The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 6.
The Passing of Silver.
L. C. Bntenmn, In People* Tarty Paper.
'1 lie evidence continues to grow
thai the silver issue will cut but a
small figure in the next campaign.
Right or wrong, the fact remains
that dollar wheat has given that
question a bad setback. Mr. Bryan
and all his friends asserted through-
out the last campaign that wheat
and silver always moved together in
price. A more fatal blunder could
not have been made, 'rhey pinned
their faith and their reputation on
that statement and recent events
have completely discredited them.
Squirm as much as he pleases. Bry-
an is hoist by his own petard.
The Populists, having given these
economic questions a deeper study,
made no such blunder. They have
never believed that silver cut much
of a figure in determining prices.
With them the free coinage question
has been a minor affair. It has al
ways been considered one of the
least important of their demands.
For this reason we are in good
shape to go ahead on the great vital
issues that have always been para-
mount in our creed.
Reforms always go farther than
their pioneer advocates demand
or expect. The French revolu-
tion began with a mere ques-
tion of etiquet; it ended with the
guillotine and the decapitation of
26,000 of the "noble" heads of
France.
The slavery question began with
the simple demand for non-exten-
sion into the territories; it ended
with the destruction of the whole
system.
The present financial and labor
reform began on the minor question
of free silver coinage. Had the
money kings looked into the book
of fate they would have quickly
granted the request. It would not
have seriously crippled their power
to enslave the masses, but it would
have set back the final great settle-
ment for twenty years.
They failed to grasp the situation
and blindly opposed the proposition.
They won the skirmish, and it was
the most fortunate thing that could
have happened for the cause of true
and actual reform. The people now
demand real and greater reforms.
They have marched steadily on and
are now far in advance of any silver
issue. While Bryan and company
are still shouting silver, the great
procession has left him far in the
rear. He will shout in vain, for the
people will never again respond to
that issue.
What are the great issues of the
hour? Money, Land, and Trans-
portation!
The Populist position is now ac-
knowledged to be the correct one.
The money question means vastly
more than the free coinage of silver.
It means that the government shall
issue and control every dollar of
money in this nation. It means a
supplementary paper money that
shall be a full legal tender for all
debts, taxes and dues. It means
that private corporations shall no
longer control the financial system
of the country. It means that there
shall be, as in France, not less than
>40 of actual per capita circulation
at all times. It means, in fact, that
the destinies for weal or woe of this
great republic shall no longer be at
the mercy of a metallic system of
money that depends upon the
chance discovery and working of
some mountain mine.
Next, we demand that national
and natura! monopolies shall be
owned by the people in their col-
lective capacity. The government
of all railroad, telegraph and tele-
phone lines has become a vital ne-
cessity if this republic is to live.
The government at this moment
takes a letter weighing one ounce
and carries it to San Francisco, a
distance of 3,000 miles, and delivers
it up seven flights of stairs for two
cents. On the same principle it
can carry a package weighing ten
pounds to San Francisco for seventy
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, JUNE IT. I8QK.
NO -17
can take the editor of this paper and
carry him to that city for $ 12.
Should the government do this,
the Goulds and Vauderbilts would
not roll up fortunes of two hundred
million dollars. The people would
receive the benefit and the wealth
of the nation would be more equit-
ably distributed.
We are now obliged to pay 25
cents to send a telegram a distance
of one mile. The government could
send the same telegram from Maine
to Atlanta for a two cent stamp.
But should the government do this
the Western Union stock could not
be "watered" to the tune of one
hundred million dollars. The peo
pie would receive the benefit, and
the telegraph system would assume
its proper place as a part of the
postal system of the country.
At the present time if a man has
a few spare dollars he is obliged to
deposit them in a national bank
where they draw no interest whatev-
er, or in savings banks owned and
managed by private individuals.
When the cashier skips for Mont-
real, as he has been often known to
do, the depositor loses his hard
earnings.
Every postoffice should be a pub-
lic savings bank. This reform is
sure to come, but it can come
only through the Peoples party.
