SOuTHEM THE MAIL is the official paper of the farmers' alliance and people's party of southern oregon: ADVERTISERS j Do you study your bent Inter- I eutn and patronize this paper. It will be appreciated by all liie best farmer, from whom you gel trade. L A Paper Of, By and For the People! . " . . . VOL. IV MEDFORD: OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1892. NO. 25. SOCIETIES OF MEDFORD. K. of P. Talisman lodge No. SI, meets Mon day evening at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers al ways welcome. C I. Hutchison, C C J. A. Whitman, K. of R. & S. A. O. TJ. W. Lodge No. 98. meets every sec ond and fourth Tuesday in the month at 8 p. m. in their hall in the opera block. Visiting orothers invited to attend. I. A. Webb, M. W. B. S. Wbbb, Sec. I. O. O. F. Lodge No. 83, meets in L O. O. F. hall every Saturday at at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers always Welcome. Ch as. Strang, N. 6. H. G. Nicholson. Rec Sec. I.O.O. F. Rogue River Encampment. Lodge No. 30, meets in I. O. O. F. hall the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 8 p. m. W. I. Vawtex, C. P. B. S. Wbbb, Scribe. Olive Rebekah Lodge No. 3, meets in L O. O. F. hall first and third Tuesdays of each month. Visiting sisters invited to attend. Hklex Strang, N. O. Mrs. Bessie Webb, See. A. F. A A. M. Meets first Friday on or be fore full moon at 8 p. nL, in A. O. U. W. hall. N. L. Narksgas, W. M. J. S. Howard, Sec G. A. R. Chester A. Arthur ' Post No. 47. meets in G. A. R. hall every second and fourth Thursdays in each month at 7:30 p. M. G. Cj Noble, Com. J. H. Faris, Adjt. F. A. & L TJ- L. L. Polk lodge No. 963, meets every Tuesday at 8 p. m. J. W. Miller, Pres. G. S. Briggs, Sec Epworth League meets each Sunday even ing at D. T. Lawton, president, Julia Fulde, secretarv. . . Young People's Literary meets Friday even ing of each week, under the auspices of the Epworth League. . W. C. T. TJ. Meets at Christian church every Monday evening at 7 p. m. . Mas. a. a. Kellogg, Pres. Mrs. E. P. Hammond, Sec y. T. M. C. A. Meets every Sunday at 3 p m. at M. E. church. W. S. Hallt, Pres. M. E. Rigbt, Sec Secretaries of above ledges will please cttend to corrections. Any society wishing to have a place In this directory will please hand in ccc- . es-sary aata. . CHURCHES OF. BEDFORD. Methodist Esisconal Church E. E. Thomp son, pastor. Services the -second and fourth Sabbaths: moraine. 11 a. m.. evening. 7 :S0p.m Prayer meeting at S p. m. Thursday. Sunday school each Sunday as 10 a. m. A. E. Johnson, superintendent. . Christian Church P. R- Burnett, paster. Preaching first and third Sundays in month, mornin; and evening. Worship every Sunday morning. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Presbyterian Churcn F. J. Edmunds, pastel-. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sun day school at 10 a. m. T. P. S. C- E 6:15 p. m. Baptist Church is at present withont a pas tor. Prayer meeting eTery Wednesday even ing. Sunday school at 10 a. m Further notice given as soon as pastor is secured. The pastors of the different churches are re quested to attend to corrections. mimm m 1 B. PICKEL, Physician and Surgeon Medford, Oregon. Office : Rooms 243, 1.O.O.F. Bldg J. B. WAIT, Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Offic: In Cbilders' Block. E P. GEARY, Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Cor. C and 7th sts, f, 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 OBT. A. MILLER- Att'y and Couaseixor-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 Counsellor ; ( -At Law. Medford, Oregon. -Office: In Opera block. AUSTIN S. HAMMOND, Attorney-At-Law. - Medford, Oregon. Office: J.Q.Q.F, Building. Grand! FOURTH Hundreds of dollars will be Prizes, Races, Contests, With hundreds of founds of red fire cension. Aobody Seduced Rates on Railroads. After the Battle. Editor Southern Oregon Mail: Now that the smoke of the first battle of the People's pnrtv with enthroned capital has cleared away. let us take a brief view of the field. .First, as a party, we. are in this county but four months old, yet in size we compare favorably with either of the old parties. . That we have barely been defeated is all things considered, a great victory and would be cause for a great rc- lincine were it not lor the tact terrible fact that the evils which