The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, OCTOBER 27. 185)1).
NO. J 4.
LITTLE BOY BLU E. ♦
- ItV KDGBNB FIELD. 9
The Httlo toy (log la covered with rtust,
Hut sturdy and staunch lie stands;
And the little toy soldier la covered wltli rust,
And the musket moulds in his hands.
Time wits when the little toy dog was new,
And the soldier whs passing fair ;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
hi ed them and put them there.
1 Now don't you go till 1 come," he said,
" And don't you rnuke any noise."
So toddling off to his trundle bud
He (Ireninpt of the pretty toys,
And as he was dreaming an angei song
Awakened the Little Boy Blue—
o the years are many, the years are long,
But the little toy friends are true.
Ayo, faithful to l.ittle lioy lilue tliey stand
Fach in the same old place,
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of a little face. [through,
And they wonder, us waiting these long years
in the dust of that little chair,
\\ hat has become of our Little Boy Blue
Since he kissed them and put them there.
NOVEMBER WEATHER.
[From Hicks' Word anil Works.]
Our storm diagram shows that a Vulcan
storm period centers on the ist. Falling ba-
rometer, warmer, southerly winds, ending in
in cloudiness and rain, may be expected from
the ist to 5d, reaching a crisis of high temper-
ature and storminess about the 3d. Close be-
hind these storms a decided cold wave for tlie
season will rush downward from the northwest
causing snow, and cold, northerly currents will
dominate most parts of the country up to about
the 6th. During the 7th and 8th a reaction
from the boreal, anti-storm conditions will set
in—warmer weather will spread from west to
east, tlie barometer will fall and more rain,
turning to snow will visit many sections in the
cenlral and northern states.
From the nth to 14th falls a Vulcan per-
turbation, blended with Mercury and Mars.
Earth, sun and Jupiter are in conjunction at
the same time, there being also a very unusual
concentration of nearly all the members of the
solar system near the same celestial longitude.
There is no need for foolish fear or alarm
when we say that heavy autumnal storms and
gales are exceedingly probable between 11 tli
and 14th. Over the lakes and on the north
Atlantic danger to shipping is probable, while
rain, sleet and snow will visit vast areas of the
continent.
A reactiohary storm period is probable on
17th to 19. Earthquake phenomena in parts
of the world are likely on and about these
dates. V November blizzard of sleet and
snow over the northern half of the country,
neetl not surprise the readers of these fore
casts abo it the same dates. A general cold
wave should be looked for at the culmination
of this period, lasting up to about the 23d.
During the Vulcan storm period extending
from the 23d to 27th, the barometer will again
fall, and ..il the conditions of precipitation ant!
storminess will return. The low barometer
and warmth will culminate, especially south-
ward, in lightning and thunder on and next to
the 26th, after which the high barometer, high
winds and cold will rush down from the north
and west.
It should be remembered that marked me-
teoric showers are due 011 and about the 27 th,
in the evening.
The last two days of the month will bring
return of falling barometer, high temperature
and tendency to general rain and snow.
and canals, expresses, telegraphs, telephones,
as well as all other public utilities of interstate
or international character, the same to be op-
erated co operatively under the control of the
federal government.
3.— The several states to own and operate,
co operatively, all industries working under
stale charter, controlled by trusts, monopolies
or combines.
4.—The municipalities to own anil operate,
co-operatively, all industries requiring munic-
ipal franchise, including street railways, tele-
phones, gas, electric light, water and sewer
systems.
5.— The public land to be inalienable, but
leased to resident users only.
6.—All moneys to be issued by the federal
government. Abolition of national banks and
substitution for their notes of legal tender
treasury notes. Establishment of postal sav
ings and deposit hanks.
7.—Payment of the national debt and all
current expenses of the federal government by
direct graduated taxes 011 property, incomes,
franchises and inheritances.
