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SOUTHEM OREGON Iffllt THE MAIL IS THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND PEOPLE'S PARTY- OK SOUTHERN OUEGON. . ; ' . ADVERTISERS IC Ton study roar burnt later-. tt onapatnmlzo this ppr. It will be appreciated bj all Cbm bM fanners, from whom yoa gt tnOm. - K P", " - -4 ,,, ' - ...... ; ... . - --- - - - ' - v A Paper Of, By and For the People! . . . - ' , vol. iv. ' ... ;, gfflfffr" ;": , medford: Oregon, Friday, july 22, 1892. : ; . ,. no. 29. aMaiaaaaiMMMMaMMaawaaMBMMKMiwMwaMMMaMa SOCIETIES OF MEDFORD. K. of P. Tjlismnn lodge No. 31, meets M m : Say evening at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers al ways welcome. M. W. Skekl, C. C. J. A. Whitman, K. of R. & S. A. O. tl. W. Lodsre No. OS. meets every sec ond and fourth Tuesday in the month at S p. m. in thoir 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 I. O. O. F. hall every Saturday at at & p. m. Visiting brothers always-Welcome. D. S. YOCSGS, N. G. . A C. Nicholson. Rec. Sec I. O. O. F. Rotrue River E No. 3D. meets in J. O. O. F. hall the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at S p. m. W. I. V AWT Kit, C. P. B. S. Webb. Scribe. Olive Rebekah Lodge No. S, meets in I. O. O. F. hall first and third Tuesdays of each month.. Visiting listers invited to attend. - Mrs. D..S. Yocscs, N.G. - A. C Nicholsos. Sec. A. F. & A. M. Meets first Friday on or. be . fore full moon at S p. -m.. in A. O. U. W. hali. N. L. NARItEGAN, W. M. J. s. Howard, Sec. G. A. R. Chester -A. Arthur Post No. 47. meets in U. A. R. hall every second and fourth "Thursdays io each month at 7:W p. M. - G. C NoUL. Com. J. H. Faris, Adjt. ; F. A. & L TJ. I. L. polk lodge No. 283, meets every Tuesday at 3 p. m. J. V. Miller, Pres. G. 3. Biuggs, Ssc Ejworth League meets each Sunday even ing at 6:n. 1. T. Lawton, presideut, Julia Fiide, secrelarv "Sonus People's Lit rrary meets Friday even in; of each week, under the auspices of the Ep worth League. - W. C. T. TJ Meets at Christian church every Monday evening at 7 p m. Mrs. A. A. Kellogg, Pres. Mas. E. P. Hajihosd, Sec'y. Y. M. C. A. Meets every Sunday at S p m. M. K. cnurch. - W.S. HiLLv, Pres. M. E. Rigbt, See. - . Secretaries of above lodges will please attend to corrections. Any scciety wishing to have a ' place in this directory will please hand is nec essary data. CHURCHES OF BEDFORD. ""- Methodist Episcopal Church E. E. Thomp : son. pastor. St-rrices the second 'and fourth Sabbaths: morning. II a. m.. evening; 7:30 p. m Prayer meeting at 3 p. m. Thursday. Sunday school each Sunday as 10 a. m. A. E. Johnson, superintendent. Christian Church P. R. Burnett, pastor. Preaching first and third Sundays in month, moraine and evening. Worship every Sunday moraiug. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Presbyterian Chnrcn-i-F. J. Edmunds, pas tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sun day school at 10 a. m. Y. P. S. C. E :15 p. m. Baptist Church is at present without a pas - tor. Prayer meeting every Wednesday even ing. Sunday school at 10 a. m Farther notice given as soon as pastor is secured. ' The pastors of the different churches are re- quesied to attend to corrections. PiFESiE CARDS. B. PICKEL, Physician asd Surgeon . Medford, Oregon. . 035ce : Rooms 2 4 3. I O.O.F. Bldj J B. WAIT, Physician and Surgeon. Medford. Oregon. OSSce: In Childer' Block. E P. GEARY, . i'uysician ana surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Cor. C and 7th sts, 1 S. JONES, Physician and Surgeox. : Medford, Oregon. , Office: ; Hamlin block, up stairs: . F. DEMOREST, Resident Dentist. Makes a-specialty- of first-class work at reasonable rates. Office in opera house, Medford, Or OBT. A. MIDLER Att'y and Counsklloei-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 mobt complete' and reliable, ab: 1 stracts of title in Jackson county fHXARD CRAWFORD. Attorney and Counseluor--At Lvw. . "Medford, Oregon, . ; Pffice: Irj Opera block. ; AUSTIN S. HAMMONP, Attorby-At-I,aw. Medford,' Oregon. Qffice: I.O.O.F. Building. BANNER BUDGET The Following Three Articles from the Pen of Ira Wake ' field. Are A W03TDEBFUL WHITER. Justice Shalt Triumph A. JJatural Kesult Watchman, What of the Night P Written for the Mail by Ira Wakefield. Justice Shall Triumoh. There's a voice from out the