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9 SOUTHERN OREGON PIIi THE MAIL IS THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE FARMERS' - ALLIANCE AND PEOPLK'S . PARTY OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ADVERTISERS Do jroirdhidT your best lnter estH ad patronize thia paper. It will be appreciated by all Ue best farmers, lmn whom you get trade. A Paper Of, By and For the People! VOL. IV, MEDFORD: OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1892. NO. 18. V. f STATE PLATFORM Adopted by the People's Party, at Oregon -City, On March 16, 1892. . PLATFORM Preamble;' "As isjurt to okk is the cos ckrjj or ALU" I. ' We demand a national currency, issued by the general government only, a tull legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that with out the use of banking corporations, be distrib uted direct to the people at not to exceed two per cent tax, as set forth in the sub-treasury of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, and-at the SC. Louis conference, and land loans, or souk bktikk 5Y5TKJI ; also by payments iu discharge of :. the .government's obligations for .. public improvements.- - We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and we denounce the practice of- the government buying and storing bullion. That the -medium of exchange or currency be based upon the wealth and law making power of the country, and that we demand that the amount of the circulating medium be speed ily increased to not less than $50 per capita. We demand that postal savings banks be es tablished by tiie government for the safe de posit of the earnings of the people and to facili tate exchanges. ... a.- The 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 lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only, and 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 such 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 can 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. The telegraph and telephone, like the post office system, being a necessity for the truns-, mission of news, should be owned by the gov-' eminent 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 all national revenue shall be raised by a S per cent tax on money loaned by the government, and a graduated property tax. Koexemption for indebtedness should be al lowed, unless the person claiming such exemp tion, should give in a corresponding taxable credit. 5. 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 Resolved, 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 lic works. And also that we recognize the Knights of Labor in their controven-j with the Rochester Clothing Company. That we are unalterably opposed to the Pink ertons, or like organizations, ever entering our state. That alcohol, in any form, shall be sold only by state agents, said goods to be pure and sold at cost, without profit to the agentd, and shall not be drunk within the building nor within sixty feet of the place where delivered nor in 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 sale of any alcoholic sub stance in any states legally prohibiting the sales thereof, nor shall it in any way interdict or interfere with such prohibitory laws. 7. Resolved. 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 efiorts till every citizen shall stand before the law equal in intellectual, moral and civil privileges. a 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 . cost. 10. That county officials be paid a stipulated salary. I I. We object to the government having any thing to do with the Nicaraugua canal, unless it owns and operates the same at cost. 12. Revolted. That we are in favor of elect ing all officers by a direct vote of the people. , 13. We demand that the government Issue legal tender notes and pay the union soldiers -. between the price of the. depreciated money in which he was paid in gold. PRflFESSICflPl CURES. E B. PICKEL,, Physician and Surgeon Medford, Oregon. Office :. Rooms 2 & 3. I.O.O.F. Bldg J, B. WAIT, Physician and Surgeon. v. . : Medford, Oregon. . , Office: In Childers' Block, ' E P.GEARY, 1 Physician and Surgeon. - Medford, Oregon. Office: Cor, C and 7th sts, I S. JONES, Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Hamlin block, up stairs. D R. O. -F. DEMOREST, . Resident Dentist. Makes a" specialty of first-class work at reasonable rates. ? Office in opera house, Medford.Or R OBT. A. MILLER- Att'y and Couksexlor-at-law. ' Jacksonville, Oregon. Will practice in all courts of the State. " J H. WHITMAN. Abstractor and Attorney- At-Law. -Medford, Oregon.' Office in bank building. Have the most complete ' and reliable ab stracts of title in Jackson co unty f LLARD CRAWFORD, . Attorney and Counsellort -At-Law.