The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1893 Page: 4 of 8
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ALLAN & RIXSE, Publishers.
SL'HSCRIITION $1 <«• PKH VKAH.
PUBLISHED KVKRY SATURDAY.
Entered In th<' po«toffl '" at Norman,
O. T. us second class mutter fur t run -
mission through ull mails.
Norman Saturday, Sept., US.
J. S. A-LXjA.3ST, Editor.
T1MK T AII MS
When
lo. We are fools. We haven't ani to eelebrate the marriage of the Ohio j get wmebody else to lake.
tense. Tbou kaowmt better than all "living skeleton" to the Indiana J your cotton is gone you may nnd
>f us put together. We are a stench prostitute. Swing low sweet chariot j that the man who holds your mort-
iu the nostrils of "Tbv Fatness." as the nuptial couch is arranged for gage or your note will not accept
Among all of our tribes thou eould'st these highly virtuous contracting par- i you accepted.
not find one that had eer.se enough ties. The union of the Puritan and I '1 hen.what?
for second ruler in the land, and thou the him kieg, so long considered im- row s en''
gavest (ireshatn, the captain of the possible, baa taken place. The \ our cotton i> goiu
hosts of our enemies, to rule over us, "llake s Progress, revived from the l''ari ) °" ha \ ( '' 3 banker s certifi
We know. (), great Master, that we J immortal pencil of Hogarth, ugam
are nothing in thy sight. We are not i
You are at your
and in its
Carey Lombard Lumber Co.,
(A. P. ACRES, Manager.)
Dealers In
Hardware,
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no. 4<*7 Stop* ftt Purcell
no 4H1 acToininodfttion
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NO. 422 accommodation
Baby Huth has a sister. It came
,on the 11th,
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A new name lor American tramp,
"Cleveland Volunteers.'
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Today the population of Okla-
homa increased 150,000.
Strip, Strip! Is all the talk and
what a blessing it will he when it is
all over.
. —
Before our next issue the all im-
portant question of the masses will
lie. "What did you get in the run ?"
But that which will interest Norman
and Cleveland county will be what
she will get immediately after the run,
•as people are bound to come to the
•'Garden Spot" of Oklahoma after
getting disappointed in the Strip.
People .having property to sell will do
well to note this prediction.
There is circulating around Wash
ington a chart prepared by Iv A.
Jones, of 19 East Fifty-ninth street,
New York, which is attracting a good
deal of attention. The chart shows
jhat during Grant's second adminis-
tration thit the average market price
of silver per ounce was Si.32 and
wheat was 51.24.
Under Hayes:
Silver *i.«85-g
Wheat 1 ■' 9
Under Garfield:
Silver <1.10
Wheat 1.06
Under Cleveland, first term
Silver <0.965 H
Wheat 0.86'4'
Under Harrison:
Silver $0.98
Wheat °-9° !
Cleveland's second term to Aug. 2: !
Silver $0.70 j
Wheat 0.55h\
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.V Democrat it' I'rayer.
The following prayer is taken fioin
worthy to put ti-.li worms on tin honk
wli'-n thou goest a fishing, hence thou
hast purchased a "device," even a
"bottled shaped device." Itut, O,
Mighty Cleveland, we love thee, we
worship thee, and none but thee; if
we erred it was because of the false
prophets, .Jackson and Jefferson, they
misled us, oh. mighty chief, and never
ig-iin will we worship them or believe
anything they taught. Put us on the
chair of thy displeasure and sit u|kiii
us with the nvordtipois of thy wrath.
I'llt our noses to the grindstone of thy
ambition and grind to thy heart's
content. Make monkeys of us and
dogs to amuse our Wail street ft iends.
