The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 9, 1893 Page: 3 of 8
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Do 'r mention the tariff.
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us ti?ht for
•arnest.
more money is on in
Thk national banking law is a
"league wi;h hell.*'
Tueke'a fun in the air. keep your
©ye on your Congressman.
Thk gold conspirators are tho great-
est pirates of this or any other age.
Thk old party papers are denying
the panic, but it is here all the same.
Thk people of this country will never
submit to paying their debts in gold.
Or coi'RSK there is plenty of money,
but there s a little stringency just
ii°w!
Cleveland goes fishing but the
McKinley bill don't. It keeps on rob-
bing.
It is easv to see that this govern-
ment is being controlled by a gang of
pirates.
Thkkk's a t>ig bundle of democratic
pi *nifc«M that are being sadly ne-
glei ed
If free silver is demonetized there
will oe a political cyclone in this
country.
Did you hear the Toice of the great
bil ▼er convention? There's business
In the air.
Thk country is going to the devil on
a down hill grade, without brake or
toreei hinsr.
GrVR Cleveland enough patronage to
'dispense and there is no telling what
he could do.
Genti.f.mkn, you who are complain-
ing of hard times, how did you vote?
Did you vote for hard times?
If the people's representatives don't
■ell out to thegol l power,OroverCleve-
land will sweat drops of blood.
Some of our congressmen are sweat-
ing now, but thev will sweat worse
than that in the next campaign.
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FAVORSPAPERMONEY
W. H VAN NORMAN ON THE
FINANCIAL. MUDDLE.
Would lane 1'itper Certificates to One-
TlilrU tho of the Country's
Collateral* -It Would 11a au In -
proveineut ou the l'reiteut Laws.
Ti e people of this country have lone
trus'.ed the conduct of their financial
affairs to the management of bankers,
with fecial class interests of their
own, which are antagonistic to the in-
t- rests of every other line of business,
and to politicians controlled by those
bankers; and the legitimate results
are beginning to be felt in a most aeri-
ous way. lor years things have been
going from bad to worse, not merely
in this country but in most, if not all
others.
The center of the monied interests
of the world is in London; and from
that center, through its various agents
and dependencies, is dictated the
financial policy of cevcry.government W(Jrld bacause behind every dollar of R' me b:isis of gold or silver held in re-
in every civilized country in the world u would be abuudant collateral in serve to secure its redemption, are
actual wealth to guarantee its pay- grossly ignorant, to say the least, of
ment. If any bank in this world Is j the ' true nature and function of
8afe those associations would be safe, money. Money, in the function it per-
because they would be composed of forms, is merely a tool or implement
the same elements and have the same of trade. It is a labor-savlnjf device
by which the labor and expense of a
this money could be barter exchange is avoided. In its
"Th j Duty of Congress—Break the money
cornar by establishing free silver coinage."
It was from that center that was dic-
tated the "credit strengthening act"
of lsuU by our congress, which made
the bonds of the United States payable
in coin, followed in l 7:i by another
art, surreptitiously passe 1, dropping j,ackine.
the silver dollar from th« list of legal 'fhen, again
coins and virtually making the bonds without interest. In this matter nature, it is a certificate of credit, en-
of the United States payable in gold. aione wouid be of almost infinite titling its hoi lers to just as much of
It was this same interest which de- advantage to the real business of the any species of goods as he may fleet
manded and secure d the retirement of country. These associations, formed i All that is necessary is a certainty
iha greenback after It had been made fur tj,e mutual benefit of their mem-1 that the credit will be honored. That
Wk are for free silver because it will
give us more money and put a tern-
porary stop to further contraction.
Oub financial system robs a man and
our tramp or vagrant laws fine him be-
cause he is robbed. Nice government,
•this! ________
Mk. Chirp says "our financial sys-
tem must be revised and reformed."
We thought the tariff was the great
ia^ue. _____
Thk New York Times says that
"Tariff leform can wait." Yes, it is
waiting, and is likely to wait for quite
a while yet.
