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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 5.
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4, 18%.
AFRAID OF A SHADOW.
Denver News : It is evident that
a great many of the more thought-
ful of the advocates of the gold
standard are not entirely satisfied
with the victory they have won.
They read with no concealed mis-
giving the signs of the times and are
inclined to temper their rejoicings
with suggestions which indicate the
trend of their thoughts. They real-
ize that the real issue of the late
campaign was between the money
power and the people, rhey know
the arrogance and insolent disregard
of popular rights which character-
ize the conduct of the one, and the
intelligence and stern determination
of the other. They are aware that
still further attempts are to be made
to financially enslave the people by
a party so flushed with victory that
it has apparently lost all reason, and
regards it opponents in the light in
in which they were held up by
Pres. Orr of the New York chamber
of commerce a few evenings ago,
and a feeling of apprehension fills
their minds. This was evident in
the speech of Postmaster-general
Wilson at the banquet at which Orr
spoke. It was the prompting mo-
tive of Senator Hoar's remarks 'o
the Boston home market clnb, in
which he expressed a desire that
the east regain the confidence of the
west. It is this same shadow of
coming events which compelled
Secretary Francis of the interior de-
partment to pen the following sen-
tence to a lot of banqueting Kansas
City goldbugs—
"While I agree with the advocates
of sound money in the fight recent-
ly made, there are many principles
advocated by some of those who
have been advocates of that cause
to which I cannot subscribe. If
some legislation is not enacted to
check the growing influence of
wealth and circumscribe the powers
of the trusts and monopolies, there
will be an uprising of the people
before the century closes which will
endanger our very institutions."
Secretary Francis is a better
prophet than patriot. He predicts
an uprising in this country against
trusts and monopolies, unless the
power of wealth is circumscribed,
yet he cast his entire influence in
favor of these same forces and for
the maintenance of a monetary sys-
tem under which this power of
wealth has thrived enormously and
by which it expects to perpetuate its
mastery over the masses. He is ap-
parently compelled, however, to
warn his confederates of impending
danger, and impliedly at least begs
them not to go to far. Like the
criminal who expects an officer at
every turn, these conspirators now
begin to fear the results of their
own success. They tremble at
what the people may do if
pressed too far. As politic-
ians they have sold themselves to
the money power, and they now
quiver with fright lest the people
whom they have betrayed may turn
and rend them to pieces.
The people will again meet the
money power at the polls in 1S98
when the congressional elections
are held, and again in 1900, when
another president is to be chosen.
Then will occur the "uprising"
which Secretary Francis so much
dreads. The "uprising" at the bal-
lot box will have to fail before any
any other is attempted, and The
News has such supreme confidence
in the people that it fears no other,
although guilty imaginations may
picture anarchy and chaos in this
land of free institutions.
the familiar figure in its gauzy dra
pery. If a liw could be passed
(that is easy enough) and then be
enforced, compelling every preg
nant poet to read all that the near
est good library holds of existing
literature in his line before he bur-
dens the groaning shelves with his
own output, life would be happier
for most of us. The number of
downright plagiarist poetasters now
at work is legion—the number of
imitators is smaller, and that of hon-
est coincidence hitters is less than
either. The honestest of men and
ablest of writers may tumble un-
aware into either pit of the three, as
for instance, I.ongfeliow and Cardi
nal Newman. Nobody dreams of
tracing the Psalm of Life couplet
about hearts like muffled drums
beating funeral marches to the
grave, to these lines by Bishop Hen
ry King, who rhymed the Psalms
and published poems in 1651 —
lint hark! my pulse, like a soft drum,
Heats my approach, tells Thee I come;
Ami slow howe'er my marches lw,
1 shall al last nit down by Thee,
Nor is it likely that John Henry
Newman went to Dryden for this
stanza in his exquisite Lead, Kind-
Light—
was not ever thus nor prayed that Thou
MiouUI'st leatl me on;
loved to choose and tee my path; but now
I.ead Thou mo on.
