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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 7.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY. MARCH 10, i899.
On the Other Side of the World.
The governments of the Austral
ian Colonies, ami especially of New
Zealand, are gradually nationalizing
what, in Canada or the United
States, would be considered individ-!
ual or corporate business utilities. |
The legislative measures in Aus-1
tralia proper are no' quite so far j
advanced as in New Zealand, but
all the Australian colonies will |
speedily follow the example of New
Zealand.
New South Wales last,.year closed
its first (successful) financial year
under a policy of free trade and a
direct land tax on unimproved
values.
Usually, when Australian or New
Zealand legislation is referred to in
the press, it is said to be socialistic,
anarchistic, wild-cat, experimental,
or trial legislation, and the people
look in vain for explanations. A
perusal of the following brief refer-
ence to some of the measures will
assist the reader in coming to a cor-
rect conclusion as to whether the
New Zealand laws are in the inter-
est of the whole people or in the in-
terest of a few privileged individu-
als.
First. The land and income tax
assessment act in fore in New Zea-
land imposes a tax on incomes and
an ordinaty tax on land and mort-
gages, the amount of winch is fixed
annually by a rating act. There is
also an additional graduated lax on
the unimproved value of land held
in large blocks of from is penny to
2 pence in the pound. Improve
merits pay no taxes. The income
tat is payable on in omes derived
from employment and from business
including investments other than
those in mortgages on land, on
which the ordinary land tax is lev-
ied. An exemption of ^300 is al-
lowed to every person domiciled in
New Zealand.
Second. Advances are made by
the government to actual settlers.
In fact, any fanner may borrow 011
the security of his farm and im-
provements an amount ranging from
£25 to ^3>0001 at five per cent per
annum, and repay the principal on
very easy terms. On this account
existing mortgages in favor of pri-
1 i
with
clianee
every
weather ?
!>oes jour throat
raw ?
through
pains
your
chest ?
Don't you know these are
danger signals
which point
to pneumonia, bronchitis, or
consumption itself?
It you are ailing and have
lost i!-sh lately, they are
Cirtaialy danger signals. The
question for you to decide is,
Have I the vitality to throw
off these diseases ?
Don't wait to try SCOTT'S
EMULSION
as a last re
There Is no remedy
equal to it for fortifying the
system. Prevention is easy.
Scott's
Emuision
prevents
consumption
hosts of other diseases which
attack the weak and those
with poor blood
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
the one standard remedy for
inflamed throats and lungs,
for colds, bronchitis and con
sumption.
It is a food medi-
cine of remarkable power.
food, because it nourishes the
body; and
medicine, be-
cause
diseased
corrects
conditions.
5oc. and $1.00. all druggists.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York
vate parties or corporate companies,
which are bearing high rates of in-
terest, are being paid off. It is be-
lieved that this system will soon be
extended, so that the artisan class
may take aduantage of it.
'I hird. The schools are national
and free.
fourth. Over $ 1,000,000 have al-
ready been expended by the gov-
ernment of New Zealand in estab-
lishing technical schools.
Fourth. The government con-
trols the postoffice and postal sav-
ings banks, and deposits in the gov-
ernment savings banks are aiways
available when required.
Sixth. The government controls
and operates the telegraph system
in connection with the postal ser-
vice, and a ten-word message costs
only 12 cents.
Seventh. The government con-
trols and operates the telephone sys-
tem, and the charges are about two-
thirds the usual American charges,
and the profits go to the govern-
ment, and consequently to the
whole people.
Eighth. The government gives
state or national life insurance. The
premium rates are lower than the
average rates charged by private
companies. Every policy - holder
feels that he has tne whole nation as
a guarantee behind his risk.
Ninth. The government is now
perfecting plans in regard to nation-
al fire insurance.
Tenth. The government has prac-
tically established a state or nation-
al bank. South Australia was the
first to move in the establishing of
a national government bank, which
is managed 111 the interest of the
people. There is no object in the
government forcing citizens into
bankruptcy in time of depression.