The Democrats are now in full con-
trol of all branches of the government
for the first time in thirty-four years.
Watch them.
The last analysis of competition is
the grinding of the muscle and life
blood of lal>or between the millstones
of greed and avarice.
Tub demonetization of silver was a
crime in 1873. Most all the democrats
said so and thousands of others. It is
as great a crime now.
Is it the tariff tnat is busting the
banks? If f-o, why didn't Cleveland
call the extra session of congress to
repeal the tariff law?
Mk. Crisp had no trouble in securing
/e-electlo • as speaker of the h>use.
He hail made his calling and election
sure with King (itover.
Thkbk is considerable talk of
western republic, and rather than
serve (Ireal. Britain we prefer absolute
dissolut on from the cast
Tn«! poor working girl who makes
the shirt gets 7 cents. The Chinaman
who spits on it and irons it gets 10
cents. That's protection.
Mr. I no alls was mistaken when he
gfeid the e was no "natural cause" for
the presen' condition of the country.
It comes just as natural for the money
power to squeeze the profits out of in-
dustry as it < oes for them to eat. It
is their nature. The point which the
* stateiman ou> of a job" has not yet.
reached is a way to prevent them from
doing it 'I his can be done by chok-
ing them off, but John J. seems to
fear that will hurt them.
a full legal tender, and the substitu-
tion of the national bank currency,
because it could more readily be ina-
ipulated by those bankers in their
own interests. And it st 11 directs the
Senator Vance of North Carolina
is out in a letter in which he says:
"The Sherman law, once repealed,
the measures which are to take its
place will have to be passed by affirm-
ative legislation, requiring concur-
rence of all three branches of the law-
making departments, and no sensible
man, acquainted with the situation,
can believe these measures can be
passed under'such circumstances"
The senator is right. He proposes to
liold on to the Sherman law until free
•ilver coinage is obtained. Those
congressmen who don't do it will find
themselves running against the butt
•ml of a political cyclone.
case the system is at fault.
not to be possible for any person or
class to manipulate the currency in
the interest of any one; and it ought
to be possible for every person having
the necessary collateral to get sutti-
e'ent money at any time to carry on
his business. Neither one of these
two things are true. Hankers can,
bers, would be under small cost certificate may be >tamped ujon a
for running expenses, and need not piece of metal. It adds nothing to the
and ought not to make a profit value of the credit to make the certiti-
Each member should pny sufficient to oate itself expensive. A yard-stick is
cover cost of examination and record 11 tool used in buying and selling cloth,
policy of this government through o{ liie couaterui pledged and the issue It would be quite as rational for men
Wall street influences. jji certificates. The other running to make yard-sticks of gold or silver,
It is of no consequence whether the expenses might be covered by a stipu- when wood or tape-line would
present financial stringency is caused lated membership fee. In an associa- serve the purpose as well or
by the manipulations of this banking j tion ot moderate proportions the cost better, as to inako their money
interest, or whether there is really not 0f such a currency need not exceed the same material. But
money enough n the country to do one half of 1 per cent; which leave> f°r the government to decree
the business of the country. In either the bankers' money at an enormous that all obligations shall be paid in
It ought disadvantage. Still, those who pre- ?old or silver com, is like decreeing
ferred the present currency could con- that all yard-sticks shall be made of
tinue to buy it at the bankers' terms these metals. 'Ihe gold in the coin
if they wished. would bear the same relation to the
Another advantage this plan pos- things bought with it, as the gold in
sesses is, that it does not depend upon the yard stick would bear to the cloth
any act of congress or the a<lministra- measured by it. The fact is, that the
tion to make it practical. It can be metal coin is a relic of a more barbaric
put in operation at once without de a. e. It is wl o ly unsuited to the pres-
and do manipulate the currency; and pending upon either politicians or ent Notes of hand, checks, bills of
business men cannot obtain the money bankers. The bankers have already exchange, and all other evidences of
they need. Bankers say that peo- set the example, and repeatedly deiu- , credit are simply money, and depend
pie have become frightened, and have onstrated its perfect practicability, wholly for their value upon the cer-
