The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1896 Page: 1 of 8
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"Our Republic can only exitt
so Long as its citizens respect
and obey their self imposed laws."
Labor T.s The Parent Of Capital, Encourage Labor. and You Build Up Capital
VOL. 4.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. MAY. 15 18%.
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History lt<>|ieiitiii|; r.nt'11—8omo
Cold Facts For Fttriu-
cri to CoiiHtder.
At midnight, May to, 1774, Louis
XV. of France died of malignant
smallpox, abandoned and alone in
his chamber. His nurse in an ad
joining room notified the court of
his death by extinguishing a taper
burning in the window. The court
fled to the country. His servants
buried the king. It was with diffi-
culty the people were restrained
from pelting with mud the poor
corpse on its way to the grave
His grandson, Louis XVI., a mod-
est youth of 20, became king. The
exhausted and starving peasantry
could not furnish taxes enough to
pay the interest on the national debt
and current expenses. The nobility
and clergy were exempt by law from
taxation. Borrowing was resorted
to, until no one would lend. Then
the finance minister Neckar, propos
ed, the only resort—taxing the no
bility and the clergy. With a howl
of rage they drove him into exile in
Switzerland. Finance minister after
minister from the nobility and the
clergy stood upon their law created
privileges. The king and the queen,
the obnoxious nobility and clergy
who did not escape by exile were
guilotined. The Goddess of Reason
was enthroned. The lands of the
nobility and the clergy were divided
among the peasantry. France under
all forms of government has since
remained rich and prosperous.
A false system of finance and ex-
cessive taxation has ruined American
farmers. Thousands of American
farms will be sold this year for tax
and interest because the farmers can-
not support their families and pay
these ever increasing charges. The
property of the church is here ex
empt from taxation. Our supreme
court has decided our rich men can-
not be taxed. Our president, with-
out hindrance from congress or the
courts, allows his foreign Jew friends
and their tory allies to draw with
one hand gold from our treasury,
and with the other hand to exchange
it for the bonds on an ever increas-
ing debt. During his whole admin-
istration he has been selling the
American farmers in 50 million and
100 million lots to his friends with-
out the farmers receiving so much
as the value of a pin's head from
their sale.
When the negro was sold, his mas-
ter had to feed, clothe and shelter
him and care for him in his sickness
and old age. The foreign syndicates
and their tory allies, who buy us
farmers, make us furnish our gold
for our purchase; make us collect
the interest on their bonds and are
exempted by law from lifting a fin-
ger to aid us. I write truthfully—
this is a "sale of the farmers." All
debts must be paid from the raw
materials of the soil. All manufac-
tures and commerce exist only from
the use of the raw materials.
Our president tells us he will con
tinue this useless sale if he has to
sell a trillion billion million of us
farmers to procure the ever disap-
pearing gold with which to buy us.
He tells us if you protest even, '-you
shall be imprisoned and hung by
your courts and shot by your sol-
diers." Was not Gen. Coxey im-
prisoned for bearing a petition to
Washington? Did not the Supreme
court of Illinois tell us that Parsons
must be hung not for murder, but
for the crime of free speech? And
did not the supreme court of the
United States sanction this judicial
murder? Far it is a judicial murder
to try a man for murder, admit as
the supreme court of Illinois did
that there was not a particle of evi-
dence to show that Parsons murder-
ed Degan, and hung him because ac-
cused of talking, what Judge Gary's
court did "Anarchy." Did not Pres-
ident Cleveland violate the Consti-
tution and his inaugural oath in send-
ing troops to Chicago to shoot down
Debs and his doWp comrades, be-
cause they sympathized with the
victims of Pullman?
These are plain historical tacts,
stripped of thin verbiage of excuses.
It is poor devil who cannot invent
some excuse for his deviltry. The
most collossal sneak can sneak be-
hind the platitudes of benefiting the
victims he stabs to the heart. Are
these doers of anarchy 10 have
among their other monopolies the
monopoly of applying these names
to the honest men who expose them?
