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í She ihiwirafic Firnes. Published Every Saturday Morning —RY— I P. D. HULL dt CHAS. NICKELL, i Publishers and Proprietors. 4 li' THE DEMOCRATIC TIMES. Official Paper for Jackson and Josephine ¡í Wl t I * \ A AJ OFFICE—On Oregon Street, in Orth's Brick I Building. Rates of Subscription : VOL. Ill. One copy, per annum,............................. $3.00 “ six months, .............................. 2.00 “ three months,........................... 1.00 ——' ■ ■ ■ ' i JACKSONVILLE, OGN., SATURDY, SEPT. 6, 1873. U"S? m i NO. 36. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ad' erti^meiitH will be inserted in the T imm at the following rates ; One square, one insertion....................... on each subsequent one, one........... 1 00 For legal advertisements, $2.50 per square of BJliues, first insertion, and |1.00 per square tor each subsequent insertion. A lair reduction from the above rateB made to yearly advertisers. Yearly advertisements payable quarterly. Job printing neatly and promptly executed. | lution of the inner consciousness of telligence that produced it ? Is it the to a law-suit with some wealthy neigh of all. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. i The following address was deliv- i Organized society is the mere out i the individual, but a “drawiDg out” of father of the inventor who, perhaps, bor about a corner lot, what right has t I growth ot the human intellect—the ! the mind by external influences. Cut does not even live to rejoice at his STATE OF OREGON. he to require poor John Ilobbs, across cred by H011. Syl. C. Simpson, State Governor,......................................... L. F. Grover bloom upon the tree ot mind. Man an individual off from the society of son’s triumph, or is it society the the way, to leave his work and attend Sieerelar v of State..................... S. F. Chadwick Superintendent ol Public Instruction, has been described as “the social ani I his fellows—sever, if possible, the world at large ? And who, then, up court day after day as a witness or ju Treasurer, ..................................... L. Fleiscliner before the Teacher ’ s Institute of the mal but it is so only because he is myriad threads of circumstances, that on the plainest economical principles, ryman in the case ? Isn’t a law-suit State Printer,........................... Eugene Semple First Judicial District, last Saturday the intellectual “animal.” Take away are entwined about hint like the ought to pay for the education that private business? Why not, then, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Circuit Judge....................................... P. P. Prini evening, at theCouit House in Jack the mind and its necessary adjunct, the meshes ot a web—wrap him in the achieves such grand results ? leave the parties to it to settle it the District Attorney,.............................. J. R. Neil Or, take another instance : Suppose best way they can ? Why Impose up power ot communicating thought, and solitude of his own personality—and sonville. The address was delivered man would cease to be “social” and be he could no more educate himself than that a boy trained at school grows up JACKSON cut N1Y. on the public the burden of settling County Judge............................... E. B. Watson in excellent manner, and was listened come merely yregarious. We might a man could lift himself by his boot to be a great public leader. He be it for them ? A . t Jacob Wagner, to attentively throughout by a large roam over the hills aud valleys, as straps. His mind would remain a si comes, like Washington, the “Father County < ommissioners...... prake Surely, if it is psoper and legitimate lent, stagnant, waveless_ Dead Sea of his Country,” who created a nation, I fur the State to regulate these matters, Slier iff,................................ Thos. T. McKenzie audience. At the close of the lecture herds, like the cattle ot the fields, tol- I-lowing the leadership of any compan through all eternity. Not a ripple of or like Madison, the “Father of the there can be no question of its right to Clerk,......................................................... P. Dunn Trmmirer...........................................John Bilger the assemblage voted that’it be pull ion who might happen tor the moment thought, would ever disturb its placid Constitution,” who breathed into the provide for the education of the chil Assessor......................................... D. II. laylor lished in the Jackson county papers. to have fought his way to the front by surface. No breath of memory would nostrils of that nation “the breath of dren of its citizens at public expense. School Superintendent,........... W. J. Stanley Mr. Simpson said: sheer brute strength and courage. But play over it. No bird of "fancy would life” and made it immortal. Bv his The interest of society in the private Surveyor......................................... J. S. Howard Coroner................................................... J- N. I4ell Oregon is just Ireginning to build her this would not be society. It would soar above it. No flower ot poesy wisdom, the State is saved from a property and law-suits of its members t »Uicial Paper,.................... D emocratic T imes great public peril and enters upon a is at best indirect and remote ; while school system. The materials for the be merely a chance concourse of indi would bloom upon its barren shore. J<»EI’11INE COUNTY. The grand capabilities of the intel viduals ami would perish with the proud career of prosperity and glory. its interest in the education of the in structure are on the ground. The ex Countv Judge...................................... !