The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, January 18, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 9.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1901.
points for thinkees.
The
^ I o«t them, after all profits and costs| Citizen—"Bless you, Congress WAS
; ' e paid, twenty-live cents a pound, j composed of bankers and in defiance
• ay .7e Are Legally Eobted by,wlli!p • «>e i ankers had let the of law, too; which says, 'No banker
Illegal Lawn. •greenbacks al«- - •
eighteen cents a pound. Everybody
| who u-es a pound of sugar must pay
] n cents more for it than before,
on account of my hav ng* to pay g"oldf
i which no one has but the bankers.
NUMBER 26
BY L. A. STOCKWELL.
I,
would only cost shall sit in Congre«e' "
Importer—"Well, if they hold their
seats illegally aren't their acts- ille-
gal?"
The scale of justice always
(Scene—New York Bank.)
Eiver Importer—"What kind of a .-n.,, isM.t ..I, Wh„. , , ,
skin .ame is this that you banker, 't !v^ leans so heavily on the side of the
are playing with us importers? 1 just •' T>, .,i t ■ " t. e He a s lm- rich that nobody else stands much of
■ ,'c .. . .J 1"u'!• 1 can see now why it was a shnw "
arrived from Cuba with a cargo of ■ lhjl>t Washington a show.
(K ter i Custom-house )
Citizen—"Well, how did jou
'•i d with the gold-sellers? '
■ , , ,, - " aoumg ie>u was so afraid of
sugar, and have been told at the Cus-
tom-uouse that vou fellows have ^ot,
, , ' . . , • Hanks are moi e itangerous than stand-
a law nassed requiring duties lo be j armies
paid ii goid, and that nobody has « t
any ,cut out you. 1 suppose you will
stick us for about 10 per cent, won't
you? You bankers are all 10 per
centers, I believe." importer—"They robbed me of just
B.-mlrer "Well—-see here, sir; v.-r *100,(MM, or rather the people who use
are'"-nrlemen. We are not he'- to ' the sugar, for of course I shall charge
beiu-ulted. If yftu have any bu-mit up m them. What kind of law-
to transact we snail be glad to ac> 'in- makers have e got that make money
moaate you." good for everything but duties?"
In: rter - "Excuse me. I v .uu 1 'tizer -"You are mista en; it is
SlOO.ooO in coin." not good lor everything. Look on
Ba ker—"There has been siu.h ,t the back of one of your greenbacks
big maud from importers that i;old and you will see that it is not good
has up very rapidly. It will cost enough for the bondholder, either."
Importer—"What, you don't say
thai the bondholder, who never did
an honest day's work in his life, is
treated better by this government
than the soldiers who are now in the
tield, and who before enlisting were
working in mills or on farms, produc-
ing tne wealth that these fellows now
own, who never created a dollar's
worth of wealth in their lives?"
Citizen—"That's about it.
don't you give me away. If my
erior should hear me he would
to charge me at once."
Importer—"Well, when I get to
Well Ido wonder what they will
anil ilia . Jefferson said, 'that do next," said the importer as he left
the Custom-house.—Kentucky Trib-
une.
you today *200,000."
Importer—"You don't say so.
ke the duty on my suy.i
pound. That is as much
So my sugar will cont
'•nts a pound when I
the Custo.v-house, in -te
■ ts. Mr. Banker 1 have
$100,(/u.i in greenbacks."
«>-• -"Then we will loan yoi
$100,000 more."
Importer—"Well, alright, I'lltakr
it in gold."
Banker—"No; we will loan it
you in greenbacks.
will
ceni
cost
twe
thri
nil-..
ni'.
t it
id of
onlv
But
sup-
dis-
T I r • • ---, 1 &*-w «■«
importer—"What are greenbacks ! Chicago I shall ask our member of
good for if you can't pay debts with 1 Congress why it is that a gold-holder
them?" I and a bond-holder are better than a
Banker—"You CAN pay debts with : gun-holder or a plow-holder."
them.