I loved thegarteh day, and spite of fears
l'rtde ruled my will; remember not post years.
These lines are from Dryden's lit-
tle-read Hind and Panther—
My thoughtless 5011th m vvlngeil with vain
desires;
My manhood, long misled by wandering fires,
Followed false lights; and when their glimpse
was gone,
My pride struck out new sparkles of her own.
TO WIN BACK THE WEST.
NO 1Q
forces of unrivalled state sovereign-
ty and ot a victory for the execu-
tive authority for our ever reliable,
ever glorious supreme court. The
grand result of the campaign has
set in motion business confidence,
public and private enterprises, be
sides all the seeming good fellow-
ship and loving kindness among the
whole people."
Gen. Stewart of Pennsylvania re-
lated many amusing incidents of the
lour of the generals throughout the
south and west. "We corrected
the mistakes of some of the men of
the nation at Appomattox, and this
year the people have corrected the
mistakes by another Appomattox."
bai.ancf: of trade — true
and false.
Philadelphia American: It is a
common error to look upon the
merchandise trade balance as an in-
lex to the movement of gold. At
first glance it seems clear that if we
sell more than we buy, gold must be
sent us in payment, and that if we
buy more than we sell we must send
gold to settle the balance. But, un-
fortunately, the indebtedness we in-
cur on account of the merchandise
we buy abroad falls very far short
of the sum total of the debts we in-
cur and which must, in one way or
other, be annually discharged.
Of this sad truth we have been
made painfully aware during the
past few years, though many have
steadfastly closed their eyes to the
true meaning of the indisputable
facts that have been rapidly unfold
ed before them. Those who have
not closed their eyes have seen that
I we are x great debtor nation, have
Boston, Nov. 25.—I he banquet j seen that we must ship a great ex-
recorded value of #82,353,571, al-
though, owing to our policy of de-
preciating the value of this product,
it sufficed to pay debts of but little
more than half that amount. On
top of this we sent #219,373,191 of
gold. Thus it is seen that though
we sold merchandise and silver to a
value of over $100,000,000 a year
in excess of what we bought we
were under the necessity of sending
an average of more than $50,000,-
000 in gold besides.
But this does not represent by far
the sum of our foreign debts after
the payment of those incurred for
purchases of merchandise. Besides
sending the merchandise, silver and
gold recorded above, in our effort to
discharge this indebtedness we sold
abroad bonds issued by the national
government for this very purpose,
municipal and other loans were
placed abroad, and our exchange
bankers borrowed abroad. Thus
we discharged that part of our in-
debtedness that our exports of mer-
chandise, silver and gold did not
suffice to pay, by running further
into debt.
An examination of the trade re-
turns of the present year tells the
same tale of a great foreign indebt-
edness beyond any incurred by the
purchase of merchandise. Abnor-
mal crop conditions have served to
greatly stimulate the demand for our
food products while the growing im-
poverishment of our people has
Plagiarism, coincidence, confessed
imitation, making three alternatives
often impossible to choose with cer-
tainty in criticising new productions
that strike us as old friends. Ev-
erything good and true has proba-
bly been well said by old writers.
New, or young, writers can only
hope to dress the ancient thought in
• modern fashion or eccentric garb,
and even then one often recognizes
of Home market club at Mechanic's
hall last night was one of the largest
in its history, ijearly a thousand
men, representing the industries of
nearly every city and town in the
state, being present. The feature
of the evening was speeches by
some of the generals who toured the
country in the interest of the gold
standard and by Senator Hoar.
Senator Hoar said that the Dem-
ocratic party had been saved from
itself by Republican efforts. "The
business men of New England," he
went on, "must study the cause of
what lias been going on and do
something that will cure the disease,
which has spread. It is said that
while McKinley has one million ma-
jority, a change of 25,000 votes
would have given the election to his
opponent. It is sad to contemplate
this, and cannot the business men
of New England aid the cause of
good government? Cannot they,
by the weight of their integrity, re-
gain the confidence of the West? It
is not strange that when the people
of the West see the accumulation of
wealth by gambling in the stock
market that they should try to imi-
tate it in a smaller manner. It is
not strange, when they read the his-
tory of railroad construction in the
west, that thay should endeavor to
repudiate their debts. I call upon
the business men of New England to
hold strictly to honest principles and
regain the confidence of the people
of the south and west."
