SOUTTO M i M J OREGON ADVERTISERS I Do you study your best Inter- I THE MAIL IS THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND PEOPLE'S PARTY OK SOUTHERN OREGON. Do you study your best Inter- chlh nou pairouizfl inifi pap:r. i I will be appreciated by all the best farmers, from whom you get trade. A Paper Of, By and For the People! VOL. IV. MEDFORD: OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1802. NO. 19. STATE PLATFORM Adopted by the People's Party, at Oregon City, On March 16, 1892. PLATFORM Preamble: "An isjdrt to oss is thk cos cxBsorAix." I. We demand a national currency, issued by the general government only, a full legal tender tor all debts, public and private, and tbat with out the use ot 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 St. Louis conference, and land loans, or some bkttbr SYSTKM ; also by payments in 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 npon the wealth and law milking power of the country, and that we demand that the amount of the circulating medium be speed ily increased to not less than $30 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. 3. 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 J be reclaimed by the government and held for I 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 beinga meansot 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 withia the state, and that the present rates be reduced one-third. Tne telegraph and telephone, like the post ofnee system, being a necessity for the trans mission of news, should be owned by the gov ernment in the interest ot the people. We demand that all moneys asked and appro priated tor the improvement of the Columbia river be spent in building and operating a ruil 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 2 per cent lax on money loaned by the goverumeut, and a graduated property tax. No exemption for indebtedness should be al lowed, auless the persoa claiming suh exemp tion, should five in a corresponding taxable credit. 5. Whsrbas, The working people are en tirely aader sanjection to the plutocracy, which compels one portion of them to work too many hours, and thereby increasing the army ot the unemployed; therefore be it KxsoLWD. 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 controversy 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 bv state agents, said (roods to be pure and sold at cost, without profit to the agents, and shall I sixty feet of the place where delivered nor in aay place ot resort of gaming, thus abolishing license, the saloon in society and the saloon in politics. That the national government shall not license the sale ot 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 tolfee doctrine ot equal rights to all special privileges to none, and that will never cease our efiorts till every citizen shall stand before .the law equal in intellectual, moral and civil privileges. 8. We demand the passage of a law which will prevent the immigration ot Chinese to the Unitea States. o We demand that the state publish the school books and cell the same to the people at cost. 10. That county officials be paid a stipulated salary. 1 1. We object to the government having any thing to do with the Nicaraugua canal, unless It owns and operates the same at cost. 13. Resolved. That we are in favor of elect ing an 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. E B. PICKEL, Physician and Surgeon Medford. Oregon. Office: Rooms 2 & 3. LO.O.F. Bldg B. WAIT, Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Childers Block. E, P. GEARY, U 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 ROBT. A. MILLER. Att'y and Couhsbiaor-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 TJTILLARD CRAWFORD. Attorney and Counsellok.- -At-Law. ' Medford, Oregon. Office: In Opera block. AUSTIN S. HAMMOND, , Attorney-At-Law. Medford, Oregon. Office: I.O.O.F. Building. ' N Leading Topics of the Day Im partially Discussed. WORTH READING. The First President Elected Under Ballot Reform This Tear. THE CHANCE OF THE -PEOPLE'S PARTY. It had 'been thought that the tre mendous ''Farmers' Alliance" wave of 1S90 was subsiding, and that the Peo ple's party, which has grown out of that movement, would make very lit tle trouble for the old parties in the presidential, congressional and state elections of this year. But the fate of the Bland bill has given the third party move just the fresh impetus that it could most have desired. The prin cipal part of the platform of the Peo ple's party is the monetary and finan cial creed it contains, and the cardinal article of that creed reads as follows: "We demand free and unlimited coin age of silver." The new party that swept several southern and western states in 13S0 is not going to lose the opportunity that Mr. Bland's defeat gives it to enter the field this summer with a radical and unequivocal plat form, and to attempt to capture the electoral vote of several states. If the logic of its position will further com pel the democratic party to adopt a delphic silver plank at Chicago that will mean everything and nothing, and if to crown it all Mr. Cleveland whose anti-silver message was the strongest and ablest state paper of his entire administration shoul'd be the nominee, it is hard to see what excuse great masses of men in several western and southern states could find to support either the democrats or the republi cans. But the republican position will have the merit of distinctness, while the democrats seem now condemned to awkward ambiguities on the coinage question until election day. Such men as President Polk, of the Farmers' Al liance, Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, and Mr. Donnelly, of Minnesota, will not be re luctant to utilize this chance for ag gression. THE COUNTRY'S INTERNAL PROGRESS. This country is so vast in its extent and in its interests that few people are placed at a vantage ground which would make it possible for them to per ceive and realize the great internal movements and changes that are add ing new chapters to the story of our na tional development. But secretary Noble, of the department of the inte rior, might from . his pose of outlook tell a strangely fascinating story of what he has seen with 141 the past few weeks.