The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 30, 1893 Page: 1 of 8
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Befokb the law was written down with
piMMMlSV M N h pMI:
Before the law mude citizen*. the moral
law made men.
Law btaudk for Lunian rights, but when
it fail* tho«e rights to five.
Then let law die. my brother, but let hu-
man beiugs live.
VOL. 2.
peoples l*oke.
Labor Ts The Parent Of Capital, Encourage Labor. and You Build Up Capital
"Our Republic can only exist
si> Long as its citizens respect
ami obey their self imposed laws."
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 30, 1803.
NO. &.
AN OLD REPROBATE.
HE MADE A BETTER SPEECH IN 1881,
THAN HIS LAST ONE.
Remarks of 8enator Voorhees on the Fiscal
Policy of the Government, December
16th., 1881.
Mr. President:—It is now nearly
nine years since silver money was de-
stroyed in this country by the repeal
of the law of 1792 authorizing its
coinage. This famous act of fraud
upon a long and settled financial pol-
icy, and of wrong and injustice to the
business and labor of the American
people, was consummated on the 12th
day of February, 1873. And then for
five years and sixteen days it remained
ou the statute books to curse the land.
It took the people that length of time
to discover, ovsrtake and wipe out
this act of unwarranted and clandes-
tine legislation. But, when the evil
work came to be fully comprehended
throughout the country, the popular
voice was neither slow nor timid in
making itself heard. Itdid not salute
the ears of legislators with the soft
music of a sighing zephyr, dallying
with summer flowers; it came here
rather with the ficicc and commanding
majesty of the hurricane in its wrath:
it came from every seat of houest en-
terprise and industry; from the farmer,
the manufacturer, the mechanic, the
merchant, the trader, the wage laborer,
from every class of business people,
and it came breathing forth the indig-
nation of a constituency who found
themselves betrayed and juggled in a
matter of domestic policy, vital to
their prosperity and happiness.
On the 23th day of Feb., 1S73, the
voice of the American people was
obeyed in these halls, and silver money
the money of Washington, the unit of
value,devised by Jefferson; the money
of great minds in every age of civi-
lized man; the money of the constitu-
tion; the money of every period and
of every political party of this Repub-
lic, until a recent day, was restored
by law to coinage and to circulation.
Let that day be remembered forever
in the American calender as one, on
which a great victory was obtained,
the first in many years, by the indus-
trious, productive masses over the
usury, gathering, unproductive few
This triumph of popular justice was
not the less precious to honest and
generous minds, because of the scenes
and circumstances which attended it.
The act for the restoration of silver
money was passed through both
branches of congress in the face of
prophecies of evil to the country, etc.
When their pretended concern for
the welfare of the country, and their
real concern for their own enormous
profits, were exposed and disregarded
here, they bent their faces confidingly
toward the executive department of
the government, that last refuge, as
it seems, for special privileges to the
favored classes. They were not mis-
taken; they did not make their appeal
to that department in vain. . . In
defiance of the public will, in eon-
tempt of the policy of the government
for more thon four-score years, and in
disregard of the wants of trade and
business, the administration of Mr.
Hayes sent to us in his puny protest
against the dreadful consequences of
silver money. His veto, however,
was swept aside by the congress of
the United States, as people brush
cob webs out of their way. The bill,
restoring the silver dollar to its place
in the coinage laws of the government,
was enacted into law, over all com-
bined opposition, by the tremendous
vote of 190 to 73 in the house; and 40
to 19 in the senate,
And now Sir, what response has the
business of the country during nearly
four years past, made to the evil and
vehement prognostications against the
use of silver money ? Has it brought
ruin? Has it biought calamity?
Has it brought distress to the people ?
Who ha3 the hardihood to say so ?
