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Voice
VOL. 8.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, MARCH 2. 11)00.
NO. 32.
"WHERE IS THE FLA G OF ENGLAND?"
Ami the winds of the world made answer.
North, south and east and west:
" Wherever there's wealth to covet,
< )r land that can be possess'd ;
Wherever there are savage races
To cozen, coerce and scare,
Ye shall lind the vaunted ensign ;
For the English flag is there !
"Ay, it waves o'er the blazing hovels
Whence African victims fly,
To be shot by explosive bullets,
Or to wretchedly starve and die !
And where the beachcomber harries
The isles of the southern sea,
At the peak of his hellish vessel.
'Tis the English tlag flies free.
"The Maori full oft hath cursed it
With his bitterest dying breath;
And the Arab has hissed his hatred
As he spits at its folds in death.
The hapless fellah has feared it
On Tel-el-Kebir's parched plain,
And the Zulu's blood has stained it
With a deep, indelible stain.
"It has floated o'er scenes of pillage,
It has flaunted o'er deeds of shame,
It has waved o'er the fell marauder,
As he ravished with sword and flame.
It has looked upon ruthless slaughter,
And massacres dire and grim ;
It lias heard the shrieks of the victims
Drown even the Jingo hymn.
"Where is the flag of England ?
Seek the lands where the natives rot;
Where decay and assured extinction
Must soon be the people's lot.
Go! search for the once-glad islands,
Where disease and death are rife,
And the greed of a callous commerce
Now battens on human lite I
"Where is the flag of England 'i
Go! sail where rich galleons come
With shoddy and 'loaded' cottons,
And beer and Iiibles and rum ;
Go, too, where brute force has triumphed,
And hypocrisy makes its lair;
And your question will lind its answer,
For the llag of England is there !"
— London Truth.
Anti-Trust Convention.
The An ti - Trust Convention recently held in
Cnicago, will result in the accomplishment of
some good. The delegates to that convention
took a stand in favor of direct legislation, and
government ownership ; but when it came to
pledging the delegates to the convention, to
support no political party in the campaign of
1900 with voice or vote, which does not, in its
national platform, unqualifiedly endorse the
principles of direct legislation and government
ownership and operation of the railroads and
telegraphs, the Bryan rooters wanted to throw
the delegate who introduceded the latter reso-
lution, out of the window. It was Joe A. Par-
ker, however, and they did not throw him out,
but he held his position on the floor amidst a
storm of abuse, until he was given an opportu-
nity to be heard on his resolution. Mr. Parker
spoke as follows:
" I did not expect to see members of this
conference objecting to this resolution," said
he. "Without a resolution like this, the ad-
dress and platform just adopted will pass for
nothing. We want to show the world that we
are sincere and willing to back up our con-
victions with our votes. As the gentleman from
New York, Mr. Sulzer, well said, 'If you want
government ownership, vote for it; if you want
direct legislation, vote for it ' We have re-
solved that we want both of these reforms ;
now let us show the people of these United
States that we propose to practice what we
preach, and vote for no candidate or party
which does not come out squarely for these
principles. Let us be brave men and sincere,
and not be political cowards.
Several politicians who saw awful forebod-
ings for their parties in the resolution, tried to
call Mr. Parker down ; and Jerry Simpson rais-
ed the point of order that the resolution was
not germme to the purposes of the convention.
After the confusion had subsided, Mr. Parker
continued, saying:
"Mr. Chairman, I came nearly twelve hun-
dred miles to attend this convention. I am one
of very few delegates here from the South. I
represent a class of people who have advocated
the reforms declared for in your platform which
you have just adopted, for years past, in the
face of ridicule, villification and intimidation
from the men who are trying to control this
convention in the interest of Bryan and the
Democratic party. (Cries of " That's so," from
all over the hall.) Now I want to be heard on
this resolution We have sat here and heard
the Democratic party extolled as a great re-
form party ; we have seen the studied effort of
politicians to capture the sentiment of reform
to be waked by this conference for the Demo-
cratic party, and on behalf of a million reform-
ers who have fought for reform and struggled
in the face of Democratic prejudice and bi-
gotry, [ want to protest against this movement
being made a Democratic sideshow. The Dem-
ocratic party is not a reform party. It has al-
ways opposed the referendum ; it has hooted
at PopulitiCs for advocating government owner-
ship. Now, I want to see if the politicians here
are in earnest for these reforms ; I want to
know if they propose to vote with the party
that advocate* them, insteid of using jjreten-
sions of reform as bait to seduce honest voters
into voting the Democratic ticket. "
The resolution was voted down by a close
vote, Mr. Parker demanding a roll call in order
that he might get tl e politicians on record, but
the chair arbitrarily ruled him out of ortUr;
but it serves to show that the political element
in the convention who were booming Bryan
were playing a game of deception, and that
they knew that the Democratic convention
would not adopt government ownership or di-
rect legislation ; it showed that they would try
to corral the reform sentiment of the country
behind their party anyhow, by sounding loudly
their tomtoms of reform at the conference, only
to tie the whole business to the capitalistic jug-
gernaut of the Democratic party, which, in the
past, has ruled exactly as the Republican party,
and is today one of the Siamese twins of capi-
talism in this country.