- Particularly interesting would be his report of the speed with which the allotment of lands to Indians is progressing, accompanied by the open ing of large tracts of excellent land to settlement by white pioneers. Never before has the administration of Indian affairs been half so comprehensive; and it is not impossible tbat the revo lutionary improvements that have been made in the treatment of the aborigines may be accounted in history as tho most creditable of the achievements of the Harrisonian period. Under Mr. Noble's supervision the general land office and the various other concerns of the great portfolio of the interior have had prosperous management. The flurries that have brought the pension office under congressional investiga tion affect minor questions, and no se rious discredit has been thrown upon the general operations of that bureau. The country at large is entering upon a marvelous period of internal devel opment. - MR. RUSK'S DEPARTMENT. While Mr. Chaplin, who is the English minister of agriculture, is busying himself with socialistic pro jects for the distribution of the land among the farm laborers, Mr. Rusk, the first incumbent of our new Ameri can department of agriculture, has conceived of his mission as one chiefly of education and scientific inquiry. The department is really accomplish ing a great work. Its statistical bu reau grows more and more valuble to the producing interests of the country. Its experimental stations are working out hundreds of local problems in dif ferent parts of the land. Its horticul turists, pomologists, entomologists, bot anists, chemists and microscopiets are making discovei ies and disseminating information such as no farmer or group of farmers could possibly ascertain un aided; and this new knowledge is of in calculable economic value. The for estry oureau and the "animal indus try" bureau are branches of the de partment that have the utmost import ance, and that involve subjects requir ing attentive governmental supervi sion. There has been much discus sion of the abstract question whether, ; since agriculture, as a great economic IIS AND OTES interest, has been "recognized" by a cabinet position, labor, manufactures, commerce and tra nsportation, as eco nomic interests of great magnitude, ought not also to be "recognized" in the same way. In general, the execu tive departments exist to carry out actual work essential to the operation of the government. Tho ' creation of now departments should be simply a question of convenience and efficacy in organizing the public business. There was actual work for a secretary of ag riculture to do, and Mr. Rusk is mag nifying his office. There does not ap pear just now to be any practical ne cessity for additional cabinet portfolios. THE FIRST-PRESIDENT ELECTED UN DER BALLOT REFORM. The most novel feature of the can vass of 1892, will 03 that it is practic ally made under the Australian ballot system. For three-fourths of the states hare adopted some form of secret bal lot, and these include most of tho im portant states and all of the "doubtful"' ones. '"If," asks the Csntury ed itor, "money is no longer to be the controlling fac tor in the election, will it be either ex pedient or wise to put a professional curruptionist in charge of the cam paign of either party? On the con trary, will it not be the highest polit ical wisdom to put men of character in charge of all the committees national, state, district and other?" That the amount of money spent in the campaign will ba enormously de creased, this writer thinks inevitable, from both a priori consiedration and from tho example of England, where the introduction of the secret ballot instantly killed direct bribery. And, too, he looks forward with certainty to an early American prototype ot the English Corrupt Practices Act of 1S3, which forbade the use of money and influence to unduly affect in any wise the result of the elections, and estab lished a mlximum amount which might b? spent in any on a campaign, the candidate being required to pub lish a sworn statement of all expendit ures. '"In the meantime the political man agers will do well to make s note of the fact that money is certain to play a less important, and reason, argument, a more important part in the campaign of 1392 than those of its immediate predecessors, and select their cam paign directors with this end in view. They can rest assured, furthermore, that the" people are not in a mood to view with complacency tho selection of a professional corruptionist to con duct the campaign of either party. much less the nomination by any party of a notoriously corrupt politician as a candidate for tho presidency, though in these latter days such men have dared to attempt to juggle oven ttas presidency into their pockets." THE PEOPLE'S PARTY AT OMAHA. The uncertain quantity in tho polit ical situation this year will ba the new People's party, representing the Farm ers' Alliance movement and various allied industrial and labor reform ele ments. Tho party is the successor of the old greenback party and of the va rious third party political movements which, under different names, have en listed the support of the same group of leaders. Among the men who will bo conspicuous in the People's party movement this year are President L. L. Polk, of the Farmers' Alliance, Mr. