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A Paper Of, By and For the People!
VOL. IV.
MED FORD: OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1892.
NO. 33.
SOCIETIES OF MEDFORD.
K. of P. Talisman lodge No. 31, meets M ra
day evening at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers al
ways welcome. M. W. Skeel, C C.
J. A. Whitman. K. of R. & S.
A. O. IT. W. Lodge No. 98, meets every sec
ond and fourth Tuesday in the month at 8 p. ra.
in their hall in the opera block. Visiting
orothera invited to attend.
j. A- "WHrrRSTDS, W. M.
. 6. F. Merkiji AS, Recorder.
I. O. O. P. Lodse No. 83, meets in I. O. O. P.
hall every Saturday at at 6 p. m. Visiting
brothers always Welcome.
D. S. Youkgs, N. G.
A c. Nicholson. Rcc Sec
I. O. O. F. Rogue River Encampment. Lodge
No. 3d. meets in I. O. O. F. hall the second and
fourth Wednesdays of each month at 8 p. m.
W. I. Vawtkh, C. P.
B. S. Webb, Scribe.
Olive Rebekah Lodge No. 28. meets in I. O.
O. F. hall first and third Tuesdays of each
month. Visiting sisters invited to attend.
Mrs. D. S. Youngs, N.G.
A. C. NlCHOLSOS, Sec .
A. F. & A. M. Meets first Friday on or be
fore fall moon at 8 p. m., in A. O. U. W. hall.
N. L. Narksgax, W. M.
J. S. Howard, Sec :
G. A. R. Chester A. Arthur Post No. 47.
meets in G. A. R. ball every second and fourth
Thursdays in each month at 7:30 p. M.
6. C. Noble, Com.
J. H. Fakis, Adjt.
P. A. I. TJ- L. L. Polk lodge No. 265, meets
every Tuesday at 8 p. m.
G. S. BRIOG5, Pres.
Epworth League meets each
Sunday even-1
in; at S:J. D. T. Lawton,
Fiilde, secretarv.
president. Julia
Yonng Psople's Littriry meets Friday even
ing of each week, under the auspices of the
. Kpworth League.
W. C. T. V. Meets at Christian church every
Monday evening at 7 p. xn.
Mrs. a. a. Kellogg, Pres.
lias. E. P. Hammond, Sec y.
Y. M. C. A Meets every Sunday at 3 p m
at M. E. cnurch. W. S. Haixy, Pres.
; M. E. Rigit, Sec -
Secretaries of above lodges will please attend
to corrections. - Any society wishing to have a
place in this directory will please hand in nec
essary data.
CHURCHES OF BEDFORD.
Methodist Episcopal Church E- E. Thomp
son- pastor. Services the second and fourth
Sabbaths: morning. 11a. tm. evening. 7:30 p. m
Prayer meeting at 5 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,
morula r and evening. Worship every Sunday
morning. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Prayer
. meeting every. Thursday evening.
Presbyterian Churcn F. J. Edmunds, pas
tor. Preaching at II a. m. and 7:50 p. m. San
day school at 10 a. m. Y. P. S. C. K., 6:15 p. in.
- Baptist Church is at present without a pas
tor. Prayor meeting every Wednesday even
ing. Sunday school at 10 a. ra Further notice
given as soon as pastor is secured.
The pastors cf the different churches are re
quested to attend to corrections.
E. p
PICKEL,
Physician and Surgeon
Medford, Oregon.
Office: Rooms 243. I.O.O.F.
BIdg
B. WAIT,
Physician and Scrgeon.
Medford, Oregon.
Office: In Childers' 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
R. O. F. DEMOREST,
Resident Dentist.
Makes "a'', specialty of first-class
work at reasonable rates.
Office in opera house, Medford, Or
BOBT. A. MILLER
Att'y and Counsbixor-at-law.
Jacksonville, Oregon.
Will practice in all courts of the
State.
J.
H. WHITMAN,
Abstractor and Attokney-
At-Law.
Medford, Oregon.
Office in bank building. Have the
most complete and reliable ab
stracts of title in Jackson county
fILLARD CRAWFORD,
Attorney arid Counsellok--At
Law.
Medford, Oregon.
