The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1896 Page: 6 of 10
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The People's Voice.
ALLAN & RIXSE, Publishers.
8rBbl'Kl!Tl')N ll.'W HER YEAR.
PUBLISH £D VKRV KKIUAY.
Entered in the poitofflce at Nurnmn,
O T. an second class mutter for trans-
mission through all mail*.
Norman, Friday, February 21.
J. B ALLAN, Editor.
THE OfflCWl COUITT PAPER.
TIMK TABLE—A. T. & H. F.
NORTH bound.
Mo. 406 4:*7 A. M.
|fo. 40A .5 17 P. M.
HO. 420 ;l.«w*lj7:V> A M
This Space Belongs
To
J. WEEKS,
The Druggist.
SOUTH BOUND.
Ho. 407 ...11:18 P.M.
Ho. 406 . \t:M A. M.
Wo. ill (Local) 5:1ft 1*. M.
TRAIN SERVICE.
No. 406, carries through chair cure aiu1 Pull-
*ri Sleeper* arriving In Kan*** City 6:2ft p.m.,
Chicago iM* A. M.
No. 408 arrive# at Wichita 10:30 p. in.; Hanna*
City 6:&0 *. . Tr.uk cit clo e connectIon* at
Wichita with Frlftoo K. It. for St Loots ami
PotnUi Ka.1.
No. 406 ami 407 make* cloae connection at
Puroell for all Texan Point*
K. J. Mom,a*, Agent.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen, the Dem-
ocratic party. See editorial columns
of State-Democrat for reward.
The Democratic party is so dead
in this county that its remains can-
not be discovered in the columns of
the State Democrat with a Cathode
ray.
In a recent issue of the Guthrie
Leader the editor of that paper as-
serts that not a single charge filed
against the Democratic officials has
been proven. Too bad that those
numerous charges of honesty could
not be proven.
The good name of the Territory
abroad is the Guthrie Leader's new
shield for Democratic officials.
When a poor, ragged republican
comes to town and sells a load of
corn for #3.12^3, takes a piece of
frozen corn dodger out of his pocket
gnaws at it for a dinner, because
he can't buy one, and you see him
sitting on the leeward side of an old
corn crib, shivering in the cold, don't
laugh at him or abuse him. He has
a hard enough lime anyhow. Speak
kindly to him. Perhaps, by and by,
he will get an idea into his dull brain
When he does, then and there will
be another populist.—Neb. Inde
pendent.
If the editor of the State-Demo-
crat could only get through with
Allan he might be able to put in a
few words for the democratic party
in his editorial columns. Allan has
no intention of letting the Demo-
cratic: party have a word in the col-
umns of the State-Democrat, not
even space for the announcement
of Democratic Dandidates for office
at $5.00 each.
There may be some doubt as to
the existence of gray matter in our
cranium Bixler, and it might be well
enough to see if it existed by the
Roentgen method of photography;
but in your case don't you think it
would be the rankest of folly to
make such a search? Vour readers
have discovered its absence through
your editorial columns long ago—
Don't you think, or can you think?
The editor of McMaster's Weekly
asserts that a careful perusal of all
the Populists papers of this Terri
tory reveals the fact that not one of
them is pushing the investigations
of Democratic territorial officials
In order to make such an assertion
we are prone to believe that the edi-
tor must have discovered that each
and every one of the Populist papers
in this Territory have the National
Democratic Administration on the
tines of their pitchfork. To be
fighting an administration and
pressing it for favors at the same
time would be a little inconsistent
don't you think?
On public pelf has grown "So phat"
That hi. diaposition was geulily
crow.
And he actually thought he was horn
tii bo*.
The Hayseed Hoodlum*, who on!)
knew bow
lo vote 'er straight, and "toiler" the
plow.
And if an honeat farmer, should
raise
His feeble voice, to question such
ways -
Of runninK every expense to a debt,
for which a batch of bonds must be
let;
And the people's credit put up and
sold.
At its "parity" value with Grover's
Gold!
The Democrat ruler, would froth and
foam,
And say to the farmer, "you'd better
go home,"
You old calamity—howling chump
And butt your head against a stump
Lord Bixler's "phat" must uol wax
thin,
Whether earned or not, he must have
the tin.
You can't understand what a cost
'twould be,
To build a coal-house E—T—C.
And we pay our dobls with a golden
bond,
That'll not come due till you're dead
and gone;
Your children will have ail that
debt to pay
And you will be safely out of the way
What do you care anything, about
how
Times will be, twenty years from now"
To say that the farmer's manhood
was riled,
As the Editor says would be putting it
mild.