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, and Mr. James B. Weaver, of Iowa. The national convention will be held in the city of Omaha, Neb., on July 4. Each congressional district in the United States is entitled to send four dele gates, and each state to send eight del egates at large, making a total dele gate body of 1776. Tho failure of tho democratic houso to pass a silver bill is expected to very greatly strengthen the Farmers' Alliance movement and People's party in the south and south west. The next annual session of tho Supremo Council of the Farmers' Al liance and Industrial Union will not be held until after the election in Novem ber. In California. Tha People's party of Los Angeles connty, Cal., held a convention at Los Angeles and indorsed the St. Lonis plat form. The convention was a lurge and harmonious one. Delegates were pres ent from the Farmers' Alliance. Citi zens' Alliance, Knights of Lnbor, Wom an's Suffrage association and Veterans' Alliance. Tbemmor that a fusion would be made with the Democrats in Los An geles connty was denounced as without foundation. The Third Tarty In Iowa. The Iowa state convention for the election of delegates at large to the na tional convention at Oluuha. Jnly 4, will be held at Des Moines on the afternoon of June 7.. The district convention for the choice of district delegates to the national convention will bo held in the same city in the forenoon of the same day. Fanners' Alliance In Pennsylvania. The fourteen branches of the Farmers' Alliance in Berks connty held a con vention at Jacksonwald, with 100 delegates present, and among other business .transacted resolutions were passed demanding from all county officials the more ecouomicmanagement of county affairs, demanding free text books, declaring that the telephone and telegraph should be operated by the government, and asking their repre? sentatiyes to support the antioption bill. THE SITUATION. It Looks the Most Important Sines 1860. PEOPLE'S PARTY PROS PECTS. The Demand fcr Free Silver Coinage Strong m the South. Hie failure of the silver coinage bill In tho house of representatives has given a tremendous boom to People's party prospects. Anything, indeed, more auspicious for the success of that party in November conld not have happened. Tho demand for free silver coinage, while strong in the west, is still stronger throughout the south, and from the be ginning of the People's party movement, the southern Fanners Alliances have terved explicit notice on the Democratic barty that if the present Democratic Louse failed to pass the silver bill they would desert it in November, and vote in a body for the candidates of the new jMirty. The only argtiment by which a portion of the membership of the south ern Alliances has been hitherto kept back from committing itself outright to the People's party has been the promise that the Democratic home would heed their demands. We do not believe that there is an Al liance man in the south today who has not definitively made up his mind to vote for the candidntes nominated at Omaha. Even if the Democratic na tional convention, terrified by the situa tion, should take the back track and in sert a silver plank in the national plat form, it wonld be of no avail. After the action of the house no promises the con vention might make would command any confidence, and indeed wonld only make the situation of the Democracy more desperate by alienating its gold standard constituency in the north and east, which is all tbat is now left of it. In fact, the probabilities are altogether that the Wall street wing, having now won the battle, will strengthen its grip and by the nomination of Cleveland bar the door against the possible return of the disgruntled southern ore. What does this mean practically? It means that the People's party ia Novem ber will probably carry five southern states, being tho two Carulinas. Georgia, Mississippi and Arkanriis, and possibly seven, if the southern Alliance congress men may be believed. In the north the new party has all along been likely to carry Kansas and Nebraska and the two Dakota, but in the silver states of Mon tana and Colorado its prospects of suc cess are at least 50 per ceuu better than before the defeat of the silver bill. That is to say, there is now a reasonable prob ability that the People's partv in No vember may carry from nine to thirteen states. This means that no president is likely to be elected by the people, and that if the houso of representatives shall elect a Democrat he will be the worst case of a minority president that ever went into office. lift will the houso of representatives necessarily elect the Democratic candi datv? Supposing the solid south the stronghold of Democracy shall have re pudiated the Democratic candidate by strong popular majorities, will the south ern Democratic congressmen who want to be re-elected vote to make president the candidate condemned by their con stituents? Will they be so self sacrifi cing? Do you ask whom they will then vote for? Well, the constitution restricts their choice to the three presidential candi dates who received the largest electoral vote. They will thus have to elect either a Republican, a Democrat whom their own constituents havo rejected, or the People's party candidate, whom their constituents have voted for. Figure out for yourselves what they may possibly conclude to do. The fuct is, tho coming presidential contest, when the press and the people begin to realize its realities and possibili ties, is going to be the most interesting one since 1B60, as it will the most criti cal in its political consequences. The Republican party is already split (O the base, and is kept standing only by the hitherto solid opposition of the De mocracy. Now that tho disruption of the Democ racy has ooiiie a general disintegration and rearrangement of political forces is inevitable. In that rearrangement we shall find the capitalistic and nntipopn lar wings of the two old parties uniting to-form a party of opposition, while the popular and progressive wings of both will unite with the movement now known as the People's party to form the party of progress which slmll build the new nation. It is good to be alive in these days and to have a part in these thiugs. New Na tion. The People' Opportunity. Distrust, apprehension and alarm per