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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 6.
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1897.
NO 8
A Vision of Lost Atlantis.
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In the mystic wpell of r-lumber,
Through the m-h'h uiitat homed gloom,
1 the lost AUHlltlH
Hunt the utleiwe of her tomb.
Ami the gmve^NhM that confined her
In the bomU of *ko I0"* ''wp
By her hMiiti were ent aaun 'ei
A she ruM) from out the deep.
1 couM her her KlMtnilnjr rivers
Down the winding valleys run.
Where the olive grove* nixl vineyards
Prank the of the sun
1 could vast moui.turn ranges
on her skies their glories truce,
Winters wnipped nround their itliouUlors,
hummer* hl«>omiug at their base.
In the measure of h heart beat,
In lh«* twinkling of an eye,
1 beheld her ini«r ty clt
1,1ft tlietr battlement* on high,
And her strong, triiiinphant armies,
Which the ve v g«Mls «let1««l,
Mhh Iiiiu to the field of battle
An their arroguuee ami pride.
Oh. the princes of that kingdom—
How they ruled on laud and sea'
How they spurned the god of Justice
And to Hiutl bent the knee!
And thev run mm i h golden liiihw
In t he grandest of their marts,
And the incense 'hat ascended
Hone from ruined homed ami hearts.
And the one word that the Image
Uttered day ami night was "Give!"
Till 'he people only answered,
• Giant us work that we may live '
Dm the ruleis babbled, ••Business,*'
ah they reveled at their ease,
And they locked up nature's storehouse
And to thieves consigned the keys.
And the wolves of want went prowling
Round the cabins of the poor,
While the tollers starved and perished
(in the highway and the moor,
For the few claimed all the Increase
From the ocean, soil and air—
Precious atones and gems and metals
Flocks and gniln and trultuge rare.
Bishops feasted at the palace,
Christ siit hungry at the gate,
Mummon held the sway of Hainan
In the hulls ot court and state,
Priest and scholar bowed In homage
Id the one intillgn control
That In church and school demanded
Prostitution of the soul.
Still the multitude paid tilbute
To the miser In his den,
Still the shvlnck knife whs sharpened
For the flesh and hlood of men;
Crafty minds, like huuiHii spiders,
Weaving traps for human flies,
Veiled with webs of legal pretense-
Things that all men know were lies
And the victims fell bv millions
Under land and chattel bond,
Driven from (jod's soil like lepers
Dy the usurer's msglc wand,
Till the army of the homeless
Gathered like a rising flood,
And the cry went up at midnight,
"(Jive us bread or give us blood!"
And the gatheilng flood climbed higher
Till It struck the palace door
And awoke the royal sleepers
With Its wild, devouring roar.
There are tigers in the Juuule
That delight In human piny,
Bur a fiercer tiger crouches
in a starving man at bay.
And the rulers and the robbers,
Though they qualled witli Inward drekd,
Answered buck in bold derision,
"Give them blood instead of bread!"
And I saw the moon blush crimson,
And beneath the weird eclipse
Sat and rode the scarlet woman,
W ith a sneer upon her lips.
There was gathering of the legions
At the mandate of thel> queen,
And the flashing of a million
Blades lit up the awful scene,
And a million starving rollers
Fell like blighted stalks of grain
In that horrid midnight harvest,
Dy their sons and brothers slain.
There are crimes that stir with horror
.Saints and angels round the throne,
Ami whose Judgments can be meted
Dy the courts of God alone.
And I saw the kingdom sinking
At the scarlet woman's feet,
And her t-plendld clues plunging
Like a tempest-foundered fleet.
Mountain ranges met and melted,
And above the fiery tomb
Two great oceans swung together
Like the closing gates of doom.
And I heard a voice proclaiming
Down the solemn aisles of space,
"He who slays a starving brother
Smites his Maker In the face!"
—James G. Clark.
COTTON LETTER.
Under date of Sept. it, Bachel-
ler, Baldwin & Co., of New Orleans,
say:
"For the week ending yesterday
144,585 bales were brought into
sight at N. 0. as against 2x1,922 in
same period last year; stocks at sea-
ports and leaving interior points in-
creased only 79,470, as against 118,-
533 for same week last year;
ceipts at all ports today 22,000, to
31,000 a year ago; port receipts thus
far are 115,086, to 186,642 last year
Liverpool advices today were very
discouraging to bull interests, pri-
ces showing a decline of 1-64 for
arrivals, in the face of our advance
of yesterday coupled with the very
bullish government report. But the
English are great believers in Mr.