• B. Sifers lect are within, but the culture that members composing it. It is only be Who is it in this instance who receives dividuals composing it is, as we have , . < Geo.S. Mathewson cavations have been made. Workmen Vo. Commissioners....... B R sl),aiu are busy on the foundation walls. But I cause we cau think and express our brings them into play is from without. the chief benefit of that trained intel already seen, direct and immediate. Sheriff,........................................... Dan. L. Green the corner stone has not yet been fully ! thoughts that we are able to build up Imprisoned in its measureless depths lect—the father of the boy, or the The right to establish, maintain and ............ Chas. Hughes • 'lerk....... Cominunities and States and Nations, there is a grand electric power that State ? Who, theu, ought to pay for ............... Win. Naucko laid, and until that is done “they labor, I Treasurer control tree schools by public author Assessor.............................. ..Thos.. G. Patterson in vain that build the house,” for and to perpetuate them from generation I can gather the earth in its arms and that training ? ity is already practically conceded, not ! School Superintendent,.............. A. J. Adams though it may grow up shapely aud to generation. This is the bond of weigh it as in a balance, and then can Of course all school-boys do not be Surtevor........................................... Alex. Watts union, the ligament that ties the race flash through the ether, and tread come Howes, or Watts, or Marshes, or only in the legislation ot our own Coroner......................................... Geo. F. Briggs tall, under the cunning hands ot the State, but in that of all the States of < Hli'dal Paper..................... D emocratic T imes workmen, it will be weak ami insecure, together. This vast superstructure of among the stars and play with them as Washingtons, or Madisons. It would the L’nion and of every civilized coun trembling at every breath of the tern human society, with its gigantic pillars a child plays with its toys; but to lx* a queer world if they did. But the try on the globe. They all have had COURT SITTINGS. post. That corner stone, as I view it, and “cloud capped” towers, covered I evoke that power the mind must be principle- that a man’s education, what upon their statute books from “time J-a fWMft/.—Circuit i’ourt. second touched with the conductor ot social ever it may be, benefits society rather Monthly in February. June and November. is the grand American idea, that the with the moss of ages, with its lordly immemorial” enactments of some sort County Court, tirst Monday in each month. State Las the supreme right and power halls, grand corridors and winding contact and fellowship. Like the rock than bis parent—if it benefits any- upon the subject of education, and Jwphw < v > wn /»/.—Circuit Court, second to provide tor, direct, control, and if staircases, and its dark passages and I in the desert of Lin, it has locked with Ixxly—is of universal application. The this fact commits them to the free Monday in April and fourth Monday in Oe- need be, enforce the education of her secret chambers, is but the cunning in its bosom delicious, lite giving toun- ’ only particular advantage ordinarily I toltor. County Court, tirst Monday in Jan school philosophy as thoroughly as its children, and that it is her solemn duty handiwork ot man’s pat’ent intellect. tains, but it will not yield them until ' that a parent receives from his son’s most ardent friends could wish. For uary, April, July and Octob?r. to exercise that right and power, judi Mind was its architect “from cope to smitten by the rod of social inter success in life is derived from the nat if a State has the right to legislate J ACKso.NVtl I.F rnECIMT. ural feeling of pride and gratification Justice of the 1‘eaee.......................... I. R. Wade ciously. and yet fearlessly and without foundation stone.” It was mind that course. wrought its marvelous triumphal ar Yes; it is society that educates the that it excites. This advantage is of upon the subject at all, it has the faltering. TOWN OF JACKSONVILLE. right to control it by legislation. If it John Bilger. President, I say that the corner stone has not dies, and its gloomy dungeons. It is indvidual—if not in the school room, a very intangible, purely sentimental can rightfully levy a one-mill or