Importer—"And make it legal?"
Banker—"Yes sir."
Importer—"Yet it is not legal lor
customs!"'
Banker—"No."
Importer—''Who can you pay with
it?'
Banker—"The soldiers and sailois
for wages and farmers for provisions.'
Importer—"Do you mean to
that uie government pays the soldier?
in m uey that it will not take it-s It".-"
Backer—"Yes sir."
Imp .rter—"Well, fix up a not, I...
the extra $100,000 and give ni - the
gold i send it to the Custom ousi.
Goou uay, sir."
(Leaves the bank for the Custom-
house.)
Importer—"Well that beats nie. •
By the time that sugar gets on tin
farmer's and soldier's tables it will
Citizen—"You -forget the gojd-
holder and the bond-holder are one
and the same person."
Importer—"Oh, I see now. The
banker who owns the gold owns the
bonds also. I buy the gold from him.
1 pay him two greenback dollars for
one gold dollar. Now, then, he takes
my $200,000 of greenbacks and buys
bonds with them. Bis $100,000 of
gold has made him the owner of $200,-
OoO in government bonds. These bonds
tnat he buys with paper bear gold in-
terest. So the gold that I buy of him
to pay to the government for duties
is paid right back to him again by
the government in interest on his
ijonus—to sell again to some other
itnpo ter. Well, if Congress had
•• a composed of bankers they could
no' liave done better for themselves,
or worse for the people, than they
ha ve. '
GENERAL x^®®pr.SUPPLIES
WE SELL EVERYTHING
That is, the best of everything, and charge
no more than others ask for inferior grades.
DRESS GOODS.
Every fashionable shade
stvlisli wears and fabric.
and color in every
CLOTHING
The kind that fits that wear, and is just right
in price, .......
Citizen-
about it.
"Yes, but what can you do |
BYE**
Ohio's Fugitive Slave Law.
In Ohio, Banna's State, there is a
law "upon th e statute books that
makes it a crime, punishable with im-
prisonment from one to three years,
for any man who refuses work to beg
outside of his own county. The law
has just been sustained as valid by the
Supreme Court. This "refusing to
work ' is meant to nit strikers wuo re-
fuse to work for the starvation wages
that prevail. Don't you see that this j mercy in its laws. There is no state
is a law enacted for the preservation , that honors the majeHty of the fau.
of slavery, just as the slave drivers j man soul. Tllere ,l0 ptate where
before CI used to put through laws greed, corruption, despotism
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g Headquarters for Holiday Goods.
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Rest with approval upon the 1 [
many features of our furni- <1
ture establishment—there's
so much to be seen, so much
to afford you pleasure there.
COME IN ANY TIME
whether you intend making
an immediate purchase or
not. It's well enough to
know what you're planning J [
a month from now. ^ r
week or
Meed Shaffer,
Norman, Okla.
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for keeping the black slaves in bon-
dage? If a workman refuses to work
for Mr. Banna in Cleveland on Mr.
Banna's terms, and goes outside of
that county to hunt for work on bet-
ter terms, and is compelled to beg a
meal of victuals to h^lp him on the
way, lie can be arrested and imprison-
ed tor tnree years. Next they will
enact a law that anyone who feeds
au escaped slave of this kind can be
imprisoned, and then it will be just
like it was before the war when the
slaveholders had the law enacted mak-
ing "nigger catchers" in the free
North, and the people took it into
their own hands and determined to
put down this kind of oppression, and
elected Mr. Lincoln. The slave driv-
ers are just as blind as they were
then, and are rushing on to their own
destruction. The slaveholders them-
selves did more to educate the people
against slavery than all the talk
against it. Blind oppression is the
best progaganda. They are hurrying
along their own destruction, and hur-
rying it fast. God is letting their
purblind head fix up their own dose.—
Exchange.
