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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 7.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, MA ARC II X i8M.
NO
Kipling's "Recessional."
l od of our father*, known of old.
Lord of our lar-ilunx haltle line—
Item at h whose awful lmnd we hold,
Dominion over palm and pine -
Lord t;od «>r boat-, l «* with us
Lest we forget—le t we forget!
The tumult hu«I Hie shouting dies—
Tin* captains ami the king* depart ;
Still frtaiuh ttdue ancient aacritlce,
An humble and a contrite heart,
Loid God (if lio t. be with u« yet,
Le$t wo forget—leat we forgot!
Far called, our navies melt away-—
On duue and headline Minks the tire—
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
1h one with Nineveh and Tyre!
•fudge of the natlotiM, ► pare uh yet,
Lout we forgot—hilt we forget
If drttiik with blKht of power we loose
Wild tongues that have not thee In awe-
Such boasting a* the gentiles use
Or leaser breeds without the law-
Lord God of hosts bo with us yet,
Le-t We forget—lost we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
lu reekihg tube or iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And, guarding, calls not Thee to guard—
For frantic boasts and foolish word,
Thy uietcy on Thy peoplo, Lotd,
Civilized vs. Half-Civilized.
From the Medical World.
A short time ago a lioston gen
tleman sent a package of circulars
to ine by mail. The postage was 27
cents. As everybody knows, our
postal rate on printed matter is a
cent for each two ounces, while the
rate for merchandise is a cent an
ounce; so if the package had been
merchandise, say, medical or sur-
gical instruments, the postage would
have been 54 cents. The gentleman
wrote me soon after sending the
package, and in the letter he said
that if he had been in England he
could have sent the same package
by the English parcels post from
any part of England to Australia or
South Africa for 14 cents! We all
like to think of our nation being in
the front rank in everything. The
thing to do is to make it so.
We are accustomed to think of
Russia as only half civilized—and,
perhaps, that may be true in some
respects, according to our views.
But let us take a look at the Land
of the Bear, and see if we can't
learn something. The government
is opening up that vast and hut lit-
tle known region called Siberia.
How? Not by giving a vast empire
of land to a private syndicate and
then guaranteeing its bonds for a
sum nearly or quite sufficient to
{ Babies and children need I
I proper food, rarely ever mcdi- j
I cine, if they do not thrive j
: cr. their food something is !
| wrong. They need a little |
j help to get their digestive
" machinery working properly.
IwSl
~OF
COD OVER OSL
W/rrt HYPOPHOSPHITES or limes, SODA
ivl generally correct this!
! ti fjcuity.
j if you will put from one- j
I fourth to half a teaspoon.ful |
I in baby's bottle three or four '
I times a day you will soon sec |
| a marked improvement. For j
I iargcr chiidren, from half to j
1 a teaspoonfu!, according to 1
j age, dissolved in their milk, |
| if you so desire, will very J
j soon show its great nourish- j
j ir.g power. If the mother's f
| miik coes not nourish the j
i baby, she needs the emul-
| sion. Jt wiil show an effect
| at once both upon mother
1 and child.
toe. and (i.oo, all druggists.
1 SCOTT h bowne, Chemist*, Ncv.- York.
L.
build the road, a la our congress
when our Pacific railroads were
b-silt. No. The Russian govern-
ment is constructing the road its;lf,
and to encourage the immigration
of peasants into the new country,
the passenger and freight rates will
be extremely low. Eor example,
1200 miles for $1.50; 2000 miles,
$2.00; 4000 miles, Jj.6o; peasants'
household goods and farming imple-
ments, 1200 miles for 25 cents per
100 pounds; 2000 miles, 43 cents;
4000 miles, 83 cents. As a conse-
quence the country will settle up
rapidly, and our great wheat sec-
tions in the west and northwest will
have to beware of competition with
Siberia. The arteries of commerce
are the life of a country. Siberia,
I with its government-owned rail-
roads, low fares, constant rates, and
no discriminations, will have a great
advantage over our wheat sections
with high freight rates, subject to
change at any moment without no-
tice, according to the whim, caprice,
or private interest of those iu con-
trol, and with discriminations in fa-
vor of favored shippers. Reflect,
and see if you don't conclude that
this is worth thinking about. In
this connection, read the following
clipping :
"Notwithstanding we of the Unit-
ed States boast of our 4th of July
and other liberty-promoting institu-
tions, there are other lands where
the bird of freedom soars as high
and screams as loud, in matters
pertaining to the wellbeing of the
people. Eor instance, the New Or-
leans I'icayune says: ' In Australia
you can ride r,ooo miles across the
country for $6 50 firstclass, while
workingmen can ride 6 miles for 2
cents, 12 miles for 4 cents, 30 miles
for 10 cents, and railroad men re-
ceive 20 to 25 per cent more wages
for 8 hours of labor than they are
[>aid in this country for 10 hours.