8.—Reduction of the hours of labor in pro-
portion to the progress of production. Abo-
lition of the contract labor system. Public
employment of the unemployed. Accident and
old age insurance. Equal pay for equal work
foi men and women. An efficient employers'
liability law. All wages to be paid in lawful
money. Prohibition of the employment of
women and children 111 occupations detriment-
al to health or morals. Sanitary inspection of
mines, workshops and homes.
9.—Useful inventions to be free to all, in-
ventor to be compensated by the public.
10.—Scientific management of forests and
waterways.
11.—Election of president and vice pres-
ident arid United States senators by direct j
vote of the people.
The resolutions relating to territory mat- |
ters are too extended for our space, but we |
summarize as follows :
Single statehood. Universal suffrage in
State of Oklahoma. The state and its lesser
divisions to be governed through Direct Legis-
lation; veto power of executive to be abolished;
public officers to be directly nesponsible to the
people, and subject to recall. No person to
suffer punishment without verdict by a jury of
his peers. Public expenses to be paid by
graduated taxes, as in No. 7 above; $300 in
ccme, S300 personal property and $1000 occu-
pied homestead to be non-taxable. Property
to be assessed at actual value. Education of
children compulsory, and school books free.
The school lands to be retained by the state
and the rental therefrom to go to support the
public school system.
The resolutions were signed by the follow-
ing delegates, from nine counties :
Dr. H. R. Dean, Oklahoma City; E. T.
Tucker, Mhlhall; 11. E. Farnsworth, Newkirk;
T. Gabriel, Newkirk; J. N. Clark. Oklahoma
City; J. Hempfling, Perry; A. M. McCormick,
Norman; G. I.. Summers, Norman; George C.
Parker, Edmond; E. li. Heming, liryan; \\. I*.
Beldin, Bryan; M. \V. Springer, Cloud Chief;
A. C. Staley, Oklahoma City; J. I.. Williams,
El Reno; Wm. H. Hobson, Britton; C. B. Pow-
ell, Edmond; Walter Olds, Chandler; M. \V.
Alexander, Norman; Theo. Harrman, Ok. City.
Boer Gun-Piays in the Past.
In " Oom Paul's People," a new book by
H. C. Hillegas, an American writer, are given
the following statistics relating to former fight-
ing between the Boers and liritish bandits :
liutllc.
Jameson Raid
Latug'n Nek
I DffOffO
Mtijulm Hill
Bronkhorst
Real Number of Uitlanders.
The various ideas vf the number of aliens
in the Transvaal are amusing. Mr. Chamber-
lain thinks there are 200,000, of whom 150,000
are British. The Star recently went to the
trouble of ascertaining how many persons are
I registered on the books of the Johannesburg
field-cornet. There are 39,727, of whom a
number were burghers.—South African Times.
Oklahoma Socialist Resolutions.
At the recent Socialist conference at Okla-
homa City the following declaration of prin-
ciples was adopted ;
The Socialists of Oklahoma, send fraternal
greeting to all co-workers wherever found,
pledging them cur best support of the prin-
ciples of International Socialism.
We realize that liberty and prosperity can
never forsake any people who know their rights
and dare maintain them.
That absolute security in all the fruits of
their labor is the first right of those who toil
with hand or brain.
That capitalism, the private ownership of
the means of the production and distribution of
wealth, by a denial of this right, is responsible
for the insecurity of subsistence, the poverty,
misery anil degradation of the ever growing
majority of our people ; and
That to the obvious fact of our despotic
economics being the direct opposite of our
democratic system of politics, can plainly he
traced the existence of a priviligeM class that
has corrupted our government and converted
all public property, franchises and functions
into mere instruments of private gain.
1'he same economic forces which have pro-
duced and now intensify these conditions will
compel the adoption of socialism, the collect-
ive ownership of the means of production ant
distribution of wealth, for the general good and
welfare. .
The Socialists of Oklahoma believe that the
highest duty of all citizens is to aid in the es-
tablishment of such a system of public co op-
eration, through the restoration to the people
of all the means of production and distribution
to be administered by organized society 111
the interest of the whole people.
