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Y SOUTHERN OREGON PIIi THE MAIL IS THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE , FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND PEOPLE'S PARTY OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ADVERTISERS Do- too study joor best AdXkt wm stfd palroulze tbU paper. It will be. appreciated by all tbe best farmed), Irom whom you get trade. A Paper Of, By and For the People! VOL. IV. MEDFORD: OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1892. STATE PLATFORM Adopted by the People's Party, at Oregon City, On March 16, 1892. PLATFORM Preamble: "As injury to one is the con CSRS OP ALU' : 1. We demand a national currency, issued by the generai government only, a full lcgul tender lor all debts, public and private, and that with out tbe use of banking corporations, be distrib uted direct to the people at not t exceed two per cent tax, as set forth in the sub-treasury of the farmers- Alliance and Industrial Union, and at the St. Louis conference, and laud loans, or soms better system ; also by payments iu discharge of the government's obligations for publio improvements. ' - We demand the tree and unlimited coinage of silver, ami we denounce the practice of the government buying and storing bullion. Tnat tae rueuium of excuauge or currency bo based upon the wealth and law makiug power of the country, and that we demand .thai the amount of the circulating medium be speed ily increased to not iess thua S50 per capita. We demand that postal savings banks be es tablished by the government for the safe de posit of the earnings of the people and to facili tate exchanges. S. Tne land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people, and should not be monopolized for speculation pur poses, and alien ownership of land should be prohibited. All lands now held by railroads and other corporations, in excess of their actual needs, and all lauds now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and. held lor actual settlers only, aud that any settlers who may have acquired lands of such corporations be protected in their rights to their homes and in the sums paid to sucn corporations. 3. Transportation being a means ot exchange and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interests of the people; and until such ownership van be acquired, we demand the abolition of the rail road commission and the establishment of a maximum rate law within the state, and that the present rates be reduced one-third. Tne telegraph and telephone, like the post office system, being a necessity for the trans mission of . news, should be owned by the gov ernment in the interest of the people. We demand that all moneys asked and appro priated for the improvement of the Columbia river be spent in building and operating a rail road parallel with the river said road to be owned by the government and run at cost. We demand that alt national revenue shall be raised by a S per cent tux on money loaned by the government, and a graduated property tax. No exemption for indebtedness snouid be al lowed, unless the per&oa claiming such exemp tion, should give in a corresponding taxable credit. 5l Whereas, The working people are en tirely under subjection to the plutocracy, which compels one portion of them to work too many hours, and thereby increasing the army of the unemployed: therefore be it Kssol.vkz, That we demand that our legisla ture pass a law defining eight hours as a legal day's work in factories, mines, shops and pub- - lie works. Ana also mas we recogaizo use Knights of Labor in their controversy with the fiocaester Clothing Company. -That we are unalterably opposed to the Pink er tons, or like organizations, ever entering our state. - That alrnhnL in anv form, shall be sold only by state agents, said goods to be pure aud sold J a. w!Kn nHtfit tivtkA noanta t ahull ' not be drunk within the building nor within sixty feet of the place where delivered nor n any place of resort of gaming, thus abolishing license, the saloon in society and the saloon in politics. That the national government shall not license the sate of any aljotioiic sub stance in any states legally prohibiting the sales thereof, nor shall it in any way interdict or interfere with such prohibitory laws. ?. Resulted, That we affirm our unqualified adherence to the doctrine of equal rights to all special privileges to none, and that wt will never cease our enorts till every citizen shall stand before the law equal in. intellectual. moral ana civu pnvueges. 8. We demand the passage of a law which will prevent the immigration of Chinese to the United States. 9 We demand that the state publish the - school books and sell the same to the people at 10. That county officials be paid a stipulated salary. 11. We object to the government having any thing to do wit i the Nicaraugua canal, unless it owns and operates the same at cost. 12. Resolved. That we are in favor of elect ing all officers iy a direct vote of the people. 