three- Herman Helms. been fully laid, ami yet 1 believe that mind that has tapestried its w alls with then ujM»n the street and in the high character, and beyond this he gets no mill tax for the support of schools, it ; James A. Wilson, I* rupees. it is even now partly in place. The six thousand years of glorious yet ter ways and by-ways of life. If it is not benefit from that success which lie can levy a tax laige enough to make I David Linn. idea of educating the youth of the com rible history, punctuated with laughter, training him for good, then inevitably does not share equally with every oth N. Fisher. Recorder......................................... I". S. Hayden mon wealth at the public expense, and and song, ami tears, and blood. It is it is giving him a dangerous, evil cul- er menilier of the community within the schools entirely free. There is no Treasurer........................................... Henry Pa|s> I mind that warms it with the fervent t u re. Like Janus, society hast wo faces. the radius of that son’s influence. Or middle ground. Education is either Marshal............................... James P. McDaniel of controlling that education by public private business, or it is public busi S’reet Commissioner............... Peter Bosehey law, is recognized in otir school system fire of thought and lights it with its One of them is pure and holy, shining dinarily, as soon as a boy’s school ness. If it is private, the State has no with the heavenly radiance that days are over, In* leaves home and be right to meddle with it; if it is publio, —vaguely, indirectly, hesitatingly—yet electric radiant glow. Thus we see that mind is the social SOCIETY NOTICES. streams through “the gates of pearl.” gins to “do for himself.” After that, unmistakably recognized. But it is the State may take exclusive jurisdic not avowed and adopted boldly, heart element in man. It is from this that The other is dark and tiend-like, glow for all practical purposes, he is no more tion of it. Those who oppose free J irksoiuiil ' l.o I”'' Xo. I". I. IL 0. F.. ily ami complete!}’ as the fumlarnental society derives its very life and being. ing in the lurid glare of the fire light to his parent than any other man. Hohls its regular nes tings <v cry idea of the whole system, as I believe Government—that is, the organization of Hell. With one of these faces it The son’s successes and failures, his schools, to be consistent, must oppose legislation upon the subject of edu Saturday eveningat the < >dd Fel it should be. We seem, judging from of the society—is but the reflection or looks upon every individual. Either good deeds and his bad, affect his all low’s Hall. Brothers in good standing are cation. When they concede anything our legislation on this subject, to be rather the expression of the average it turns to him its angel-face and, lift father only as a part of the to the State in this matter, they con invited to attend. J. A. B*>! ER, N. G. Titos. T. M< K enzii :. Rec. Sec'y. Inch he moves.— trying to sntah into the ustab'ishment mind ot the iudviduals composing if. ing him in its gentle, loving arms, society in Hence, Silas J. Day, Thos. T. McKenzie, Edwin ■ >f free schools, as though it were some As that average niiml advances or de places his feet in the secure pathway If by reason of right education and cede the whole question. Smith, Trustees. when any State, like Oregon, makes thing to be ashamed of, instead ot being, clines in strength, intelligence and of good and virtuous living, or it training, he is developed into a worthy any provision for popular education, it ' ♦-------- OrrsoniiiR Poriihontax Trib-• No. I. Im as it is in truth, the proudest boast and breadth of, view so the Government ad shows him its demon side and folding character, and if his life is a blessing goes far enough to admit its right to I proved or ler ot Red Men. holds its glory of a Stale. Better so, than that i vanees or declines in exact ratio. But him in its awful embrace drags him to society, his father is affected by it stati-d councils at the Red Men’s we should not adopt a tree school sys every mind in the community helps to down the “broad way” to eternal death. practically to the same extent as his go farther, and so is forever estopped from denying its authority to establish Hall the third sun in even- «¡even suns, in the eighth run. A cordial invitation to all tem at all. But Ob, that we had the I make up that average mind, and by its Ah, there is many a poor fallen soul neighlxirs—no more, no less. If, on a thorough, free school system. manly courage to leap at once to the intelligence or ignorance either raises that never sees any but this worst side the‘contrary, through lack of educa brothers in good standing. Having thus, .as I think, sbow’n con w. h . M c D aniel , s . tion, or misdirected training, he turns right position on this subject? or lowers the average. Hence the cul of society! P. D. P arsons . C. oi R. Since, then, society does and must in out a villian, the calamity affects his clusively the right of the State to