The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1896 Page: 1 of 8
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Riiiikb the law was written dova with
parehment or with twn:
Before the law u>«de ultiMui. the moral
law made men
f«w -.tutuU for human riirhta. but whan
it fail* thoe* ri^hte to tve.
Then let ln« (lie. iny orother. but let ho-
man baiiir* live.
VOL. 4.
®lte peoples Wmt
Labor T.i The Parent Of Capital, Encourage labor, and Ynu Build Up Capital
"Our Republic can only exist
•° Long *8 its citizen* rctpect
and obey their self imposed laws."
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. JANUARY i89o.
NO 23.
The Editor of "The Arena" Dis-
cusses Mr. Call's Hook in a
Striking Paper Dealing
with Fundamen-
tal Evils of the
% Hour.
bly and speedily, along the line of
justice and freedom. In this chap-
ter Mr. Call observes:
"As long as a man submits to in-
stitutions which beggar and enslave
him, bis supplications and his pro-
tests will alike ga up to deaf ears,
while power and privilege will, as
they have ever done, lord it over
him. Any attempt to better his con
dition or obtain his rights will be a
struggle and revolt against law, and
all society will be organized against
him. 't he strong arm of the law, it
rtatocmcy ti* I'roriuct of special Privilege— that everywhere crushes out all
The Fuilm-y of I ho Survival of the KiltoM Attempts of labor and poverty tool)
Tliwiry when Applied to Sool.l Conditio*- taj th . jf , ,
The v. t-lI>H]>i iiig*of CohxiMtl toituiieu found 1
in i*iiviiopc* obtuiiid'i ihrougii (i) iniieii- any real anil lasting relief, the law
I'lM-m.., , : Monopoly II. I-tin I; (3) Mi,imp. musl be rangeJ OI1 the sil,c f Ub
oly In Money; (4) Monopoly In Transport!!- .
Hon; (ft) Monopoly In C'ouimoilitleft, or Cor-1 and not against 11, the poor of so-
pomti- control of imiiwtry—The rieaor Priv* ciety must have the benefit of our
lle;je- rtie Fruit of Privilege—'1'lie l,uw oft. . . , .
, i institutions and not be placed with-
humanity and civilization than was
the glorious struggle of the revolu-
tion, and 1 may add also, far more
dangerous, because it is the serpent
instead of the lion with which we
have to contend.
H. O. FI.OWF.R.
IS
SterlliiK .Mm ton's Figures
Itatticr AstouUliiiig
PRICE OUT A IN 1-D LBS THAN
COST OF PRODUCTION.
Kr«*e«loiu—A ()i I Licit I Kxaiiilnutloii of
M;uii l'.ictoiit in the I'roductlon of 1'lutoorat | OUt the
ami i'l'olotarfut—The New ltepubllc.
pale of their protection.
In last Saturday's issue of the
State Democrat an article appeared
over the non-de-plume of "A Tax-
payer." The only trace of the auth-
or of the article's sanity was reveal- I K
ed in the manner in which he signed j
his name. No sane man would care oh,,rmi>nT,ub',n',c'",f th*
to have his name appear at the foot! Q"°t" a°m' A,,""l,hln* "«• •••
of such an article. If Mr. Taxpay th. R.p.r,of .n. s.cr.ur .f
1 J i Agriculture.
er is too cowardly to sign his name j
to his articles we do not care to
answer them. All that we ask of
the gentlemen is that he come out
where we can see him. H'
feel very had indeed should
New Year s (.recline. i„,.i
, object to mortgage. The real es-
1 he year of 1895 has passed int* tate mortgage indebtedness of this
history. To all classes of produc-. county in round numbers
live industry it has been the most '
(Milwaukee Ailvmtco)
The analytical mind of chairman
would! H. hi. Taiibeueck some time agodis-
we as-; sectcd the report of J. Sterling Mor-
(< oiitlnued Krroiu l.u-<t Week.)
THE NEW REPUBLIC.