we complained of and sought to remedy must still be borne, and what is more terrible still, those evils will increase in an ever accel erated ratio, to the nearness of time when patience, with the friends of law -iiid liberty, shall cease to be a virtue, and the tiger passions of the hitherto . prejudiced masses shall break over all. the dykes of the plutocratic rule and greed. Then, perhaps not till then, wid there be one law for the rich and poor man alike, and justice shall not beg in our streets. It may be that not until out of the debris of this republic another, fairer and grander, arises, snail tie con summation of the hope of ages he realized, to-wit: "Equal rights to all." Justice or death to our re public must eventually be the inev itable. The progressive thought of today will brook no compromise nor know retreat. To prevent sue! a disruption of our social and finan-" cial condition and brin-' about peaceably the desiied and demand ed results, the ballot alone is at present available, and that the ma-J jonty of our people have refused to use that end, and another lense ot power has been granted, and the grantors are no other than the robbed themselves. When will such folly end and the people awake to a true knowledge of their condition? Sound the alarml "Let not the torrent smoothen ere it dash below." What are our schools and churches teaching? Are not both silent upon this all-important sub ject of '"Whither as a nation are we drifting?" True, the schools have tanght us the sciences and the churches to give our bread to the hungry. But the sciences have drifted into vague generalities, and children have graduated from our schools without a proper knowledge of life's stern realities or a shield against them, and our bread has gradually decreased until the giver of twenty-five years ago is riqjif'the recipient ; the very rich have grown richer and the moderately well-to-do have grown poorer. Yet we are told to "trust in God and all will be well." Perhaps that is so, if we also keep our "powder dry." If not, when the lion and lamb lie down together the lamb will be in side the lion. To the old line demo-repubs let me say, you have again sold your "birthright for a mess of pottage," and your liberty for the dower of a slave. Bend once more joyfully your burdened and weary backs to the ever increasing load, when you should have 6tood men, hurling defiance at your oppressors, and victory upon the flag of freedom. Nefall sell your produce of Majestic! OF JULY EDFORD, spent to perfect the greatest celebration in the history of the Rogue River SpeecliesOratioiis, s, Etc., on the evening of the 4th, and the can afford to miss this celebration at corn, wheat and cattle at starvation j prices. You have said by your. votes j abundantly rewarded. The rich man will not, therefore you must divide, your scanty meal with the tramp, for he, too, must have bread ; be would work, but our financial sys tem renders his labor unprofitable. Borrow money at 15 per cent of the national nank when you ought to have it for at most 2 per cent, to keep the sheriff from a foreclosure1, (althougn it is but a question of time), then curse the capitalists for exercising the power you so joyfully gave them; yea, by your votes invited them to take. Grind in vour prison mill, Sampwn like, and like him, when your - strength is gone, eyes out, mocked at and derided, then call upon' your God and look down. He will hear you. Then in your desjeration low your selves with all your might and take hold of the pillars of this re public, and in her crumbling ruins find your only relief in sweet death, and let history inscribe upon your headstone ".Micawher." It is what you have voted for, and presuma bly wanted, and unless you awake soon, that as a people we will surely have. But God forbid that your votes be -an expression of yeur de sires; raClier will I think you were deceived as to the true issue and hojie you may soon awake to the fact and help us save our land and nation. Ira Wakefield. Phoenix, Oregon. As It Is Sams Valley. Ore.,. Tunc 20, 1S02. Editor Su-Jthern Oregon Mall: An examination of the returns of the late election as given in your last issue is interesting and in structive. It clearly proves cer tain matters that were charged against the old parties during the; canvass. I The fact is established