The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1895 Page: 1 of 8
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Rep-OKI the law w a written dowu with
parchrnent or with (ten;
Before the law untile citisen*. the moral
luw made men.
Law stand* for huuian riirhtn. hut when
it fails tho** rivhta to irive.
Then let law die. iu> brother, but let hu-
uiau beinga live.
®Ire peoples
out
"•Our Republic can only exist
so Long as its citizens respect
and obey their self imposed laws. ''
Labor Ts The Parent Of Capital, Encourage Labor, and You Build Up Capital
VOL. 3.
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JULY, 19. i895.
NO 51
Of
Mrs. Imogene C. l-'ales Presents
an Able Argument.
AT STATES' ISLAND, N. Y.
Gigantic Corporationa Hava Monopoli*®d
the Royaltlea of the Nation, Ara
intrenched In Court and Con-
greaa and Control Both
the Old Partiea.
It is a matter of rejoicing that a
reform party, great in the strength
of its moral principles, has in this
critical hour of national life, stepped
to the front, and with bugle call bro-
ken in upon the deadly silence and
torpor of the people.
It is marvelous that the American
people, the lovers of liberty, should
sit supinely down, and see their free
institution crumble to decay, their
rights and liberties invaded, and
the autocratic rule of wealth taking
the place of the democratic rule of
the people.
There is nothing so dangerous or
deathly as tame submission to evil
institution and oppressive laws and
conditions. For when the fire in the
blood dies out, ami oppression meets
with no resistance, when the love of
liberty, truth and justice is quench-
ed, then manhood perishes and the
nation perishes.
But this conference, with represen-
tatives from every part of the coun-
try, for the discussion of the great
economic and political issues of the
day, and also the possible unification
of all the reform forces into one
great national party that will turn
the current of civilization and give
to the world—what it never has had
—a government of the people, by
the people and for the people, proves
that the American spirit inert so
of capitalists, churchmen ?—and the
government of the nation. It sits in j
the White House and legislates'
through the courts of justice. Wit-
ness the recent decision of the Su-
preme court, that the government
has no power to tax the riches of
the country; that taxation shall be
removed from the wealth and laid
upon industry, and that the people
who work shall pay the expences of
government, state as well as national,
and not those who possess the un-
earned increment derived from the
toil of others.
Or turn to that more sweeping, re-
volutionary decision of the court,
remanded Debs and Howard and
their co-workers back to jail; a de-
cision that violates the constitution
in substituting government by forces
for trial by jury. Well may Gov.
Altgeld declares "that this decision
marks a turning point in our history
and that from this time on, every
community is subject to any whim,
or caprice which any president ap-
pointed federal judge may promul-
gate, and that ere long state judges
will follow their example.
The record of legislation in this
country for the last 30 years, shows
the corrupting power of money in
politics. Jay Gould openly testified
before a New York legislative com-
mittee that the Erie railroad had de-
liberately sought to corrupt legisla-
tion.
The growing power and corrupt
use of wealth is undermining our in-
stitutions, debauching public official
shaping legislation, and creating
judges to do its bidding.
Monopoly is intrenched in court
and congress; it dominates both the
old parties and their organs, the dai-
ly press. Its folds are strangling
freedom. The good supply, of oil,
that nature has furnished to light
the homes of the people; all the
wonderful results of the growing
powers, genius and labor of man,
are controlled by the corporation.
Public instrumentalities that should
be wielded in the interest of all the
fl GANG OF HIES
New York Banker's Association
Meet at Saratoga.
ARE SOLID AGAINST 16 to
The Twenty-Five Million Oollara Annually
Stolen from Oepoaitora Would
Weigh Seven Hundred and
Fifty Tona If All In 8H-
ver Coina.
The New York State Banker's as
sociation is in session at Saratog
this week, and on Wednesday after
noon the president of the associa
tion, Wfii. C. Cornwell, delivered the
opening address from which we have
taken the following extract. It will
be observed that Bankers understand
how necessary it is to be organized
for united action:
"Here at this annual meeting the
field for friendship is still further
broadened out. And it is through
this personal friendship, this initivi
dual drawing together,this knowledge
of each other, each other's surround
ings, motives and experiences that
we can expect and count upon, unit
ed action as a body in the direction
of diminishing competition,economy
in labor and machinery, and certain
consequent profit."
a censorship ot'f.r all business
"But other tangible things have
been accomplished, and first and
most important, the adoption of a
uniform statement for borrowers
This was a move to extend the bene-
fits of a practical banking expedient,
which is at the foundation of all pro
fit. The confidential statements of
his condition by the borrower is a
long step toward that close relation
ship which should exist between thi
banker and his client. The former
is thus apt to become adviser and
friend, and his knowledge of credit
may, and should, make him invalu-
able to the business man in check-
ing inflation and unwise ventures.
