The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 16, 1893 Page: 1 of 8
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Revoke the law was written down with
l*archmentor with pen ;
Before the law made citizen*, the moral
law intule men.
Law ktamU for humaii ritrht*. but m heu
it fail* those rights to five.
Then let lawdie. my brother,but let hu-
man beinjftf live.
Jjwmks
••Our H« |>ut>lic can only exist
so Long us its citizens respect
aiul obey their self i in posed laws."
Labor Fs The Parent Of Capital, Encourage Labor, and You Build Up Capital
VOL. 2.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND ('or\TV. OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER, l«i. i
XO. 20.
'Infant" Industry.
IT TORMENTS DAD WITH TARIFF ARGU
MENTS
The Free-Trade and low-price lliimbutf.
—No Tariff on coffee. Vet it*H a* lii^li a*
Ever-Sockdola^era on Clan* Le^i.-lution
- Tableau.
Pa, why do we use tea for dinner
and supper now; we used to use
coffee three times a day?
Coffee has got to be so high we
can't afford it, my son.
What makes coffee so high, pa?
The tariff, my son. The infernal
republican tariff has made coffee so
high that your poor mother must
drink tea, much as she dislikes it.
Do you think, pa, that a low tariff
would make coffee and other things
' y cheaper?
Yes, indeed.
You think that the capitalists who
buy the produce in foreign coun-
tries, manufactured or otherwise,
will bring them here and sell them
as cheaply as they can, do you?
Yes, to be sure they will.
Don't you think capitalists are
about alike the world over, pa?
Yes, I suppose so.
Don't capitalists who own the tele-
graphs, and telephones, and railroads
V and oil wells extort all they can from
^ / the people, pa?
Why, ah, you see—
Don't you no, pa, that message
cost twice as much in the United
States as they do in other countries
where the government owns the tele
graphs? The people of Greencastle
let the telephones be taken out before
the; *"ould pay such extortionate
chiri:s. Railroads charge three
tin cs a.- much as they ought to. Coal
thai sells at $7 a ton would pay a big
profit at $4. So would coal oil at 5
/ cents a gallon.
But, my son, the tariff on coal—
The tariff on coal, like that on
wheat, don't amount to a hill of
beans, pa. The thieves who have the
money and power are hell-bent on
robbing the people of their last cent.
If they can't do it one way they
will another.
When we reduce the tariff we'll
stop all that. We'll—
Stop nothing! Don't you know,
pa. that there isn't a cent on coffee,
I still a few law-protected bandits, like
y Arbuckle, buy it in Brazil for 7 cents
a pound and make you pay so much
for it that you can't use it but once
a day. How do you know it is only 7
cents a pound in Brazil?
Because the United States consul
there says so.
But they say high prices are
caused by a short coffee crop.
Yes, pa, legalized thieves ail
around give every reason but the
right one why everything you buy is
so high and everything you sell is so
* low. Carnegie can give reasons for
paying starvation wages to his men
and tor spending millions on castles
in Scotland. So can Vanderbilt,
Armour, Rockfeller, saloon keepers
and the devil, for making human
beings miserable.
The tariff is the—
Yes, pa, the bigger fool a man is
about the tariff the blinder he is to
his own interests and the easier it is
to fleece him, but—
My son, trunk-strap argument is
what you need, and I'll—
. Pa. present company is excepted;
I did not mean you at all.
Well go on to cutting wood.
Just a moment, pa, don't you know
that the same set of men who made
the people pay two prices for coffee
which has no tariff on it will com-
bine and keep the prices up or.
everything, even if the tariff is re
duced?
Before the war when tariff was
low prices were low, when it was
high prices were high.
Yes, pa, but that was before the
day of combines. The rich men were
few; then they worked independent
of each other. Now the rich are
many; they work together and com-
bine their capital to extort as much
money as possible from the con-
sumer. If competition was the rule
now and there were no combines we
would be buying coffee for 12 cents
a pound, sugar for 4, starch for 2, to-
bacco for 20and so on through the list.
Such talk as that will ruin the party.
Don't you think that the country
will be ruined if things don't change <
soon, pa?
Yes, it does look so.