Office: In Opera block.
AUSTIN S. HAMMOND,
Attorney-At-Law.
Medford, Oregon.
Qfljce: , J.O.O.F. Building.
AN OPEN LETTER
To J. M. Buckley, J.D., Editor N.
Christian Advocate.
Y.
In your editorial in issue of July
28, appears pome remarkable state
ments, together with a quotation
from Evening Post, to-wit : "The
way to abolish the Pinkertons is to
abolish the need of them," by which
it is admitted that 30,000 private
police are a necessary adjunct to
our social and political system, and
this fact, because you did not deny,
of course ou admitted, as also your
comments prove, and which is, we
believe, true. Here a few ques
tions seem pertinent. First, how
long ago did the Pinkerton system
of police come into service in its
present capacit'? What was the
(-necessity for it, and is our present
social and political system such as
to increase or decrease the necessi
ty for ibis force?
I shall not directly answer these
questions, for the simple reason
that the asking must carry with it
6uch a train of thought as would
preclude such a necessity. Thirty
thousand private police, armed,
drilled and ofiieered, patrolling
this country for the urotection of
the American nifmln in f hpir lift
ibertv and Uui prsuit 0f h.,pp;.
calling? The growing experiences
of the past futv years certainly for-
oids such a conclusion. For when
we are permitted to hear from them
they are guardine-the person, prop
erty or interests of our very rich.
and them only. If this then is
their ctject and purpose, we have
this, picture: It requires S0.OOO
armed, drilled and oilicered private
police to guard 25,000 of our citi
zens and their interests, aguinst
what? .Indians! Foreign invasion!
No. The laboring man, the veo-
manrv and wealth producers of
this country and 25,000 public
police (army)to guard the balance
of our citizens against Indians, for
eign invasion (the capitalists) and
U preserve the honor of the dear
old nag. For not one of the Pink
ertons are hired for that purpose,
and was the flag in danger, they
might be, and it is more than prob
able would be found on the other
side.
To the uninitiated this picture at
first reveals, what? Why, that all
the virtue, justice and patriotism is
on the side, and in possession of the
very rich of our land, and that
every thing brutish, low and vile is
represented by the laboring classes.
But a closer inspection dispells the
illusion, for under ail forms of gov
ernment known to us, it is the
criminal class that needs and
gets the most guarding. Is it so
tiere? And if the honor of the
flag were this day in peril or for
eign invasion threatened, how many
of these very rich men would enroll
themselves under its fold? Nut
one. And as to the standard of
virtu. "Ghost of Ca;sar 1" "Teil it
not in Gath, publish it not in the
streets of Askelon, lest the daught
ers of the uncircumcised triumph."
Now with all the influence of our
prayers and tears, the increase of
our churches and membership, with
the outgoings of millions of money
to convert and save the heathen,
is our own financial, political and
social svstem growing better or
worse? All say .worse. Surelv
there must be a grievous fault
somewhere, and all along, too, for
the past twenty-five vears, as the
Pinker. on system, most surely testi
fies. Is it true that our govern
ment has grown lax in its adminis
tration of justice, 33 vou more than
infer, and that vice in proportion
has grown rampant? Where, then,
is our boasted civilization? (Do not
misinterpret me, doctor. I am
just now looking from the top of
one hill, and you. perhaps, from
another, as you may readily 6ce.)
Is then a change in ur present
social and political system desired?
Un the .part 01 the laboring man we
answer yes; the very rich, no, em
phatically no. The former desires
a republican form of government,
with all that means. The latter
desires a limited monarchy, or at
least an aristocracy, nnd did you
not say that "a despotism could
settle this matter better than we
can."
Through the channels of legit
imate business the aggregation of
capital in the hands of the few can
never assume proportions antago
nistic to the best interests of gov
ernment, much lesi one in a repub
lican form, but such aggregation
ui.u ue...ra.ilnU,., ui.uugn coi upt
I . . . , 1
that will disrupt any govern
ment except in absolute monarchy,
which cannot exist in any connec
tion with the iiitelliifence of this
country and age. Nor is proof
wanting on most every page of his
tory. But such is our present system
and such' the desired goal of the
moneyed power of our country.- The
road was blazed through twenty
five 3'ears ago, and the rolling stock
and machinery adequate to the end
in vjew is on the road and in thor-
ough working order, and the intel
ligent man who cannot see these
things, unless a sufficient number
can be made to see, will be allowed
to feel the force of the above ere
another decade "throws its nhadow
across the dial of time.
