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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 8.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, NOVEMBKR 1 !«>!>.
NO. J5.
" DOVJN TO SLEEP.'
libi-I.N IlfNT'.lACKtfUN.
November w ootls are bate unci still,
November days are clear And bright,
Each noon burns up the morning chill,
The morning's snow isgoim by night.
Ku. li <lay my steps grow slow, grow light,
As through the woods I reveivrt creep,
Watching nil things llo "down to sleep."
1 never know before what beds,
Fragrant to smell and solt to touch,
Tlio forest frlfta and shapes ami spreads.
1 never knew before how much
Of human sound there is, nueli
Low tones us through the forest sweep
When nil wild things lb)' down to sleep."
Each day 1 tlmi new coverlids
Tucked In, and more sweet eyes shut tight ;
Sometimes the Uowloss mother bids
Her ferns kneel down full in my sight.
1 hear their chorus of "good night,"
And half 1 smile and halt 1 weep,
Listening v. bile they lie "down to sleep."
November woods are bare ami still,
November days lire bright and good,
Life's noon burns up life's morning chill,
Life's night rests feet that that long have stood.
Some warm, soft bed In Held or wood
Thy mother wi'.l not fall to keep
Where v.o can " lay us down to sleep."
THE TRANSVAAL'S POSITION.
[From Sprlnglleld (Mass.) Republican.]
Suppose the Pretoria government is an oli- j
garchy. It is undeniable that it has the earn- j
est support of all the Boers. They might make i
Mr. Kruger temporary dictator, as the Romans j
used to in emergencies, and be well within their
rights. If one is to object to an ' oligarchy ' i
at Pretoria, let him also start a crusade against J
the tzar of Russia and the emperor of Ger- |
many. It is new that when a people have the
right of self government, they must pattern
their system after that of any other nation. As
for the British criticism of the two houses of
the Boer legislature, (the upper having a veto
on the lower house), it conies with ill grace
from a people who tolerate the hereditary
British house of lords. The facts- about the
Transvaal high court of justice are that the j
constitution gives supreme power to the Yolks
raad in all legislative matters. The judge who
was removed not long ago had tried to extend
his jurisdiction over the acts of the Volksraad.
Such is the statement made by Mr. Hil'egas
(American) in his book, "Oom Paul's People."
But, conceding that the courts are entirely at
the mercy of Mr. Kruger, what of it ? So they
are in Russia at the mercy of the czar. Are
you going to war to compel Russia to change
her domestic institutions ? [ Nein ! Russia
has no rich gold or diamond mines for us to
appropriate—and, besides, she's too big.] The
Transvaal is as independent in internal affairs
as Russia is.
As for taxation [of alien mine owners] in
the Transvaal, the case as stated by the Brit-
ish apologist, is very unfair to the Boers. If
they derive nine-tenths of their revenue from
foreigners it is right that they should, since
thost foreigners are allowed to work the rich-
est gold mines in the world, mines which now
lead in annual output, and which pay divi-
dends running as high as 675 per cent. A very
light tax on such mines, in -.0 small a country,
would of course yield to the state the bulk of
its revenue. It is a mockery, however, for the
alien millionaires to complain of taxation,
when, as a matter of fact, the Boer govern-
ment levies a tax of but 2per cent, on the
profits of the mines. The Canadian govern
ment levies a tax of 10 per cent, on the gold
profits in the Klondike ! Is there any agita-
tion suggested against Canada? Compare the
Transvaal mining laws with those of other
countries. The African Gold Recovery Com-
pany (English) issued a report to the share-
holders, in 1898, which declared : " The prop-
erties (of the company) in South Africa cause
less anxiety, because the conditions of holding
are free from the burdens which obtain in
Western Australia" (British province.) A Mr.