On the contrary, behold a contrast
in the condition of the country. The
five years, during which silver did not
exist as legal currency, were years of I CHANGES THE DEAL.
the most appaling financial disaster
ever known in AmeHcan history. 1
am speaking now of what all men
know, aud stating that, which no man
will deny. From 1873 to 1878 there
was a period of mourning over lost
property, lost homes, lost labor, in
every active business community in
the United States The
passage of the silver bill was accom-
panied by groans and lamentations of
the associated national banks, ex-
pressed in many a sombre memorial,
petition, remonstrance and expostula-
tion, laid before congress. *
The act of congress by which silver
was dishonored, was a prominent feat-
ure in the most unrighteous and crim-
inal endeavor to so contract, cut down,
SOMETHING FOR HIS PAD
AMERICAN SHIPPING.
Barbarous Navigation Laws How Our
Merchant Marine Has Been Crushed-* . . .
One. Ih. Qior, of th. Country, Now transportation charges anil insurance
the world, according to the govern-
ment reports, was 514,405,000,000.
Even countingt that it has not in-
creased any since, if we did one-third
of it as we did in 1861 our share
would be $4,So 1,666,666, Counting
Scarcely Visible—Figures.
Pa, the people in this country
aren't as smart as they used to be,
|are they ?
Why, yes, they are too. What
put such a foolish idea as that iu
your head ? The I'nited States leads
j the world in everything great and
grand.
Are our people as patriotic as they
used to be ?
Yes, my son, as patriotic as ever.
Why do you ask such a question ?
at 15 per cent would give our ship-
owners 5720,249,999 per annum.
To dig the coal, mine the iron fell
the timber, forge the shaft, build
equip and victual the vessels would
take an army of men. To man them
and sail them would take enough
itiore to make 3,000,000 or 4,000,000
men. This number engaged in the
ship build business would relieve the
congestion in the cities and towns of
the interior. In other words it
would put an end to two men striving
and diminish the amount of monev 1111
use among the people,that the hoarded
million of the banker and the capital-
ist would have more powsr in the af-
fairs of men than all the other powers
of this government combined. The
dream of certain minds in this coun-
trv has been for many years past, to
create in fact, if not in name, an order
of aristocracy, a privileged class, with
rank and importance founded, not on
intellect, culture, refinement, grace or
goodness, but upon their success in the
practice of avarice, the meanest and
most sordid passion of the human heart
ever spoken of iD the heavens above
or in the earth below. In furtherance
of this purpose the possession of
money, especially in considerable sums
being a badge of the new nobility,
the common people were to have as
little of it as possible, and for that
little to be dependeut entirely on the
lords of capital. * * *
The Secretary is trying to make the
impression,that silver money is a drug
and a failure, and that the people do
not want it. Who can justify this as-
sault upon the existence of a hundred
millions of currency, possessed of the
same purchasing power as gold ? I
denounce it, and challenge the friends
of such a policy, if it has any here, to
some to its rescue. Let those, who
will or dare, stand forth as its cham-
pions. This issue, thus forced without
reason or justice upon the country will
be met by the country, and its authors
will be sternly rebuked.
Such a monument, against financial
stability and security, must necessar-
ily have a powerful inspiration in some
deeply interested quarter- We are
not left in doubt at all as to the source
of the inspiration. In connection
with the proposed retirement of silver
and in order to quiet the fear in the
public mind of a destructive financial
contraction, the Secretary, as the
mouthpiece of the banks, is good
enough to say in his report
If what you say is true,why are | for ever job. Labor would be in
| there so many idle men with nothing j brisk demand ami independent en-
to do ? j ough to demand its rights. Big wag-
C Oh,why because, why, lack of con-! es paid to labor would lessen the pro-
fidence is what ails the country. j fits of capital, and the big amount of
Confidence in what, pa ? | money earned by the merchant mar-
Why, in each other, or, no in the ine would make the country so rich
banks, no , hang it what does j and prosperous that it would soon
The Sentinel say is the matter. I— i pay its debts, bonds and all. \ ou
Never mind The Sentinel. What j see, pa, if a vessel earns Sioo,ooo in
is the reason we don't build ships | the carrying trade and brings it home
and sail them and do our share of it isjust as much wealth added to our
the carrying trade of the world ?
Oh, I don't know, we do I guess-
No we don't. In 1S81 there was
shipped from the single port of New-
York 72,276,000 bushels of grain,
resources as though that amount of
goods had been imported.
