Rimus the law w*a wrltteu down with
parch mentor with pen;
Before the law iua«le cIIImoi, the moral
law made men.
Law maud* for human right*, hut wheu
it fail* thoae rivhta to five.
Then let law die. uiy brother, but let hu-
man beiuga live.
^peoples
oicc.
"Our Republic can only exist
so Long as its citizens respect
and obey their self im|>08ed laws."
Labor Ts The Parent Of Capital, Encourage Labor, and You Build Up Capital
VOL. 3.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY, JUNE, 8. I8Q5
NO 45
A Circular Letter.
Picked
Up on (he Streets of
Chicago By
T. W. GILRUTH, A REPORTER
Of the Chicago Daily News.
From the "Word and
Work," Abilene Tex.
The letter was published in the
Chicago Daily Press and created
quite a furor among the bankers
and they at once took steps to de-
stroy that issue of the paper and
suppress the further publicity of
the letter.
Here is the circular. Read it!
Think over it! Ye boastful yeo-
manry of a (once) glorious repub-
lic! We must be robbed of our
homes! We must be made tenant-
ry, that we may not "quarrel with
our rulers." Great God, is there a
man in this plague-stricken land
who has a drop of patriotic blood
in his body, whose heart will not
fire with indignation, and whose
spirit will not rebel against such
damnable and diabolical treachery
as this? Read it, friend, and if it
doesn't make a Populist out of you
we must decide that you are the
one or the other of the two things
a fool or a tool!
Wall Street. N. Y., I
Maich 2i. 1892. f
Developments abroad this week
have been quite as important as
those at home. The appointment
of a receiver for the speculative
banking house of Murris & Co.,ends
a long agony among capitalists, and
is a long step towards the final liqui-
dation of England's latest financial
folly. The continental crisis which
has long been pending seems to be
at hand.
1 he failure of a leading banking
house at St Petersburg a few days
ago, the suspension of a Paris bank
to-day, more intense financial dis-
trust in Spain and Portugal, and the
political complication at lierlin, all
point unmistakably to a climax of
the wretched condition of financial
and political affairs that has existed
upon the continent for years.
It is not to be wondered at that
the American Market, no matter how
sound and healthy it may be, should
stand still in the faceof these events,
and of others of which they are the
precursors.
London having relieved itself of a
surfeit of securities extensive sales
of its holding of Americans, and by
so doing has filled her bank vaults
with American gold, is in a position
to take care of ite holdings of Argen-
tine securities, for which there is
practically no market at present.
English bankers, brokers and in-
vestors certainly will not touch con-
tinental securities unless they should
fall in value to such figure that might
tempt bargain hunters, for all of
these securities have been tabooed
in the London market, and will con-
tinue to be until capitalist determine
whether or not to bring on a general
war between European nations.
It is reasonable to assume, there-
fore, that the minor and local finan-
cial troubles of the continent will be
limited to those who are locally res-
ponsible for them—that is, as far as
the misfortunes of any nation can be
confined witlnn its'own territory.
Out of all this disorder a better
and sounder conditon of affairs will
be developed by the imperialism of
capital, but the process of reaching
that basis will inevitably be slow,
tedious and costly. A gold basis
for money circulation must be es-
tablished.
We must proceed with caution
and guard well every move made,
Prudence will therefore dictate a
policy of apparent yielding to the
popular will, until all of our plans
are as far consumated that we can
declare our designs without fear of
any organized resistance.
The farmers alliance and Knights
of labor in the United States should
be carefully watched by our trusted
men, and we must take immediate
steps to either control those organi-
zation in our interest, or to disrupt
them.
At the coming Omaha convention
to be held July 4, our men must at-
tend and direct movements, or else
there will be set on foot such anta-1
gonism to our designs as may require ' 'Lordu <>l hartli Want
force to overcome. This at the
ROTHSCHILDS
FAVOR SILVER,
Bank of England Joins in the
Scramble.
"The Movement Has the Warm
Sympathy of the Rothschilds."
ALL FOR SPECULATION.
present time would be premature; we
are not ready for such a crisis.
Capital must protect itself in every
possible manner, through combina-
tion and legislation.
The courts must be called to our
aid, debts must be collected bonds
and mortages foreclosed as rapidly
as possible.
tVhen, through Process of law, the
common people lost their
homes they will be n.oit tractable
and easily governed through the in-
fluence of the strong arm of the
government—applied by a central
power or imperial wealth tinder the
control of leading financiers. A
people without homes will notquarrel | Germany"
with their rulers. History repeats
itself in regular cycles; this truth is
well know among our principal m ;n
now engaged in forming an imperial-
ism of capital to govern the world.