13. We demand tha: the government issue legal tender notes and pay the union soldiers between the price of ae depreciated money in which be was paid i i gold. tOFKglit GII5. fl B. PICKEL, Physician and Scrgeox Medford, Oregon. Office ; Rooms 2 & 3. I 0.0 F. BIdg B. WAIT, . - ) Physician and Suxgeqx. " Medfy-rd, Oregon. OSce: In Clr.Jerr,' Block. Tl P. GEARY, , i Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. OSBce: Cor. C and 7th sts, I S. JONES, Physician and Sdrgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Hamlin block, up stairs. R. O. F. DEMOREST, Resident Dentist. Makes a specialty ; of first-class work at reasonable rates. Office in opera house, Medford, Or ROBT. A MILLER Att'y and Cuisbllor-at-law J , v. Will practice in all courts of tbe J, H. WHITMAN, Abstractor and Attorney- At-Law. Medford, Oregon. Office in bank building. " Have tbe most complete and reliable ab stracts of title in Jackson co unty r LLARD CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor . -At Law. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Opera block. -i USTIN S. HAMMOND, A Attorney-At-Law. V Medford, Oregon. Office: I.O.O.F. Building, SUB-TREASURY. Sure to Relieve the Stringency , ; of the Money Market. GOOD, SOUND LOGIC. The Savings Banks Will Not Be In jured in the Least. The following able article appeared in a lata issue of the Chicago later Ocean. It is from tha pen of Ira Wake field, of Phoenix, Ore: To the Editor: Will you allow me space to reply to Georgo M. Muller on the Sub-treasury plan in issue of Feb ruary 3?"' I should judge, after , reading of his article, that he either has not given much thought to the plan, or else he was writing solely in the interest of capital. First, he says, "any financial system must be just in principle and practical in application, and acceptable to a majority of the people." If that is true then the present system must be just and acceptable to a majority of the people, which eyery schoolboy . knows is not. But that the sub-treasury plan may meet his ideas of justice and ac ceptability we believe, so far as light has dawned upon the financial horizon of our republic: at least it will bs a vast improvement on our present sys tem. Stripped of all details, the "sub treasury plan7 is a plan to relieve at certain times the stringency of the monsy . market, which deprives the farmer of his just reward of labor, without at the same time benefitting other classes of laborers or flooding the market with 'cheap money. As to the product on which govern ment makes the loan, ths production of the soil has been selected as the boot for various reasons. 1. The product of the farm must bo sold the ensuing year after the harvest, and' the money loaned on it returned to the United States Treasury, from whence it came, lest too great an amount of money be forced upon the market, so as to reduce its "earning power" Mr. Muller complains of. 2. The product of the farm is the disturbing element in the premises, it being the only product of labor that is practically dumped upoa the irarkct of the world all at once that is, with in a few weeks and the time of those fe-.v weeks is absolutely known, thus giving the money kin3 an opportunity to "corner" the money market, to the great depression of the value of said products. As to coal, iron and manu factured articles, they are not forced upon the market all at once, but their offerings ara nearly uniform, month by month throughout the year, rendering it extremely difficult, if not impossible, without the owners consent to corner the market with reference to them. 3. Farm products are the only ones that must ba sold in the markets of tie world, year by year. There is never any surplus to speak of more often a decided scarcity,. which renders there-- turn of the loan gradual and certain within one year. As to its "narrow ness and injustice" we answer, taking wheat as an example. When wheat sells for only fifty cants a bushel on ac count of the scarcity of money, caused mostly, as everybody knows, by the operations of Wall street, other pro ductions spoken of, if forced to sell, decline in the same proportion and general depression follows. We said or inferred that the farmer was deprived of his just reward for bis labor and to the advantage of no one but the speculator. Food once in the hands of speculators is there for a purpose and will not go out again until Shylock gets its pound of flesh, and the laws of the land allow him to cut very near the heart. The Sub-Treasury plan in operation will divide those profits between the producer and con sumer. Thus: The speculator gives the producer say fifty cents per bushel for his wheat. The consumer pays him one dollar (nor is this overdrawn). Now let the speculator step down and out, as our "plan" will allow him to do Then the result will be an average, the producer can realize 75 " cents, and the consumer can have it for the same, in stead of $1 as before, and Shylock will be glad to get off with his life, plus the non-forfeiture of his goods albeit the e'.ernal laws of justice would make him just a little tender-hearted now, were there . not another .day specified, in an old. book (though much venerated) for his benefit. . Mr. Muller, says: Gov ernment should be the only issuer of money." So far he is a good alliance man; also that "if government enters the field (meaning the financial, I pre sume) it will necessarily monopolize it which is also another