In Victoria, where these rates pre-
vail, the net income from the roads
is sufficient to pay all the federal
taxes. In Hungary, where the roads
are state-owned, you can ride six
miles for one cent, and since the
roads were bought by the govern-
j ment the men's wages have doubled.
| Belgium tells the same story—fare
and. freight cut down one half and
wages doubled. Yet the roads pay
| a yearly net revenue to the govern-
j ment of $4,000,000—nearly $1 to
: each inhabitant. In Germany you
!c n ride 4 miles for 1 cent over the
government-owned railroads. Yet
wages are over 125 per cent higher
than they were when corporations
owned the roads, and during the
last ten years the net profits have
increased 41 per cent. East year
these roads paid the government a
net profit of £25,000,000. People
who favor government ownership
claim that if our government owned
the railroads we could go across the
continent for Sio. Here is the
proof: I lie United States pays the
railroads not quite $275 to trans-
port a loaded postal car from Bos-
ton to Sin Francisco. A passenger
car will car will Oca rry fifty passen-
gers, which at $10 each would be
•*5°o, or a clear profit of $225 per
car, and this, too, after per cent
on watered stock, which is fully-
equal to the cost of the road. These
quoted figures ure taken from a re-
liable source."—Railway Times.
Writers on the transportation qties
I lion frequently rail at the railroad
corporations for the many evils that
private-ownership of this public
function bring upon us. I wish it
distinctly understood that I have no
quarrel with the railroads, except
when they break the law—which
they frequently do. My complaint^
and my quarrel, if you please, is
with the man who is now reading
these lines. You want a "govern-
ment of, by and for the people,"
and then you neglect jour business !
If every citizen would give one hour 1
a day to intelligent and patriotic
study, thought and effort in the pub- !
lie interest, we would soon have a '
different condition of things. If this I
had been done since our government time v.as not questioned by his par
was established, there would not ty, even Tom had much to say in
now be a pauper, a hungry child nor defense of it, and to attempt to rid-
an ignorant man or woman under irtile it now, especially by a Cleve-
| the Stars and Stripes. If every vo land torch-bearer, will bring forth
ter would keep in close touch with from an intelligent audience express-
| his representative in councils, legis ions of sympathy, rather than con
! lature and congress, that alone temptuous applause. It is quite
would do much good. The system
of Direct I.egislation (the Initiative
and the Referendum) would make
it possible for us to take matters in-
to our own hands wheevver we wish,
but if we want this system we must
work work for it.
For, and Against.
The class of citizens opposed to
law and order declare that it was a
mistake to give women the ballot.—
a proof that politics is not moving
to suit them. On the other hand
wc have not seen or heard of one
communication signed by a Colora-
do man of eitherJSpublic, financial,
business, or even social prominence,
declaring equal suffrage to be a fail-
ure, while many high in public es-
teem, and occupying the most im-
portant positions of public trust,
have, 1 over their own signatures,
written of its beneficial results.
Previous to women's voting, poll-
ing places were often located in un-
tidy and most unsuitable places.
Since the advent of women in pol-
itics, polling booths are erected in
cleaner and respectable localities,
and profanity in and near the
booths has disappeared. This im-
proved environment we believe to
be an external expression of clean
er political methods, for primaries,
conventions, and legislative halls
are more orderly, personal abuse of
opposing candidates is less frequent
and the machine politician is far
less in evidence than formerly.—Mrs.
Susan Riley Ashley, Denver, Col.
Hillery—By the way, Ribber the
bigamist, who is known 10 have four
wives, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary.
Mrs. Hillery—Not in company
with all four of his wives?
Hillery—Oh, dear, no! Cruel and
unusual punishment is forbidden by
the constitution.—Ex.
Broom Corn.
Broom corn is now $150 a ton.