While they are doing this, the peo-
ple must be kept in a ctfndition of
antagonism.
I he question of tariff reform must
be urged through the organization
known as the democratic party. And
the question of protection with reci-
procity must be forced to public view
through the republican party.
By thus dividing the voters we
can get them to expend their ener-
gies in fighting each other over ques-
tions of 110 importance to us, except
as a tether to lead the common herd
I hus by discreet action we can se-
cure all that has been so generously
planned, and thus far successfully
accomplished.
(Signed) H. Zimmerman, Secretary
lo the Bankers and Brokers Cen-
tral Committee of Chicago, 111.
Bvery Other Isxue Hurled Out
of Sijflit Limit tlie conten-
tion to Silver and Nliylock
Mill ](• Happy.
As the war against silver was an
international affair—being waged
first in Australia, then in Germany,
India, Europe and America—in the
interests of the money power ot the
world, so is the rehabilitation of sil-
ver, the present boom of silver, in-
ternational in its scope and under
the direction of the great banking-
houses of the world.
An Associated Press correspond-
ent writing from Berlin under date
of May 25, says of the movement in
and the Rothschilds are comman-
ders-in-chief, with Wall street in
command of the American division.
The "new silver party" is the
American recruiting agency for this
European money power.
All Populists who want to join a
movement that has the "warm sym-
pathy of the Rothschilds" will fall in
line at the tap of the silver drum, re-
nounce their allegiance to the Oma-
ha platform, and whoop her up live-
ly for free coinage to the exclusion
of every other demand, financial or
otherwise.
Remember, Rothschild and the
Hank of England are on the side of
the Silverites.
Quite a good bit of fuss is being
made over the case of a Michigan
man who lost his brains in a railway
wreck and is still living.
We have a more peculiar case
right here in Norman, and it at-
tracts but little attention. We have
an individual in this town who pre-
tends to edit a paper who never pos-
sessed any brains to lose, or if he did
he has succeeded in keeping the
fact thoroughly concealed from the
outside world. It is true when he
opens his mouth you can hear a
slight grinding of cogs in the lo-
cality where brains are generally
supposed to be located, but he has
never given any outward manifes-
tations of the presence of gray mat-
ter.
"There is no reason why anybody
should suffer in a country like this if
they use the sort of economy used
by the people of the New England
states or of any foreign country.
The farmers of the New England
states are mostly rich and they have
got that way by hard work and sav-
ing."—State Capital.
The above clipping from the
Guthrie State Capital reveals a wan-
ton disregard for the truth, or a de-
plorable state of ignorance on the
part of the editor of the State Capi-
tal. If he would but consult the
mortgage statistics of the New Eng-
land states, he would discover that
the people of those states are al-
most as badly mortgage-ridden as
the people of
"One of the chief features of the
session which has not been without
startling incidents has been the rap-
id growth of the bimetallic agita-
tion. The bimetallic party has
been even more successful in the
Prussian diet than in the Reichstag,
inasmuch as the resolution of the
diet, instead of merely asking the
government to call a conference, as
the Reichstag did, intrusts the chan-
cellor, Prince Hohenlohe, much a-
gainst his liking, to persuade the
bundesrath to so frame invitations
to the money conference as to make
it plain from the start that Germany
wishes to bring about the general
adoption of a double standard."
Under the same date a cable dis-
patch to the New York World has
the following regarding the move-
ment in England:
" I he English bimetallic league
is pressing its crusane with great
vigor, and has a very imposing list
of members both in numbers and
business and political prominence.
Its presidency is Henry Gibbs, a di-
rector of the bank of England. As
its chairman of the general council
it has H. R. Grenfell. Mr. McNeill,
the secretary, tells me that Mr. Lid-
derdale, the famous ex-governor of
the bank, is a member.
"Besides Arthur Balfour, it num-
bers many prominent politicians
and influential peers, including the
Dukes of Aberdeen, Fife, and ISeau-
fort, Jacob Bright, Sir I.eyel Griffin,
Henniker Heaton, Lord Rawton,
Disreali's former adjutant, as well
as the young Disreali. Sir Henry
James, attorney general in Salis
bury's cabinet, and Henry Chaplin,
a member of the same cabinet;
Knachbull Huggeson and many oth-
er members of parlaiment.
"Among the bankers and business
men there are Charles and Alfred
Hoare, Thomas Haring, Sir Thomas
Sutherland, chairman of the Penin-
sula and Oriental Steamship Com-
pany; Sir Samuel Montague and
many others. It is well known here
that the movement has the warm
sympathy of the Rothschilds."
