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Peoples Voice
VOL. 8.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, AUGUST n 1839.
NO 3
ENGLAND, THE WORLD'S LANDLORD.
THA I' is the prospect held out by | our colonial possessions, which is
" Ritortus" in the July Contempo- fast becoming England's domain
rary Review. Landlord not by con- i an<' empire.
quest, but by investment of capital. ] •< By virtue of invested capital
So he calls his theme "The Imperi- Australia is British ; Canada also is
alism of British Trade." His point British; but we have helped to build
of departure is the much-talked-of
excess of imports over exports. He
sees nothing to be alarmed at in
this excess—quite the contrary. It
marks to him the growing rent-roll
of John Bull, the landlord of the
planet. He surveys England's com-
up the United States on a grander
scale than any of our colonies, and
rom a merely economic point of
view we may look upon that coun-
try as our largest and greatest colo-
j ny." In Agentina are invested some
,£200,000,000 [ ^£i=$5, nearly,]
harsh term. I withdrew—I re-
tired that melon. I carried it to a
secluded corner of a lumber yard.
1 broke it open. It was green—the
greenest watermelon raised in the
valley that year. The minute I saw
it was green I was sorry, and began
to reflect. Reflection is the begin-
ning of reform. If you don't reflect
when you commit a crime, then that
crime is of no use; it might just as
well have been committed by some
one else. You must reflect or the
value is lost; you are not vaccinated
against committing it again. I be-
gan to reflect. I said to myself:
with our one-sided free-trade policy, j istic glory is certainly rising." What ought a boy to do who has
would not only have prevented us j stolen a green watermelon? What
from progressing any further in This is the secret of the rapid. would George Washington do, the
manufactures and wealth, but would growth in excess of imports : father of his country, the only
surely have landed us in a most un- t " If since the middle of the cent-
desirable position if the expanding ury we have sent out our capital to
and conquering power of our capit- produce abroad, if we have farmed
al had not come to our rescue. We it with the soil of foreign countries, boy do "ho has stolen a water-
ought never to lose sight of this mo- I if by means of it we have dotted the i melon of that class he must make
mentous fact. . . Our chief pow- whole globe with our industrial es- j restitution ; he must restore that
er no longer consists in the supretn- tablishments—then we must of ne- properly to its rightful owner. I
acy of our industry. It is shifting 1 cessity import an increasing share j sa'd I would do it when I made t^iat
gradually and leaning more and of the produce of our capital abroad K°°d resolution. I felt it to be a
more on capital. j without exporting for it in return, noble, uplifting obligation. I rose
Our imports from abroad were ' "P spiritually stronger and refreshed.
mercial development from the days j British capital. Concessions worth
of Queen Elizabeth to the present ^£20,000,000 have just been secured
time, and reaches these conclusions: ln China. So the writer exults:
" The rising rivalry of our com- " The industrial glory of little Eng-
petitors in manufactures, together j land may be departing ; its capital-
" The first time I ever stole a wa j T11K HUMBLEST AND WEAKEST,
ternielon—that is, I think it was the i
on who will iHHpHihy, and stifle they
first time; anyway, it was right along 1 who ran,
there somewhere—I stole it out of a T"e ynp ui«*. the nopoa, tin words, turn
t make miiu truly tntin:
farmer s wagon while he was wait-1 wUom* t limi t a are dungeoned up with
ing on another customer. Stole is! interest or with chm,
Consent to hear with quiet pulae of loiithgoiue
American who could not tell a lie ?
What would he do? There is only
one right, high, noble thing for any
our exports
I carried that watermelon back-
deedH like thot*? I
Miame on the cotrtly mockery of piling stone
on tone
To throw who won our liberty, the horoea
dead and gone,
W title we look coldly on and «ee law shielded
ruftiaiiH luy
The men who fain would win their own, the
heroet) of today.
A re we pledged to cruven silence' O fling It to
the wind,
Tlie parchment wall that ban* u« from the least
of human kind—
That makes us cringe and temporize, ami
dumbly stHnd at rest,
W Idle l'lt\ 'h burning flood of words is red hot
In the breast.
rtoo' we break our Father'* promise, we have
nobler duties first ;
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor moat
amirsed ;
Man Is more than constitutions; better rot be-
luath the mm!
Than he true to church and state while we are
doubly false to iiod I
We owe allegiance to the state; but deeper,
truer, more,
To the sympathies that C od bath set within
our spirit's core.