■ here is such a shortage that there
will be absolutely no old stock re-
maining when the new crop is put
on the market. It is quite probable
that Oklahoma farmers could take
advantage of this condition to make
some money. The Oklahoma
broom corn will be put on the mar-
ket and it is quite probable that it
could be made to bring a good
price. Not one hundred and fifty
per ton of course, but seventy or
eighty dollars, which is a price that
would make any grower wealthy.
If farmers would plant a few acres
—just what they could care for con-
veniently without erecting new build-
ings or employing additional labor,
true that Grover Cleveland's states-
manship may not be of a very
broad character, but Tom, you
should bear in mind that the party
to which he belongs has been very
short on statesmanship material for
nearly a century, making the ques-
tion of statesmanship in the Demo-
cratic party a tender one, and not
one to be the subject of a rude jest
to the American people that have
Councillor* Magness and Bellamy j Gov. Birnes has sent in a second
are reported to have broken their veto and it is a good one. The sec-
written pledges made to five of the ond bill passed that he vetoed was
other councillors, to vote against one granting to mayors of cities of
locating or appropriating money for ihe first class the power to appoint
building any new and additional ter- or remove all of the city officers and
mortal institutions at the present 'aking the right of electing them out
session of the legislature. At the of the hands of the people. It virtual-
time these two councillors made the ly meant one man rule in those cit-
pledge they doubtless did not real ies anil was a vicious measure that
i/e the strength and means at hand richly deserved the governor's veto.
of the lobby that wants an appro
priation bill of about $800,000 paMed With the national administration
to be expended in the paying for investigating the "embalmed" beef
and building of new and additionalj scandal, and the territorial legisla-
terntorial institutions, such as peni | tare investigating the territorial ad-
tentiary, capitol, an asylum, etc. ministration, is it any wonder the
That these two councillors should air is charged with poisonous mi-
. . . .... , , k'° over to ,he lobb>' is no surprise crobes and the doctors and under-
been making a diligent search for ,0 those who are acquainted with takers are reaping a h h ,rv,-"
over a quarter of a century for • them. We understand that Magness
truly great statesman. Such a man thinks of removing to Chickasha as Marring I icetiNtw
is the great reed of the hour. In soon as the legislature adjourns and Umuh, hy tl„. |>r„bale ,
a like emergency in the past the | has no intention of longer remain- :'a«t report:
American people found such a man . i„g a resi.lent of the Fifth council .KX lilS..,
in Abraham Lincoln, but he was not ] district. 1 n r,v„„
found in Ihe ranks of the old polit
ical parties of his lime. He was a: ''ie more l'iey ,ry •" suppress
ihn
[ comes that lie is an \g linaldo. 1'lie
| robes of state, <•!<> iks of legislators,
party ulster*, or even the ermine of
Hrowu.
The more
David belonging to neither the Is- ®rown °' Oklahoma City limes
raelite nor Philistine armies. Our Journal> t!,e more apparent it be
observation of American politics
leads us to believe that statesmen
make political parties and political
parties make politicians and the lliC ,)enc,l>g" for naught w
less the people have to do with the if "st'li ccal corruption, lie
latter hand me downs, the belter it a regular hyena after the carcass
will be for the American republic ,corrupi officials and his sense of
As long as the people look to old smc" !: as acute as the buzz ird s.
political parties for statesmen, poli- ''ie Republican party Brown will
ticians will fill the offices. They are fm<1 a l,,rge fiel(1 ,liat is wretchedly
the only grist those mills grind out. foul wi,h noxio"s n<t we are
If they want statesmen they must 10 see '''m K°'nP so heroically
elect men unfettered by old political :,t work try ing to exterminate them,
party claims that are too strong to With a dozen fearless newspaper
burst asunder. men in Oklahoma like Brown the
♦ sordid views of officialism in Okla-
When Cleveland receives the Dem- homa wouU1 be ,urned into other
ocrat.c presidential nomination next channels lhan money gettjng h()nest.
