The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1896 Page: 1 of 8
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Birum the law mi written dowa with
parchment or with psa:
Before tha law- made citisens. the moral
law made men.
Law stands for humm rirhts. but when
it fails those riahta to give.
Theu let law die. my brother, but let hu-
man being* live.
peoples
01CC.
'•Our Republic can only exist
sn Long as it citizens respect
anil obey their self imposed laws."
Labor Tx The Parent Of Capital, Encourage Labor. and You Build Up Capital.
VOL. 4
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. JINK 19 18%.
NO 47.
(iOLDBl'G LETTKlt.
Characteristic Protest Against Free Coinage
With Truthful Reasons
for Not Desiring
Sliver
The following communication re-
ceived bv The News is presented as
a unique satire which, however,
is really nearer what a goldbug
would argue, if truthful, than the
average argument against • silver:
office ok wall street & co.,
NEW YORK, N. Y.
(Agents for penny & want,)
To the public—We desire all vot-
ers to support gold monometalism.
In order to continue the halycon
days which have intervenened since
the repeal of the Sherman bill and
to get the price of wneat down to a
point below the cost of production
it is necessary to kill free coinage
of silver. Corporations, trusts and
syndicates must be protected at all
hazards. The farmers and laborers
of this country can easily take care
of themselves.
The establishment of bimetallism
would immediately increase the
price of all cereals. Trusts would
be obliged to raise wages. Factor-
ies would reopen and fill the air with
smoke' and after such a long period
of quiet rest the poor goldbug could
not sleep on account of the noise,bus-
tle and confusion incident upon the
machinery of industry.
In substantiation of the above we
would refer you to:
J. Pierpont Morgan (the fellow
who got the bond rake-off).
Cha.uncey M. Depew (who has
lots of money).
Hoke Smith (who got turned down
by his party).
John Bull (whom we try to ape).
The New York dailies ( owned
body and soul by England).
Further of this ilk furnished upon
application.
Yours to preserve the Union with-
out sending a substitute this time.
cleaver groveland. president.
cames g. jarlisle, sec. and rreas.
p. s. — Might also add that the
president ot the United States went
into office a comparatively poor man
You ought to see his bank account
now. Yours truly,
W. Street. Jr.
P. P. S.—Yes, and it should not
be overlooked that gold is what all
the ricn people want. It is only the
low down wage-workers and the old
homespun trousdred farmers and
ranchers who want both gold and
silver. To — with them. If they
are not satisfied with the crumbs
that fall under the table put them
outside the gates entirely.
Yours for gold,
w. street, sr.
and applies it on his taxes. This
leaves him <40 in debt, while the
Russian farmer has paid his taxes
and has $2V to buy tea and coffee.
Under these circumstances the Kus
sian farmer plants more wheat and
creates for Russia a large export
trade in wheat, which gives her the
balance of trade, while the Ameri-
can is unable to plant more wheat,
because if he did he would only in
crease his debts; he could not raise
enough to pay taxes in addition to
the cost of production.
McKinley is in favor of maintain
ing the gold standard, which will
forever put the American producer
of wheat, cotton and other farm
products to a great disadvantage in
competing with the farmers of the
sflver standard countries. McKin-
ley contends that the American far-
mer shall forever submit to this dis:
advantage' but that foieign manu-
facturers shall be excluded from
the American markets in order to
give the home manufacturer amon-
oply. How will this affect the far-
mer? It will simply require him to
pay a higher price for the few thing
he needs and cannot raise. This is
especially the case, because with
the gold standard falling prices will
continue, and as long as falling pri-
ces continue the manufacturing es-
tablishments in existence will have
a monopoly. No one will build
new manufacturing establishments
on a falling market. McKinley's
policy will give to the manufactur-
ing establishments already in exis-
tence a monopoly to what they
please. The farmer will continual-
ly get less for his products and be
compelled to pay more and more
for the few things which he has to
buy. If McKinleyism meant pro-
tection for the agriculturist equall)
with all others, it would be an e-
quitable doctrine; but McKinley-
ism proposes to leave the farmers
and producers in deadly competion
with the Asiatics, with 100 per cent
advantage in favor of coolie labor;
while prohibitory tariff shall guard
the Eastern manufacturers from
competion and increase the price of
the necessaries of life to the farm
er. In other words, McKinleyism
means widening the division between
the farmers and the manufacturijg
classes of this country. McKinley
ism is emphatically class legislation.