- ; Medford, Oregon. Office: In Opera block. I USTIN a HAMMOND, A Attorney-At-Law. ' - Medfordr Oregon. Office: I. O.O.F. Building. FREE SILVER. Just What It Is and What It Will Accomplish. PACTS AND FIGURES. It Will TJndouatedly bo the Para mount Issue the Coining Campaign. Whatever may be the disposition of the two Houses of the present Congress in regard to the silver question, it is likely to become an issue in the approaching- campaign. The free coin age of silver in the mints of the United States has been advocated at various times ever since the demonetization act of February, 1S73; but at no time has the agitation been so general as within the past two years. Under the present law, which was passed a little more than a year ago, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to purchase for the government every month 4,500,- 000 ounces of silver, which at the aver age market price of the bullion amounts to about that many dollars. The purchased bullion, to the amount of 2.500.030 ounces a month is stored in the vaults of the treasury, and for con venience Treasury notes in the form of paper money are issued except for the 2,000,000 ounces coined. Thus 4, 500,009 is added monthly to the circu lating medium of the United States or about $34,000,000 a year. The advo cates of trie coinage insist now, as they have done since the act of 1S73, that no limit should be placed upon the coin age of the white metal. Richard Bland, of Missouri, who is tne leader of the free coinage element in the House of Representatives, takes the position that silver should be given an equal advantage with gold and that the owner of silver bullion should be accorded the privilege of taking it to the mints in any quantity and securing its coin age or obtaining its equivalent in sil ver certificates. His reasons are that free coinage would greatly increase tne circulating money of the country; that it would not disturb the present circu lation of gold, silver and paper,side by side; and that it would correct a great natl rtno 1 kr-4-i n n tiq1 rr 4 Via 1 n - -v .--. I n tmnAfci'lfoi. T T5 o rwl aA ; nuu va oil , 4 . iut. aviaiiu UUU J AO herents deny the prediction of their opponents that free ceinage would draw from all parts of the world im mense quantities of silver not not? in circulation, and thus flooding the coun try with the white metal, would depre ciate the currency and disturb values. Mr. Bland estimates that free coinage would not add more than $75,000,000 a year to .the circulating medium of the country. '- : Until the act of 1873 silver as well as gold was coined free by the mints. Free coinage was . established in 1792, just a hundred years ago, the ratio of the two metals being fifteen of 6ilver to one of gold. This gave silver at first a value of about 138 cents an ounce, the highest valus in Its history in thi3 country. ' This high value of silver, however, virtually drove gold out of the country, since it would buy elsewhere more than fifteen ounces of silver. Little gold remained in circu lation until the ratio was charged in 1834. However, the coinaga of silver dollar was stopped in 1809 aud was not resumed until after the change of ratio. Tne new ratio was sixteen of silver to one of gold. .This lower valuation of silver had the effect eventually of driv ing silver out of circulation, and while free coinage ' existed in theory the basis of circulation was practically gold. The free coinage of the smaller denominations of silver was stopped in 1854 and was really the first instance of demonetization in the history of this country. Then the act of Febru ary 12, 1873, demonetized the standard dollar or limited the coinage by mak ing those who wanted it coined pay the government mints for the privilege while the coinage of gold was free. The total coinage of silver dollars from 1792 to 1873 was less than nine million dollars,' or about the same as is now added to the circulation every two months. The advocates of free coinage are principally in the. West and South, The strongest opposition comes from New England and the central States, The mining States of the far west are especially earnest in their advocacy of free coinage for the one reason at least that it would revive the industry in which they are chiefly interested. If silver and gold were on a parity or of equal purchasing power and -help in the same regard as circulating med iums the value of silver, it is asserted, would be 129 cents an ounce. That is the standard toward which the free coinage advocates claim to be working, and that free coinage would establish that parity they insist, and that the two metals would circulate sido by side without disturbing each other. As silver is now only about ninety cents an ounce the opponents of free coinage declare that the government by pur chasing the unlimited supply of silver at the parity price suggested would be not only placing a premium upon the white metal, but would effect a dis turbance of values in every sort of busluess, and injure the creditor class and destroy tho prosperity of the country. Tho questions involved are to some extent experimental aud both sides present arguments worthly of con sideration. While the silver question is not exactly political, it is evident that the majority of the advocates of free coinage have tho good of th3 peo ple at large to heart, while the major ity of its opponets are Monopolists and eastern capitalists. The Peoples' Party will not, and neither of the old parties dare, at their coming national conventions, ignore this subject and the indications