year a large number of Democrats
ly or dishonestly—any way to rake
wTio don't live more than a thousand it int0 their ()fficia, maws
miles from Norman, will be ob-1 ♦
served reversing themselves as Fran-
ing, Fisher, Bellamy & Co. did j
three years ago. It is true that the
western Democrats can hardly con-
ceive of Grover receiving the
The limes-Journal goes after
Gov. Barnes for passing a bottle of
Kentucky's best through among the
passengers on the excursion train to
Weatherford; but there is Dennis
nomination again, but as the issues 1 F1ynn_„ever sai<1 one word about
of the coming campaign are form..- j hjs times of exuberance. When the
l.ting so it the return of Grover to Uj. letg its fab„ fly excoriating
Democratic leadership in 1900 again ! plll),ic
men it should be more care-
becoming more apparent. The ful and Ilot bccome Qr ,
Democratic party can hard]) take sided.
the anti-expansion position in next
campaign without being forced to; Dentistry.
recognize Grover as its champion. { For Dental work goto Wor
On that issue we believe that Cleve-
land could command more votes
than any other man in the Demo- |
cratic party. The eastern states
are against Mckinley's expansion
theory, and Cleveland is popular
throughout those states. The south
can be depended on to vote the
Democratic ticket regardless as to
who the nominee might be; and
without the support of the eastern
states the Democratic party cannot
win in the coming campaign, and
with the eastern Democrats asking
for Grover's nomination, we say
ley, over Citizens bank. Nor-
man. Teeth extracted without
pain.
W. H. Wieland, who owns a farm
in this county, but who has been
working as yardnun in the Missouri
Pacific yards at Coffeyville, Kan., is
home this week on a visit.
S it-riif Ne*block returned last
Wednesday night from the Kicka-
poo Village with an Indian charged
with horse stealing. He spent two
days over among the wigwams and
tepees hunting for his man.
Go to McGinlcy & Berry
for B. B. and Eli flour.
Si-liool ICi'port Curds.
This olllce lias just printed 11 new sun-
ply (if these i-hi'iIm, printed on I-J>ty
tough check, which will be eolil atone
and one fourth ernl p r curd.
Overstocked.
I have 11 larger f'.oek of harness linn
I wish to earry and 111 order to reduce
the stock I will, for the next thirty
da) s, sell Collin's cheaper than like
goods \yero ever sold in Norman.
-itf II. W. STUBHEMAN.
New Meat Market.
IVrd Item inert wants everyone to
know, aud especially Ins old friends
and former customers, that ho has
iigHln embarked in the butcher busi-
ness in Norman and his shop .v i 11 bo
found just ea*t of Central Block on
east Main stro 't.
SMOKE HENE'S
S Cent,
" Strawberry" CIGAR.
. 1 . liKNh W< >\Y, I'lr-idcnl.
Gi;o, I. KEl SOLOS, V. l'rcs,
< , II. IH.^I A I . ( i^iicr.
Xorman State Bank.
Capital. $50,000.
Collections a Specialty.
('. nr.XI ROW. (. II. i I -si NT. (JKl). i. RI VXOI.ps
J. I). MACl'IRK. J. M. CURTI' I . T. I . SJ
Grover's chances in the next Demo
they would find that $200 or $300 !'ratic national convention are not Publication NotlCC.
could be added to their income. 10 be sneered at. The question of a Ttl.1.lt01,y
«•«. third term is the only really serious oumiy 01 cii-vi-ihu.i. *"*•
In his talk at the opera house, on
1*eb. 21 st, I 0111 Jarboe tried to raise
a storm of applause at the expense
of the press by inferring that the
Democratic press had made ajgrave
mistake in charging Grover Cleve-
land with being a statesman. Why
the audience did not go wild with
objection we see in the way of Gro-
ver being the next Democratic pres-
idential nominee. In case he should
be, what would the Oklahoma Dem-
crats do? Emigrate to the Philip-
pines or to Cuba or remain and sup-
port him for the luscious plums in
the way of appointive offices in Ok-
In the District < ourt thtTcof.
I. !.. Ilriggs ail'I .M. c. Iltuiyan, ]>laintitfs
cola A •) Hall and Lockio
k-iMlantw.
tpplause rather annoyed Tom. The 'a'lo,na that would be at his dispos
audience was an intelligent and sym-
pathetic one and this explains why
it did not applaud. For twelve long
years Grover Cleveland was the
recognized leader of the Democrat-
ic party and a representative of the
cliarac:er of the statesmanship pos-
sessed by that party and the only
man produced by that party for
al in case of his election ? The av-
erage Democrat's proverbial fond -; - j;;,'
llull, lie
O.-fi'oIll \ .1 Hull 11 1 I l.iH-kli- V. Hull, (I.-
teinlant*, will iitUe notice that tin* >ai«l I. I..