Which had better be ruined the
country or the party, pa,
Why the cou ntry' of course. No,
I means the party, or, why if Cleve-
land is beaten I won't get any ap-
pointment, that's certain.
How about poor men who don't
expect any appointment. You ara
willing, for the sake of an appoint-
ment, to let a system continue that
is sending them at lightning speed
to the poor house, are you?
I must look out for myself if I—
That is just what the rich minions
of hell think when they form their
combinations to rob us by law. A
government that lets a few bankers
have the people's money at 1 per
cent to loan back to them at 8 per
cent; that allows a railroad to con-
demn the right of way through a
man's land, pay a small price for it,
take it and then charge hiin two
prices for hauling his products ami
double price for hauling him, at the
same time it is hauling a rich man
free who never contributed a cent to
the road; that protects millionaire,
manufacturers, who charge two
prices for goods made by imported
pauper labor; that taxes a poor
man's home and exempts a rich
man's bonds from taxation.
peat it, pa, a government that per-
mits such things and protects them
in it, by law, ought to be sunk to the
bottom of the sea and the legislators
who make laws making such things
possible ought to occupy the hottest
corner of hades.
My son, if I am to have an office I
must stick to Cleveland, right or
wrong. I—
That's a coward's excuse' pa, no
one—
I'll paralyze . [Seizing boot
jack and starts for his son. Hurried
exit of boy.]—Nonconformist.
t tewi*rt Thituks l'ennoyer.
Governor Pennoyer of Oregon has re-
ceived the following letter from Senator
Stewart of Nevada:
My Dear Govkiinoh-I am glad to learn
from your Thanksgiving proclamation that
you are mindful of the fact (bat there is no
reason to be thankful for anything that ha*
been done during the past year by either the
legislative or executive department of the gov-
ernment of the United States. The Insolent
hypocrisy, false pretenses and corruption by
which the gold ring elevated a uiAn from Wall
street to the grout office of president has pro-
duced result* which have filled the country
with want, misery and despair. The subjuga-
tion of the legislative department of the gov-
ernment to the control of money changers and
stock gamblers, through the instrumentality
of money, a subsidized press and executive
usurpation, is a menace to constitutional gov-
ernment.
The decree which repealed the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act and ratified and
confirmed the infamous act of 1873, if it cannot
be reversed, dooms the masses to poverty
misery and financial servitude. You are right!
This i9 no time for gratitude except to the
Creator. Organization to resist the oppres-
sion of the money powers and usurpations of
the executive is the duty of the hour. The
final battles for Justice, financial independence
and constitutional freedom must be fought in
1894 and The enemy of the people is in-
trenched in power and supported by every para-
site, sky lock and money changer in Europe and
America. Nothing can prevent the rule of the
gold o.igarchy but united and determined no-
tion by the people before they are subjugated
and their means of resistance exhausted.
Thanking you for your noble and patriotic
course, believe me, yours very truly,
W i l liam M. Stewart.
Cleveland and Alabama's Vote.
Senator Daniels' statement that, had
the people of Alabama known Cleve-
land's real position on the silver ques-
tion he would not have received their
votes, involves the charge that he ob-
tained their votes by false pretenses.
Still the fact is as the senator stated it.
Ihere are people who entertain grave
doubts as to whether he did really get
the vote of a majority of the people of
Alabama anyway, and these people will
say that the senator probably means that
if the Alabamians really understood Ills
position the managers of Cleveland's
campaign would have been unable to
Bteal the electoral vote of the state.—
Journal of the Knights of Labor.
LOYAL, A15LE, ItRAVE.
THE ADVANCE GUARD OF THE PEO-
PLE'S PARTY IN CONGRESS.
The I'lipn ll.t Mem her. Are Not Obatrur-
tlnnl.t. or Crank., Sor Are Tliey Idle
Men—Till. t. tlie Testimony of a Leading
Newspaper Correspondent.
In view of their cavalry raids in Vir-
ginia, a sketch of the Pojiulist members
may prove of interest. Jerry Simpson
was their candidate for speaker and is
undoubtedly their leader on the floor of
the house.
Jerry is about 5 feet 9 inches in height
and well knit. He has hair as black and as
straight as the hair of an Indian, a clean
shaven face, strongly lined, and snapping
black eyes. He is a little stoopshouldered.
