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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 8.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, OCTOBER IK. 1899.
NO. 12.
JIM BOWKER.
ny sam W. FOBB. —
Jim Bowker, 1 « wlU( uf he'd liact h fair show,
An' h big enough town for lilti talents to grow,
An'tlie U'list bit of utwiHtttiico in hoeln' hia row,
Jim llowker, ho saWt,
He' till the world full of the houwI of his name,
An' climb the i< p round of the ladder of tame.
It may Imve boon so ;
I dunno ;
,l«*Mt so It might have been ;
Then ag'ln
But he had tarnal luck; everything went hk'Iii him,
The ai mils) of fortune they alius 'u«l pin him ;
So he didn't get a chance to show what was in him.
Jim Bowker, he said,
Et he'd Itail fair show, you couldn't tell where he'd come,
An' the teats he'd 'a' done, an't he heights he'd 'a' dumb.
It may have been so ;
I dunno;
Jest so it might have been ;
Then ag'ln
But we're all like Jim Bowker, thinks I, more or less;
Charge fate for bad luck, ourselves for buccess,
An' give fortune the blame for all our distress.
AsJim Bowker, he said,
Kf it htfdn't been for luck an' misfortune an' sich,
A e might 'a' been fam* us an' might 'n' beeu rich
It might bo Jest so ;
I dunno;
Jest so it might have been ,
Then ag'ln
THE REFORM PROSPECT.
[ From (he Missouri World.]
The conditions are ripe for a reform victo-
ry. If it appeared to all that the reform party
had prospect of success, the rush to it would
be great. If one half of the Populists would
join clubs and do other things to show that
the party is yet an independent party it would
get recuits right along and every time a man
joined the party others would be encouraged
to unite with it. The Republican party is do
ing nothing for the masses of the people. It
is true a considerable, favorable trade balance
has brought about some increase in the volume
of money by enabling us to keep the gold
mined in this country and also causing the
sending of gold here from Europe. This bal-
ance of trade is largely owing to the hard
times and low prices produced by Cleveland's
administration and the manufactured panic,
and by the short crop abroad and immense
crop here in 1897. Also by the issuance of
four hundred and sixty million dollars of bonds
by the government of the United States, which
were in part purchased by Europeans.
The increase in the per capita of money
has been about three dollars since McKinley's
inauguration. This has put some life into
business, in comparison with Cleveland times,
but the masses of the people are yet slaves and
must continue to be so until not less than $25
per capita is added to the money volume. In-
stead of reaching that amount, it is quice likely
there will be no further increase of the money
volume during Republican rule and probable
that the money volume may be contracted by
exports of gold and the impounding of green-
backs. All the prosperity to be expected un-
der Republican rule is now here, and even this
little ease in the times is pretty apt to disappear
within a year. We are quite certain it will dis-
appear within two years. 1 he little easing up
of the times under Harrison was about to col-
lapse when Cleveland took hold, and should
the Democrats be successful in 1900 they will
again get in in time to take the responsibility
of the hardening times off of the Republicans.
So Republican "prosperity" will not inter-
fere with the growth of the Peoples party.
What the Democrats do at their national con-
vention will not necessarily aid or hinder the
growth of the Peoples party. If they take such
action as will please the money power, in order
to carry New York and New Jersey, then there
will be a sudden and great growth of the Peo-
ples party. If they conclude to seek victory
by trying to again catch the Populist vote,
they will be split in'two, be without the aid of
their usual main prop, the money power ; will
be a monopoly party without the aid of mo-
nopoly. The favorable opportunity which
presented itself to the Populists in '96 will
again appear. If the Populists will stand firm
and independent, nominate their own candi-
dates, the Democratic party will disintegrate,
and before election it may be plain that the
Peoples party has a chance for victory aud
whenever that is the outlook the reform party
will have votes plenty and to spare.
It may appear to some that the renomina-
tion of Bryan by the Democrats would draw to
the Democratic party the Populist vote. It did
in '96, but that was because the then Populist
Beer is a great institution. I remember
it was a beer man that was first to represent
America's "commercial interests" in the island
of Porto Rico after the landing there last
August.
