The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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I) VOLUME 10. NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY a 1902 ~ ~~
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parity and become a "base metal."
But the plutocrats manage to fool a
majority of the voters all the time.
Now the so-called democratic re-
organize propose to camp, as usual,
four years behind the republicans,
that is, occupy the republican's old
camping ground. They will accept
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin swee
the breath. Sold by Fred Reed.
J. T. Highly returned last Tuei
from a business trip to Bridge]
Texas.
Semi porcelain Dinner seti
greatly reduced prices at
Glnley*s, ^ ,
.camping ground. They will accept
L. f aubion has rented his line fj the single gold standard, '-manifest
to Oscar Haynes and will move desting" the Philipines etc etc, and
Norman to reside. steal the republicans out of house
The Renner Meat Market you \andhome, Teddy Roosevelt and all
always find well stocked with if Teddy don't run away from them,
best of meats the market affords. But suppose they take the beastly
Ark Ferguson and wife of MounljGrover, Hill the bold, Gorman the
Park, spent the holidays visitingjl cunning, Watterson the imbiber of
atives and old friends in Norman, bourbon, Whitney or Olney where are
Where is the Pure Oak' Ilari they to tret the voters to elect either
shop? Just a few doors east on i| them? Will republicans leave the
Christ
GOP and Hock to their standard?
Never. Even if Mr. Bryan should
give his support to Olney or one of the
others only a faction of the six
millions of his supporters would
follow.
Suppose again that the party
Chupped lidnds, cracked lips |shou,<i nominate Mr. Bryan himself,
ronsrhnoss of thu skin cured qu^c Be would poll a larger popular vote
than any other
south side of the street
& Lindsay.
Wiane & Winne Farm Loa
Long time, best terms, lowest r;
branch oHice in Cleveland Co
National Bank building.
learned us and who live ten thousand
miles from us. The very fact that
Roosevelt is reversing former meth-
ods in making appointments proves
that corruption was rife before. To
say the democrats were no better, is
only saying "you are another.
If there was ever a time in the
history of the country when it
needed a new party, or the destruc-
tion of old parties it is now. Mr.
Bryan is an honest man. So was Mr
McKinley but he was powerless in
the hands of party chieftains.
Roosvelt is yet to be tried. Read
the Voice the Dallas Mercury and
that splendid magazine the Arena
and see if a new deal is not a nec-
essity. c E- T
A DEMOCRAT TALKS.
The editorials and selections in the
Voice last week were excellent. If all
our numerous county papers would only
£0 and do likewise a peaceable revo-
iution would very soon bring the
people—the whole people, real, last-
ing Prosperity—then we could spell
Prosperous People with big P. In all
seriousness, I would ask all reading,
thinking, reasoning men and women,
whether they can say prosperity
prevails when nearly half the
families in the nation own no homes:
when millions of families are with
notning laid up for days of misfor-
tune and are dependent perhaps on
the labor of one member of the
family for daily bread.
Probably the "great dailies" think
like the "healers" who heal by sug-
gestion, telling their dupes that
they have only to believe themselves
that they are well and well thej
will be. If they can convince people
that they are well and prosperous
and rich and happy they are all that,
whether they have little much or
nothing. They will have accomplish-
ed all they desired.
It is true that "you can't fool all
the people all the time." There are
Populists and old greenbackers who
have never been fooled, for their
arguments have never been answer-
ed, never can be. For instance they
know that it is the government
stamp that makes a bit of gold or
silver or paper of value and not its
"intrinsic" value. Metals and other
substances have intrinsic qualities
such as weight, color etc. If metals
or potatoes had intrinsic value that
value would always be there, but we
democrat in the
Nation, but would be knifed just as
he has been twice before. Every
bank, every trust, and every big
monopoly would use their millions to
defeat him. An attempt is being
made to make the tariff an issue
Can the democrats by dropping all
other issues hope to carry the coun-
try? No, verily, for they can never
get back to the tariff "for revenue
only " Ohio, California and Texas
would want wool "protection"
Louisana, Texas, Georgia and South
Carolina would demand "protection"
for rice and so on and they would
quote Gen. Hancock as authority
that the tariff is a local affair. The
great Daniel Webster called out in
dispair, when the old whig party
was going to pieces—wliere shall I
go? Is it not time that the demo-
cratic party should ask itself the
same momentous question? It is hard
to give tip a lost party a lost cause.
This writer knows exactly how it
feels—has been there. Has always
been a democrat is a democrat today,
but will not, cannot support a demo-
crat party whose democracy has
been eliminated, a hollow, metal
shell.