Following these thoughtful discus-
sions appeals a chapter entitled
"The New Republic," in which are
The remedy must be political; noth- sal' the author of that article and ; ton, the banking tool, whose princi-
ing short of this will work any per-' afterward haye Dr. Threadgill of pal occupation seems to be to teach
mauent or substantial benefit. '^e Sanitarium Company inform 11s | the monopolist how to farm the far
"There is what the moralists -call ',hat il was one of the
"a noble discontent," which not sat-
$400,-
ooo.oo with an annual interest to
disastrous year in the annals of the ' raise on the same of over <jo.ooo.co
American Republic. Providence ; The chattel mortgage indebtedness
has dealt kir.dly with the people we are informed by the Recorder is
and nature has yielded bountiful nearly $100,ooo.ooand draws a much
harvests to the toiler; yet the grim higher rate of interest. Phe county
monster of hunger and want never indebtedness is something like Sioo-
stalked so boldly throughout this | 000.00 and there is no telling what
country as today. In the midst ,.f our share of the national indebted-
an abundance for all we behold mil-
lions of our people in enforced idle-
ness and themselves and families on
discussed the conditions
would prevail if an equalit)
porumity was present.
"When the world shall be
property of man, and the man no
Ion,. 1 the subject and servant of
property, then will man be at last
free, and ^ new republic will have
been ushered in."
"This new republic, great and
we ping as must be its benefits, will
et be founded on no other or (lift
ent principle than that upon which
>ur liberties now rest. It does not
ike nilii sni, demand the destruc-
tion of all institutions, for it holds
' that government is necessary to es-
tablish and determine the relations
„r 1 1 in ociety, protect their re-
spec ve rights, and as a servant to
jisfied with wrong, ever struggles to- j
I ti
ing tlu* article In a lecture one' farm them. II
lat institution that had
tes the folh
which | ward higher and better ideals,
of op
the
This'time Hisliop Bowman of St. l.ouis
spirit it is that give Greece her I !°ld his hoirers l,e very careful
glory and Rome her grandeur, and''" ansvre,'nK anommous art; In
this spirit it is that now cent.es the an<i of ,kinnin8 individuals whom
hopes of the world upon the Anglo-1 we ,!i 1 kuow for something they
Saxon race. The absence of that j hai1 slul or do"e' f,r the roai,m
spirit it is that constitutes the dark ,'1at nu'te frequently we would dis-
fatalism of the east, where men re- jcov' thal we liad '"-Kttled ...usdi. s
gard themselves as the prey of fate;1,1 ,al!:in« h'"shly •' P«or foul,
their conditio., as irremediable and IVVe have ,eason 10 believe that we
know the author of the article and
author
■ uteres
fin
Would he not lay down even his own
!ife for them as well as his property,
t - AC 11 I. t.AL REPOKT, 11 -ot an armed foe attempt to wrest
I'lte 1 Mirt 1 il -scretarv of nu ■ home fr..m an American citizen
ricui ire for 1 .j, p ges 515 to 51S jiU"' )°u «'!' find every one of them
inclusive, gives the estimated cost oilrea(v to defend it even with his
t;.e principal items and the total ci st jIn such an event every one
in ti; * prmlu " 11 of wheat and corn ; would be found to be the brav-'st of
per acre lor 1 • > j, a consolidated i heroes 111 defending his fireside
from the returns of nearly 30,0001 o°t when it cones to defending
loading farmers scattered through-1 from the silent invasion of a
ness will be until Cleveland gets
through issuing bonds. One hun-
dred million dollars worth of bonds
the very brink of starvation. Others | is about the amount of his New
fortunate en. ugh to have homes arei Vear's gift to the Rotchschilds syn-
putting them up in the pawnshops ' dicate and there will be still anoth-
of this country, and from which j er New Year b«foie his term of "TJt-
they will never be ahle to redeem j lice expires, even though he is not
them unless times change, (of which i re-elected next fall. Oh! but you say
