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The Peoples Voice
vol. 8.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FEBRUARY 1<>. 1900.
NO. 30.
-APPEAL. TO REASON.
" Appeal to Reason! v Reason? Let me see —
That has escaped ray memory.
It seems to me I have heard or read,—
But it ban from my memory Hed.
Reason V Reason ? She does not dwell here ;
If she ever did, it has been many a year.
That Reason is absent there is no doubt,-
Temple unoccupied no latehstring out !
Since I think about the thing again,—
It may have been an attribute of men,
That was mislaid or lost in early time,
Before Homer put together rhyme ;
It must have been long, long before,
For Homer wrote of cruel war.
Why "appeal " to that in classie page,
Which has been lost for many an age ?
Ours is an epoch of avarice, crime and wars ;
Men do not reason, but put on their spurs.
Men are not required to think or reason
In these piping times of empire, war and treason.
Hut then, there'd be 110 war nor treason
If men would exercise the gift of reason.
But how can they, when the art is lost,
And, it seems, cannot be restored at any cost?
Norman, O. T. A. D. HlOKOK.
rejoicing, and all the peasants got boisterously
drunk and kissed the boots of the commission-
er who had destroyed them body and soul.
Gave His Soul for His Faith and His
Life for His Child.
Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 21.—Two peasants, a
man in the eighties and a young woman about
seventeen years old, were found dead in a
snowdrift by a Cossack patrol some ten or
eleven miles from the city the other day.
The corpses sat upright in a ravine, frozen
through and through. The girl had her arms
around the old man's neck and iced tears hung
like dewdrops on her eyelashes. The eyes of
both the unfortunates were wide open, and in
sitting down the old man had covered the girl's
knees with the frock of his sheepskin, like a
rustic lover eager to comfort his sweetheart.
The pitiless police report registers them as
" victims of the hard winter,"—Felix Zemowsk i,
eighty-four years old, a convert to the Holy
Greek Church, and Mariska, his granddaught-
er, of the same faith, both deported settlers of
the village of VVicprz, government of Lublin,—
but all Poland honors the pair as martyrs, who
died for love of country and of the Catholic
religion
In the early eighties Felix was a fairly well-
to-do peasant, owning a piece of land in the
village of Zcerski, not far from Warsaw. He
was hetman of his tribe, and lived in peace
with his neighbors and the government, too.
Old age, beginning to make itself felt, Felix
ceded his property to his son and was about to
retire from active life altogether, when a St.
Petersburg decree ordered him to embrace the
Greek faith and thus set an example to the vil-
lage. The villagers appealed.
The commissioner ordered them to return
home and afteward again appear before him.
They did as they were told, only to find thai
the Cossacks had in the meantime destroyed
half their property, breaking the furniture, eat-
ing the poultry and slaughtering the domestic
animals. This was done at the command of
the commissioner.
The men and women returned to the village
hall with complaints and tears. " Our work is
only begun," said the commissioner. " We will
give you some more time to think. Meanwhile
the destruction will go on."
Then he ordered the Cossacks to fall upon
the people and tear off their clothes. Naked
they were driven out into the snow. "Don't
come back until you are willing to embrace the
faith of holy Russia."
Felix dared not remonstrate against this
unheard-of barbarity. " Off with his sheepskin
and boots," cried the commissioner. After the
hetman had been stripped, he was carried out-
side and seated on the window sill, two men
holding him.
" Now bring his son and granddaughter,"
rang out the command.
The son was treated like the father, then
thrown on a platform and knouted. There was
a pause after every second stroke.
" Forswear, dog of a Pole ! "
"No."
So every third stroke was the harder.
Finally the captain of the Cossacks went
up and buried his spurs in the poor fellow's
back. " Wilt thou now abjure ? "
" No ! " cried the dying man with all the
power at his command.
" Turn him round."
The cruel whip was applied to his face and
bare breast.
"Acknowledge that thou art a Russian—cry
long live the Holy Mother, or I will kill you."
" I want to die as I have lived—a Pole and
a Catholic ! "
The inhuman officer commanded his men to
give the headstrong peasant some " Russian
punch." They opened his jaws, stuck a funnel
in his throat and poured in foul water. Then
they danced on his stomach.
Under their kicks and spurring, poor Igna-
tio expired.
Felix was brought in. He was blue with
frost, his hair stood on ends, but his spirit was
unbroken.
"Wilt thou now renounce thy Roman here-
sies?" Felix shook his head.
" Bring in his granddaughter."
Mariska was then but two years old, and
Felix loved the child more than the light of his
eyes. He began to tremble as lie heard the
order.