As steps in that direction we join our com-
rades throughout the nation in the following
demands :
, Revision of our federal constitution,
placing the people in actual control of the con-
gressional, executive and judicial branches of
government, by means of direct legislation by
the voters, irrespective of sex, color or creed.
2.—The United States to own all means ot
pu'jl ic transportation, including the railroads
Oh, My Brethering!
Extracts from an editorial in last Saturday's
Guthrie Leader (Dem.) :
" Populism in Oklahoma has dwindled from
a respectable and respected minority to a hand-
ful of political beggars whining for the crumbs
that fall from the official feed-troughs."
" The Democrats of Oklahoma have grown
weary of fusion deals with political mendicants.'
" The Leader reiterates it is not the pur-
pose of the Democracy to oppose
and antagonize the men who believe in the
principles of populism. . Populists are in-
vited, heartily and sincerely, to join with the
Democrats under the banner of reform."
" Democracy at no time had any business
to flirt with populism. The drift of populism 1
all along has been toward paternalism and so-
cialism. both of which are deadly antagonistic I
to Democratic principles."
" Populism is a spectacular, festering sore
on the body politic; its teachings breed pa
ternalism and destroy that incentive to indi-
vidual effort that is the best of American man-
hood."
" I11 its opposition to fusion The Leader is
receiving the support of all true Democrats. I
. . Of course there are some selfish mendi-
cants who charge The Leader with bad faith, i
tieachery of aiding Republicans, and all sorts j
of like rot."
" The Leader has repudiated congressional
fusion, and the Democracy is with The Leader."
" In county affairs a fixed rule cannot be
j followed, and in order to overcome Republican j
' misrule and corruption a coalition of forces
may, at times, be necessary, but Democrats are I
opposed to fusion in general."
straight-out Democratic
" The Leader is
paper."
Yes, The Leader is undoubtedly a straight-
out Democratic paper. The above extracts
indicate that much; and also that its editor is as
barren of brains as a toadstool is of substance.
Missionary Work.
The conversion of a large body of Nesto-
rians in Persia to the Russian (Greek Catholic)
Church is, according lo Rev. Samuel G. Wil-
son, M. A., of Tabriz, Persia, a movement for
better protection, not a spiritual change. He
tells in this connection the following story
(Missionary Review, October): " A Nestortan
was irrigating his fields. A fellow peasant
came tip and turned off the water to his own
field. When asked why he did so, lie replied :
' I am able to, for I am a Russian.' I'lie fust
man thought it useless to resist, and walked
away to the village. Presently he returned and
began turning the water back to his own field.
When No. 2 began to quarrel with him, he said:
' Go away, or I will knock you down with my
spade. I have just enrobed as a Russian, too."
The "Unspeakable Turk."
Rabbi Garster, of London, the most elo-
quent Jewish orator of Europe, and a leader in
the Zionist movement for the Jewish re-colo-
nization of Palestine, says of the l urk :
" We have great faith in the Turks. No
one who has ever lived among them will fail to
uphold me when 1 say that there is 110 race
more honorable nor whose word is more sacred.
Their laws, if rightly administered, are even
wiser and more liberal than those of the Unit
etl States. And I say, and have authority for
the statement, that the Turkish government
never has molested, for religious reasons, a :
race over which they had power. The Armen
ians brought their troubles on themselves. Je ,
rusalem and Palestine are now downtrodden
by the Turkish officials, but unscrupulous offic j
ials are to be found in every land."
Rabbi Garster's opinion will have the floor
until we hear from the Squeedunk Bazoo !
A Sample Referendum.
The well-known agricultural paper, Farm
antl Home, has just finished taking a vote of
its readers on certain questions, with the fol-
lowing result :
For subjection of Philippines, 8416; for in
dependence of Philippines, 12,520.
For annexation of Cuba, 7,362; for inde
pendence of Cuba, 13,139
For annexing Porto Rico to U. S., 8,004;
for annexing Porto Rico to Cuba, 11,897; for
independence of Porto Rico, 1,746.