degree in the alliance blue book. As to Mr. Scott's warehouse in the center of a county, away from railroads, etc., it is too fool ish to need reply, except to say "drown ing men catch .at straws." Mr. Muller seems to think that the "sub plan" is going to flood the coun try with cheap money, which makes me think he has never' read carefully, for the retiring clause is as prominent as the issuing one, just as soon as the present necessity of the issue ceases, which must be within the short space of one year. Mr. Muller calls this movement "a cyclone of demagogisro.'' and you have struck it sure, and you are not unacquainted with the nature of a cyclono. - Would it not be just as well for Shylock to bp getting in some where until the storm be past, and when he comes forth again the sur prise of "Rip Van Winkle" to his will be as a misty mora to a clear "high noon." As to its wrecking all thi savings banks, etc., that is a mere cyclone of words, for to any, even a superficial thinker, such a result can not be ap parent, much less a fact. . As he approaches the end of his arti cle, light bfegins to dawn, and he de sires 'stability as well as flexibility. value as well as volume can not be dis pensed with." Now that is the sub treasury plan to a dot, and if any one can show that it is not he must be a new star yet to dawn on our financial heavens; but that is not what we have got now, exc.-pt at the instance and pleasure of a few individuals, rich, 'tis true, in millions, but "only great in that spell, a name." That the details ol the proposed plan are the best that can be devised we are very far from believing, nor are we wedded to any specific details. What we want is the plan, or something bet ter. We ask for bread, and politely, yet firmly, refuse stones. The people are going to speak on several questions within the near future, and if we are a Republic their voice will be heard and heeded. Tha Laborer's Condition. The laborer does not quarrel with the fact that he is a laborer, bnt a free peo ple will not idnre the tyranny of op pression. In our country the power to oppress has increased with the central ization of industry and wealth. This' injustice is shown in the greed of corpor ations in reducing the comforts of em ployees and by the enactment of laws burdensome to the masses. The condition of the laboring man. whatever be his station, is pitiable in the extreme. Bis misfortune is the theme of sociology today. Bat it is most painful to witness the attempt to explain these misfortunes as the result of local evils and circumstances. His improvidence is traced to intemperance and shiftlessness. when such evils are too frequently tbe fruits of the laboring man's bondiige. The condition of the farmer is made the result of his own mismanagement. Low prices are attributed to overpro duction rather than underconsumption, and the burdensome mortgage system is represented as necessary on account of the unusually rapid development ef a growing country. But underneath all the fact is painfully evident that tbe de pression is too universal to be ascribed to local causes and must bo sought for in the preseut economic condition. The laboring people 80 per cent, of our population rightfully demand rec ognition liy state and national legisla tion. They are honest people, and ore the last to call for peculiarly class legis lation, and their arraignment of the present system is that for a quarter of a century legislation has been manipu lated in the interest of classes. They point in evidence to the favoritism shown to corporations commercial, manufacturing and moneyed, in all of which laws the millions of toilers are made to "pay tribute to the thousands in affluent circumstances. . The nation has grown rich. Her citi zens point with pride to the rapid growth of ber treasures. Bnt increase of wealth is not evidence of a nation's prosperity nnless it is properly distributed. At present, of our ffiO.OOO.OOO.OOOof wealth. 81 .000 people own three-fifths of it So that the economist is compelled to ask. To what end will this rapid centraliza tion lead ns?" The direful day. foretold by Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln, when the nation should be in danger from the oppression of favored moneyed power, is already upon us, and tbe voice of the people U raised against it not an hour too toon. As it is, the grip of the oppressor will not be loosened without 0110 of the severest struggles known to onr nation. The contest will be decided at the ballot box, with n result very disastrous to od oressive class legislation. ' Mr. Simpson Confident of the Future. Jerry Simpson said today that he thought tbe southern Alliance members wonld no longer hold ont ngainst the third party movement, and that the third party would carry Georgia and probably some dther southern states. He said fur ther that he did not believe tbo Re publicans could carry a state west of the Missouri river. He is .indulging in the happy dream of the Alliance having a balance of power in the next house and of being able to throw the election of president into this house. ' ' .. A Vigorous Cumpalffn. A Washington letter says tbe Fann ers' Alliance members in congress seem bent on making a vigorous party cam