Neill. When we consider that the
Englishman believes in a ten million
bale crop and that Manchester is
doing only a moderate business, it is
not very surprising that the Liver-
pool future market is a very bearish
one. But they have been brought
into line many a time before and
we believe they will be the heaviest
buyers before long, for the crop is
in a very precarious condition, and
as it had a late start and has suf-
fered greatly from drouth and un-
seasonable weather generally, the
top crop will amount to almost noth-
ing, especially if frost comes at the
usual time. Liverpool selling or-
ders caused a decline of about nine
points in our market today, and fi-
nal prices were 6.66 for September
TWENTY YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC TREACHERY.
The Democratic leaders for more
than twenty years have been per-
petrating a fraud upon the honest
record. Show it to your neighbor,
who thinks the Democratic party is
likely to give us free coinage of sil-
voters who have listened to their: ver. Ask him what stronger evi-
promises and lies. Below is the dence of duplicity is needed.
Warner, free coluage
Vest, free coinage
Weaver, freecolnuge
Demonetization of Trade Dollar 1H7® Killed; Democratic majority.
Bland freecolnuge Nov, 5, 1877 After istssing house, Beck, Dein., in senate tried to
Hunt the coinage to #3,000,(100 per month
On first passage: 74 D, l&t It.aye; tis D, 4 R. no.
May 24, 1879 Killed In Democratic senate, after passing house.
.June 27, 1870 Killed by De.nocratle senate finance committee.
. April ft, 1880 Defeated In house; Deiu. majority, 18.
H. B MHM>—free coinage. Aprils, 1886 Killed by house; Democratic majority, 45.
Beck—Increased silver coinage 1880 Killed by Democratic house finance committee,
lumb—Free coinage. lsvo Killed In house by Democratic votes.
H. B. 4&6—Free coinage Mar. 24, 1M2 Filibustered to death In house; Deiu. majority, I4V.
Senate bill 51—Free coluage, July 1, 'W2 Killed in Democratic house.
Bland—Free coinage .. . Aug. 28, 1H93 Killed in house; Democratic majority, m).
On same day Dem. House also defeated freecolnuge at 17 to 1, 18 to 1, 19 to 1, ami 20 to l.
Bland—To revive Bland Allison law. On same day. Defeated. Democratic majority, 89
Unconditional re|>eal of Sherman act. On same day. Repeal passed house, 138 1). yea, 77D, nay.
To restore 1837coinage law Nov. 1,181 3 Defeated by Democratic house.
PefTer—Free coinage Oct. 27, 1893 Defeated by senato; Democratic majority, 0.
restore 1837 law 1893 Defeated by Demrcratlc senate.
To coin home product Oct. 27, 1893 Killed by Democratic senate.
Same, with 20 p c for mint. Oct. 28, 1893 Defeated by Democratic senate.
To renew Hlaml-Alllson law
Senator Allen, free coinage,
Blackburn, free coinage
For International bimetallic
congress
Squires, limited free coinage
For double standard
Sen. Powers— free coluage..
Killed by Democratic senate.
Defeated by Democratic senate.
allowing mint churge of dlff. bat. mintage ami coinage
value of metal. Killed by Democratic senate.
Defeated by Democratic senate.
Killed by Democratic senate.
Defeated by Democratic senate.
Killed by Democratic senate committee.
During the twenty years after the
demonetization of silver the Demo-
crats had control of the house six
teen years, and during that period
they killed twenty silver bills—one
for each year. Add to this the fact
that in every instance where a bill
forbidding discrimination against
silver by means of gold clause in
contracts has been introduced in a
legislature elected on the Chicago
platform it has been defeated, and
you will further understand the rot-
• tenness of their promises.
6.45 for October, and 6.48 for De-
cember. The trading was very act-
ive, but the principal selling was by
bear traders, thus largely increasing
the already eni rmous short interest.
Our crop advices today are far
from favorable. A large area in
Texas needs rain badly, and some
sections report the bolls open all
the way to the top of the stalk. In
Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama the
crop is rapidly deteriorating from
rust, shedding and premature open-
ing.
NEBRASKA FUSION.
will remain from the wheat money
a little over $2,400,000—which, with
the butter and eggs, cattle and hogs,
and a half crop of corn, must go to
living expenses, principal of real es-
tate mortgages, chattel mortgages,
etc. Guess Old Hayseed and wife
won't go to Yurrip—this season.