Eleventh. The government con-
trols and is responsible for the ad-
ministration of all estates, for which
service a very nominal fee is
charged, and the widows and or-
phans are protected from legal
troubles.
Iwelfth. The government charg-
ts a graduated succession tax of
from 2 to 10 per cent, according to
the value of the estate.
1 hirteenth. Government owns
and operates all the railroads ex-
cepting one short line, which will
also soon be nationalized. The
freight and passenger rates on the
government roads are such as to
give about 3^ per cent interest on
the money invested. The rates do
not discriminate, neither are they
differential nor preferential, nor do
the people pay freight and passen-
ger rates necessary to provide in
terest on watered stock.
fourteenth. Women vote at all
elections in New Zealand, and also
in South Australia, which has un-
doubtedly had a beneficial effect.
fifteenth. Eight hours contitutes
a legal day's work, for which fair
living wages are paid. This gives
the workers more time for mental
improvement, recreation. health
| building, etc.; life is considered
worth living, and shorter hours also
compensate to some extent for the
loss of labor caused hy the general
use of machinery.
Sixteenth. The large estates,
principally acquired by squatter?,
who iocated their holdings early in
j the history of New Zealand, and for
which little or nothing was paid, are
being purchased by the government
for the benefit of actual settlers;
that is, the estates are assessed for
taxation at the owner's valuation,
I the government reserving the right
to take over the land (-excepting a
j homestead, if required), at the owu-
| er's valuation, plus ten jwr cent, if
the owner's valuation is considered
too low.
Seventeenth. A conciliatory board
nas been established in every town
or city where any difficulty likely to I
arise between capital and labor.
These boards are composed of three
J representative business men, three
representatives from the trades un
ion and a district judge. A strike
.is impossible in New Zealand.
Eigteenth. Public libraries, mu-
seums, parks and gardens have'been
established in every city and town;
public baths are also found in many
places.
Nineteenth. Considerable of the
land adjoining the cities and towns
is held as public elomain, and for
small homesteads for the artisan
class.
Twentieth. Wednesday afternoon
is the usual half-holiday. The law
compels a half holiday during each
week.
I do not know of any country
where there are so few very rich
and so few very poor as in New
Zealand. The laws tend toward
providing an equal opportunity to
all, and to check the over-reaching
of those possessed with wolfish pro-
pensities.
It is quite true that party politics
still prevail, and that the govern-
ment opposition in New Zealand is
dissatisfied, also the money lending
and land monopolizing classes, like
wise those who have had or wish to
have special privileges, and their
cause is championed by a financial
ly strong wing of the press.
The writer spent over eight months
in the Australasian colonies and
never met a man who could give
good or valid reasons why the so-
called radical laws should be re-
pealed. The general opinion is
that an honest administration of the
laws will secure for the people un-
precedented contentment and pros-
perity.—T. J. McBride, Toronto.
NO
lege to serve that power to which it j wreatha from the hand* of their ce n-
surrendered in 1884 all pretensions j *tituents in particular, am] the pec-
that it uiake to the contrary not- 1 |ll'.'1!" fe'"''aL
notwithstanding. A week has hardly ! ci*h, ' ! "'""r","."1"', ^ tr,'llB to ,U"
t -.in . 7 , llI>,ur Kome of the bi is paswd hv tlu-
passed since the Democratic lea.ler present legislature, the governor no
m congress arose and propoMd a Ambt, oftm ngr^U that the present jeu. mi at the school Boy
vote of thanks to the greatest auto- 'aw-spolling aggregation doesn't con- ?,"K School Ciki, Nekii anh I
crat of the money power that ever ' t:ii" a fcw yutleuien and scholars of ' "Klu Wants t an 1!k. Suppukii.
- - I tho A n O. a. .
fount) Teaelier'n Association
, at Lexington, March
17th and lhtli.