A farmer furnishes his agent with
a safe full of silver dollars to pay his
hired help. The agent says, "Boys,
these silver dollars are not good
enough for you. It is true, they will
buy 100 cents of gold or anything
equally as it takes a gold dollar to
buy a silver dollar, but then silver
dollars are dishonest dollars—bogus
dollars—50 cent dollars. I shall
mortgage the old man's farm to get
gold dollars to pay you. That will
make the old man hump to pay the
interest. Besides, in the end I shall
get both the gold and the old man's
farm." How long would an honest
farmer leave such an agent on his
farm? Just long enough to reach for
his rifle to drive him off. Brother
farmers, what do we propose to do ?
Shall this continuous, useless sale of
our wives and our children go on?
Or shall we stop it? It is for us far-
mers to decide. This is not a ques-
tion of party—republican, demo-
cratic or Populist. It is a question
of life or death to us, our wives and
innocent children.
Mr. Millionaire and Mr. Church-
man, who, like the old French nobil-
ity and clergy, stand upon your law
created exemptions, what of your
future? Are we American farmers
ess intelligent, more forbearing,less
humane than the French peasantry?
Does the veneering of our so called
Christian civilization cover beings
who have not the same "organ, sen-
ses, affections, passions?" Remem-
ber, my friends, God has not died
since the French revolution.
I11 the beginning of his present ad
ministration our president's wife and
his wiser friends counseled him to
be the Moses who should lead us
from our bondage.
He deliberately, knowingly chose
to be the Pharoah to rivet our
chains. His Red Sea is before him.
He shall be left alone among presi-
lents, his infamy his only monu-
ment. Those are no fancies I write.
They are historical facts to be known
and read of all men. One hundred
years ago 25 million Frenchmen de
cided a handful of nobility and ec
clesiastics should not continue to ab-
sorb all the products of their indus-
try and grind them into the dust.
Will 69 million Americans born in
freedom consent to be serfs and
tramps that a few foreigners and a
million of their tory allies may ab
sorb all their earnings and ruin
themselves with luxury? History re
peats itself. Forever and forever
ike causes produce similar results,
l'liey married and gave in marriage.
I hey feasted. They ate, they drank,
they made merry. Like a thief in
the night swift destruction came up-
on them.
This sale of us farmers is not hid
in a corner. The shameful specta-
cle is openly flaunted before our eyes
and the eyes of the nations in our
Capitol. Is it any wonder England's
aristocracy treat with contempt our
Monroe doctrine? Is it any wonder
Englishmen point the finger of scorn
and gloat over their gains and see
our liberty slipping away? They
mistake thtir tory allies for the
American yoemanry. They mistake
our forbearance. When Johnny
Bull's aristocracy attack Uncle Sam
the third time Uncle Sam's boys will
leave them where they can never
more harm him or thtir crushed vic-
tims at home. When the wrath of
all American farmers becomes a con-
suming fire and a devouring flame
then foreign leeches and their allies
shall know their importance. God
shall send from His altar burning
ity which shall vindicate His King-
ship over material gold. Patriot
farmers, the darkness of the dawn is
here. The full orbed day shall see
this settlement and our release sure
God has made our path through the
subterfuge of lies so plain that the
wayfaring man though a fool cannot
err therein. One of the farmers.
F. W. Anthony,
Mattawan, Mich.
Frmllverltn.
coals of truth into our living human- (on him.
Tlic Deiuo-Kep.
Do you see it ? #
What ?
That thing over there.
That man ?
No, that thing that looks like a
man.
What's the matter with him ?
He wants free silver.
Does that hurt him ?
He thinks it will hurt him if he
don't get it.
Is he trying to get it?
He says he is.
How is he trying ?
By staying in a goldbug party and
voting for a goldbug.
Why don't he join a free silver
party ?
He thinks the best way to get free
silver is to vote against a free silver
party.
