The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1899 Page: 3 of 8
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FUNSTON AGAINST WAR.
BAYS THAT HE IS AN ANTI-EX-
PANSIONIST.
THE PHILIPPINE WAR.
Vary lulructl** ri(urc4 on IK
Cost*
WHITE SLAVE.
An extract from ihe address of Wil-
i liani Lloyd Garrison at the annual
'meeting of the Progrewifi t rieudi,
Only BentflrUrlM If w* Retain Philip- LoUffWCod
pines will I>«s,mllr tw «nd Capiul- In estiuiatinff tha commercial ad-
1.U-.0 Thickly i*« pulate«l The> °ffer vanla^a of Kngland'a colonies it has
uo Opportunity to Amerl *n Lsbor. beeQ the cuttom to consult only one
——— 1 uidc of the ledger, the profit of the in-
Rounseville Wildman, consul at dividual gainers The debit side does
Hong Kong, cluriug a vi*it to Manila,
interviewed llrigadicr General I uns-
ton of the Twentieth Kansas. Ocu-
eral Funstou is reported as follows,
referring to tho subjugation of the
Philippines:
*'I believe at present there should
be a little less gunpowder and more
diplomacy. Filipinos are no doubt
impressed by the former in a manner
they will remember. I think that we
should consider them as childreu and
treat with them accordingly. Grant
them concessions, which are seemingly
of great importance to them. Give
them some assurances and actual
demonstration of our good will and
friendship for them and their welfare,
(Win them into our confidence. It can
be done and iu bucIi a way that never
again will there be rebellion against
us in the island.
I "To win confidence of people mis-
governed as these people have been
under Spanish regime, we must give
them better government. A civil gov-
ernment should bo established at
once, backed up with strong military
forces nowhere. The military should
be independent., and separate from
civil government, but standing ready
to carry into execution edicts aud laws
of the civil authorities, should it be
necessary and they could be called
upon to do so.
"I belieye the 1 ackbono of this in-
surrection is broken; in fact, we have
given the insurgents such a sound
whipping that with any other people
the insurrection would be ended.
"If the Filipinos do not give up by
tho end of the rainy reason I am in
favor of the government bringing 100,.
000 men here and make short work of
ending any further resistance; though
1 believe a little diplomacy at this time
would go a long way toward settling
the trouble antl bringing peace and
consequent prosperity to these unfor-
tunate islands.
"Strange as it may seem, 1 am al-
most 'a peace at any price' mau. When
life and property can be saved it is
almost crime not to follow that rule,
whatever circumstances may be argu-
ing agaiust it. I am a republican,
but I am an an ti-expansionist, though
not a bitter one—more of a mild one.
1 think the acquisition of Porto Rico
and other islands of the West Indies
will be valuable in the future develop-
ment of our country. 1 think well of
the acquisition of the Sandwich group.
1 believe they make wood outposts
(but when we consider the Philippines
I believe it to be a mistake.
' liig syndicates aud capitalists will
bo greatly benefitted by the retention
of these islands, but outside of a few
exceptional individual cases 1 can see
no advantage in their possession by
the United States. The islands are so
thickly populated and labor so cheap
that there is certainly no inducement
for the American laborer.
"There will probably bo large sugar,
hemp, rice and tobacco plantations,
which will greatly increase the extent
of exports, but with all these is an un-
derlying feeling that is irrepressible to
n soldier who has fought over any ter-
ritory foot by foot, and resists the
thought of ever giviug it up and haul-
ing down his flag. 1 have fought in
Cuba for Independence of Cubans, but
not appear in trade statistics, but is
hidden in the budgets of taxes ground
out of the toil and sorrow and hunger
of the English masses. The monopo-
lies have appropriated the honors
while the laboring people have all tho
scars.
Hut taking colonial commerce on the
basis of current deceptive estimates
Cobden showed in 1843 that the whole
West India trade auiouuted to only
£10,000,000, while it cost the mother
country £5,000,000 to uiaintaiu it; that
is, £5,000,000 wero spent to secure the
percentage of profit yielded by a gross
traffic of £10,000,000, a dead loss of
millions. With the Philippines it is
estimated that our merchants may do
a business of $10,000,000. Ks ti ma ting
the liberal profit of 25 per cent to the
capitalist aud syndicates now straiu-
ing their leashes to get to the quarry,
what will it cost the United States to
enable these gentlemen to win their
stakes? How much is bid to present
the privilege of making an annual
$J, 500,000 to a few select parties?
The United States has paid $'.50,000, •
000 to Spain for the right which the
latter never possessed, to control the
territory of the Philippines and to as-
sume tho contest agaiust self-govern^
nicut which Spanish soldiers so long
unsuccessfully waged, and which
heaven grant will never be accom-
plished by American troopa A gold
brick swiudle is economical in com-
parison with this purchase. You can
throw away a brick.
While England spends $400 per man
upon her regulars, the other powers
spend only 8200, but in the muuificent
estimate of the secretary of war an
American soldier is to have 31.067.26
lavished upou him. He comes high,
but imperial trade and glory are cost-
ly blessings according to the American
idea. If only 25,000 soldiers are
enough to hold in subjugation 8,000,000
Filipinos, and Gen. Lawton ha* given
the opinion that 100,000 will be needed,
we shall spend 340,075,000 upon them
alone to get the profit from 810,000,000
worth of trade from a few concession-
ists. This does not count the addi-
tional cost of $50 000,000 for the esti-
mated increase of the navy, made nec-
essary by this brilliant trade move-
ment iu the Pacific. Nor does it count
the swelling of the pension list, nor
the hospital support of the army of
diseased and exhausted men who will
return to us in a continuous stream,
bringing the physical and moral taints
of tropical life. More than all, it for-
gets entirely the working people of the
Uuited States who are to earn aud
contribute tho money to pay these
bills of infamy.
t
FATE OF
CHICAGO.