Henderson, chairman of one of the Transvaal
mining companies in England, has declared
that the gold laws of the Boers were the best
and most liberal in the world. Taxation is
uniform upon all classes in the Transvaal, and
if one set happens to pay more than others, it
is because that set is the richest and deserves
to pay the more
That the Boer government is more corrupt
than any other government cannot be main-
tained. The Johannesburg millionaires have
untold wealth with which to buy their way to
anything they desire. The simple fact that the
Boer government is now in deadly antagonism
to them is good evidence that Uitlander mon-
ey could not bribe Boer officials. The story
that Mr. Kruger has dishonestly amassed $25,-
000,000 in the last ten years is undoubtedly a
slander. If the Boers have insisted that the
public schools should use Dutch exclusively,
(the language of the country,) they do only
what is done in Massachusetts with English.
If they have insisted that private schools,
maintained by foreigners, should teach Dutch
on an equality with English, they have done
only what was attempted by law in Wisconsin
a few years ago, as to English and German.
If they have maintained a monopoly in dyna-
mite, they have no more exceeded their rights
than England did in monopolizing salt in In-
dia, France in monopolizing tobacco, etc. If
Johannesburg is unsanitary it is less so than
many other new mining towns If public meet-
ings of aliens have been prohibited, the Boers
have (lone only what is done in other countries
when the security of the state is threatened.
If they have prohibited the bearing of arms by
aliens and have built forts around Johannes-
burg, it is because their country four years ago
was invaded by armed men under Jameson,
inspired by Cecil Rhodes, winked at by Colon-
ial Secretary Chamberlain, whose confessed
object was to overthrow the South African
Republic.
League of American Municipalities.
[From The Literary Digest.j
Municipal ownership was the main theme
discussed in the recent meeting of the League
of American Municipalities at Syracuse, and
in spite of considerable opposition it seems to
have carried the day. Mayor Henry V. John-
son, of Denver, the new president, is a pro-
nounced advocate of the municipal ownership
of waterworks, telephones, electric light works,
gas works, and street railway systems. The
New York Tribune says of this :
" 'This was significant, since a good many
representatives of corporations have been in
Syracuse, some of them as members of the
convention, who have been making earnestly
expressed arguments in favor of cities abstain
ing from engaging in such enterprises as the
manufacture of gas or electricity, or the run-
ning of telephone exchanges or street railway
lines. So determined have been the repre-
sentatives of corporations to bring forward
their views on these matters, that is natural to
infer that the owners of present city franchises
are apprehensive that the cities may enter into
competition with the companies, and thus de-
preciate the value of the latters' franchises."
The Boston Transcript notes and comments
upon this victory for municipal ownership as
follows :
" The election of a new president by the
League of American Municipalities, at Syra-
cuse, was a test vote, and therefore significant.
The choice fell on Mayoi Johnson, of Denver,
but it was not a question of individuals so
much as the policies represented by them, and
the victory was 011 the side of those who advo-
cated the municipal ownership of public fran-
chises. That proposition dominated in inter-
est ali others, and it was discussed with more
complete thoroughness than had ever been giv-
en to it before by those actually invested with
executive authority in their various municipal-
ities. The chief efforts of the advocates of mu-
nicipal ownership were directed against the po-
sition that citv governments were not compe-
tent to be entrusted with the administration of
public utilities. The mayor of Des Moines
used the unique argument that ' nothing could
do more to bring out the latent virtue of the
indifferent citizen than freighting the ship of
state, already, as he fears, overloaded, with
still dearer interests. Every citizen would be
interested in securing the greatest efficiency in
the public service, and in a very short time de-
mands would be made by a quickened and en-
lightened popular sentiment for the enactment
of a strict civil service law.' The mayor of
Colorado Springs took similar ground, and
Prof. Edward W. Bemis, of the Bureau of Eco-
nomic Research, in New York city, declared
that ' monopoly in private hands is essentially
undemocratic.' It is safe to assume that the
test of sentiment with respect to this new pol-
icy has never been so squarely applied before
in such a distinctly representative municipal
organization, and the result will doubtless be
something of a surprise. There is nothing in
the movement, however, to cause apprehension.