waters, There's a signal ia the sky: The night tieucl yields his lawless To the Uod of day &-.d the realm of of rijrht. The sword unsheathed by yeoman hands, And whet to an edge on slavish bands. Shall return to its rusty scabbard uo more ' " Till justice shall triumph and the land own her power. The ballot! the ballot! hang3 out in the blue, The sword oi the learned, the just and the truo. ; Let the blood rod steel be a thing of the past. And the bullet! the ballot! forever last. While seed vimj and harvest aiternutc shall be. May our land be the home of the brave aud the free. May all r.aiions aud tongues be trans ported with bliss Whan they hear from our balloU. We conquered by this. A Natural Result. Deprecate it as much as we do or may, thes-e terrible days of riot and bloodshed, now hardly passed, at Wardner (Coeur d'Alene mines) and at Homestead, Pa., are but a result of our finaiu-ial and social system, which sooner or' latrr must give place to a more equitable ad justment between cipital and labor. Why should it be delayed? We cannot now see that ar.y good can come of these strikes, but 011 the contrary much present harm. That thesu strikes will increase in mag nhude and nuiiib-rs until an equi tuole adjustment is made, we be lieve, and , perhaps "U is the only thing that can arouse the slumber ing conscience of our nation as John Brown, of Harper's ferry fame, and the victims of Marias du Cygni-, Kansas, in i-lawry times were the ill-omened birds that pre saged the terrible days of the Six ties. So, perhaps, these blood, strikes are the immediate forerun ners of a more direlul cuntiict, the tu-giniui.g of the end of plutocratic missrnle. We liave long h jpjd for a paaceabte settlement of our fiiiaiicial . dilliculty. but as 1 have Defore said, it may require a bloody atonement. But let us hoe not. Bu' if our republic ' is to g. down at ''high noon" while a.- yvt no shadow is cast, il will be amidst such losses of bltHnl ami treasure as our earth has uotknowti since the dawn of Listory, nor will any other gover.iment arise on its ruins, for the ruin will be complete, and not until untold ages have passed away and some other navigator- shall have discovered our shores will it be . ever again peo pled. ' . Watchman, What of ths Niht? - This text comes to us with a new signilicauce . today. We are in a twilight. . Is it the t.viliglit of a morning the world has hoped for so long, or the tivtlight of a de scending dark night that shall crush out every spark of hope that has hung like a ray of glory over a sin cursed earth? WHAT OF THE NIGHT? Two hundred years ago salvation that was supposed to save and make men better and the world happier, was predicated upon works of which the "finance" of the Ro mish church of today is a relic". Under such a conception of the teaching of God's word, men not only did not grow better, but the then civilizaiion was - fast fading out, and what little advance the world had attained unto was prov ing more of a curse than a blessing. t lieu came tne nistorical reiorina tion, and faith became the talis- manic word, roadway and power of salvation and the ; way back to Eden. That it was a more correct interpretation of God'o word'and a vast improvement over the former in beneficial results to the human raoe. the sequel has fully proved. Not -that faith alone is now taught as the oiily . essential to present and future ealvatiou, but has been the absorbing thought and teaching, while lyurks meet fur salvation have been only referred to as incidental or aids to faith. I need but to refer here to the philo- sophical law of human thought and I to extremes, and onlv ask, have not those extremes, in the case stated, deen reached", and do we not see hopeful signs of a reforma-j tion along these lines, in multiplied churches, hospitals, etc. and special efforts for the amelioration of the ills of Man? The churches are begin ning to recognize the demands of the body as never before,, ns having a prior right for sympathetic aid, noil an effectual door for the en trance anil recognition of the higher needs and demands -f the spirit life of man. This is in t he right direction and is everywhere hailed vith gratitude. Only let us not stop slurt of our special privi lege, should we not enter every field of promise? . As churches, do we not recognize all