Will the people go mad over ex-
ploded and abandoned McKinley-
ism, and allow their fortunes to be
swept away and lives made misera-
ble by the stagnation and want
which now attends and must ever
attend the single gold standard?—
Silver Knight.
UOLO JH'ON TIIUtCATKN.
N> w York, June 10.—The Journ-
al's A'ashington special says: A New
York Democrat said at the Arling-
ton Hotel: The Western and South-
ern men of our party are certainly
out of their minds. They never
have felt the weight of commercial
interests of the East arrayed against
them. The Greenbarkers and Pop-
ulists, Silverites and Grangers never
have withstood a calvary charge by
the combined money interests of
the country.
They will not be in it in Novem-
ber. 1 he South will suffer most. 1
fear. Its loans will be called to the
la* dollar. Its cotton will be left
to rot in its compresses, bacause the
railroads 'hat are owned and opera- j
ted by Northen capitalists, in a maj-'
ority of cases at a loss will refuse to Teller, DuBois, Matt, Mantle and
1 he
Kin<r Of Protection
The Gold Standard
and
carry it. In the West, every mort-
gage that is held against every farm
in the Silver States will be foreclos-
ed. All lines of credits for dry
goods and groceries in these inde-
pendent regions will be closed, be-
cause the Eastern bankers and mer
chants regard the silver movement !
as absolutely dangerous to the finan- F-""". to stann on.
cial future of the country. | Yester(Jay evening at 5 o'clock, Mc-
Wouldn't this mean revolution? Kinley received the nomination as
Hartman Withdraw from
The Convention.
Sr. Louis, June, 18th,— McKinley
was nominated on first ballot with a
gold standard platform to stand
Iue*|tittable Protection.
No tariff can protect the agricul-
turist. He must compete with Rus-
sia, China, Japan and South Ameri-
ca without protection. Before sil-
ver was demonetized the owner of
either gold or silver bullion could
get a fixed price for it at the French
mint, and no one would sell bullion
in any part of the world for less
than he could get by sending it to
France. There was no advantage
in the kind of money used between
Asia and South America and the
United States. But now the, silver
standard countries have a hundred
per cent in thediffereuc of exchange
The advantage of the difference of
exchange may be illustrated as fol-
lows: A Russian farmer owes $100
for taxes and an American farmer
also owes $100 for taxes. Each
takes a hundred bushels of wheat
to the Liverpool market and each
one sells his hundred bushels wheat
for 60 cents a bushel. The Russian
farmer takes the proceeds of his
hundred bushels of wheat ( which is
f6o in gold) to Russia and exchanges
it for Siio of Russian money. He
pays the i 100 of taxes which he has
and has $20 left for other purposes.
The American farmer takes his $60
>prhich he receives for his hundred
bushels of wheatto the United States
1 he Wall Street Bankers are bus-
ily engaged at the present time in
sending out personal letters to busi-
ness men throughout the country
urging them to use their influence
against free coinage.
hat a distinguished honor it is for
one of our merchants to be of such
importance as to receive a personal
letter from one of the big banking
firms of Wall Street. In many cases
we have no doubt, such attention
will enlist the services of some of
our merchants, who had heretofore
been friendly to Silver and here-
after they will be found working for
the single gold standard. They
will reason the matter just about
this way " I don't know very much
about this money question," and
this is true in too many instances a-
mong our business men, but those
men in Wall Street have made fi-
nance a study, they are good busi-
ness men and have made success in
life and I believe that they know
what would be best for this coun-
try hentje 1 will take their advice
and go to work and do what I can
to fasten securely the gold standard
upon the country believing, because
the Eastern Plutes have told me
so, that is the proper thing and
that by taking their advice I too
will some day will be a millioniare.
was asked.