What Caused Populism?
There seems to be a general impression in
Eastern newspaper offices and Eastern political
headquarters that the Western and Southern
Populist is a long-whiskered, ignorant, fanati-
cal and impractical man, who wants to remedy
social conditions, but does not know how togo
about the task. These mistaken estimates of
the Populists would be speedily removed if
some of the editors and politicians of the East
would come West or South and undertake to
hold joint debates with the Populists of Ne-
braska and Georgia, whose hands are calloused
and whose skins are tanned by the Western and
Southern sun and wind. It is not hard to find
proof that hard times and short crops had little
or nothing to do with the growth of Populism
in the West and South. The Populist party
made its first great showing in 1890, and the
year before the West and South had good crops
and fair prices. 'The Populist party won in
Nebraska elections of 1894, '96, and '98, and
crops were good in these years and the prices
up to a average of a series of years. What,
then, caused the growth of Populism ?
By their firesides during the long winter
evenings the farmers of the South and West
read and studied political history.
'They noted the constant and steady drifting
away from the old landmarks, they noted the
steady drifting of power naturally belonging to
the people into the hands of money gamblers.
They read the history and compared the
principles laid down by the founders with the
principles being acted upon by the men who
had assumed control of the government, and by
the comparisons they saw the dangers ahead.
Like patriots they protested, and when no heed
was given to their protests they organized and
sought to secure at the ballot box a return to
first principles. True it is that many men look-
ed upon as fanatics joined the ranKs of Popu-
lism, but time was when William Lloyd Garri-
son, Wendel Phillips and John Brown were re-
garded as fanatics The "fanatics" of the Pop-
ulist party were living a few years ahead of
their time. Every day brings its vindication
to their course.
Populists are not Populists because their
fathers were Populists. 'They are Populists be-
cause they have read and studied and thought.
Ten years ago the founders of the Populist
party pointed out the advantages of municipal
control. It is time that men should realize that
Populism is something more than the outgrowth
of hard times and drouths and mortgages. It
is the outgrowth of study and endeavor of pa-
triotism and a desire to secure greatest good to
the greatest number.—"A Democrat," in Omaha
World-Herald.
Interest.
The feudalism of money is not a whit less
formidable than the feudalism of force. The
millionaire of today is as dangerous to society
as were the baronial lords ol the middle ages.
1 may as well be dependent on another for my
head as my bread. 'The time is sure to come
when men will look back upon the prerogative
of money with as just and severe condemnation
as we now look back on the predatory chief-
tains of the dark ages. 'The despotisms of the
baronial lords was liberty for labor in compar-
ison with the feudalism of the baronial mil-
lionaires. 'Then all men obtained clothing,
food and homes; if any one attempted to de-
prive labor of these blessings it had the liberty
to defend them with its life's blood ; but now
the millionaire can deprive labor of these bless-
ings without it possessing the knowledge of the
whereabouts of its foe, nor the liberty to strike
back, unless it strikes the agent of the million-
aire—the state.— Horace Mann.
At a speech recently delivered in Des
| Moines, la., Win. J. Bryan said: "When the
I Democratic party once comes into power, the
Republican party will dissolve and be lost for
ever." The truthfulness of such a remark
would be more apparent, had not the Demo
cratic party won in 1884 and 1892. The Detn
ocratic party never showed signs of quick dis-
solution until it was entrusted with power. It
seems to be its own dissolvent.
" Do I hear that relfef is offered by the
Democratic party ? What is the condition of
I that party today ? Considering that a stick is
no stronger than its weakest part, what is the
Democratic party worth with Bryan at < ne end,
Altgeld at the other and Tammany in the mid-
dle? Tammany controlling the Democracy
means no relief from it. From the Republican !
party, help is a hopeless dream. You say the I
Populist party is too small. If that be true, I
then a new par'v :he most urgent and abso j
lute need of the hour "--Extract from Don 1
nelly's speech delivered at the Anti Trust con 1
vention.
Commenting on a " labor" article in the To
peka Capital, the Appeal to Reason sajs:
If the Capital will refer to p lge 24 of vol.
i, 13th annual report of the U S. Labor Com
mission, it will see that labor under t> e best
conditions of production is paid less than four
cents for producing a bushel of wheat in the
sack ; husked corn four cents ; rice twenty six
pounds for one cent ; tobacco less than two
cents per pound ; and every other article about
the same proportion. On this basis it will be
seen that not only five times the present wages
can be paid, but fifteen times the wages can be
paid. This is not theory, but a stubborn fact,
testified to by the government of the United
States, which has issued official documents with
proof, giving each person employed and the
wages paid them. Compared with the prices
changed for articles today, this would enable
each worker to get fully as much results for a
day of eight hours as he could buy for $30—or
an annual income of $ 10,000. If these he fool
ish claims, then the government is issuing fool
ish statistics—not only foolish but false.
