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The Peoples Voice
VOL. 5.
AN APPEAL TO THE POPU-
LISTS OF THE UNIT-
ED STATES.
We are to be congratulated upon
the growth of our partj, and the
fact that in the recent election near-
ly half the voters of the union in-
dorsed much of our platform. No
party ever achieved more brilliant
success in so brief a time. Although
^ handicapped in '.he late campaign,
we emerge from the contest strong-
er than ever. Our party alone has a
voting force larger than that which
• elected Lincoln aud an able, effect-
ive reform press of near 2,000 pa-
pers. We elected several governors
and hundreds of other state, county
town officers. We hold the balance
of power in the United States sen-
ate, and have four times as many
congressmen as ever before.
We united with the silver forces
in the recent campaign—not be-
cause we believe free coinage of
silver is the solution of the financial
problem, but because it would better
existing conditions, would meet the
least resistance, and become the en-
tering wedge for our main issue,
^ viz.: full legal tender paper money,
issued and regulated by the govern-
ment alone. Having proved our
loyalty at the polls, we are free to
act separately on advanced lines
and to emphasize the real issues our
party was born to advocate. We
cannot in honor lay down our arms
and cease our activity until the war
for which we enlisted has ended in
victory for our cause.
1 he Democratic party proposes
to continue the silver fight. Two
parties cannot exist on the same is-
sue. The greater absorbs the small-
er. Therefore, if we remain mere
catnp followers of another party,
disintegration will result. Our par-
ty success alone forced the Demo-
crats to adopt tha Chicago platform
and nominate a popocrat for pres-
ident. Converts made by party
.regularity cannot be trusted with the
reforms of the future.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 22.1807.
THE SLAVERY OF DEBT
Wharton Barker, in his excellent
paper. The American, discusses the
bondage of the people of the Unit-
ed States to Europe, and he cites
the large excess of our exports over
imports of general merchandise and
the small excess of gold imports.
He presents the figures for the n
months ending November 30, 1896,
as follows—
MUtCHAMIlltE:
Ek|miiU of tloiiiMrtlc pro.
XO,771,977
Kxpoi-ts of for«i|cii pro.
<••«*  IT.MUU
Total exports of ruwo'tum
. tm IW0,.W
!.«*> I iii pott*  6£! MM.M0
twfl,70!)
retirement of the greenbacks and the
issue and control of paper money
(except coin certificates) by the
banks. Senator Quay says this
should be made an issue by the Re-
publicans, and advocates the sub-
stitution of United States notes pay-
able in gold for the greenbacks.
Here wt have a living issue with
both wings of the gold forces, which
brings our main question to the
front—Shall the paper money of the
country be issued and regulated by
the people or by the banks? This
will precipitate a hot debate in con-
gress that will focus public attention
upon the relative merits of scientific
and redemption money, which will
become the absorbing question of
the day, just as the silver movement
followed the silver debate a year
ago; and will afford our sentinels in
congress an opportunity to measure
the true attitude of the Silver, Demo-
coratic and Republican leaders on
an issue vital to our party and the
welfare of the country, and to de-
termine 'o what extent our recent
allies can be depended upon.
Again, the fact that the railroad,
telegraph and telephone companies
became the willing tools of a cam-
paign committee in the recent elec-
tion furnishes us with another strik-
ing argument for the government
ownership of these great monopo-
lies. We are not a free people so
long as they can be utilized for I rope. This indebtedness is in the
campaign purposes in the interest ] form of national, state and munic-
of trusts and combines. j ipaI( and railroad and other corpo-
1 he proposed retirement of the | ration bonds, and mortgages on
greenbacks and the discussion of-private property of individual per-
the lac.fic railroads question will I sons, and amounts in the aggregate
bring before congress the two to about five billion dollars draw-
strongest measures of our platform; !i„g annual interest of about *250-
and whatever issues the other par- 000,000. The interest absorbs all
ties may adopt the logic of events J of the balance of trade in our favor
will so foice upon both congress
Kxccim of export! over 1 in port*
SI1.VKK:
hxpnriM, coin unit
bullion . ..$66,909,791
liBHH imports,coin
ami bullion 11,22-1,776
  944,985,015
892,120
.  15,177,151
hxcetw of exports over Import* . * 9,807,864
UOI.D:
Imp. coin nn<I
million 9100,IU7,486
Kxp. coin hiiil
bullion .. 66,836,089
, , .    943,8(50,498
Imp. golil ore 91.736,018
Kxp. gold ore 183.651
  1,552,397
LOST BOND.