Perhaps, but this crusade against
the East already under way is revo-
lutionary and quite disastrous to trie
people of the East as any civil war
could possibly be. I wonder if they
understand that the prominent bank
ers of Ne«J York have already in
their possession carefully prepared
list of delegates to St. Louis and Chi-
cago indicati ng the financial opin-
ion of each delegate and his alter-
nate? Such is the case and if #20,-
000,000 is required to prevent the
insertion of a silver plank in the St.
Louis platform it will be forthcom-
ing. I wonder if the Southern men
have reckoned regarding the negro
vote? I'hey certainly have not in such
States as Virginia and the Carolinas
and in the black belt of Alabama,
where the negro vote is as purchas-
able as any commodity of the coun-
try.
Whatyou say about the threaten-
ed use of money at St. Louis is very-
startling; are your statements based
upon any positive information?
was asked.
I have seen such a list in the pos-
session of a member of the New
York Clearing House. On it every
weak brother was specially indicated
and no secret was made of the de-
termination to reach and influence
potently enough delegates to pre-
vent any miscarriage of the plans of
the gold standard leaders. They
mean business, because they feel
that they might as well lose their
money in a lump as to suffer the de-
preciation of railroad and bank
stocks that they sincerely believe
would inevitably follow the election
of a free coinage President.
■ m
Congress adjourned June 4th
amid the applause of the goidbugs
for its idleness. It will be remem-
bered in history as the do nothing
Congress. The policy of the late
session of Congress was to do noth-
ing and it carried out its policy well
As an excuse for doing nothing the
Republican politicians will allege
that it was because a Democratic
president held forth in the White
House. Like the Democrats during
Clevelands first term they will assert
give us a Republican president and
both houses of Congress and we
standard bearer of the republican
party in the coming campaign. Ho-
bart of New Jersey was nomina-
ted as candidate for Vice Presi-
dent. McKinley and Hobart will
be the Slogan of Republicans this
fall.
Free Coinage—Its ICelutiou
Prices of Coin modifies.
A City That I'hj * It* Citizens.
If one should suggest that a city
j should pay its citizens instead of cit-
I izens paying taxes to keep up the
! city, you would consider hi 111 a ripe
| subject for the insane asylum,
wouldn't you? Vet there is just
such a strange an.i crazy city on
the earth. K<K'ligdorf, Germany,a
city about as large as Kansas City
is such a place. It owns it street
cars, water works, gas, telephones,
etc, and this pays all the ex-
penses. Adjoining the city was a
very shallow lake of several thous-
and acres, and as a sanitary condi-
tion it was drained. As the lake
( was public property the new fields
thus obtained were public property.
Unlike the American plan of selling
it to a horde of capitalist to get still
richer off the unfortunate people
who wanted to use it, city kept title
to it and every year sell the use of
it to the highest bidders and vast
rentals are thus obtained that go in-
to the public treasury that would
otherwise have gone into private
pockets. So every year the city de-
clares dividends to its citizens.
How heathenish the people there
are as compared with the American
idea of paying tax to keep up the
city.—Appeal to Reason.
The average export price of wheat
in 1S73 was 1.31 per bushel—as giv
en by the government statistical ab-
stract. 1 lie present export price
65 cents.
The price of silver bullion in 1^73
two cents an ounce above the coin-
age value, 01$ 1.31. The present
price of silver bullion is 69 cents an
ounce.
Thus you will see that the price of
wheat has fallen in much the same
ratio as silver. '1 he fall in prices of
other staples have been in about the
same ratio as that of wheat. The
demonetization of silver has been
the prolific source of the decline in
the price of commodities and the re-
monetization of silver will tend to-
ward the restoration of prices as they
existed before silver was detnone
tized. If the American people are
truly anxious to secure better prices
for what they have to sell they
should see to it that the President
and Congress to be elected this fall
are men that will remonetize silver.