Then he said to a fellowman through
tears,
"We've endured this outrage for years
and years.
Our ballots have bloated this Demo-
crat "phat"
Now the Devil's to pay in Gold too-
at that,
We have furnished the fruit; they
are drunk on the juice:
All we get in return is their maudlin
abuse.
They have mortgaged our homes,
with extravagant gloat;
They would slop our existence,
Were it not for our vote.
'Sure small is the pleasure existence
can give,
When the fear we shall die only
proves that we live.
To Democrat ruler in purple and blue.
From now and henceforth, forever
adieu.
You will have no occasion to stoop to
the ground,
To hear the muttering, rumbling
sound,
Each quivering grass blade and rust-
leaf
Proclaims its presence.
Are you deaf?"
The Republicans in this county
have designated men in every town-
ship and ward to take a poll of the
voters and find out how every one
stands politically. You, no doubt,
have been approached by* this in-
quisitive fellow already. If you
have not you doubtless will be.
A good answer to his inquiry would
be, "Opposed to Bond slavery and
for the Union." If you make him
such answer you need have no fears
of his listing you as a Democrat or
Republican. Both old psrties favor
Bond slavery and don't care a con-
tinental for the Union.
In this issue appears an article
from the pen of John Clark Rid-
path, the Historian, which was writ-
ten for the Boston Arena and ap-
peared in the January number of
that Magazine. The title of the ar-
ticle is "The Bond and the Dollar."
It is one ot the best articles we have
read for a long time. The article is
divided into three parts, and in this
issue we give part one, and parts
two and three will appear in subse-
quent issues of this paper. We
have this request to make of every-
one receiving this issue and subse-
quent issues containing the above
article, and that request is to read
the article carefully and hand the
paper to some old party neighbor
requesting him to read the same and
return the paper to you. This is an
article we want every man, woman
and child in Cleveland County to
read.
The Republican party of today is
a gold standard party. A man who
has free silver convictions and has
been voting the Republican ticket
must now either get down to the
worship of gold, leave the party or
play in the role of an inconsistent
ass.—Daily Co Operator.
There are many of them playing
in the "role" though perhaps uncon-
scious of it, in this county. The re-
cent vote on silver in the lower
house of Congress, which revealed
the fact that only 25 Republicans
serving in that body had their votes
recorded for silver and the assertion
of Senator Sherman, "That the sil
ver sentiment in the Republican
party was dying out." will, perhaps,
cause some of them to see them
selves as others see them, and they
will become disgusted and quit the
play either by leaving the party or
falling down to worship the golden
calf. With interest on their mort-
gages falling due and corn selling at
from 16 to 18 cents per bushel they
can hardly afford to do the latter.
In last Saturday's Democratwe notice
that Taxpayer has fallen into verse.
It is a case of whistling to keep up
courage. The comparison of expend!
lures between the two administrations
has left him without anything to say.
He imagines that the people will think
him awful smart if he only writes in
verse. To prove 10 him that any one
can write such silly meter, respectfully
we dedicate the following:
I HAVE.
Yes, I have heard of that wave of
reform,
That swept the country last fall by
storm.
That wave of ballots by freemen
cast,
Which has made misrule a thing of
the past
In Cleveland County, where the
Democrat,
TV tbruiihe* .log m tmrj trw ;
Ti.I- lot]g and 1 i ic^r grow;
Brood mwbettBa li* .thwart th« Ih;
The 'it.-n low;
Koor.d i* i ar <l t -w. r tfc - .wallow, ailda,
Aiii slowly, slowly Ulrica th« .un.
At cur? w ti..*,
Wb. 11 day la done.
Bw.H-t hI. p, ih* mahttlm*'. fairaat child,
O rr all th* world her pillions .prvaUa;
Each flower lj*n.-ath her iuflurO'-w mild
Kr^-sh fncmnoe fhoils;
The owls, on .Jlent v.-lag* and wide,
buul from the u jodlcnda, on« by una.
At curfew lid*.
When day is done-
No more clanging the rookery rings
With voloe of many a noiay bird:
The .tarli.-d W'jod dove'i clattering wing*
No more are heard :
With sound like whispers faintly sighed,
boft breezes through the treetop* run,
At curfew tide,
When day is dona.
60 may It be when life Is spent.
When ne'er another sun can rise,
Nor light one other joy preeent
To dying eyes.