We have not got any sense; we never
bad any. All wo know is what thou
tellest us. (live us chunks of wisdom,
little or big, as thou seest fit. For
this we will give thee great gobs of
sweat, anil mountains of the products
of our toil, (live us. occassional!}',
an ofllce. Forgive us all our political
sins; even as we surrender our man
hood to thee. Lead 11s not into the
temptation of the Populists, but de.
liver us from the evils of more money,
better prices and less debts; give us
hard times; give us our political creed;
give office, and we will ever sing thy
praises, and thine shall be the power
as we have a "chance" to vote for
thee. Amen!
TWO DROMIOS.
Dan Voorhees apologizing to old
Sherman in the senate and old John
accepting with fulsome gush was a
spectacle to make both Gods and men
weep. Dan for twenty years has been
calling John a traitor to the people's
interests, a tool to the money sharks
and a suborned witness against the
truth. Johu has been calling Dan a
demagogue, a fiat fraud, a copperhead,
and'a windbag full of heresies on the
financial question. Hut they ex-
changed regrets 011 the floor of the
senate last week and now everything
is lovely Both swore to mutual love
ami esteem of each other and with-
drew every offensive epithet. Two
souls with but a single thought, and
that of boodle; two hearts that beat
as one for old Shylock anil a gold
| standard. Nothing since the death-
1 lees love of David and Jonathan equals
the gush betw een Daniel ami Johntiel.
1 Damon and Phythias are outdone in
brotherly affection. They were only
1 willing to die for each other, but our
modern knights are willing to sell and
1 damn for each other. The zenith and
! nadir are far apart, one at the top of
the heavens ami the other at the op-
posite point below and beyond the
earth, but the astronomers tell lis that
even these points of time will change
rate, which is not money, and which
nobody wants, except at a ruinous j
discount.
6. If you allow the Hankers to put I
I this scheme through once it w ill come
{to stay.
This year they are "trying it on" as Norman,
an experiment. They ha\e an idea 11
i that you will stand anything.
Perhaps you will. Hut if you sub- j
| init this time, you may cross your
hands for all time to come.
If they can compel the people to'
take banker's certificates instead of
real money, the Banker would be!
more than human if his appetite did ^
not crave this lucious profit every 1
year.
Don't you be misled by the talk of j
"temporary experiment." Don't you i
suppose that the "Bogus Money"
scheme is just the child of the panic, j
bursts on the visions of the nineteenth
century. The statue of the Goddess
of Liberty is deposed froiu the na-
tional Capitol and gives place to the
Twin Kelics of the age of brass in
tertwined in each other's arms in in-
dissoluble co-partnership Non Con
formists.
l>i:.M AM) HON I'.ST MONEY.
When you sell your cotton, your
goods or your labor, demand honest
money in payment.
What is honest money?
That which our great government
has stamped as genuine, and has, by
law, made a legal tender.
No dollar thus issued by the gov-
ernment can be a dishonest dollar,
because every contract has been made ^ ^ brother Jus, (he remse
with full knowledge of what sort of ^ ranjc js ,he chiM of (he t.Hogus
currency it could be paid in; | Money scheme.
behind every dollar so issued stand
all the powcQof the government and
all the wealth of the people to make 1 , , , ,, ,.
; 1 1 people to a point where 111 their dis-
S00(L | tress, they would take anything that
Not one dollar of the gold, or sil- was offered in the shape of money,
or nickel, issued by !
-.ARM l.Ml'I.MHYLS anil
MAIN t'TRKKT, WKST UK NORMAN STATK
Furniture.
HARK WIRE.
BANK.
Oklahoma.
J.A. Fox & Co.
The Wall street combine manufac-
[ tured the panic in order to bring the
ver, or copper,
the Bloomfield, (hid ) Banner.
Oh, the great and mighty Cleve-1
land! Thou art great beyond all j
others Thou art wiser tliau two ser- I>1«<'<"<- Such a miracle has been per
Thou art all powerful, for in formed In the alchemistic powers of
the government is ever refused by
anybody for any debt, public or
private.
As long as the government stands)
and is solvent, so long will every
dollar it puts out be good.
The bondholders and gold kings
arc crazy to have the government is-
sue more bonds.