A few in this county may have
been inclined to think that the Re-
publican administration was re-
sponsible for the rise in the price of
wheat, and every Republican poli-
tician in the county has been point-
ing with pride to the rise in wheat
and saying, "I told you so;" but the
present price of cotton, lower than
it was last year, causes them to
scratch their heads as to why it has
not gone up, along with the price of
wheat.
It is reported that the Wolcott
commission has about given up the
job of securing international bimet-
allism. Lack of support by the ad-
ministration is alleged as a cause
for the failure of the commission.
When Senator Wolcott returns home
he will, perhaps, try and square
himself with his Colorado constitu-
ents by reading himself out of the
Republican party that has failed to
live up to its promises.
The fusion outwardly accomplish-
ed in Nebraska between Democrats,
Populists and Silver Republicans,
seems to have bred discord rather
than harmony, to have Populists and
Democrats farther apart rather than
to have brought them closer togeth-
er. So the opposition to the Re-
publican party in that state is unit-
ed in form rather than in fact. The
Populists who were opposed to fu-
sion seem to have been treated with
scant respect, as traitors to the
Populist party, as hirelings of the
Republican party. Whenever one
arose to speak he was asked when he
sold out for Republican money, and
was hooted down. Whether or not
Republican money did play a part
in building up opposition to fusion
in Nebraska, we cannot at this dis-
tance judge. But all opponents of
fusion were not opponents because
they had been corrupted, and to
treat men of honest beliefs as hold-
ing those beliefs for sordid reasons
and as unentitled to a hearing as
corruptible men, was not calculated
to bring such men to cordial en-
dorsement of the work of the con-
vention. but rather to estrange them.
It would have been wiser to have
given these men full hearing and
fair treatment, for if defeated fairly
defeat would not have rankled.
Browbeating methods are out of
place in a convention, least of all in
a Peoples convention. If a cause
cannot succeed without resort to
such tactics it does not deserve to
succeed. Thus ushered into the
race the fusion ticket will labor un-
der a serious handicap.—American.
CROP BULLETIN.
Week ending Monday, Sept. 13th.
It was a hot and dry week, the av-
erage temperature being 79—6 deg.
above normal. Rain reported from
every section, but not general, and
consisted only of showers, on the
9th and loth, badly distributed. A
very heavy storm occurred on the
line of the Rock Island road Friday
evening. The force of this storm
was central in Kingfisher county,
where the rain was very heavy,
ranging from 4.5 to 5 inches, most
of which fell within one hour.
A heavy rain occurred over por-
tions of Cleveland, Oklahoma, Lin-
coln and Pottawatomie counties on
the evening of the 9th, and heavy
rain at Berwyn, Chickasaw Nation,
on same evening; elsewhere, light
showers, doing no good.
Cotton has been injured by the
continued dry weather, both in Ok-
lahoma and the contiguous southern
and eastern Indian territory. Spec-
ial reports from the Chickasaw na-
tion state that the yield will be
20 to 40 per cent less than was ex-
pected two or three weeks ago. The
growth has stopped and the middle
and tops are shedding badly. In
Oklahoma the damage is not so
much, but the indications are that
the middle crop will be light, and
top crop less. Thus far that picked
is not up to expectations. The crop
will be improved in localities where
rains were heaviest, but these areas
are comparatively small. Altogeth-
er the outlook for cotton is less fa-
vorable than a week ago.
With the exception of two or
three counties general heavy rains
are badly needed to put ground in
condition for finishing plowing and
sowing wheat.
Since the enactment of the new
tariff, the potato crop in Ireland has
failed—and the Irish live mostly on
potatoes, and must have them. So
there will doubtless be an unusual
demand and better prices for the
American article. 'Rah for the tar-
iff—or, was it "sound" money did it?
One would imagine, from the hal-
lelujah chorus set up by the g. o. p.
concert, that, owing to the big wheat
crop and higher price, about every
Kansas farmer will this fall wipe off
all his debts and go with his family
on an excursion to Europe. Let's
look at it a minute. Kansas' wheat
crop this year is about 50,000,000
bushels; after reserving 15,000,000
bushels for home manufacture, there
will remain 35,000,000 bushels for
export, which, at 70 cents on the
farm will bring $24,500,000 to the
farmers. According to the 1890
census, Kansas' real estate mort-
gages amounted to £234,000,000.
