The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 13.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1905
NUMBER 28
I
You are nothing; the Tru9t is all in
I all.
i Meanwhile the expenses of govern,
j ment grow larger and larger: the
I cost of living mounts higher and
higher; the ragged legions of poverty
multiply day by day; the rich swag-
ger more and more with offensive
II IIS Ml!
' farm products V >
intomanufactur i-eaSy for
| the market. In the oper..' on of
these plants none but toeuibcrs of the
corporation will be employed, thus
absolutely removing the danger of
lockouts or strikes.
As a beginning the first wording
establishment to be created by this
co-operative body is a ginning plant,
and this will be erected in Greer
county, centrally located. The gin
is to be built at a cost of $10,000 and
each member will be assessed so
much to raise the required capital
bluster and display, and the storm
cloud of class hatred blackens the J for its construction and maintenance,
future as never before. Nine tenths The compensation for all work done
of the-suft'ering of our people is due by the members, or salaries of the
to bad laws and bad governmen t. j officers shall be determined by the
The situation has become so desper-1 board of directors. Gradually, and as
ately intolerable that we are nearer j soon as circumstances warrant and
the danger-liue than we ourselves i the need appears, cotton seed oil
know. | mills, canning -factories, pickle fac-
It is my purpose to discuss all | tories. etc., will bj erected, equip-
economic and governmental ques-
tions to point out abuses and advo-
cate practical remedies. I believe
ped and maintained. This plan will
be followed by every branch of the
corporation that may be hereafter
that equal and exact justice between I established in Oklahoma. The idea
To those who gave me their sup-
port in the last presidential election
I hereby return my heartfelt thanks.
They could not have been actuated
by any motive other than the desire
to vote their honest convictions.
Those who cast their ballots for me
were brave enough to stand with the
man and man should be the object of
law. I believe that special privileges
can never be granted to one class
without gross injustice to others.
Instead of the Hamiltonian theory
of the Divine Right of the few to
is a popular one and has attracted
the attention of the farmers who
have heard of it. The promoter P.
H. Sweet, of Mangum, Okla., has had
printed many thousand copies of the
prospectus and will send one to every
govern and monopolize, I believe, as farmer in Oklahoma and the Indian
Jefferson and Lincoln did, in the rule j Territory. Mangum will be the per-
of all for the benefit of all.
I envoke the co-operation of all
who believe, as I do, that present con-
ditions are wrong; that they can be
improved. I wish this maga-
zine to penetrate every city, town
village and country precinct with
own subscription but by going among
support.
The political purpose which is here-
in proclaimed is but one feature of
this new magazine, it will interest
every member of the family with
reading matter that will appeal to
and benefit all.
The first number will be issued in
February. Subscription one dollar
per year. Send it in at once. I want
minority, and conscientious enough j my monthly message. If j'ou are in
to think that a ballot is prostituted
which does violence to one's sense of
right
The campaign of 1904 was but a
prelude to the campaign of 1908. The
start had to be made, and it seemed
to me a vital necessity to start at
the time when both the old parties
were openly pledged to Plutocracy
and Class Legislation. The Republi-
cans stood pat for every evil of the
present system which builds collossal
fortunes upon the false basis of spec-
ial Privilege. The Democrats, led by
place hunters and time servers raven-
ous for the spoils of office, shamelessly
abandoned every democratic princi-
ple and transferred their standard to
the hands of the gambler, the
monopolist and the Wall Street cor
porationist.
At such a time, when both the old
parties were down on.their knees to
the pampered beneficiaries of Class
Legislation, it seemed a high duty
that someone should preach the gos
pel of "Equal rights to all."
<\s well as I could I made the fight
for Jefferson principles. All things
considered, the support I received
was encouraging. Therefore. I am
manent headquarters of the corpor-
ation.