They are bitterly opposed to the
issue of more greenbacks.
Yet the bond is but a paper prom-
ise to pay. The greenback is the
same.
But the bonds, being issued in
large sums, can only be obtained bv
the rich. They are not taxed.
Hence the rich man wants them to
take his millions out of the reach of
the tax collector.
The owners of these bonds can
get together, form a corporation, and
the government will let them have
national bank notes, at a cost of one
dollar on the hundred. Hence, as
the bondholder pays no tax, and
draws interest on his bond, and also
upon the national bank notes the
government lets him have, he very
I naturally wants more bonds.
Why does he oppose greenbacks ?
Simply because they are issued in
small sums, and become distributed
among all the people, free from the
greedy fingers of the national banks.
By putting certain influences to
w:ork upon such renegades as John
1!. Gordon and Dan Yoorhees the
bondholders get congress to do just
what they want.
Government money is to be shut
off from the people, and they are to
be forced to accept bank paper in j
model'" politics. The iceberg of Ohio
linn beeh melted down by the golden
sunbeams of executive favor. The
I ndittna turn coat
for
pents.
the hollow of thy hand thou uoldest
the offices. 0, Almighty Master,
thou art great beyond all comprehen-
sion. Before thee there was none
other, neither shall there be after th:'c,
for thou shalt be our king, and John !button of pelf and patronage.
Sherman shall be our priest at the
golden altar. Oh, mighty ('leveland,
■we worship thee. On the altar of our
allegiance to thee, we lay our man-
hood, our property, our lives, and the
lives of our little ones. Do unto us
and ours as seemeth good in thy sight.
Scorch us with the fires thy dis-
pleasures. Kick us out of the \\ hite
House. Give the offices to our ene-
mies. Sell us into captivit) to Wall
street, hut we will worship thee, and
be satisfied,for is it uot written, -'The
dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from
Their plans, up to this nioment,
have worked beautifully. They or-
ganized a panic, they bribed your
Congressmen, they shut off govern-
ment money from everbody but them-
selves, and now they think they have
you where they want you.
Your cotton whitens in the field.
They think you will sell for anything
that is offered.
Don't you do it
Some time ago these same Bankers
(who according to Abe Lincoln
"ought to have their infernal heads
shot off") went into convulsions be
cause the silver dollar was not as
honest as they thought it should be.
They twisted their greedy mouths
out of shape crying for an "honest
dollar."
They said, in horror, that the
amount of silver in the silver dollar
was only worth sixty cents.
Now what do they do ?
Having shut off silver, they flood
the country with Clearing House Cer-
tificates; printed on paper, and hav
ingno strength back of them except
the two or three Hanks that endorse
for them.
The material in the silver dollar
was worth 60 cents—and they were
dissatisfied.
The material in the cetificate is
worth nothing—and they are con-
j tent.
1 The law made the silver dollar a
legal lender all over the Union.
The Clearing House Certificate is
not legal tender anyw here.
Hack of the silver dollar was the
power af the government of 65,000,-
| 000 of people, having the rigli*. to tax
Buys and Sells
ALL KINDS OF
I? T o "V i S1Q X X s.
First Door West of Magmre's Implement House.
1). W. Marqua'jt,
President.
S. 1!. Owkxs, W
Vice-Pres.
Crawford,
C'ushior.
A. C. Maher,
Ass't. Cash
Citizens Bank of Norman.
(INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF OKLAHOMA >
CPAITAL" STCK $50,000.
O DIUI'X TORS: O
I). VV. Marquart, W. C. Crawford. S. li. Owens, O. H. P. Catron, J. M
Daniels, 1>. L. Larah, Lee L'atron.
