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r - t-s. soon IL. THE MAIL tS THE OFFICIAL PAFKR OF THE FARMERS' AUJAKCK' AND PEOPLE'S PARTY OF SOUTHERN OUEOON. ADVERTISERS Do you study yonr best lnter FHbi sod patronize this paper. It will be appreciated by all the bert farmers,, from wbom yoo get trade. --rz .izi J- 5 4 Paper, Of, By ani -For ; iho . People! ; VOL. IV. MED FORD: OREO ONv FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1892. NO." -38. : r 4 r. SOCIETIES OF MECFQRD. K. of P. Talisman lodge No. 31, meets M n day evening at 3 p. m. Visiting brothers al ways welcome. M. W. Skekl, C. C. J. A. Whitman, K. of R. & S. A. O. U. W. Lodge No. S8, meets every sec ond and fourth Tuesday in the month at H p. m. in their hall in the opera block. Visiting jrothers invited to attend. ; J. A. Wbitssidk, VT. M. G. F. Mbkriuax, Recorder. I. O. O. P. Lodge No. S3, meets In I. O. O. F. hall every Saturday at at S p. m. Visiting brothers always Welcome. - D. S. Yocngs. N. G. A. c. Nicholson, Kec. Sec I. O. O. P. Rogne River Encampment. Lodpe No. 30. meets in I. O. O. F. hall the second and ourth Wednesdays of each month at 8 p. m. W. I. Vawtek, C. P. B. S. Webb, Scribe. Olive Rebekah Lodge No. SS. meets in I. O. O. F. hall first and third Tuesdays of each month. Visiting sisters invited to attend. Mrs. D. S. Yocngs, N.G. . A. C Nicsolsoh. Sec .- - . A. F. A. M. Meets first Friday on or be fore fall moos at 8 p. m., in A. O. U. W. hall. i N. L. Narrkgan, W. M. J. S. Howard, Sec G.'A. R. Chester "A. Arthur Post "No. 4T. meets in G. A. R. hall evory second and fourth Thursdays In each month at 7:30 p. M. S. C Noble. Com. J. H. Paris, Adjt.- F. A. & r TJ. L.X. Polk loJge'o. S55, meets very Tuesday at S p. m. . , . . . G. 8. Briggs, Pres. Epworth League "meets each Sunday even ing at- 6:30. D. T. Lawton, president; Julia Fulde, secrctarv. Yoang People's Lit?rary meets Friday even ing of-eacb-week,-uader the - acspices- of the Epworth League. - : W; Ci f. B .Meets at Christian church every Monday evening at 1 p. xn. : " w ..?-.; , MRS; A. A. Kellogg, -Pres. llSS.. f.-HlHMOSD, Sec'jJ . Y. M. C. A Meets everv Sunday at S p m. at M. E. rnurch. W. S. Hallv, Pres. M.E.-R1UST Sec--. . Secretaries of above lodges will please ettend to oorreciions. Any society wishing to liuvo a place in this directtiry will pisase hand in ccc easary.diLi. - r . .. CHURCHES OF ME0F0R0. " Methodist Episcopal Church E. E. Phlpps. pastor. - Services - eery Sabbath; morning, , II a. m.. evening. 7i30 p. in Prajer mcelttigat 3 p. m. Tanrsday. Sunday school each Sun day at 10 a. xn. E. A. Johnson, superintend ent. . -. - ... " - Christian Church No pistcr at resent. Preaching first and .third Sundays in month. " morning and evening. Worship every Sunday morninrr. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. ' PreSbyteTlan 'Churcn F.' J. EdmundaT pas tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7 :! p. m. Sun day school at W a. m. Y. P. s. C 1, 6-.15 p. m. 'Baptist Cnuron T.' U- atepaens." puur. . Pvcaeains i.ak.11. a. m. vand - 70 V m- Prayer meeting every Wednesday even lag. Sunday school si 10 a. m The pastors of the different churches, are re quested o attend to oorrections. ; ' ! ' ' siqrhl cases. I1 B. PICKEL, Physician and Sdrgeon ... , Medford, Oregon. Office : Rooms 2 & 3, LO.O.F. Bldg J B. WAIT, Physician and Surgeon. " " ' Medford, Oregon. Office: In Childers' Block. E P. GEARY, r hysician ana SURGEON. Medford, Oregon. Office: Cor. C and 7th sts, I S. JONES,' Physicias and SiTJinifnv " 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 TIOBT. AT MILLER- Att'y and Cowseu.or-at-i.aw Jacksonville, Oregon. Will oractice in all courts ' of the : .. State. J. H. WHITMAN, Abstractor and -Attokney- At-Law:"; ' ' Medford, Oregon. Office in bank building. Have the most comrjlete and reliable ab stracts of title in Jackson county TTTILLARD CRAWFORD. Attorney and .Coukselijok-. ' " -At Law. . ; ... Medford,' Oregon. . Office: In Opera block. AUSTIN S. HAMMOND, Attorkey-At-Law. Medfcrd, Oregon. Office: I.O.O.F. Building. PRECEDENT. : The Scape-Goat for Misrule Ignorance. and ABSURD QUESTION. The Womb of Time is Pregnant . . With Great Issues! Editor Southern Oregon Mail: I beg lief most earnestly to file my objections against : that mon strous absurdity, "precedent." . It is : a . scape-goat for misrule and ignorance and is ridden by