[Old man aside.] What a smart
boy.
The true reason, then, why we
not a bushel of wich was shipped in don't build and sail ships is because
the rich men who control congress,
American vessels.
Oh, well I suppose we never did the press and everything else won t
do any shipping to amount to any- let us. \\ e have the coal, iron, tim-
thing it don't pay to build ships.
Yes we did too In 1855 the ton-
nage of the Uuited States amounted
to 5.539,813 tons; Great Britain, 5,-
895,369; all other nations, 5,800,767:
thus you see we did nearly as much
carrying on the high seas as did all
the rest of the world.
ber andjabor in abundance, but cap
ital says 'no', and that ends it.
How can it prevent men from
building ships ?
First, pa, by keeping upon the stat-
ute books the most unjust senseless,
complicated iniquitous navigation
laws ever devised.
Oh, that is some of your People's j Second,by keeping money so scarce
party stories. as to make interest high. As scarce
No pa, I got my figures from "Tho j as money is without having to
Decline of American Shipping," a i borrow. And no one here can begin
book written by the Hon. David A. j to compete with foreigners who bor-
Well. row at two per cent when money
Is that so? Been a decline has here cost five and six per cent.
there ?
Yes;in 1856, 75 per cent of our ex-
ports and imports were carried in
America ships, while in 1881 they
carried only 16 per cent, a decline
of nearly 80 per cent in twenty-five
years. Not only that; he tells us on
page 23 that England, in 1S57, hired
our ships to transport troops and
munitions to India during the rebel-
lion there, ou acount of their sup-
erior speed and dexterity of hand-
ling
I swow, I—
To show how hopeless and un-
equal the contest would be you have
only to study the following example.
1,000 loaned for 50 years at 10 per
cent interest would amount com-
pounded to Si 17,000 while loaned the
same way for the same time at six
cent, it would amount to only $18
000, a differenc in favor of the low
rate of interest of $99,000, in a life-
time. The English ship builders can
borrow money at two per cent.,
while ours must pay five and six per
cent., wich is a greater difference
than shown in the example. An o
In i860, pa, we had vessels of 1,
300,000 tons burden carrying goods, cean steamer such as are in use today
for other countries. Now we have costs $500,000. Now multiply $99,-
"'lhere need be no apprehension of j fallen so low as to get foreigners to 000 by 500, and you will see that com-
a too limited paper circulation. The tohaul 84 per cent of our exports and petition between vessels built, one
national banks are ready to issue their! imports for us. Even Spain and little with cheap and the other with dear
notes in such a quantities as the laws j Portugal outstrip us on the ocean. ' money, is impossibility.
of trade demand, and as security there- j Well, it don't pay to build ships, I swow I never though of it in that
for, the Government will hold an equiv- j my son. light before.
alent in its own bonds. j Yes, pa, it does. Moss & Co. ' Now> pa> you can see that we are
We are told that the national banks the leading British ship reporters in ,l0t as smart as we used to be or
are ready to issue their notes in place j their circular for 1S80 say: "We .we would kick out the national bank-
of silver currency,marked fordestruc- j know of no industry so remunerative
tion, and to do so in such a quantity as modern built steamers."
as the laws of trade demand, the banks j My son, if this is true—
themselves of course, being the judges j ^'ot on|y did our merchant marine
of the laws of trade and of their de- j spread its sails on every sea back in
mauds. The country is to depend, in j 50 S we actually sold vessels
DOCTORS AND DISEASE.
Mr. Sibley Pays III R«ipfctitoth«Quscki
soil Mitkri Some luqulrie*.
Following is an extract from a speech j
of Congressman Sibley of Pennsylvania
during the debate on the Wilson repeal
bill:
"My friends, it has been amusing to
sit in this house and hear the diagnosis
that the different schools of physicians
aud empirics have given of tho malady
of the |#tient. And they have gut as
many different maladies as thero are dif-
ferent schools of doctors for t heir treat-
ment. Hero comes one who says the pa-
tient is sick, and the troublo with him is
that thero is lack of t'onfldence. All he
needs is to have confidence, and ho will
soon bo well again. Why, np in Penn-
sylvania the other day a bank closed its
doors where I had several thousands of
dollars on deposit.