I was struck by an evidence of American
commercial enterprise one day last week. A
street car rolled along. It was not much of a
car, but it was a fair sample of the Manila
outfit. Along its top, the whole length and a
foot high ran the sign, "Use Tumbleman's
Whiskey." The name was not Tumbleman, but
that will do for a substitute. Surely we shall yet
civilize these people. They are a temperate
race, but we can, by persistent energy and ad-
vertising, added to the force of example,
cure them of that.
A Letter to Husbands.
[Klla WliculBt' Wilcox.|
Not many weeks ago a tired little woman
committed suicide because her husband scold •
ed her.
He came home late at night and found her
employed in labor which seemed to him more
suitable for the morning hours, and he spoke
angrily about her tardy habits. She flung her-
self from the window, and died in the hospital
soon afterwards.
There seems to have been a mixture of the
pathetic, the tragic and the absurd in all this.
It was a small thing to cause a wife to sac-
rifice her life—just a man's irritable criticism.
But we must take into consideration alt that
preceded this occasion.
There had been scolding after scolding no
doubt. She had been found fault with for so
many derelictions, for many deeds done and
undone, that this last criticism was merely the
last straw.
A cross, fault finding wife is a terrible be-
ing. But a man can take his hat and go to
the club, to the corner grocery, or to the sa-
loon when her tongue becomes too aggressive.
When the husband comes home and scolds
the air of the house blue, there is nothing for
the wife to do but submit—or jump out of the
window.
The wife who died in the hospital the other
day had submitted for many years, undoubted-
ly ; and then finding that submission did not
better matters, she tried the window act.
It would have been wiser to walk out of the
door. It is more discreet to go into the high-
ways of earth uninvited than to force an en-
trance into the mysterious realms of death.
The man who commits suicide is a spirit
ual pauper. He who has spiritual strength
knows that he will be aided to the end, and
waits his call. But the spiritual pauper de-
clares himself a bankrupt when he ends his
own earth existence.
We know there are homes for paupers in
this world. We do not know what provision is
made for them in the next.
It is always well to go into a new land with
a full purse ; and it is well to enter the next
world with a good supply of spiritual wealth
and not as a bankrupt.
Meantime there is the scolding husband to
carry his remorseful heart through life. It is
good enough for him, anil yet we cannot help
pitying him.
He is so sorry he said what he did. He
never dreamed she would take it so to heart.
He would give all he possesses to go back and
live that night over, and do, oh, so differently !
He would understand her so much better, and
be so much better, if she were alive today.
Sometimes the only way a wife can make
her husband understand her, is to die. Then
he sees and admires all her sweet, tender
qualities.
I like to think of the world as peopled with
happy wives and husbands ! I know many !
Many more exist, unknown to me. Happiness
is ofttiines secretive and quiet ; misery is noisy
and communicative. Happiness seeks no con-
fidant ; unhappiness wants to be sympathized
with.
Happiness thanks Gtd in the silence. Mis
ery cries aloud to the world. And so we grow
to think that unhappiness is the rule and hap-
piness the exception. But I do not believe it.
Still, in this wonderful world, and "overciv
ilized" state of society, there are many unhap-
py wives to be found ; wives who feel often on
the verge of desperate as that of the poor little
convention and leaders endorsed Bryan. Had ; woman who forms the subject of this sketch ;
the Populists nominated a straight ticket and and husbands who are as blindly thoughtless
all stuck to it from the start, the Democratic and as unkind as the one whose irritable words
party could not have made a campaign. : drove her to her death.
The present great need of the Peoples par- If you, who read these lines, are a man and
ty is firmness of every member. 1 -et every a husband, ask yourself just what you are do-
Populist declare to himself and to all that he ing toward making your home the peaceful
is a Populist, and intends to stand by the Peo- place a home should be. What are you doing
pies party and fight both the old parties. This j to reader your wife happy at the thought of
- ■ ■ ' - "f seeing you each evening? Are you praising
her for every good quality she possesses, and
thanking her for all her efforts to please you
more consideration than your very dearest
ones ?