Our country claims our fealty : we grant it so,
but than
Hefor
For everything' in the Fur-
niture or Undertaking' line
at lowest prices, see
REED & SHAFFER.
Reduced Prices,
To make a General 'Clean-Up.'
. We have ail New Goods, and the prices are already low,
tore m«n made us citizen*, great Nature > . rr c • i i i ... «. unmujr .ww,
made u8 men. | but we otter special Inducements in all Itnes
for July and August!
He's true to Uod who's true to man ; wherever
wrong is done
To the humblest and the weakest 'neath the ,
xhn^wrang'ua^Miono to us; ami they are' . 11 you are looking for nice, new, dean Goods—and Bar-
slaves most base ; gains, too, come to see Us.
H hose love of right is for themselves, and not —•
fot all their race.
-.lames Itussell Lowell.
" Disraeli, in his < Sybil,' remarks boun(, to increaM
that in a commercial country like fron) home were bound to suffer, what was left of it—and restored it]tj i c d ,l d o q
England every ha!f century devel- ; j( w#g # rAdicai change which upset t0 the fartner, and made him give
ops some new and vast source of the e(iuiljbrjun, of international ex.
public wealth which brings into na- j change."
tional notice a new and powerful .< Ritortus" complains that Eng-
class. A couple of centuries ago [js], economic writers have not
the Turkish merchant was the ere-
ator of wealth; the West India plant-
er followed him ; in the middle of
grasped the meaning of the change.
"They do not see that England is
no longer a mere creditor who draws
interest, but is also a landlord who
draws rents and profits."
He cheerily concludes :
" The fact is, the trade of the
the last century appeared the na-
bob. The above types described by
Disraeli in turn merged in the land
and became English aristocrats. . .
The expenditure of the Revolution-
ary war produced the loan-monger,
who succeeded the nabob, and the
application of science to industry
developed the manufacturer. He
in his turn is now, slowly but surely,
disappearing before the foreign in-
vestor. The balance of power re-
moves from Manchester and Birm-
ingham to St. Swithin's Lane and
Lombard Street. England could
not remain the workshop of the
world; she is fast becoming its cred-
itor, its mortgagee, its landlord."
The writer finds, "more or less,
the starting point of this our latest
development" to be the Limited Li-
ability Companies Act of 1862. "It
gave our capital the great power of
combining and the courage for
starting on its conquering career."
He gleefully quotes Ricardo's letter
to Malthus :
"Accumulation of capital has a
tendency to lower irofits. If with
every accumulation of capital we
could tack a piece of fresh fertile
land to our island, profits would
never fall."
He exclaims :
" That is just what our capital
has done for us. It lias been add-
ing one piece of land after another
to our island, until our capitalists
may triumphantly say,' The world—
the world is ours.'
" The superabundant capital of
Great Britain, finding no longer
profitable employment in the agri-
culture, manufactures, and trade of
her own territory, began by neces
sity to overflow her boundaries, to
take possession — first of the car-
rying trade on the seas, and then of
the soils, the industries, and the
commerce of the countries beyond
the seas. It laid its hands on every-
thing it could develop and make
profitable. It thereby kept up prof-
its and increased England's wealth.
" Mill expresses this very happily
when he writes : ' England no long-
er depends on the fertility of her
own soil to keep up her rate of prof-
it, but on the soil of the whole
world. ' It is important this be un- '10W '' should be done, lead you into
derstood to the letter. It is truly I ^"ation, teach you how .0 steal,
me a ripe one in its place. Now
you see that this constant impact of
crime upon crime protects you
against further commission of crime.
It builds you up. A man can't be-
come morally perfect by stealing
one or a thousand green water-
melons ; but every little helps."
Something New in Kansas.
Rev. James Kerr, pastor of the
world, as well as its soil, if we do | Methodist church at Scandia, Kas.,
not foolishly disturb it or meddle | has devised a new plan for enforc-
witli it from unwarrantable jealousy, j >"g 'be prohibitory law, which prom-
is becoming more and more one and j ises to keep Kansas jointists guess-
more and more British, in whatever J ing, at least in the small towns. It
country it is going on and under j 's the old idea of offering rewards
whatever flag it sails. j for the arrest and conviction of
" We are every year getting rich-1 cr'm>na's'
er. This is best shown by the sta-! Reward notices are so common
tistics of the increase of our nation- ; ''la' '''s 0I'1' '''at some one lias not
al wealth since the time when this 'bought of applying that plan to
importation began. The general j prohibition before this. Mr. Kerr,
wealth of the United Kingdom was ! however' is lhe originator. He got
estimated by Porter in 1840 at
^4,000,000,000. According to Mul-
hall it rose in 1882 to ^8.720,00,000;
in :888 to ^9,400,000,000; and in
1895 to e 11,806,000,000. We can-
not be far from thejtruth if we esti-
mate the whole value of British
property and investments abroad at
least at from £4,000,000,000 to
£5,000,000,000,"—$20,000,000,000 to
#25,000,000,000.
