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The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 10.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1901.
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Keform Press on Steel Strike,
If the statement of the identity of
interests of capitalist and laborer be
true, then as increased wages.beneiit
the working class it must also benefit
the capitalist class. But is this
statement true? If it is,1 wliy does
the capitalist object wheritfrer the
working class demand an increased
wage?
"If their interest are identical, it
would seem that self-interest would
compel the capitalist to assist the
worker in the increases of his wages.
The exact countrary, however, is
true. The interests of the working
class, of the ii0,000 men now on strike,
are directly opposed to the capitalist
class, the steel trust as it happens in
this case. Thus it is that instead of
helping the working class the capi-
talists do everything in their power
to break tlieir efforts toward increas-
ing their wages, because it means
that much taken away from their
profits."—Missouri Socialist.
"Working people who are so stupid
as to be II publicans and Democrats
rather than vote for their own inter-
ests can not be treated too mean by
the corporations. If these strikers
had voted Socialists into office, they
would all have been sworn in as
deputies and armed and paid $2.00 a
day during the dispute. They could
stand a strike of that kind as long as
the steel trust. But they have voted
for the tools of the trusts, have
made them sheriffs and judges, and
behold now, they are met in the field
by the hirelings of capital—the men
they have elected. Will this strike
teach you anything? If it does, it
will be cheap at any cost. If it does
not, you are not worth any better
treatment than you are getting from
the steel trust. You could yet get
some consideration from sheriffs and
judges if you didn't put out all your
energy on the foolish or hungry non-
union men."—Appeal to Reason.
"The money power, in the interest
of capital, controls legislation, the
judical machine, and the army, and
injunctions and marshals and troops
can be called out to aid capital,
utterly regardless of the rights of
labor; such is history, and history re-
peats itself every time labor locks
horns with capital. A dispassionate
review of the situation is not favor-
able to labor. But it may be said it
sowed to the wind of Republicanism
and is reaping the whirlwind of
calamities. And, after all, this may
turn out to be a great blessing to
labor and to the country. It, will
afford workingmen a reason for
abandoning all the old plutocratic,
labor-robbing parties and impress
them with the propriety of casting
their lot with the great Socialist or-
ganization and in the future cast
their conquering ballots to push for-
ward the civilizing, redeeming, and
harmonizing sway of Socialism."—
Social Democratic Herald Chicago.
"The folly of supposing that a per-
manent cessation of hostilities can
be reached without a complete
change of the economic basis of pro-
duction and distribution appears un-
mistakably evident.
"The workers may win what is
known as a 'victory' through the
methods they propose to use. This
at best merely means that they will
have to recommence the combat
again after short temporary truce.
Such victories are Dead Sea fruit
that invariably turn to dust and
ashes on the lips of the victors. It
may sound disagreeable to make this
assertion; nevertheless time (and not
such a long time either) will prove
its truth. Complete and decisive
victory is not possible to either of the
combatants. While the laborers
choose as battleground the enconomic
field, their victories are little if any-
thing better than defeats. When
they shift the scene of operations to
the political arena, victory, complete
lasting, and undeniable, is not only
possible but inevitable. On that
ground they are strong and their
opponents weak; on the other, the
positions are reversed.
"The real struggle for the product
of labor will then begin, the objec-
tive point of the workers then begin
the law-making power now In the
control of the enemy. That once
wrested from him, his extinction as
a class and the abolition of his power
to appropriate the labor product of
others through private ownership of
the means of production follows with
the accuracy of a mathematical
demonstration."—Workers Call.
Ex-
President Gompers of the A. F. L
presses Himself on the Steel
Strike in the North
American as
Follows;
"We unhesitatingly declare our
judgement that the position of the
Amalgamated Association is abso-
lutely justified and essential to its
continuance and effectiveness as a
union of the workers in the trade.
"Organized labor advances or re-
cedes, never stands still. It there-
fore follows that if the trust, by its
great wealth, can prevent the ex-
tension and growth of the Amalga-
mated Association it encompasses its
disintegration and destruction. The
only power then standing between
the trust and workers as a protector
is the tender mercies of its directors.
"We shall stand by the Amalga-
mated Association in the present
contlict to the full extent of our
power, both morally and financially.
"When the overweening rich com-
bine for avarice, power and tyranny,
is it not the duty of the workers to
unite for home, justice, right and
humanity?
Plenty of Oash in the Treasuries of the
New Countries.