Is he crazy ?
He says he's not; he says all the
other fellows are crazy.
How long has he been trying to
get free silver that way?
More than twenty years.
Is he any nearer it now than he
was ?
He's farther away.
Has he got any brains ?
He's got what the dictionary calls
"l'he whitish, soft mass which con-
stitutes the anterior or cephalic ex-
tremity of the nervous system in
man or other vertebrates, occupying
the upper cavity of the skull, and
considered to be the center of sen-
sation and perception."
What does he use it for ?
To hang his hat on.
Don't he think ?
Only with his mouth and stomach.
Who does his thinking ?
The political bosses.
How do they do it ?
Just slice it off to him as you would
bread and butter to your children.
Does he take what they give him ?
He's made out of clay (a poor
quality) and hasn't got dry yet.
Anything else the matter with him?
Yes, God forgot to put a backbone
in him, or else he's traded it off for
a tow string.
Does he love his wife and children?
He loves to see them go naked
and hungry.
How do you know ?
Because he votes to bring that
condition on them.
What makes you think so ?
Because he votes the same ticket
the banker, bondholder, corpora-
tions, trusts, millionaires, thieves and
thugs do.
Does he pray ?
Yes, but he lies every time he prays.
How is that ?
He prays that the Lord's will be
done on earth as it is in heaven.
Don't he want it that way ?
No.
How do you know ?
Because if he did he would vote
that way. He votes for whisky, sa-
loons, usury, drunkards, gluttons, lib-
ertines, debt and political damna-
tion.
What excuse does he render for
doing it ?
The same as Adam rendered—
"the other fellows do it."
Will he go to heaven when he dies?
Not on his own merits, if the door
of grace is wide enough he may
scrouge in, thinking it is a political
mass meeting.
What does he love best on earth ?
His party.
Would he vote for the devil if his
party would nominate him ?
Yes, on a platform written by the
Rothschilds.
Is he ever happy ?
Yes, when the political boss smiles
How does he act ?
Like a little dog when you pat
hini on the head.
Where is his manhood ?
He never had any.
Can't he have any ?
Not while he belongs to a party
that requires support of the ticket re-
gardless of principle.—Buzz Saw.
We have noticed nothing in the
State Democrat of late relative to
county scrip. With county scrip
worth its face value while under
democratic rule in this county it was
only worth from 60 to 75 cents on
the dollar. The difference of 51
cents on the Jioo.oo of increased
taxation seems to occupy the whole
of the attention of the editor of the
State Democrat.
Would Not Kun lor President on
a Free Silver Platform.
Of OF
Statement Made a Year Ago at
Thomasville Recalled by
Editor Kohlsaat.
Editor McDonald, of the
Republican paper of "D" county
proposes that the republicans and
democrats fuse in that county and
says that if each party will nominate
half the county ticket he will sup-
port it. "A'ithout such an arrange
ment neither party can hope to elect
a single candidate," so says Mc-
Donald. Such an arrangement may
furnish hope; but it takes votes to
elect. Such methods usually in-
crease the votes for the side that
does not enter the unholy alliance.
We hear that many of the repub-
lican leaders in Norman have said
that they would vote the democratic
ticket this fall in order to chastise
the Populists for not voting the re
publican ticket in the city election.
This is no surprise to us, neither
does such threats frieghten the Pop-
ulists. We have known for some
time that a few would be leaders of
the republican party in this city
would sacrifice almost anything,
even to their party principles, to de-
feat the People's party in this county;
but the instant they attempt to go
down in their vest pocket to get the
republicans of this county to hand
them over to the democrats they will
find that they are not there. The
rank and file of the republican party
is very much like the rank and file
of other political organizations; a
dangerous commodity to traffic with.
IT IS A
111
Reply When Offered the Delegates
From Thote Southern 8tnte If
He Would Declare for
Free 8Hver.