Since then there has been a disas-
trous panic and harder times than
ever, so it is only moderate to add
another hundred millions to the
1890 debt—giving a real estate in-
debtedness of about 8335,000,000;
annual interest, say $22,100,000. So,
after paying the year's interest, there
Last fall the cotton raisers of this
county bought flour at $1.40 to #1.60
per cwt.; this year they pay from
£2.40 to $2.60, and have to take
about one cent a pound less for
their cotton than last year. We re-
ally think about three-fourths ot the
farmers in this county are not go-
ing to be able to pull themselves up
high enough by their boot straps to
even get a glimpse of that Repub-
lican wave of prosperity.
The Eastern joint traffic associa-
tion has raised the grain rates from
Chicago to the seaboard 5 cents per
hundred, or about 3 cents a bushel.
This is another instance of the rail-
road companies putting on a little
higher rate as soon as they discover
the traffic will stand it. By reason
of the increased amount of traffic the
companies might have lowered their
rates; but this is not the way rail-
roads run by corporations view the
question of rates. Every wheat
raiser in the country is affected
about three cents a bushel b) the
raise in traffic rates between Chica-
go and the seaboard. Let us have
government ownership of the rail-
roads of this country and uniform
rates.
The Indiana legislature passed a
law reducing street car fares from 5
to 3 cents. T he state supreme court
upheld the law; but a federal judge
enjoined the state officers from en-
forcing it, for the reason, as he al
leged that it was unconstitotional.
Jefferson in his attack on the feder-
al judiciary predicted that the state
governments would be destroyed by
the usurpations of the national gov-
ernment. The usurpations of the
federal judiciary are making the
federal government omnipotent.
The laws of the states of Kansas,
Illinois and Indiana have been set
aside at the behest of corporations,
by federal judges within the past
few months.
Last Friday, as a body of miners
at Latimer, Pa., were marching
along the public highway they were
fired into by a squad of deputies
and 23 of the unarmed miners fell
dead and many others were badly
wounded. The men carried no
weapons and were violating no law
of the land when they were
shot down. Labor organizations
throughout the country have de-
nounced this bloody massacre of
their fellow-workmen, and have de-
manded that the sheriff and his
deputies he tried for murder and the
mine operators as accessories to
crime. It is a case of feeding lead
to starving men. It is cheaper for
the operators than to pay their men
wages enough to buy bread. It
might be well to remind our readers
that this incident happened in a
state that gave 280,000 majority for
McKinley and "protection" to the
workingman.
The cotton market in Norman has
led all other cotton markets in Okla
honia for the past week by about a
quarter of a cent; but it is not as
good as we would like to see it.
From the best information we can
get we believe that the price of cot-
ton will advance in the near future,
and we believe the cotton growers,
like the wheat growers, can profit
by not rushing their cotton to mar-
ket this year. The reports from sev-
eral of the big cotton states of the
south show a big falling off in the
condition of the crop during the
last month, and Oklahoma makes
the only report showing an improve-
ment in that time. We believe that
when the next estimate of the cotton
crop is compiled, last estimate will
be found too high and if it is the
price of cotton is sure to advance,
and even if the estimate should not
be changed by another report we
still think the chances for the price
advancing good by reason of the
strengthening of the demand result-
ant from the advance in price of
other commodities.
Read the Democratic party rec-
ord on free silver in this issue. In
the face of its past record, from
whence it draws all of its nourish-
ment for present existence, what do
you think of the cause of silver if
given over to its fatherly care? Will
it not cling to its traditions and
teachings of the past? It certainly
will, for a party that is made up of
men that are Democrats because
The University Opens.
On Thursday morning the Univer-
sity year of 18117-HH opened most au-
spiciously. The enrollment i* atiout
ISO and each train brings new studentx
to swell the number. So far as we
can learn every county of Oklahoma
is represented in the enrollment of
this year.
The opening chapel exercise was
most impressive. The large rostrum
was completely tilled by the faculty
and the assembly room as closely
crowded by students and visitors.
Pres. Boyd conducted the exercises
and took occasion to speak most earn-
estly of the individual responsibility
laid upon each student and of the
"cloud of witnesses" ready to testify
to the good or evil conduct of each
individual and to the earnestness or
weakness of his efforts. Following
chapel the several new l'rofessors
were presented, who were, Prof. Par
rington, modern languages. Prof.
McKee, violin and orchestra, Miss
Jones, piano.
Prof. McKee favored the students
with such a violin solo as showed him
to be a perfect master of his art and
Miss Jones played a beautiful selec-
tion on the piano.
Visitors were impressed not only by
the largely increased number of stu-
dents but by the generally mature
and scholarly appearance of the new
students many of whom are enrolling
this year in the higher classes.
The University with the additions
to its faculty will now offer to the
young people of Oklahoma a liberal
as well as a thorough course of in-
struction.
notes.