If you owed your partner or your customer
money, you would feel ashamed to make him
ask for it—you would feel it inconsistent with
your business, honor and pride not to be
prompt in such a matter.
Then why should you humiliate the partner
you have taken for life by making her ask for
money which is her rightful portion as the
keeper of your home and the sharer of your
fortunes? Why do you not feel as delicate in
this matter with her as in dealings with men? j
I can never understand how a wife or a j
husband can be more thoughtful of outsiders \
than they are of each other. I cannot under-
stand how they can be ill-tempered and fault-
finding with each other and courteous and con-
ciliatory to strangers.
There is 110 woman on the face of the earth
to whom you should show such considerate
thoughtlulnt.iS'rts \<> your wife. You should
study to avoid aggravating her faults, and you
should strengthen her best qualities by judicious
praise.
A strong man can make a woman over into
anything in the world he desires her to be, if he
will go about it with the same perseverance
and determination which he puts into his bus-
iness. Only when he loves the woman as he
loves the dollar is this possible.
And remember always—the real business of
life is the making of a happy home. Every-
thing else is secondary to that ; for, when you
come to sift the whole chaff of existence every-
thing goes to the winds but the happiness we
have had at home.
is the need of the hour. It is a time full of
importance. The people are yearning for
something better. I he Populist principles are
accepted by hundreds of thousands now who
rejected them three years ago. 1 he great
measures of reform—government money, gov-
ernment transportation and law-making by the
people, are craved by millions, and they do
not and cannot hope for any of these reforms
from the old parties.
Will you hold up the Populist standard so
the hosts who are looking for it can see it ?
"Civilization" in the "Colonies."
A correspondent of the N. \ . Post, writing
from Manila, says in a recent letter: In the
new, the commercial city, the stroller notes that
it is already becoming "Americanized." He
sees the intoxicated American in ample evi-
dence, and sees the numerous saloons filled
with American soldiers and sailors. He finds
the "Boston Bar," the "New York Saloon," the
"Reception," the "American llazar, and the
"American 1 rading Company. American ad-
verliging sign# principally of beer, ztc on the
Are you telling her she is a good wife and a
good mother, or are you finding fault with ev-
ery small failure of hers and ignoring her great
virtues ?
Do not imagine good woman is satisfied
with virtue's own reward. The consciousness
of her own worth is not sufficient to keep her
happy if you are silent and never seek to im-
press on her mind the fact that you realize
her good qualities. And this is especially
true if you take every opportunity to assure
her that you see her faults.
Why not study your wife as you study your
partner; why not be as tactful and as patient
with her as you are with him? Why not enter-
tain and amuse her as you do your customers
and patrons?
If you called at your neighbor's house and
found anything amiss, how suave and amiable
you would be about it. Are you equally so
when things go amiss at your own home?
If not, why not?
Why are the neighbors to be treated with
For everything' in the Fur-
niture or Undertaking line
at lowest prices, see
REED & SHAFFER.
WAR AT LAST!
Matters in South Africa are rapidly drifting j
towards war. The British in their greed have 1
made demands of the Transvaal which mean
for the latter extinction as an independent na- j
tion, or war. As between the two the "Boers" j
will prefer war. Just at present the British, 1
not being ready to strike the blow, are making ;
a pretense of further negotiations to fill in |
the time until they are ready. In the mean- !
time, if the Boers, seeing that war is inevitable, j
strike while the British are comparatively un- |
prepared, the latter will hold up their hands in j
hyprocritical holy horror and tell the world
that the Boers are guilty of starting the war by J
striking the first blow. Yes-yes, the world
knows all about that,—knows, too, that the j
guilty party is always the aggressor, the party j
forcing the firing of a first shot—and that spells
England, every time. Let the war come, and j
may the God of Justice take a hand in it.
The above was written 011 the 4th. On the !
9th, the Boers, finding that the British were j
fully determined on war, concluded that to j
give the;n 'ir4'-w >' time to strengthen their fore- !
es would be worse'than a mistake, sent an ulti-
matum to the British goverment demanding (t) |
that the differences between the two countries )
be settled by arbitration; (2) that the British j
forces threatening the Transvaal frontiers shall j
be at once retired; (3) that the British troops :
sent to South Africa since the Bloomfontein j
conference shall be withdrawn; and (4) that j
the British reinforcements now on the way to
South Africa shall not be landed. A favorable !
answer was required by 5 p. in., Wednesday, 1
Oct. ii. As it was not forthcoming, the war
is now commenced.