Senator Hoar closed by saying
that Mr. Bryan and Senator Mor-
gan, in their review of the campaign,
showed their ignorance of the Amer-
ican people. "I'hey should take
the counsel af their lamented La-
cess of merchandise over imports if
we would obviate the necessity of
shipping gold, for the interest charge
on our foreign indebtedness must be
paid, and if we do not pay it by ex-
ports of merchandise in excess of
imports we must pay it by shipping
gold, unless indeed, we are able to
temporarily postpone the payment
by running deeper into debt. And
those who have lookeil beyond our
borders have seen that while we are
a great debtor nation, other nations
are great creditor nations and there-
fore in position to buy much more
than they sell without sending gold
in payment.
Foremost among these creditor
nations stand Great Britain. For
years she has bought goods in ex-
cess of her sales to an average value
of over $600,000,000 and during the
same years accumulated gold. Such
is the sum that represents the sum of
debts due England by the world an-
nually beyond the indebtedness in-
curred by the purchase of the fab-
rics of British mills and the prod-
ucts of British mines. After paying
for goods purchased of England the
world pays her annually $600,000,-
000 besides. And as large as this
sum is, it is a question whether it
represents the total indebtedness of
the world, aside from that incurred
by the purchases of merchandise,
annually accruing to Great Britain,
for 110 one can say whether or 110
the world has postponed the pay-
ment of some of its indebtedness
annually by going deeper into debt.
Judging from our own experience it
seems certain that it has. It may
be noted that last year the world
paid Great Britain $725,000,000, in
merchandise and gold beyond the
crs of light and heat with congratu-
lations on the approach of winter
would be but to court rebuffs, or,
worse still, to risk bodily harm. To
him the pleasing features of thi
season are obscured by the condi
tions of modern city life.
But there is one man to whom
these conditions have not yet reach-
ed—the farmer. This is, to the
well-to-do farmer, a season of many
comforts and advantages. True, it
has undeniable disadvantages and
discomforts; stock to feed, wood to
cut, ice to harvest, hogs to butcher,
cannot be considered unalloyed
pleasures, but each has some pleas-
ant or profitable feature.
I he middle-class city man has on-
ly a place to eat and sleep. He
seldom has a home. He grinds up
the stale food lie has bought as me-
chanically as would a coffee-mill;
but the country man, when he has
prepared with his own hands the
comforts of his house, not only feels
that he has a home but he is ready
to appreciate it. Ice off one's own
pond should not be suspected of
being full of germs. A personal ac-
quaintance with the pig, the knowl-
edge that he has been properly bred
and fed and met a timely death, but
adds sweetness to every dainty bit
into which he is prepared. In these
days of scientific farming a man can
put as much brains into feeding
his stock as he can into paint-
j ing a picture, writing a book or run-
greatly diminished our purchasing j ni"g a newspaper.
power. So we witness greatlv in- I \\r 1 .
, . Wood-cutting is an employment
creased exports and decreased lrn- nn, . • t
.... , "ot to be despised as a mental stim-
ports. 1 lie misfortunes that have1 c .1 .
, , L I < ant. See the great Gladstone, old
overtaken our competitors and the
! '"an though he is, wielding the axe
curtailment of our own purchasing1
power have thus combined to build
up a treat merchandise balance of
trade in our favor.
For the ten months ending Octo-
ber 31st, last, this favorable balance
of trade footed up to less than
$206,985,482, and during the same
months we sent abroad silver in ex-
cess of imports to the coinage value
of $27,943,531. Thus was built up
an apparent balance in our favor of
$234,929,053 in the short space of
ten months. But Europe has not
been called upon to send us gold
for anything like this sum. During
the past three months gold imports
have footed up something over $70,-
000,000, but prior thereto exports
were large. So we find that our net
imports of gold for the first ten
months of the current year amount-
ed to only $38,393,359, leaving a
balance of $196,535,694, represent-
and not only felling a tree but gain-
ing vigor to "hew to the line" in
dealing with men and matters.