good farms reclaimed. I know of I
good farms that have deteriorated
in value one-half. Thank goodness public is hereby fwarned
it is being killed on farms that were aSa'nst buying, or in any way n*go-
well set. It takes backbone,Oand in tia,ing for, or receiving as collateral
some cases money, too. Johnson | security bond No. i of series i of
grass is no plaything. It takes vigi- | Canadian county funding bonds, of
lance and a man with get-up and ! l'le'ssue Dec. 20, 1S95. Said
get to kill, it out. Some men have bond calls for ^5°° a"d bears six
made money out of Johnson grass, ! I'er cent interest. This bond be-
while they have damaged their longs to the undersigned, and was
"i?,,om ,* <"•••:'M h
Acre farm ami all his neighbors' vauli in I-.t Keno.— 1. h
farms adjoining. I know whereof HENSLEY. edl
I speak.
  
ARE YOU A BAD EGG?
tor El Reno Democrat.
K
CONFIDENCE NEEDED IX
COUNTY.
Newkirk, O. T., Jan. 19.—As the
investigation of the failure of the
Kay County bank, of this city, and
the Kildare bank, of Kildare, pro-
ceeds, a bad state of affairs is dis-
closed. County Treasurer Smock
tlidance lit favor of t'nlUHl statu*
1 hese §250,000,000 would all be
paid in gold for shipment to the
United States, except what Amer-
icans abroad would want to use, if
our people were not indebted to the
bankers and stock brokers of Eu-
While chairman of the Chicago
branch of our executive committee
during the campaign, my contact
with the chairmen of Democratic
state committees revealed to me the
fact that in many cases they were
more anxious to elect their st«*te
ticket and absorb the Populists than
they were for the success of Bryan
and the Chicago platform, but this
does not apply fo the chairman and
other officers of the national com-
mittee.
We are not Democrats and can-
not be classed as such. We simply
united for a single campaign. The
Democratic party is but the rear
guard of our own. We do not
stand for redemption money, but for
a scientific dollar, kept invariable
by proper regulation of the money
volume. Then why should a high
school graduate re-enter the inter-
mediate grade? Our grandest
achievements are in the future, if
we inspire the people through sepa-
rate party action with our chief is-
sues, aud hold our forces together
by taking the. lead which belongs to
us in pressing to success the reforms
of the day.
* The millions of converts to silver
in the recent campaign must ad-
vance. They will not remain where
they are. We must educate them
Vtp to the main issue, and the time
to do it is now, not just before a
presidential election. We must also
hold the Democratic party to its
present position or compel it to ad-
and more. No wonder we cannot
keep gold here unless we borrow it
on bonds, and that only increases
our foreign debt and prolongs the
period of our bondage.
The worst thing about it is, there
These are living issues upon which |is no way un,ier present conditions
we shall grow. The urgent necess-
ity for them will appeal to the peo-
and the people the consideration of ]
these measures as to overshatlow all
others, and win to our ranks thou-
sands of voters from both the Re- '
publican and Democratic parties.
At an evening party on the East
side recently a young man announc-
ed, with some show of solemnity,
that if any person present would tell
him the year of his birth he would
tell his character. This caused a
flurry of excitement and a young ,la(1 *3°'000 of the county funds on
man was selected for rthe test. He '
was told to get a pencil and paper
and put down the year of his birth.
It was 1866.
"Add to that your age in years at
your next birthday," said the for-
tune teller. "Multiply the amount
by i,ooo, and subtract 682,423 from
the product. Place under the re-
mainder the letters of the alphabet
corresponding to their numerical or-
der—A under 1, B under 2, C under
3, and so on. Now read the result,
and it is your character."
Here is the result:
1866
3'
1897000
682423
214,
b a il
5 7 7
egg
the age, if the
to get rid of the debt. The railroad
companies are unable to pay more
than the interest on their bonds,
and they are no worse off than oth
er corporations. Indeed, their
| creditors do not want the debt ex-
tinguished as long as the interest is
kept paitl, for it is interest they
want.
