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The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 10.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1901.
NUMBER 15
Observation Lessons-
ROBT. WILSON.
It is said that less than half a mil-
lion men own three'tilths of all the
wealth of the nation and hold the
above named obligations against the
other two fifths; if the these figures
are only approximately correct the
Kansas City Star cannot be far wrong
in saying that in America as in Eu-
rope the owner and cultivator of the
land are different persons. Under
caption "Fate of the farmer" it says;
'•There have been Americans who
imagined that our political constitu-
tion would protect us from the fate
of the old world. It would be as ra-
tional for a man to expect his know-
ledge of arithmetic to keep him dry
in a thunderstorm. Some times we
find the American farmer slipping
away from his many acres and some-
times we lind his acres slipping away
from him; as a result of both tenden-
cies there is a separation widening
with the lapse of time between own-
ership and cultivation. The Ameri-
can farmer is following the English
yeomen into extinction and the crea-
tion of landlord and tenant classes
has already made considerable pro-
gress here." The above is part of
the Stars quotation from Lippincott.
The Star makes no comment and of
course endorses it. This states the
case plainly: the actual wealth of
the nation is no longer ours: what we
do pretend to own is so covered with
incumbrances of various kinds that
our eviction is but a question (pres-
ent financial conditions continuing)
of time.
But what has present financial con-
ditions to do in this case? Aye there's
the rub. It takes money you know
to pay debts. Our proxies have em-
powered those who ho'dour obliga-
tions with our constitutional right to
fix the value of money and they have
fixed it so high that all the valuable
products of the United State's will
not buy money enough to pay the in-
terest on our debts. Continue this
condition and our end is near indeed
those who control the money (and
really own it) say, that five of their
men can in forty-eight hours practi-
cally stop every wheel of business or
commerce in the United States of
America. Then so far as the broker
and jobber are concerned they have
things to suit themselves, our proxies
at their behest to decide what shall
be money to coin or make it for them
and delegate to them full power to
regulate the value thereof thus usur-
ping and exercising the sovereign
powers that belong to us, toour in-
jury. Whether the traffic in intoxi-
cating liquors is or is not the natural
outgrowth of our social structure is
a question that does not relate to this
discussion but what attitude does it
sustain to us and to our enemies and
what part is it playing in this great
experiment that is being worked out
here? Is it favorable to, or destruc-
tive of the principles of our popular
government? That it touches us in
three very sensitive points is most
true, (viz), financially, morally and
politically. These of course do not
tell it all but they are of especial im-
portance and therefore demand es-
pecial attention.
Its financial attitude is told in a
few words. One billion two hundred
and fifty million dollars annually
paid by us without a valuable con-
sideration being given in return; so
much is lost—for every dollar so
spent a dollar's worth of valuable
time lost and a dollars worth of pro-
ductive power destroyed, plus other
incidents too numerous to mention,
aggregating in actual loss annually
three to four billion dollars. The
traffic claims a net profit of three
millions dollars per day, while the
nation sustains an actual loss of near-
ly ten million dollars per day. The
moral tendency of the traffic is de-
grading and to that extent anti-re-
publican, its damaging power in this
respect cannot be told in words nor
computed in dollars and cents. Its
feet go down to death, its steps take
hold on hell. Its work as a factor in
politics tells the rest. It controls
the votes of its patrons and thereby
holds the balance of power in politics
and who seeks political preferme nt
or legislative favors must first con-
ciliate the traffic. It wants legisla-
tive favors, so the broker and jobber
and the saloon keeper make common
cause against our proxies, in legisla-
ture and congress and in every case
we yield and they win the field.
Thus at the end of less tkan a cen-
tury and a quarter of our nation's ca-
reer through the agency of seeming-
ly innocent and insignificant methods
j we find ourselves prostrated at the
! feet of the enemy of the American
j principles of liberty and equality,
with the heel of the English money
| power led by the .lew (Baron D. Roths-
| child) on our neck, grinding us into
;the earth,
This is our present, the reservoir
j of our past, but what of our future?