Unlike the counties in Oklahoma
rroTrri ffrinTOfTn n-no'ncTnrin rso ran
iwin OT> o7<~> o:n
CLEARANCE SALE
FOR BARGAIN HUNTERS
WE have put the bal- \
ance of our sum -1
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mer Dress Goods, Shoes, 3
Clothing, Straw H a t s , j
Shirt Waists and all odds &
and ends at spot cost and
| some instances below cost. These goods g
| must be closed out Come at once and f
you get the best bargains.
Your Friends.
where the county seat town lots were
staked in the run, the new counties!
by reason of the provision in the bill
opening country providing for a sale
of the county seat town lots, the
proceeds of such sale to go into the
respective county treasuries, the
new counties will start out with a
big fund of ready cash on hand to
build court houses and county
bridges and to pay current county
expenses. The old counties in Okla-
homa had to commence business by
issuing warrants against their credit.
It is estimated that the sale of town
lots in Lawton will put into the
county terasury of Comanche county
about $400,000 and the amount that
will be put in the treasury of Kiowa
and Caddo counties by reason of sale
of lots in Hobort and Anadarko will
probably lfot be very far from $300,-
000. with proper handling on the
part of the county commissioners the
new counties need never experience
the high rate of taxation the other
counties in Oklahoma have been
forced to face. The insertion of the
provision in the bill opening county
to settlement, providing for the sale
of the county seat town lots, is some-
thing the settlers in the new counties
will always feel grateful to Delegate
Flynn for, especially the settlers who
have lived in the old counties of
Oklahoma. Wealth belongs to men
who create it, is a populistic idea,
and the settlers in the new counties
gave to the lots in t,he county seat
towns all the value they possessed
prior to improvement and this value
properly belongs to all the people
of the county.
The times-Journal of Oklahoma
City has the following to say, con-
cerning the sale of lots in Lawton
and what is true at Lawton is true
in the other two counties.
It is believed that at the close of
today's sales there will be $300,000 in
the county treasury (in the hands of
the sub-treasurer, subject to check
by the county) all secured from the
sale of town lots in Lawton. There
will be lett about 200 business lots
which shcftld sell for an average of
$200 per lot, or about one-half average
price of the 750 already sold. The
residence lots will in all probability
average in the neighborhood of
seventy-five dollars a lot. They are
double the width of the business lots
and all are desirably located. These
estimates if realized will bring the
total receipts up to $400,000. it is
very probable that the gross re-
ceipts will be enough more to leave
the net amount to be turned over to
the county $400,0U0 Of this sum
$10,000 can be put into a court house.
Probably $10,000 more will be used
in purchasing supplies. The ordinary
running expenses of a county the
size of Comanche is $30,000 to $40,000.
The streams are not large, and
bridges will average about $500 put
in ready for use. Accepting these
estimates, and arranging to make
use of the funds in three years this
is what can be done:
All county expenses can be met for
a period of three years.
One hundred and fifty $500 bridges
can be built.
Twenty thousand dollars can be in-
vested in a court house and furnish-
ings.
Seventy-one thousand dollars can
be devoted to the maintenance of
district schools each year.
All this, too, can be accomplished
without levying a dollar for taxes.
If such a distribution is made the
school districts will not be compelled
to levy a dollar of taxes.
The judicious management of the
county funds devolves upon the Re-
publican county commissioners ap-
pointed by Gov. Jenkins and the
WE HAVE
A number of broken pairs of Lace
Curtains that we can make prices
on. Also a large new line of Lace
Curtains. See them. No trouble
to show goods
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good in years when the farmer has |
something to sell. He would get one j
year with another twice as much 1
money as he has in late years. Let i
us say his yearly surplus products
laid down in Chicago have brought
$500. With this he pays $*0, freight
$40 taxes, $180 interest and $100 for
labor. This leaves him $100 to spend.
With the general level of prices
twice as high and government loans
his financial statement for a year
would be about thus: Received for
surplus products delivered in Chicago
$1,000; paid $100 freight: $20 taxes;
$00 to government as interest and
$200 for labor leaving him $020
to spend. We double the amont paid
for labor because labor would go up
with other prices. We reduce his
taxes from $40 to $20 because the in-
terest received on public loans would
to a great extent abolish taxes. We
give an increase in freight of only
25 per cent because freight receipts
of railroads go largely to paying in-
terest on the debts of railroads and
this interest is fixed in amount and
does not change with the ups and
downs of prices, besides under the
good times of more money and gov-
ernment loans there would be in-
creased railroad traffic and the
charges would not need to be so high.