pro 'Flie truth is. there is a large number ture bestowed upon each individual in of our citizens who do not accept the tellect in the community must, of ne evitably train its members for good or father only as it affects the rest of the vide for the free education of the chil Orson biiisio.i >o. 1. « community aside from the natural dren of its citizens, I purpose now to Sons and Daughters of Temperance, meets free school idea. They believe that cessity, immediately ami vitally aftect for evil, surely it has the right to bri< fly consider its duty in the premises. on Wednesday evening of each week in the the State has no rightful authority to the well being of the whole social or say that training shall beforgood. As emotion of parental grief which it : I claim first, that the State should upper story of the District School House. impose taxes for the purpose of pro ganization. it educates every individual, whether causes, When some uneducated, or I Brothers and sisters in good stund.ngare in The right of the Slate, therefore, to it will or not, it must have the power wrongly educated ruffian, commits provide a thorough system of popular vidiug free education for the children vited to attend. ot the people. They affirm that it is provide for, direct, and indeed demand to determine that that education shall robbery or murder, or sets tire to a education, because, as the friends of DANIELt RONEM1LLER, W. P. J ohn A. B oyer . R. S. the duty ot the parent alone to edu- the education ot all its citizens is as be in the direction of “the true, the city, it is society and not the father of free schools have always contended, it tends to preveut crime. I know that * ..... . cate bis children, am! that, lie has no unquestionable as the power of self beautiful, and the good.” Hence the the criminal that suffers. Warm LoJr Xo. 10, A. F. I A. AL. right t-> call upon his b llow citizens to preservation, because it is u branch of State, representing society, must becon- Then, applying-!© this subject the has been denied by many good and Holds its regular communications piv tax»*’ to relieve him of that duty, that power, ceded the right to start every member rule that is adopted and acted ujx>n thoughtful men. They maintain that ' on the Wednesdav evenings or pre of the community in this direction, in other eases, is it not just that the merely intellectual education does not ceding the full moon, in Jacksonville, Ore this <>l>j»‘rtioit io'll»- free school sys grow up in gon. T. G. R EA M ES, W. M. tem is an old <>m . ami ha- been again against the State, because it does a di to begin with, by providing him with State, rather than the parent of the diminish crime «among a people, and M ax M uli . fr , See'v. and again refuted, but it is none the rect injury to society by lowering the proper intellectual and moral training child, being the party chiefly to be that to accomplish this purpose it benefited by that child’s education, or must be coupled with moral instruc less vehemently urge! on that account; average of intelligence. To deny the iu childhootl. Jiirkwniill' Stamm \o. ll\ I. 0. R. M., As I said awhile ago, it is claimed injured by the lack of it, should pro i tion. If this were true, it would con and there are still multitudes in our right to prevent such offenses, by stitute no valid objection to the estab Holds its regular meeting* every Thursday placing the means of instruction within by those who object to the “free school vide and pay for that education ? evening at the Ohl Fellows' Hall. Brothers laud who regard it as unanswerable. Ijooking at the matter as a mere lishment of free popular education. It Tin* persistent oppo-ii i<>n of this large the reach of all, ami by demamling, if • system” that the education of the chil in good standing are invited to attend. Jos. WETFERER, O. C. an I influential class has, 1 doubt not, m e l be, that all shall avail themselves . dren of the commonwealth is the private question of political economy what right would only prove that education M ax M uller , K. S. ln < I) one of 1 he chief cau-es of 1 he slow <>f it, would be equivalent to denying and personal duty of the parents ot those has society to say that in addition to should include something more than and hesilaling progress of .ov Sta e in that it has a tight to protect itself children, and that it is not just or lair providing for the physical wants of my mental training. If intellectual in-, JarkxMB ilk Turuvr-in )o. L t 'the great work ot popular education. from any injury whatever. Ignorance to shift that duty upon the shoulders of child during his minority, 1 must edu struction alone does not tend to pre-, Holds its regular meetings a* Turnverein vent crime, then the State should pro Hall every Saturday evening. Regular Ex And so long as such a pernicious no is a public enemy, against which it has the public. <)r, putting the objection in cate him also, when as soon as it is ercising every Tu<—<lav and Saturday eve tion is entertained by any considerable the same right to legislate that it lias the form in