These are the great issues for
which the people of this country are
ripe. All history shows that such
reforms are never brought about by
old parties. They can be only
brought about by a new party,
whose members are a unit in their
demands.
The old Whig party claimed to be
a friend of the slave. The Demo
cratic party claims to be just as
good a friend of silver. The Whig
party was powerless to stay the de-
scending lash of the slave-driver;
the Democratic party is powerless
to aid the cause of silver.
The Whig party was divided
against itself; hence it fell. The
Democratic party is also divided
against itself on modern reforms.
The parallel is absolutely complete.
Their fate will be recorded by the
historian as being precisely similar.
To the Peoples party alone must
be confided the guardianship of
these reforms. At present we are
divided; not on principles, but on
policy. Every member of the party
is agreed in demanding the above
reforms. We are simply unfortun-
ate in being divided on a question
of party policy.
This division will soou be healed.
Under new leaders the present bit-
terness will disappear in a day. Ex-
cept for the one dark blot of fusion
our past is glorious. Efface this
and our future will be secure.
To further avenge the wrongs of its inhabitants, instead of taxing
Poland, and of Denmark and Al- j them up to the handle, would be
sace-I.orraii e, we'll whip Germany ! denounced as "anarchistic paternal-
—and make Hamburg an American ism."—Ex.
coaling station.
To avenge the wrongs of Armenia
and Schouveloftos, we'll swat the
Unspeakable Turk (who is such
fanatic that he won't "drink like a
gentleman," anyway)—and then we
will annex Jerusalem to the Am.
Miss. Soc., and collect that little biil
of $5,000 (mentioned by Minister
Angell recently) claimed by a cer-
tain missionary's wife for silk dress-
es said to have been appropriated
by the infidel mob.
Oh, we are after them; and the
wicked (elsewere) will have to walk
the straight and narrow path, as
soon as we get our new standing
army of half a million men, new
navy of 500 warships, and new na
tional debt of #5,000,000,000 gold.
Slavery in Georgia in 1898.
Appeal to Ueason.
At the sale of convicts in Geor-
gia last month, the prices brought
were $98 to #102 each per year.
As the state clothes and guards
the prisoners, and the buyers feed
them on any offal, we see that they
are much cheaper to the corpora-
tions than were chattel slaves who
the masters hired out for JI30
per month. This is a worse form
of slavery than anywhere else exits
on earth, so far as my reading goes,
lo save a few dollars the state con-
nives with brutes of money grab
bers and turns over the convicts
like so many cattle. Many convicts
are better men than their masters or
guards, and all of them are just
what the civilization, so-called, has
made them. For the state to have
owned and operated some industry
and employed these men and wom-
en under favorable conditions would
have interfered with the profits of
some firm of labor skinners, hence
this mode of disposing of them.
Speculators own and operate the
government and see to it that they
have no competition, and that the
slaves shall be gathered up like the
Romans filled their armies and gal-
leys, at the least possible expense.
Some time this will be changed.
Criminal Journalism.
Chicago Journal.
The Chicago press has become a
byword among journalists al! over
the country for the suppression of
valuable news. The pigton-holes
are full of facts; the columns of
these papers are padded with puffs
and ridiculous "boom" news. We
have but to point to the smothering
of the investigation of the water
frauds at the stock yards, the sup-
pression of the truth about the con-
War Facts and Rumors.
General Shaffer's army of 15,000
men left Tampa for Cuba on the
15th, intending to land at Santiago.
The marines landed at Guantana-
mo last week at first had difficulty
in maintaining their position, and
at one time it looked as if they
would have to return to the ships,
but the timely arrival of 1500 Cu-
bans has so strengthened them that
they will probably be able to main
tain their position till Shafter ar-
rives.
The Cuban generals Rabe and
Garcia with 3,000 to 5,000 men are
reported as near Santiago ready to
co-operate with the Americans in
attacking that city.
Another installment of the troops
for Manila left San Francisco last
week in four ships. The first force
sent ought to be nearing the Philip-
pines by this time.
An Apology.
We stated last week that four
Democratic senators voted for the
new #300,000,000 bond bill, when it
passed the senate a few days before. 1 TURK 4. CO.