are that it will becoma an issue in tha national campaign quite as prominent as any other ques tion. THE THIRD PARTY IN GEORGIA. Democrat Alarmed Over Editor Irwin Statement About tbo Alllanco Hen. In a double leaded article about the third party in Georgia, tho Atlanta Constitution, the leading Democratic paper of the state, speaks as follows: Is the Alliance of Georgia going into the third party? Have the members of that order de termined to forsake the Democratic party? Sensational, indeed, ore the claims of the tAird party leaders; .and if the adop tion of resolutions indorsing the action of the St. Louis conference is any indi cation ci the sentiment of the Alliance men of Georgia, the statements of the editor of the official orgun of that order as to the action of the sub-Alliances means much to the Democracy. The Constitution is no alarmist. As a newspaper its plain duty is to present the fall facts concerning the growth of third party sentiment in Georgia. The statements made by the third party leaders anil by the editor of Tho South ern Alliance Farmer may not prove al together pleasant reading to those Dem ocrats who have believed or-profsssed to believe that the movement was mak ing no headway in Georgia, but it is well for these and all other members of the party to be made to realize the real situ ation. The sub-Alliances are indorsing the St. Louis convention. That means that many Alliance men. unless shown the error of their ways, are going into the third party. Editor Irwin, of The Southern Alli ance Farmer, is authority for the state ment that of the 2.2C0 sub-Aliianccs in the state over 1.C0O have indorsed the St. Louis convention, and that but three of those so far heard from have refused to indorse that convention. The week following tho St. Lonis con vention Editor Irwin published a request to the snb-AUiances of Georgia to meet at once and take action upon the St. Louis conference and report the result of their action to The Southern Alliance Fanner at once- The returns seem to give great conso lation to the third party men, and if one half they claim is true they have a right to feel happy. Editor Irwin says he is not a third party man. Ho says he is a nonparty man. - He was sitting at his desk scribbling hard away, with three big piles of papers before him. "See those three piles of papers there," said he, pointing to them, with a smile; "and you Bee here," and he opened a copy of The Southern Alli ance Farmer and run his finger down two columns of matter containing re ports of the action of seventy-nine sub Alliances on the St. Lonis platform. "We have but a few in the paper," the editor continued, "but we have received reports from 1,600 and odd and they are pouring in every day. It is just paralyz ing how the Alliances are going into the third party. Out of over 1,600 Alliances reported only three have failed to in dorse the St. Louis conference. And they are still coming. 1 believe that when they are all heard from there won't be enongb dissenting sub- Alliances to count "You may put this down: Tho Geor gia alliance is going into the third party. Not only the Alliance is going into it, but the workingnien in tho cities and professional and business men are join ing in. . Why, three prominent Atlanta lawyers told me that they were in sym pathy with the movement and hod joined the party." To Solve the Labor Problem. The house labor committee is in re ceipt of a long essay by William How ard, of Bethlehem, Pa., a noted writer on the subject of political economy, in which ho' gives his solution of the labor problem. The idea conveyed in the es say is that the government shall provide a nnit of tho wage value of labor. Mr. Howard suggests sixty pounds of good flour or its equivalent price at the time wages are paid as the nnit. Mr. How ard contends that the government should provide a nnit of measurement for land, a nnit of weight for products and a unit of money for measures of value. The essay has received high commen dation from the Right Hon. William E. Gladstone, Cardinal Gibbons, T. V. Powdorly, the late Secretary Windom; H. C. Boird, of Philadelphia; Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor; Governor Pattison, of Penn sylvania, and Robert G. IngersolL Mr. Howard asks the labor committee to request an appropriation of $5,000 to publish and circulate the essay. The essay has been submitted to Representa tive Dnngan, a member of the commit tee, to examine and pass an opinion upon it. Washington Dispatch. . MONEY TALKS. Speech at tha Massachusetts Feopls's Party Convention. AN ABLE ADDRESS. The First Great Demand is for Money Enough At the 6tate convention of the Peo ple's juirty, held nt Boston for the pur pose of electing delegates to the Omaha convention, George F. Washbnrn, of the national central committee, delivered an able address, from which the following extract is made: In response to the call of the national committee of the People's party, we meet today to ratify the p" form adopt ed at St. Louis. It is eminently proper that we should consider for a few mo ments the work accomplished by the conference aud the elements which