All sin is destructive. How
much more so the past and present
system of corrupt legislation,
whereby billions has been leg
islated out of the poor man's mouth
into the rich man's pocket, until the
wealth of this country is concen.
trated in the hands of the few, and
our republic is such only in name,
and unless soon remedied, lv.ust
pass like republics gone before,
only to be known in history. Is
not the enslavement of the people
to the rule of mammon the quint
essence of "the sum of all villain
ies?" This could not have been
done in an intelligent republic like
ours had not the great re!cllion of
fered an opportune time, when most
every hearthstone was draped in
mourning, and in most every house
was one vacant chair, "then was
Iheirhour and power of darkness,"
and right rovallv was their work
done. All hell must have been
moved from beneath." And this
is the system that requires the
existence of the Pinkerton force.
No wonder, is it, that the possessors
of these illegally gotten fortunes
live in hourly dreaa of justice, but
the law is on their side, and the
majesty of the law must be upheld
' at whatever cost." , You say that
"the rich must be protected in his
legal possessions," but bow about
his illegal possessions? Oh, the
Pinkerton force will protect him in
that. "They are a legal force,
though offensive." Change the sys
tem? When? How? Yes we
will, for the sword of God's eternal
justice "is hanging in the
azure
blue, and not all the 1 inkertoii
force, backed by all the wealth of
this land, though that power be al
most supreme, can thwart God's
design, expressed in the will of a
free people. Then the demand for
the Pinkerton police will cease.
Another Homestead horror the
leaders hunc; then another, a little
larger, and arother, perhaps with
like resui'.s. Then this system of
robber.' and misrule will cease,
perhaps in a cloudless morn, when
the man of peace shall stand on
Mt. Zion; perhaps on fields of strife
that shall crimson all the sky, but
it will cease. These Homestead
scenes are - but of "coming events
the shadows cast before."
"Abstract theories for bettering
the human race should not now be
ventilated." When, ii; the name
of humanity, will be the time?
Does the rumbling thunder which
portends the storm awake in your
thoughts dreadful forebodings?
You, no doubt, would have us wait
until the opportunity to better 'he
condition of the poor shall be
passed. Our political, social and
financial world is thirsty. Oh, for
a shower of justice to fall on all the
land. As much as we deprecate
the results of our system as ex
pressed at Ilomeslead.we deprecate
the system worse. Let us not find
fault with the fruit and still nourish
the tree, but cut the tree down, root
and branch. A subsidized secular
press in the interest of moneyed
power is bad enough, but well
doctor, perhaps wc failed to catch
the spirit of that editorial, but as" a
nation wc arc treading on slippery
ground to-day, and the editorials of
our national papers will be closely
read and pondered.
Ira Wakefield.
The "Dollar" Liar Lrad.
The banker who is loudest in his de
nunciation of the "seventy-eight cent
silver dollar will accept tlio same dollar
on deposit at 100 cents. And nhouIl a
customer, having in his possession a
certificate of deposit obtained from bim
tor Bilver dollars, request that it bo
cashed in cither greenbacks, national
bank cotes or gold, his request would bo
I granted readily, because depositors are
tno Kinu 01 customers mac uauaera use
to please, and because the dcj)osited
silver was worth us much as cither of
the' other kinds of money. Bankers aro
not in the habit of making, even their
best customers, a present of twonty-two
cents on each silver dollar deposited
with them. . Take it all in nil. even the
tariff is not so picturesquely and ear
nestly, not to say religiously, lied about
as the "dollar of our daddies" is: Na
tional Economist.
Weaver's Calamity llotvl.
The first man in this nation to lift up
his voice against demonetization of sil
ver was "Calamity" Weaver. There is
where ho won his title. Tho Democratic
.1 t 1.1 : 1 -r , !. T .1 t..
