The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1893 Page: 4 of 8
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The People's Voice.
ALLAN & RIXSE, Publishers.
SUltSCWITIOK $1 (HI I'KR YKAR.
ITHUSJIF.II KVKKY SATl'KUAY.
Entered in the ptuttofflon at Norman,
0. T. as second clans matter for trans-
mission through ail mail*.
Norman, Nnliirdny, Oct., I •
Bull.'
to vote for John
ative.
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isTIIi". iti:i>rin.i<
- Represent- C JIHKIFF COT HIM
ron s m.i:?
how w d iik.kka i k plavs
of "UtERZKOUr.
THK C.AMK
With a half incredulous smile, we
| reatl of ihe Roman Empire being
j auctioned off to the highest bidder,
in those horrible days when corrup-
tion had sei/ed every department of
the government, and when money
had acquired such fearful power that
patriotism, courage, honesty, virtue,
family ties, all fell before it.
Are we nearing the same fjta| j |«o years ago that he couldn't make
point?
Boy Show* Hl P* the Way It l Done We'll
All Qo the Same Way in Time Senator
Daniel's Figures What Thev Mean.
I'oor Smith, 1 see the sherift ha-
closed him out at last.
Whit do you mean, pa, by *a\ing
at last ?
Why, you see; oh whv I told him
it.
J. S. ALLAN,
TIMK TAItl.K-A. I
GOING SOUTH,
No. #13 I :07, a
No. 4(17 Stops at Pu reel I .. :i :50, |>. in.
no. 42,1 Accommodation p. m.
Going north,
No. 4<Xi I- :.14, a. ill.
No. 40H 1 :B8, p. III.
No. 422 Accommodation .6:65, a. m.
The San Francisco Kxaminer, the
greatest Democratic daily west of the
Mississippi river, has repudiated
Cleveland ar.d renounced its allegi-
ance to the Democratic party as now
arrayed against the people. The Kx
aminer has pronounced itself in sym
pathy with the Populists party.
Des Moines, Oct. a.—The great
•est political sensation of the cam-
paign was sprung yesterday morn-
tiing when Senator llalter of Harri-
son county notified the Populist
chairman that lie would desert the
Democratic ranks anil support Mr.
Joseph, a populist. Halter has been
a Democratic leader in the Senate
for 16 years.
-4**-
An oilier lina been issued by the In-
terior Department suspending ind"Iin
ately the Ilrst, payment for those hold-
ing claims in the Pottawatomie noun
try. The payment is due nt the laud
ofllee on the ^2d inst.. and the object
is to s"e what congress will do with
the Flynn bill, which is pending.
The bill provides that thoses,having
claims on the Pottawatomie reservn.
tion and the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
lands slmll bo allowed two years to
'nuke payment, or shall he allowed
1.0 commute if the claimant so desires
The chances are that the bill will pass.
Democrats charged that Wana-
I maker bought his place in Hartison's
Editor. ( ,ibinct by giving $100,000 to the
I jj00(j|e j.'um|
| Democrats now admit that Van
fAlen bought the Ambassadorship to . woll|,|
m. J Italy for #50,000 under this Cleve-
I land administration.
The Pacific Rail Roads are not
called on to pay the #69,000,000 thev
owe the people, because of hush
money paid to party managers.
Is it true that the Party Mosses re-
.Make it how, pa.
Well, you see it was this way. I11
1881 he married Mary l.ee, she, poor
thing had #3,000, with it they wanted
to buy a farm. She wanted to buy
the Morris eignty for #2,500, which
iave left them out of debt
with a little to go on.
Why didn't they buy it?
They would have bought it, but
1 old Ilighrate, from town, got around
them and persuaded them to buy
160 acres of him, and they did, going
#2,000 in debt for it.
pented then, of the trade with Van
Alen, and offered to refund his' Tbat was 12 years, ago, pa; why
money; and that he stubbornly con- "hey pay it, prices were good
j tended that the office had been |rern 1 the} ?
bought and paid for; and therefore! Ves' an<1 lhe-v mado so,ne "lonL"y.