simI M. ( . Itiinvun, plalntllls, <ini, on tin;
2nt11 ilny <'I February, tile their pet turn
in sttid district court within and for tliecounty
«•! < levclainl an<l territory ot Oklahonii.
against Ihe >:i i«l < eiemlaiit>, im«I tli.it tin• *al«l
Osceola A. J. Ilail and hock it* (tall must an-
*\ver mid petition tiled as af« tes:ud, on <•; be-
fore the lit 1 day of April, 1899, or said poll
lion will be taken as true ami a judgment ien-
dered in saitl action a^'iinst *-t"l "tefendants
for the sum ot $5flh 10 with iiitere.-l thereon lit
Ihe rate id Ipercent per
B B. flour at Mc3. & B's
For Kent.
| A farm four miles north east of r-
I man. about70 acres in cultivation, 20 to
L'."> acres b ittom land b-ilancv in two
I pastures and and a ho# pas'ure eon-
t lining 60 to 60 tic res. W iter, timber,
c'ood orchard and cows and brood sows
left on place if desired. Terms c i-h,
part down and balance a* exp ration of
year. It. J. HAMILL.
ft i V V -> * * # ft r> ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft
ness for official pie makes the so-
iuither judgment against said detend-
ants for the l'nr closure of two certain mort*
. . t \ i gn«vs upon the following-described real e>tate,
llltion Ot the above problematic to wit —a part ot the southeast quarter of sec
Question easv enoncrh for nvfn , i tioiM, town hip < north of runpe l we«t ot I.
ipjcsuuil L t! by mougn tor CWll a M f ,md parlieulai I' «1<-C-rlbeU ■! lollows: in
fustonpop to correctly determine. ginning lit Ihe non :iea> t corm r of said qiMrter
, weetIon, thence west 80 rods to a stone on the
—north boundary line ot said quirt. : >celiou,
i,'., _ i m ,n i- i c | thence south to"a stone ou the mui-li boundar*
1 rank ilal!, age 2Q, died from an of said quarter .■-iectiou so rods w.--t of the south-
attack of brain fever, on last Mon- ''"slI,''"111" ' "
, . , . i southeast corner, t hence north to the plact- ot
(lay afternoon, at the home of his hegimnnir -utalning HO acres, Ivin^' and .-it u
«... ' 1 '' ' ' ! mrr>nte in thic oiiir U„ .... e ale in the county of • loveland In the torrito*
nearly half a centuy that the people ^ He
California t,<
a Jland of
3lowers.
Boys bring bot:<]
ery passenger on
ifornia Limited ad
lets to ev-
The Cal-
the boun-
was un
. j r , . . i married, and had made his home
had confidence enough in, not only with his parents> Mr and M
!. Hall
to elect once, but to elect a second
time, after one defeat, a thing that
never occurred to any man in Amer
ican politics before, to the highest
office in the gift of the American
people. His statesmanship at that
ot Oklahoma, and adjudging that said pi
have the first lien <.n said premi-c-. to the
amount for which judgment will be taken as
aforesaid, and ordering -aid premises to be
He was taken ill on Thurs )"'''' "*•"«
. . . I of the amounts «luu piaintitl-. and for cunta ol
(lay of last week, while at work for suit, and forever barring and foreclosing said
his brother-ill I nv Mr Caman •!•. « t8 from nil «-i«lit, tltlo,emtnle, inti-i.--t.
ills uroincr ill law, i\i r. v. aman, Wl.o ,,, ,,p,.,-,v HI, i % „i ■... t<-i>i|ir i >>n in or to
lives near the Little River falls. I *"''1 premises, nrmy pnrt tiinior.
The funeral services were conducted n,"'■'■!" ',V>..V'T.'.'i 'i' VJ"!-"' '' '
KAII. Clerk !>i-t. Court.
By ,1. .J. Ihu ke, Deputy, .
v lac'csn v\ >; t t i" Plaint !
by Rev. C. E. Leonard, of the Bap-
tist Church, on Tuesday afternoon.
.'.Ill iln\ i.r Fe1
[Si'iilJ 11. II. M
dary of Flower-land.
Nothing is omitted that can
ailil to ihe pleasure of pat
rons of this splendid train
to Southern California, via
Santa Fe Route.
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