which it is usually urged, done, I am required to emancipate him vide for systematic moral instruction nings. CHAS. NICKELL, President. number of our people, so long will our to provide armies to meet its foreign they say that the State has no right to from parental control and send him also. K ort . K ahler , Sec’v. But I deny that the objection ia tax the property of the rich to educate 1 forth to use that education not for legislators be timid ami irresolute in foes. I true in point of fact. I maintain that But while this is true in the case of the children of the poor. The absur Di.y advantage but for the advantage their enactments on this subject, in The City Brewery, the spread of mere intellectual knowl order, therefore, that we may bling all governments, it is pre eminently so dity of this objection is apparent upon of the public! What right has my rich edge among a people dots diminish | neighbor to throw upon me the whole about the adoption of a free school in a republic. The distinguishing char a moment’s thought. — BY— In adjusting the public burdens, it isa burden of educating my children when crime. If the intellectual and moral system in Oregon, efficient, thorough acteristic of this form ot government VEIT SCHUTZ. and complete in all its appointments, is that it depends directly and imme I well set tied rule,and a sound one too,t hat he is to be benefited by it as much nature of man are two different enti i we must, first of all, secure an intel- diately upon the “ consent ot the gov i j those who are benefited by any partic as I and probably more ? Is there any ties, they are so linked together that the one cannot be improved without R. SC HUTZ RF.SPEI TFUL1.Y TN- ligeut unanimity of public sentiment 1 erned.” It is a “government by and ular expenditure are the proper persons justice in such a system ? forms the citizens of Jacksonville and on the subj-ct of the relation of the for the people.” So far as it is truly . to bear that expenditure. For instance, Understand me not to deny the nat exerting an appreciable influence for surrounding country that he is now maiiu- good upon the other. Like the Siam facturing, and will eonstantly keep on hand •State to education. And the friends republican, so far is it an exact reflec i our public roads are worked and kept ural and scriptural obligation of a par I ese twins, they are bound together by the very la st ef laiger Boer. Those wishing of the “free school system” must see to tion of the will, intelligence and con ' up by those who live in the vicinity of ent to train his children. I admit it an indissoluble bond, and every pulse a cool glass of beer should give me a call. it that this grand idea of the suprema : science ot the people who compose it. I them. In cities and incorporated ; with all its force. There is a home of the one is felt by the other. It cy of the State in educational matters It can never .be any better than its I towns, streets are improved and side- culture which nobody can provide but seems to me impossible that the un^ BLACKSMITHING! is made prominent and emphatic in all average citizenship, any more than a walks are laid at thj eexpense of the the parent, and he cannot shirk it. derstanding could be educated without agitations of this subject. It is for , stream can rise higher than its source. ! ailjacent property-holders. And so in But I do contend that it is the busi in some degree elevating the moral na ness of society, the State, to furnish QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS ! tiiis purpose that I d.esire this evening Hence, in such a government, it is of ' other cases. Now let us apply this principle to the ehikl with scholastic instruction ture. If a man’s mental training could to present to yon a few thoughts in the utmost importance that proper be confined to the study of pure math I support, ami tor the illustration, of provision should be made lor the edu the subject under discussion. XVho is and training. That it can do better ematics, a kind of instruction in which David Cron em tiler & Co. cation of the people. To such a State, ■ it that is most benefited by the educa- j than the parent. this idea. there is no moral quality whatever, I Let us then devote a few minutes to ¡ the light to protect itself from «an ig tion of the children in a community ? ¡ To further indicate the utter unrea- believe that his faculties would be so 4 T THE OLD STAND OF MILLER A Shannon, are prepared to do black a discussion of this theme—trite and norant citizenship is even more eesen Is it the parents of those children, or is souableuess of the notion that educa- I quickened .and strengthened that ha smithing of «H kinds, and will also keen common-place as it is. Thank God tial than the right to punish crime. it the public at large ? Suppose, for tion is a private affair, with which would necessarily nave a better and constantly on hand ull kinds of iron, steel, The ballot box is a great crucible, instance, that through the training re the State has no right to meddle, we clearer apprehension and appreciation