hoarded it; which is only to say The people have only to follow their tainty of their bein; honored. Al-
tliat they have lost confidence in the example. If the bankers can do it most anything c-.n serve as money
bankers and their system. As a result, other people can also; and if it is good On y a few years ago street-car tickets
business is crippled, industry is as a temporary expedient, there seems passed current in Chicago as money
stopped, labor is thrown out of em- to be no reuson why it is not good as a in small amounts, notwithstanding
ployment, merchants are forced into permanent arrangement. Nuildingand there was a law expressly forbidding
bankruptcy and general hard times loan associations were started and such use of them. Now, if merchants
prevail. Even the banks are put in attained to considerable importance need yard-sticks, or any other line of
serious straights so that scores and long before the passage of anv laws business or trade needs tools, they will
scores of them are obliged to fail authorizing their formation: and the provide those tools in such quantity
Hut thanks to these same bankers, facts seem to be that wherever laws and kind as best suit their needs if
they have given us a complete demon- have since been passed in regulation they are allowed to do so. Any inter-
stration of an ( asv and sufficient rem- of their business, they have done more ference by outsiders must act as a
edv. The New York clearing house, harm than good I'eople have a per- hindrance and not a help. And just
an association of bankers, has just DUt feet right to form such associations for so, if the business interests of the
out in a single issue $0,500,000 in clear- mutual benefit as they see fit, and con- country are in need of a circulating
ing house certificates to relieve their duct them in their own way without medium to carry on that business
own necessities; which are simply c .r- interference from outsiders. They they are the ones of all others bestcal-
tificates of credit receivable at any one may safely be depended upon to take culated to provide that medium. It is
of those banks in payment of nny care of their own interests better than on y because they have not done so.
claim due the banks. With such a meddling politicians can do, or others but have left it to scheming politi-
backing they are good anywhere; and having hostile interests. cians and bankers having interests
everybody is perfectly willing to take The formation of one such associa antagonistic to their own, that they
them at par. tion will quickly be followed by others now suffer.
Now, if an association of bankers ail orcr the country; and almost im- j Among the farmers there is a de
■an do this, why not an association of mediately the prevailing financial nrnnd for government loans at per
merchants, manufacturers, or other ! tsringency will be relieved In a per- cent interest on the security of their
businessmen? Many of the banks are1 manent and satisfactory way. Then farms and products, liut what if
made up of merchants and otli- congress may pass whatever laws it much better, let them form associa
ers associated together to do a ple'ls><-'5 bearing upon the present tions of this kind, with such business
bankinr business; but in those cases bankers' currency. It may make it men of their towns as they wish to,
they acquire other interests distinct plenty or scarce, or high priced or und then establish exchange relations
from their mercantile interests, just as low- I' may establish an exclusive with other associations in the cities
gold basis, or restore silver to its au- so that their certificates of credit will
they might do if they went into the
real e tate business, and so acquired
in crests as landlords.
There is nothing in this world to
prevent any number, from five to
5,000, of perfectly solvent men in any
lino of business, or composed of sev-
eireulate generally an I buy all that
they want, which will give them
money wi hout any interest at all
and without waiting to force these
concessions from unwilling politicians
and money mongers. The}' do not
cient posit on in the coinage. It vm^II
not affect these associations one whit.
No one will be obliged to take the
bankers' money for ordinary
purposes who do not wish to.
The payment of those obligations
era lines of business (the more the which have been stipulated to be made need to wait to get control of the gov
better) from organizing thems - ves in scarcely need to be considered eminent before they can get much
int a clearing house association for here further than to point out that better, even than their subtreasury
credits, and issuing to their members this plan would reduce almost to zero scheme.
