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SOllTgEM THE MAIL IS TffK OFFICIAL PAP BR OF THE - FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND PEOPLE'S PARTY t OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ADVERTISERS Do yen study your bt lnter eits aod puiroalze this papr. It will be appreciated by oil u-e baat farmer?, from whom you t trace. A . .Paper Of, ' By ' a hd For the People! VOL. IV MEDFORD; OREGON; FRIDAY, SEPT. 2, mi. NO. 35. SOCIETIES OF MEDFORD. K. of P. Talisman lodge No. 31, meets Mon day evening at 8 p.m. Visiting brothers al ways welcome. M. W. Skeel, C. C. J. A. Warm a. K. of R. & S. A. O. U. W. LodRe No. W. meets every sec ond and fourth Tuesday in the month at S p. m. in their hall in the opera block. Visiting Brothers invited to attend. J. A. Whiteside, W. m. G. F. Merrim as, Recorder. I. O. O. P. Lodge No. . meets In I. O. O. F. hall every Saturday at at S p.m. Visiting brothers always Welcome. D. S. YOUSGS, N. G. A. C Nicholson, Rec Sec I. O. O- F. Rogne River Encampment. Lodge No. 30. meets in J. O. O. F. hall the second and ourlh Wednesdays of each month at 8 p. m. W. I. Vawtkk, C. P. B. S. Webb, Scribe. Olive Rebekah Lod- No. SS. meets in I. O. O. F. hall first and third Tuesdays of each month. Visiting sisters invited to attend. Mrs. D. S. Yoongs, N.O. A. C. Nicholson. Sec A. F. i A. M. Meets first Friday on or be fore fall moon at 8 p. m.. in A. O. U. W. hall. N. L. Xakkbgax, W. M. J. S. Howard. Sec J. A. R. Chester A. Arthur Post No. 47 meets in G. A. R. hall every second aud fourti Thursdays in eacZi month at ?:30 p. M. S. C Noble. Com. J. H. Fasts. Adjt. F. A. & I. TJ- L. L. Polk lodge No. 2S3, meet. every Tuesday at 8 p. m. G. 8. Briggs, Pres. Epworth League meets each Sunday even in; at 6:30. D. T. Lavton, president, Julis Falde, secretary. Young People's Literary meets Friday even ing of each week, under the auspices of thi Epworth League. W. C. T. TJ- Meetsat Christian church ever Monday evening at 7 p. m. Mrs. a. a. Kellogg, Pres. Mas. E. P. Haxxosd, Sec'y. , Y. M C. A. Meets every Sunday at 3 p m at M. E. church. W. S. IIallv, Pres. M. E. Ricbv, Sec Secretaries of above lodges will please attend to corrections. Any society wishing to have place in this directory will please hand in nec essary data. CHURCHES OF MEDFORD. Methodist Episcopal Church E. E Tbomp son. paster. Services the second and fourtl Sabbatf s; 'norninff. II a. m,. evening. 7:30 p. m Prayer meeting at 3 p. ra. Thursdav. Sundaj school each Sunday as 10 a. m. A. L. Johnson, superintendent. v (: ... - : . '.' Christian Church P. R. Burnett, pastor. Preaching Grst and .third Sundays in month morning and evening. Worship every Sunday morning. Sunday school at 10 a. m, Prayci meeting every Thursday evening. Presbyterian Chnrcn F. J. Edmund, pas tor. Preaching at ll a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sun day school at HI a. m. . Y. P. S. C. K.. 6:15 p. m Baptist Chnrch is at' preset t without a r-as tor. Prayer meeting every "Wednesday even ing. Sunday school at 10 a. to Further notice given as soon as pastor is secured. The pastors of the different churches are re quested lo attend to corrections. mmmi gibs. EB. PICKEL, - Physician "and Scrgeon Medford, Oregon. Office: Rooms 23, I.O.O.F. Eldg J. B. WAIT, Physician and Scrgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Childers' Block. K 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. I R. O. F. DEMOREST, Resident Dentist. Makes a specialty of first-class work at reasonable rates. Office in opera house, Medford, Or TJOBT. A. MILLER- 11 Att'y and Counsellor-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 county TTTILLARD CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor- -At Law. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Opera block. AUSTIN S. HAMMOND, Attorney-At-Law. Medford, Oregon. OflSce: I.O.O.P. Building. A FAIR STATEMENT. FREE SILVER COINAGE MEANS RELIEF TO W0RKINGMEN. The Government from I70O to 1873 Coined Silver a It Does (Said What . Wanld Happen If 8Uvr Wa Placed In ita Old PoalUon. SeveraJ readers send a request for in formation on tha silver question. They ask what the "free and unlimited coin age of silver" means, and "wherein it irould benefit the masses of our 65,000, 000 of peopltw hovr mnch it wonkl in crease the circulating medium, and what effect it would hare on general trade; and would it not benefit the raining state at the expense of the others?" They ask also what is the amount of money in circulation. The free and unlimited coinage of sil ver means that the United States mints shall coin all the silver brought to them at no other charge than the cost of coin age, which is a trine, any owner of the metal being allowed to deposit it at the mint and have it coined on his account or receive at once its value in silver money already coined. The mints do this now with gold, and from 1780 to 187S they did it likewise with silver. In other words, the free coinage of both metals was the role and practice from the establishment of the mint down to 1873 eighty-three years when silver was practically