I must be delivered ? and offere<1 to P y 80 as t0 reduce
Is it true that Cleveland is now a i ",e PrinciPal> but 01,1 Highrate said
millionaire, when only a few year- - "°; ' am in "° llUrrj'' "SC the mone>'
j ago he was hanging criminals' with jt0 im|,r0ve wi,h' an<l s" lhe-v ''i'1
his own hands in order that he might' Kor f°"r °r f,ve yea" ",ey ",aid t,le
earn the fifty dollar fee> 1 interest and spent lots of money in
Is the I'nited States Government in\i;™ven,ents-
already on the auction block ? U improvements did they make
Do insolent society dudeS, like
Van Alen openly buy offices as they
would buy sheep ?
Do the great corporations bargain
before hand for a non-collection of
debts due to the Government ?
How did it happen, pa ?
Well, you see for four or five years
They built a big, fine barn drained
out the wet lands, put miles of wire
fence and set out and cared for thier
big orchard.
Now, you say,, they are sold out?
Ves.
Did the Kail Road Syndicates pay
I for the appointment of Richard Olney i
one of their Lawyers and I Jirectors"'|,nces farm Products were good,
to be Attorney-General of ihe Cni-i ",.en wa# the ti,ne ht" sl'0uld have
ted States 5 1 lia'(' 0,"> instead of making such ex-
Did the New York Insurance Com-! ve !ml,™vlen,ent -
• .. U hy should he, pa?
panies pay anything to get Horn- ,, .
i.i........., ,1, c - ' , Hecause prices commenced togo
blower on the Supreme Bench as lay
1 down then, and
ifter paying$1,000
it was almost im-
Tlic Land «' Cotton
Tom Watson is marching through
Georgia. His audiences often num
berioor 12,000. At one of his meet
ings recently asMr. Watson rose to
address the 1,500 peopU, a little nine
year old girl stepped to the front and
unfurled a beautiful banner, which
bore upon one side "Truth is mighty
and will prevail;" and upon the other
side, "Thomas E. Watson, the advo-
cate of Jeffersonian principles." In a
clear voice, and with beautiful sen-
timent she presented it to him.
This serves to show the spiret in
which tlie people receive populist
tloctrines there. M r. Watson has the
democrats on the run. Four coun-
ties out of five in which elections
have been held were carried by the
peoples parly.
"For God's sake do something!" is
the frantic appeal of the Atlanta
Constitution to the democrats in con-
gress. "County aftercounty is slipp-
ing awav from us in Georgia and
going over to the populists."—Rep-
resentative.
Gould paid Stanley Mathews'way. ,
there? ' Iof the Pnne,P
ti- 1 /.1 1 , ... .„. , possible for him to reduce it any
Did C leveland get his million by | n
making merchandise of the power of I "wu*
his station ?
e all know that John Sherman!
did. And now John Sherman is I
axes increased and for a
few years it was all he could do to
hay the interest. Then he fell behind
and gave his note for the interest for
,a few years till now Old Highrate
Cleveland s chum and ally—his doI- . , ' , c .. ,
. • I ' takes advantage of the panic, when
htical crony. 11 . .
J nobody can borrow a dollar, and
Join was once a poor < )hio boy. j forecIoses the mortgage and bids in
the farm at sheriff sale for $ 1,000,
Office gave him power, and he yielded
to temptation.
He is now a millionaire. Got it
how ?
Hy using public money in his own
bank and by "standing in" with Wall
street when he was Secretary of the
Treasury.
When Governor of New York,
Clevelane was a poor man. So he
was when Sheriff of Krie county.
\\ as barely able to hire a substi-
tute, to get shot in his stead, "endu-
ring of the war."
Now he has a palace in New York.
Also one at Buzzard's Roost.
Item, one ditto, near Washington
City. Item, one Vaclit' like unto
Yanderbilt, and Van Alen, and the
Prince of \\ ales. Item, magnificent
diamonds for his wife. Item, the
fiinest carriages and horses money
can buy. Item, a Palace car put at
his disposal whenever he desires to
go off and feast, and fish, and drink.