judges, lawyers, politicians and so cial .reformers,-and- such .a load would break the back of my Texas burro, let alone such a. weak . thing generally, as a scape-goat." , . Judicial decisions, legal plead ings, . financial : problems, social ethics and political economists, all use .'"precedent" as prima-facie evi dence ef the justice, legality, util ity, and correctness of their several acts. ... , . . , .. . , " A . congressman presents a bill before Congress, his first and seem ingly strongest argument is based upon . "precedent. England has done thus an3 'so, therefore, we Americans ought. . France did the same aad therefore we should.. Nor does it matter to' what said bill relates, and . thus it is with the whole ; catalogue of., the leaJii:"g lights of free America, i - -tt Are 'we. in -th;s progressive age, dependent on what England, France or Germany baa done? Now I care not, whether "such . -'"preeecent" quoted, is in favor of what even my radicalism approves, or not; if. the former, I begin to suspect that 11) y ideas are wrong 0:1 that sul ject, for is it not evident to anyone that us ; tially a law, c; stoai or habit that governs the plutocratic s'aye of. tlw worldcannot be on the whole the best for us here Tibere the social and political, conditions are (or ought to be) so radically differeiit wc as; sert that thty cannot c. Hc-nce the -.absurdity1 of an in-, ternat-onal moaclary cunference. When we get (the gist of tliat . whole ictttcr we shall find it to be an at .teqipted effort for , the continuation and perfecting of universal monop-. olisliu rui and the forging of an other link in the hai:-.of Aaieri-. can serfdom. There ha? never been any international, money, and under our preseut financial system it is fair to presume there never will be. what is 'money in America or the United Mates is not .money in Europe, and vice versa, and the day when it will be, is not even in the horizon of the present thought of this age. Senator Mitchell in a speech be- ftire congress June 29, 1892, on the "Postal Savings. System," bases his heaviest argument on the feasibil ity of such a system,' on "prece dence;" other nations have adopted t, therefore we-can;andought.--ow the system of posfaf savings may be the best for us, or it may not.' The vstem 13 not what 1 1; object to or plead for, but the cringing attitude I our. leading men to ine. views ana notions of foreign blood and na tions. Can we not, have we not the wisdom to govern ourselves, or must, we ask: other- nations what we must or ought to do? And if the "precedent" of "European na tion proves anything to us in rela tion to social, financial and political problems, certainly i they should prove as lieut-houses, as signals 01 danger to them, instead of lights to; pilot "us" to' a port of peace, -as our leading men seem to suppose, for certainly those very "precedents have enslaved all Europe, or at least have not. been potent, as a power in the amelioration of. the condition of .the masses, but has al-' ways been in favor of the few-as against the: many. . We naturally look with suspicion on the Trans-Oceanic" Law or "pre cedence" as something undesirable in our Republic, as something not in acdord with our own free ideas and this progressive' land and age. What have pur schools '.been doing for the past eHtury? Have we no great men "to .the manor born" now in our midst that .can. make history instead, of being its echo? Have we in : 100 years raised up nothing but two penny lawyers. SIX-BIT PLUTOCRATICS, ONE-HORSE judges and pot-house politicians? Are we as a nation "only great in that spell, a name?" Has there been no progress in our: race? Are we onlv shadows of oui former selves? Living witnesses of a dead age, must, precedent ' forever es tablish the boundry of our thought and action?- ; . - ' .