demonetized by being dropped from the coinage. Five years later, in 1878, under 'the Bland-Allison act, the right of coinage was partially restored, and a - limited amount of silver not less than $2,000, 000 nor more than $4,000,000 a month wae authorized to be coined on the ac count of the government, the govern ment buying the metal at its commer cial price, about seventy-three to eighty cents for the dollar's worth, and there by making twenty to twenty-seven cents on every dollar coined. - This practice prevailed till 1890, when the existing Sherman bullion act was passed, which stopped the coinage of sil ver dollars entirely, and at present gold is the only one of the two metals allowed to be coined. The ratio of silver to gold in this coun ty is sixteen to one sixteen ounces of silver being equal in value to one ounce of gold but owing to the increased de mand for gold in Earope consequent on the demonetization of silver, the increas ing consumption of it in the arts, and the insufficient production of it in the world, that metal has become valnablo above the ratio, and at this time gold is worth (1.30 to the dollar in silver. The practical effect of this is to increase all funded debts 30 per cent., or, which is the same thing, to reduce the prices of all products and property SO per cent., a reerdt which falls upon all producing and deutor classes and interests. If silver coinage were made free this prexaiam on funded indebtedness would disappear, silver would become the standard for measuring debts, since the debtor would have restored to him the option of paying in gold or silver, and the prices of all products would be pro portionately advanced. There won'd follow also an increase of the supply of money in circulation for all the silver that might be o flared at the mints would be coined into money instead of bang used, as now. as a basis for bullion cer tificates. The more good metal money gold and silver a country has the bet ter for the people, for the invariable effect of an abundant supply is to stimu late enterprise, facilitate that inter change of products which we call traSic, increase production and multiply com forts among the people, whereas scarcity of money, as every one knows, is at tended by stagnation, inactivity and hard times.' . The silver product of our own mines in 1891 is estimated at 58,830,000 rmncos, worth, at is coining value, (55,4SI,oC5, but at .its commercial value only $57, 630.010.' The difference, "over $17,000, 000, was a Joss to the Bilver producing states." The passage of a free silver coinage act would raise their silver product from its commercial to ita coin ing value, an increase of about SO per cent., but the silver states would not be the only beneficiaries of the measure, for it would destroy, the gold premium of 80 per cent, on tha fG.000,000,000 in funded indebtedness of one kind and an other resting on the people, and paya ble, first and last, in the products of their labor. It would accomplish this by restoring to them the right, taken away from them in 1973, of paying in the cheaper of the two metals, which is silver, 412 grains to the dollar, instead of being compelled, as they now are, to pay in gold, or in silver and paper valued by the gold standard of $1.80 to the dollar. It is true silver is still a legal tender, and a debtor may pay his obligations to any amount in silver, silver certificates, greenbacks or bank notes; but all paper money is redeemable in silver, and sil ver is measured, not by the ancient original silver dollar, as it ought to be, bnt in gold for the government, under the Bland-Allison act, coined the silver which it bought for $1 into $1.80, thereby forcing the people to pay in labor, or the products of their labor, $1.30 for every silver dollar they get. . Free silver coinage, on a perfect equality with gold coinage, as it existed for the eighty-three years prior to 1873, is the only remedy top this injustice." It would indeed practically take off 30 per cent, from all fnnded 'debts; but this would only be taking off what was wrongfully put on, aud making debts payable at 100 cents to the dollar in stead 130 cents to the dollar, as now. Another effect of it would be to advance the price of labor, products and property by measuring them in silver instead of in dear gold. Southern Allianco Farmer. Fifteen daily papers in Colorado, to say nothing about the vast number of weeklies, have indorsed the Omaha ticket. The great enthusiasm in the state will surpass the tidal wave that nreyt over Kansas two years ago. , SOME REASONS WHY. A Sound Statement of the Objects of the People's Party. . In taking upon ourselves the responsi bilities of political reform and the for mation of a new party, we should feel assured that the necessity exibts, and especially should we be certain that the platform of principles enunciated by the new party will insure the perpetuation of a republican form of government and contains the elements of a speedy cor rection of the evils complained of. Does the necessity for a new party ex ist? Let the conditions of the country at large answer. From Maine