That this will be the result attending
the adoption of this system I have
no doubt, and gradually a consera-
tive condition will develop through-
out the business of the whole state."
relations, closer and closer.
A committee has been appointed
to take up the question of collection
of country checks. Bankers even -
where are aroused to the fact ti at
this important source of profit, the
charge for collection, has been neg-
lected and revenue practically given
away. We expect from the commit-
people, the railroad, public transit,
long, is rising in its strength, and is j the telegraph, the financial system
moving on to meet, combat and ccn- i throw their enormous resources into
quer the evils that threaten to sub- private coffers, to be used as a cor-
merge the Republic. . | ruption fund for the further subjuga-
And those evils are great. They I tion of the people.
are the result of an economic sys-1 Can this state of things continue
tem, that has reached its maximum [ without producing serious results?
of power, and in its decay is involv- j Will the people of this land, blood
ing the peace, freedom and stability [ baptized and dedicated to freedom,
of the nation. I be content to remain in bondage, to
A crisis has been reached, not, toil that others may reap the fruit of
only in this country, but everywhere j their toil; to herd in foul tenements,
throughout the civilized world. i subsisting on the dregs of life ?
Competition has culminated in inon- [ Turn back the pages of history,
opoly. Everywhere the few have and see how the people, step by step
obtained control of the royalties of j have forced a way to better condi-
nature, and the necessaries of life, tions; how they have trampled under
The sime sjs em that prevails in the foot iron institutions that sought to
brute creations, prevails in the busi-' hold them down.
ness world; we call it the struggle for I Will they relax their efforts now, | 'ee referred to substantial progress
existence, and an awful struggle it when the very air is pulsating with ; th's direction. The field is ideal,
is. 'I he competitive system has the spirit of liberty? The strife A stat0 divided into groups. The
ripened; it has borne its fruit—the that everywhere is being waged with 8rouPs to be subdivided into Clear-
fruit of death—Monopoly. | aristocracy is the answer. The strikes "'8 Houses for country checks—uni-
A few men have possession of the i °f lS92.'94 and'95 show that the Uorm schedules of rates, with pro
wealth of this nation, less than 30,- ; United States is not breeding a race rata participation in profits. There
000 men own one half of the entire 1 °f slaves, of men willing to bear the | are formulas for figuring out a hav
wealth of this country of more than j yoke of oppression. The spirit of
65,000,000 inhabitants. The process ! '776 lives in the men of today.
of combination is rapidly placing the Can 'hese industrial and political
entire manufacturing industry of the j conditions be changed by either of
country in the hands of corporations. 1'he two old parties ? No, for both
These corporations combine to liin- 'he Democratic and Republican par-
it production, stifle competition, and ; ties are the pliant tools of monopoly.
monopolize the necessaries of life. ] Both oppose enlargmentof the func-
At the j^ime time, they direct all | tions of government, and greater lib-
their efforts to maintain with ever ! erty of the people; both oppose the
increasing severity, the struggle for only remedies for these great nation-
existence among the workers. j al evils, the public ownership of all
1 he creation of every trust is an franchises properly belonging to the
attempt to monopolize and control J people. Any attempt to publicly
a particular industry. If the system absorb monopolies among which
develops, for it is yet in its infancy, money monopoly is the most deadly,
the entire productive industry of the ' wil1 be resisted to the death by these
country will in a few years become 1 decaying, fossilized political institu-
absorbed by perhaps a hundred gi-' tions.
gantic corporations. With what Both the Democratic and Repub-1 f'°n l'le ''a^ a^ecting commerce,
result? The people—the great pro- ' "can parties, are dominated by the ! ani' especially on those affection the
ducing forces, bound hand and foot [ advocates of a single gold standard, c,lrrenc)'- n°t the Bankers, who
—almost a heaven. Can it be a -
tained ? With relation between
bankers made closer and closer there
is good reason to believe that it can
be."
QUESTION WHICH INTEREST US ALL.
"I think our Association is now-
large enough and strong enough to
begin to co-operate with other state
associations systematically on the
broad question which interest 11s all
and I suggest this for your consider-
ation as a part of next year's work."
IN DAILY TOUCH.