- The womb of time is pregnant with great isauesi and because a she-wolf , nursed the founders of th eld Roman- Empire, at the very mention of which the life blood leaps through the veins a little quicker of vigorous manhood. Shall we hunt the everglades of forgetful ness for the human cubs of another she-bear before we cm strike out on the highway of nations and hew out roads of our own, for our tri umphant march to the conquest of the world? Should .not we be the leaders and actors in the progress of our race instead of apes of the mediaeval age? I believe we shall. Let every man and woman seize the sword he or she best can . use, and on to victory! Don't look in the big, end of the world's telescope because it is more convenient but look in the small end and bring the glad day nigh, when.slavps are no longer, freed we stand, the guardians of our favored land I Ira Wakefield. ' From the' Governor. In reply to an invitation to -sprak on La!xr Day in Portlid, Governor Pvn no.ver sent his regTci as follows : ' .Gentlemen : Official duties at Sa lciu will prevent, a compliance urflH your invil:ili9n to bj present lit a oiaot in in Portland on Labor Day. Ndt ouly should necessary state legislation, in b-half of labor inU-re.st be urged, but federal legislation also, for the reason that the groat bulk of burdens imposed upon, labor is the result of fodorul rather than state legislation. The tariff tax which imposes undua bur djus upon the labor and industries of the coun;ry and the chaiiga from a bi motaHic to a sold basis of currency, causing stagnation cf business and in duced wages, are both results of fed eral legislation, and both ol thj two great parlies are pledged to a contin uance of thesa nefurlous mea-ures. It is tru-j that on-s of these parlies profess tariff reform, but every man of ordin ary common sense well knows ibot no cfleetive reduction of tariff " taxation can bj had without supplying the need ed r.-venuii frvm some other source, such a; an income tax levied upoa the wealth 01 the cocntrv, now eanie'.v ex empt from federal !ax:.ticn, and as such ! party do.s not propose anv other mcde of taxation than tne tari:i'. i:s declara tion la favor of tariff reform can safely be put down as a colossal fraud. In the finuncial question, the .subserviency to tho rcon.-y power, by both pirt.es, is stioxn to a full greater extent by liirir candidates than by their platforms. I trust thai tha laborii.tr pei.p;e cf Port- laud will ret)" as well a talk id defenso of their rights. Too b.rst timj for an effective l.-.bol- strike Is o.i el e;ion day at the polls. Very It.sj ec fully, - SYLVESTSlt PUN NOV UK. ' -" " -v EaTada Vota. TTinn-emucca. N-v.. Sept. The second convention vt the silver party waseld here today for the purpose cf instruction. its electors to row for Wea ver and t i Old. tSnutor Start, in an address to the convetion, duclared that both ex-President Cleveland and Pesi dent Harrison lutd disregarded their respecUve platforms alter election and Ur-ed their ioner to demonetize sliver, lie stiid a vote for cither Harrison or Cleveand was a vote for the enerav of the pa:-amouut iudtutry of Nevada. Weaver was theonly'prWid-ntial candi date wbesa positiou on the silver ques tion harmonized with Nevadavir.trests. He declared lie would, vols for Weaver and advocate nis election on the stump throughout the statj. F. G. Newlauds, the republican nominee for congress, also spoke. He said he would vote for Weaver. The platform instructed the electors to vota for Weaver and Field for president and- vica-president, and ojdorsed Senator Stou urt for the United Slates senate and F. G. New lands for the housj of represents lives. ALL SORTS. The supreme court holds that all contracts: made by -a county, where by 'liabilities are.incurred after , a county was in debt $5,000 in extent are null and void Pacific Reporter of August 11, 1892. ormington, ct al., vs. .-County Clerk Pierce, of L matilla county. " "Bishop Morris," of Oregon, has consented to the election ot an as sistant; bishop, and i one ... will be. electedat an early date. : Coyote creek, north of Grant's Pass in Jackson county. 'is lor ming up as a -mining center. Trcmaine & Co.,. of Portland, have erected a two-stamp mill on their works, and Higgins & Co. are preparing to put in one of the same caliber -on the St. Lawrence mine."r Another, mill is going up on the Miller ledge.' A half pound of rock out of the latter ledge assayed 12, mortar test . The state Fair this year was a prohi fair. No malt or spintous liaiiors were allowed sold on the grounds. Enormous quantities of valuable timber, have been destroyed by fire within the past few days between Port Angeles and Port Crescent. A party picnicing, -who kindled a fire at the foot of a gigantic cedar some miles west of Port . Angeles, ' are blamed for the damage. This spec tacle afforded bv the flaming for ests, when the tire was. at its height is said to have been