If, on the 4th of next November the
news of the election of a President
and Congress friendly to silver,
flashes over the country, the price
of wheat, corn, cotton and other
commodities will advance simulta-
neous. The people will not have to
wait until silver is remonetized to
see the advance. When it becomes
an assured fact that it will be done,
prices will advance. A few years
ago when it was thought a free coin-
age bill would pass you will recol-
lect how the price of wheat advanced
and how it dropped when it was defi-
nitely known that the bill would not
become a law.
The literary entertainment an-
nounced by the Indies of the M. 10.
Chureh South for June, 18th was
postponed and they will ^ive a dinner
at the old Wichita store in CeNtral
block, June 27lh. lee cream will he
served all the afternoon. Dinner 25
cents, lee cream and cuke, 10 cents.
tlon of hi, own paper." All populists,
e.|iuuii«l y ihn e a plriii|( to olllce,
should recojioiie it their uuly to let the
people know through the columns of
this paper, their views on political
economy. Candidates for „ffle« do not
always have time to go among the peo-
ple and tell them their political views,
uor can all the voters leave their work
to go listen to speaking Ik. the candi-
date's notions of tfurernmenl ever so
diHiia I'he Oklahoma City Times-
Journal of June 1 says: "The I'op.j.
lists almost Invariably permit howling
fanatics with 110 1 usiness capacity to
oarr.v off the nominations for the coun-
ty cilices that require the most busi-
ness capacity." Now poupt'.ats you see
there is need of your making the I'eo-
t*t,K s voice the medium for exchang-
ing your different ideas for if commit-
ted to paper there is no howling sound
to offend the auricular nerves of those
dear old party Heg that never have any
howling or dissensions at their conven-
tions. "Life is conscience" rouse up
voters of Cleveland county, unite, edu-
cate aud agitate when you get thor-
oughly educated jou will help vote out
the system that has given birth to
howling fanatics, Mary M. Stkoup.
I>K .IOIIN. It. FUltLO.VO
Defines His Position as to ltoing
a candidate lor Congress.
Several months since considerable
remark whs made regarding thd possi-
ble candidacy of Hon John E. Fur-
long, Secretary of the Territory Com-
mittee, for Congress. A number have
recently Inquired if tile Doctor can he
considered us public property. We
approached him on the matter and he
gives out the following as his final an-
swer.
Editor Representative: — You
say Wiat many are in doubt and asking
you for information in regard to 1 uv
position relative to my candidacy for
Delegate to Congress. They gay they
dont "know where to plaue me in re-
gard to the matter; they don't know
whether I am a candidate or not, or
whether 1 would accept the nomina-
tion under any circumstances." In
order to set the people right en tins
hit, I will here state, as I have be-
fore, that I am not a candidate for Dei-
gate to Congress. 1 do not want the
nomination, jet it affords me pleasure
to know that the people of Oklahoma
have confidence enough in me to coll-
ider me in connection with so impor
tant a position as Delegate to Congress
arnestly hope that I will never be-
tray that confidence, or give them
The spoils of office turn some
men's head; Pat Nagle is a striking
illustration. Before Pat received
his commission as U. S. Marshal the
will do something and if the people j white flag of poverty was displayed
of this county pay attention to this j at half mast through the orifices of
his nether garments and the
that
reason to regret it.
I will further state that, personally,
I would rather not ^et the nomination,
nevertheless not my will but thine he
done/' I think the right stand to
take in regard to an office is, not to
week one or refuse one. I feel that if
the people call me to their service it
would be very wrong and cowardly for
me not to respond.
I will here, once for all, say to the
Populists of Oklahoma, if yon can And
a man chat will in every way suit you
hs well a* you think I would suit for
that (I was going to say honorable po-
sition, but there h no position honor-
able unless the holder of it .makes it
so) give it to him. Hut, if in your cool
and unbiased judgmentyou should come
to the conclusion that I would be the
man for that place then like a good
and faithful servant, I would feel that
it would be my duty to buckle on my
armor and go to the front. I am yours
for what you, in your cool wisdom
think ih for the best, all things con-
sidered. John it Furlong.