Then softly may the spirit glide
To maims of rest, disturbed by none.
At curfew tide.
When day is done.
—8. Cornish Watkins in Chambers' Journal.
Reference, to the Hl.tory of other Coaa-
trtee and oar Own Which Are Timely.
Tbe flat of the republic of Venice that
all debts and taxes should be paid in the
credits of tbe Bank of Venice, and that
such credits should forever be exempt
| from forced Bale, made the purely Sat
j money of the Bank of V enice the best
i money in tbe world for fltlO year*. The
mere use of the iiat power of the repub-
| lie to confer the monopoly of paying
debts and taxes upon the credits of a
! bank made Venice the mistress of the
leas and tbe leading commercial nation 0f February, a. i>. ¥
Territory of Oklahoma, ( ss_
Couiny ol Cleveland, 1
Notice I. hereby given; tliat hy virtue of an
execution i-i.c-l February. 1st, KM by til* f
tlcrk "t 'be 111.111. t (."lit Mic 1tl.nl JU. f
di.'ial Di.'rl. ' "I Oklahoma letrllm) within >
and for ( lei eland county, In ah action wbeielu
the couiitv coiuiuHeloners of t levelaml county
are DlnlntV.ami W. H eeawrtl I.defendant
I will ai 'be trout d.sir of II e I ourt llo.ise In
Norman Cleveland oounlv, oklahoma t*r.
rtton on the 12ti. .lay ..1 lartb, A. I>. lSMtS, at
timl.ck I) m. of Midday, oiler for tale at pub-
he and loll. 1 lie fo low in* real eelate. to-wit:
ie elgltl (' ) ll.tei e>t In ami
6) aiet .even (?) In block
irumn, oklahoma Terrtiorv,
Including one eight 1,) Intel™* In tbe ini-
provtnent. upon salit iota, heller known as the
Opera lloiue property.
1 under my band and sea! Ibis 4th day
I of tbe earth
| When tbe great Napoleon wn con-
quering the ooutineiit, and when no in-
dependent nation was left in Europe but
the island* of Great Britain, the flat
power of the king of England clothed
the paper money of the Bank of England
with the mouopoly of paying debts and
taxes, and specie payment* were sus-
pended for 23 year*. This flat money of
England not only conquered Napoleon,
! but extended the commerce of (ireat
1 Britain more than it had be.'11 extended
in tbe preceding century and made tbe
{ British people the most prosperous peo-
ple on earth until the flat was with
drawn and gold declared kiug.
_ , . . . „ t When the money of England was lim-
On North Clark street there ih an un- , ^ ^ ^ ^ prQperty ()£ the
yeomanry was confiscated. The people
Hl.OCK.
sheriff of County, O T
THE UNDERTAKER'S SONG.
The Consumptive Man Failed to Appreci-
ate ih* Old Melody.
dertaker whoiie face and bearing are pe-
euliaily adapted to hit boning—tall,
thin, with a countenance habitually
thoughtful, almoat melancholy, and in
addition his should**™ stoop, which aids
in giving him the air of a man who is
burdened wi^h his own or other people's
^r.'ber?Lta.bSe«,bhn3rro^«Xte! « J"'"* thau M ,b« °' ,h" I HEADQUAUTKUS, DALLAS, TEX.
of England, who were not in the Kotbs
childs' combination to rob the human
race, were ruined. The landowner*
were reduced from 160,000 to less than
80,000 in a little more than a decade,
aud a monev famine ensued which cauHed
Association.
Editor, People's Voice:—We
hear much of late about triming the
Omaha platform, and a great many
Populists say that there is too much
of it. etc. Now I want to say right
here and I believe I voice the senti
mentofall true populists that the
new declaration of ineependence,
(the Omaha platform) should not be
shortened; but might be modified
and condensed a little; the finance
plank should be made more explicit
in the government issue of full legal
tender irredeemable paper money,
and supplement the subtreasury
plan with the Coxey Non-interest
Bond and add the Referendum. The
only way to get thorough reformation
in our national affairs is to abolish
USURY,—and the Coxey plan with
our money, land and transportation
planks would when made a law by
Congress knock the money changers
and land speculators out of the ring,
and compel them to invest their
money in industrial enterprises—
this would put all the money out
into circulation. I have believed
from the first that the socalled sin-
gle plank or silver party is a .scheme
gotten up by mine owners on the
one hand and by the gold bugs of
both the old parties. So I say we
should stay with the Omaha plat-
form and condemn every man or
party of men who oppose it. Let us
have no fusion or swapoffs anywhere
from road supervisor up to congress
and president. Things are coming
our way fast now, and if all populists
will only hold together and not go
into any monkey business with any
other party we will make a clean
sweep this fall. G. M. Harris.