Possibly its friends have more faith in its effi
cacy as a purifier of municipal governmeut
than results will justify, hut it looks as though
the experiment would be tried on a constantly
enlarging scale until it triumphed or ended in
discredit and collapse. As a general thing,
however, the movement finds its support among
those who are honestly striving to elevate the
standards of municipal government."
Oom Paul.
[From New York Herald.]
There is no more picturesque figure on the
world's stage today than the old man whom his
friends and followers know as "Oom (Uncie)
Paul," and who is known to official England
and to the world at large as President Kruger
of the South African Republic, (" the Trans-
vaal,")—a truly notable man in many respects,
the like of whom we are not likely to see again.
Endowed at birth with great physical
strength and mental vigor, he is now in his 80th
year, a picture of a stalwart patriarch, and re-
minds us of those "shepherds of the people" of
whom Homer sung. Great stories are told of
his youthful prowess, and we can well believe
them. Even as a boy he was as much at home
on horseback as on foot, and there was 110 man
in the 'Transvaal who was more skillful in hand-
ling a rifle or a shotgun. It is said that he
could run as fast as a horse, and that on one
occasion while galloping home he shot a mad
buffalo from his saddle without drawing rein.
In the same coed manner he frequently killed
lions and other large game with a single-barrel
muzzle loader.
This wonderfully virile man became the
president of the Transvaal after the treaty of
1881, by which the Boers obtained control of
their internal affairs, and he has practically
been ruler of the country ever since. It is on
him the Boers rely for resolute action in an
emergency like the present, and it is surely he
who will take it most to heart if victory falls to
England.
" Fighting Bob" Evans tells this story: "When
Eulate, the commander of the Vizcaya, got on
board the Iowa, 1 took him into my cabin and
gave him the best I had. Through the open
port he saw his vessel beached and burning.
Tears trickled down his cheeks. I felt sorry for
the poor fellow as he moaned, ' Adios, Vizcaya!
Adios, my noble ship!' After he had composed
himself a bit, I offered him a cigar—the best on
the Iowa—a 5-center. He looked at it, thanked
me, straightened up, laid back his shoulders, and
| running his hand inside his coat, brought forth
an 'invincible' that couldn't be bought in New
York for less than a dollar. 'And, captain,' he
said, emotionally, 'will you have the goodness
i to try one of mine?' It was the best smoke
I ever had.''
Formal Notification.
[Kansas City rinu-s, (Deui.) Monday, Uc • , •
There is doubt if h voter lias the moral
ri^lit, under h 11 y sort of uircuinetaneeH. to
encourage the breaking up either one of the
old parties. There is room for only two
national parties. The Democratic atul Ke-
publicau parties cover the entire field of
public policy, and every voter belongs to
one or the other.
We take pleasure in calling the attention of
fusion populists to the above notice in the
leading Democratic organ of the west—and ;i
staunch Bryan paper. Fusiooists are thus ex
plicitly notified that, first, no man has a right
to think, and especially to act, (< r himself, po-
litically; second, that the Democratic serpent
having sufficiently covered the fusionists with
bourbon saliva, the victims are expected to
glide down into the Democratc hungry stom
ach with grace ami dispatch,—for there are
hardly enough office* as it is to supply the needs
of statesmen—the Hannas, the Crockers. etc.,—
of the two old aggregations of toryism and
bourbonism. __
The November Elections.
Before our next issue reaches our readers,
elections will have been held in twelve slate.-;—
Maryland, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Ohio,
Nebraska, Iowa, Kentucky. Pennsylvania, New
York, New Jersey, and South Dakota. The
first four and Iowa and Kentucky elect full
state tickets.
In Mississippi the Populists and Democrats I
only have tickets in the field. If that slate's
total vote equals Oklahoma's vote of last year
it will be larger than usual and Mississippi
has more than five times our populati >11.
Maryland has four tickets—Republican,
Democratic, Prohibition, and Union Reform—
with the Democrats probable winners, owing
to factional fight among the Republicans.
Massachusetts has only the two old party
tickets.