A National Farmers Exchange was
organized at Blackstone and Bluff
City. Kansas, with the following
results: The Grain Trust Elevator
was paying 65 cents per bushel for
sympathy with me lend me your aid , wheatand ^eat in Kansas City was
not only by promptly forwarding your j 1uote at ' cents. The exchange
1 was organized and the farmers began
your neighbors and enlisting their ito. market their own grain. They
advanced the price of wheat to 7oc
per bushel notwithstanding wheat in
Kansas City dropped to 87 cents per
jbusbel The farmers discovered that
they could handle wheat at a 12 cent
margin and pay their officers a salary
of $1,800 per year for doing it. This
was a saving of 8centsper bushel to
the tanner for all wheat grown with-
in a marketing radius of these two
towns in Kansas and it was saved to
i increi e ii their business and
and profits each year don't you see?
Just think of the money the business
would save by way of being relieved |
from all state, county and city license :
as in Kansas: but which must be paid
out for in the states where traffic
is not prohibited. The stupidity of I
the Brewers and Distillers must be j
something awful .We can think of
nothing to compare with such unless
it be that of the people who labor j
for prohibition under the impression j
that it does lessen the consumption -
of intoxicating liquors. Don't you
think it would be a good idea for
some of these bright intellects who
have made the discovery that prohi-
bition increases the consumption of j
intoxicating liquors to go and inform \
the Brewers and Distillers and have
them work for prohibition and there- \
by increase the demand for their j
products. Think such an individual
would be entitled to if he did receive
a handsome renumeration for his ser-
vices.
"The
midnight
I iyer
Opera House
Friday, Jan. 20.
Prices 35 and 50.
piy-
fowls In-
! L brahama
it hindled by the grain
trust.
my friends first and with their aid we i., c
will have no lack of converts to our ! he( fa™ l)eCa"Se lhey orCanized
cause. Remit—Postal or Express 1 l^andle the'r ow° P^ct instead
m ,, , „ , . „ . , of having
Money Order, or Ca-h in Registered
Letter to Tom Watson's Magazine,
121 West 42nd Street, New York
City.
Thos. E. Watson,
Thomson Ga.
Greer Tanners Oo-operate
fowls
fowls
white
fowl
Last Tuesday evening a Farmer's
Educational and Co-operative Un . ,
local was organized in Norman by j
County Organizers Thompson and j
Price John A. Fox was chosen as j
president of the local. It is thought
TheOklahoma farmers co operative * that a ]ocal 150 strong. can eaf(i|y be
Guarantee, manufacturing and sup- secured in Norman and iltuiediate
ply company capitalized at $100,000 | vicinitj'.
has been organized in Greer county,
Okla , and a charter has been applied
for. This is the original organization
resolved to devote the next four years j and under this branches will be estab-
to a campaign of education, in which | lishsd at other places throughout the
all governmental questions will be ! territory and eventually in Indian
discussed and the citizen brought to
to realize how ruinous to the masses
are the present tendencies of Munici-
pal, State and National legislation.
By law, one man's business has
been fostered at the expense anoth-
er's: by law, one class has been given
special privileges not enjoyed
others; by law, certain form
Territory. It is but another move to
consolidate the interests of both ter
ritories in anticipation of their being
formed into one state.
The scope and purpose of the or-
ganization shall be to supply the
economic needs of its members; to
by | buy sell or produce any of the pro-
of ; ducts of labor; to buy or sell, build or
wealth have been entirely exempted I operate any of the means necessary
national taxation to the vast to production or distribution which for conveisation to Normanites who
from
injury of the non-exempt: by law, the ' may be now owned or operated by an
artificial persons called corporations, j individual or a coporation; to neg-
have been clothed with powers, im- otiate and guarantee loans to its
munities and privileges not exercised j members upon gilt edge security
by individuals: by law, the rich are ■ The corporation shall possess a corn-
getting richer and the poor are get- I mon seal for the miking and deliver-
ting poorer and more enslaved. Thus ingof all leg?I acts and proceedings,
enormous forces of law and govern- j The shares of the corporation shall
ment tend irresistibly to concen-1 be of the value of $1,0;10 each
The county union holds a
meeting in Norman next Saturday
and all parties in Norman desiring to
join the Norman local union can do
soon that day. See President John
A. Fox and give him your name and
he will instruct you at what time
Saturday you may be initiated into
the union.