By-Laws of this Bank provide that no stock can be issued to non-residents
of this county
Subscribe For
PEOPLE'S YOKE,
Largest Circulation
in Cleveland County and
Party Paper in Southern
of
any [Newspaper
the only Peoples
Oklahoma.
j #65.000,000,000 of property to mak; 1
payment of their cotton, their goods j every onp pf thc?g ,j„„. .. j j
and their labor. 1
If the people are wise they will I Back of the Clearing House Cer-
reject these substitutes for honest tificate is nothing but the credit of a
m )])ev j few corporations, which today may |
. , . . , , I be eood and tomorrow bad.
1. Because a principle is involved. 1
It is time for us to make a test as to I The silver dollar is an "honest;
has been steadied I who rules this country. If are dollar.
If we are
moment by the judicious distri-1 the mere slaves of a lot of Wall
Streeters, it is time we knew it.
Why? Because it pays a dollar's j
worth of debts wherever the flag
Heboid the chemical union of two I If the government is the mere tool I floats; because it buys a dollar s
antagonistic elements on the same of the money power, it is time we [ worth of goods wherever commerce
Imse. the miracle of manipulation knew it.
which brings oil and water inpeaceful
and harmonious action. Two lovely
Dromios, who can tell which from
t'other? Two long lost brothers,
who can fail to weep as they fall on
each others shoulders ? Johnny gets
his cake and Danny gets his "divvy."
Blessed pair! Immaculate couple!
Ortnuzand Ahriman, Baldur and Lo-
ki. The devil and St. Dunstan, So
we go. Come to our arms, ye sweet
the master's table?" Before thee, | scented shrubs of decaying parties,
Mikity Chief, we bow. we lie 011 our ye maggotty offspring of a rotten ad-
bullieq. we grovel, we eat dirt We j ministration. Show yourself to the
swear we have lied all the balance of people in bold relief and sharp sil-
our days. We waked for silver, when
we slror.M have asked for gold. We
asked for more money when we should
have asked fur more bonds We
asked forbetter prices when we should
have asked for lower prices. We
asked for the repeal of the Me.Kiuley
tariff when we should have asked to
J#l it alone. Thou, O, Mighty Cleve-
land, -eeest all things better than we
houette, as the
scoundrelism i
j lives, because it is good, nifdit and \
If our Senators and Represents- day, winter, and summer, this year
tives are mere agents af the F.astern j and next year; in Maine and in Cal-
bankers, it is time we knew it. If fornia, on the Lakes and on the Gulf;
our people will but realize it, they j and will continue good as long as the
have the power, at this time, to bring
every banker, monopolist, venal poli-
tician and subsidized editor to his
knees. How?
Simply by demanding our rights
they wanted
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
ONLY SI.00
A YEAR.
An Advertisement Printed
in its columns will be Read by-
more People than any other
rare ripe iruit of
1 culmination! No!
under the law, and refusing to part
with oor substance except for honest
money.
j Because this bogus money is Men, women and little children all la-
subject to all sorts of counterfeiting, j bored to make it. They had to take
3. Because this bogus money may the rain, and the heat, and the cold
be good today and worthless tomor- to make it.
Republic stands.
The Bankers say
"Honest Money!"
So no we!
Give us money for our cotton. __ . , ,,1+rr
gentlemen, else, by the splendor of: J^apei 111 Tjlie OO tlllty •
God, you shall not have it!
It cost us a year of "honest" toil.
At last it is ours.
Do you want it ?
If so, shell out mom 1
T. E. W.
row.
4. Because this bogus money can |
disinfectants will be used upon your j never circulate outside of the com-!
carcasses. No Paris green will I* munity where it was made. Outside
spread to kill the poison. You have j 0f tj,at neighborhood you might a>
reached a period of rottenness that i- 1 well have your pockets filled with j
beyond the power of chemicals to waste paper.
purify. Even the worst diseases at 5. Because in silling your produce ' no longer be responsible for any debts, j
length reach a point where they cease ! you will never know when you are ^ that Stella Springfield my wife maj
to be contagious. King out, ye bells, j taking a certificate which you can
Xotiec
■ is hereby given that I will |
W. H. SPRINGK E1.d,
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1893, newspaper, September 16, 1893; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc116248/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.