com posed that grand body. First, I have no hesitation iu stating that it was the largest and most important industrial conference ever held in America. It was composed of dnly elected delegates from the leading industrial organizations in this country, and represented a larger actual membership than constitutes the voting strength of either of the two old parties. Every section of the country was represented by delegations coming from nearly every state and territory. There were delegates in that conference representing a majority of all of the actual voters of the south. From the snnnv south, the army of the gray with enthusiasm unlimited, with devotion to our caurj unbounded, marched across 1 Mason and Dixon's line to meet and i greet with brotherly affection the boys in blue of the north, each -lowing iu loyalty and patriotism to tho one flag unfurled, the stars and stripes for both north and sonth, representing a united country in sentiment and mutual inter ests as well as in government now and for evermore. It was in Fancuil hall that ocr noble patriots rpoke for abolition and liberty, and in no place so appropriate could we meet to ratify the union of the two great sections of our country. From the St. Louis conference emanated an address to the American people, which is one of the grandest productions of modern times our second declaration of inde pendence. It speaks in clarion tones, portraying the pitiable condition of our country. It dispels the darkness of de ception and holds to the glaring light of publicity the ruinous results and the blighting curse of the oppressive slave holding trusts and monopolies of today. It photographs the bribery and corrup tion resulting from the general scram ble for office by the two old parties, which have abandoned for spoils every principle they ever possessed. It tells plainly of the horrors of industrial slavery of today, greater in area and numbers, more intense in its suffering and despair, more inhuman and wicked in its application than human slavery thirty years ago. It sounds tho alarm and calls upon all God fearing, liberty loving citizens to organize at once and rescue from the iron hand of our oppress ors what should be the government of the people, not of the politician; for the people, not for tho corporations, and by the peoplo and not by Wall street and its money lenders. I The conference also adopted a plat form which breathes liberty and pros perity from the beginning to the end. It speaks with special emphasis on the great issues of finance, land and trans portation. Our first and great demand is that we shall have a greater volume of money of some sort, as we have not one-half enough to properly transact the business of the country. In lbCG and 1867 we en joyed the most prosperous period this country ever saw and at that tune had over fifty dollars per capita in circula tion and with only 033 business failures, while in lifc'J we had less than five dol lars per capita in actual circulation and bad 12,377 business failures. This rep resents the results of expansion on one side and contraction on the other. Since I860 we have added more than 38,000,000 of people to our population without pro viding one dollar for their use. Again, wealth results from labor only. About 12,000,000 workingmon are adding an average of seven dollars per day to the wealth of oar country and receiving as their share an average of one dollar per day. Let me ask who gets the other six dollars? - We have been draining the country by war taxes of thirty years to support the government and pay our national debt. Notwithstanding the millions of dollars the people have paid, it will take 1,000, 000 more bushels of wheat to pay the debt today than it would have taken in 1809. It will also take double the amount of cotton to pay it today than then, and these are the two principal products of the country. The silver squabble at Washington will result in enormous advantage to the People's party and has added at least half a mil lion voters and fifty congressmen to our ranks. It enables the sonth to consist ently break away from Wall street Democracy and join the great western movement. We wero sure of Georgia and North Carolina, together with six western states. Now our chances are good not only in the entire south, bnt also in all the silver states. The two old parties served notice on the masses that Wall street did not propose. to al low an increase in the circulating medium. The people of the south, west and northwest will answer this notice next November. Contraction at cur rency, poverty and industrial slavery are running mates. Expansion and prosper ity go together. . Bear in mind it is always in the interest of the men who possess the money to have a contraction of it It is for the interest of the masses or the-men without the money to have an expansion of currency. The Time lima Arrived. 