A gold standard orator when ad-
dressing a body of laboring men as
serts that the free coinage of silver
would result in an inflation of our
currency thereby reducing the pur
chasing power of the dollar; but the
same orator addressing a body of
farmers makes the assertion that the
free coinage of silver would contract
our currency thereby causing the
price of their products to decline.
It is not quite clear to us how it is
that the free coinage of silver would
enhance the price of products to the
laboring men while it cheapened
them to the men who produced the
products. It has been our observa-
tion that when consumers were pay-
ing a high price for products that
the producers were usually receiving
a good price fot their products, like-
wise the wage earner was receiving
a good compensation for his servi
ces and his employment steady. To
illustrate the argument of the gold
standard orator: If the laboring
man paid $1.00 for a sack of flour
under the gold standard; under free
coinage he would pay $2.00 per sack
yet the farmer who produced the
wheat receiving 50 cents per bushel
under the gold standard; under free
coinage would only receive 25 cents
per bushel. Just think of it. Flour
Si per sack and wheat 50 cts. per bu-
shel. Flour $2 per sack and wheat 25
cts per bushel. If such a proposition
be true, and the New York World
has, in substance, asserted that it
was, like the Irishman who wanted
to know of the bank cashier how
much more silver they would have
to put in the trade dollar to make
it not worth a d—m, we would like
to know ho-v much higher, in price,
flour would have to go to make
wheat not worth a cent.
Chicago, 111., May 5, 1896.—The
Times-Herald prints conclusive
statement as to Major McKinley's
position on free coinage:
"A year ago in Thomasville, Ga.,
Major McKinley, when offered the
delegates of three southern states if
he would declare for free silver, said
in the presence of the editor of this
journal:
" 'If the republican platform declare! for
free coinage, I will not be a candidate. I
would not run on a free silver platform.' M
The editor of the Times-Herald it
will be remembered, is H. H. Kohl-
saat, one of Mr. McKinley's most
intimate friends, and who, next to
Mark Hanna, is generally under-
stood to be most competent to speak
for the Ohio statesman.
"It can't get any worse than it is
now." O, yes it can. Too many
men have full stomachs and a suit
of store clothes yet to have any
great change take place. Men
worth thousands a few years ago are
now sneaking around trying to find
odd jobs for a living. The fellows
who are worth a few thousand to-
day can be got down to the same
level, and they will be before there
will come any relief. The busted
men did not want a change when
they had something—now the fel-
lows who are not hungry are just
like them—see no need of a change.
While the department stores, indus-
trial combines and trusts are reduc-
ing the tottering middle class to de-
pendence, the struggle for bread will
be much fiercer than it is to day.
Ah! you had no sympathy for the
poorer classes, you were not willing
to study how to change things to
better them, you lived only for self,
so now you must wait and suffer un-
til others, like you were, are made
to think by the pangs of hunger and
despair. Yes, harder times are
ahead. Out of it will come a so-
cialist republic or a military des-
potism.—Appeal to Reason.
Hog Creek Items.
Sund ty school hL Id p. in.
A fine rain last Monday morning
causing the farmers to wear broad
smiles.
Crops of all kinds are looking fine.
Miss Jennie Powell is up from Pauls
Val ey visiting her many friends in
this neighborhood.
Chris Johnson went to see his best
girl last Saturday and did not return
home until Monday. No wonder it
rained.
Mr. Johnson and sons are going to
the Cherokee nation this week to bring
back d wagon load of girls.
Mr. Finesshas been granted a pen-
sion of $12 per month.
X X. X.
Stella Items.
Crops am looking tine in this part of tile
county and people in good spirits notwith-
standing there are some chinch bugs but they
are not doing much damage.
The Peoples Party Is gaining and there Is
some added to itsjial'ty dally up around Slush-
Ex-Congressman Tarsney, of Mis-
souri, has been appointed as one of
the Supreme Judges of Oklahoma to
succeed Judge Burford whose term
of office expired the 5th of this
month.