.1 uiiu ikeiuiuuiau luijis ui me kuiu ikii b v
, dnbbed Wm ..cailllljty because be pre-
dicted tho calamity that now hangs over
tho industrial classes of this nation.
Any one who told the tnith then as
now was dubbed a "calamity howler.".
But say, friends, the calamity howlers
are getting thero, and dou't you fail to
recognize the fact! Road.
Georgia, with a full People's party
ticket, composed of leading citizens, and
supported by the stancheat Georgians,
is in tho light in "dead earnest." Wlieu
Tom Watson and the oilier eloquent ex
ponents of honest government got to
work on the platform tho empire state
of tho sonth will bother the machine
politicians "most to death,"
BED HOT SHOTS
Culled from our Exchanges for the
Boadors of the Mail.
The laws of today are made for
the protection of the strong against
the weak.
The Alliance women in North
Carolina will not use an old party
paper for even a pattern.
The battle is on. Laboring men
are thinking. Men may be im
prisoned, but ideas, never.
The laboring man who casls a
vote ' for Whitelaw Reid ought
to have a very strong stomach.
The democrats will open their
campaign with a corkscrew, while
an ice pick will start the republi
cans. We do not wish capital to ba rob
bed of any of its just rights, but we
object to labor being robbed 01 any
one of its just rights.
The noise of the republican row
in Indiana is getting loud enough
for Harrison to hear it without put
ting his ear to the ground.
Bankers are complaining
shortage of gold They now
how the other fellow feels
of a
know
about
thirteen months in the year.
"The wicked fire when no man
pursuelh," is beautifully exem
plified in the pretended scare of the
Bourbons before the force bill.
It don't make any difference what
a man's politics have been neytr
iiiinu a Don 1 mat; wn.it is he going
to do now? That's the question.
The great common people do not
seem to be having anything to do in
ihe old parties' campaign. They
naturally turn to the People's party.
The New York World exhausted
ten columns of that paper in enum-
:- ,t, f,.k';..ii.f ! n-t ;.
effect.
The Chicago Iiiler-Ocean is a
good pnper for our People's party
folks to let alone. It is the vilest
tool of plutocracy in the whole
country.
A system or policy which breeds
millionaireisni on the one hand and
pauperism on the other is not a
system under which a Rt public can
long exist.
Members of trades unions ought
to make it a rule to keep "out of the
militia except those companies
being specially organized to shoot
Pinkertons.
The great American people are
going on a strikcj.next November.
They are going to strike against
Carnegie. Frick, Phipns, ct al,
making $10,000 a da v.
There 18 an uneasy feeling among
the political leadtrs that is getting
painfully apparent. "Coming.
events cast their shadows before.
Look out for the landslide.
Weil, the old party machinery is
being oiled up preparatory for the
grand hurrah. Mr. Laboring Man,
will vou be found in line with
cither old party this year?
There arc but two sides to the
great political battle lieing waged
today. The money power is on
one sule the people on the other.
Choose ye Jhis day whom yewili
serve.
Tom Watron don't seem to be an
expert in the matter of drunks, and
is unable to draw a distinction
between a dignified congrcsi-ional
jag and a rip-roaring, hurrah, old
booze.
Kansas leads the rebellion. No
body is surprised at anything they
do in Kansas. Suppose she should
conclude to elect Mrs. Mary E.
Lease a United States Senator
next winter?
The republicans of Kansas will
have 1,000 orators in the field in
sixty days. It is precious, little
effect those wind-jammers will
have on the farmers and laboring
people of that.state.
If you sum up the whole argu
ments of democrats this year you
will find it "Cleveland!" "Cleve
land !" "Cleveland !" If the "Stuffed
Prophet'' should drop off he'd be
the end of the party.
When Mrs. Senator Plumb re
fused to allow connress to vote her
$5,000 it almost took tho bTeath of
the republicans away, and some of
'em have been speechless ever since.
It was an awful shock.
It is said that the republican
"fat-fryers" are having n good deal
of trouble in the campaign in secur
ing contributions, as many who have
heretofore contributed liberally aro
refusing to bo milked this year.
General Grant, at the surrender
of the confederates, told them to
keep their horses ; but Old Shylock
gets a hold on ex-confederate and
ex-federal soldiers and not only
takes tho horses but everything
(jlse.