A Cossack came in, carrying the child on
the point of his lance, but the spear was drawn
through the little one's clothes, and her tiny
body was as yet uninjured.
The officer placed six lancemen at one end
of the 'oom and six at the other.
" Abjure, or the ball game shall begin—and
the child's body shall be the ball.''
Then Felix broke down. He threw himself
on his face, and, cursing the hour of his birth,
promised to become a convert if the little one's
Jife was spared.
And there were barrels of vodki and much
Railway Problem.
Tom I,. Johnson, street railway owner and
builder, millionaire, reformer and single-tax
agitator, gave his individual views 011 the
" Railway Problem" in Association hall, New
York, under the auspices of the Manhattan
Single Tax Club, recently. He said, in part :
" '1 here is but one way to solve the street
railroad problem. To operate the street rail-
road in a way to give the greatest accommoda-
tion to the public, it should be owned and op
erated by the municipality.
" It is better to have it owned by the mu-
nicipality than to adopt any conceivable sys-
tem of owning tracks and leasing them out to
companies. It would be a great deal better if
the street railways were not only owned and
operated by the people, but were operated free."
Mr. Johnson illustrated his idea with the ex |
ample ot the elevator in an office buiiding, the i
cost of the elevator service being paid for by j
the rent of the building.
" Picture in your mind's eye," continued |
Mr. Johnson, "this great city with a free street
railroad service, as free as the apparatus for
putting out fire, as free as air, as free as the
sidewalks. A system like that should be paid
for by a tax on land values.
" They say the railroads would be in politics
then and would add to the power of the dom-
inant political party. In answer to that I ask,
' Are they not in politics now? Can they be
kept out of politics?' It is impossible.
" Those institutions that are a monopoly,
that can be worked freely in the interest of the
people, should be owned by the municipalities.
What has corrupted the politics of the great
cities but the values of the great franchises
which you let be disposed of by your alder-
men ?
" The best street railroad ever operated in
the United States, the one with the best man-
agement, all things considered, that never had
a strike and never went into politics—that was
the street railroad on the Brooklyn bridge. I
watched it from the beginning and I was in at
the death. People even said I had something
to do with it. I have run a free street railroad
and so I ought to know something of the sub-
ject. It was in Johnstown after the flood.
The people there didn't have any money then.
" We who respect private property believe
that any of the things that man makes is so sa
cred that one shouldn't take even a part of it
to pay a tax ; but when you come to that other
imaginary property I don't believe we should
respect those grants in perpetuity on our high-
ways any more than we would respect a charter
from the king of England to Captain Kidd to
practice piracy on the high seas."
[We will add that what Mr. Johnson says
of street railroad ownership will apply with
equal force to every other public utilty, either
municipal, state or national. Values created
by the people as a whole should be enjoyed by
them collectively. And the belief in this prin-
ciple is growing rapidly among thinking people
all over the world.—Dalton, Ga., Herald.]
great deal to advance the cause of religion ;
they're bound this little nation of Boers shall
be civilized anil enjoy religion as they want
'em to."
" They trust in Odd, Josiah, if they are a
little people, and if they should triumph over a
giant foe as Israel did so many times helped
by the God of battle, would it not help the
world to hev faith in God ? Sez I, Read their
battle-hymn :
Our strength is in our God of hosts,
Our times are in His hand:
The wrath of man that idly boasts
We fear not in the Rand.
From farming dale, from soil and loam,
We're coming, God of Might.
The ramparts of our mountain home
To shield. Guard thou the right.
" Well," sez he, "all I meant wuz it hain't
wimmen's sp'ere to talk about war."
" No, I know what wimmen's sp'ere is in
war time ; it is to have her heart go to the
front with them she loves ; to suffer and die
with 'em, only her'11 is a livin' death, ten times
worse to bear, to endure and suffer all the ca-
lamities that foller war. To be taxed for mon-
ey to carry on an undertakin' her soul loathes—
I guess I know what wimmen's sp'ere is in war.,'
Sez Josiah : " Wimmen can't understand
such things, Samantha ; their minds hain't
built right.''
Sez I, sadly : " Mebby that's so, Josiah ;
mebby my mind hain't built right to see the
beauty of two great nations, pledged to peace
and enlightenment, waging bloody wars six
months after a peace conference. They say
they believe the bible and want to carry it to
benighted nations of the globe. But how are
savages goin' to believe 'em when when they
preach that the religion of Jesus is peaceable,
long suffering, forgiving, and then pitch at 'em
with cannons and swords ? "
Josiah got right up and sez he : " I'm go-
in' to bed ; they hain't no use of argyin' with
wimmen, they can't argy fair, it hain't in 'em."
And he wound up the clock and went to bed.