"Now. I have absolute confidence in
the president of that bank, tho people of
that community havo confidence in him,
and ho has confidence in me, but neither
of us has any money. That is what is
the trouble. I want to tell any man who
proposes to heal this disease by adminis-
tering a doso of confidence medicine that
he has got to inject that medicine into ev-
ery patient at the saino timo, everywhere
in the country, or it will not work. Y011
cannot givo a dose to a man in this com-
munity and another to a man in another
community and hope that your confi-
dence medicine is going to cure.
"But another says tho difficulty arises
from overproduction — overproduction
of wheat, of wool, of oil, of coal, of
com, of cotton aud beef. Overproduc-
tion of cotton! Why, I drove out through
tho slums of Chicago four weeks ago
and saw men, women aud children in
tatters. Overproduction of wheat, and
we read that in the west people are
starving for the very necessities of life.
Overproduction of fuel, and yet they
froze to death in Pennsylvania, the land
of fuel, last year. Overproduction of j
oil, and a million of our people roam in
darkness this night for want of it. No.
sir, it is not because of overproduction
It is becauso of under consumption, be-
cause of the lack of tho necessary money
to purchase these absolute necessities of
human existence.
"But there are other classes of doctors |
other schools who tell us that we are
getting down to 'hardpan,' that we1
havo been going through an era of infla-
tion and that it is necessary fur us to
get down to first principles, and they ;
say we are going down to hardpan J
Why, iny friend, tho farmers, the work-
ingmen of this country, were down to
hardpan 15 years ago. They got down
to bedrock 10 years ago. They went
down to where they scorched the soles
of their shoes five years ago, aud they
are getting today, in this year of oui
Lord 1893, down to tho point where it it
scorching their feet, and the fumes and
odors of hell come up to meet them.
And yet wo are told we are getting
down to hardpan. I want to know how
much farther toward sheol we have got |
to go before we get there?"
other words, on the interest of the gen-
erosity of the banks for its supply of
money.
The question here presented by the
Secretary of the Treasury, is whether
to such minds shall be surrendered the
entire control of supply and circula-
tion of the currency, Who is ready
for such a proposition ? lias national
bank money been furnished at so little
expense to the people that they want
it to take the place of all other kinds ?
I do not wonder, that the banks want
a total mouopoly of the currency; but
it is astounding to me, that taxpayers
should be willing for them to have any
control at all of that vital question.
The desire of the banks to destroy sil-
ver and greenback is very easily under-
stood. It is difficult to moderate terms
(Contiuued on fourth page)
regating 65,000 tons to foreign
in 18;;.
ers, like Jackson did and wipe the
banks from the face of the earth.
We are not patriotic or we would
hang the congressmen who have sold
us out, tell England to go to hades,
and make our own money till plenty
enough and cheap enough to enable
us to put our hungry idle millions to
Oh, I know we can't build ships work building a merchant marine
now on account of the pauper labor that should dot every harbor and
of Europe. whiten every sea.
But, pa, our ship builders used to I swow, if I was in practic I'd
compete against that same pauper la- think a little about this matter, but
bor, as you call it. then it's no use, with Dan a voting
Yes, but wages are higher here ; for the banks and Grove bent knock-
now than they were in 1855 and i860, ing out silver it looks as though mon-
So they are in Europe too. pa. ey would be scarcer instead of plen-
Skilled labor, such as is used in ship j tier, that means 30 cent wheat, over-
building, is as much higher in Lu- productions, strikes, lockouts, bread
rope now as our labor is over prices riots, etc,—Non Conformist.
of 1S55
Let me sec I swow . If the Populists gets a majority in
i'a, there ars two reasons, one pri- the next congress of as good material
mary and the other secondary, why as they have in the present it will be
we don t build and sail ships. as much honor to be called a Populist
W hat are they ? as it was to be called a Roman in
In 1SS1 the estimated commerce of C'easar s time.