The long looked for Twentieth cen-
tury has begun, but alas I it has not
begun as millions in the far past
years had hoped and had prophesied
that it would begin. At this time the
dreams of ardent reformers were to
be more than realized. The black
evils that had for thousands of years
afflicted mankind and made life on
earth a burden and curse were all to
be unknown, and with the beginning
, wrong
and wickedness are ^tt out from the
field of life, where righteousness had
recognition as the fountain of peace,
liberty, prosperity and honor. With-
out this righteousness there can be
I no peace, no liberty, no prosperity,
no honor. Yet tne Twentieth cen-
tury comes, is met with the boast of
great inventions, great progress in
science, great achievements in relig-
ion and politics, but finds the great
burden iieaped upon her, a wickedness
as deplorable as that which brought
sulphurous fire on Sodom, or turned
Babylon into heaps of ruin.
Let us stop. The heart grows sick
and hope forsakes the soul. It must
be admitted that "when the wicked
are authority the people mourn."
Alexander, in Kentucky Tribune.
RULES FOE OPENING
As Provided in Flynn's Bill for Kiowa
& Commanche Country.
Delegate Flynn, of Oklahoma, has
made the report of the public lands
committee of the house on the bill to
open the Kiowa, Commanche and
Apache reservation. The report at
great length reviews the historical
features of the reservation and ex-
plains the provisions of the bill.
The report shows that an entierly
new method is provided for in dis-
posing of the town lots. Heretofore,
whenever townsites have been re-
served they have been open to occu-
pancy to any one who in the mad
rush for possession was able to settle
tee, however, advises that such sol-
diers be present in person, for the
reason that every person has th<f
right to enter land either by filing at
the land office or by actual oceu
pancy.
The rush for these lands will uih
doubtedly be so great that it is safe
to predict most of it being taken up
by actual settlement. Mining anif
homestead laws are applicable. No
person who is the owner of 100 acnu
of land can take a homestead.
Neither can any person who obtained
a homestead by settlement and not
by purchase take land in these reser*
yations
1 he reservation embraces in round
numbers 3,000,000 acres, out of which
4811,000 acres must first be allotted to
the Indians, 1(10 acres each, the Ii*>
dians numbering :$,(KK). Then 480,000
acres additional must be reserved for
grazing purposes, for the benefit of
the Indians, as well as other minor
reservations.
Ihe land will be opened not later
than August tith.
Touching the Wichita and Caddo
reservation, the report goes on to say
this reservation adjoins the Kiowa
and Commanche reservation on the
noi th and will undoubtedly be opened
to settlement at the same time, and
can be entered only by qualified home-
stead entrymen, who, in addition to
residing on the land for live year
must also pay $1.25 per acre.
International Sunday School Convention.
On Dec. : lst KMX) the Executive
Committee of the International Sun-
day School Association of Okla. met
in Guthrie. Present:—I.M. Little,
of the century the millenn.al age wa~s j u"pou ^he^Thi! methodhallways j „fNorman; Dr.Buxtoo
to be ushered in and "the Kingdom of offered opportunities for violations ! uthrieai.dBon nTM , 1
Heaven was to be the realization of Lf law, blackmaii and threats. '1 he I mh. , «tnd Hon.D.T Morgan and A>
allnati0-'" 'bill provides that all lots in the I ,,)uri^thc
fhe century has entered on its his-! COu„tny seat towns shall be sold at! jut ^ J T& Pf°r holdin*
tory, and none of the changes have I public auction and the proceeds ap-1 ^ LonvenUo
, bul humanity still sutlers, I plied t0 erecting a court house, not! ^at consklerabIe length. All
groans, weeps and prays for deliver-! t0 exceed $10,000, and the balance of I! ^ r " i' 1 C,ty
ance; yea, worse is the condition of the „10„ey to be used in making &uthne both were eager for the
the great mass of the living today ' roads, erecting bridges, and for such 1 r.he (;0™,n,tt«e
than was the condition of the great other nnmns.^ •. 1 i j favored (iuthric but because of the
mass 100 vears a-o This is not , pUnT? 3 inconvenience of Rail Koad facilities,
ma s tuu years ai,o. ihis is not a necessary. It is expected that in no j it was finally located at Okla.City. It
pleasant fact, but it is a tact in spite case wni the receipts from the sale j . oem strange to many that wc
of the unwillingness of some people to 0f these county seat lots be less than 1 ;ire^r<,,n- l? h:lve our convention so
believe it. It is a fact that the white $108 000 for each ronntv se-.t ThlJ h yi a" i i i tt°"vlentlons hitherto
, auuo,uuu ior eacn county seat. 1 his [ have been held, in Oct. and Nov Ho.