Of you trying to explain to your wife
that she's extravagant? She knows >1
good thing wheu she sees it. You
must lie from Missouri, and have to lie
"shown." She 1ms only been down
to liEED A' SHAFFEU'S and pur-
chased for one-half the tnonev von
would have to pay elsewhere, au ele
gaut Carpet, and Furniture to furnish that room which
long neglected.
Did you ever think of it '? That after the first of I
a pretty dull time, and most dealers were after anv and
possible to get, and were throwing out nil kinds of bargui
what we are doing. We do not claim to give w.u all lb
some do, but are willing to divide it with von.
ffcf""Oall and investigate.
been s<
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KEEIJ <V- SHA.FFBK,
FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING.
A WARNING.
Beware ! the Israelite of old, who tore
The lion in his path, when poor and blind,
He saw the blessed light of heaven no more,
Shorn of his noble strength and forced to grind
In prison, and at last led forth to be
A pander to Philistine revelry
Upon the pillars of the temple laid
His desperate hands, and in its overthrow
Destroyed himself, and with him those who made
A cruel mockery of his sightless woe :
The poor, blind slave, the scoff and jest of all.
Expired, and thousands perished in the fall !
There is a poor, blind Samson in this land,
Shorn of his strength, and bound in bonds of steel,
Who may in some grim revel, raise his hand.
And shake the pillars of this Commonweal,
Till the vast Temple of our liberties
A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies.
Henry W. Longfellow.
British Losses in South Africa.
Just after the battle of Spion Kop the Brit-
ish estimate of their losses so far, in their at-
tempt to wipe the South African republics off
the map, were as follows :
Oct.
Oct.
j Oct.
j Oct.
! Nov.
I Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
| Nov.
I Dec.
j Dec.
Dec.
I Jan.
I Jan.
i Feb.
Engagement.
Dundee
Elandslaagte ....
Rietfontein
Nicholson's Nek .
F.stcourt train...
Beacon Hill
Belmont
(iras Pan
Modder River....
Stormberg
Magersfontein...
Tygela Itiver (Colenso)
Uppea Tugela River
♦Spion Kop
Vaal Krantz
u
O 13
t£V\ .
Killed.
3
0
|S
•P j
3 81 H
.14
20S
211 473
42
195
10 247
13
93
3| 109
63
239
8811183
3
11
150 164
12
66
9 87
105
374
15 494
24
166
7 197
"ti
39H
7 476
.... 700
.... 963
82
667
34S 1097
| 706
;1650
The Spion Kop loss of 1,650 is the Boer es-
timate of British killed and captured—nothing
said as to the wounded. We have seen no fig
ures as to Buller's losses in recent reverse at
Vaal Krantz,—which was also his third failure
to raise the seige of Ladysmith, only some fif
teen or twenty miles away. Other losses,
which, for the present, might as well be added
to the above table, are the British forces shut
in at Ladysmith, Kimberly and Mafeking, ag-
gregating at least 12,000 or 15,000 men,—or a
grand total of about 20,000 to 23,000 in Brit-
ish killed, wounded and prisoners. The Boer
losses have been small ; probably 4,000 would
be a liberal estimate.
Those Deceitful Dutch !
In a letter published by an Amsterdam pa
per, the writer says :
" Not two hours by rail from Capetown is
the beautiful valley of the Paarl. Opposite the
| town of Paarl is Fransche Hoek, one of the
| oldest Huguenot settlements. Both places to-
! gether have about 8,000 inhabitants. Over 400
young men have already vanished from there !
They go 'on business' by rail to Worcester,
Matjesfontein, Triangle or Beaufort West, and
write from there to papa : ' I am going a lit
tie farther. Never mind where.' The ' old
man ' can swear that he does NOT know where
the boys are. Two days later they are with
the Boer forces. The Afrikander likes to man-
age these things in such a way that he does
not, in more senses than one, ' lose his head.'
He joins his compatriots, and hopes to come
back with a conquering army. An open re
bellion would be more dramatic, but the Boer
cares nothing for advertisement. The repub-
lics did not advertise their armaments. The
Cape Afrikander does not advertise that he is
tired of British oppression when he has a Brit-
1 ish garrison right near him. The Dutch mayor
| of this or that town reads off some gubernato-
rial proclamation. But as he would like to be
j ' burgermeester' when the Free States come, he
j does not inquire very anxiously whether his
j hearers are deeply impressed or not."
| Missouri World : Joe Sibley, of Pennsyl-
I vania, the rantankerous silver Democrat, who,
' some years ago, talked so nearly like a Popu-
lism that there was some sentiment for him as
| the populist candidate for president, has not
j only gone back on silver and everything else
| he advocated, but has gone clear over to the
I Republican party, and in a letter dated Feb-
ruary 2, agrees to run as the Republican can-
) didate for congress. The reformer who re-
1 mains in the old parties will not do to count on.