To Overthrow European Influence.
A dispatch from Topeka says that a
petition, signed by the state officers of
Kansas, has been sent to Governor Stone
of Missouri, asking him to call a con-
vention to consider measures of relief
for the south and west. The dispatch
gives the following as the substance of
the petition:
In View of tlie distressing financial condi-
tion of the country, and especially its most
productive portion, which w ill be further ag-
gravated if congress shall do nothing to relievo
it or shall unconditionally repeal the Sherman
law, we would ask you to call a convention of
all the governors of all the states west of the
Mississippi and south of the Ohio river and on
a parallel line therewith, and also that such
governors appoint in addition a number o*
delegates equal to tho representation of their
states in congress.
The objects of this convention to be to con-
sider what shall be done for mutual relief vt
the people, for the cultivation of commercial
relations between them, and such other action
as may conduce to the material welfare and
prosperity of the communities involved, looking
especially to arranging for such trade relations
as may render this settion free of dependence
J upon the eastern section of the United States
in business affairs.
j We consider the present an auspicious time
j for a concerted movement to bring the pcoj<!■•
I of the west and south into such united action
I as will protect and foster interests which are
j naturally allied, and to free these sections from
j unjust and ruinous dominations of a section
i which is largely influenced by European poli-
j cies and methods.
Farmers, Study the Question.
If farmers will study the influences
that make wheat sell for 47 cents, they
! will soon be able to get better prices.
, They can easily realize twice as much
| for their year's labor if they will study
up the money question. Knowing a few
; things won't hurt you. You needn't be-
; lieve anything unless you are perfectly
satisfied it is true. You aro being
sldnned out of your labors and told it's
! overproduction, lack of confidence, etc.
Tho fellows who aro getting rich off you
are not the ones to tell you tho real
cause. Do a little economic reading.—
Coming Crisis.
Allen Is All Right.
In opening his speech upon the silver
question in the senate, Senator Allen of
Nebraska described himself as an hum-
ble member of a new political party
which had recently come into public no-
tice. That party had been made neces-
sary by the constant drifting away of tho
nation from its moorings. It was hour-
ly growing in numbers, courage, intel-1
ligence and discipline and would sooner
or later force the two old political parties
to administer the affairs of tho govern-
ment in tho interest of the people, or
would force them into disintegration and
death.
BIMETALLIC CONVENTION.
To He Held With KtpeeUl Ilefereucs to
the Trade of Southern Coiyitrie*.
Tho executive committee of tho Pan-
American Bimetallic association has is-
sued the following call:
IIEAIMVI'AHTEUS PA2*-A MEKIOAN )
Bimetallic Association. f
A convention is hereby tailed of representa-
tives from Old Mexico and all the states there-
of and of all the countries of South aud Cen-
tral America.
Ami of the states of Alabama, Arizona, Ar«
kui sas, California, < -dorado, Florida, Georgia,
Ida.10, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Loulslami,
Mi*-*uri, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ne-
hru"! a, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Car-
olina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah,
West Virginia, Virginia, Washington and Wy-
oming to meet at St. Louis on Tuesday, Oct. 3,
1«H.
This association was organized at El Paso,
Tex., at the southwest silver convention held
iu that (ity on Deo. 6, 7 and I, UN) and
at which many of tho leading and wealthy
citizens of the states of Old Mexico and the
eoaatriit of South and Centra] America vrore
In attendance. It was there ordered that a
convention representing all tho states, terri-
tories and countries l>elonging to tho associa-
tion be held in Denver lu October, 181B. The
extraordinary conduion of the bOllDM M
industries of the United States, tho danger
which threatens tho money iu Mexico and tho
the countries of South and Central America
as well as that of tho United States, tho ne-
cessity for broader reaches than tho assocla*
tlon can supply under literal construction of
its constitution, havo induced tho executive
committee to chance tho tho place aud sub*
mit the mutter for consideration.