there are no indications) in order t" ] Cleveland will not he re-elected,
enable them to prevent themselves I Then il will be Harrison and we
and loved ones from present want j would not turn our hand over for
and suffering. Some perhaps may j the difference. Oh' but sajs some
say that he should not do this; but | sanguine fellow our next President
ith a congress to
hope so; but ftar
such will not be the case. Wc are
inclined to believe that the great
body of people of this country will
he found marching in the proces-
sions of the two old parties when
they have not clothing sufficient to
hide their nakedness; yea, be wear-
ing breechdoths like the North
American Indian .11 the time when
our forefathers landed on Plymouth
Rock. With the beginning of the
inmates of iners, or rather to teach the farmer j for reply we would say: "what will' will be a Populist w
been writ- , how to permit the monopolist to L nun not do for his loved ones? | back him. We hop
..... ... „ ' ( 1. .. ... TI . . .1. . e it
ant
their lot but to endure; the absence,*." lIC a"Ui oi^iue aim le ,kllll;out the United States. i heartless and grasping power they J New Year there are but little ho
of that spirit it is that has blotted j' *C 001 "J***"0 the author j Whf v t —The i'eins and tofil co-t t"' • Hie'g'eatest of cowaids. for better times to be extended to
Asia and eastern Europe, once the j "f'Z 'n T i '--"gan acre of wheat
home of civilization, from the pages ! 1,lraself as a taxpayer. I he in-1
, | dividual we refer to has never do:;
of progress, and made the names of
once glorious nations forgotten busi"ess this ct,llllty his
memories. name and consequently has
"It is not agitation but passive
endurance that is to he feared. But
this we have little need now to fear.
follows: Rent of land $2.7;
was
manure
W hen Lord Cornwallis surrendered
at Yorktown England gave up all
own; ^34. preparu.
j J;, sowing .• j ;5, larvestinu Jt.i;
never . b '
thresiiingSi.i j, housing >0.33, mar-
the starving millions. In fact the
signs, to us, indicate a worse year
ind $1.85, seed '"'1H* "f ever being able to subjugate than the one just past. W e
sfte
but little hope for an advanced
price in pgricultur.il product's and
if whe.i l 111 1.
1st Of 1.1. il ;• i
■S, which leave
tieat grovvers
is 3-fij''
f [perform services public in their na-!lt is in the nature of political agita-
lure. it does not, like military so ^ lion once faiily begun to go on.
liali :ii>, demand the entire revolu- That tl.ey who have once sincere!'.
1 ■ ,. . ■ ... .. , 1 , • , . , ish trade wo.iid lie rained within
on ■ 1 cm -.;'ng in .tit• 11 ns !■ caur ! sj uuscd thi: i.e'.v reli.. 111 of hu
I; is these to be a growth as the inanity should abandon it, is not t" '
. - • , , • , . ' , , , IwuUklbe pi'tiu it':), 110; o.,., 1 1 1 • i
cv ;.selr is, and suited to i:ie ideas .be supposed; rather • v that i >; ,
1 t 1 I 1 t home out al every market in the iLlie '
1! needs of men. Nor does it on ranks of the sincere will be recruit . .
111-1 1. 1 • r 1 1 i ,, world. Oi course the United States 1 otate:.
•ther hand, liKe so-called indi led, and that adversity will as it lias
ldualism, reduce government to a always done, but strengthen the on- "0"'' sl<1-' to som extcn , tin otigli > .uiei miiat en
lere police power, for it recognises' ward sweep of reform. Never was!. aV n.®.tl> '>av '1Lr ° ®a''ona al>ro..d : I he repott also
ayernment as the whole people there a more oppottune time than f/1 J more so than now)I erage annual value
-.ting through their laws, and that the present; every condition, every if* Jhe ««h ange under this wheat for the'14 ye.
e people themselves must first de indication points to the beginning of j " ' "'''" " "lLU '" 'P lu|' ' )
rmii.e their rights before these can the twentieth century as the open- 1 , compared with the profits of raising wa
> protected. It holds, too, that | ing of a new era in human affairs j 1° '"j r"P. ''"" l"° u,arkas of be#re Prec^.!