The figures above given for Brit-
ish investment.-, abroad are the same
as given by Gladstone in parliament
a short time before his last retire-
ment from the premiership.
The reformers in this country
have long asserted that the United
States was becoming in fact a Brit-
ish dependency^ so they will not be
surprised at seeing one of the great-
est of British reviews boasting that
our country is "our largest and
greatest colony,"—paying tribute of
interest, rents and profits to Britain
as "loan-monger, landlord and pro-
prietor."
Sin of Stealing Green Water-
melons.
At a recent banquet in London,
Mark Twain moralized about his
first watermelon theft in this style :
" Theoretical morals are the sort
you get on your mother's knee, in
good books and from the pulpit.
a number of his friends together and
raised a fund of several hundred
dollars. Then they posted the fol-
lowing handbill all over town :
$50.00
REWARD!
The above CASH Reward will be paid
for lnfotmatlon and evidence, leading
to the arrest and final conviction of
ANY person or persons, found violat-
ing the
PROHIBITORY LAW
within the (Jity ot Scandia, or within a
radius of two miles of the corporate
limits of said City, whether as Vendors
or Owners, or Lessors of Buildings used
or occupied in such Hurtle.
,J. II. CU.I.KKS,
W. G. KING, or
Kev. JAMES KEKIl, Chairman com.
If fifty citizens subscribe $10 each to
be paid as needed pro rata for each case
ol conviction, the fighting fund i> *.*>0().
and earl) case costs each >ubscriber hut
$1. If the reward Is $10<> then it become.-
dangerous to sell to any one.
This method demolished the joint
business In Scandia, lias., within forty,
eight hours after the reward was offer-
ed, and wiTiioiT a sin<;u: i*kosk« ci ion;
and hae operated with entire success
elsewhere.
Make the OUTLAWS leave your city
and community.
While federal ownership and con-j
trol of railroads is still merely a
matter of argument, the federal:
management of some of the coun- J
try's great lines through the juris- j
diction of its courts is an actual con-
dition. How admirable this United
States circuit court administration
may be is strikingly exemplified in
the history of the Baltimore & Ohio I
receivership as it has been luminous-
ly set forth by President John K.
Cowen in his paper read before the
Maryland bar association. The
concise and comprehensive state-
ment made by Mr. Gowen is a mod-
el presentation of the problem of
railroad reorganization and of fed-
eral receivership in general, and it
reflects .the highest personal credit
on the receivers themselves for their
almost ideal solution of the difficul-
ties involved in their task.
Briefly epitomized, when the Bal-
timore & Ohio was thrown into the
courts (Feb. 29, 1896) the outstand-
ing indebtedness and the state of
equipment and track were such as 1
to demand a financial relief seem-1
ingly impossible to secure. By a
judicious recourse to the issuance
of receivers' certificates, and to
what Walter Bagehot, the econo
mist, styles "the
JUST RECEIVED :
Men's and Boys' Linen Suits, and Pants,
Big line "Buckskin" Breeches and Shirts,
Silk-Front Shirts,^'Gent's Neckwear,
Umbrellas and Parasols,and the nobbiest line of Shoes
in Norman. ALL GOOD SHOES!
We have the Celebrated JULLA
MARLOWE SHOE for Ladies,
both in high and low cuts.<? Ii
you are wanting something Good
and Beautiful, come and
get a pair.#
Our Grocery Department is full of good things to
eat, and you will find us cheaper than anybody. Just re-
ceived 2 cars of flour and 1 car of sugar.
We buy everything that farmers bring us, and give
more than you can get elsewhere.
We appreciate your trade, and will sell 'em low
and send and get more.
0Hedge Soros. & SPhi/ips.
* * « * «
sr ^,<6, .. ■*
*■
ending apparatus <8 '
ill inert/ and dressmaking.
REMOVAL.