Value of a Franchise.
The tremendous value of public franchises
was never more strikingly illustrated than by
the wonderful increase in the price of the
of the shares of stock of the. New River Water j
Supply Company, of London. A share of this
stock which was originally worth S500, was re-
cently sold in London for $633,000. The earn-
ings of one share toilay is placed at £23,000 a
year. While this is an exceptional case, it but
illustrates the immense values public franchises j
represent, and should cause every municipality |
to think twice before giving these franchises J
away without money and without price to pri-
vate money making corporations. In the light
of advanced knowledge on this subject it is
nothing short of a crime against the commun-
ity to vote away these precious rights without j
adequate return. It were still better for the !
community to neither give them away nor sell
them, but retain these privileges and operate
these public utilities in the interest of the peo-
ple. If they are so profitable to private cor
porations they will be just as profitable to the
people. This is almost a truism, so often has
it been demonstrated.
Hitting the Trusts.
Didn't the Democrats hit the trusts hard
when they were in power ? Didn't they hit the
whisky trust when they extended the time for
iiaying the ninety million dollars taxes due the
government? Didn't they hit the sugar trust a j
fearful blow when they dallied with the tariff
bill until the trust had scraped the earth for
raw sugar and brought it in free of duty and
then passed a bill putting a duty on raw sugar
which was free under the McKinley bill? Then
they hit the national bank trust a blow when
they voted in the House almost unanimously
to reduce the tax or interest paid by banks for
llie money issued to them by the government ?
Then they had such a glorious anti-trust rail-
road commission, which distinguished itself do-
ing nothing to prevent the roads from giving ,
the Standard oil trust lower rates than they I
gave other oil companies. But the greatest
achievement the Democrats in power can brag 1
of in their hot battle against trusts was the j
throwing of that thirteen-inch shell—the repeal
of the silver law—into the camp of that trust \
of trusts, the money trusts.
OPEN!
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OPEN with our big new stock, for
your inspection. Contains all the
latest fabrics in Dress Goods, such as
wool and silk Crepons, from 95c to $2
per yard; cotton and wool Coverts,
Broadcloth, an exceptional value for 48c;
Venetians, 54 to 70 inches wide.
Beautiful line of Jackets and Capes,
Shoes, Clothing, and Overcoats.
Best boys' Clothing and Shoes in the
wide world.
Everything guaranteed.
We want your trade — and in lend to
have it, by selling you goods that will
suit you, at less than other Norman, or
Oklahoma City, merchants will sell.
COME AND SEE US
when wanting Dry Goods and Grocer-
ies, and let us verify our statements.
Yours to please.
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Elledge Bros. & Philips,
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I he Farmers Grain and Implement
Company
Will pay you the highest market price for
your Grain, Hogs and Cattle, and will sell
you all kinds of Farm Implements at the
lowest living prices.
If yju have grain, fat hegs or cattle to
sell, let us give you prices on them.
If you want to purchase any kind of
farm implement, we will be pleased to have
you examine our stock and line of imple-
ments, and learn our prices.
Yours for business,
FARMERS CHAIN AND IMPLEMENT
COMPANY.
East side R. R. Track.
BON TON MEAT MARKET
on EAST MAIN STHKKT,
V<>u will find to be one of
tin- lu -t Meat markets in
the city. All kinds of l-'KESH AND SALTED MEATS always on hand, and
delivered free anywhere in town.
if you have Good Butcher Stock to sell, (jet prlceajon the same -it the
Bon Ton Meat Market.
Napoleon said the people could he reformed
in only two ways—starve them into it, or shoot
it into them.
To Cure I.a Grippe i" Two I>
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet-.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 10. W. Grove * signature
011 every box. 25o.
avs SM()KE HENE'S
S Cent
Strawberry" CIGAR.
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