paign this year. They have been hold ing caucusses very frequently of late hi the residence of Congressman Watson of Georgia. These caucusses have beeu attended regularly by the Alliance mem bers in the house and by Senators Peffet and Kyle.. Senator Kirby has not been near them! It has been decided that a congressional campaign committee shall be organized. GEORGIAWILL AVlN It Certain'y Looks as Though that Stat Will ba Carried AN IMPARTIAL REVIEW. The Third Party Movement has Hade Tremendous Advancement in that State. The state of tbe political atmosphere in Georgia may be learned from the fol lowing condensation of a dispatch to tbe New York World: If any doubt existed as tn the strength of the People's party iu the state of (ieorgia it will be removed when the ac tiou of the recent meetings throughout the state becomes known. The third party, ox it is popularly called here, is a force not to be despised in Georgia politics, but must be respected as an antagonist whom it will require earnest work to defeat Since the adjournment of the St Louis convention, nnder tbe direction of Con gressman Watson. Colonel Polk, presi dent of the Alliance: Colonel C C. Post late delegate to St Louis: Senator El lington and Representative M. I. Branch have been canvassing this state. The result of their labors was the call which brought together county mooting all over tbe state. It happened that the first convention, that of Polk county, railed to elect del egates to the state Democratic conven tion, was to meet the same day. While that convention assembled as a Demo cratic body, it passed resolntiona.adopt ing the Ocala platform in full indors ing Tom Watson ami declaring inde pendence or the old pr.rties. It then reassembled under the came of the People's party convention, with Major Blanc, chairman of the Demo cratic meeting, as its most conspicuous member. The same old feces appeared all tbe way through. In Cherokee county the third party people organized with such prominent Democrats as Colonel W. II. Perkinson, the Rev. Joseph D. Dobbs and Captain W. W. Wiisun taking the leading parts They resolved to take charge of every thing in sight from congressman to bailiff. In Jefferson. Hart. Monroe, Forsyth. Burke, Carroll and many other coun ties the meetings were large and enthusiastic Though there was an absence in many of them of well known names, yet the people present were those who do the voting, and their de termination was apparent One of the most notable incidents of tbe day was in Burke county. In that connty the negroes count as throe to one whit man. It is one of those typ ical places iu the south where extraordi nary means have had to be taken .to keep in line an overwhelming negro ma jority. It is the last place in the south in which a northern man would expert to find brotherhood between the races, yet at the third (tarty meeting in Waynes boro there were two sections one black, one white acting in perfect harmony. The St Lotus platform was adopted tbe work of organization was perfected and the election of committees from the militia districts completed. At the con clusion of the meeting three cheers for Congressman Watson were given in which black and white vied ns to who could shout the loudest The Democrats of Spalding connty, in session to discuss party matters, ac knowledged the strength of the third party. To judge from some of the mem bers' views, who are evidently in posi tion to know, this party is more formid able thun most people are willing to admit In ordor that no third partyite may get into thedelegnto-makingon May 18, Col onel E. W. Hammond introduced a reso lution thut thgcJcctiou be by primaries, while Colonel Frank Flint had passed a resolution that uono but known Demo crats shonld be allowed to vote iu said primary. During the discussion of these resolu tions it developed that this new party has a much larger hold than is gener ally conceded. Colonel Frank Flint stated that even in his connty there were quite a number w'.io would affiliate with tire third party. Judge Stewart said: "There is a great effort, and we underestimate the strength of it, to break down the Democratic party in the south. No longer than yes terday at the dinner table in Fayeite ville, the present representative of Fay ette connty told tne that The Constitu tion stated after Livingston returned from St Louis and made his speech at Covington, that it' was all right Liv ingston bad killed the third party in Georgia. "They simply got the cart before the horse: the third party is alivli and Liv ingston is dead." . . ' In Campbell county. Senator Elling ton, generally looked npon as the third party candidate for the governorship, addressed a large audience. - In Rockdale Colonel Peck addressed aowsembly of 500 penpje in advocacy of third partyiam. At the conclusion of his speech the audience by a two-thirds vote indorsed his position. In the face of all this it may be asked. What is tho Democracy to do? 1 A Congressional Caiupulru Committee. . A recent dispatch from Washington says: . . .. , The Alliance men in congress have nnder consideration an ambitious pro gramme to advuuee the interests of the Alliance and to propagate ita doctrine, ft is proposed to establish an