clearing house certificates of credit, in the demand for gold as a currency. Of course the blinkers will set up a
convenient form and denominations, an<l so cheapen its price, and thus howl, becau e it w 11 divert just
for just so much as tho^e members wake it easier to obtain than now. much grist from their mill. Hut there
shall pledge sufficient collateral to se- 11 may be objected that the law is no cause for alarm. The plan is
« ure, just as they would have to do if fixes a tax of 10 per cent upon issues perfectly practical, as themselves hav
they were borrowing so much money this kind: but whoever lie trd of oac repeatedly demonstrated. W e hav
from a bank. Those certificates should of those clearing-houses of bankers only to learn the lesson which they
be made receivable by any member of being called upon to pay it? And is have taught. W. II. Van Obnum.
the association for all bills or accounts not an association of merchants, or
due such raemb rs and for all goods in manufacturers, or even farmers, just
the stores of the members. With such as £°0(1 as one of bankers? And be-
a backing or guarantee they would sides, the dominant political party
readily pass current in the community, placed itself on re ord as favoring
and perforin all the functions of the repeal of this tax. In the face of
money. 'ls own platform it dare nut enforce
There are several important advan- that tax after letting the clear.ng-
t 'ges which this plan possesses. First,it houses escape, especially as such ac-
is just as easy to organize such an ass j- tien would manifestly be aimed at th ?
ciation as it is to organize a building prevention of a restoration of public
and loan association; and the labor prosperity. On the other hand poli-
and expense of carrying it on would ticians will tumble over each other in
be but little more, if any. and quite as their haste to repeal the tax as soon
simple. It would give a currency •' 8 they are certain that the people are
which could not be manipulated from « arnest in their demands for repeal.
London, or any where else in the inter- Th se who suppose it is necessary
Chicago, 111.
POLITICAL HASH.
Russell Sage, the Wall street
squeezer and usurer, advises congres?
to keep cool. How in the name of al
that's good can he expect men to ke-cj
cool when the mercury is 100 in the
shade, hades not a mile away and their
constituents punching them up with
let'ers of red-hot wrath?
s reported that August Belmont.
..•y Clews, ex-Comptroller Hepburn,
i .innon and other bankers say there
was no cause for the pau'c that it
eat of any one; and it would increase f°r the government to specially sane- was purely sentimental. t ertainly,
and decrease just as the wants of its tion any form or system of a circulat- Hn you have to do is to imagine you're
members and the public at large in- medium, that it must affix th« ricli and you are rich. Confidence,
creased and decreased. It would be sign of its authority to give confidence gentlemen, confidence is what ia
jz&i as safe as any currency in the in its stability, or that it depends upon needed, confidence in the banks.
LABOR NOTES.
The miners at the Hamilton Coal
eotnpany's w rk^, aud a'so at the Cald-
well ioal company's roues, struck on
Aug. 5, out of sympathy for the Kan-
sas miners.
The Pacific, Everett. Washington,
Atlantic, Arlington and lambert n
mills at Lawrence, Ma*a, have shut
down for severul weeks*. Many thou-
sand hands are thrown out of employ-
ment ami their losi is estimated at
$75,000.
A number of mills at Lowell, Mass,
have shut down, some of them for au
indefinite period.
The Labelle steel works, one of the
large*! steel works in Allegheny,
closed down on the 5th of this mouth.
The Li^gate spring and axle works
of Allegheny close foi an indefinite
period, Aug. 5.
A Johnstown special says that nearly
all Cambria Iron Company's mills
closed down ou the 4th, aud 3,000
hands were thrown out of employ-
ment
Four hundred hands have been
thrown out of employment at the
tiautier steel works and the balance
are working on one-third time.
All over the country mills and fac-
tories are closing down and hundreds
of thousands of workmen will soon be
out of employment
A train load of miners, who h d left
Colorado on account of the closing of
tho silver mines, were told by the po-
lice nt Kansas C ity to "pass on" or
they would be run in as trnmps. Thus
men are deuied by law the right to
"earn their bread in the sweat of
the r face." Great country, this.
The New York Hera d recently con-
tained an advertisement froui a strong,
healthy young man, 27 years old, who
offered to sell himself to any one who
would keep h;s old mother from being
turned out doors for unpaid rent.
There are 2,000 reform papers in the
country and more coming every week.