Oklahoma City, June 13th '90.
Called to Meet in Gutlule, Ati-
ffUHt 4th and 5tli, 18!M.
I'o the Populist Committeemen
AND VOTERS OF OKLAHOMA.
By the authority of the Territorial
Central Committee, I hereby call a
convention of delegates from the sev-
eral counties of Ok lahoma to meet in
the McKennon Opera House in
GUTHRIE, AUGUST 4th AND 5th.
For the purpose of selecting a Terri-
torial Commiutee consisting of one (1)
member from each county in Oklaho-
ma.
For the purpose of nominating a
Populist Candidate for Delegate to
Congress, and for the organizing and
establishing of all necessary commit-
tees for the vigorous prosecution of a
congressional campalgn.
The apportionment as fixed by the
committee is one (1) delegate from
each county and one (I) delegate for
every 76 votes and major fraction of 75
votes cast for Hon, Ralph Henumout
for Congress at the general election of
1894
It appearing that the congressional
vote of Washita County did not fairly
reflect the strength of the party in
that county as shown by the election
of several county officers, 1 delegate is
added making live (6) delegates to bo
elected from Washita county, subject
to the action of Territory convention.
On this basis the representation will
stand as follows:
county
Beaver
Blaine
Canadian
Cleveland
Day
D
G
Garfield
Grant
Greer
Kay
Kinglisher
I.in coin
Logan
Mills
Noble
Oklahoma
Pawnee
fay ne
Pottawatomie
Washita
Wood«
Woodward
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1406
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518
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108
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A <«ood Suggestion.
siren song they may be treated to
even a worse dose than they receiv-
ed at the hands of the Democrats
when they were given full control.
A party that does not attempt to do
anything simply because they do
not have full control is a very un-
safe party to entrust with full con-
streets
of Kingfisher was his principal abid-
ing place; but now that he is U. S.
Marshal he assays to write a letter in
which he asserts that the " field the
workshop and stree' is the home of
the revolution." As to the charac-
ter of a citizen the street breeds
trol. I he American people have Pat perhaps may speak authoritive- In bis talk about an editoi
been sold out often enough to catch jly : but when he speaks of the field j Smith say*; ' hi authorship he Joe
onto this fact and we hardly think j and workshop his statements must much 118 H Paratf,ttPher* but has little
they will swallow the bait again to j be taken with due caution.
discover later the hook concealed That he is an utter stranger to both
within it. [these places his assertion proves.
Dear reader, did you ever think how
much good you might do for the re-
form cause, if you would make this
paper really what the name at the
head of the first page implies. Not
many among the readers that cannot County Central
if they would contribute some valuable j organized, or thai the above uieution-
Totals 10,774
In harmony with the above, the
Chairman of the County Central Com-
mittee of each and every county will
proceed to cause their respective coun-
ties to select the apportioned number
of delegates and an equal number of
alternates at such times and places as
in their judgment seems beet suited to
their convenience., allowing fur sufli-
cient time for such delegates so elected
to arrange for attending the Territor-
ial Convention.
it is further recommended that each
Committee as newiv
articles, and b) this interchanging of
ideas help build up a more complete
reform party in our own (Cleveland)
county at least. Do not expect a sheet
of good reform news every week, un-
less you contribute to make it such.
time to produce articles that live, lie
i speaks to the same families with a
j few changes annually for years, and
: his audience is limited to the circula-
ed County Conventions, do select a
member of the Territorial Central
Committee who shall embody a good
degree of activity political sagacity
and moral and social standing, which
name shall be reported to the Terr.-
C'. Harley I tory convention iu the making up the
working committee for the next two
years.
Leo Vincent
John K. Furlong, Ter. Ch'rm'n.
Secretary. |
CutOrle, June 13, lVJt>.
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