This had the desired effect. There
were five small joints and one Vlrng'
store in Scandia at the time. One
jointist at once took his stuff and
himself out of town. Another left ] method whereby the courts can take
the next day, and all had closed by j a great property whose administra-
tis end of the week. Scandia was J''on's full of difficulty, and can so
You gather them in your head and j a dry town in forty-eight hours af- rehabilitate it that substantial jus-
not in your heart ; they are theory j (er the reward notices were posted, 'ice
without practice. Without the as- ' and it has been dry since.
sistance of practice to perfect them J The suggestions at the bottom of
is difficult to teach a child, ' be hon- j 'he bill are for the benefit of those
in other towns who wish to get rid
of the drunk industry.
of the world," however, the needed ** * '* *9 ^ 0 have moved <nr Millinery and Dressmaking business
to the co/y new building four doors east of M McGinlev's
improvements were not only sue- , ,, . , ,, , , . ,
' ' (irocery, where we are really "at home in parlors fitted especially for
cessfully effected, but (including the 1 ollr work. We have ground floor rooms, too—no more hot, tiresome
additional equipment, which was stair-climbing a few days our fine new stock of Mijim:mmf.r
paid for out of earnings or by the Mii.i.ineky will be on display, and offered at lower prices than is usually
use of obligations) were secured— asked for such goods. tV<. invite tii« ikiiichoi vmmanmiii vtrlnitv iovmu us in our now
,, , , , piirlun-. ik- , i: M1.1-niiiiimm .1. eli l i\ il gmMli Hint
to quote Mr. Cowan s words—' for price*-nil tiicm.
$6,000,000 less than what they would CALLIE GRAHAM & CO.
today cost." Kvery bondholder has
been practically paid in full with
new securities; the floating debt
creditors have received every cent
due; the first preferred stockhold-
ers have received 75 per cent of the
value of their stock in cash; the
second preferred stockholders have
received securities worth $75 to $80
net a share, and the common stock-
holders have received their common
stock in the new company.
This result certainly justifies to
the letter Mr. Cowen's claim that
"there has thus been evolved a
A Deed of Gift.
The following is clipped from Cr.
James' "Curiosities of Law and
Lawyers": "If a man were to uive
to another an orange, lie would
merely say, ' I give you this orange
but when the transaction is intrust-
est, don't steal.' I will teach you
so that you may recognize when you
In New Zealand.
The problem of the 'unemployed,'
as understood in this and European
countries, is practically unknown in
New Zealand. No individual
corporation can own enormous
tracts of land or real estate hold-
ings unless he or they pay penalty ed to the hands of a lawyer to put it
under the system of a graduated in writing he adopts this form: 'I,
land tax. The friends of the gov A. 1!., hereby give, grant and con-
ernment claim that the system vey to you all anil singular my es-
works admirably, and effectually tate and interest, right, title, claim
solves the problem of unemployed and advantage of and in the said
labor. The local government in orange, together with all its rind,
some parts is participated in by skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all
women who form a majority of the right and advantage therein, with full
electorate and actually of those who power to bite. cut. suck and other-
— j —— . • , . wise eat the same, or give the same
, , . , . 1 go to the polls, lhis does not ap- >
may be done to bondholders,(B « 1 1 , away, as full and effectually as I,
, 1. „i ^ saj() ,\ b., am now entitled to
bite, cut and suck or otherwise eat
the same orange, or give the same
away, with or without its rind, skin,
n , , . ,■ , . , pear to have effected much change
floating debt creditors and stock-
holders; that this can be done with- 'n P°l'tics, as they vote niostiv as
out violating any of the well-defined the men do. The government is a
rights of any creditor, and that it is Urge land owner and money lender,
the duty of the courts in administer- f)xes wages and conditions of labor,
ing these great trusts to place the
and,
juice, pulp and pips, anything here-
nbefore or hereinafter, or in any
j property in the position where its 'n 8 word, is far ahead of the . otjjer deeds, instrument or instru-
patterns of any' possible earning capacity can be mother country, or of any other rnents of whatever nature or kind
, . . , 1 , . j j j - — o ........ j . Prom 1 tO 10 VII rd patverua ui any
e w 10 wor , an no on y 1a j have stolen and feel the proper kind of goods will be found on our rem- shown, and consequently a fair and country. — Browning&i K i n g's j soever to the contrary ill anywise
part of it which is mapped out as pangs. flant counter at The Grand Leader. just reorganization can be made." Monthly. notwithstanding."
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