There you have it. The president
of the English bimetallic league is
a director of the Bank of England;
the ex-governor of the bank is a
member of the league, as are also
the principal members of the Eng-
lish cabinet, members of Parlaiment,
and the principal bankers of Lon-
don.
I'lie Hunkers Are Behind It
Put on your thinking cap, Mr. Sil-
verite aid see if you can remember
handling' some years ago, a certain
silver coin current among laborers
and farmers called the "trade dol-
lar."
Of course, you can. But you may
not remember that the trade dollar
contained nearly eight grains more
of pure silver than does the "stand-
ard" silver dollar now current, also
that silver was then worth £1.03 in
gold, or three cents premium.
You will remember there was a
great cry raised against the trade
dollar by the bankers and goldbugs
— ' ey are always raising some sort
of a howl against silver. What was
the matter with it; wasit a "fifty-cent
dollar?" No; it was more than a 100
cent dollar.
Wasn't it up to the legal ratio of
16 to t? Yes, up to and beyond it.
Did it "cheat the poor laborer out
of half his earning" as ex-President
Harrison said in one of his messages?
No; the "poor laborer" wasn't in
it then, for he took his pay in store
truck and orders on "the boss,"just
as he does now.
Wasn't it "sound money," "honest
money," money that retained its "in-
trinsic value" even after the pictures
of the goddess of liberty and the
eagle on its reverse sides were smash-
ed into smithereens? Oh yes; but it
was too sound, too "honest," too big
and wasn't just like theother dollars.
It soon got out that there was
something the matter with the
trade dollor, few seemed to know
just what, and it was soon at a dis
count, as people refused to take them.
But there was one place where
they were always welcome—at the
banks, where they were received
over the counter for 85 cents.
1 hink of that, "honest-money"
shriekers, and deny it if you dare -a
silver dollar weighing 420 grains,
with silver at 3 per cent premiun,
going begging at 85 cents!
V\ hy was it: \vasn,t it good money?
It was as good a dollar as was ever
turned out of the United States mint,
which was never known to coin a
bogus dollar.
Set it down as a fixed fact that
there is not a shylock, from the
Rothchilds down to the cross-roads
note-shaver, who is not in favor of
free coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1 when they are ready for it,
and a plank demanding it will go
into each old-party platform next
year.
When the bankers shall have un-
loaded their silver holding at im-
mence profits they will begin to lay
plans for another bear deal on sil-
ver or some government securitiee
or. paper.
To appear consistent in effecting
a change of front and not "give the
snap away" they must make a show
of opposition to the silver movement
and "yield" to its advances with ap-
parent reluctance. Hence they are
furnishing the wind for Coin's Fin
nancial kite, and the straw man for
the Democratic-Silver champion.
The close observer of this silver
craze will readily note that the mon
ey power of both England and
America is behind it.
Recent dispatches indicate that
Bank of England and the Rothchilds
are busy in their clandestine way,
booming silver.
T he war on silver is over; it was
made for a purpose, and that pur-
pose has been accomplished; the
money power is now busy bulling the
silver market.
If Populists want to help them
the People's party who don't only
say give us free coinage of both
gold and silver, but who also says
give us an issue of full legal tender
government money made good for
the payment of all demands that
matures in this country, we want
enough of this money including gold
and silver to raise the voluhie of
currency to as much as $50 per
capita. I lie Populist party is the
only party whose remedy is a liberal
volume of money all made likewise
good by the sovereign power of gov-
ernment Let us change doctors.
The editor of the State Capital
had a long article in his last week's
paper to the effect that the farmers
of this territory did not practice
enough of rigid economy; that they
were too wasteful and extravagant,
and that this was the:r besetting sin,
and iu a great measure the cause of
their suffering for something to eat.
To prove that what he said was true
he cited to the economy practised
by the New England, English, Ger
man and French farmers' and we
suppose that if it hail been neces-
sary to have proved his case he
would have used the India and Chi-
nese agriculturist, because there
seems to be no length to which
they can do no better than join the J Greer will not go when hard pressed
"new silver party
If Populists want to oppose bank-
ers, money monopolists and their
methods, let them again read care-
fully the money plank of the Omaha
platform and stand manfully by it—
every word of it.
Let us make no compromise with
the enemy.—Chicago Sentinel.