c rights must be re-determined j and hopes. The condition of so- I A™erica, Asia and even Eu yenr(t 1.48) then we
ith every change of conditions ciety compels itf the great popular
11 effect them, and with every ad i uprising—the upheaval which now
' of society to newer and more 1 rocks society to its base—has pre
had anything in his own name upon
which to pay ta.es. kel'"« 'So 6M°Uj S"'48'
, , , | 1 lie same report on page 481 con
There can be no doubt about it tains a table giving the value of the I , ,
„ , .... ,, . ... ,1, , can only get America to adopt our 1 have any thinking powers of
.that if the 1 nlted States were to Weat crops for i.| years, trom 1880I . . , ' " 1
I , . . „ . . ,= . 11 ... . nnancial system their boasted liber-1 own they should set th
adopt a silver basn to morrow lint- 10 1 93 inclusive. 1 he value of an| , M
the American people by force of
arms but immediately set about to
accomplish htr aims by steakh (leg until that docs occur the times can-
[: lation) and the statesmen of Eng | not grow better, in general. If the
land of that day said "that if wt iK'eat body of the Amencan people
their
was .^6.16 and
s St.i red a o > e
a net loss to
ut tue
very acre
if
ty will soon be at an end.
that day to this the euussarie
tireat JJr1 tai 11 have camped in
halls of legislation and today w
111 in 1110'. ion.
roin ! They have been parrots long enn.i li
o. j alreadv ; too long for the1 r «n
our 1 good. 1 he condition the Ameiii an
pro-
10 ereater for the
their fi iendship and lin:
tance in the past air!
merit a continuance of
will close our greeting
hoping to
lie same we
by wishing
tandards of conduct. It holds
ermore, that where (as in pres-
,t industrial society) the rights of
en so require government should
a servant, and the people as a
lole perform functions affecting
e whole people.
'"1 iris new republic, based upon
e principle of self-government,
lihls upon that principle the coin-
tied structure to establish which
i/ut principle alone has ever been
contended for. Nor is this structure
kto heat once definitely planned and
there to remain. It must accoin
motlale society in
its progress and environment from
• tne to time require. It is elastic,
id extensive and never to be out-
*n, because ever to be changed
11 as the practical rules of indi-
ual conduct, by the conditions
All
it'e and development
can say is that justice now
[es from f\\ the circumstances of
pared the way for it; and the march
ot mind, which has already enabled
man to subdue nature to his bidding
now promises by the same process
to enable him to subdue himself to
the laws of the laws of the moral
world. 1 he last and greatest science
that of society, is ^ut an easy and
natural transition from all the other
sciences which have gradually and
successively rooted themselves in
law."
This work ought to become the
handbook of the industrial millions
J in their struggle tor tlieir fundamen-
every condition tal rights based 011 justicc; it makes
the issue so plain that the dullest
intellect can grasp them; and wh<;n
once grasped, the wealth producers
aie not likely to forget the real is-
sues involved, for they carry with
them justice for the wage workers
rope. I he marvel is that the I nil- .11 the stubborn
ed States has not long ago seized v.-heu growers cf
the opportunity, and but for the be ; ave lost >171;
lief that the way of England is n#-.|duced since-i
cessarily the way to commercial su- CORN—Tile items and total
preuiacy, undoubtedly it would Mve|0f raising an acre of corn for
been done long ago. Now Ameri-
cans are awakening to the fact thall
I so long as they narrow their anibi-j
tiou to become a larger England,'
they cannot beat us. It lias been a
piece of luck for us that it has never
cost
lS93
| was as follows: Rent of lanel S2.90
manure $2.10,preparing groundSi.60
I seed So,14, planting J0.3K, cultivat-
ing gathereing $1.37, housing
S0.4;, marketing S1.0S, total $11.71.