burden heavier than ever, fund will be applied to the expenses lf)w you will find the reason for the
il , I rhancr*
and to equip the county
government j
with all facilities, and will prove a k"? Cont,neutal,Sunday School
' prove d ( iour has been arran„e(i by ttle jnter.
Were not these facts as they are no
such record as the one at the head of
this article could have found publica- god^nd ZthZ" who'may' seuT in | naUoitf Sunday"'"sTool^'n.1"^;
t on and readers, and it should be either the town or the county. In | tour will be^in about the middle ot
taken to mind that the crime against the past every countv in Oklahoma' at Richmond, Va., visiting- nine-
those "made in the image of God" is had a debt, represented by countv i "^if* and terr;torle closing
only one amongst scores that could be wan-ants of from #ri() 000 to minnii ooo 1 ^ V' con,n,?cti?n wlth thirf
I,,,. . . . , | warrants, or trom *00,000 to #1000,000, plan about the middle of Mav. Com-
a before men and angels. I before the people elected their own j mittee will come to Oklahoma March
21, so we have arranged to meet their
dates and have fixed time of holding1
Then, too, think of Ohio, the State ! county officials. Under this bill
of churches, preachers and so-called indebtedness can be contracted,
Dollars do Double Duty Here.
ELLEDGE & PHILIPS.-
"philanthropists" beginning this cen-
tury with such an intamous piece of
legislation ! ! As the character of a
people is properly judged by their
laws, what must be said of the peo-
ple of Ohio'/ Bow gratifying it
i our convention on March 21 and
less approved by the secretary of the | Now let all people take due notice
interior, in any county, prior to the and govern themselves accordingly,
election by the people of their own ' 'rhis^'""derful representation of the
,, „ , , | great Sunday school world will irive
officials at the first general election. ! lls two days of their priceless time,
1 he report sets forth that, while all Committee will be composed o/
. - - the usual rights are preserved, never-1 Js?arj°'} Lawrence, general secretary)
would be it Ohio stood alone in this theless no advantage in time of lilimr' 1 rof- hl M Hamlll, D. D., field sec-
kind of wickedness!! What joy it iUV®ntd£e in time of filing retary, and Prof. K. O. fixcell, of
would give any good man's heart if °r ™ " , T ^ ( who will have charge of' the
, |, .. | soldiers declaratory will fon y music, and one other worker whostf
he could find one State in this Union hold if fl,ed ()n ,and /to tfae Eacty ; name has not been announced. It ha*
that had a code ot laws favorable to al settlement of the land bv mother alw been arranged that Mrs. Ilamill
the upliftment of its people, during 'V e"lemenl 01 tne land >y. ° ' w,n accompany Mr. Hamill. Ass
the new centurv on which we now ? a^antage to the soldier being | i.nmary worker in which capacity she
that he is not compelled to be present j has shown herself to be most efficient.
enter! But no heart
There is no such State
state where the poor man
may rejoice,
there is no
can find
in person, but can remain wherever I N?w ,*??■ H" the lovers of Sunday
i he may reside and await the result of | SCh0<>1 hne Up f°r ,hi^ Tl.ttlf
the action of his agent. The commit- Territorial Presidents
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