. , ' NORMAN
We were mistaken, and hereby ten-1
der apology to our Purified breth-'
IS NO SECRET
—Our Method
of doing business. We are liberal because IT
H PAYS to be liberal. The better we serve
H you, the better hold we have on your trade.if
<if if Perhaps you have not tried us. Perhaps
if you would like to. Very well — here's the
if chance:
3) on go la Uip Oxford. for $1.00.
<r No " pig in the poke " here. We tell you just
it what it is all the way through—no better, no
if worse. That you can rely on.
ITS CONSTRUCTION:
H' Dongola leather, patent tip, coin toe. Same in
Common Sense heel and toe
Sood volue Si.SO; for $1.00.
Money refunded if it is not as we tell you.
Grand Leader.
For"jrsns ************* *************
IT 1 C "r t nection of certain prominent citi-
Uncle 5am I urns Imperialist, zens with the bribery of the legisla-
Having thrown away the repub-1 ture, the seclusion of facts with re-
lican non-interference policy of the gard to the real condition of dis-
fathers—under which this nation
had grown great,—and adopted the
more gorgeous imperial policy of
the so called Great Powers of Eu-
rope, and set out to punish the op-
pressors of eirth (taking our pay in
desirable real estate here and there)
we can with swelling buzzum im-
agine the brilliant program on
which, with fireworks and rub a-dub-
dub accompaniment, we are about
to enter :
To avenge the wrongs of Ireland,
India, Egypt and So. Africa,—and
for accumulated and unpaid inter
est on that affair or 1776,—we'll
thrash England ; and appropriate
British America, Australia, the pyra-
mids at which Ed. Little's dogs have
barked for forty centuries, the dia-
mond mines of South Africa, and
other scattered territorial bricabrac.
To avenge the wrongs of Mada-
gascar, (where'n thunder is it?) we'll
wollop our old friend France—and
take in Tonquin, Anam, Itipiti, etc.
To avenge the wrongs of Poland—
where, if we remember, "Freedom
shrieked when Kosciusko fell"—
we'll lick Russia,—and make Sibe-
ria one of our territories, thus giv-
cents. On the same principle it ing Frank Greer a bigger pasture.
honest banking concerns, and the
abject treatment of the Moore Bros,
failure to show the extent to which
public interests are sacrificed to
private necessities. In the Moore
failure, involving thousands of per-
sons and injuring the financial stand-
ing of Chicago, all the papers were
permitted to print was alleged facts
prepared in Philip D. Armour's din-
ing room and carried around to the
newspaper offices in typewriter copy
by an employe of Charles T Yerkes.
How many criminals have been
shielded from just punishment, how
many poor people ruined by this
policy of suppression, we leave it to
keepers of the secret pigeon holes
in the offices of our contemporaries
to estimate.
No Taxes There.
The city of Klingenberg, in Fran-
conia (Germany) does business on
its own hook. It manufactures ter-
ra cotta ware and succeeds so well
that after paying all municipal ex-
penses, without taxation, it has an-
nually #22,500 for distribution
among its citizens. We suppose
that in America the idea of a city
senators (nearly 30 per cent of their
number,) instead of tour, who voted
for the bond bill ! And if they had
voted No, the bill would have been
defeated. The old, old story.
An Old Abolitionist Said.
" I distrust and despise the Re-
publicans as hypocrites and time-
servers, as double-dealers, as soul-
less carrion masquerading in the
grave clothes of their honored pred-
ecessors. They have no right to
seek their candidate among high-
minded and honorable men. Let
them choose a fitting leader from
the marshes of Tewksbury, the ped-
dlers of the poor men's bones."—
Wendell Phillips.
Committees at Omaha.
The P. P. national committee, the
Populist organization committee,
and the Reform press association
are in session at Omaha, discussing
party matters. The two latter bodies
are Populist, politically; but the
national committee seems to be in
the woods, the chances seeming to
slighly favor fusicratism—a vote on
accepting report of credentials com-
mittee indicating 54 fusicrats to
51 Populists.
The Spaniards .
* have retreated!