Many new faces greet the visitor.
.... Pres. Boyd is busily at work en-
rolling students The ladies' re-
ception room is now elegantly fur-
nished Secretary Jenkins was a
visitor this morning. His son will at-
tend theUniversily thisyear The
chapel rostrum was tastily decorated
with flowers Thursday Miss King
enlisted wonderful attention in chapel
while she recited a simple but re-
markably beautiful selection entitled
"Leadville Jim." More of such se-
lections should be heard by the pub-
lic, but few of them will be delivered
half so well.
University Correspondent.
Noble Notes,
Plenty of rain Cotton coining
into town C. i'. Klinglesmith has
gone to Jacksboro, Texas, on legal
business The genial Cap'n. Smith
has returned from Buffalo, N. Y.,
where he attended the National En-
campment of the G. A. K lames
Winton is now landlord of the hotel.
From the best reports that we
can gather, the temperance lecture
last Friday night came near being a
"howling" success Mr. Wilson,
from the Chickasaw, has moved in
town to send his children to school.
E. B. Allen is nursing some badly
bruised lingers trying to be a stone-
mason The stone culvert on the
railroad just north of town, which
has been under course of construction
for several months is completed
Public school opened up with a good
enrollment, considering the fact that
the cotton is now ready to pick_
There are about (>0 enrolled at pres-
ent Work on the new school
building is progressing nicely It
will be ready for use by Nov. 1st, at
the latest The people of Noble
have petitioned the annual confer-
I>r. John Threntlglll,
The Tribune, of Taylor, Texas, of
Sept. 3d 18U7, gives a photograph and
long write-up of Doctor Threadgill of
the Sanitarium. We publish the fol-
lowing extract from the write-up in
order that our readers may learn a
little of the past history of the Doc-
tor and what his old townsmen think
of him.
Dr. Threadgill came to Taylor from
North Carolina, in which state he was
born and educated, in June, 1876, soon
| after the little prairie city of which
he now proudly calls his home, was
laid out into town lots by the Texas
Land company.
On the date of his arrival in Taylor
the population of the city uid not
number 100 souls.
To-day it has a progressive citizen-
ship of fully 5,000.
Dr. Threadgill first practiced his
profession, that of physician and sur-
geon in Taylor, in its earlier days,
elected mayor of the city and was
soon recognized as the leading spirit
in the up building of his adopted I ence of the M. E. church to return
home. By shrewd management and | Rev H. H. Everett to this charge.
keen business judgment he accumu-
lated quite a small fortune.
He was foremost in every movement
toward the upbuilding of Taylor. It
was he who secured the location of
the railroad shops in Taylor; it was
he who, by his indomitable persever-
ance, induced the flood of emigration
which settled up the country adja-
cent to Taylor. It was he, by wise
counsel, who advised the election of
the very best set of officers of which
any county in the state can boast.
His honesty and integrity soon
placed him at the leadership of all
social and financial organizations in
Taylor ; was elected vice-president of
the First National bank of this city
soon after its organization in 1881.
In all political gatherings, where
the welfare of the populace was at
issue, Dr. Threadgill was always pres-
ent. His influence was such as to
their fathers before them were Dem-
ocrats, don't mark out new paths in I command the respect and esteem of
the wilderness with any great de-1 with whom he came in contact,
gree of rapidity. In view of the 1 * " *
record the Democratic party has Brook's Photograph Gallery.
made on the silver question it is a | Brook's photograph gallery
. . . «i. will be open all winter and parties de-
traversty on American intelligence . . 4 p . J . .
J , siring to secure the very best photo-
to even hope to see silver restored &raphg known tQ the Rrt CHn gecure
to its former place in our currency them by visiting his gallery in stone
by that party. ' building, north of Citizenrs bank.
Liverpool quotations on cotton
are received regularly by our cotton
buyers W. T. Tate, of Norman,
was down last week on business, and
incidentally purchased a line Jersey
cow of J. W. Klinglesmith, et al.
Nebo.
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spells, Klectrie Bitters is the medicine
you need. Health and strength are
guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents and
$1.00 at Blake & Heed's drug store.
A New Attraction lor The Fair.
D. A. Minor, secretary of Fair, says
he has secured Prof. E. Rush, who will
give three balloon ascensions, three
days during fair. Changes of program
each day.
1st day's program—1 man parachute
leap.
2d day's program—a man and lady
parachute leap.
3d day's program—a balloon race,
man and lady in seperate balloons race
i up and parachute race down.
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