The report that Gresham would
be appointed on tho supreme bench
was certainly never seriously con
sidered. Judge Greshnm is the
last man tho railroads would ever
allow to occupy a position of that
kind. . ,
Weaver, of Iowa, and Field, of
Virginia! The first time since the
war that the South has been recog
nized on a Presidential ticket.
Hence it is the first truly National
ticket in the field since the war.
As was expected, the plutocratic
organs are anouncing that the Peo
ple a party is going to pieces.
I'icces; yes! There will be so
many pieces in November that the
old parties will not know what to
do with them.
With a railroad attorney for gov
ernor, a lawyer for lieutenant gov
ernor, and bankers for auditor,
treasurer, attorney general and rail
road commissioner on the Missouri
democratic state ticket, the farmer
don't seem to be in it.
Who has any authority to say
the great plain people shall not re
possess themselves of the govern
ment? Who can hinder the far
mers and laboring people from run
ning things at their own sweet will
if they choose to do so.
At the last presidential election
the county in which Vincennes.
Ind., is located, cast three votes
for the third pirty. At the rfcint
People's party meeting at Yincen
nes 20,000 people were out, to hear
General Weaver speak.
Should there at any time in tne
future appear 0:1 ihe scene of labor
troubles an armed borlr of Pinker
ton thujrs, ther should be shot
down as mercilessly and with no
more compunctious of conscience
than the killing of m id dogs.
No wonder the cattle barons ar
hot at Jerry Simpson. lie struck
a trail that leads from the Cherokee
str p to H urison s cabinet in d
mauding nn investigation as to why
the cattle are on the strip
having been ordered out months
ago.
The machinery of the old parties
seems to need a great deal of fixing
this year to get it to move. The old
thing ig sadly out of repair. It
don't move off with its old time
ease in fact it looks like it wouldn't
budge at all despite the efforts of
the managers o oil up.
The New York World, democrat,
says "the evils complained of by
the People's party are real." Now
why in the world didn't the World
sny so sooner and insist upon the
democratic party correcting the
evils. Instead of that it has done
nothing but howl tariff for years.
With. Weaver and Field in com
mand there wiil be no North,
South, East or West, but .1 united
whole shall our nation stand, the
J grandest representative of liberty
'jon the globe, because equil rights
to all and special privileges to
none shall ba the rule of that dav.
Visitors to Omaha had an object
lesson before even reaching their
hotels. Passing from the depot up
town to the left stood a large brick
structure bearing in bold letters on
the side, "United States Bonded
Warehouse." Yet tbe sub-treasury
is a danccrous precedent.
In view of tho fact that the tariff
as an issue has been badly mangled
recently, and the force bill bug-a-boo
has been relegated to tbe rear,
.what is the matter with tho two
g. o. p.'s bavin; a class meeting in
each county and tell about each
other's sins? It would keep them
busy during the entire campaign-
Really, friends, it is a serious
matter how you cast your vote this
year. It matters not how you may
have voted in the past. How are
you going to vote this fall? That's
the question. Will you let prej
udice lead you any longer? Will
you not exercise your reason? Do
a liltlo thinking for yourself, and
let your pnrty go to tho devil
where it belongs.
Whew! won't Carnegie catch it
from tho republican organs immedi
ately following the election when
tbov begin to assign the causes
that lead Benny up to his defeat.
Those organs will say then of Car
negie what many of them would
like to say of him now, but dare
not. lie will be skinned alivo for
precipitating tho labor troubles ut
Homestead and the commence
ment of tho campaign in which the
life of tho republican party was at
stake.
If capital does not want labor to
think and act tor itseit, to exer
cise the functions of an intelligent
existence, the school Jiouso must
be abolished. Men boast of our
free school system nnd tho facili
ties for higher education, and yet
condemn thi laboring man because
ho is discontented, because he will
not be satisfied with poverty and
degradation; becauso he aspires to
something beyonu a life of weary.
never-ending toil, because he
wants to educato his children, be
cause ho aspires to tho comforts
and nleasitres of life in short, be
cause he aspires to true manhood
with equal rights and privileges
Tho school house or plutocracy
must go. There isn't room for
both jn this country,
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