around us the baleful effect of an evil system of rovernment, then content ourselves trying to remove as far as possible those effects, and studiously ignore the cause. Is not our field us much p.ilitieal a social and mural? Nay, at the present time, moie so, for the gigantic evil th t sire over whelming US cnnni-I, le reaelu il or reim-died any other way. Christ, the Son of God, never hut once re sorted to violence, and then in de fense of the poor. The Jewish the ocracy had corrupted into an aris tocracy. The rich had cornered the Jews' shecki l. which was only legal t-nder, at the temple service. (just us Shylock has done this day with our.lejfal tender gold) and for the samp purpose to make capital out of the necessities of the j o -r. Christ with ascou ge drove them from his house. Shall we rumen" ourselves with d iin less with our liallots? The chuhes have the power, have the kiiow,ed,:e and the wili to say that there shall I e one law for the rich and poor alike, or whether the ivior shall continue the subjects of missrule, oppression and class legislation. What of the night? The crisis is upon us. Our churches will no long er have the privilege of ignoring the issue. They must speak from pul pit ami pew, and that, too. with no uncertain sound, and the future of our various churches will depend much upon their action in our pres ent conflict. . Still is Kicking. Talent, July, M, 1S92. Editor Southern Orcitoo Mail: I am kicking, while I am en thusiastic in favor of the public sch-Hil system, and believe it to be the mainstay of the nation, and should be fostered by every legiti mate means in the power of our laws. But it Seems to me that tin: people of Oregon have cause to growl at the "Powers that be," in the frequency that we have to change the kind of school books used; and the trouble is that etery time the change is made the l-ook are of less value. If there was an i ;ij movement it would not be so bad. But the immediate cause of this "kick" is that wnile the eop!e are hiirthened will) a debt thai seems almot out of the question to ever pay, our county Loani has raised die salary of our worthy school superintenbent. I am a, personal Irienu of Mr. Price and think him highly qualified for the position ol schitol superintendent But I also think there are at least a hundred other persons, both gentlemen ulid ladies, that are fullv as well qtialilied to perform the duties of Uie office, that would be glad to do so for a lu?s salaiy than has heeu paiu in uie past, msteau 01 Having it increased. Just consider the case. ''Js' farn ers, while we may not have tl.e time and money invested that would be necessary to obtain an ed ucation suitable to fill such an of fice, we probably have more money invested in our farms and uiachin erv, and I know we put iu more time and harder labor, and 1 do not know of a farmer that is mak ing i7UU from his own labor, in cluding the investment in his farm, on which he has to pay the heavy tax that is required to keep up the interest on the public debt. I say it is time the salaries of our officials should be reduced to suit the cir cumstances of the rest of a, in stead of being increased. I pre Riime I will be classed as a "Jvronic Kicking Krank" by some, but;I appeal to taxpayers to say whether 1 am right or not. Welhorn Beeson. Oregon Wild Grape. The 27th quart jrly session of the Stat j Horticultural soeioty, which has just closed it tntering labors at Hood Rivar, was largely uiWad-'d. One of I"' cP' eneu.uu... tha important f .aturjs of tha session I when we deduct the amount of coin was tho selection of tha Or, gon wild exported and paper currency -de-mith flor to rouresont the royed Ihe amount hoarded by it!st,at3 Various other plants und flow r r,. lU,.,,o,l ,.nH iV,b hlntia.tn of the v-ild irrana was finallv adopted, Whether or not the adoption of this native flower will will meet with gen eral publio favor is not kaown yet. FIGURES WON'T LIE Reliable Tables as to the Amount of Money iu Circulation. AMOUNT PER CAPITA. Bsad Carefully and Preserve fur Fu ture Reference. Through the kindness of G. S. Briggs we give the following clip pings from different sources as to the amount of money in circulation per capita covering different peri ods: CIKCCLATKMf PER CAPITA. Year. Ciiculution. Population. Prcap. li;ki...