" Learn to practice self-denial, " is one of
the maxims of the times. It is the instruction
of the master to his slave so that he will be less
expensive and therefore more profitable. Un-
der competition it is necessary, but it is unnat-
ural and unsocial. Here is a man who lias dis
covered some new utility, has invented some
better appliance, has made some more beautiful
raiment—" practice self-denial " and leave him
alone ; let him starve, you can do without the
new thing! Here is an artist whose sensitive
I soul has exught an inspiration from the Gods
and he hal poured the picture on canvass into
j an immortal painting—" practice sell denial, "
j and let him starve, you can do without the pic-
J tures, you know! Here is a man who would
| teach you great truths, who has spent years in
studypractice self denial " and leave him
alone. You can do without knowledge, or joy
or comfort. What a monstrous lie is that and
nearly every other maxim that is used today.
Were it carried out to the end, it would have
the whole human family going about in gunny-
sacks, eating roots and raw corn, living in holes
and caves, never instructed nor entertained.
What ghastly lies is taught youth as the most
profound philosophy!—Appeal to Reason.
" No blister draws sharper than interest
does. Of all industries, none is comparable to
interest. It works all day and night. It makes
no noise but travels fast. It binds industry with
I its film, as a fly in a spider's web. Debts roll a
man over and over, binding him hand and foot,
letting him hang upon the fatal mesh till the
long legged interest devours him. There is
but one thing on a farm like it, and that is the
Canada Thistle, which swarms new plants ev-
ery time you break its roots, whose blossoms
are prolific and every flower the father of a mil-
lion seeds ; every leaf is an awl, every branch a
spear, every plant a platoon of bayonets, and a
field of them an armed host. The whole plant
is a torment and a vegetable curse, and yet a
man had better make his bed of Canada this-
tles than try to be at ease upon interest. "—H.
W. Beecher.
General Cronje Surrenders.
Last Tuesday morning General Cronje sur-
rendered unconditionally to General Roberts.
He held out for ten days against an army that
numbered over ten men to his one. He sur-
rendered 3,000 men ; but after the surrender it
was discovered that he had succeeded in saving
from capture most of his heavy artillery and
most of his men. His holding out against sur-
render for so long ; also enabled the Boer
forces to mobolize a large army near the Capi-
tal of the Orange Kree State and they will be
ready to meet the victorious troops of Lord
Roberts, as soon as they commence to move on
Bloemfontein. The fighting around I.ady-
smith still continues and General Bulter is be-
ing surprised and whipped about once every
day. The loss of General Cronje is a severe
blow to the Boer army ; but the English have
fighting ahead and plenty of it before tbey en-
ter the Transvaal. The Boer army is in a
strong defensive position and will contest every
step of advance made by the English force#.
Cronje only surrendered 3,000 men and Rob-
erts ban an army of 30,000 or 40,000 men to
face befors be takes the Free State capital-
The rapid growth of Socialism in this coun-
try is evidence that the people of the country
are studying economic questions as never be-
fore in the history of the country. Old party
names are fast losing their powers to charm and
they will no longer be venerated, simply be-
cause they are old and may have served their
generation well, in their early history. This is
a progressive age, and a progressive people will
not be forever bound by the traditions of the
past, neither will they be made catspaws to drag
chestnuts out of the fire for a favored few. The
capitalists of this country have, for the past
quarter of a century, controlled the legislation
of the country in the interest of capital, and
the toilers and producers of wealth have been
treated as mendicants without rights to be re-
spected or guarded and their petitions for or
against certain kinds of legislation ignored.
It is becoming a well known fact today that if
you want any kind of legislation, you must go
into the halls of legislation and buy it. Men
don't pay $500,000 for a seat in the United
States senate to serve their country or to grat
ify a patriotic ambition. Something must be
done to check the present trend of legislation in
this country ; if a government of, for and by
the people is to be perpetuated. The old po-
litical parties seem to be so hopelessly chained
to the chariot wheels of the money power, that
the people can no longer look to them, with
any degree of hope, for legislation in the inter-
est of the masses. Both old parties have been
tried and to try either of them again, in the
hope that they might do better, is foolhardy
The wealth producers have not even a chance,
as good as given by gamblers, to win anything
by hurling the Republican party front power
and putting the Democratic party into the of-
fices. Such an action, would, however, be very
pleasing to a few hungry politicians, whose only
mission in life seems to be about the same as
that of the bed bug—to bleed somebody. To
defeat the influence of the money power on leg
islation, the people of this country must be
granted the power of" Direct Legislation," and
to secure this they must rise in their might and
join hands at the ballot box, by voting for a
party that stands pledged to give them this
power and refusing to vote for any party that
does not make " Direct Legislation " a leading
plank in its platform.
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