sublime. Interest in the efficacy of the Koch lymph has recently - been re vived on account of W. P. Schultz, a consumptive, who is now dying in Pittshurg. Schultz, returned from the German hospital in Phil adelphia last June apparently a well man, and his case became a celebrated one,but recently the old disease, asserted itself, and Ids' death is now momentarily expected. WEAVER Al FIELD Formally Notified the Public of ' . Their Acceptance. GRAND WORDS. Following is all the Dispatches Give Us, Being On!y a Fart of The Address. Pkssacola, (Fla.), Sept. 17. General Weaver and General Field, People's Party candidates for Pres ident and Vice-President, have is sued an address to the people of the. United States. In part they say : . . v. ,-' ... "We lake this method of formal ly notifying . the public .of our ac ceptance of our- nominations and appreciation1 of the honor conferred upon' us. : Wc ' are heartily in ac cord with the platform of principles adopted by the People's Party Con vention and if elected will endeavor faithfully to. carry out the demands in letter and in spirit. -. "We are "requested by the Na tional committee to visit the var ious states ?f the union. Already one or both 6f us have visited fif teen states, and if . our health and strength . be spared we intend . to continue- the work, until the cam paign is closed. We have been re ceived with" marked ' cordiality. Enthusiasm everywhere is without parallel and extends to every part of tlw Union we have visited. , : CONTACT WITH THE r-EOH-E. "By coutact with the people we become acquainted withlheir wants and sufferings, and are brought face to face with the manifold perils which so seriously threaten our civ ilization and to overthrow popular government. . The people are in poverty, their substance being de voured by heartless monopolists, trusts, jkxiIs and money - sharks. Labor is largely unemployed, " and whore work is' obtainable too wages t'.itd for the most part are unreiuu nerative and the products of iaoor are not paying the cost of produc tio:i. - "Leaders cf the heretofore donii- j nant parlies everywhere arc con trolled . by. great : monopoly and money, centers and manifest an uttr disregard fr the wants and wislreS of' the people. Tliev are hostile camps arranged on sectional ground, tilt vie with each other in gul eervienee to capitalistic and cor- pjrate greed upon the general econ omic, questions. of tlie.dav, differing just enough U enable men to carry 011 a sham battle. 1 he whole work of robbcry'and spoliation" proceeds unabated."" FREE BALLOT. "We h'nld the rights of a five ballot and a" fair count the rights preservative of all rights, and upon their inviolability rests the perpe tuity of free institutions and a rep resentative government. We are pained to discover in the public' mind in the Southern states wide spread loss of confidence on the pari .'of 'tK'e 'people', in the , integrity of the judges cf elections in receiv ing the ballots of . the people and counting - them for the -candidates of their choice. : We think the evils mtfst be corrected bv the intelli gence and integrity . of the 'people, ! otherwise scenes of , violence, and j perhaps bloodshed, may follow the efforts of the. parties in charge of the ballot boxes to defraud the will of the people.. . 1 After consultation with the peo ple we believe it to be truo beyond reasonable question;that a majority of. the white voters are with the People's Party in every Southern State thus far visited, and our in formation leads us to believe, the sa-tio thing true in other States also. Wc are informed that iii the recent State election in Alabama Captain Kolb was 'chosen governor bv over 40,000 majority, and yet his opponent was counted, in by a majority of 10,000. County tickets throughout the state were counted out and others counted in by the same unblushing methods. ,. THE ARKANSAS ELECTION. "We are informed that in . the State election In Arkansas on the 5(h of September, at least 50,000 qualified voters, of the state were deprived the right of suffrage The returns were inaccurate and the People's Party denied representa tion in the appointmont of judges and commissioners.' . '"All our friends in the State have to guide them was in. tho few coun ties where they were able , to forco an honest '-count. In every one of thse counties our vote ran fully' iip to expectations. In soms