I am thourghly of the opinion
that the time has come in our his
tory for bankers to make themselves
heard and felt on the important ques
tact with commerce as related to
currency and are students of its. eff-
ects and the consequences of its
character. If the currency is sound
the commerce of the country has a
sure basis for healthy growth and the
Hankers are iu daily touch with its
wholesome influence.
ves! they "escape" with 25 million
dollars of deposits every year.
"If the currency is debased or un-
scientific, commerce feels at once its
unsatisfactory and baleful influence,
and the Banker first of all is cogni-
z mt of the danger from which he
can himself escape, but which falls
upon the merchant, stunning and
stupifying trade and working the
greatest hardship to him whose fam-
ily are dependent for their daily
bread upon daily wages."
lord! lord! a'int they honest ?
"The Banker is trained from his
earliest inception in the business to
regard strict honesty as the one
jualification, without which nothing
else is for a moment to be consider-
ed. If the bank clerk at the very
lowest round of the ladder shows the
least symptom of its lack, he is, or
should be dropped from his position
\s he advances, trustworthiness be
comes more and more the element
to be looked for, and when he reach-
es officership, the trust of the com-
munity and of his associates in his
strict integrity is the gauge of his ad-
vance." "So true is it that the com-
munity loqks to its Bankers before
a'l others for the strictest integrity,
that any news of defalcation here,
startle? and appals the public and is
remembered in the locality where it
occurs lorg after other crimes are
forgotten."
(Remarkable fact indeed, that the
people should remember it, when a
gang of thieves rob their confiding
patron* of ^25,000,000 a year.— Ed.)
wants it sound in europe, ok
course.
"No wonder, then, that the Ban-
ker from his education and the nat-
re of his calling should insist that
money, the tool of his trade, must
be honest, must be of metal sound
id true.
"And gentlemen, I am sure that
the hankers of this state will speak
t this convention when the time
comes with 110 uncertain voice on
this question of honest money."
EHTS MUST BE MADE HARD TO PAY.
I'lie Bankers of New York are
favor of honest money. They
contend that the question is not a
ectional one—that there is no
North, South, East or West in Unit-
States money—that the best
money for the east is the best mon-
ey and none too good for the hum-
blest toiler on the prairies and in
the cotton fields. They insist that
every dollar of debt shall be paid
in a dollar good anywhere and
everywhere throughout the world."
FOOL DEPOSITORS PUT up THE
MONEY. -I
'They insist upon this notwith
GENERAL WEAVER'S POSITION.
Comment* KrntiUInt "Inlon of tlx- Ha-
fori* hirin
Popul>ts and old Greonbaekers who
have voted for General Weaver fur presi-
dent one or mure times have felt quite
nervous and uneaj-y, to say the leant, over
some ugly rumoro to the effect that the
old Warhorse of reform had beenearried
away by the silver wave mid landed high
and dry upon the silver bonk of Democ-
racy.
The Sentinel has withheld comment
ni*in the subject, haviUK nothing an- |
thoritative from General W«n\<4 . 11 the
subject and knowing from past experi j
encc that little reliance can lie placed I
in statements made iu old party papers I
regarding prominent I'#pulists, Mich pa
jws being the main souYces of informa-
tion regarding the general's alleged de-
fection.
Populists anil old Grecubackcrs will
rejoice to learn that General Weaver is
still in the Populist ranks and proposes
to stay there.
W. H. Bobb, the well known and stal-
wart Populist editor of the t'n stun ([a. 1
He Follow! iii. ii,,.,.
What is the difference lietweeu a
Democrat and a ltc|iuhlic;ui these days?
Can anybody tell? The tight over the
win It seems to have ended, and the
members of both parties seem to be-
hopelessly divided tin the money qnes-
1 tion into "goldbugs" and advocates of
free silver. We are just as far as ever
from knowing what a man's belief is mi
ail) hurtling question of the day Ist'ause
he happens to call himself Democrat or
Republican.—New York Voice.
ItlHiiil'* 1
Hon. Richard 1*. Hland, ex-congress-
, man from Missouri, in the opening of
! his lecture tour at Denver, Saturday
evening, said, "I believe that the party
that does come out on this question , tho
free coinage of silver), so that there can
be no misunderstanding will succeed."
Some one near to the noted silverite
should ask him, "What's the matter
with the Populist party?" It hasalways
advocated the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 1(1 to 1. At the last presi-
dential election it cast nearly 3,000,000
American, says, in his issue of June 14, votes, and these votes are still Popn-
speiiking of General Weaver: j li«tio.