$:.8iU !WItt Si.SIl!,i8l JoJ 01 liiil... J,"l0.M9.2IS 30.200,5 37 51 21 47 19 ?4 1US.. 7411.7 0.112 73 I.7uj.i:3S 37,010.94 S7.7.9.MK) S''.55.I,S71 :9,7.'0,073 4 i,!i7.s,0O7 42.".,4.).I10 4:!.5 0,7;Vt 44,S)0.7ai 40 2-q.:H4 47.7I4.S29 48.!3".,j 50,151.";St &l.c;o.45i ;"3.2I0,263 54.!o7.i77 5:.5 0.714 5.1J5.23.:5 19,,562 Gi.CS5.ilS 63.533,1.74 ISV.I... 1S70... 1T1... 1-iTi.. I 73... .8 4... 1S7... l70... 177... ISTS... is:a.. HSU... tsst... tsti..' 1st... 18 4... 1SS",... li'G... 1SS7... Will C91.0.S.ST7 CiS4 1.147 101,0.1,313 6o2,S.Hi.7C2 0 ;,j:!2.7:3 !0 4-"7,0 9 6;0.."tOti.i70 55."S.l,il 5.i.04.l-7 5.14,4.4 24a 5-,S..":4,.C; fl t,BSi4:-KJ 1-77.401.04 Ot-S.Sio.S'i'i 691.nG.973 5 SJ 41)"i.i 01 47" ,3.4,301 423.4.'C',.21 IS 70 10 t-9 10 14 l.- 4- 14 51 14 04 13 40 I i ?S 11 21 1J 63 10 :3 II 4S 11 9: II 4- 10 17 8 90 7 G:; 6 07 Vou. friends, gi ve ' I is table of figures n careful ami candid pe- rusal? Theo take a little time 10 rviic-ct, antt don 1 we pray you, 1: in too great a hurry. There are im portant facts concealed beneath this mathematical displav, and it may be the suspicion will tiegin to dawn upon vonr mind that in some direct or remote manner vu have had sonii-thing to do in pmducing-j it. ion certainly wont conclude 1 hat t lies figures have fallen into so suggestive a form by an acci dent, or that they have spontane ously arrayed themseives together without effort and without purpose. They cover, as you see, twenty- two years nearly a generation mid are made to move in regular order towards a predestined end. There mu-t have liecn intelligence hack of ail this. They too plainly teli a tale of dolinerate purpose to admit of U-ing relegated to the do main of fortuitous events. They reveal a cmi'iing hand. They tell of wonderful resources of intellect. Paciiic Union. CinCCLATIOX PEK CAPITA. In the I'acilic Express of Janu ary 9, we quoted an article on per enpita circulation from the Pacific Union, a reliable reform paper pu' lished in San Francisco, in which the per capita circulation wan given for each .year from ISGti to liSS7, showing a decrease from about $52 in 1SGG to $6.U7 in l."87. This table has been disputed by a number of our readers, who are satisfied with the present monopo listic rule, and it has 1 ecu doubted by others, who cannot believe that our finances have been run so fully in the interests of the inonev kings. And yet, staitliug as the table seems, it is only too true, and the wonder to the man who has kept himself Histcd on our financial his tory is the slowness of the people to awake to a realization of the rob bery that has been legalized for the last twenty years. VIm;ii t he first effects of contrac tion wero being fell the subsidised press of the country cried 'overpro duction." and the unsophisticated partisan accented the statement and prayed for a foreign war to make a market for his products, ignoring the fact that thousands of his own countrymen were suffering for f e necessaries of life because of the contraction scheme inai was ueing ing pushed with such vigor by the treasury officials and the Wall street shylocks. A slight relief was experienced in 1881 and 1882 by the coinage of silver, after which by the contrac tion of bank currency and the hold ing of siver coinage down to tho minimum, the downward road was again struck, which has brought us to our present embarrassing finan cial condition. If we take the statement made by President Harrison as a true statement of the amount of inonev in circulation we would find about! ! i a ..: 1 .. : ' ' banks and other schemers, we have 1 ,? .1 .".1 vei v le.icwo iu : ui-nriu ot i startling table quoted from the lu cifio Union is true. As an evidence of the correctness of the figures given, ws call, atten- tion to the fact that in 1877, the Inter-Ocean, good republican au thority, published the following ta ble, which it claimed to have com piled from official sources, showing the amount of our circulation, per capita, and its 1 contraction from 1S05 to 1877: Year. Corrency. Population. Pr cap. 1805... $1,651,282,373 34.819,531 $47 42 1800... 1,803,702,720 35,537.148 50 70 1807... 1,330.414.017 3039,502 30 08 1SG8... 813. Ifi9,777 87.010,9)9 22 08 18 ',9... 7),02.999 37,779,800 19 85 1870... 740.039,179 38,558,371 19 19 1871... 734.244,774 39,750,073 18 47 1S72... 730.349,212 49.978.607 17 97 1873... 