The most dangerous type of man-
kind is the professional politician,who
for pay or position is ready to deceive
the people into betraying the country
into the hands of their enemies,
Denver is having a very exciting
time with her idle men who cannot se-
cure employment And tho whole
country is going to have an exciting
lime if something is not done to re-
lieve the unemployed or give the in
employment, and tho situation will
brook no delay.
Down in Kentucky they call it
"drover's panic."
The Minnesota supreme court says
strikes and boycotts are lawful,
stonecutters claim to have won
thirty strikes this year and lost none.
The Hohcmians are demanding uni-
versal suffrage, and riots are a com-
mon occurrence.
There are r',4 members in the French
parliament friendly to socialism.
The Industrial Legion is meeting
with immenso success in Calilornia
and on the Pacific coast
Strikes for better conditions are
raging all over Europe.
The Princess Eulalio cost this gov-
ernment 814,000, but nothing can be
done for tho poor.
Kx-Senator Ingalls says "the gulf
between the rich and the poor is grow-
ing w.cler and wider every day." it
wi 1 probably soon be so wide that tho
earnings of the poor cannot be got
a ross it to the rich.
Austrian workingmen are holding
immense demonstrations in favor of
universal suffrage. The spirit of
freedom is shaking the earth.
About 400,00 > miners and nearly all
b ot and shoe workers of Ureat Britain
arc locked out becau e reductions were
refused. It may be a fight to the
death between the bosses' and employ-
ers' organizations.
After a two years' fight, the boiler-
makers have won a strike aga nst two
of the largest firms in Brooklyn.—Nine
hours gfttned in twelve cities, and this
week a demand for the same was made
in all cities in the country.
Hrewer.es in and about Cincinnati,
numbering twenty-eight, are now all
union. Hours have beon reduced and
wages increased, and the union now
has 000 members where there were
only twenty a few years ago. Very
good.
Dunkirk, X. V., city government,
according to a decision of the courts,
cau furnish lighting for private
families, and steps are be ng taken to
put in a plant with this object nview.
If that is not socialistic, what is it?
It is evident now that if Cleveland
says the gol i-bug horse is 17 feet high,
the plutocratic press of tho country is
willing to swear to it.
The World's T.al or Congress, to l>e
held at Chicago from Aug. 2) to Sept.
4 (Labor Day), is going to be a big
affair Prof. Kichard T. Ely, one of
the foremost writers an 1 thinkers of
the day, will read a paper ou " The
Liberalism of the Labor Movement,"
M Van Tillett will speak of ' The
l hilosophy of the Labor Movement,"
FISH
Tli* Old Han
AND GHOST.
>« Much Disturbed Of
II). txp.ri.n0B.
••A few years ago.™ said an old
gentleman, to a Forest and Mream
writer. "I was a-cutting and piling
driftwood on tho lake shore when a
party t u tho village came down to
tlsh thr ugh the ice. It was a cold,
*aw day. They told me if I'd let
them use my tishiug shanty and they
hud any luck they would give me
some tish. Well, at n they went.
Just as I was it-picking up at night
to go home thoy fetched me a pick-
erel that would a-pulled down six
pounds good and strong. I brought
him home and put him up in the
crotch o( that applo tree over there.
Then 1 done my chores, eat my sup-
per, got tho pickerel and thought I d
clean him; but he was froze hard as
a brick, so 1 run a string through
his gills and hung him up back of
tho stove to thaw out
"I'd got a good grip on tho sleep
that night, and was plowing ahoad
on the gallop, when my wife wwe
mo up and said that there was some-
ono at the door. I listened a bit and
heard a noise jest like some feller
was it-knocking on tho door with
mittens on his hand. I were a bit
vexed, slid out of boil, pulled on ray
pants and boots, but did nut strike a
light, grabbed a big cano which
stood at tho head of my bed, hurried
to tho door, opened it and jumped
out, ready to knock tho stutlln' out
of anything. Hut, mj dear sir, there
weren't anything to knock. 1 run
round the house; not a living crittor
could 1 see, nor even any tracks in
tho snow.