Mrs- Nation Failed to Visit Norman,
Last Tuesday night Mrs. Carrie
Nation was billet to speak in Nor-
man but the afternoon trains failing
to arrive until late in the night she
failed to be ablo to meet her appoint-
ment. Her coining furnished a theme
were not overwhelmed with other
business on Tuesday. Mrs. Nation
had a number defenders and many
prosecutors among the fellows who
were toasting their feet around
friendly store stoves. Ail day Mrs.
Nation seemed to occupy the center |
of stage and a large crowd would have !
The Cleveland Oounty Poultry Show,
The annual Cleveland Comity Poul-
try show opened in Norman
Wednesday and the following
list of the birds entered:
John A. Fox 7 coops 47 barred
mouth rocks
R. J. Ewart 2 coops (1 fowls barred
Plymouth rocks.
B. P. Bartholomew 4coopsl2 fov. s
barred plymouth rocks.
Fred Delling 1 coop 5 fowls barred
plymouth rocks
J. F. Smalley 2 coops 12 Rock Island
reds.
Miss Delia Abbott 1 coop ;i Rock
Island reds
Fred Delling 1 coop 5 fowls Indian
game.
E. J. Rockfeller 1 coop
dian game.
E. J. Rockefeller 1 coop
bantams.
Fred Delling 1 coop 2 fowls buff
cochin bantams.
A. Beard 2 coops 8 fowls white
guineas
E J Rockefeller 1 coop 2
Endeu geese.
E. J. Rockefeller 1 coop 2
Pekin ducks
W. L. Meyers 1 coop 1 fowl
faced B. Spanish
E. J. Rockefeller 1 coop 0
white leghorns.
H. M Hefley 1 coop 5 fowls
leghorns
A. McDaniel 1 coop 1 white leghorn.
Fred Delling 1
leghorns.
Fred Delling 1 coop
wyandotts
Mrs. M E. McGill 2
white wyandotts
Mrs. T. E. Smith 1
plymouth rocks.
C. C. Williams 3 coops 15 fowl
white plymouth rocks
Mrs. C, C. Burke 2 coops 10
white plymouth rocks
G. W. Burke 2 coops 14 fowls S
Hamburgs.
E J. Rockefeller 1 coop 5 fowls W.
Langshans.
E.J Rockfeller 1 coop 3 fowls light
brahamas.
Fred Delling 1 coop 4 fowls S.
Wyandotts.
Harold Smith 2 coops 7 fowls S.
wyandotts.
Harold Smith 2 coops 7 fowls S.
wyandotts.
A McD.miel 2 coops 7 fowls black
langshans.
| J. J. Baker 2 coops 11 Brown leg-
j horns.
| 2 coops white and black rabbits.
1 cage of canary birds.
The above will give our readers
coop 5 fowl
(! fowls
coops
coop 0
Legislative Dots,
House bill no. 70 relating to school
contracts was introduced by Hon. J.
D. Lydick.
Senator Cralle introduced council
Bill No. 14 which relates to hiring
school teachers.
last! RePresenlative Lydick introduced
' House Bill No. 15 which relates to
cities, towns, and villages.
In the House Bill No. 1 was intro-
duced by Representative Gaudy and
same relates to the herd law.
Senator Threadgill introduced Bill
No. I in council and what do you
guess same relates to? ''Bribery of
public officials." This question seems
to be uppermost in the minds of leg-
islators everywhere ^yer, in Okla-
homa
Ben Williams visited the legisla-
ture last Wednesday. He probably
went up to see that bis Lydick was
toeing the mark as a legislator
and not associating too much with
the lobbyists and members of the
third House.
The first measure in the council
causing a division along party iines
was a resolution introduced by .Sena-
tor Sharrock meraoralizing congress
to put back intu the Hamilton State-
hood bill the clause giving preference
rights to lesees. Senator Cralle
moved to table motion but motion
was defeated by a vote of 7 to 5.