to Cali fornia and from Michigan to Florida comes tho cry of stagnation in trade, financial distress, a fast increasing pop ulation of . paupers, with grim visaged want lurking in every city, town and village. These are the conditions which surround us, appealing for redress, and there is none so bold as to donbt the evidences of his own personal knowl edge. - In a country like ours, with all the ele ments of prosperity inherent in climate, soil and citizen, with an unbroken chain of twenty -five years of unprecedented yield of farm, mine and loom, no ade quate reason for existing conditions can be assigned except in vicious legislation. To the thinking mind this is self evident. There is no natural cause for the want of prosperity in the United States, and the responsibility for present conditions must rest upon the leaders of the two old parties which have been charged with the administration of the government conjointly for the last twenty yeurs. Neither can escape or dodge the record they have made. Our general laws are the result of their united work, and each will have to face the history as it has been made. The three great questions upon which they agree involve all of tho active economic polity of our government. Tc vicious and corrupt legislation on these three questions is attributable in the main our present deplorable condition; and the history cf and the declarations through their national platforms make it absolutely certain that there is nc hope of relief or reform through eithei of the old parties; hence tho necessity for a new party, organized for the spe cial purpose of obtaining the enactment of laws corrective of the abuses com plained of. Are the demands of the new party based upon just and sound democratic principles, and are they in conformity with the federal constitution aud tha genius of our government? Will lacy bring (If enacted into law) the relief sought? Tl"ac are ail questions that should bo answired and we confidently believe have been time and again through the reform prwa and from the rostruns. The position of the party on transpor tation is but the logical sequence of the policy of government control, and needs only to be stated to become apparent to all thinking men. On taxation reformers hold that those who own and control the wealth aro the greatest beneficiaries of good govern ment, and should be made to contribute to its support in proportion to their benefits. That a thorough revision cf present methods of taxation as now ad ministered is needed is patent to all. The tax rolls of every county in the United States furnish that proof. They are a blasting and withering ar gument against the present tax laws, and furnish strong proof in favor of just and equal distribution of governmental burdens in this direction. Southern Mercury. , Sooner Than Ton Think. "" Some think it almost a hopeless task to expect anything ia tho way of na tional legislation in the nest few years from the reform movement.. This is a very mistaken idea. It is very liire'.y that 'tho People's party and its sympa thizers will have a majority in the hortc before long, perhnps hold the balance of power in the next session of congr??. At present the senate has eiglity-ei;;ht members forty-sev6n Republicans, thirty-nine Democrats send two People's party men. So to bold the balance of power the. reform element only has to gain a few members. ' The terms of twenty-nine senators expire next winter and two vacancies are to be filled. It is possible that a large portion of these will bo filled by reform men. To do this good legi natures should bo elected, especially in every state having senators to elect. Nothing is required but plenty of work. Every man should eeo to it tha; plenty of work is done. Timidity and inactivity will not do anything. Pro gressive Farmer. Only Eight Totee. Of all the Republican members in the present houso ji' representatives but eight voted for the Stewart free coinago bill. All the rest votod against it. If this vote fairly represents the pro portion in the Republican party favora ble to free coinage, then Colorado Re publicans should desert not only Harri son, but the party, at once and forever, for it would make it plain that Repub lican voters in other states were prac tically unanimous against free coinage. ...But the vote dors not fairly or at all represent the strength of. the free coin age ; Republicans. It does represent, however, the power of a hostile presi dent to make cowards of weak hearted but well meaning members of congress belonging ; to the president's party. Rocky Mountain News. ! " ", '- A One Man Party. In the consideration of the Stewart free silver bill by tho house, the Ameri can people have been treated to a spec tacle of one man power, such as they have never before witnessed. It was the wish of Cleveland that the Dcmocratio house should not have a square vote on silver, and it was for this reason alo'uo that a motion for its ini mcdiato consideration was defeated. TI48 action of the house leaves tho bill at the foot of the calendar where it wfll sleep forever. 