1 shall claim, as 1 have previously stated, that the Alliance demands ana its principles are fouuded on Juffersonian Democracy, and 1 expect to advocate them as long as there is life in me. 1 believe thein to be right and just and proper. Our condition has come from oppressive national financial legislation. Agriculture stands at tho bottom of all the other industries in this depression. No argument need be longer adduced to convince the people of this fact. Our surroundings proclaim that the time has arrived for the great west, the great south and tho northwest to link their hauds and hearts together and march to the ballot box and take possession of the government, restore it to the principles of our fathers and run it in the interests of the people. This our national organization has been endeavoring to do, composed as it is of both Democrats and Republicans. As a proof of this, two years ago we presented our demands to congress. They were snpportcd by the petitions of 600,000 farmers, and nothing was done. No attention was paid to the demands by the lawmakers, and one year ago they were presented again, and what was the auswer to their appeals? "Go home, work harder, live closer and stay out of politics, and all will be well." Only three months ago we again knocked at the door of the present congress, and what has been the answer? After four months of discussion about the poor negro and the wild Indian they have passed a resolution of "sincere sym pathy" for the poor white man. That's all, and now we are not asking sym pathy, or charity, but simple justice at tbo hands of our national legislature. We want relief, and as 1 have said on many a stump, we are contending for it and must have it, even if we have to wipe the old national parties out. W. J. Talbert Interview in Charleston News and Courier. me Alliance Idea la MaMachatelta. The Alliance of Massachusetts has held its convention, and has bad the triumph of seeing upon its benches a number of the must distinguished literary men of Boston, among them Edward . Everett Rale and Edward Bellamy. The truth is thnt the Alliance voices some of the most advanced theorists of the country. It represents those ideas in politics which arc most iulcllecTual, experimental and progressive. The w orld-Lerald u not in sympathy with all of the more ex treme measures of the Alliance, but at the same time it realizes that the Alli ance has had a healthy effect upon the nation. The Alliance doctrine is that what is for the good of the peoplo is for the good of the nation. It is firm in its advocacy of equal rights, and it is but natural that it should enjoy the encour agement of soins of its most distinguished and advanced men of letters. It is also gratifying to know that dele gates were chosen from every district in Massachusetts at the convention, to be present next July in Omaha. Omaha World-Derald. No fr'uloa In Kuui. A Topeka correspondent of the Wash ington Star says: All the leaders of the People s party are opposed to conceding anything to the Democrats. They say they can win without them, and have no proposition to make to tbcm except that if they want to vote the People's ticket they can do so without any regard to the desires of the Democratic committee. The People's party call their state convention to meet in Wichita Jnne 15, when aa electoral and state ticket will be put in the field and congressmen at large nominated, and delegates chosen to the national convention, which meets at Omaha July 4. They declare their in tention to "keep in the middle of the road," and advise the Democrats that if they want to be "in it" in Kansas they must get into the procession and as near the People's party band wagou as possi ble. -,- American. Reient the Con.plracjr. "But as for me, give mo liberty or give me death," was the noble spirit that actuated Patrick Henry in his re seutmcnt of English domination by a king, and were he alive today he would resent with even more vigor the domina tion through corrupt and traitorous politicians of England by her gold. Americans do not deserve the name of Americans who do not resent this con spiracy against their liberties. National Economist . Strong- In Bllululppl. A mass meeting about 500 strong at Pontotac, Miss., presided over by N. M. Bradford, indorsed the St Louis plat form and declared for independent po litical action. They adopted resolutions to this effect, and appointed four of the brethren iu five supervisors' districts to act as county executive committee. Plenty ol Gubernatorial Timber In Sanaa. The remarkable part of the prelimi nary canvass by the third party for gov ernor of Kansas is that there are no self announced candidates on the list, for the office must seek the man and not the man the office in the third party. Peo ple's party candidates are all in the bands of their friends, und will make no expression upon tho subject of their pro posed candidacy except to say that they are willing and ready to do the bidding of their party. Among tho men men tioned for gubernatorial candidates are A. F. Allen, of Douglass county; W. D. Vincent, of Clay county; S. M. Scott, of McPheroou county; John F. Willits, of Jefferson county; C M. Williams, of Reno" county; P. P. Elder, of Franklin county, and Frank Doster, of Marion county. All of these may be said to be in tho field. '''.- ...'.-'-.. W. I. 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