Alliance cuugrasnonai campaign committee on much the same basis as the Republic in and Democratic committees to look af' er their interests in the congressional dis tricts. It would be the duty of this com mittee to supply voters with information and keep track of the political prospects and possibilities in each district, with the view to making the most of opportuni ties. It is also proposed to establish a na tional newspaper in Washington. These and many other things of interest to Al liance men were discussed at a recent meeting at the home of Representative Watson, of Georgia. Tbe meeting v as largely attended, besides the regular Al liance men in the house there being pres ent Senators Peffer and Kyle, Presidtut Polk. Dr. McCune, Mr. Dimming aad others. Belre anything is actually done, however, there will be a conference hold with Mr. Tanbeneck, who is the nation al representative of the party and of the St. Louis convention. DEMOCRATS OFFER NO P.cUEF. With an Overwhelming-MnJprlty.Ther Do Not Lighten tbe People's Burdens. Representative Watson, of Georgia, the acknowledged leader of the People's party in the national house, severely ar raigns the Democratic party for its vac illating policy oa the silver question, as evinced by ita action during the re cent discussion in Washington. He is reported as saying: This action in tbe bouse on tho silver bill is the death knell of tbo old Demo cratic organization. Hundreds of thou sands of voters in the southern states have felt that if financial relief could be had. Democracy as now organized wonld give that relief if it had a chance. With a majority of 148 in the house of repre sentatives it certainly had a chance to pass the free silver bill. It failed to dd it It was only by the help of nine Peo ple's party members and eleven Repub licans that this immense Democratic majority escaped a Waterloo. Con sequently the most conserva tive Democrat in the south knows now that Demo cratic majorities wielded nnder the present or ganization means absolutely noth- k,V wtrsoiarasprac v' tical legislation cokoressmas WATSON. concerned. No power on earth can now keep Georgia from going into the electoral college with the People's party convention. I confidently believe that the same is true of several other southern states. What the Democrats may do with the silver bill hereafter is comparatively unimportant They have had their op portunity. They hud their majority with uineteen outside votes to help them. They were absolutely unable to pass such a very mild measure of reform as Mr. Bland's silver bill, which only purports to add thirty rents per capita to the cir culating medium. I have never ceased to claim that the Alliance demands, npon which the People's party was founded, were true Jcffcrsonian principles. 1 claim that today. But I believe now that the immense majority of the Demo crats all over the south will come to onr party as the truo exponents of the Jcf fersonian principle of the role of the people as against the Hamilton doctrine of the rulo of money and of the classes. Let it nerer be forgotten that Mr. Bontclle, of Maine, a Republican, asked the Tammany Democrats to stop filibus tering on the bill and challenged tho Democratic house to come at once to a direct vote on the bill itself. That chal lenge was refused, and refused by Demo crats. In other words, a magnificent Democratic majority of 14a found itself absolutely powerless to legislate npon a mild measure of reform to which their party is committed and npon which they have sought and obtained votes. We who swung loose from the Demo cratic party claimed that northern and eastern Democrats had no real sympathy with our people, bnt were as much under the domination of the mosey power as the Republicans of tho north and east After tho vote of last Thursday night 11c man will ever be able to successfully deny that proposition. Making It Clsar. Senator .Washburn has prepared an amendment to his antioption bill which is intended to make perfectly plain the fact that no feature of the inensure can be construed to prohibit tbe sale or re sale any number of tilnos of any article which actually exists. The amendment is as follows: Insert between tbe words "delivered" and "provided" in the tenth line of page 3 the following: "Or has not heretofore acquired by purchase the right to the future posses sion of such article or articles nnder the virtue of a contract or agreenient for tho sale and future dolivery thoreof pre viously mode by such owners." " With this amendment Senator Wash burn says tho bill will- be thoroughly satisfactory to the elevator men and legitimate grain dealers generally. TheJ inea oi 1 110 urn is to promou spocumuon upon grain which does not exist in fact, bnt to offer no interfereuoe whatever to any transaction involving grain which has been sold in good faith and is in actual existence. Wahinicton Special. , John F. Willita, national lecturer the Farmers' Alliance and tbe probable candidate of tho People s party for gov ernor of Kansas, says that there will be no fusion with tbe Democrats in that state, as has been reported. He does not thiiAt that fusion is possible under any circumstances. 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