Now we have figured $020 net into
the farmers pocketiinstead of $100.
How is this going help the wage work-
er in the city? Well, with $020 he
can buy much more at the doubled
prices than he could with the $100— he
can buy about three times as much,
and therefore in making his purchases
he buys goods that it takes three
times the amount of labor of the city
wage-earner to produce. Hence he
creates a greater demand for labor,
and the supply of labor being the
same of course the price of labor
will go up besides giving steady em-
ployment. Now multiply this one
farmer by millions and multiply the
product by ten to cover ten years.
The farmer is the starting point.
The demand that starts from him is
multiplied over and over again. He
buys a carpet, wagon, buggy, stove,
Jin ware, hardware, woodenware, mill,
inery, notions, harness, groceries, cot-
ton goods, woolen goods, shoes, &c.,
&c., and thus gives employment to
laborers who make these things, and
those he gives employment likewise
buy these things and give employ-
ment to others and so on until the
demand started at the foundation of
all industry—the farm—is multiplied
a dozen times or more. Could this
great demand be met? Yes, with the
improved machinery. The farmer is
ready and able to feed city laborers
on the fat of the land in return for
people of the several counties should
keep a close tab on their county | the products of their labor. But a
commissioners.
Teachers Married,
Carbondale, 111. 15—Among the 400
American teachers who sailed in the
transport Thomas from San Francisco
to Manila, 00 of them (?n reaching
Honolulu were married. The teachers
had been chosen from many normal
universities of this country acquain-
tanship and courtship extended over
a period of less than ten days. The
captain of the Thomas iefused to
permit their weddings while enroute
and thirty pairs npon arrival of the
transport at Honolulu sought out
clergyman and were married. A
boat was chartered and thirty pairs
made a tour of the bay. The informa-
tion reached this city from one of
the men who was appointed from the
Carbondale normal school.
H. Finley who was formerly in the
employment of the Andrew Kingkade.
Company was a passenger on the
Thomas but we have not learned
whether he was one of the 00 to
marry on trip.
Oklahoma to Send Delegates-
National Chairman Joe A. Parker
has issued a call for a convention of
the reform forces to meet in Kan-
sas City on September 1", 18, & 10
and the reformers in Oklahoma
should be represented in this conven-
tion. In our opinion the time is ripe
for the reform forces in the territory
to begin to bestir themselves and yet
their lines in shape for an active
winter campaign of Education. The
future stand to be taken by the demo-
cratic party in the nation and terri-
tory is no longer a qnestion of doubt;
and it is a stand that no honest re-
former would think of lending assist-
ance for a moment and to us it seems
preposterous that Bryan democrats
would consent to remain with the
democratic party when it turns its
back on the Chicago and Kansas City
platform. The politicians may; but
we believe the rank and file of the
democratic party in Oklahoma will
bid the democratic party a long fare-
well when it again goes under the
leadership of Hill and the easteru
wing of the party. In the convention
of reform forces to be heluin Kansas
City on the 17 to 10th of September
we trust to see a union of reform
forces effected and a plan of future
action out lined that will unite the
reformers in the country under one
banner and should this occur the old
political parties will be seeking tall
timber before the close of the 19' 4
Ma}' campaign. To the end that Okla-
homa be represented in the Kansas
City convention we hereby request
that the reformers throughout the
shylock money
1 way. The city
The Fanner as the OhiefOorner Stone of; businessmen whoare not in a monopo-
Prosperity. j ly should understand that prosperity
How would fifty dollars per capita j cannot come to them until it conies to
of money and goverment loans at 2 I the farmers. The farm industry is
per cent help the man who is too poor ! the foundation, the starting place
to be in debt? Let us take a farmer of prosperity, and until the farmers
paying six per cent interest on three ' are prosperous the masses of the peo-
thousand dollars. With an increase pie in other callings cannot be.—Mis-
in the money volume 60 that there 1 souri World.
would be fifty dollars per capita Mrs. Giles is rusticating at Eureka
prices for farm products would be j Springs Arkansas, this week.
territory meet in their respective
system stands in the county seats on Saturdap September
workers and the | 14th at 10 o'clock A. M. and select
one of the best reformers in their
county and if need be raise money to
send him to Kansas City to attend
the convention. As soon as practical
after the Kansas City convention a
call will be issued for a territorial
convention to out line a plan of cam-
paign in harmony with the plan laid
down by Kansas City convention.
J. N. Clark,
Territorial Chairman People,s Party
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