TO KIL
JOHNSON GRASS.
pie, groaning under the weight of
"McKinley prosperity," "restored
confidence," and the enforced idle-
ness and extreme poverty attending
them. They appeal with equal force
to the business man, coerced by the
banks; to the wage earner, the help-
less victim of corporations; and to
the farmer, cursed with mortgages
and extortionate freight rates. They j 1 wo correspondents of the Farm
are issues free from the charge of a,u' ^anc'' reply to an inquiry as to
mercenary motives, to enrich a por - i means of exterminating Johnson
tion of our community. .grass. One atlvises to cut the
Let us act with patriotism, cour-! slems ,evel with the ground and
age and sagacity. Let us lose no I Pour a Iitt,e kerosene on thestumps,
time. If any lack incentive, it will j w''ich he says will effectively kill
be found in the intense suffering ev-j [o^s.r°°tS" 1 he °thei writes as fo1"
erywhere and in the increasing ar >? u 1
. _ 1 , it. ror small bunc)ies—or as lariie as
rogance, lawlessness, and heartless-1 , , s
ne« of thp tr,,ete A 1- a man wants to undertake—cut the
ness or toe trusts and monopolies. „ ,
• grass on under the ground close to
Against their power we put prin-i, , , CO
• 1 , . * the surface roots, rake a the Innce
ciple; against their money we match . • f ,
manhood, and urge all Populists to f T " '° the hard
continue this contest during ,; ground. el.ppmg the surface roots,
( and cover *ell with salt. Use salt
plenty. The land must be damp.
No matter what
rule given above is followed, the re
suit will be the same. It is said the
diversion originated with a life in-
surance agent, who took this meth-
od of telling the character of these
he couldn't induce to insure!
NO
CONFIRMATION
KEATON.
FOR
contest during the
next four years and then hold an
early national convention, to strike
the keynote of the next presidential ^over uPwith moist dirt and tramp
campaign. ! (lown
1
History teaches that to achieve
conservative results, a radieal posi-
tion must be taken. The substitu-
tion ot our main plank for a subor-
dinate one, as the Pghting issue for
the next four years, is in line with
the best sentiment of our party and
requires no change of front, no
abandonment of principle, no new
platform. The main army merely
moves up to occupy the position
held by the skirmish line.
•('resident Cleveland supplies us
with fresh incentives for renewed
effort, in his official demand for the
I also suggest that a national con-
ference of party leaders antl work-
ers be held as soon as practicable,
that we may have a full and free
expression of opinion regarding our
future work. We hope, therefore,
that the reform press will give the
I his is to make the salt
melt before it gets dry. Don't
trouble it till you are sure it is dead.
Watch it. If a sprig should come
give it another dose. In the spring
is the best time to kill it. Where
salt is applied to fresh cut roots it
strikes right, like salting fresh meat.
fullest possible expression of their Salt W'" k'" every fiber 0f the roots,
views on this important subject; and ' bow this by experience. If your
our friends are invited to write me ne'8''bors have it you will have to
or our national chairman, express- be °n ttle watch- A man who will
ing their ideas on the independent S°W Johnson grass will likely injure
party action herein proposed.
Shall we march to victory under
our own banner, or continue as
stragglers under another?
George F. Washburv,
Peoples Party Nat'lKx. Committee.
Boston, Mass., Jan. 11.
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.
  ■■ uue wtiriu itir V. UIH 111 cuiiuil an(l CI
' SorS?' Ulcers, Salt Bheum, si,,rn c,vPf.nc' Plnu, l-
or«s, Tetter, Chapped Hands, i P P * low la
lis, Corns, and all Skin Erup- 'ow Cut with hoe all u
j his neighbor worse than if he were
to steal his horse.
To kill Johnson grass on a large
scale sow in grain, break stubble
early, keep breaking, cut every root
you can with the plow; don't let it
get knee high; keep plowing till
frost; break again in the spring;
cultivate with
te, but shal-
nder ground.
Washington, Jan. 18.—The nomi-
nation of J. II. Keaton, appointed
vice Scott, to be associate justice of
the supreme court of Oklahoma,
will not be confirmed. The office
pays $3,000 a year. It is the inten
tion of those who are opposed to
him to permit the nomimation to
die with the congress as unacted up
on, thus giving to President McKin-
ley the appointment of a successor.
While this declaration is made, it is
also said that if a fight for confima-
tion is attempted the nomination
will be rejected outright.
1 he above from the Kansas City
Star is unwelcome news to the peo-
ple of the 31I judicial district in Ok-
lnhoma. Judge Keaton, in the short
time he has been on the bench, has
proved himself an able jurist and
has given the best satisfaction of
any judge that has occupied the
bench in the third judicial district.
