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4 Paper, Of, By ani -For ; iho . People!
; VOL. IV.
MED FORD: OREO ONv FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1892.
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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.
Davis & Pottenger,
Dealers In o-
GROCERIES, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE,
GMnaware, Wooden &flware.,-
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SHELF AND HEAVY HARWARE.
Stoves, Tin A- Willow Ware. CYCONE and IIOOSIER PUMPS, Etc
;
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1
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