3oailiern Alliance Farmer., : ; . r :; ; WOMEN OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. BInch of the Movement' Saccesa tu Kn as Is Due to Their Enthusiasm. Annie L. Diggs writes in Tho Arena of the women who are influencing poli tics in the west, particularly in Kansas. Speaking of the beginning of the revo lution which overthrew ex-Senator In galls, she says: Politics for the furnior bad been recre ation, relaxation or even exhilaration, according to the varying degree of hia interest or of honor flatteringly bestowed by town committeemen upon a "solid yeoman" at caucus or convention. The flush of pride over being selected to make u nominating speech or the sense of importance consequent upon being placed on a resolution committee to ac quiesce in tho prepared document eon venieutly at baud these high honors lightened much muddy plowing aud hot harvest work." But the farmers' wives participated in no such ecstasies. lience for them no blinding party ties. And therefore, when investigation turned on tho light, the women spoke right out in mooting, de manding explanation for the nonap pearance of U10 home market for tho farm products, which their good hus bands had been prophesying and prom ising would follow the upbuilding of protected industries. These women in the Alliance, grown apt in keeping closo accounts from lung economy, cost eyes over tho long account of promises of official managing public business, and said, Promise and performance do not balance." "Of what vaiuo are conven tion honors, or even elected eloquence in the national Capitol, if homelossccs must be our children's heritage?" The great political victory of the peo ple of Kansas would not have been wou without tho help of the women of the Alliance. Women who never dreamed of becoming public shakers grew elo quent in their zeal and fervor. Farm ers' wives and daughters roee earlier and worked later to gaiu time lo cook the picnic dinners, to paint the maV.ocs on the banners, to practice with tha glee clubs, to mcrch in procession. Jesh El. lings' saying that "wiinmin is everywhere" was literally truo in that wonderful picr.-iciiing. speechruaking Alliance summer of ISO. Before this question of tho salvation of the imperiled homes cf the nation all other questions, whether ef "prohibi tion" or "sulrage," pile into relative in consequence. For where shall temper ance or high thought of franchise be taught the children, by whose breath the world is saved, if saered hearth fires shall go out? The overtopping, all em bracing moral question of the age is this for which the Alliance came. Upon such great ethical foundation is the la bor movement of today buildic itsolf. Eow cor.ld women do otherwise Uiaa be in and of it? A Continued Ovation la Colorado. The, tour of Gerjeral James B. "Weaver, the People's nominee for president, across Colorado was a series of constant ovations. In no campaign of any kind in this state has a candidate ever been received with so many and so genuine demonstrations of enthusiasm and ao many pledges of support. In Denver he filled the largest audKorinm in the fit y for two eucee?sive ovenings, thousands finding it impossible to gain entrance to the coliseum. At Puebio the snticions mineral palace could cot hold tho throng that flocked to hear him. At Le.tdv!lle two meetings wore necessary fat order that lbs miners might bear the only candidate who is pledged to sign a freo coinage bill." At Aspen the welcome given him by tho Pitkin county miners surpassed anything ever seen in the way of a political demonstration in the state. At Grand Junction the farmers and fruit growers of the Grand valley gave evidence of theirdevotion to the silver cause by an enthusiastic greeting to tho champion of free coinage. All along bis route, at Canyon City.Saliua. Buenn Vista, Glen wood Springs and Newcastle, the People's nominee .was received with unusual demonstrations of elcom. No such triumphal tour was over beforo made by any political candidate in tho Rocky mountain country. Amid all these demonstrations Gen eral Weaver has borne himself with n courtesy and a dignity that has gained for him the respect and confidence even of his opponents. His speeches have been frank and able tnd mauly. Hia arguments have made a visible impres sion on tho people of the state. They cannot bo answered by calling him a "worn out politician" or a "deino gogue." Rocky Mountain News. Thm Women at Oxnafaa. The women of the Oinalia convention constitute a factor in this great contro versy that cannot be forgotten. It was a great political convention that knew no discrimination on account of sex. Women were there occupying scat and doing work as accredited and accepted delegates. Not only this, but broad -tniuded, able and earnest women wero there who did valiant and successful work in fashioning and determining the deliberations of the delegates. From the south and the west and tho middle states aye, and from tho east also tho women of America were at Omaha. They were thore, first of all, to recognizo present conditions and to lay on tho altar all they have and are for industrial emancipation. The Omaha convention gave to womon equal and exact justica with men, awl in return every woman in the land should k.ive all her support to the platform and nominees of tho Omaha couvention. Nonconformist. -.