For free trade between U. S and Cuba and
P. R.. 9,327; against, 9,832.
To permit contract labor 111 Hawaii or other
U. S. "colonies," in defiance of I . S. contract
labor laws, 1151; opposed, 18 055.
To elect U. S. senators by popular vote of
the people, 16,643; opposed, 1126.
From which it can be seen that with the
referendum in force the people would make
short work of imperialism—antl other things.
Betting on Wales' Life.
The prince of Wales, it is said, is the heav-
iest individual risk of all the patrons of the
life insurance business in the world. His death
would cause English, German, French antl
American companies not less than £10,000,000.
But it is alleged by persons well informed on in-
surance matters that not more than $1,000,000
of this amount is for the benefit of tin prince's
family. The other policies were taken out
years ago for the protection of his creditors.
It is a curious fact that at least $3,000,000 of
insurance lias been placed on the life of the
prospective king of England as a speculation
by persons who do not know him and have
I never had any relations with him whatever.
The Chicago Record says of the circumstance
" This would be impossible under the insurance
laws of the United States, but it is allowed by
some of the English companies. Over there
any man can secure a policy on the life of a
neighbor if he can get the neighbor to submit
to a medical examination, or find a company
which has recently had him examined. So
when the prince of Wales undergoes an exam
ination for insurance, speculators apply to the
same company for policies on his life, or get
certified copies of the report of the medical
examiner anil use them with other companies.
It is pure speculation. They pay a high pre-
mium, a margin, so to speak, or, to put in an-
other way, they book a wager with the insur-
ance companies that the prince will die before
the total of their premiums exceeds the amount
of the policy. Therefore many persons would
be financially benefited if Albert Edward should
tlrop off suddenly one of these fine days.
British adventurers are the gold miners of
the Transvaal. Americans are the miners of
the Klondike. Canada taxes the American as
high as the Transvaal does the British miner.
Now howl !
Tne aim of socialism is to so arrange mat-
ters that millionaires ami paupers will no
longer be the product of social conditions.
And the Guthrie Leader says "socialism is dead-
ly antagonistic to Democracy." Selah !
For everything- in tlie Fur-
niture or Undertaking line
at lowest prices, see
REED & SHAFFER.
OPEN with our big new stock, for
your inspection. Contains all the
latest fabrics in Dress Goods, su'ch as
wool and silk Crepons, from 95c to $2
per yard; cotton and wool Coverts,
Broadcloth, an exceptional value for 48c;
Venetians, 54 to 70 inches wide.
Beautiful line of Jackets and Capes,
Shoes, Clothing, and Overcoats.
Best boys' Clothing and Shoes in the
wide world.
Everything guaranteed.
Wc want your trade — and intern/ to
have it, by selling you goods that will
suit you, at less than other Norman, or
Oklahoma City, merchants will sell.
COME AND SEE US
when wanting Dry Goods and Grocer-
ies, and let us verify our statements.
Yours to please.
El'edge Bros. & Philips,
4L
••••••••••••
Hie Farmers Grain anil Implement
Company
Will pay you the highest market price for i
your Grain, Hogs antl Cattle, and will sell
you all kinds of Farm Implements at the
lowest living prices.
If y )u have grain, fat hogs or cattle to
sell, let us give you prices 011 them.
If you want to purchase any kind of
farm implement, we will be pleased to have
you examine our stock and line ot imple-
ments, and learn our prices.
Yours for business,
FARMERS (lltAIN AND IMPLEMENT
COMPANY.
East side R. II. Track.
BON TON MEAT MARKET
the citv
on EAST MAIN STREET,
vnu will lintl to be one of
the best Meat markets in
kind*of EKEHH AND SALTED MEATS always on hand, and
delivered free anywhere in town.
if you have Good Butcher Stock to sell, get prlceajon the fame at the
Bon Ton Meat Market.
To Cure a Cold in One l ay
Take Laxative BromnQ ilnln Tablet*. j
All drugglgtn refund ihe money if it
fails lo eure. 10. VV. Grove's signature
011 every box. 2oe.
SMOKF. henes
5 Cent
" Strawberry" CIGAR.
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