME BY FALSE REASONING ' a foothold, show’s them to be thorns and thistles. Nor must we Name ...... be satisfied in merely talking about these evil doctrines and their Address corrupt advocates. We must actually pull up these weeds and Man is superior to the brute because he has the faculty of reason better developed, but reason, like food, water, fire and our Name .u throw them over the fence. We are told that this very “Order own inventions, may be wrongly applied and bring sorrow, sick­ «) of Saint Benedict” (O. S. B.) was run out of Switzerland and Address everybody knows that, for good reasons, they are “getting what ness, crime and death. Very slowly, and at times seemingly almost stopped, reason, Name .. Paddy gave the drum” in Mexico, what they were in the Phil- scientific wisdom and righteousness, are coming to govern the lipines and what they are in corrupting politics and social life world, and the reason they have not come long before this is be­ Address even in Oregon. cause men in high positions arrive at false conclusions from their The A. P. A. movement died down and the Romans ¡¿ugh at i Name .. it, but that is no sign it was not based on the correct theory of wrong methods of reasoning, and then get the multitudes to act Roman Rottenness and it doesn’t prove that the people of this wrong because of much faith in their heroes, the false prophets. Address country will forever put up with what is so un-American and so As we write, thousands of the dead bodies, of what a few damaging to our republic. A priest ruined a young lady not long hours ago were strong, active men, lie putrifying in the hot sum­ ago only a few miles from this city; another committed adultery; mer sun in western Europe and the wail of agony is going up another w’as proven guilty of sodomy; another one who shows the from dear old fathers and mothers for their boys whom they will brute in his face is now a father in fact as well as in name; an­ never, never see again, from young maidens who will never get other was advised not to become a priest, because he liked the over the sorrow at the loss of their noble brothers or intended life girls too well, but he has been ordained, we understand, and prob­ companions, from little fatherless children and stricken wives. ably learned to better deceive the public. If this is true of little Look at them there. Why must the very air be poisoned by those Send 10 Cents Marion County, what about Multnomah and what about all the who would be the very life of a civilized nation? Some one’s counties of the United States? Look at New York! Isn’t rob­ reason was faulty. In Mexico the people have suffered for years. bery and graft and rape and sodomy and adultery and murder The story of the whipping post, the robbery, the poverty, the for MAX BURGHOLZER’S new book of 32 pages just as bad here as it is in Mexico? Haven’t these devils fooleo murders and the blighting ignorance is awful; and now comes us long enough? What are you going to do about it? You are the climax of a horrible war, and another and still another, with going to let them control Oregon and the United States and send the unimagined anguish, remorse, disease and despair. And all reckless sinners like Hosmer to jail for telling the truth, that’s this because of the lack of the power to reason out things to a How To Reduce The Cost what you’ll probably do; but here goes. Read the first page of true conclusion. Nor is this lack confined to our rulers. News­ paper men, teachers, preachers, business men and everybody are this issue and wake up! Take an interest, if you can, for this is still slow to reason properly and to apply their conclusions to the your fight. Don’t believe everything you hear, but please in­ right thing at the right time. Then those who do reason correctly vestigate and get at the real truth of things; and if you find that are overcome by the mob who still worship at the shrine of Of Living? we are telling you the truth for the love of Liberty, do something. pomp, power and mystery instead of taking the pains of knowing the truth. Thus we are still in darkness and have gone down to the hell It’s a good one to read and pass to a neighbor. HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ? of war; and we would not be surprised now if those whose inter­ ests are in the sale of weapons of war or of bonds or in political or economic advantages will try to draw our nation into a world It doesn’t usually take long for the hierarchy to down anyone destructive war. Meanwhile, however, we must not forget the who dares to oppose it and show it up to the public, and we find efforts that are being made through false reasoning to destroy that the same old methods are being used to down the Silverton everything good in Oregon. The election next November is as Journal. Will an awakened public take a hand and save us from important and probably more so than the European war. ' Every the same fate that has befallen thousands who have dared to face argument put out is either true or false. Voters in a government PURE CLEAN one of the worst enemies that the world has ever seen or will the like ours must learn to distinguish between sound reasoning and steady, persistent boycott, lies and bribery prevai' and finally ex­ selfish; destructive, false reasoning. Some things which sound haust and put us on the scrap heap of wasted entfeavor? One very plausible, when carefully analyzed often prove to be simply HOME BAKERY thing is certain and that is that we have put our hand to the plow devilish. And what is the remedy? Learn what reason is. Take Mrs. W. E. Sprague. and cannot turn back. To weaken in any particular means defeat Vme enough to find out the difference between deductive and in­ At her home on First and B. Sts., takes order« and deliver«— for us and victory for the gang of swindlers calling themselves ductive reasoning, how they should be applied and their relative agents of God. The cowardice of some calling themselves pro­ Home made Bread and all kinds of home made Baking, Cakes, values in all scientific research. Don’t wait. Everything depends Doughnuts, Pis«, Etc. Etc. testants, the weak, money-seeking business interests, the personal on your ability to detect false reason and to use the right kind in prejudices and hate of some who have been hurt by our fight voting for or against the great fundamental principles now com­ Leave orders at C. W. Rogers. against the saloon and criminality and the weak-kneed, money- ing ffp in our own state. We must progress or retrograde and to WHOLESOME HEALTHFUL ized press, all make it very hard to survive financially while de­ progress without the power to reason correctly is impossible. fending ourselves against the courts which are more or less dom­ inated by the Roman Church and the political influence which it wields. But we have promised our little band of helpers that we will never give up and we never will as long as there is life enough A CRITICAL TIME to think. We know we are right and we will go ahead. Even Second Hand Store This Is Our Fight! though everyone forsakes us we will do all we can atone to save the blinded people from the swindling, confidence game of priest­ The great European war will take up the attention of many We have just what craft and our beloved country from the greedy, ever-advancing readers and those interested in our work of removing the Cause; you are looking for Use the subscription blanks we en­ government of a foreign invader. How long it will take to put us and therefore we are now passing through one of the most critical close in The Journal to get us new 0» periods, not only in the world’s history, but in the history of our BIG SAVING ON FIRST COST out of business with this spirit of uncompromising, determined, There are so many things that ■ubs. It is the only way we can unn- life-time warfare against what we most thoroughly believe to be trial for libeling Josephine Hess and for $50,000 damages to the Wt. Angel holy Sauer Kraut joint. The libel case is now again we have that you need, just as vive.i. Thia is your fight, aa well as the worst devil in the world, remains to be seen. If we were abso­ good as new. Come in and see. lutely alone we could put up something of a fight and could hold before the Supreme Court in the form of a motion for a rehearing. ours, Let’a each do his part well and out quite a while, but, “thank the Lord/’ we are not entirely alone. If this is granted we will have a chance for a new trial and thus CHARLES WEBB a great victory will be won.