As I have never been a republican
I cannot speak for them, but will
say I cannot see how a republican
believing in the republicanism of the
great Lincoln can follow the present
party leaders into the political gulf
which yawns before them. The re-
publican party of today bears 110 re-
semblance of the old party. It was
once the party of freedom, free men,
free land, free speech and free
silver, where is it now? It is the
party of the monopolies and special
k now that silver has now only half j privileges. The railroads are allowed
its former commercial value; and i thirty million of dollars for ten
moreover, that if gold should become | million service in carrying the mails,
as plenty as lead is now that it would I Thousands of lives are sacrificed in
soon meet the fate of its formity | the conquest of a people who never
THE ALLIED THIRD PARTY.
A Call for United Action and a Union of
Reform Elements, a State Conference
bote Held at San Francisco March
10 1902.
To Reformers in California,
Greeting: Whereas, the conference
of reformers, held at Kansas City,
September 17-19, 1901, agreed that
all those who believe alike on pnb-
lic issues should vote together, and
to achieve this end, called a nation-
al convention to be held at Louis-
ville Ky., April 2, 1902 and whereas,
the various reform organizations in
the different States were requested
to send delegates to said convention
the representation to be based upon
the combined vote of all the par-
ties connected with the movement
at any election since 1890, one for
every 2,000 or majority fraction
thereof, and five for the state at
large, therefore in conformity there-
with a State conference or mass
convention is hereby called to meet
in the city of San Francisco, State
of California 011 the 10th day of
March 1902, at 11 o'clock a. m., for
the purpose of meeting the reform
elements of the State, perfecting a
State organization electing delegates
to the Louisville convention and
transacting such other business as
may properly come before the con-
vention.
I his action contemplates a per-
fect alliance or union of the repre-
sentatives of the different reform
organizations such as Union Labor
Union Reform, Public Ownership,
Socialist and People's parties, Sin-
gle Taxers, Independent Democrats
and Republicans, in fact all ele-
ments who favor substantial reforms
are "opposed to the rule" of capital-
ism over the people and willing to
Money!Money! Money!
YES—We have an unlimited
amount to loan on farms.
Time from six months to ten
years. Interest as low as the
lowest.
We Lead on Terms Others Follow
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Attorney-At-Law.
Office Opera House Block.
issued by the government only and
without the intervention of banks
sufficient in quantity to meet the
requirements of commerce.
Fifth—We believe in just and
natural taxation.
Sixth—VVe demand the election
of the president, vice president, fed-
eral judges and senators by the peo
pie.
Seventh—We favor the creation
of a cabinet office of the depart-
ment of labor and equitable arbi
tration.
Eighth—VVe favor the establish-
ment of postal savings banks.
Ninth—We favor the adoption of
such constitutional amendments as
may be necessary to make the above
laws.
D. P. Rice, Qccid ental,
Mklvin Snow Summeriand
Robert Shetteri.y, Spenceville.
Members People's Party Nation
Committee, California.
PROSPEBITY TOR WHOM?
The repeated declaration of pros-
perity is becoming stale and meaning-
less. True, prosperity has come-to
the men who do not need it men who
have millions; men who do no work,
men who are leeches and barnacles
{upon the great toiling world, men
who by unholy methods have robbed
the wage-workers and the wealth-
producers of our country; but to the
man who earns his bread by the sweat
of liis face, there is no prosperity.
While wages have been advanced a
little during the reign of Republican-
ism, the cost of living has advanced
tar more. The trusts and combines
have gotten control of almost every-
thing, from the cradle of the infant
to the winding sheet of the aged, and
have run prices up till it is difficult
for the average wage-earner to buy
1 the bare necessaries of life. All
| breadstufts now are higher than they
j have been for years. Not because of
I their scarcity but because all the
j rolling niins an(J ot|ler appliances for
j converting them into food for man
! and beast arc controlled by the same
ravenous gang who, fix the prices at
I "all the people will bear." The big
trusts and combinations own all the
THE FARMER ISA WAGE EARNER.
It is often said that the farmer is
... I wiLuiiiouuiis own an the
independent, owns his tools of pro- ; ranches, stockyards, pickeries and
duction and does not work for ' slaughter houses; hence, meats of all
wages. j kinds are almost beyond the reach of
This is not true, as a moment's "le averafTe working man. Clothing
reflection will show. Prices are and ot'le',' MeceHsarie too are sold
c 1 . 1 1 . now at almost "war prices " all h# -
fixed most largely by the trusts, who cause the cotton w 1 •,?