FKIDAY KVE.NI.VG, 8:00 o'clock.
Lkcti kk. David It. n ,vd. i>'re,i.
•lent University of oklahoma. Sub-
ject: "What the School Boy a.\i>
How
presided over the deliberation! of ith* 1>rof' A, C-Scott brand.
an American congress, the man that'.,1 J I ***
B , mat | "looking backward" and ►tripped for
• i ivuniug iwi
today wields more power than any j action when
single individual in the republic, hil
the president not excepted, to-wit, "
1 oiu Reed of Maine.
he was wounded in the ":"11'
An Effort by Barnyard Ripling.
'1 ;ike up,the printer's burden—
It is an awful load,
Anil gathers weight the further
He travels down the road;
Bills payable in plenty,
Subscribers in arrears—
1 he troubles that beset him
Would drive a bust to tears.
Take up the printer's burden—
A form knocked into pi,
The editor arrested
For publishing a lie;
A typo full of joint juice,
The foreman far away,
Upon some big excursion—
The devil is to pay.
Take up the printer's burden—
At last the paper's out—
John Smith's wife hail a baby,
Two rowtlies had a bout;
Representative Duffy—"I'll go into
no public building combine unless'
they will agree to give me a free tlis-1
tillery at Lexington. We have lots|l:30.
t>f corn and democrats down niv way.1'
Hon. Duffy killed the proposed $ilo,- (
i 000 taxation for public Institutions, j
| The superior oratorical anil other |
j talents so conspicuously displayed by
DulTy, Walls and Hadley, is admired
by all regular and occasional visitors
J in the lower house, and, greatly as-
, sisted hy the chronic wrangling and |
general cussed ness of the republican-, '
will help to make the next legislature !
a real legislative assembly of the
masses and not of the classes.
2:1.1.
KILYt' l>ULKN I TOI KIS I'.
SOME THOUGHTS,
BY A VETERAN OF '46-48 AND '61-65.
Dark ilnn us the ilay Tor liberty
Wlien u republic strong anil free
Compels a nation, woalt but brave,
Hy force of aims to be tlieir slave.
For simnio, my countrymen, for shame !
To attribute treason, wrong or blaine
To men who buckle on the sword
Anil bravely ilefontl Uietr Aug :
To men who iu-l< but to be rree-
Thelr only crimc, For Liberty.
Shall «re the sons of the weak but brave,
Through treachery our friends enslave?
Oh, weep for shame! Urcnt Goil forbid
That trickery lurk beneath our flag ;
Or that those who control the state
Should be treacherous to be great I
Far better that our flag should trail the dust,
Than be unfurleil by knave or trust,
To exploit thine isles, be they bond or free,
Anil empire reign beyond the sea.
Treason I treason! you shout. That rnav be true,
Yet a sacrifice was made to the red, white anil
blue.
I defended our ling on field and on flood;
Have seen It baptized in our oountrymen's
lilontl;
Have cheered it to victory, mourned it.s defeat; I
Been proud of our colors it) charge or retreat ;
Have shared their fortunes in our country's'
wars,—
Hill it was for justice nnd freedom I stood hy j
the stars.
lie Works Smoother limn Kti tcr
in a Calf's Km-.
There Is a man in this county that
baa been living off of the farmers by
representing that he Is loo iug after
- United Strtes mail matter and issues
Urown's children had the measles, for his board an lodging, orders 011 tin
Mits Flippy's tlog is dead, Santa Kc railroad company for the
Miss latlle had a quilting— amount, signing liis name, .Jamc* \
And not a word was said. \\ iiiiauis, r. s. M.
1 The orders are written on mail
lor a number of jearsGrover route slips. The Santa Fe company
Cleveland's billion dollar congress would like to have knowledge <>f the
exact whereabouts of this individual,
and would be pleased to receive in-
formation so that they might take
congress
was a theme Republican newspa-
I pers and stump orators delighted to
! weave into handsome boquets and
toss to a tax-ridden people; but the
congress that has just adjourned is
a floral garden richer in boquet ma-
terial by a half billion. It will
doubtless be known as the McKin-
ley billion and a half dollar con
steps to hang him, so to speak.