He wears goldbowed spectacles and is
dressed neatly and economically. He is
an inveterate reader and a logical talker.
He speaks calmly and dispassionately!
laying the foundation for his argument
with the utmost deliberation and build-
ing thereon carefully and strongly. He
never saws the air in passion, nor does
his "dee crack the tympanum of his
hearers. Given to asking questions of
others in debate, he never refuses to an-
swer questions propounded to him.
There is no straining for effect or beat-
ing about the bush. His speeches give
evidence of careful preparation and are
Annealed by the intensity of his convic-
tions.
Jerry was a sailor for 23 years. He
had command of many large vessels on
the great lakes. He was a soldier in the
civil war, though born in the province of
New Brunswick. Mr. Simpson belongs
to the bicycling fraternity of Washington. (
He handles a wheel on land as well as on
sea. While his bicycle is not so showy
as that of the Hon. Tom I.. Johnson of
Ohio, it makes better time when pro-
pelled by the legs of the gentleman from
Medicine Lodge.
The most brilliant of the Populists in
the house is Lafo Pence of Colorado. He ;
is as breezy in debate as the wind scat-
tering cones from Rocky mountain pines. ■
Tall, thin and straight, with a voice as J
shrill and clear as the notes of a game-
cock, he attracts the attention of the |
house the instant he takes the floor.
Words pour from him in rhythmic flu- j
ency. His gestures are well timed, and j
his points are usually clinched with per-
tinent anecdotes. Pence was born in In- '
diana in the shadow of the "Tall Syca- I
more of the Wabash.*' He is a graduate
of Hanover college, and has practiced
law ever since 1878. He is 86 years old,
ItKltlCV iV ALLAN.
brown la Jr. He is a man of brawn and
intellect. Born of Irish parents iu New
Jersey, he was u soldier in the late war. AttfimPVS nt . Tnw
and afterward pre-empted a farm in N,- ALtorlu-ys ^ -L^W,
braska. It is said that he was living in
a dugout when first nominated for office.
However this may l)©t it is certain thut
he has turned many a sod and reaped
many an utre of grain. With all this
hard work he has been an inveterate
reader and is undoubtedly as well in-
formed on political subjects as any man
in the house. His speeches show great
research and careful arrangement. There
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Office:
Stori
I'M AC TH K IV M.I. I'll k l <H'ltT>
rear of Berry Hit
jr. Avenue.
Remember we are making special
prices on Dress goods.
The Boston Stoke.
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Norman,
OKI A.
Cleveland's Master.
President Cleveland has at last thrown
off his Democratic mask and marched
straight into the Republican camp. Ho
IS now a fill fledged Republican—one of
the worst sort, as deserters always are.
Ho lielongs to John Sherman, the relent-
less foe of the people. Mr. Sherman is
his iron fisted master. Whatever Mr.
Sherman tells him to do he does. He
dare not hesitate, for Mr. Sherman 1b
the trusted leader and champion of the
pirate and robber gangs, and they are
inexorable in the execution of their de-
mands. Look out for the offer and sale
of gold bonds at an early day. That will
bo the next move of the traitorous min-
ions to rivet the chains of slavery on the
people. Mr. Sherman has already given
notice.
Our j)eople can see now how they were
deceived and misled when they voted in
the late election for Mr. Cleveland.—E.
8. Keitt in Cotton Plant.
Sec Mrs. Humphrey's stock of boot?
and shoes before purchasing elsewhere. |
8 Ooors cast of P. O. i
It. E. INN IN.
Physician & Surgeon,
WILL ATTEND ALL CALLS.
Office: on Railroad Street near Jone's
Addition.
norman.
OK LA.
is our motto.'
IF YOU are in need of Dry Goods,
1 Clothing. Underwear, Hoots and
Shoes, or General Merchandise.
m
Distressful I^uoruuc?.
, .. Denver, Nov, 4.
My Dearest \\ ife—i have a terrible attack
of congebtion of the back of the brain. If I do
not live until morning, Mr. Hurt ran tell you
all about the usnets and business affairs. Con-
salt Mr. Oscar lieu tor as your attorney. Have
the whole condition of my estate explained to
Mr. Checsman, and he will see that my family *
little fortune is not sacrificed for the want of a
little money to pay interest until times get bet-
ter. Your loving husband, (J. Q. Symkh.