7:58.291.749 42.245,110 17 4s 1874... 779,03I,59 43,550,750 17 84 1875... 779.1C7.250 44.8lM5.705. 17 33 1870... 735,358.8:;2 40,284.344 15 89 1377... 090.413,391 47,714,89 14 GO By comparing this with the first eleven years ns given by the article taken from the Pacific Union, it will be seen that the figures are practically the same; and these fig ures taken from the Inter-Ocean of course will not be disputed. Of course we cannot produce the Liter Ocean statement for the ten 3'ears lietween 1877 and 1SS7, because it, for reasons best known to financial reformers, has not yet published the continuation of the above table. But this is sufficient to substanti ate the general correctnss of our former table. At another time we will have more to say on this ques tion. But is it any wonder that busi ness is largely done on credit, and that iu the Mississippi valey states corn is worth Ironi IU to 0 cents, and onts from 10 to 14 cents per bushel? Is it any wonder that inonev is scarce and times are hard? Pacific Express. lhc Chicago Inter-Ucean gave the following table in lSi in an swer to an inquiry: Year. Currcnrr. Population. Pr cap. 1S05...I.G5I.2$X373 i4,819.5si S 42 1S6S... 1.S0 1,702.726 1507... 1.31.411.677 35,5 "7. 143 3t.2i;9,5i2 S7.01G.fS9 S7.7;9,-09 SS.5"S,371 S9.7oO.U73 40.P7S.6.I7 42,24-MlO 4 ,550.7o6 44.S5ig.705 4G.2&V314 47,714,529 56 76 S6 63 22 08 is ;s... 109... 170... 1S71... 1S72... 1S73... l74... 1S75... 1S7G... 1S77... 417,199.773 750.1 2"..( S3 7-0.0:.179 74,244.774 70,34S.H2 7S.:9l.j49 779.031, 5S9 r 778.170,250 7i5.:i5s,cc CJG.44J.S9J 19 19 i 19 10 IS 47 17 97 17 4S' 17 S9 17 33 15 S9 14 GO "The currency included in the nltove amounts comprises demand and one and two year treasury notes authorized by the acts of l)ece:nber 27, 1S57 ; December 17, 1SG0, and March 2, 1S91; tempor ary ten day loans and one year cer tificates of indebtedness; treasury n ites, payable in two yenrs and in sixty days; seven-thirty three year notes, compound interest notes, 3 er cent certificates, non-interes Iwaring demand and and "legal ten der notes, fractional currency, state bank notes and national bank notes." State bank circulation tl42.019.G3S National kink circulation.. H6.2.-.7.ST.0 D.-mand notes 472,603 Lgal tender notes. 4o2.US7,ft;G On j und two year notes. . . . 42.338.710 Compound interest notes... 1!K,756.0$0 Fractional currency 25,O05,52S Total S9S3.S15.6S5 Amount outstanding as ikt treasurer's report, 1SS9 ?l,G6C,0O3,000 Ixss in gold..52(0.0.000 Loss in silver. 20,0OJ,0J0 Loss in paper cu rroncy . . . 50,C00,0CO Loa in frac paper cur. . 6,000,000 Held as re serves, to tal 603,000,000 H.-ld U. S. trdasury ro aervo 337,000,000 Coin sent n broad 67.000,000 Bullion count ed as cur. . . 76,000,000 1,335,000,000 1,S35,000,OX 331,CO3,000 I will give the following tables, showing the amount of currency in circulation in the year 1SG5 and 1SG6: 1S65. National bank notos $171,32:,903 L'inil tender and other notes . . wa,vio,;w .. 58,000,000 .. 830,000,000 Stats bunk notes Sjven-thirty notes. . . 11,738,240,703 18C6. National bank notes $280,253,815 Stato bank notes 9,748,025 Legal tender and other notes 608,S70,823 Seven-thirties 830,000,000 $1,728,872,668 Mohawk, Aug. 17, 1S75. Sirs: Your letter ol the 15th inst. has been received. In answer I have to sav thut the seven-thirty notes were intended, prepared, issued mid used as money. very uespeciiuuy loura. Bcrkev's MoneT System (1S76) gives the money in circulation Oc tober 31. 18G5, as follows: Coupon interest notes . ..$173,012,141 00 Sjven-thirty treas. notes 830,000,000 00 days notioa 09,107,715 46 Cortifioates of indebted ness 55,905,C0O 00 Tr.asurv notes. 5 ner ' eottt....." S2,5S6,901 00 United Slates notts 428,110.569 00 Fractional currency 26.0."S7,4t9 20 Nutional bunk notes .... 185,090,OCO CO Stato bank notes 65,0C0,0C0 CO Total circulation.. 1,804,779,855 66 - Raisro) Journal Davis & Pottenger, -0 Dealers In GROCERIES, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, Ciunaware, Woojsa & WiEowware. GOOD GOODS AND LOW PRICES. GIVE US -A. 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COMPOUXDED DAY ASO MGHL; dispatch. Our stock of Medicine : and of the best quality. & WEBB, - Oregon, lie lay, feel or Moil Side of the S. P. R. R. Depot. VADT10 - diuuiy - imuo, DDTP7 f" --- i. -""""- ...i-