Music Man All Around.
Prof. A. J. Dell lias lately bought
and built a nice residence in s >uth
weal Norman, and is again ready for
all work in his line. Will tune your
press. Its appropriations amounted 1''',n08 "n,d *" 10
to about that sum. j .'"T '""1 "'V "" °lem V°'
| cal lessons, aleo all Kinds of string
<<v music. Will go in the countrv any-
iNever, in reply tc> the question where and t.aeh singing bcl Is, nor-
to what country you belong, say ranis or sing for meetings. Has had I
that you are an Athenian or a Cor ' —-
SATURDAY MOKNINU.
"Psychology," C.'hapt. iv; \
II. Honiiold.
"How to Study Plants. Sprin"
i'eauty and Violet;'' Snot
E. r., Cralle.
Kacli teacher will please
bring specimens to the class.
SATI'IIDAY AKTIOItNOOV.
"How to Teach Fractions in
Second and Third Grades;"
Miss Lydia Clifford. Dis-
cussion. .Miss, Lulu Miller,
t'. E. Sherman.
1 lie Results of the Sp.-mish-
American War" Our New
Possessions; N. T. Pool.
Discussion, N K. Hutched
J. Peterson, James A.
Cowan.
"The Pupil on the Playground;"
C. b. Reynolds. Discussion,
<!. W. Malone, L. V. Jack-
son.
1 Itec., Miss Lydia Clifford.
Maud Winuatk, N. 12. Butohkr.
Secretary. President.
<;r pes! drapes! (irnpe.s!
If JO" want 11 few nice vines for an
arbor or the curd. 11. try the celebrated
"Munson Hybrid.;" finest quality «nd
best growers. Miller's Vineyard, Nor-
man, O. T. 32 4t,
Go to McGinley & Berry
for B. B. and Eli flour.
Overstocked.
1 have a larger s'.ouk of harness than
I wish to carry and in order to reduce
the Stock I will, for the next thirty
days, sell collars eheapor than lilts
goods were ever sold in Norman.
H. W. Stum in..mam.
New Meat Market.
l'urd ltemmert wauls everyone to
know, aud especially his old friends
and former customers, that he tins
again embarked in the butcher busi-
ness in Norman and his shop a i!I hj
found just ea-t of Central Hlnuk on
east Main street.
inthian, but that you are a citizen
of the world."—Epictetus.
Wanted.
of the past in Norman.
Nearly all of J
up
Legislative Notes.
About 3!)!) bills arc still Hying in the
legislature's hopper.
, , i"..u HI nimiirtii. nearly ;
Gristmill Jones brought more grist the business houses are puttin
to the legislature mill than all the "'anvass awnings.
other lower house fellows combined.
Lawyer Tom Doyle spoke as well
and voted nearly as good as a genu-
ine populist.
The ambitious "mound builders"
were downed by the lowly "cave
dwellers."
Populists Duffy, Wails and Thomas
for manager of
wish to open in this
eighteen years' experience. All work |
guaranteed and prices low. Leave 01-
ders at Capt. Uic« s music house, CHy I Reliable man
Drug Store Of with Miss Grace King, 1 , ^
president of music department at tliel ranc 1 " ce
University. vicinity. If your record is O. K.,
Hoard awnings will soot, be a thing ! J'"' - 'S * g0H(1 "l>e> 'ng. Kindly
• 1— *-1 mention this paper when writing.
A. I. MORRIS, Cincinnati, O.
Illustrated catalogue 4c postage.
Dentistry.
For Dents I work goto Wor
ley, over Citizens bank. Nor-
man Teeth extracted without
pain.