The above note left by ex-Congress-
man Synies of Colorado, who committed
suicide in Denver on the 4th inst., tell*
its own tale—in debt, business depres-
sion, suicide. And yet Syines was one
of the men the people elected to make
laws for them, and so ignorant of the
true ethics of government that he com-
mitted self murder to get away from the
operation of laws he himself had voted
on the people! These are the ignorant
men whom an ignorant constituency
votes to rule them. Washington is full
of them.—Coming Nation.
A LAW BREAKING btw... . /
Give us a Call,
Examine our Goods,
And Test Our Prices,
IT WILL PAY YOU.
Cotney, Griffin & Waits, ~r
Texas Store
has ^a boyish appearance and is negligee
Do You See It?
All the time they talked repeal the
gold men assured us that if we had re-
peal wheat would go up. It went down.
Now they assure us with even greater
emphasis that if repeal had carried earlier
prices would have gone up. What hy-
pocrisy ! They tcjld us the banks would
loosen up money and times would im-
prove if repeal passed. Repeal has
passed. Why don't the banks loosen up
and make good times? A long gulled
public begins to see the faroe that has
been enacted.-North Dakota Iudepend-
tDt
in dress. Tom Watson aroused Litter
enmities, but Pence, while speaking with
all of Watson's ardor and effectiveness,
is a general favorite in the house. In
discussion he is as quick as a hum-
ming bird. His tilt with Bynum at the
beginning of the session gave him well
merited renown. Modest and unassum-
ing, yet active and untiring, he is ever
on the skirmish line gleaning whatever
little advantage for his party is to be
obtained. He has a full blue eye and
brown hair combed in Jacksonian sim-
plicity. Pence keeps the blood in circu-
tion in the Populist body in the house.
Next in the Populist line is John Davis
of Kansas. This is his second term.
John looks like a genuine old farmer.
He has gray hair and a mouselike tuft on
his chin. He makes a speech with the
same unconcern that he would handle a
plow in turning a furrow. He has a
resonant voice and a stirring manner.
Unlike Jerry Simpson, he shows no hu-
mor in his addresses. He says what he
has to say in the plainest words, and im-
presses it upon his hearers by the use of
his fist. At times he lapses into poetical
quotations. John Davis is a plain, mat-
ter of fact, straight, everyday exponent
of Populist principles. Come weal or
woe, he has cast his lot with the Popu-
lists, and he shows no other political pre-
dilections.
William Baker is a fit mate for John
Davis. There is a similarity between
the two men. They work together with
the steadiness and strength of well
mated oxen. Nor do they need a yoke
to keep them together. They are brows-
ing in the Populist field, and they need
no post and rail fence to keep them
there. Rarely do you find them absent
from the house. They watch legislation
with intense interest, always offering
amendments to bills in the interest of
the farmers they represent. Both are
practical farmers. Baker has studied
law, and was graduated from Waynes-
boro college in 1856. He has also been
a school teacher. Davis is five years
older than Baker, and was a leading
abolitionist years ago. He has been the
editor of a paper and is a writer on eco-
nomic subjects.
Not far away sits another Kansas Pop-
ulist—the Hon. Thomas J. Hudson. He
has a magnificent physique and a sonor-
ous voice. He is a close attendant on
the sessions of the house and an ardent
listener. He evidently has the elements
of statesmanship about him. This was
indicated in his speech on the silver bill.
Like his colleagues, he was brought up
on a farm, but he has studied law and
was at one time a district attorney. A
lifelong Democrat, he entered the Pop-
ulist party about two years ago. Mr.
Hudson is dignified and reserved in man-
ner, but is a man of great intellectual
strength and one that will develop mag-
nificently when the occasion offers.
The leading Populist from Nebraska
ifl William Arthur McKeighan of Red
Cloud. McKeighan is tall, angular and
bony. He has a clean shaven face, high
cheek bones sunken eye# and thick |
Carlisle Ha. Been Guilty of C: ln:e, I'm
Which lie Should Me Impeached.