"Ho believed that the Populist party ' Does Hland believe these nearly
iu Iowa should lutfo united with tie- | 8,000,000 voters are fools enough to de
free coinage wing of the Democracy, but j sert their own standard for that of tho
the delegates to the state convention
were almost to a man in favor of a mid-
dle of the road course, and General
Weaver quietly acquiesced ami will be
found in the future, as in the past, light-
ing for the people and the People's Pur
In the same issue of the same paper
we find the following lettrr from the
general himself, addressed to the Popu-
list candidate for governor:
,, _ _ „ Dbk Moisis, Jnno 12.
Hon. K. B. Crane:
My 1if.au Silt—TIiIm note Is to return you
that the KtutinicnU mailt- la today m Clm-ap<
papers or which you may hear elsewhere tn
the effect that myself and friends will not I
Kujiport the Populist stitte ti k-1 in initiated at |
our state convention yi*t< riltty are absolutely
false. Then, is hut one difference of opinion!
within our party in this state or ('■"'-where,
so far as 1 know, and that relates to tho iiiSth'
od of securini! a union of the reform element*
for 1KM1, and there is ample time in which to
review our present attitude und for calm re
tlection between now and the conventions of
next year. Very truly yours,
J. B. WtCAVElt.
Lest we he misunderstood we wish to
state plainly right here that we cannot
understand why tho captain of a richly
laden vessel should, upon the approach
of a slight squall, recommend that the
greater portion of the cargo be thrown
overboard and tho vessel be changed
from its course to enter an unfriendly
port. Neither can we understand why
the acknowledged leader of the Populist
party should urge the abandonment of
its main principles and unite with for-
mer adversaries to advocate a single
measure of finance, tho free coinage of
silver, a measure already approved by
a large percentage of both old parties,
by the Rothschilds and the Dank of
England, all enemies of Populism.
We wish also to take exception to the
general's statement that "there is but
one difference of opinion within our
party," and that relating to "the meth-
od of securing a union of the reform ele-
ments for 18!!(i."
Wo don t believe there are any "re-
form elements" outside the People's
Party that are worthy the name. "A
union of the reform elements" for 1KH2
was amply provided for at Omaha July
4, aud we doubt if there were a dozen
real reform voters who could get to tho
polls that ditl not vote for General
Weaver for president the following No-
vember.
The "union of the reform elements"
has been kept up anil perfected through
People's Party clubs and the'Loyal Le-
gion, whose latehstrings are always out
or their doors wide open.
The "reform elements" of 1895 are al-
ready united. Tin./ stand firmly bv each
other, choulder to shoulder, on the Oma-
ha platform. They are in dead earnest,
and not in tho liumor to tolerate any fu-
sion nonsense. They are also progress-
ami their leaders must move on.
i keep in the middle of the road or brnjg
standing, and thoroughly aware that nP ,!le rear of the procession.
they are themselves debtors to the I ^ i"1'''"reform elements of ISO!) thus
united and harmonious we need not
worry about "a union of tho reform ele-
ments for 1890. "—Chicago Sentinel.
Bland Bryan-Sibley crowd? Not much I
Bland talks much with his month,
but when it comes to action he's no*
there, if said action is to injure the
Democratic party. Hie people have no'
fojgotten his threats to leave the party
if tlie purchasing elans# of fhj'Sherman
law wis repealed, tat Hland Is still a
Democrat. don't say he'll leave the
party now. 1I threatens to leave Cleve-
land. He fe«Ws safe iu saying this, as
Cleveland has no friends outside tho
goldbug and the Indiana father of trip-
lets.
Don't be deceived. No true friend of
silver will vote anythipg but the Peo-
ple's Party ticket iu IHttO.—Glenwood
(la.) Journal.
Wim TIutp liribery?
A well known New Yorker told me a
few days ago that it cost the New York
syndicate organized for tlmt purpose
$2,000,000 to beat the income tax law
in the supreme court of the United
Stales. This Was the sum appropriated
by a number of very wealthy men who
were bitterly opposed to the law und de-
sired to test its constitutionality and
tight it to the end. Joseph H. Choate
was selected as the general and allowed
to choose his own staff ami assistants.
.Mr. Choate took $200,000 as his own
fee and divided up the rest of the money
among about 20 eminent lawyers. Some
of these lawyers were not heard of in
the ease at all. They merely contributed
advice or briefs to the legal general.
Every movement while the ease was in
preparation was submitted to, thor-
oughly discussed and passed upon by a
galaxy of lawyers, whose names were
not of record, and who tire not known
to the public as interested in the case.
My informant told me that three state
judges "received large fees, two of New
^ ork and one of Massachusetts. They
were among the most valued of Mr.