In Ohio, Geo. K. Nash heads the Repub-
licans, John R. McLean the Democrats, |. W.
Bashford the Prohibitionist, Setli W. Ellis the
Union Reformers, and Mayor ("Golden Rule")
Jones is the Nonpartisan candidate, lhs plat-
form is the Golden Rule—which is socialism—
and the vote he may poll on Tuesday has got
the old party politicians a guessing. Although
the law only reqaired 15,000' his petition nom-
ination had on it the names of 80,000 voters.
In Nebraska the Republicans and the Fu-
sionists are contesting for a member of the su
preme court and two regents of the state uni-
versity, with the Republicans apparently at a
disadvantage owing to Bryan's personality.
Iowa has five tickets—Republican. Demo-
cratic, Populist, Prohibition, and United Chris-
tian.
Kentucky has six tickets : Republican,
Democratic, "Honest-Election" Democratic,
Populist. Prohibition, and Socialist Labor.
Pennsylvania has Republican, Democratic,
Populist and Prohibition tickets.
New York and New Jersey elect legislatures.
In South Dakota there are but two tickets —
Republican and Populist fusion.
And He Landed in the Asylum.
[Article by an insane patient, in Fort England Mlrroi, a pa-
per for the Insane. ]
" I met a young widow with a grown step-"
daughter, and the widow married me. 'Then
my father, who was a widower, met my step-
daughter and married her. That made my
wife the mother-in-law of her father-in-law,
and made my stepdaughter my mother and my
father my stepson. Then my stepmother, the
stepdaughter of my wife, had a sou. That boy
was, of course, my brother, because he was my
father's son. He was also the son of my wife's
stepdaughter, and therefore her grandson
That made me grandfather to my stepbrother
Then my wife had a son. My mother in law
the stepsister of iny son, is also his grandmoth-
er, because he is her stepson's child. My fath-
er is the brother in-law of my child, because
his stepsister is his wife. I am the brother of
my own son, who is also the child of my step-
grandmother. 1 am my mother's brother in-
law, my wife is her own child's aunt, my son
is my father's nephew, and I am my own
grandfather. And after trying to explain the
relationship in our family some seven times a
day to our calling friends for a fortnight, I was
brought here—no, came of my own will."
'Twon't Do.
'The Southern Mercury's national conven
tion table gives Oklahoma one delegate, based
on last year's vote of 1,269 for Mr. Hankins.
This is a mistake—Oklahoma will be entitled
to 9 delegates, based on her straight Populist
vote of 16,774 for Beaumont for congress in '94.
When a foreigner—even an Englishman—
conies to the United States and applies for cit
izenship he must, when making the application,
renounce his allegiance to the British crown,—
and then wait five years before he becomes a
full fledged citizen of this country. It is the
principal "grievance" of the British uitlanders
that the Transvaal requires them to renounce
their allegiance to Queen Vic. before they can
become citizens of the South African republic.
Oom Paul's and Uncle Sam's requirements as
to citizenship are the same—and yet there is
a mighty important difference : the United
States is powerful, the 'Transvaal is weak.
When the British troops fled from Glencoe,
a few days after their geat "victory" there, they
left behind a fine supply of dumdum bullets.
Some of the Boer officers wanted to use them
on the enemy—ilose them with their own med-
icine—but Oom Paul wouldn't permit it, saying,
" It must not be so. Whatever the British may
be, the Boers claim to be civilized."
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If you want to purchase any kind of
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Sterling Remedy o. Chicago or New York
A Conversation Overheard be-
tween a Farmer and a
Merchant.
When in town selling his cotton, a
Pott county fitrni 'i' was overheard to
hay to one of the merchants in Norman,
"I want a sack of flour and I want "N.
li." The Inst sack of Hour I had was
"N. B." and it was the best sack of
1 flour, I ever purchased in my life."
11 is needless In say, the merchant! did
not try to tell this man a Kansas
product. 1-1
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Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
\11 druggists refund the money if it
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on every box. 25c.
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