\ 7 * ust ine cotton and woolen mills
agree beforehand what they will pay are controlled by the name jran£ of
for cattle, hogs and sheep; and how cormorants. Napoleon was not far
much cotton and woolen goods they , wronfT "hen he said reforms in gov-
will produce, not to supply the de- j ernment can he effected only by shoot-
mand, but to make the most money. I!"* '".l" tbe ,,eo,,le or b*
tl .. , , . 1 tnem. rhe starving process is in
I hen the farmers produce .ts , ful, 8way now< an(] |f it' regu,t8 in
worthless in his barns. In fact, it, bringing the reforms the people need
is not "produced" at all until it is I it will prove a blessing in disguise.
put down where it is wanted. So j Southern Mercury
that the telegraph is necessary to j
tell him the time and place and Wake Up.
The reformers in this county want
price, the
time
elevators
place
to store
his
. to wake up if they \frould see the re-
st r their connection with the two stuff the toll bridges to get across, I form moVement "row
old parties and stand together .n an ! the rivers and the railroads to haul of the old time workers sho"vi2
Independent Union party. | it. All these are as much his nec- j signs of activity, but we want to see
declaration of principles. j essary tools of production as
his | them all arouse themselves
Wnile the convention will be a i horses and plows. And they no:tIleir lli'' Va" Winkle sleep.
Sovereign body with power • make j more belong to him than the engine h;UC received a few responses to
its own platform, no one will be en- 1 in the iron mill belongs to the roll ot
•'Though
(lau$
Whose authorized agents \\c are. w
want toremlndyou that Christmas
is not far off.
An our entire
Holiday Stock
see for yourself
See our FURS. Prices
cut half to close them out.
We have Christmas pre-
sents for all. Come in and
let us help you select, the
prices are low.
titled to a voice or vote in its de-
liberations who does not subscribe
to the following fundamental princi
pies:
First—vVe demand the initiative
and referetidnim and imperative
man date.
Second — We favor the public
ownership of all public utilities as
the people shall from time to time
elect.
Third—The land including all
natural resources, the heritage of
^ ! the people should not be motiopo-
4 j lized for speculative purposes and
r j alien ownership should be prohibit-
£ ed. All
^ j roads and other corporations in ex-
£ [ cess of their actual needs, or held
? i by aliens should be reclaimed and
from
We
our
names of
.good men in the neighborhood of
...g miII wage earner. j sender, who are not receiving the
As the farmer justly demands a Peoples \ oit'e; but we want a list
public ownership in these great Ifrom every school District in the
tools of production, so the wage | county.
earner demands his share of tbe
profits in the production by ma
chinery, which, without his intelli
gence and labor, would be worth-
less. Co operation is the natural
foundation of human ^society. All
the theories are based upon this
We would also like to have some of
the workers take up our proposition
to furnish live yearly subscriptions to
this paper for $3.50and send us in a
club of five subscribers Who will
be the first to send us in a club of
subscribers under this proposition?
We are anxious to publish names of
parties sending in club lists. If some
one will take the matter up in his
ground. No man is sufficient for
. I ... v.i4V. lllti LLCI UI) II
himself, but each depends for some neighborhood it will break the
thing upon the other. The prob and other neighborhoods in the
lem is how to so adjust things that county will be heard from in short
each one will receive no more nor or<'er' ' m'er proposition we niak
be
Under
lands now held by rail- no less than his equitable share of '• ,We fcd tluU we should secure .it
— , . . .. , I least 2000 subscribers in this i-nuntv
the things which he contributes to ..... lt,m if , [. ' ,county,
, .... , 'UKl UL wl'l 'f only the Populists will
produce. I hat the present system do a little missionary work for us in
of distribution is unjust, all honest their respective neighborhoods,
men will admit. There must of I
held for# actual settlers only. 1 men win aumn. 1 nere must ot 1 ti,. i> 1 r
tr .1 in " 1 tie Republicans in this territory
1 Fourth We favor scientific 111011- | necessity be a divergence of views j are looking around for a new terri-
^ ey based upon the entire wealth of as to how to remedy the evils; but torial chairman to succeed (im
1 the people of the nation and not J if we are in earnest in seeking a Ferguson and it looks like they
j redeemable in any specific com- | remedy, it will be found.—Mercury.' center on Hon. Jas D. Maguire
! modity but to be full legal tender ' v ' J tle-v C IU'^ center 011 a much wor- ■
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