••To bod 1 wont ag'in, and was jest
dropping off when the old woman,
sho nudged mo hard and whispered'.
•Hear that? Jest listen; there it
goes ag'in!'
••I sat up in bod, and jest as plain
as day I could hear a dull sort ol
thump, thump. I begun to feel
agorish liko; mought have tromblod
a bit; then hollered; 'Who's there?'
No answer.
"1 kinder shivored for 'bout half a
minute, when thoro was the darndost
racket out in tho kitchen you ever
heard; sounded as if some ono was a-
kickin' a tin pan all around tho room
and my dog came a yelpin' and howl-
in' in the bed room and crawled clear
under tho bed, where ho kopt up a-
whinln' and a yelpin'. My wifo
screamed and crawled down under
tho bed-clothes. I had not only tho
ager, but tho chills—sweating chills,
good and strong.
••I was rattled, badly rattlod. Jest
had senco enough loft to crawl out ol
bed, grab my gun, which was loaded,
and crcop carefully to the kitchen
door, fhere was certainly somo fel-
low out there, barefooted, and he was
ha\ ing a hull dancing school all to
himself. I located him as near as 1
could in tho dark, then,without mak-
ing any noise, brought iny gun to my
shoulder and lot her go.
"Tho flash of the gun was just long
enough tu lot mo soo what tho mat-
ter was. I went back, lit a candle,
and then went to the kitchen. Thoro,
right in the middle of the floor, was
that cussed pickerel having tho live-
liest kind of a circus all by himself.
He was cutting up in great shape
with his llipity-llop, hipity-hop, jost
as lively at it ho had jost boon pulled
out of tho water. With a stick of
stovo-wood I busted that show quick-
er'n you could say shoo.
"You see, I hung him up in a good,
warm place to thaw out, directly
over tho old woman's dish pan, right
under tho pan being a good, warm,
out-of-the-way place tho dog used to
sloop. As that infernal pickorol be-
gan to thaw out his old cussodnesg
crept back into him. ISetwoen tha
Mappings of his tail aud tho work-
ings of his jaws ho broke the string,
then dropped onto tho dish and botb.
fell onto the dog."
T. V. Powderly, "Knights of Lai
Samuel Gompers, "Federation of
bor," and many others from different
parts of the world will read equally
Inwesting papers.
f'eiiti. of I'enmanfhlp*
Some timo ago a Paris paper of-
fered a prize for tho best specimen of
of microscopic hand writing, and sev-
eral wonderful examples of skill with
tho pen wore sent in by competitors.
Tho winner of tho prize was a man
who had copied out in full on a post-
card tho contents of tho lirst two
pages of a big newspaper. Another
candidate,ingeniously alluding to the
famous incident, wrote on an egg an
account of tho career of Columbus.
A third submitted tho 19,01)0 words o!
Francois C'oppeo's novel of "Henri-
etta," written on tho back of a cab-
inet photograph. Tho doers of such
feats seem to havo small regard for
thoir eyesight
l robibly
Mrs. Slimpurse Did you inquira
about that house wo liked so much
Mr. Slimpurse Y-e-s. That iiouso
is haunted, or something.
••Goodness! 1 >id the landlord say
so?"
"X-o, not exactly; but he soomcd
to bo sure we'd move out inside of
a week."
•'Horrors! Did ho say ho thought
we would?"
••Well, no, not in so many words."
••Then what did lie say?"
•'Ho said he wanted a month's rent
in advance."
One singular property of all f.ni
mal bodies is that of maintaining with-
in themselves an equable tom porn
ture. The bl >od of tho Arctio
explorer remains at a normal tem-
perature though ho breathes air that
will freeze mercury, and in India,
where the temperature of tho air in
115 to 12 ) above zero, the tempera-
ture of tho blooa is still D8 degrees
Fahrenheit.
llrartlest.
Clara—Why are you so bittoi
against him, just because ho pro-
posed and you refused him?
Mpude -The wretch! He said he
would ifiver as/; me again—Vogue.
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