] The same report 011 page 478 con-
occurred to the Americans to scoop I lains a t;;blc givinc Ule vahle of thc
us out of the world's markets by go- jc
ing on a silver basis; and it iiiifiht
Unit -d I .-■•-•"viwm auu iuM«y .ewe! people find themselves in today is
' not only the financial policy of lin^, j' trgely, if not wholly, the result of
land adopted by this country bu: j legislatu n and by leg slatii 11, is
j our aristocracy aping tiie manners j t'ue only peaceable wa> we see out of
tK' L ' " *u j and custi is of the nobility of Eu- it. i'hanking -iui rn.::iv friend ' -
an acre of! .1 ,
■ ope. W lien the war clouds of tile
from 1 S.So to i> 1 •, , , , .
Keoellion began to break ant! the
co,t ' people throughout the country re-
3 ! joice there was one American pa-
.ban.01 that 1 1 —e wjth them I you one anel all a happy auU pros-
I in their joy. That man was Abra-
j ham Lincoln. \\ hen accosted b)1 a
Iriend as to the cause of his despon-
dency he replied; "I tremble more
lor the safety of my country at the
present time than in the darkest
hours of the rebellion." Lincoln
had the foresight to see whit a great
many people are just now awaken-
ing to realize and we are not at ali
surprised to learn of that great
American's despondency. Three
years ago when we assumed the edi-
are confronted
act that the
- United States
very acre pro-
j triot that could not share with then, j ; ou one and all a happy and
perous New Year, though we doubt
very much if such will be your tx-
perience.
corn
I sive.
torial management of the Pkopi.f.'
rops fiom 1 10 to 1^93 iuclu-1 Vou ■: we asserted, notwithstandin
«iTim .it rtntit if t i 1 .1 I lie value of an acre of corn j the fact that nearly every one w
sei ve us right it, irritated by the con t for lSyJ was c,s.2 . am, the cost of 1
temptuous apathy of our govern- raising it> as gtated above> |u
meat, to the gravity of the^silver j wllich leaye3 „ „et ,oss tQ (he CQrn
\°! I"« -
ly done, and we propose shortly t
met expressed himself as determin-
ed never to put a mortgage 011 his
home hnvinn learned ill the States
The report further says that the
show by evidence collected from | averageannual valuc o( an acre ot
perfectly unprejudiced sources that I corll fol. ti I4 , (fmm l8So U)
even now the process has begun,and j lSyJ was 0"ly jf the cost of
is proceeding at a rate that would
1S93 was only
raising an acre was no greater
that - happiness and prosperity not for i astoB'sa r"any people, and probably t|,e , , Jca,.s t.receedius 180
. . .. . ' miL-s ill! . /in l U .1 . J- 1
i
■ the industrial millions alone, but for
i all high-born souls. Earnest men
sting society, that the privileges and women should read and circu-
e named, which give advantage late this book in every community
produce unequally, be abolish-J throughout the republic. It is a
I here may be other privileges trumpet call to free men, and its ap-
e, there may even now be other J pearance at the present crisis in the
lstinents required. But this industrial, economic, and political
:ii, at least, must now be achiev- j history of the republic is most fortu-
t society would rise from out! nate; for in spite of the sneers and
condition into which it has sunk. 1 scoffing of the Benedict Arnolds of
this much will establish a re- j this country, tiieie are thoughtful
lie wh se object will be to se- people who are not bound by preju-
e hu1Dan rignts and iurther ad- dice and who are able to rise above
for
than
make this country regret that it did
not at an earlier stage fashion
monetary policy on principles
friendliness to other nations instead j it cost t0 1,ru(tu(je [he acre of corn
for that year ( S11.71) then the corn
growers of the United States receive
Js-io less per acre since 1S79 than
took great excep-1 P*°ve a oouyiuoer.
1 • - big bellio;!, s\
of a basis of short-sighted-selfishness.