that the democratic stomach has become very much stronger since the better class of democrats went into the People's Party. The proof of this is found in the election of Chas. Nickell. Two years ago the Nickell dose was too diastic and could not be gulped down. This year the party could swallow even Foudray if it was not necessary to take votes from him to pay Muller for the.republican votes that were "side tracked to Neil and Nickell. Look at the return from Jacksonville precinct and note the number of votes cast for Neil, Nickell, Muller, Foudray and Owen, and you will see at once that there was much trading among the democrats and republicans of that town. Neil and Nickell got the republican votes that should have gone to Atkinson and Nye and Max Muller got those pilferod from Foudray and Owens. . . The People's Party were "not in it" when it came to trading. They have not yet progressed so far in practical politics. You can PCD bUt IK lllJ VUIDO r W W 11VUMI j uniform among all their candid jates and that there was no grounds for the charge of the Times that there was an unholy trade with ! the republicans. Those who are in jxiBBession of the "goods are CELEBRATIOI OREGON Music, H-BAy Balloon Ascension, Fire Etc., Etc. prandesi display of Fireworks ever seen. Great Illuminated Ballon As Medford. See large am id stnull bills Come from Far and Near. the parties who did the unholy trading. This traffic in votes lias been carried on for years, and is pait of the plan by which Jacksonville's ring succeeds in gaining all the paying offices in the county. IVlton. Nichols and Owen have in turn been slaughtered for county clerk by the Jacksonville ringsters :ind it is hoped that the next democratic nominr.ring convention will placi Mr. Muller in nomina tion for clerk and thus save sonic worth v democratic brother the worry and expense of a fruitless! canvass. Is any more evidence required to prove what the People's Party assert, that there is a democrntic republican ring in Jacksonville, who select the men on both tickets' who are to be elected or defeated, and whose sole object is to secure men who will help keep alive Jack sonville and pay tribute to the ring? This thing will go on until the other towns in the county unite with the old hayseeds of the county and smash the ring that fattens at our expense, and who attempt by crying stop thief to direct attention from those in possession of the plunder. Hayseed. Uov They "Sarcd ttio Naiiun." A corrri-pondent writes that his Re publican ucighbDrj nay that the "na tional banks and bondholders saved tho nation daring the war." He also asJcs U3 t publish the national kink system. It is hardly worth whi!e to publish the national bunk system now that it is on Its last leg. It has b:;t a few breaths in its body. Iet it dio in peace. It has baen a robbvr system and will always bo remetnbered as such. As to bondholders s:ivin,t tUo nation, they "saved" it just about as a hawk "saves" a cbiekeu when ho catches it There -were only about $500,000,000 of bonds taken till the war was practically over. These were taken . in suiall quan tities by patriotic peoplo who wanted to hflp the government. Probably not 0110 bml in a thousand thus purchased is now held by the original purchasers. The national banks hardly "began business" till the war was practically over. They did not wmit to take any chances till they were sure the danger was passed. It is trno the law was passed with tho hope that tho bankora would rally to tho relief of the nation and purchase bonds with which to opou or enlurgo their money shops. To be sure that wo are correct, wo state (from statistics and official reports) that up to Jan. 1, 1805, when the war was practically over, only $0G,7G9,875 of national bank currency had been issued. This shows that -the "patriots" had only purchased of the government about $73, 000,000 of bonds! Just about enongh to carry oti the govtrnineut thirty days. Chicago Express. He Vo in Washington. Wo have been to Washington tho great national capital of our great country. We did not go there as a con gressman, yet we went to holp save the country. Our companion was the last of the "Big 3" of the Illinois legislature the irrepressible Hon. H. E. Taubeneok, chairman of uational executive commit- ; tee of tho Peoplo'8 party. Washington is a great