What manner of men are there
among you, who if they have sick-
ness in their family and call a phy-
sician H10 makes a diagnosis of the
disease and prescrbes a remedy but
after a long and thorough test of the
skill cf this doctor the patient con-
tinues to grow worse,would it not be
rational to change doctors? Let it be
remembered that in 1892 the g>eat
Democratic doctors held their con-
sultation in Chicago and after mak
ing a diagnosis of the political con
ditions of this country, they said the
people had been robbed by a high
tariff and if trusted in their care
they would relieve the people of this
burden. 'The case was then submit-
ted. About that time it was discov-
ered by these doctors that the coun-
try had financial symptons. Then
the great highmuck Doctor in chief
called a council to meet in their
chambers in Washington 12th of
A g 1893, and also instructed that
they must repeal the Sherman law,
and then they would see the wheels
of commerce roll. The law was re-
I'hebankers purposed tc depreciated l,ea'efl but the wheels of commerce
its value that they might buy them \ ^ not ro"' t','s t'",e "ie coun-
in and sell them to government at i tr^ ,las continued to grow worse
par to be retired, netting the bankers
15 per cent profit, which was done.
Just so they depreciated the green-
backs to 60 cenis, exchanged the
greenbacks at par for bonds, then
run the bonds up to a high premium
hy making them payable principal
and interest in double value gold.
J-st so have they depreciated
silver bullion below the minimum
price ever paid for greenbacks,have
bought it up—nearly all the silver
bullion and silver mines of the world
The treatment on finance was not the
remedy. The reduction of the tarift
was not the disease. Their skill has
been exhausted and the country not
saved. Is it not time to change doc-
tors and would it not be wise to get
doctors from adifferent school. The
People's party in their diagnoses of
the political condition in their con
sultation held at Omaha had more
advanced ideas than either Demo-
crats or Republicans, consequently
left the tariff question out. Now the
for the lower orders of the people I an,} that the mortgage indebtedness I Rothschilds.
are already showing signs of restless j „f those states is piling up more | It is a general engagement
commotion.
months.
And these banker conspirators
who are playing this bear and-bull
game with silver for speculative pur-
pose, are so shrewdly engineering
And it is a "well-known" fact, the deal that very many honest peo-
says the dispatch, "that the move-! p'e> some who call themselves Popu-
"bleeding Kansas," ! ment has the warm sympathy of the j lists, are fairly tumbling over each
other in their eagerness to do the
up more | il ls a general engagement all a ] bankers dirty work of booming the
are now in the hands of bankers i western Democrats having exhaust-
speculators or their agents and are j e<' t',eir sk'H on the tariff, they now
now ready to have silver climb to the | ay we want *ree coinage of silver.
100 mark again; it has already gone j l ikewise the western Republicans
up fourteen cents in the last three j they too want free coinage of silver.
i The eastern Democrats and Re-
publicans want gold standard, and
up to this date the east has been the
head of both parties, while the west
and south have been the tail enil
and as is custom the head wags the
[rapidly with each succeeding year. t long the line; the Bank of Englar.d ■ commodity price of silver.
tail, why not trust the sick financial
conditions of this country in the
care of more competent doctors
than can be found iu either of the of
the old parties. Select them from
He said nothing about the condition
of the English and German farmers
in his article: but he did comment
upon the French, and there he was
careful to state that the financial
and other laws of that country con-
tributed to the prosperity of the
French farmers as well as their
thrift.
I he financial system of France is
the keynote to prosperity of the
French farmers. With a like system
in this country our farmers would
be the most prosperous on earth
and the editor of the State Capital
would have no occasion to write a
long article on needed economy.
An editor residing in Oklahoma and
advising the farmers of this country
to practice more economy, is either
wholly ignorant of the true cause of
the distress of the farmers of this
1 erritory, anil the rest of the coun-
try as well, or too cowardly to tell
it. We do not belong to that class
of individuals who believe that it is
the profligacy of the American far-
mer that is the chief cause of his
povetty. Neither do we desire to
see him on a plane with the farmers
of Europe or Asia. The idea that
the editor of the State Capital holds
forth, if carried into effect, would
cause a retrogation in civilization
towards barbarism. The ryot of
India and the heathen Chinee lives
according to and enjoys his civiliza-
tion: but the Americans would hard-
ly be willing to exchange civiliza-
tions with him. "There is a saving
which tendeth to poverty," so says
the good Book, and we verily be-
lieve that the American farmer is
practicing that sort of economy al-
ready, and that the editor of the
State Capital by assisting to devolve
plans that will make conditions so
that the American people can live
better, will lend material assistance
in the march to a higher and better
civilization. It is the fond hope
and desire of every true American
that he will be able to transmit to
his posterity a better civilization
than the one he himself enjoyed. In
this respect the editor of the State
Capital seems to differ from most
Americans.
"It is my opinion that the Demo-
cratic parly is dead. It has no show
whatever before the country. As I-
told somebody the other day, it
needs a new birth—it must be born
again." F"x Mayor Hewitt of New
York to associated press reporter-
There are many people in thi>
country today that hold a similar
opinion.