It is evident that the renter of the conspiracy
in this country to utterly demonetize silver and
thrust the United States upon a sudden metal-
lie standard, that of gold, is in New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The press of
these cities bus become thoroughly subservient
to the ends of the conspirators and has so im-
bued the minds of tho people of the states in
which these cities aro and tho surrounding
states that they have all ttccotuo careless of the
welfare of the west.
In the name of "honest money," theso state*
are parties to the spoliation of our sections, and
the cities named are the prime instigators of
the oriine.
It has seemed to us that we should not fatten
and strengthen such cities with tho vast trndo
and commerco of our sections. Not only does
self resjH-ct and self preservation require that
we should deal with friends, but that geograph*
leal position of tho states, the facilities for
ports on the gulf and Its tributaries and upon
the Pacific coast, the proximity of Mexico and
Central and South America to tho gulf and
California lines of the United States, the
shorter distances from them to many Euro-
pean and Asiatic ports, and the better railroad
and interwaterwny facilities from them tu
nearly every quarter of the west and south, all
Combine to render practicable and readily
feasible the building upof ports along the gulf,
its river tributaries and the Pacific coast line,
through which tho great bulk of otir grain,
ore, meats, raw materials and manufactured
goods may reach Mexico, South and Central
American, European ami At lutie ports, and
the wares and products of other climes bo re-
turned to us with reciprocal profits.
t\ e therefore urge upon the governments of
Mexico, South and Central America and upon
the American states Interested In the work
and upon all the commercial and manufactur-
ing bodies within them, to send delegates to
the convention, and we further request all rail-
road and steamship lines of this and the South
American continent, of Europe and Asia, inter-
ested in establishing new ports and line* of
communication upon tho lines suggested to
send representatives for consultation ami sug-
gestion. Let us proceed In this work with de-
liberation, but firmness. it is a grc.at and pa-
triotic task as well its one of mutual profit aud
advantage.
By order of the executive committee of tho
Pan-American Bimetallic association.
a. « . FiiKt President.
Are the Democrats Doing Better?
Otir own fiscal system is out of order,
and back of it thero is scarcely a sound
limb in the body politic. The banks
suffer from a loss of popular confidence;
the people suffer from a loss of banking
credit. Very much less disparity of
money values would be enough to ac-
count for this, to say nothing about the
decline of tho staples and tho bursting
of the booms, tho floods in tho soutii <iila
the debts in tho west. Everywhere un-
equal burdens are imposed. A system
of unjust taxation, feeding the few out
the toil of (he many, has piled up dispro-
portionate wealth on the ono hand and
widespread poverty on the other hand.
The masses of workmen are no longer
permitted to hew their own wood and to
draw th< ir own water, but 1* fore they
can do either ti; y must pay tribute to tho
protected classes, while the myriads of
farmers, who sow and reap in order that
all may live, have everything they pro-
duce priced in a free trade market under
tho gold standard and everything that
they havo to buy taxed to the moon to
insure profits to favored domestic enter-
prises. Thirty years of Republican mis-
rule tell the dreary tale.—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Ohio Populist Ticket.
At the People's Party convent!
Ohio, which met in Columbus ii •
4th of July, the following ticket to tw
voted for at tho fall election was nom-
inated: Governor, E. J. Brackt n of Co-
lumbus; lieutenant governor, M. Clooley
of Vinton county; treasurer, William
H. Taylor of Champaign county; attor-
ney general, J. H. Rhodes of Sandusky;
judge of tho supreme court, C. T. Clark
of Columbus; dairy and food commis-
sioner, Thomas II. Hickman of Morrow
county; member of the board of public
works, Matthew linger of Allen county.
The platform adopted reaffirms tha
principles of the Omaha convention.
The American people are above their
presidents and their partiel They make
and they can break them. Tho political
Judases of both parties who were elected
they are nc
braze
idiating, will
be held to a si rn accounting by tho [>e<
pie whom they aro betraying. They
may as well, every ono of them, get
'umpUngd upL/auTho
lderstandings whereby
soon as tu-y u
ablo work of
promisi s and
they won th •
eve the n
to
power aud play the p<
York Recorder.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 30, 1893, newspaper, September 30, 1893; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc116252/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.