horse tdu>es anil nails, ladts, buggy clips, that it is thus trite and common-place ! dee tints, ami everything in the hhu-ksmitn’s It only proves that the friends ot popu into which the people cast the expres ceived at school a boy becomes an in have only to compare it with some line, for sale cheap for cash, and will sell lor lar education have done their duty loy sions of their individual intellects, to I ventor. With his quickened, far-see matters that are universally admitted ' ot moral truth than he had before. There may be no moral principle in- 4-osh only. ally and well in presenting this sub be fused into a common mass and ing intelligence he exploresythe deep to be legitimate subjects of legislation. I volved in the proposition that the an ject to the world. I am glad that, coined into public laws. The man of and fathomless recesses of philosophy When we are asked what right has the gles ot a triangle are together equal DR. WM. JACKSON, wide and comprehensive as my theme culture and refinement must throw in and “ransacks the arcana of Nature.” poor man to call u]»on his rich neigh to two right angles, but the training is, I can wander into no nook or coi ner his pure gold side by side with the He discovers some hitherto unknown bor to help educate his children, we necessary to enable a man to under of it without finding the foot-prints of base alloy of the ignorant and de principle or property of matter, or may well retort, what right h.as the stand that truth and the demonstra^ some Kane or Livingstone of the edu graded wretch, picked from the slums makes some new application of an old rich man to call uponliis j>oor neighbor tion upon which it is based will make cational world, who has gone before of the gutter, who will sell his little law of science. The result is an in to help protect his property and to re- it an easy matter for him to compre« stock of manhood lor a glass of whig vention like the sewing-machine, or i cover it when stolen ? HLs property me. Lend and accept that other proposk The first inquiry that naturally pre ky, and be well paid al that. And the steam-engine, or the magnetic tel is his own. He uses it for his own tion that “honesty is the best policy.” sents itself in the consideration of this the more there is of this worthless egraph, that multiplies the physical selfish enjoyment. Instead of a beno- But aside from the theories of the SCROEON DENTIST. subject is: Has the State a right to alloy the baser will be the coin. In power of man a hundred-fold, or gives i fit, perhaps, it is a source of oppres case, the fact is incontestably estab provide for the education of the chil the long run, the lack of intelligence his thoughts “the wings of morning” sion to his humble neighbor. It may or virtue among the people is sure to and sends them speeding round the I be employed, as wealth often is, “to lished by statistics that education does A LI. STYLES OF PLATE WORK MADE dren of its citizens at the public ex world and through “the uttermost grind the face of the poor,” and vex diminish the tendency to crime. I A —si^li a* Gold, Silver. Platina, Aluiu- pense and to direct and regulate that be reflected m its laws and institutions. niuin awl Rubber Plates. Special attention education according to its own sover Surely, then, the State has the right to parts of the sea.” A nation is clothed I “the widow and the fatherless.” Why need only refer to a few of the figures given to Children’s teeth. Nitro* Oxide protect itself from this adulteration ot ip a day ; or the earth is “gridironed” not, then, leave the possessor to take ,' that have been collected iu this subject: (laughing gak> given for the painless ex- eign will ? I affirm that it has. “Out of 252,544 persons committed In the first place it seems to me that its legislation by providing for the with railroads or belted with telegraphs. i care of it the best he may ? Why tnu-tion of ihe teeth. . The world takes a long leap in advance for drime in England and X\Tales, dur compel poor Lazarus to bind up his Will visit Ashland on the 1st of March an education ia, from its own nature, a proper instruction of its citizens. nually ; aiao Kerby ville on the 4th Munday ing a series ot years, 229,300, or more There is another view’ of this mat and achieves a thousand years of pro sores and trudge after the thief who in O^tolier. Call and examine specimen matter for social regulation, and that if llw*re is any question ot precedence ter. Society does educate its mem gress in a single decade. Who is it has stolen a few shillings from the than 90 per cent, were reported as QU’ Office comer of California a nd 5th : among the proper subjects of legisla bers, whether it so wills or not. Edu that is benefited by such an inven | bursting coffers of Dives ? And much educated.” rcideime opposite Crystal * « rtght’* black- tion, thja should rank as the foremost cation is not a mare Fpopl>neoM svo- tion, end by the educated, trained in ■ more, when William B. Astor (Concluded next week.) in- I smbh shop. —w> A FI.EA FOR FREE El»l CATION. i I M