Senator Cralle spent Sunday at his
home in this city. He is doing his
I best to look like a statesman and we
white ! ra^her suspect that he will rank
j fairly well with the statesman of the
[ eight legislative assembly. Senator
white i ^ra"e's possessed of an Appollo like
| form and hair thin enough on the top
s white '''s 'iead to P've him an appearance
of intellectuality and he is cautious
10 fowls !an<1 8l,aring enough in speech to
J make good.
white Senator Sharrook afterwards
moved and Senator Cralle seconded
fowls
S
L.
pay- turned out to hear her had«hec
some idea of what they may expect
ty-nine per cent combined. Already
you can count upon the fingers of one
hand the trusts that annually absorb
month are one-half of the entire in-
crease in wealth. Already you can
name four railroad kings who, by
♦rate wealth power and opportunity j able in the principal sum or in pay- j and her speech no doubtTwould ha"e I r see 8hould they attend the 8llow•
in thp h-niflH of thp fpw n t ! t • . , , uuavc!Forthe most part the display is a
in tne nanus or the lew. raents of $10 annually. Inasmuch as j furnished something of a theme for « f ti f 1 f th
Already one per cent of our popu- this farmers' mutual benefit company consideration for the rest of the ; ' f *"e A.6 !' ,,
lation own more than the other nine- was brought into being in Greer week among the heat absorbers ^ . t 7 ! the cockerall
tv-ninp npr n nf (*nmhinpfi a iroa^n ^u ...:n 1 . .. 1 .... tie effect of slicking their hec
"that each member of the council be
provided at expense of the territory
$3 worth of postage stamps; Sen.it ir
Cralle saying as he -_ conded the mo.
tion, 'I think this is a resolution up-
on which we can all agree," and t hey
did. It was a resolution something
in the nature of a graft in which all
the members shared alike.
If a pop had introduced or supported
such a resolution and ever bobed up
'for ri.-election he would have been
L. i reminded in every school house in his
district of having voted himself $3
L. worth of postage stamps to be paid
for by the territory The princely
salary an Oklahoma legislator re-
ceives is hardly enough to meet ac-
tually living expenses in the Capital
city: but still the territorial taxpayj
eis think a man elected to such an
exalted position should take with him
sufficient change to pay for postage
stain ps
county, Okla , there it will demon
strate its object. The corporation
will handle farm produce 011 com-
mission, being mindful that no one
not a member may participate in its
business affairs; it will put goods and
agreement among themselves can 1 merchandise as near as may be direct
levy heavier tribute upon the people
of this country than Congress itself
can impose: the Trust invades every
market dictates where you buy and
where you sell: fixes the price when
you sell, and fixes it when you buy.
around the store stoves In all ?ucb
discussions as carried 011 last Tues-
day some one is sure to come forth
with the old saw "more intoxicating
liquor consumed in Kansas now un-
der prohibition than ever before."
In other words "the prohibition of
from factory and mine, and sell strict- tha traffic increases the demand for
ly for cash at a small profit to he and consumption of the products of
determined by the management. The j Brewery and Still " Strange indeed
corporation will, as soon as sufficient U it not that the Brewers and Dis-
income can be realized establish tillers don't fight for prohibition in
manufacturing plants whereby all J all of the states. It would mean such
the barn
alls show
ng ttieir heads too
far out of the hennery during the re-
cent cold spell but none of them are j
badly disfigured. Anyone interested |
in the raising of fine fowls would do |
well to attend the show.
Wanted—10 men in each state to
travel, tack signs and distribute
samples and circulars of our goods.
Salary $75.00 per month. $3.00 per
day for expenses.
KUHLMAN CO., Dept. S.
Atlas Building, Chicago, 111.
"Babe" Scott night watch at Lex-
ington, was in Norman last Wednes-
day morning. On Tuesday in a scuf-
fle with one Fraik Hoggs, which be-
gan in a friendly way hs we are in-
! formed, before it ended parties be-
came angry and Scott struck Boggs
| over the head with chain nippers
j which he had in his hand and Wed-
! nesday morning it looked very much
like Boggs was going to die and this
brought Scott to Norman. He was
accompanied by deputy Sheriff
Wynne of Lexington. Frank Boggs
is a brother in-law of W. H Abbott
of this city
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1905, newspaper, January 20, 1905; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117847/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.