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THE PEOPLES1 VOICE
VOLUME 17.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ti, 1908.
NUMBER 17
POPULISM, REPUBLICANISM
V AND DEMOCRATISM
WHICH DO YOU PREFER?
The principles of each church
are fixed, permanent, eternal.
Those things which make a
Baptist of the confessing Christ-
ian today made him a Baptist
hundreds of years ago. Those
things which inlluence the citiz-
en to become a Methodist today
are precisely the same things
which influenced the people to
Methodism a hundred years ago.
So it is with all the churches.
One's religous faith, therefore,
is not a matter to be changed by
the votes of Conferences, Asso-
ciations and Synods.
Next in sanctity and import-
ance to one's religious faith
should come his political creed.
In this country we have no king
and no aristocracy to rule ■us.
We are the kings and we rule
ourselves, therefore, thosfi prin-
ciples by which we think the
legislation of the country should
be controled and govermental
policies directed should be next
to our religious convictions.
What makes a Republican ?
First: A belief in the gold
standard,—which is unconstitu-
tional, and which is most injur-
ious to the great masses of the
people.
Second: A high protective
tariff which gives the American
manufacturers a monopoly of
the home market, shuts out for
his benefit the competition of
foreign manufacturers, — upon
the plea that it will enable the
American manufacturers to pay
higher wages to his laborers,
whereas the actual figures show
that he pays no greater wage
than is paid broad, while doors
ol immigration are kept open in
order that he may bring in
foreign labor to compete with
the home laborer at the same
time that he shuts out foreign
capital from competition with
himself.
Third: A nationall banking
system which usurps the gov-
ernmental prerogative of sup-
plying the country with its
money,—thus using for private
gain a governmental function
which carries with it not only
enormous direct profits, but
the still greater advantage of
controlling the markets alter-
nate contraction and the expan-
sion of the circulating medium.
Fourth: A system of taxation
which relieves the accumlated
wealth of the country from the
burden of the Federal govern-
ment and places the heavier
portion thereof upon the broad
backs of the common people,
who pay these federal taxes in-
directly when they purchase the
three thousand articles which
are named in our tariff schedules.
Fifth: A transportation sys-
tem which gives to a few rail-
way kings the power to tax 85,-
000,000 of people with freight
rates and passenger rates to the
extent that the traffic will bear
and thus wring from the de-
fenceless and unprivileged
masses the enormous salaries
the high officials cf the roads
and dividends upon from six to
eight billion dollars of ficitious
capitalization. This undemo-
cratic transportation system
carries with it the dangerous
power to build up one town
or business or section at the ex-
pense of another by secret re-
bates and other discriminations
in favor of one shipper, or one
town, or one section against an-
other shipper, or town, or sec-
tion.
No matter what Mr. Taft and
Mr. Roosevelt may say, these
are the five great distinctive
Republican polices. For these
kbominations, the Republican
party stands pat.
What makes a Democrat ?
Judging from Mr. Bryan's
Denver platform—which he de-
clares is not less binding in
what it omits than in what it
contains—the Democratic party
today makes no war upon a
single one of the five great Re-
publican principles and policies.
Mr. Bryan once opposed the Re-
publican policy on the money
question. He no longer does so.
Once opposed them on the na-
tional banking question. He no
longer does so. He once favored
the placing of the burden of fed-
eral taxation upon the incomes
of the rich, instead of upon the
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you will be able to quickly make a
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of high class garments, at the price
you wish to pay, with absolute
assurance of getting a garment that
will please you in every detail.
Because our stock is principally
made up of celebrated
Michaels - Stern
Fine Overcoats
we have no hesitancy in guarantee-
,ing every garment for quality of
•materials, workmanship and finish.
jWe will leave it to any custom-
' tailor to say whether he can
duplicate our Overcoats under
double our prices.
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MICHAELS-STERN
FINE C LOTH I NQ
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through effects as well as in the fabrics, which are of bright colorings and designs Of
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are the finest examples of ready-to-wear suits to be bad in this city. They are out-of-the-
ordinary in style, workmanship and finish. You will be an unusually exacting man if you
can't find something to please you in our enormous assortment at #12 to #i)0.
Hats of Latest Fashion at $1.50 to $5.00
THE MEN'S OUTFITTER
NORMAN. OtyLA
necessities of the common peo-
ple and poor. He no longer fav-
ors the income tax, but agrees
with the Republicans that fed-
eral taxation should be imposed
by tariff duties. He once fav
ored the governmental owner-
ship of the railroads. He no
longer does so; he now stands
committed to the transportation
system just as we have it.
Broadly, therefore, the same
considerations which influence
the citizen to become a Taft Re-
publican, influence him to be-
come a Bryan Democrat. Be
tween the two there is no sub
stantial difference.
What makes a Populist ?
Radical opposition to stand-
pat Republicanism and Bryanite
Democracy.