DANA USED TO SAY—
"It is a stern and undeniable fact
that a country which pays even five
per cent interest, to say nothing of
the rates of Wall st, must from time
to time commit bankruptcy, in or-
der to iid itself of a burden of debts
which it cannot discharge."—C. A.
Dana, :n "Essay on Proudhon," in
Spirit of the Age, Dec, i, 1849.
I hat was nearly fifty years ago,
and the disastrous financial convul-
sions of 1857, '68, '73, '84 and '93—
besides the chronic distress of the
producers in these later days, due
to excessive value of money—show
that Mr. Dana was right, then,—but
in his weakened old age he defends
the plundering of the people.
deposit in these two banks, and
when he attempted to withdraw the
money to turn it over to his success-
or in office, the banks collapsed.
He secured $ 13,000 of the funds,
but will have to depend on the
banks assets for the balance, and
they will likely not pan out that
much. Mr. Smock and his bonds-
men will hive to make good the
shortage to the county. About a
dozen school districts of the county
had their funds on deposit in the
bank in this city, antl many of them
will be compelled to close their
schools.
additional locals.
Last Tuesday morning the denizens
of Norman were greeted with the first
fall of snow of the season. The fleecy
while flakes continued to fall In great
abundance throughout the day antl
welt into tile night. The weather was
mild and they melted rapidly, hut suf-
ficient remained to give the eartlt n
good covering of white, Wednesday
morning. No blizzird accompaniment
followed and the snow will do a world
of good. Up 10 the present time this
winter has been one of the mostagree-
able sino0 the settlement of thi* ooun*
try. Not a single blizzard have we
had and it is getting late for them no v.
SOMETHING TO DEPEND ON.
Mr. .lames Jones, of the drug firm of
.1 ones & Son, Cowden, ill , in speakingof
Dr. King s New Discover;-, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with
lA tit'lppe, and her case grew so serious
that physicians at Cowden ami Pttna
could do nothing for her. It seemed to
develop into hasty consumption. Hav-
ing Dr. King s New Discovery in store,
and selling hits of it, he took ti bottle
home, and to the surprise <.f all she be-
gan to get belter from first dose, and
half dozen dollar bottles cured her
sound and well. Dr. Kinsr.s New Dis-
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds is guaranteed to do this good
work. Try it. Free trial bottles at
Blake & Heed's drug store.
1 he Best Salve in the world for Cuts plant in cotton and
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers,
Fever Sor"s. T
Chiblains _   _
si* : v™7 «  ■ ">«>
perfect satisfaction or money refunded. ' as >s surface roots that mostly
Price 25 cents per box. For Sale by sprout.
Blake & Reed's Drug Store. " Johnson grass can be killed and
The Kansas senatorial contest has
been decided, ex-Congressman W.
A. Harris securing the caucus nom-
ination on the 35th ballot. The
race botween State Senator King,
Harris and Ed. Little—Peffer drop-
ping out early. Harris was con-
gressman at-large, 1892 4, but was
defeated for re-election by Dick
Blue. He is now state senator, but
after March 4th he will U. S. sen-
ator.
As soon as an attraction is booked at
the Opera house it is the customary
question for the people: How many
people in the company? The question
that should be asked is, "Who are
the actois or artists, and are they
good.'' It only requires a moment's
reflection to realize that no manager
can carry a company of ten, fifteen and
twenty people and have them flrst
class people not only ask large salaries
but demand that they get them. Mr.
Hey wood believes that the general pub-
lic would prefer to see six or eight firsl
class city artists, than a whole stage
full of barnstormers, and has surround-
ed himself with artists as fine in their
respective lines as Hey wood is in his
The result is a performance rounded
out and full with not a weak spot in it,
a performance that from the rise to
the fall of the cjrtain is full of spark-
ling fresh fun, popular music, enter-
taining specialties, beautiful women
and entertaining men. He will open
the lecture course hero Thursday,
Feb., 4th.
NO 26
knew nobody. We scarcely recog-
ed in the fo-m before us, the once
commanding form of our friend, Judge
t unditT, of Enid. We left the room
thinking that it was only a question
of .1 few days until we should learn of
his death ami Dr. Threadgiii informed
us that he too was afraid that his
physical strength would not be suffici-
ent to pull him through, hut thought
that if it proved to be, that he would
come around all right.
A few days after our visit, Dr.
Threadglll informed us that his pa-
tient was improving and in three
weeks we observed the attendant
driving him around in a buggy and
when we spoke to him we could see at
a glance that his mind was returning
although he still did not recognize um.