Should foreign <te^poto Columbia lnva<ie,
1 ti take down from tlio wall once more my old
To my'Hon ,'d beip.ea.li It-'-Uod speed yon, 1 ^ a.ff.W lh",'salu' dolUra ^her n . ,,
farewell— 1 tt they had listened to the siren voices
"G'n, help your countrymen the invader expel, i tile seductive "mound builders."
"Hut never this sworn or your sires dlsgmee i Statesman Biddison, the "lead man
"By helping enslave an Inferior mee." from Hellroaring Creek," often 11 nils
hong, long have I waited, hut In vain, comfort in the charming smiles of
",be"y "^"""t'renio, j "Honkatonk.s" famous female ctiarm-
Antl freedom not an empty dream. I ers
Oh, that 1 coulil live a thousand years or X- *.
Now it will come to pass that the
| investigators will be investigated for
! their long and short comings.
| 1 lie voluminous house school laud
bill wasn't unbearable before it went
onto the upper-crusters' warpath, I
where it was fearfully hashed and
slashed before it reached the gover-
nor's dissecting table.
... ! Ii'i'rltory < )KlalioMin, i
llic ( litlirie Leader very aptly County of Cleveland, s
ays: "Hon. h Duffy has very prom-: (
inent ear marks oi" a real statesman,'
health, live forty coming years; but future.'" ** heard in tlle j
. Osceola A l. Hall and I.
.Messrs. l-Jiiiry, W aus and Thomas feiulimtu, win tnkenoth
S^oke HENE'S
S Gent
" Strawberry" CIGAR.
jJKO.T. KKVNOLDS, V -l :
C, 11. HicssKs r, Ciirihier.
more I
If Coil 111 his great mercy would restore
I lie Golden Ku le, and cause the human nice
Its grand and glorious precepts to embrace ~
Man's inhumanity to man would cease,—
All men on earth enjoy perpetual peace.
—Co. I.. 8TH \V IS.
Col. \Vm. R. Morrison, in a con-
versation with the eciitor of The
\ erdict said, ''You are younger than
I and may well, with luck anil
.Norman State Bank.
Capital, $50,000.
Collections a Specialty.
RENI-RC
J.
C. H. HESSBNT.
MAGUIRE. I. M
GEO. T. RKVNOLUS. CARUTHK
CURTICE. T. E. SMITH.
Publication Notice.
In the District Court thereof.
Ilrlggs and M. c. llunyan, plaint ills,
vs.
Hall and Lockle A. Hal)
B B, flour at McG. & B's,
For I tent.
A fiirm four miles north east of Nor-
man, nboul 70 acres in culti vatiou, «0 to
25 acres bottom land bahtnc • :n tivo
pastures and and a lioj p isture eon-
tainiug 50 to 60 aeres. Wnter. ti:n )3P
you will never in your time see a .Messrs. Duffy, Wails and Thomas ! h'!'<iVi'i«V 1 i'-'.V!!■«'iVt'irt n 1.^'-i,lI'V'i
United States judge who is not the was the invincible trinity that i-awd .
selection of the corporations " Cn 1 several 100,000 dollars tu the ta\- T,'1 ''T" !V'' u ,n"" ""'l r<"' "•••••"nntj <,ro d orchard and eows and bro.) ! .so*vs
T„.t, pw'Biiuua. v^ui. navers I "I < lovelainl uud territory of Oklahoma 1 . ## - f ■
Bill ("Horlsoittal Bill") Horrlaon la C B. D.«/. bill SSJlSt
° «o( lb. greatest i„ M ' - tt. J. HamiLIi
Duffy s bill com_
— visit the sick in their al- f r« tin- ur i .iny <>r April, ihihi, oVn/ii.i'ix-'ri
the Democratic party; but in his Miction, passed the house. Duffy'sde-1 demUn ^d^tlo" miT'rremiint-
fetise of the needed law was an uti- f!" ,h" i« wnn interest thereon at
ini,e ,°T J2 percent per annum from the
I HOW, lllld COStS III ^lllt;
•nt against said «lef
prime was relegated to the rear be-
cause he refused to be the servile
tool of the corporations anil today
is spending his last years in retire-
ment at his old home at Waterloo,
Illinois. Mr. Morrison would have
been the Democratic candidate in-
stead of Cleveland in 18S.4 had that
answerable, crushing"
against all stony hearted health cob-
biers.