I As an index it clearly points to two
more steps to complete .their triumph
land our ruin: these areas follows:
The enrollment and officering and
| eqiuppirgof the national militia and
j the enactment of laws establishing
j a property qualification for suffrage,
j And who will say that these are im-
possible? What is already done has
j made them more than probable, nay
I the first is already well under way
and the second under advisement;
! this done and this great national ex-
periment will have been decided and
Mene Mene Tekel will have been
the verdict and this nation conceived
in liberty and dedicated to the propo-
j sition that all men are created equal
I will be a thing of the past, a blot up-
on the page Of the world,s history, so
far as the American principle is con-
cerned but will continue—a nation of
slaves to a horde of tyrants.
Homestead, Okla.
Building and Loan Associations Safe-
These people's banks, the most
beneficent outgrowth thus far of the
co-operative idea in the United States
have increased in fifty years to over
tiOOO associations, distributed through-
out every State and Territory, and
represent savings amounting to over
$1,000,000,000. Laws regulating their
management differ in different states
but however their external features
may vary, the great principle of co-
operation—mutual helpfulness by the
working together of individuals for
joint benefit or common good as op-
posed to selfish com petitive individual
effort—remains unchanged. "Invest-
ment in a building and loan associa-
tion is as nearly absolutely safe as it
can be," to quote from an exhaustive
report on the associations of this
country published by the Government
to be had for the asking; "for the
monthly dues and accumulated profits
which give the active capital of the
association, are loaned as fast as
they accumulate."—November Ladies
Home Journal.
There No Use Quoting Prices
On Our Complete Line of
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Implements, Stoves, Ranges, Wagons, Buggies,
Paints, Oils, Glass, Guns, Ammunition and
Sporting Goods of all kinds but come and we'll
6how yon.
Bearclsley Hardware Co.
It. L. Philips of the firm of Elledge
it Philips handed us the following
clipping on the cost of producing
pork thinking that it might be of in-
terest to farmers:
One bushel of corn will produce 10i
pounds of pork, from which you can
easily determine whether it is better
to sell corn or pork.
Careful experiments have shown
the following facts in regard to feed-
ing corn to make pork:
50 lbs. of corn fed whole and raw,
makes 10 lbs. of pork.
50 lbs. of corn, fed ground and raw
makes 15 lbs. of pork.
50 lbs. of corn, fed ground and fer-
mented, makes 1" lbs. of pork.
50 lbs. of corn, fed cooked and fer.
mented, makes 20 lbs. of pork.
100 lbs. of good hay to stock are
equal to:
MOB OF BARGAIN HUNTERS. | velt in his essay on Reform Meth-
I ods in Politics.
Charleston S-0. Shoppers Tight for Ad-! The n,an who debauches our
mission to a Store that Advertised- j public life, whether by malversa-
A inobof 800 women many of whom j tion of funds in office, by the
were members of well known faini j actual bribery of legislators or by
lieswas dispersed by the police yes-| t|)e corrupt use of the offices as
terday while engaging in a rush to-
ward the door of a bargain house on
Kingstreet. Alluring offers had been
made and before the establishment
spoils wherewith to reward the un-
worthy or vicious for their noxious
and interested activity in the Laser
was opened the women had blocked I walks of political life—this man
lbs. of
Ufit)
80
317
59
43
350
429
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441
beans,
beets,
(green) clover,
carrots
corn,
(dry) clover,
lucern,
mangolds,
oat straw,
oats,
(linseed) oil cake,
potatoes,
rye straw,
rye,
turnips,
wheat.
the street to such an extent that
cars could not run. When the doors
swung back the women swarmed in
and dozens were trampled and
hurt.
Several women fainted. Mary
Coleman was thrown to the sidewalk
and the bargain hunters rushed ovei
her body. She is seriously injured.
As the mob surged through the en-
trance glasses were smashed and the
heavy barricades previously erected
were twisted from their moorings.
A riot call was sent to police head-
quarters and a partrol wagon filled
with policemen was rushed to the
scene. The mob was driven back and
the police closed the store. The pro-
prietor was allowed to open later in
the day.
New i p-to the j d
season J ^
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New Clothing, J
Is sum ues |
Of New Fall fancies, the whole
Store is laden with bright, new
and attractive Goods. Visit us.
New Dress
Fabrics.
New & Stylish
Fall Furnish-
ings.
N e vv H o s l e r \.