Purcell, I. T., Feb., 19—96.
Notice.
The delinquent tax warrants will
be put in the hands of the Sheriff
for collection March 1st 1896.
Parties calling at my office before
that date and paying up their taxes
will save sheriff costs.
R. Aniol.
County Treasurer.
grew*ome perhaps, but humor nevertbe- . fhe government ol tbe United
£'l ■ . 1. . _J . 1 ... States was in the throes of dissolution,
Tin* undertaker board* at . hotel jost back wa8 partiul)vclothed with
across the street, aud not long since a* ' 8
he walked into the ofBce one evening
about dinner time he observed leaning
against the end of the desk a cadaverous
looking man whom his experienced eyes
informed him was rapidly approaching
the last stages of consumption. As lis
passed the desk he remarked in an un
dertone to tbe clerk, "I'll get that fel
low pretty soon."
Having finished his dinner, he return-
ed to the office, and seating himself ir>
one of the chairs where he could wat-ii
the door of his establishment he fell in
to a dreamy mood. Perhaps it was mem-
ories of younger days made him senti-
mental. At all events he began hum-
ming some old ballads. The tune of the
old song, "I'm Waiting, My Darling,
For Thee," came to his mind. He hum-
med it over agaiu and again, trying to
recall the words. A man seated in front
of him seemed to be growing restless.
Suddenly the words came to him, and
in a louder tone he sang tbe first meas-
ure, "I'm waiting, my darling, for
thee." That was as far as he got. The
man in front turned round—it was the
consumptive—his bright eyes flashing as
in husky but angry tones he said, "I
can take a joke as well as any man, but
when an undertaker sits behind me aud
sings 'I'm Waiting, My Darling, For
Thee,' it's altogether too much." The
undertaker arose slowly, and bis face
resumed its mournful expression as he
walked out of the door and toward his
place of business.—Chicago Times-Her-
ald. _
lllaclcle't Student I>ay*.
He wandered in the Harz and the
Black forest, clad in wagoner's smock,
mixing with the people—especially the
miners—geologizing as he went, and
milking intellectual pilgrimages to Wei-
mar and Wurtzburg. At Uottingen Ott-
fried Muller and Heeren, the historian,
seem to have influenced him most. At
Berlin, whither he next went, he stud-
ied under Schloiermacher and Neander,
to the latter of whom he was much at-
tracted, and whose teaching appears to
have had much to do with broadening
views that were of themselves already
stretching far beyond their originally
restricted confines.
Neander once startled his disciple by
remarking, "You have some Jewish no-
tions in Scotland with regard to the ob-
servance of the Lord's day." Blackie,
who still considered that "Scottish the
ology and Christianity were convertible
terms," was staggered by tbe assertion
"that one of the most significant ob-
servances of Scottish religiousness was
not Christian, but Jewish." But tbe
fourth commandment was too deeply
imbedded in Blackie for him to be
swayed by such reasoning. He contin-
ued to spend his Sundays after the
Scotch fashion, and, says he, "I never
had cause to regret my conscientiousness
—'Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.' "
—Blackwood's Magazine.
BRANCH OFFICK:
Atoka, I. T., Ft. Smith, Ark., Parson*.
Kans., Denver, Col.
Look out for C on Left Jaw.
Have your horses branded and thus
secure their safety.
Responsible aifent* wanted In every section
I of the Indian Territory. Apply to Protective
! and Detective Association, Atoka, 1. T., for
I terms to uwntH.
(. II. Coles, HKent, Noriiinit. Oklahoma.
Falling From the Hun to the Karth.
The philosophers have figured out
some queer problems since the time of
Horatio, bnt none of them is more curi
ous than that relating to the amount of
time it would take for an object to fall
from the sun or moon to our earth. It
bas been decided, after an immense
amount of figuring, that if a bowlder
weighing a ton should fall from the sun
it would take it 09 years, 9 months, 7
days aud i) hours to reach the earth.
The same bowlder could make the trip
| from the moon to the earth in days.
—St. Louis KepuV lie.
The /Etollan League.
The iEtoliau league was a confeder-
acy of Greek states formed B. C. 323.
An annual assembly was held in the
autumn ut Thermum, and this confer-
ence was called the Panietolicon. The
league was dissolved on the conquest of
the u^tolian states by the Romans, B.