An Impossibility.
'You want to be a populist, do
1st. Question: Where did
heavy-headed ex Sheriff get all that
money ?
2nd. Question: Have we reached
I the auction block stage of our Na-
you r
"Ves," said the stranger in a whis-
ker.
"Cant you talk any louder than
that ?"
"Not much," was the husky an-
swer.
""Why not?"
"I've lost my voice."
"And you want to be a populist!
"Why man you haven't the first quali-
fication. '—Washington Star
tional life
sale ?
Is the republic itself for
T. K. W.
Kor # 1,000 ?
Yes.
How much is the farm worth pa ?
If prices were as high as when he
bought it, it would be worth Sio,ooo,
And he only got Si,000?
He didn't get a cent, he simply got
credit on his notes for #1,000, leaving
him still owing several hundred dol-
lars. Poor Mary, it will nearly kill
her. She has worked like a slave all
these years, denying herself every
luxury in order to have a home.
You said you knew he couldn't
make it, two years ago. How did
you know ?
Why, because he was getting fur-
ther behind every year in his interest.
It was simply a question of figures
and time when he would be closed
out.
Now, pa, do you know that it is
simply a tion qf figures and time
rhffc lose you out.
•i,_. [Old man thunderstruk„\J.; e
closed out by the sheriff? You ais^ysuhscfibingfor.your papen
I course, I do. I believe every word he !
<ays. Does he say we'll all lose our !
■ farms ?
Not in so many words, but here is j
! what he does say in his great speech ;
in the senate in September. 1893, as
published in the Noni oniormist-
"In 1880 the total private indebted- i
ness of the American people was #6,-
' 700,000,000. In ift^oit was $19,700,-
000,000, an increas, of #13.000,000,
000 in 10 years."
I'll swan, is that so?
Now, pa, that is an increase of
almost 200 per cent in 10 j cars, which
i:ia much greater increease than took
place in Mr. Smith's case, which you
said you knew would end in bank-
ruptcy.
That's so ?
Now if the private debts increase
as tast in the next 10 years as they
have in the last they will amount to
#7,000,000,000, and in 20 years from
now they will amount to Sit'i.ooo,-
000/100, which will be twice as much
as the whole United States will be
worth, according to present rates of
increase of wealth.
Hut, but, l'rehaps teey won't in-
crease so fast in the next ten ami
twenty years as they have in the last
ten.
They will increase faster,pa,the less
money per capita there is, the more,
must people borrow to do business.
Then, pa, these are private debts Mr,
Daniel speaks of. Further 011, he
gives the amount of state, county,
towns hip,municipal government, rail-
road, telegraph, gas, water, street-
railway and various other debts,
which run it tip to as much, or'more,
than the privat indebtedness, so you
see, pa, unless your figures lie, this
country will be put up by the sheriff
and knocked down to English bond-
holders inside of ten years, and we
shall be an English province. Yea
more, a cringing servile race of
slaves.
My Cod! does it figure out like
that ?
\ es. \ ou said you knew Smith
would lose his farm because h? kept
getting deeper in debt every year.
Now for the same reason I know
that we shall all lose our homes. If
Cleveland and his piratical crew
succeed in knocking out silver, it
won't be many years eihter.
I'll swan, I—
Senator Daniel also shows that we
have not enough money all put
together to pay the interest on what
we owe.
I'll swan! The idea of men calling
themselves representatives, opposing
the free coinage of silver; it makes
me mad. Say, I'll—
Pa, this is a bankers' panic, aided
and abetted by such men as Cleve-
land Sherman, Yoorhees, Hoar &
Company. It isanotherstep towards
serfdom for the masses.
(Old man sighs.)
Oh pa, don't commit suicide.
No, by gosh, I won't. I'll orga-
nise a company of sharpshooters to
march on—
Oh mother, pa's crazy.—Non Con-
formist
AI.L YE THAT
Are Sick
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1 . W. Ma KQl'AtT,
President.
15. (I w K N* h, W
Vice-Pres.
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Governor l in1>l.tif k of Arkali.au.