place. It would be a great place if congress wasn't thero, and of coarse that adds to its greatness. It ia full of historic interest, bad wom en and worse men. . Wo visited the treasury department nnd walked ronnd tlie vault that m Beautiful! Valley. Nothing left out. for particulars. tains U.O90 tons of sliver. e Uidnl bring any of it away with ns. It is down in a "hu!e iu the ground" (the cellar), and is considered pretty secure behind the greet network of iron bars which surrounds it. It is funny that so ciety laugh at the miser who hoards his coin, bnt applauds the nation that does the same thing. We saw theia make money oat of paper. Of course snch a thing can't be done, bat right there they? have been doing it for thirty years. I wouderthat some of our congressmen who say it can't be done don't go around to the treasury department and see them do it. Tho process is simple: they just print it according to law and no one questions it when the government pays it out for work. It is only those who don't work or produce anything that say the gov ernment can't make money. National Reformer. A rroblrro for CnrUtlan. Kev. Thomas Dixoli.receuUy returned to Xcw York from a trip through the south, says the condition of the agricul tural population is appalling. "The south is the agricultural garden spot of the world. Natnro invites. Ka ture gives her richest rewards for tho smallest labor expended. When agri culture fails in such a home there is something radically wrong with the fun damental constitution of society itself. "Let our wise men see to it. Tho fail nre of agriculture nndersuch conditio:. is tho beginning ef judgment day for yonr present social system. The city cannot live when the country fails to givo supply. Let our politicians see to iu The country is ripe for a political revolution. The people are restless, dis contented iu uxiay caes despa'rirg. Aud they have good canse for discontent and despair. These are the parents of political and social convulsions. The traditional party that denies these issues or avoids them is doomed to certain end speedy death. It is a problem for every Christian to take to heart. II In Death WnKtlu J. W. Brown, of Atlantic, la., writes as follows to Tho Nonconformist, of In dianapolis: Out ia the Ninth congressional dis trict in Iowa we have a great sensation. Tho Uon. Thomas Bowman, our present Democratic representative in congress, hrs just announced his early political death. Causo, his vote against free sil ver and the way he shears a sheep. Mr. Bowman was elected on a free silver and tariff reform platform, aud his vote against free silver and his vote for free wool as a tariff reform measure do not suit our people. Wa want free sil ver and tariff reform, but we do not want tho farmer gutted aud the manu factories still go protected. The taking of the duty off wool and leaving the duty on woolen goods does not suit the average fanner, don't you see? Shear that sheen tho other way. This early collapso of Thomas' political career makes our peoplo feel like singing, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." . From the Old North State. The Poople's party of North Carolina is preparing to sweep all before it. The St. Louis platform has been adopted, and The Progressive Fanner, Colonel L. L. Polk's paper, says: The true reformers of the Old North State send greeting to their brethren and co-workers throughout the Union iu this manly declaration to stand tirmly by principle. Oud bloss the noble and true men of our state and. country in this hour of our trial and petal. We are taxed to death. . In ISOO it took lJs bushels of wheat or twenty one pounds of cotton per capita to pay our taxes. Now it takes 85? bushels of wheat or 100 pounds of cotton per capita. Pioneer Exponeut. BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! -AT- DflVlS & POTTEflGEfVS. WE WILL. SELL FOR THE OF CROuKERY & GLASSWARE AT COST. COME EARLY AND GET A BARGAIN. Ws Will Also Give Away Ors of Our WiewTea Sets. One Chance for Each Dollar's Purchase of Goods. J. S. HOWARD. Dry Goods, Boots i! Shoes, Grocrcios, and Crockery. The best goods at the lowest prices for Cash. The highest prices paid for country produce. MEDFORD, - - - OREGOX. 1 .... - - - - ' m 1 . it JAMES A. SLOYER 4 CO, MEDFORD, ORE. 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