— Loudon financial Mew
| It ought to be. to say the leasl.
i humiliating to our secretary of agri
' * • * culture, J. Sterling Morton, who lia>
I he most alisent inirxied rr,.in was 1 never let an opportunity go by to
not the man who hunted for Ins pipe adv; ,e- the farmers to let politic.-
when it was betwen bis teeth, nor ; and economics alone ami strictly at
the man who threw his hat out of tend to his busine.-s of cultivating
the window, and tried to hang lii.s j llie .oil when he was coiu;r.:led tc
cigar on a peg, uor even the man j make a report, which
who put his umbrella to bed
a better title than the one holding
the deed, that if times continued for
the next ten years as they had for
the past that three fourths of the
original settlers iu Oklahoma would
be in schooner wagons looking for
new homes having lost their home:;
1 Oklahoma thr- . 1 a niortg ige.
\ few individu
lions to the article; but it is coming
true even more rap: ily than we an-
ticipated by reason of the times
growing worse even more rapidly
llian during the preceeding ten
years. As a New Year's greeting we
" i must say that although the crop sea-
sons for the past six years have been
perhaps, as good in Cleveland coun-
ly as in like area, in almost an)
other part of the country and that
Evcrftlilng Oopr,
The storage battery patents (if thi*
country have pructieaiJy passed into ti.i
control ol' a great trust, anil back of the
colossal undertaking is ihe Electric iSror-
Battory company t;i this city. Tiie
capital of the consolidated company,
which not only controls the important
patents in the United States, but the
American rights to the Tudor patonts < ?
1 h: many, will have a «aj ital < f f :
500,000 and will conduct the
of different companies scattered
throughout the United States. Four
Jar^e factories are operated by the newly
formed syndicate, which includes aev-r-
al well known Philadelphia capitalists
among its number.—Philadelphia
Times.
A Pointer Tor thc Gold!tea.
The br.nk'Ts and bondholders demand
and receive gold. They mostly favor the
gold standard. Tbe farmers and labor-
ing men receive silver aud nat ii nal b -ik
Liouey, mostly the latter. They 0.< i:'6
favor the gold standard. If the farmers
and laboring men were paid off in gold,
ti ■ 7 might t :ko nr re kindly to tli" frM
standard. Come, all you gi :dbug banl:
ers and corpr rations, try paying <"it
X Id exclusively anil .f it
If gold is " lor
k looking fellows,
it is also good for th mi
soiled clothes. Certainly :
to demand the very b<
money.—Southern Mei
Tin- Popullut Editor I :
"You -;n *•< t It ilnv :i tli...
• K ] the Iwsuo Cif a n« wspaj■. r,
odii'.r.
•. h. t Wf rs
- i soundest
his ov.'ii'
tlint Un-
says triat 111
and : 1S93, the first year he had charge of'; .
of human progress." j the sophistry daily instilled into the I P in the corner—but the man I the department, the farmers of the j ' 10 9,5 Ver- v llomes m th:s
volume closes with a sue- 'minds by the organs of capitalistic wanted free Silver and voted an ! United Sates received ,<5.32 less per j c'"::nt>' were subject to mortgage
evie.v of the issues involved anarchism. We aqe to day engaged | '-"Id party ticket ilis mind ha> been j acre for wl.eat and ^ 1- ^ 1 er ,l';'l ovti hal t.. 1: ii .1 . in th.
e discuision of how the ; in a struggle with the usurer class | absent ever since he was bom.—I acre for corn than it cost to pro j county the title to which still re 1 will long for champion* v.iio fougut
duce them ' .1 t „ 1 . 'hair battle?—but will long i
mem. mains in the government and not B
usurer class
.";an be solved, peacea-1 0f Europe far more momentous to
Union Signal.
is," reinarl;
"Who is it: '
"Th. t-h. nfT."-Ponu r<.\
By the average Popr...
above can be appreciated. Uli
pers feel the corporation (
tlie banker's sunshine, but
caters to the under dog, 1
dog is so busy trying to s. v
:ifo that Ik forgets the r apr
I * bim in fight nj hi • toa 1
The time may c fine via
r ::..irk' ■
fri- nd.
I arty p.
: ith .
Denier Road.
labor"
fougl
ill long in vain.-
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