I bis, too, is the season when the
farmer can again get acquainted
with his family. In mild weather
they are scattered about the place
J and all too busy to talk or read to-
gether much. But the long even-
ings aftord ample opportunity for
making it a "family circle," not on-
ly in name but in reality. A family
gathered around a comfortable fire-
side is a scene to gladden even the
most world-weary. Such a scene
leaves an impression for good on
the children that can never be lost.
Remote from the world, with its
bustle and stir, lessons are learned
and strength is laid up for solving
the world's problems. Thrice hap-
py the child brought up in a happy
country home. How many a world-
mar, who said: 'Oh, my country- sums due her for the merchandise
men, know one another and you s',e sold.
will love one another.' " j Of these great sums annually tlue
In the absence of Gen. Sickles, I Great Britain by the debtor nations
ing exports of merchandise and sil-' weary nian, tonight, looks back with
ver in excess of imports, and for '■ ac'"n8 heart to the days spent on
which we have received no return. I l'le farm when he was a bov.
This balance has gone to pay for-i -
eign debts incurred on accounts! AX IMPORTANT MEETING,
that find 110 place in our trade re-
turns. Moreover, there is every
reason to believe that this current
of gold that set towards our shores
in August last, was the result of ar-
tificial, not natural, conditions; that j lahoma Agricultural,
gold came not because our British j and Irrigation society
cousins had bought more than tliey the enterprising city
could pay for by the export of their ,
products, together with the earnings I tnl
, . . , B greatly eclipse in importance all prev-
on their investments abroad, but be-1 ious farmer's
CoimiiiHMlonerH Froeeerilnga.
November '27, | stirs.
The board ofcouuty comuiteNlonersor Cleve-
laml c,unity inn piir.iu.iit to atQournineiit
all lh«i iiivmlMM and I) is Wyniwcounty
prOM-ui, when Ihe following prooewhiiit.
had, tO'Wlt:
In the matter of erroneous taxes-
It i« this day ordered thai the a w 4 section
81 tp w rang** i we*t lie stiIt-ken from the lax
roll fur imm, the name being erroneously as*
s****d for 1896.
In the matter of appointments—
II I. this <luy or 11 ttynn« b* ami
i. heroby appointed hiki <*ui|>ow«re<i in h«huir
or ClfVKlHinl county to nmkit a contract with
llm I mid Mute marshal tor the rental of the
court f"r ,,le "•* Ul° I'nlleU 3lair.
In the mutter of apportioning county roa.l
and bridge fund—
It l« llila tlay nnterod that Ihe county rraul
; 2t.l2, IH- «eta l<l« for buy.
lug bridge material for Norman twp
In the matter or account, ullowmj—
Ihe followingrlnluil were thin ilav present-
ert, examined ami allowed:
W W Kendall, grand Jury teen anil mileage* k w,
II K llughe.. name
-ong, aame 7 j()
Plank Montcal, name
W 11 li||(M, HUIIIU
A A Harper, Mine
Itohcrt Yeurgin, name
I C Allen, miiik*
Uirsli, grand jury fees
1 " vv H,h' " " mid mileage
J C Clark, same
AIIInoii loops, same.
K K Taylor, Maine
Frank Wltte, meals furnished Jury
w II Tale, petit Jury fees
W II Iter!Iiiirem, j etlt Jury fees
w I' itoyd, wltnoas expense
Thomas butler, •' >■
J Thomas, •• «
John It luck, " ••
Samuel Kzell, •« ••
I W williams, •• ••
Jodie Morris, " ••
uiie 1'ecan, «• ««
•• IMiuichard, *• •«
« Itollins, « <
> Murphree, •• «•
lauies llennett, «« «
.Ino. A. Fox, bailiff roes ..