Last Monday morning he came into
our office looking the picture of ro-
bust health infornisd us that he had
been discharged and would take the
early morning train for home. He
talked to us for about one-half an
hour and appeared to be his old self
igain. If any one had have told us
that such a change could he wrought
In the space of six weeks we would not
have believe it, but like the fellow
from Arkansaw we have seen antl
must believe and we cannot but think
that it was a red letter day for the
unfortunates of this territory when
the last legislature entrusted them to
the care of the Sanitarium ( o, of this
territory.
ICE CAVES.
Iu « Kllfornla With Th. lr Product !" Cle* 
«h Cryntal.
Iu Motion county, Cal., is an immense
field of lava covered with a beautiful
forest nf conifers, whioh is inhabited by
deer, bear, panther, lynx, coyote, porcu-
pine and numerous fur bearing animals
whose pelts are of value to the trapper.
It was in these lava beds that theModoo
Indians made their stand against the
government troops some years ago and
were with very great difficulty tie .roy-
ed. It is here that the ice caves are
found, and from them the Modocs drew
their water supply while besieged by
the troops.
One never having been over a lava
field can form but little idea of the
chaotic manner in which the ingenious
workmen have left the produets of their
labor. The only order observed is disor-
der of tho most exaggerated kind,
wherein every mass of rock has been
twisted or raised or depressed or arched
over some cavern in a different way from
that of its neighbors. The caves scatter-
ed throughout these lava beds are of
very varying shapes and dimensions.
Some are mere covert ways, with an
arch of stone thrown over them. Others
are immense chambers some yards from
the surface, another kind is sunk quite
deeply and may be in a series of cham-
bers united by a corridor that opens at
the surface, while another kind seems
to go directly to the center of the earth
without stopping.
It is here that the stores of ice are
found, which is formed from water that
filters in annually from the melting
snows above. Every winter the lava
beds are covered with a fall of snow
which variei from two to ten feet in
depth. The temperature over this region
iu the coldest weather is often 20 or
more degrees below zero, so that any
water that might be in the caves is
frozen solid, unless the eaves' mouths
should be entirely covered with snow,
which is not often the case. Now, when
spring comes and the snow melts, the
water percolates through into the cold
storage chaiobers beneath and is there
congealed by the prevailing cold. It is
iu this way that the ice has been made
and stored "or years. And were these
caves accessible to market they would
furnish the purest of ice to many cities
for years to come.—Popular Science
News.
Farm Loans.
I am now prepared to make farm
loans on short notice. Call and see me
for terms.
20-lf. D. W. Marquart.
Returns Home.
Judge Wm. I.. Cundiff, of Enid, was
discharged from the Sanitarium last
j Monday and Tuesday morning took
the train for his home. Six weeks
ago he was brought to the Sanitarium
bound hand and foot and raving wild.
A few days after he was brought here
we went out to see him and found him
in his room strapped in his bed with
an attendant sitting beside him. He
was raving and continually trying to
break away from his fastenings and
I'rinre hikI IVoitaiit.
Prinre Christian (if Denmark, had he
beeu only a king instead of a prince,
would certainly outrival the story of
Alfred of old and the cakes. One day
he had to review some troops at Bierre,
a eo 1111 try town of small dimensions.
Riding home, tired and thirsty, he stop-
ped at a farmhouse to beg a drink. The
old farmer's wife bade him welcome ami
enter. As she was at the moment pan-
cake making, she asked him if he woultl
like some. "Very much, indeed,"re-
plied the prince, and soon he was com-
fortably seated, enjoying his humble
fare at the kitchen table.
Having finished his meal, he asked
the old dame how much he owed her.
"Nothing at all," was the answer. On
his persisting that he would prefer pay-
ing, she patted his shoulder affection-
ately, saying: "You are a soldier, my
sou, and soldiers are always 'herd up.'
I never take anything from them." H •
suggested he was not quite so "hard
up" as tho generality of them. "Oh, I
know better! aud with a knowing
wink and a nod she turned to her pan-
cake making. "It is quite true, good
mother," said the prince, laughing
heartily, "for, you see, my grandfather
happens to be the king. " "What?" cried
his astonished hostess, dropping her
whisk and nearly upsetting the frying
pan in her fright. A second or two she
gazed at him speechlessly, then remark-
ed naively, "I should have asked you
into the parlor, shouldn't 1?"