The neglect and refusal of the mint
bureau, acting under instructions of
Secretary Carlisle, to comply with the
silver purchase clause of the Sherman
act is perhaps the most flagrant instance
of violation of law by high officials of
the government which the country has
ever witnessed. And Mr. Carlisle's at-
tempt to explain his action is evasive
and entirely unsatisfactory.
In the letter sent by him to the house
in pretended compliance with a resolu-
tion requesting information as to why
silver bullion was dot purchased to the
full amount in July and August, he
'merely states that on July 12 the rule of
accepting the lowest offers made was
changed and the practice adopted of ar-
bitrarily determining the price at which
bullion would be taken upon the assump-
tion that such price was the market rate.
He enters into a long statement of pur-
chases made under the old rule and men-
tions several instances where offers were
declined under the new practice,but gives
no reasons—makes no attempt whatever
to justify by argument the course of the
mint department or his own. In fact,
the letter is not a reply «to the request
contained in the resolution of the house
and ought to be returned to him with
that statement.
In the month of July, we gather from
sources outside of Mr. Carlisle's letter,
the purchases amounted to 2,218,982
ounces, falling short of the amount re
quired to be bought 2,281,018 ounces. It
August the amount taken was 3,9i)4,497,
a shortage of 565,503 ounces. Iu Sep
tember 2,709,629 ounces were purchased,
being 1,730,371 ounces less than the law
required. The total deficit in the pur-
chases for the three months is 4,576.89;
ounces.
When Mr. Carlisle says directly or by
implication that silver bullion to the
full amount was not offered at the mar-
ket rate or price he is guilty of mis-
statement of facts. The Chronicle has
heretofore shown that in more than one
instance offers were made under the
quotations in the London market and
rejected. But the law never contem-
plated that the secretary should have
j the power to fix the market price. The
term used is a well known and under-
j stood commercial phrase. The mandate
I was to buy 4,500,000 ounces of silver
each month at the market price, not to
exceed fl.29 per ounce, or so much of
that amount as might be offered. There
is not a lawyer nor a layman in the land
who, if he will give an honest opinion,
will not declare that the manifest pur-'
pose of the law was to require the pur-
chase of the amount designated each
j month in the open market of the United
j States.
j But the whole affair—the deliberate
J purpose and effort of the administration
to depress the price and thereby discredit
j silver—is simply a part of the programme
j to force the country to the gold stand-
I ard. It is disgraceful, and the open vio-
lation of law to which we have adverted
i is more—it is a crime, for which the
NOTICE AND HEED THIS!
J. H. Howry
HAS MADE A 1,1(1 AT UKDl lTION o\ |||.H HTOCK (If
He carries the Largest Stock in the
^ity. Employes none but exper-
ienced workmen, pays no rent, and
can save you money. See him before
Buying elsewhere.
Whsr MAIN STTEET, .... NORMAN, OK LA
South Texas Lumber Co.
• DEALERS IN...
LATHES, SHINGLES, DOORS,
SASHES, BLINDS, AND ETC.
ALSO HANDLE
LIME, CEMENT, a.ncl PLASTER
W, H. BLACKM0N, Manager,
N. W. Cor. Main, and It. R. Streets. Norman, Okla
D. W. Habquaht, S. H. OWKNN, A. C. MAHEB, J. W. Hooker
President. Vlce-Pres. Cashier. Ass't. Ca'sh
Citizens Bank of Norman,
(INCORPORATED UNDER the LAWS OF OKLAHOMA )
CPAITAL STOCK 350,000.
n ,v M , 0 DIRECTORS: O
Ia v\. Marquart, W. C. Crawford, S. 13. Owens, O. H.P.Catron J. M
Danieln, f). L. Larsh, Lee Catron.
o/this^ountv lhi" B'lnk Pr°Vlde tha' cil" bu i8sucd 10 no.,-residents
THE FAMOUS GROCERY.
-Has the neatest and most complete-
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participant* Bboald be impeached.—San
Francisco Chronicle.
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Their Prices are so low that they defy their
competiters to make theirs as low
CALL and SEE THEM and SATISFY YOURSELF.
BLaKE & ELLEDGE BLOCK EAST MAIN STREET
Norman, O. T.
W. N. elledge, Proprietor.
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