populous white counties the People's Party hold an Immense vote, their ticket leading the Republican largely and ; being about equal with the Demo cratic. e believe a fair count would show similar .. conditions throughout the state. v ' "Frauds and irreeularities. tM,ougAioca1, are -vet ,"?tters wor; thy of the serious consideration of people of the whole United States. It is apparent that neither the Re publican party nor the Democratic can or will accomplish restoration of the ballot to a fair and honest basis. The People's Party alone can secure the desired end. AN APPKAL TO VOTERS. ' All who desire a revival of busi ness; all who wish for the return of prosperity; all who desire to relieve depressed industries and the wage workers of our common country; all who desire adequate increase in our currency and free coinage of silver; all who desire the abolition cf banks of issue and constitutional control of the great instruments of com merce by the government of the United State; all -who desire that the laws of taxation shall be equit ably adjusted to the property of the country; all who desire that the public domain shall be held sacred ly in trust for the people ; all who desire that the highways between states shall be rendered subservient to popular good; and finally, all who desire restoration of fraternity among the people and obliteration of sectional animosities, should at once regard it a conscientious duty to align themselves under the ban ner of this great industrial move meut.". ' COBPOnATIOXS AND MOSEV-CUAXGERS "It seems to us quite impossible that the lilerty and justice-loving people of the country should longer cast their ballots for copotations hand mohev-chanzers. It would seem iuijios&ible that they should refuse to make common cause with the fair-minded majority of the peo ple of the South, who have risen tip to demand justice and good govern ment in the respective states. "The new party has its face to ward a glorious future. Its sub lime mission in to usher in an era of fraternity and" justice - among men. In the presence of such an opportunity to emancipate our country from misrule of every kind let party lines be forgotten, and the generous flame of common patriot ism nerve every heart and move (every soul. no r shot. Oulled from Our Exchanges for the Readers of the Mail. Senator Peffer, Congressman Otis and Hon. S. S. King are engaged in campaign work for the whole of tbe campaign. ' Governor . O'Toole of Montana, heretofore a Democrat, says, "We cannot and will not .vote for Cleve land, but- will vote for Weaver, straight." " " . The convention of the People's Party of Franklin county. Texas, indorsed the State, platform as adopted at Dallas, and nominated a full county ticket in opposition to the Democracy. The convention was large and enthusiastic. The People's Partv has complet ed its poll of a large majority of tbe counties in Kansas, and the re turns indicate an increased vote over that of two years ago. .lion. John Madden of Kansas who four years ago as a presiden tial elector cast a vote for Harrison, has written a letter declining an invitation to speak for the Repub licans and giving the reason why . General Weaver will stump the slate of Pennsylvania in company with Mr. Powdcrly. The enthu siasm he creates whenever he ap pears is not a matter of so much wonder as the powerful arguments he presents to his audiences. He is tireless as a steam engine. lhe attempted assassination in Georgia of Cclonel Peek, the Peo ple a nominee for governor, and Col onel C. C. Post, one of the best workers in the party, by a mob which fiiid attempted to break up the meeting addressed by Colonels Peek and Post, has aroused the 111 dicnation of Georgia People, The Denver rimes, the most widely circulated Republican paper in Colorado, served notice on the Republican party that unless Har rison should express in his letter of acceptance something more than a perfunctory friendship for the cause of silver it would bolt the ticket and support Weaver. A very enthusiastic Weaver meeting was held at the court house at Aspen, Colo., the othe evenintr. the distsict court.-rooin bo ine bciue crowded to suffocation Several wpeeches were made and creat deal of enthusiasm was dis plaved. A People's Party club wo organized and started with a char- tor membership of 180. 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