- The Faellng In Colorado. ' ' - If somo of tho Denver editors who sro claiming a majority of 12,000 for Harri son would come up here and talk with the people they would quickly change their tune, as ovevy one seems to bo against the eld tickets. If tho election was held tomorrow wo do not think eithor of the old tickets would poll fifty votes in Summit county, and are of the opinion that this estimate would hold food in many other mountain counties, ho ..silver people are in it. TjtUon polo.) Enterprise. .,..;,.-.. Then and Now. Editor Southern eregon Mall: Those who do not look deeper than surface indications in our pre sent political upheaval, must fail to be sufficiently imbued with the spirit of our undertaking. While we want more money, bet ter facilities for transportation, a more equitable adjustment of our land laws and our mode of taxation, we must remember that those, great as they are in themselves, are only means to a desired end, aud that end is the progress of our race in Social Development and Sell Gov ernment. Several times in the history of our race have we reached similar conditions to those which now con front us, and as often have we re treated, unable to- pass them and to gather new strength from the ex perience of our defeat. ' The particular reasons of our de feat have been numerous but have chiefly focalized in this fact, that our predecessors had no definite conception of their wants and hence no definite or well defined mode of action thereto. Experience taught them that evils were prevalent, and that misery abounded, but the ex act cliaractor of those evils were un known, as also a precise idea of the good sought in their endeavor to ex tricate thelnsclvcs from those evils or even to mider them endurable; they brought upon themselves often worse evils and greater burdens to be borne.with its consequent retro grade movement in the problem of human life. We are again at the threshold of this "new era" a higher development :of the social and political '"warp and j wool of human progress. . The '"child of promise' (a perfect j sclf-governincni with perfect cqual I ity before the law) "has come to , the birth" will there Le strength to ! bring forth? j Our strength for the progress of jour work lies not in brute force, but 'in well-directed intellicer.ee. It is , iiot enough that intelligence even of! j the nigliest order be present, there ; must be with it a well-directed ef ! fort to the end sought, i We have many things in our fr- ! vour over our predecessors, and first the intellectual status of the masses ; of our people, enables them to grasp ; definitely what we want; second the obstacles in our way. and third ; the means to be used to the end ' bought, whether with this knowl- ;edga, we shall be able to succeed is jyet the unknown quantity i:i our problem ; we hope to! " Wc are not insensible to the ; greatness of our undertaking or to j the crvstalued barriers of the cen- turies in our way or to the powers J of darkness and enthroned wicked- j ness in hih places, but against all J these, wc dare wage battle. Both of our enemies, the G. O. P. s, pro fess to be the champions of human rights and the world's progress. If that is so, then their methods to ac complish their much desired end, having proved not onlv aboitive or good, but a mighty engine for evil, should bv them lie abandoned, yet on the contrary they profess not to even desire a change but arc satis fied to work their old system still. and like the old school Dr.'s of 50 years ago, have but on remedy for all our ills, ' bleeding" (the laborer) and this occurs to me to have more than one meaning. While a few men have amAssed vast fortunes in the recent past, tho great masses, financially, have gone from bad to worse, as labor strikes everywhere and increased acreage of mortgages abundantly prove. lience a remedy, if one is to be found, is not found in the folds of either of the two Old Parties, and indeed if we take their estimates of each other's virtues (and who dnres give them the lie in this matter) we can wipe out our pen and rest awhile, for certainly they can do each other justice. Wo are often told bv platform and press that the platform of the I . IV is chimerical, that we have made no record thereon, or for that matter on anything else and how can we expect a following! Well we are going to make one and we 11 drive one stake next November and if wo can't make n better record than the G. O. P.'6 havo for the last twenty-five years, certainly we shall deserve the anuthames and male' dictions of all coming generations and shall be remembered in his tory only "for the good to grieve at and tho - vain to seofT at." There fore let every true friend of human itv put his shoulder to ths wheel, come into the P. P. ranks and vote for Weaver and Field. i Iba Wakkfield. The Eastern Headquarters. Boston, Aug. 24. 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