Vour leieicraui inquiring my opinion of 111.
Ihe proposition for n commercial division bo-
tween Ihe west ami thS eaal has been forw.nl-
eti to this place. Owing to my recent illness
much of my mail hfts been withheld, bo that 1
have not seen Uovernor Waiters plan, but 1
will say that I oppose recession or separation
of any kind.
I.et me add: The census shows that Nebras-
ka. Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
are 26 time* as large as Massachusetts and
have seven times as manji people; yet within
the past 10 years Massachusetts has grown in
wealth $1U,««,II(1IJ more than all nine of these
great states combined
,i grown $12,(H),mil) more than 12 of these great
TYou want to be a republican, (lo states. New Vork has grown Jd.mi.noo more
•you t
'"Ves:" sakl the stranger
firin
''Have you got any sense ?"
"No. I'm the biggest darned fool
in four'counties."
"My dear fellow, give me your
hand;—yoh -can join either of the old
parties and be happy. Have you any
money ?"
"Ves, lots of it "
" "<lood! \\ e'll send you to congress
crazy.
world. \
You believe inf figures though.
Yes, and if you can prove to me
that I shall be sold out, I'll commit
suicide.
Oh, pa, don't say that, for I can
prove it to you in io minutes, that
not only you, but all the other farm-
ers around you will be closed out by
the sheriff inside of a few years.
My son, what do you mean ?
You said you knew it was only a
question of time with Smith, because
Pennsylvania has he was getting deeper in debt every
year, and
But, my boy, I am not in debt at
all and—
than 15 combined.
The nine industrial states of the northeast
with a own over one-half of tliu w ealth of the entire
country. This wealth has been drained from ,
the consumers of the south and west, making Hold on, pa, loll are a good
these slates the debtor states and the north-
eastern states the creditors. Now if they suc-
ceed in this conspiracy to rob the debtors by
demonetizing silver they may eipect every
species of legal warfare until the outrage is
rectified, Wll.i.lam Fishback.
-New York World.
Populist members are doing their
duty and deserve well of their constit-
uents. No party has more creditable
representatives. Xhe only trouble is we
want 10 times r,s many of them, and in
189-1 we will get them.—New Nation.
democrat, arn't you ?
Yes, indeed I am.
Yon believe 'vhat Daniel says,
don' you ?
Yes, sir, Didn't I vote for him when
he run for congress from Terry Hut ?
I don't mean Dan Yoorhees. I
mean Senator Daniel, of YiTginia.
Oh, well; I'll swan, whv yes, of
'V.
Notice.
Boli West, lined lo years and Will
Ritter, Hged 14 years, left home. Get.,
1st., lssi.j. \Ve>t is rather tall and slen-
der and Bitter is heavy set. Any in-
formation regarding their whereabouts
will he appreciated and thankfully re-
ceived by K. F. West, Quincy, O. T.
Literary Notes.
The October AHKN'a will appeal
strongly to the Southern heart. It con-
tains ns a frontispiece a tine portrait of
Mrs General Pickett, ;ind a remarka-
bly fine a\Vgro dialect character sketch
by Mrs. Pickett. It also contains a
strikingly able p;iper by Joshua t aid-
well entitled "The South is American."
This issue contains two notable articles
on the Money question.
Among timely questions ably dis-
cussed in the Octol>er number are "A
lieady Financial Relief" "Silver or Piat
Money*' ami "Irrigation,"
New Goods,
More Goods,
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CHEAPER THAN EVER.
045"eli STORK AGAIN HAS- THE t)I.I) APPEARANCE
We have just what you want, anil at
I'rices so Low you can't help but buy. We
ask all our old Patrons mil as many new
as wish to save Money, to Call and Ex-
amine our Stock,, before buying elsewhere.
WE ARE THE
"PEOPLES FRIENDS."
BerrY
Norman,
Bros.
Okla.
M. Dunn merits the largest and
best assorted stock of furniture in the
city.
Daisy Flour nt Williams & Son.
Nelson's new implements have ar-
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1893, newspaper, October 14, 1893; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc116256/m1/4/?q=music: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.