And so have our competitors ; but still you can
hear the artillery of the Famous Grocery thunder-
ing against the walls of high prices, at any time
you put your ear to the ground. The Famous is
loaded to the water line with the Best Line of
Groceries carried in Norman by any grocery
firm, and they don't ask any more for their goods
than other grocers ask for goods of inferior quality.
.-. Give us a trial and be convinced
Famous Grocery Co.,
Norman, Okla
l'lie Boys aro oil
to avenge the
MAINE
Hilt t liey x: y
they never
chii i'orj*et my
NAME
Why? No. I: Because I am noted throughout Cleveland county
and the Territory for carrying the largest and most complete line of
Harness and Saddlery in the Territory.
Why? No, 2: Because his workmanship is beyond criticism as
only the best harnessmakers to be found throughout the states are em-
ployed.
Why? No. 3:
ways the lowest.
(Last but not least.) Because his prices are al-
The New Time says this war
will be a deathblow to monarchy, j
etc. But royal England doesn't j
seem to be alarmed a little bit—had J
you noticed that, Mr. N. T ?
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H. W. STUBBEMAN,
THE HARNESS MAKER.
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Assuming the average money cir
dilation of the country is $21
capita, California's share is $28,-' j(
000,000; and the income of the sav- ' *
ings banks alone of that state, an- j *
nually, is 8 per cent on four times *
that amount. No wonder the banks **
oppose such "populist vagaries" as **
postal savings banks. ^
Low Rate
and
Through Train
to the
Atlantic Coast
via
Santa Fe
Route.
Only 0110 faro, plus and customary
N. hi A. memhei scip lee, for tickets to
Washington, I>. C. and return They
will 1m* on sale .1 uly ;j, 4 and at
Santa Ke Woute ticket offices, Pullman
Palace and Tourist Sleepers ami tree
Chaircais will leave points in Oklaho*
ma on July 4, Is* s, far accommodation
of teachers and their friends*, and go
through to Washington, n c. without
< iiangk. The undersigned will be glad
to tell you when train will pass this sta-
tion, or nearest junction point.
Itinerary and list ol desirable low-
rate exeur-'ions from Washington tree
on application.
R j. MORGAN, agent, NORMAN
Tbe June New Time has a cartoon
showing Uncle Sam "Discovering
the Old World," wherein France, It-1
aly, Spain, Germany, Russia, China ....
, . . ' | Notice to
and Japan are down in the dust be-
fore U. S., whose followers in the
background are armed with Win-
chesters and other similar instru-
ments of Christian civilization, a la
1492. But we don't "discover" "our
most gracious queen"—the dear old
itchy miser—in your picture, Bro.
Adams. Can't you let Uncle Sam
discover her, too?
Notice.
The Populists of Liwn Ridge school
district are called to meet at the
school house Saturday evening, June
18th for the purpose of consulting to-
gether on matters pertaining to county
actually distributing dividends to onvention. j. E . Mitchell, Com
Populist County Cen-
tral Committeemen.
Send in to this office at once the
place where you have decided to hold
your township prim tries on the 28th of
this month for publication in the next
two issues of this paper. Attend to
this matter for it is important.
For Kent.
a good six room house in desirable
part of city. A well and city water in
the yard. Call at this office. 40tf
LATEST.
If you want your house painted or
your walls papered or decorated i:i any
manner, see C. C. Cobble, the painter,
' paper hanger, and wall decorator. 34tf
Picnic.
The old settlers will hold a picnic in
grove one mile west of Stella, on the
fourth of July. The committee i« mak-
ing arrangements to entertain the
crowd that comes out. They have ar-
ranged a program of amusements and
will also try and have some good pub-
lic speaking.
Cram's Grove.
A union picnic will be held at the
Oram s grove five miles north east of
Norman on July 4th. The stand priv-
ileges will be sold on grounds June
25th at 1 o'clock. The cleaning otl of
the ground will also take place on the
25th of June.
James Harbert, J. P. N. Haun, J. W.
Chestnutt, G T. Miser and R E.
Leach, Business Committee.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 1898, newspaper, June 17, 1898; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115827/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.