New
Underwear. ^
_______ _ New prices-
New Shirts ' . j lower than
I in.- , . Come get vour share of the first of
s ' s,uts- , Www Bargains. *** ever'
Triple Knee ,
"Leather Stocking"j&r
Kenosha
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For All the People.
it makes no difference whether we
elect a Republican or a Democrat
president in 1904. They are made of
the same kind of dirt. Both are fash-
ioned and formed by plutocracy
Our whole government machine has
got to be reconstructed. It is out of
date and miserably inefficient in its
operation, it is misrepresentative
instead of representative in its
character. The old parties have
I made government a fraud, a swindle
and an imposition. It remains for
some new party to redeem this coun-
try from the present misrule and
anarchy. Whether it will be the
Populist, Socialist or some other
party, time will tell. The only hope
of the people lies in their getting to-
gether and forsaking the old party
organizations The strength of the
old parties lies in the ignorance and
prejudice of the rank and file. They
have cherished the fictions and lies
j of the old party platforms until they
jard them as sacred truths. While
j the Democratic party would com
; promise with, or license the tru-ts,
j the Republican party is their avo.ved
I champion.
i Mythology relates that selfish old
Midas was so greedy that he wanted
everything that he touched turned
into gold, and that when his desire
| was granted it caused his destruction- j
land it may prove so with our modern j
| Midases that their greed will prove
their own undoing. God never sent
the streams of oil coursing through
the bowels of the earth for the pri-
vate profit of John 1). Rockfeller or
any other man. It was stored there
for all men.—Joe Bowers, Sheridan,
Wyo.
For An Oklahoma Murder,
After being out nearly six hours
the jury in the case of Thomas ('urtis
brought in a verdict of life imprison-
ment for murder last night. Curtis
was convicted of cutting off the head
of Win. .1. Kick. The head was found
in a pillow slip in the bottom of the
Canadian river near here three years
ago. Curtis was one of the three
men arrested for the crime. One of
them Wm. Yoder plead guilty and
was given a life sentence. The third
man in the case is W. Trone Jackson
who is in jail here awaiting trial.
Oklahoma City Times Journal.
SOME OF ROOSEVELT'S SAYINGS,
BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT,
The man who is content to let
politics go from bad to worse, jest
ing at the corruption of politicians;
the man who is content to see the
maladministration of justice with
out an immediate and resolute
effort to reform it, is shirking hi-i
duty, and is preparing the way for
infinite woe in the future.— Fresi
dent Roosevelt in an essay on Stay
at Homes in Politics.
There are plenty of scoundrels al
ways ready to try to belittle reform
movements or to bloster up ex
isting iniquities in the name of
Americanism.—President Roose-
a greater foe to our well-being as a
naiion than is even the defaulting
cashier of a bank or the betrayer of
a private trust—President Roose-
velt in an essay on Political Crooks.
Hard, brutal indifference to the
l ight, and an equally brutal short
sightedness as to the inevitable re-
sults of corruption and injustice,
are baneful beyond measure; yet
they are characteristic of a great
many Americans who think them-
selves perfectly respectable, and
who are considered thriving, pros-
perous men by their easy going
fellow citizens—President Roose-
velt in an essay on Stay-at-Homes
in Politics.
"VVe shall find it necessary in
future to shackle cunning, as in
the past we have shackled force.
I'lie vast individual and corporate
fortunes, the vast combinations of
capital, which have marked the
leyelopement of our industrial
stem, create new conditions and
necessitate a change from the old
attitude of the state and nation
toward property."—Associate Press
report of President Roosevelt's
speech at Minnapolis, Sept 2, 1801.
CHAMBERLAIN'S COUtiH REME-
DY IN CHICAGO.
Iiitiiren Bros , the popular South
side drutrgisiH, corner tifKh street and
Wt:ntwo• tti iivetiue 8hj : "We sell a
if ret, ue;il of Chainberlin s Cough
Rsmedy mid find that it gives the
most satisfactory results especially
among children for fevere colds and
croup." [''or sale by Fred Keed.
Geo- M. Witnius & Co. have re-
ceived a line line of women's au-
tomobile clonks, box jackets aud
ftir neckwear and will sell the
same at surprisingly low prices,
character of goods considered.
A thousand things by it are done far
better than most tilings do one. We
refer to Ricky Mountain Tea made
by Madison Med. Co., 35c. Ask your
druggist.
a/oncv!Xlonev! AIoncv!
YES—We have an unlimited
amount to loan on farms.
Time from six months to ten
years. Interest as low us the
lowest.
We Lead on Terms Others Follow
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