vades the public mind, and confusion, consternation aud chaos reign supreme in political circles. Even among the most astute politicians aud statesmen, whose long experience and wisdom have given them a reputation for political sagacity, not one of them today could be found who would risk that reputation ou the expression of a definite opinion as to what will be the status of political parties three mouths from this date. The acknowledged leaders of the two old political parties appear to be utterly at sea, without chart or compass, L. L. Polk. GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS. Some or the Advantage of Pa bile Owner ship Kzplalnetl by Professor Kly. At a recent meeting of the Johns Hop kins Historical semiuary in Baltimore Professor Richard T. Ely read a paper upon the "Railway and Social Democ racy in Germany," and among many other excollent things he said: "I was very much impressed during my stay in Germany by the superior service of the state controlled railways of that country as compared with the careless manage ment of our own lines. There was scarce ly an accident in Prussia daring the whole summer, while in this country nearly five times as many passengers are injured or killed outright. The Ameri can railways have not enough employees to insure safety and attention. England has four times as many men and Gor man y even more. "We are fully thirty years behind Germany in safety for passengers. There are no augnarded crossings allowed to menace the public Even at the stations there is no crossing the tracks to reach outgoing trains, as is the case in our own union station. To get on the other side in Germany yon must descend a flight of steps and pass through a tunnel under the track. The stations themselves are models of beautiful architecture. The new one in Frankfort cost $8,000,000. When the government intends to erect a new station it offers a prize to architects for ornamental designs. There is a max imum of comfort received in railway travel, as the stations are all union sta tions, which is possible since the govern ment controls all the Hues. "Since I was in Germany ten years ago many improvements in speed have been made, fifty miles an hour being the schedule time for many trains. The ex press from Berlin to Hamburg made fifty miles an hour, all stops included. Government ownership also opens a way for the use of the railway for social purposes. Tho general opinion is that the population is too mnch centralized in the large cities, and by the cheap zone or belt railroad system, soon to be opened in Berlin, workmen may live in the suburbs and work in the city with out much expense. "The government management of the railway finances has also been a bril liant sncccsa, surpassing all expecta tions. In Prussia alone last year, after paying the interest and part of the prin cipal on the bonded debt, there was a surplus of $23,000,000. The reduction in fares and freights annually amount to a general distribution of over 15. 000.000. i must also say a word for the high quality of the freight service, which is fully equal to the express traf fic in many parts of our country. A trnuk can be sent all over Germany with perfect safety and convenience, for a mere trifle, while a few cents ex tra will insure it, and a few cents more guarantee its delivery at a certain hour." Labor la Uollajnl. Sir Horace. Rum bold has made a re port for the o-seof the British royal com mission on labor: At times barely earning enough to support themselves and those who de pend npon them, or loitering a bunt un der an inclement sky in search of work often snatched from them by compe tition from outside; at intervals kept day and niht to their task and only the shortest of breaks allowed them for rest or food; nnder the best ef circumstances working twelve or fourteen hours a day, and, in accordance with what seems to be the more general custom, being given barely sufficient time to get their mid day meal in anything like comfort. No doubt these are only too familiar features in all great laboring centers, but the inquiry made at Rotterdam as suredly reveals an unsatisfactory state of things, more especially as regards the power wielded by the middlemen aud the uses to which it is put It would appear, continued the Eng lish embassador, tbat the conditions on which work is carried on in the two great Dutch trading centers are ill regu lated, and in some respects, indeed, chaotic Although things are said to be going on pretty smoothly, a deep current of discontent as yet almost inarticulate in its expression is clearly perceptible. Not KnooEh Left to "Fum." The editor asked National Lecturer J. F. Willits at the Hotel English, In dianapolis, what he thought of the two old parties separating iu Kansas after the fusion. "Well," said he, "it will be something like the couple who got mar ried, and quarreled on one frosty morn ing as to which one should get np and build the fire. The woman was the one who bad to got up and she was so mad about it that she spilt up her husband's wooden lejg and kindled a fire with it. That made bim angry and be took her false teeth and demolished them: she then clawed ont his glass eye and broke it to pieces. Then he tore off Jior false hair aud threw it in the fire. Next an application was made for a divorce. The court held that there conld be no decree of divorce granted because there was not enough of them left to make 0110 respectable person. This is about the condition of the old parties in Kan sas." -Hoxie (Kan.) Palladium. After Livingston. At tho quarterly meeting of the connty Alliance, held at Rome, Ga a resolution was adopted condemning Congressman Livingston "for leaving his seat in con gress and coming back to Georgia for the purpose of breaking down the prin ciples he once advocated." The resolu tion also called upon Mr. Livingston to resign the presidency of the state Alli ance. Missouri Couveutlon. 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