There are several Populists in this
county who are unable to understand
why it is that a republican is serving
as janitor and door keeper at the
court house antl many of them seem
to thing Sheriff Newblock is respon-
sible. Such is not the case. The
county commissioners are responsi-
ble for this appointment. Sealed
bids were called for by the commis-
sioners for this work. Heretofore
the county had been paying #4.00
per day for this work. They now
pay 51.50 per day. Mr. Ward liav-
ing agreed to do this work for #1.50
per day. Newblock is in no way re-
sponsible for this appointment.
The grand jurors at this term of
court had their eyes opened when
they took their scrip to have it
cashett. The scrip they received
for serving as jurors for the county
was cashed by the county treasury;
but the scrip they received as Fed-
eral grand jurcrs was only worth 85
cents 011 the dollar. Cleveland
county is ruled by the "Pops" and
the United States by the democrats.
Yes, the credit of the United States
would be ruined, if the People's
party was put in control of affairs.
They would pay cash as they go and
would need no credit. The trouble
with the country now is that too
much of its credit is held by the
pawnshops of Europe and Wall
Street, deposited there by the states-
men of the two old parties.
Editor People's Voice:—Ir. look-
ing over the "Resolves, whereas and
Recommendations" as put forth and
adopted by the American Bimetallic
League at Washington, Dec. 15 and
16, 1894, and the Interstate Silver
Convention held at DesMoines.Iowa,
March 21st, and 22nd 1894. I read
this: —First. That as the doctrine
herein set forth has been made a car-
dinal principal in all the platforms
of the People's party, and that where
ever this party is strong enough in-
dependently to elect members of
Congress, it should put forth every
effort to do so, and so forth and so
Now as to the silver party, if
there is any such party which we
hear so many disgruntled mossbacks
prating over, really want free and
unlimited coinage of silver restored
back to the old ratio why in h—I or
the demo-republican party don't
they join the Populists, the only free
silver party in existence? Why do
they "vant to organize another party
and try to build a campaign 011 a
one plank platform?
I think the upshot and outstart of
the whole concern is a deep laid
scheme originateii by the goldbugs
and bankers; simply to keep the peo-
ple divided. It is full legal tender
government fiat paper money that
the money monopoly is afraid of—
and we must make them know that
there is now a powerful national
party demanding government money
without interest.
WaS" USURY must be abolished in
these United States or reputiation
and war will inevitably come. Let
us all stand by the Omaha platform,
and send none but tried and true
Populists to the StLouis convention.
Why is it that the Silverites are to
hold their convention the same day
and at the same place that the Pop-
ulists do? The Voice will please
give us more light on this.
G. M. Harris.
The Heds murder trial occupied a
good portion of the time of the District
Couri the first of this week. The de-
fendants Joda Morris and Frank Scott
were represented by Wolf & Hutchin
and County Attorney Berry assisted
by w. T. Jackson represented the ter-
ritory. The case was submitted to the
j jry Wednesday night and Thursday
morning they returned a verdict of not
guilty
The delegates sole -led togo to the Oklahoma
City convention so far as reported to tins office
are: A. V. Hulse, 10—1 K; M. J. Stow, 10-1 W;
Chan. Clothier, 10— l' \\ ; 1. W. Stroupc, 10—3 W.
L. W. Silvers, D—1 W; .1. I". V Haun, S>—i W;
.1. C. Walls, H—3 \V; W. A. Stripling, 8—1 W; E.
R. McDonald, 6—1 K; J. II. Appleby, East Nor
Ulan and W. L. Choate, West .Norman. As far
as heard from T. E. lterry and J. S. Allan
or* I are selected as delegates at large. The conven-
The Peoples Party will meet May 23 at 2 p. m ' tion meets next Friday and delegates who go
at Stella Scoool House for the purpose of or- by tndn should meet the north bound local
ganl/.ijga club. train that morning. Special rates have been
A Pol' STBituirr. | secured for delegates attending convention.
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