Choato's eminent and costly staff.—
Washington Cor. St. Louis Republic.
(■overnm«*nt Slave*.
It would l>o so awlul if the railroads
wero operated by tho government and
all its employees were government slaves
like the postal employees, tho congress-
men, the senators, the cabinet, the dip-
lomatic corps, tho internal revenue men
and the like, wouldn't it ? Funny how
these poor, pitiable slaves and their
friends are so earnest iu warning the
people against the slavery of govern-
ment employment, isn't it?—Coming
Nation.
Iowa Populists "demand a state tax
of 10 per cent upon all future contracts
made payable in gold, the same to be
naid by tho holder.''
in the chains of a worse servitude both w'" nominate gold standard ] S'la',' what is best to be done
than ever existed on the earth. j men for the presidency in 1896, and jtne3e niatters ? ['hey are the one-
1 who handle to an enormous amount
| and by far the largest part, of, the
1 currency. They come daily in con-
Today, capital controls the press, j ,r*' to *asten upon the people of this j
the pulpit—for are not the majority j Continued o,","PaB77oT
people to the extent of eight hun-
dred and ninety million in deposits
and one hundred and ninety-three
millions of capital and surplus,
which is also the property of the
people. Debtors to the people to
this enormous extent of nearly
eleven hundred millions of dollars
the bankers of New York state raise
no question as to its liquidation in
sound money, neither have they any
doubt as to what sountl money is.
THEV RN'O.v SILVER IS TOO "HEAVY."
•'They know that it is not free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and
they are unalterably opposed to any ! in ihiJ'comii^ ^l^isi'h'im!
such wild delusion, because they j Tho rules and regulations governing
arc sure that its adoption would I the conduet of tho debate and tho other
mean repudiation, contraction and details are being arranged by Lyman J.
ru'n- j Gage and Howard S. Taylorof Chicago,
" I hey maintain that sound mon- tho referees chosen "respectively by
ey is one hundred cents on the dol- Horr aud Harvey.
lar of the world, with gold as the '
Grubbhis F'>r Ooldbu-s.
H. I.I. Easley of Chicago has been in
New York and Boston in the interest of
the coining Horr and Harvey free silver
debate. It will begin 011 July 10 and
continue from day to day until finished
and will be held iu tint city of Chicago.
Each disputant is to have ten assist-
ants, juitl the sound money committee
of the New York chamber of commerce,
at Mr. Horr's request, will send five
men to help him, in conjunction with
five other experts from the west and
south. Mr. Harvey is arranging for ten
" the strongest advocates of freecoinagc
Don't Like
fo
gold as
standard—a dollar which paid
in honest labor will buy for the la-
borer a value of honest labor exact-
ly equal to that which he gave for
it, not only in these United States
from the l'ine Trees to the Gulf but
anywhere throughout the broad
World where God's sunshine blesses
the honest toil of man."
That'* Snri-ly linotigh.
The IV plo's Party of Westmoreland
connty, Pa., in convention at (irorns-
biu-tf recently, resolved that no county
oftlcial should receive more than $4,000
annually for a throo years' term, and
that all tho money accruing to the offi-
cial in excess of that sum should be paid
to the, county commissioners, who would
use it to the best interests of the tax-
payers.
Sou ml."
Mudsill, Jr.—Say, dad, what do tho
cit}* papers and tho spoechmakers mean
by "sound money, "that they have so
much to say about?
Mudsill, Sr.—Well, my son, 's near
as I can make out, they mean a financial
system with a circulating medium so
limited that there :'s more "sound" than
"money," and under which tho bankers
have all the money and the people have
to put tip with the "sound."
Mudsill, Jr.—Well, then, dad, it ap-
pears to me that, wlien they claim to be
the friends of the producers of this
country, there's more "sound" than
sense in their vociferations.
Labor ami Capital.
New York's press yells that "labor is
powerless without capital." Yes; the
history of Utah, however, ^ives the lie
to all such assertions. Tho Mormons were
without, practically speaking, a dollar
in 1847 ; today they are living evideuee
of what labor can accomplish without
capital. They mine their gold and silver
from tho mountains, we;ir fabrics woven
from wool of Utah sheep and raise or
manufacture every article essential to
feed and clothe. Capital is overrating
itself.—Durango Sun.
I am prepared to make farm loans on
short notice. I can procure your
money iu from three to five days, with
the lowest setni-auuual interest pay-
ments of any company. Option of pay-
ing part or all after one year.
D. W. M AKQUART,
48 3—t. Norman, O. T.
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