Hon. Daniels, who is a somewhat
neglected genius, worked like a
beaver during the present legislative
session. Those fat fleas he put into
certain big ears "will come home to
j 1lie rate of l^ percent
argument ,lny of Kebruarv, 1
, . and a fuither judtfmen
*
ants for the for. closure « f Two cerlaln tnorf.
gn^es upon the rnilowui^dewribcd reale-tate
to wit—a part <>t tlio southeast Quarter of ko>
tlon 4, toivuHilp q north ot ram<e j u e-t of |
M., iiinl particularly described >ts follows; !:«••
Klnning at the northeast cornt r ( f suid «iii irter
section, thence we>t h i rods to u sloue on the
north boundary line of said qu irter .-ection,
thence Miufli to a ^toue on the south boundary'
of sab I quarter .sect ion HO rods west of the south •
••ast corner thereof, thence east so rods to
, . ea«i corner i Hereof, thence e;tst 80 rods to stid
turtv been linn,-tf i.. , " rhe spacious pockets ot •onMiwul oorner, nnrtti to tlie nlaoe ot
I y ueen nonest in Us pretensions honest Arttul. i i ^|""I"l'-i- •■itnniiti< suhiti-, IvIh«hiui ii„
' !i* - - ,pi , ate in the county of « leveland in the territory
i lie last, the saclaest days Of the ! of OklHhomn, and adjudging that said plainiiffs
circus, have ronic ! have the tii>t lien on said premises, t,, the
' ' j amount for which judgment will be taken a.s
1 he female suti'rajre bill passed tin* wild premises to be
,i told, and the proceeds applied to tin* onvmcnr
lower house. Bachelor Malley turneil [ "I iii ninounH iiu« piaintitri, unit inri:n i« «r
, i 1... , ; f'dt. Hilil foiover linrrlnK mill f<irirliislni{ -ultl
it tllL i_oloss.il sport j ilerenilKiits from nil riuhi, titln,I.itc, I runt
to tariff reform and anti-corpora
'ion rule. When the Democratic
party tinned down Morrison for
Cleveland it revealed the fact that
the Democratic partv had surrcn !'" l>Cal',M,t - ■ - —
, surren from Canadian countv" stood like a n "V'.'" "5*"" ,<l""v r<"l'',ni,,lon or to
J. ; , a_" | "dif preinlsca, oruny part tliBi eor.
1 California is
| a rCand of
3lowers.
* Boys bring bou , lets to ev-
« ery passenger on I he Cal-
o ifornia Limited at the boun-
dary of Flower land.
« 1
2 Nothing is omitted that can
add to the pleasure of pat-
a rons of this splendid train
? to Southern California, via
Santa Fe Route.
- Hum cuujuian county stood liae an I' t; "i""> "• ■ i '" pii«n in or to
dered to the monev nnvp- nf fit*. I.' I - . I slil proinlsoa, oruny pint tlleieol.
conntrv snA f 1 i ■ ■ -tiPtiau sphyux against the howl- witness my iihiuI uiiu iiu-m>hi or nild court
country «.na today it is vtetng until i mg, strong minded sisterhood. I ^ ?!!' i. ",f, KJ',','[VHIV
the Republ.'f j;, party for the privi- Duffy and Wails deserve laurel' Viy V.'.!i' tVrk V> >.'■ pVi ty.
>ewell & Jactcson. Attorneys for 1'lalntitf
* Ueneral l'ast>en^er Ofllce, *
I flicfiison. fopeKfl l sanio fe rdii^ •
w Tol'EKA, liAS. O
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