First: We believe that the
federal government should be
supported by taxation which
would reach the accumulated
wealth of the country. We be-
lieve that the incomesof the rich
should contribute to the support
of that system of government
under whose protection and by
reason of whose advantages the
fortunes were made. We believe
that the great corporations
which exercise the sovereign
power to tax our people in
freight and passenger rates
should be compelled to pay a
franchise tax. As to the tariff,
we care not how high Congress
runs the duties on the luxuries
of life, but we contend that the
necessities of life which the
poor must have to live should
be on the free list and should
pay no federal tax at all.
Second: We regard our great
railroads as nothing more than
modern public highways, and
we believe that every nation
should own its public roads just
as every nation owns its navig-
able streams.
Third: We believe that the
national banking system is just
as undemocratic and wrong as
it was in the days of Andrew
Jackson and Thomas Jefferson.
We would abolish this system
and restore to the government
the sovereign custom of creat-
ing the paper money as well as
the metallic currency.
Fourth: We are against the
gold standard, which is a mod-
ern British and illegal device of
the financers who rule the world.
We favor the Constitutional
system of money devised by our
forefathers and written into the
fundamental law of the Repub-
lic. We believe in a currency
composed of gold and silver
coined upon equal terms, and of
treasury notes, full legal tender
lor all debts, issued by the gov
ernment itself directly to the
people without the intervention
of banks.
Fifth: To put back into the
hands of the people themselves
that control over laws and law-
makers which they should have
every government which
claims to be Democratic, we
favor the initiative and referen-
dum, the imperative mandate
and recall. We would, with the
latter, put out of office any of-
ficial who betrays the people.
With the imperative mandate,
we would instruct those who
represent us in such a way that
they would not dare to violate
our instructions. With the ref-
erendum we would compel leg-
islative bodies to refer to us any
law which they had under con-
sideration. With the initiative,
we ourselves would inaugurate
legislation which we need, when
our law-making bodies them-
selves were inert.
We cannot agree with the So-
cialists that private ownership
is wrong in principle. In our
opinion, if the product of in-
dividual toilers is given to the
State, instead of to the individ-
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Election Returns.
Bryan 55
Taft 80
Dubs 5
" 31
" 27
(1 OO
" 21
" 37
" 11
ii g.)
" 44
•' 12
10-3w...
" 58
" 09
" 32
" 38
" 29
" 0
" 42
42
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9-2w
" 89
" 7(1
" 1(1
Franklin
" 24
" 25
" 21
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" 24
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" 3<i
" 34
" 54
8-lw
" 43
" 57
" 32
8 2w
" 111
" 73
" 40
. " 119
" 50
" 18
(i-lw
. •' 69
" 40
" 9
(i-lE
" 103
" 79
" 40
" 67
" " 43
" 51
Lexington
" 121
" 59
" 8
Norman Prec. 1.
" 98
" 48
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Norman Prec. 2,
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" 43
" 4
Norman Prec. 3
. " 88
" 74
" 8
Norman Prec. 4.
" 93
" 41
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1092
414
JUSTICE:
Watson
1448
14.! I
1087
Williams, dem.
Hayes, dem
Dickerson, rep .
Bennett, soc .t)
CORPORATION COMMISSIONER:
Watson, dem 244(1
Reynolds, rep 10(54
O'Bryan, soc ' |i:s
CONGRESS:
Ferris, dem 1470 Davis, soc 417
STATE SENATOR:
Wynne, dem 1450 Shepherd, rep 1071
REPRESENTATIVE:
Hutchin, dem ...1425 Keiper, rep. .1088 Rosellns, s 423
FLOTORIAL REPRESENTATIVE:
Wilson, dem. 1420 Smith, rep..1003 Merkie, soc. .414
Question 1- 1294 yes, 1538 no; Ques. 2-1124 yes, 1439 no;
Ques. 3—1374 yes, 1181 no; Ques. 4 - 1034 yes, 1504 no-
Ques. 5—548 yes, 2101 no.
Road law 1048 yes, 1594 no.
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ual who produces it, the incen-
tive to production is destroyed.
Our view of the matter is that
individual property simply re-
presents, in its last analysis,
the plan adopted by the society
for the purpose of guaranteeing
to the individual the product of
his own toil.
Between the Plutocrat and
the Socialist, Populism takes its
stand. We occupy the sane
middle ground between the ex-
tremists who want nobody to
own anything and those ex-
tiemists who want a lew people
to own everything. If the gov-
ernment were dominated by the
principles of Populism, we
should neither have millionaires
nor paupers. Legislation would
not have for its object the en-
richment of a favored few, but
would keep before its eyes al-
ways the motto of "Equal and
exact Justice to all men with-
out Special Privileges to any."
— The Jeffersonian.
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call it the living room), the
dining room, chamber, hall,
should share in the garniture
of handsome, appropriate
furniture. Even things up a
bit by selecting furniture for
the whole house at
Nothing is a miss, everything
is well balanced there.
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