Jas. K Johnson, witness expense
.1 s Itmnnoii, keeping Conner, pauper,
.Mi'ionley Berry, merchandise
TJ Uolllns, taking care of pauper . •
>\ I. Choiite, lumber and lime
J If Cor muck, coal
The following claims were dlsallov
full.
w Pbhelton, election constable
Kob't \niol, commission on
bonds paid in Feb., iMUo
Hold. Anlol, duplicate warrant, 15
8 10
10 00
.. 8 (jo
. 8 00
. 8 f>:
7 ftO
. 0 50
8 00
.. 8 no
8 CO
. U 75
2 50
. 7 60
3 00
1 00
. 1 00
. I 00
. 1 00
. 2 60
2 60
2 00
. I 00
. 2 00
. I 00
. 1 60
. 7 : o
. « 00
. 61 86
. 9 oo
. 2 40
110 I
red in
$ 2 00
jounty
. 1046 75
lost. go 00
1U 60
Itobt Anlol, duplicate warrant, No. ir>|
lost
Kobt Anlol, duplicate warrant, No, PH,
lohl .105 00
Adjourned until Nov., 28th at 9 o'clock A. M.
C. P. II AUK Kit, chairman.
Attest-1). II. Wynne, clerk.
November 3tt.ii 1896.
The hoard of county commissioners of Cleve-
land county met pursuant to adjournment; all
members present; when the following proceed-
ing* were had, to-wit:
In the mutter of account* allowed.
The following claims wero this da? proseoU
ed, examined and allowed.
.1 ll Appleby, one fourth for 3rd quarter
,,f f 10 25
I. I' Uarker voting in the negative
AlxTiiuthy IIitm, merchandise for the
poor i7oo
ChasClark, bailiff fees 20 00
\\ h Matthew.-, boa Hi of jury and guard
alio
\miunl Session of the Agricul-
tural, Horticultural, and Ir-
rigation Society, Dec. K.
Tli
third annual meeting of the ok-
Horticultural
fill convene at
f Perry, Tues-
niorninsr. December 8, at tl:30.
will laHt three days and
Disallowed
Chas Clothier, bailiff fees
\V K (hithoiiHC, services as janitor
II M ilardlwick, witness expense
Will HI kins, " "
WL Milam •• «
John Kwing, «• "
Geo i* Werner, "
J II Young, petit Jury few... .
W II Iterthurem, " " " ...
W K<. a I'd tier, bailiff fees, allo\ve<
alio
Ml .
W II Atkcrson, petit Jury lees.
People* Voice, printing
s W 111itchln, p« t it Jury fees
Flunk W itte, boarding Jury...
1. I. Keiiilmw, witness e.xpeuse
Joe Daniels, petit Jury fee
II L Forehand, •« " "
Eli Davis, " •« "
It Wortlilngton. " " ••
J a Hoover, « "
•l /. Thompson, •• «
J A
■or,
three cheers were given for the old
sohlier, after which Gen. Alger of
Michigan was introduced. He
closed by paying an eloquent tribute
to Cleveland, and for the first time
in Boston, by a Republican body,
three cheers were given for that of-
ficial.
Gen. Howard said : "By the
election of McKinley you have
gained an executive to your satis-
faction and will have an adminis-
tration to your liking. It was a vic-
tory for sound money against the
of the world we have had our share
to pay. It must also be remember-
ed that England is not the only
creditor nation, that Germany and
Holland and to a lesser degree
France come in the same category.
During the four calendar years end-
ing Dec. i, 1895, we sent abroad
toward the payment of our foreign
indebtedness, merchandise in excess
of imports to the value of $369,328,-
329. But this did not suffice, and
we sent silver in excess of imports
-■tings held in the ter-
cause the New \ ork banking frater- ritorv. A most instructive program is
nity, having need of strengthening being arranged by the committee, in-
their cash resources, and impelled j the most valuable experience
by necessity to check the export of I *n terr*tor.v' we'*l as eminent
cr^i.i ti,nf 1 .1 .1 i- authority and ability from abroad,
gold that threatened them with dis- „„ , *
. - . . . , | I he fourth annual meeting ot the
aster, borrowed gold in London and Oklahoma Horticultural societv will
brought it bodily over. So, we see ! convene at the capital citvofGuth-
that there is every probability that j rie. Monday morning. December 7. at
the sum of foreign indebtedness that j This society was permanently
we must provide for annually and iortfanized on Jul-V* 7* m:l The li!>t
.1 J llogue,
A L lluldwin,
K Duffy.