/Mt
Farmers Grain
AND
Implement Co.
will pay yon the highest
market price for your
Grain, Hogs and Cattle,
and will sell you all kinds
of Farm Implements at
the lowest living prices.
If you have (irain, Fat
Hogs or Cuttle to sell,
let us give you prices on
them.
If you want to buy any
kind of farm implement,
we will be pleased to have you examine our line and stock of imple-
ments, and learn our prices.
The growth of our busines shows that our customers find it
profitable to them to deal with us
FARMERS GRAIN AND IM-
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BUT NOT TO QUIT BUSINESS.
We want to close out all our winter stock of Millinery Goods
before the arrival of our Spring Goods, and have greatly re-
duced our prices in order to move this stock out. Come in and
see us, and we will show you some of the best bargains in
Millinery Goods ever given in this city.
CALLIE GRAHAM & CO.
W. C. KKN KUOW, I't-ttPtdiMit, «.Kn. I. ItKY NOLDS, (J, II. HKSSKN l\ ChmIih-i .
JSIorman (State J3ank.
Capital, $50,000.
Collections a Specialty.
W. C. RENFROW. C. H. KESSF.NT. GEO. T. REYNOLDS. F. CAKUTHERS.
J. H. DIBBLE. I. M. CURTICE. T. E. SMITH.
To Winter
in
California
We furnish scale books of our own
j make and our office is headquarters
for line job printing.
Samantha Allen and the War'
[From Will Carlelon'M Maguzine.]
" I don't know how you feel, Josiah, but it
looks bad to me to see the two great Christian
nations of the world engaged in all the horrors
and bloody agony of war, and each on 'em
fightin' agin a smaller nation, and middlin'
peaceable ones, so fur as I know. If a great
foe should rise against us, Josiah, and all efforts
for peace should fail, then mebby the Lord
would be willin' for us to drive 'em from our
borders at the edge of the sword, but to fight
for conquest, or greed, is different."
" I tell you, Samantha, you hain't got the
right on't. America had to fight the Philip-
pines to protect 'em and carry the gospel to
'em, and England had to fee that them Out-
landish men had the right to vote, and they're
bound to civilize Africa. The English do a
" Golden Rule " Jones of Toledo, says:
" The kind of trust I believe in is Uncle Sam's
big trust—the post-office. At one end of a car
you may see a railway mail clerk working eight
hours a day for $1,000 a year. At the other
end of the car you may see an express messen-
ger working fourteen hours a day'for 160 a
month." One works for the government and
the other for a corporation.
Han become ;i fad, and nev-
er did fashion set neal on
practice more wholesome,
because the South Pacific
Coast is the most delightful
of resorts.
The fad of the Santa l-V
Route is to convince every
man, woman and child going
to California thxt it renders
the most satisfactory ser-
vice in every detail.
Let us unite our fads.
K. J. MOKOAN, AGENT,
NORMAN.
IT IS NO
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know "
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Needle* "ti and Repair* f i any machine- Send tot
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REED & SHAFFER,
iiKUHimt
The substance of the position taken by the
great Anti-Trust Conference at Chicago is that
the only antidote for trusts and monopoly is
public ownership of public utilities,—and that
the only way to secure public ownership is
through Direct Legislation. Agitate! Agitate!
Keep pounding away—the old world is rnovin'!
Peoples Voice one year, and Farm Journal for
live yeare—all for ONLY ONE DOLLAR.
H. W. Stubbeman has his harness
shop full of tine harness and saddles,
having made heavy purchases of all
kinds of leather and leather goods be-
fore the leather trust got in its work
on advancing the price of leather.
"Stub" has made a handsome profit
on the advance of leather; but he in-
forms us that his customers reap the
benetit for he continues to sell at old
prices. If vou need anything in the
harness or saddlery line, don't forget
to see /Stub." and learn prices be-
ore making purchases.
For Sale,
I Several line male hogs old enough
i for service and a number of gelts
bred to Iowa King. See or address
' T. Dixon, Norman, Okla.—24
1 want to let the people wUo suffer
from rheumatism aed sciatica know
thttt Chamberlain's Pain Balm relieved
me after h number of other medicines
and .1 d ietor hud failed. It is the best
liniment I Imve over known of.—J. A.
Dodyen, A1 pharetta, Ga. Thousands
I huve been cured (if rheumatism by this
remedy. One application relieves the
pain. For sale by Blake & Heed.
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