C. 189. The original purpose of the
league was to free (4reece from the rule
of the Macedonian kings.
SEE
H. W. STUBBEMAN,
:—for—:
Saddles, Harness, Ha.mf.s, Chains,
Collars, Bridles, Ijnes,
And Lap Robes.
The beat Line In the Territory
: of the :
aiiovk DESCKIBED (iOOD s.
Trices Lowest and Quality of
Goods the ftest.
▼ate debts and federal taxes except cus-
toms dues Crippled as it was, it saved
the Union, and but for the exception
which degraded it from its high estate,
of paying all debts and taxes, thousands
of millions would have been saved to
the people. The success of the emissaries
of gold gamblers and moneychangers in
inducing the senate of the United States
to pass a law making gold a necessity
to pay taxes in the trying hours of the
civil war was the first great crime com-
mitted by the' New York banks against
the people of the United States. The
idea of compelling the government to
buy gold when all the resources of the
country were necessary to buy food,
clothing, arms and pay soldiers to put
down the rebellion was the conception
of the gamblers of Wall street, who are
now plotting with the president of the
United States to increase the distress of
the people.—Silver Knight.
Goldbuff to|io.
The bankers say bonds are sound.
But they declare national currency is
unsound.
Bonds are based on the wealth and
the credit of the country.
Tlie government issue of money is
based on the same.
Then why are bonds any more sound
than national currency?
The secret is, bonds draw interest and
are usually paid in gold.
Bonds can be controlled by the money
gamblers aud used by them in their
gambling business.
The greenbacks cannot be so handled
and cornered by the banks and money
combines.
Therefore, in obedience to the will of
the money gamblers, Mr. Cleveland asks
congress to retire the greenbacks and
substitute bonds instead.
As bonds do not circulate as money
this retirement of the greenbacks is a
heavy contraction of the currency.
If congress should do as Mr. Cleve-
land desires, it would doubtless bring on
another panic aud close down all of the
manufactories and furnaces in the land.
There would then be no currency in
circulation save the national bank mon-
ey aud the small amount of silver dol
lars. Gold does not circulate and hence
should not be counted in estimating the
volume of circulating money. —Southern
Mercury.
Some KlntU of People.
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Our soldiers, considering the fact that
their clothing, rations and quarters are
furnished, are better paid than the la-
boring men of most European countries.
With a woman it is a struggle to pro-
vide something for the inner man, and
with a man it is an effort to provide
something for the outer woman.
est bearing greenback is either a fool or
a black hearted villain.
The man who cares more for a little
strip of country in South America than
he does for his own home and country
doesn't deserve to have a home or live in
a free country.—Chicago Express.
The Pacific Kail road.
One of the railroad attorneys who oc-
cupies the seat of a United States sena-
tor bas introduced a bill to settle the
debt of the Pacific railroad to the gov-
ernment. This debt, if this bill should
puss, is to be sold to the highest bidder,
if the bid is more than 50 per cent of
the debt. Here is another job in the in-
terest of some syndicate. The railroad
should either pay its debt or the govern-
ment should take the railroad for the
debt. Government ownership of rail-
roads could be made an experiment on
these great lines, and if congress legis-
lates for the people this should be the
outcome of the government's relations
with the Union and Central Pacific if
they do not pay their honest debt to the
government.—Brockton Diamond.
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO.,
CLEVELAND. O.
MOORE NURSERY
Dealer In and Grower of
this time that it was all a stock jobbing !
scheme is away behind the times.
The mau who howls for the Monroe
doctrine and then supports the English
goldbug system is either an idiot or a
knave.
The man who favors interest bearing And will serve and please you up to the full
bonds taking the place of the uoniuter- 'lmlt of y°ur expectations.
Active Dealers Wanted in unoccu-
pied territory. Liberal terms. Address,
f!
Took Him t III. Word.
Employer (to new office boy)—If any
one calls, James, be sure and remember
that I am not in. (Half an hour later)
Didn't yon hear me call, you yonug ras-
cal?
James—Yes, sir. bnt I t'ought yer
wmui t lu.—London Tit-Bits.
32 choice varities of
Apples, Plums, Crabs,
Four varieties Peach,
and all kinds of small
Fruit all Grafted on
No., 1, one year old
Roots. Good size and
Healthy Trees.
Call and see my Stock. Prices
on application. Four miles east of
Moore, seven miles north of Norman ^
H. GARBER,
MOORE, OKLA
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