D W Kogere,
Jfltnes Dentaoii
.1 1' \
P A
yle.s
0 75
. .1 2f>
. '.'1 00
•4 t0
4 00
2 SO
1 00
a oo
4 oo
12 AO
4 50
. 15 00
6 00
1:1 oo
282 50
i;i oo
0 50
12 00
14 00
13 35
15 90
13 80
i:< 70
13 30
14 00
1 50
13 70
12 95
12 00
12 00
incurred on accounts other than the
purchase of merchandise is consid-
erably greater than indicated by the
trade returns, returns that indicate
for the first ten months of the cur
rent year the payment of nearly
$200,000,000 of such indebtedness.
I HE WINTER ON THE FARM.
To the average city man the ap-
proach of winter brings up but little
else but harrowing visions of fuel
bills, fearful to contemplate, or
thoughts of the autocratic sway of
the plumber.
annual meeting was held at Oklaho-
ma City, November -~i and of that
year; the second at Norman, Novem-
ber i! and :!X 1 H!i4: the third at Still-
water, November .j, (I and 7. 18!l"j.
The Oklahoma Agricultural society
was organized in the city of Outhrie
December, 5, 1MI4. The lirst annual
meeting was held at Guthrie, January
and 23, 1895: the second at Oklaho-
ma City January 2!i and 3D, IKflti. At
this meeting this society changed its
name and greatly enlarged its scope
[Continued on 4th page.]
For Kent.
j A six room house, plenlty of good
To approach a man I water and cow shed. For particu
of both silver bullion and ore to a ' who is in the clutches of the dispens-' lars call at this office.
or Adair, "
L LMcComb, "
In the matter of er
-oneotis as
-element-
Whereas It lui# been
made to
appear to
"afteraction of thte htm
d that I-.
A Iterthit
Wit- UsM'.'vSlMl With H III
ortgage o
$600 00,
and that the territona
i mii rd «
f etpiali/ i
latecd mid ii^o>«ment
^<i per cen
ami that
mortgage wax of no va
ue whate\
er at the t
that it was a->e>-ed.
It te ord
sred thai
taxes ot 1. \ lierthurei
i for IH95 1
. ieduced
amount of tlin taxes on
!?• ■ mi.(wi a
ni tliecou
l- instructed to make
t ue nect
ssnry cor
tions
Adjourned until 7 o'c
li. r
oekP. M.
I'.AUKIil
, chaii'ina
Attest—D. n. Wynne,
co. clerk.
November, 2Mb, It
uti,; ovioc
k. P. M.
The board of count y «
oiuinisslo
lersot CU
land county met purs
liUIlt to
tdjournim
present ami prosit!tug
. P Ihirkc
r." chairm
ami l N Montgomery
member
>t the b<
and D P. Wyniu*. count
cleric, *
lien the
lowing proceedings we
e liH-l to w
it:
In the matter of:
(.•counts ill
owed:
The following claims
were this
day prese
ed. examined and allow
ed.
Frank VY itte, boarding jury
* ::
.1 II Cniniiiliii{s, p
1' M M IntliNKH'ii,
<; W Hughe**,
.1 M Kmv burn, nam
(. U lined, wtine
1) N Montgomery,*
n'rfef.siiml mileug**
I. t' mirke
sun
The following claim was disullo
OW Kennedy, printing
Adjourned.
l r i;.\i:ki:u
Attest—1) ll Wynne, clerk.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1896, newspaper, December 4, 1896; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc116901/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.