Uk.
IS A GENUINE REPUBLIC.
HOW DIRECT LEGISLATION
WORKS IN SWITZERLAND.
It Prevent. Public Officer. From Becom-
ing the Tool, of CorruptlonlnU .nil the
1'eopl. From Becoming the Slave, of
Monopolist.—Other Advantage".
Minor Premise—Wealth is produced
only by labor.
Conclusion—In normal conditions
there is an unlimited demand for la-
bor,
Yet so abnormal are tHe conditions
under which we exist that a very large
proportion of mankind are iu a condi-
tion of involuntary idleness. The un-
used labor of cach day is an absolute,
Municipal ownership is often pro-
n on need a failure by the disinterested
capitalistic press. Hut invariably when
tho cause of the failure is investigated
it is found that it's because corrupt
and paid public oflieials (administra-
tors of the public business) have pur
poscly mismanaged the same in order
to bring it into discredit. The future
and entjre successful public owner-
Is direct legislation practicable? Has
it been employed to the advantage of
mankind anywhere on earth? are
questions frequently asked by mauy
honest men.
Direct legislation is employed
throughout Switzerland, and the peo-
ple have destroyed the power of the
legislator to legislate for personal
ends. They have made it easy at any
time to alter or change their federal
constitution, and have simplified their
form of government. They hold their
public officers responsible direct to
their constituencies of servants, and
do not permit them to be tools of cor-
ruptionists, who maintain an expen-
sive lobby about the halls of the legis-
latures to buy men's souls and en-
slave the people through vicious legis-
lation. They have defeated monopo-
lies, improved the method of taxation,
reduced the rate, avoided national
scandals growing out of extravagan-
ces; they have husbanded the public
Afraid to send Miles.
Afraid to stop the war.
Afraid to call for a large army.
Afraid not to.
Afraid to annouuee any policy in ro-
gaid to the Philippine islands.
Afraid to support the gold standard.
Afraid to stand for bimetallism.
Afraid to punish Oberlin M. Carter
for embezzling nearly 82,000,000 of the
public moneys.
Afraid to pardon him.
Afraid to attack the principle of civ-
j il service reform.
eternal loss, the amount of which is j ship will be administered by true aud
sufficient to replace all poverty with I honest representatives of tfce people
May Reroiu* a Victim
Uii-hlian't Water**.
The old story of the subsidence of
the shores of the southwestern portion
of the chain of great lakes has been re-
vived and this time with a show of
real evidence, says the American Ar-
chitect. According to Prof. Gilbert, in
the report of the geological survey, ac-
tual measurements show that within
the last forty years the average level
of the water has fallen on l.ake On-
tario, as compared with the shore, tw>
or three Inches, while it has risen
about as much at Chicago and Milwau-
kee. According to l'rof. Gilbert, th>
gieatest subsidence Is along a line Tun-
ing from northeast to southwest, or
about twenty-seven degrees west of
outh, and passing nearly through Chl-
ago. As Chicago is built ou low land,
anything like serious subsidence Is an
mportant matter; and, although It will
probably be 200 or 300 years before any
part of the city Is submerged, the In-
habitants of the Chicago of six gen-
erations hence are not likely to be
any more fond of cold water than the
present ones, anil there are indications
that subsidence has gone on irregular-
y, so that a sudden movement might
have disastrous consequences. An-
other peculiar result of the change of
level will be, in the course of years,
to throw the water of the lakes toward
tile Mississippi. Already the streams
which flow into the western part of
l.ake Erie and Lake Ontario, although
tolerably swift in their upper courses,
ure nearly stagnant at their mouths,
owing to the backing up of the lake
water Into them, and. In the low coun-
try about Chicago, the continuance of
the movement will, In course, of time,,
send the water of l.ake Michigan
through the Chicago river into the Mis-
sissippi. Prof. Gilbert thinks that at
the present rate 500 or GOO years will
elapse before the lake water, in time
of freshet, will find its way in that
direction. In 1,500 years the flow will
be constant, and in 2,000 years the Chi-
cago river and the Niaraga will carry
equal volumes of water. In 3,500 all the
water of the lakes will flow Into the
Mississippi and the Niagara river will
be dry.
plenty. Hut involuntary idleness is
not the only evil; its creature is crime,
and misery its handmaiden. Can we
not trace effect to cause? or must we
continue to suffer and believe that
there is an overproduction of wealth—
overproduction and unlimited demand?
—a delusion which lowers intelligence,
stultifies truth and degrades man-
kind.
An employer of labor recently, in my
presence, spoke as follows: "Our situ-
ation is best when every man we em-
ploy realizes that there is a man out-
side the door ready to take his place
if he fails to meet requirements. In
this condition we can control our
men." Asked if the man on the steps
is on his payroll, he answered: "No,
we do no have to pay him."
Let us look at this situation. The
man on the steps must live, his family
must live, and the peace and pood or
Toledo .Saturday
domain for the benefit of their own [ der of society are constantly menaced
Afraid to euforee tho civil bervice
la%v.
Afraid to be a president Instead of a
politician.
Afraid he won't be elected a second
time to the presidential oflice.
Afraid to be great, afraid to be little,
afraid to be his own man—no back*
bone.—Chicago Journal.
; LECTURER KEPT HIS NERVE.
somehow I want to see Cuba a part of
America.
4,I am pleased with tho Philippine
country. It is fertile, and the further
we have advauced into tho interior the
more beautiful and productive has ap-
peared the laud. The soil is rich and
capable of the best productions. I
have no doubt there are valleys among-
the mountains that are tho richcst pos-
sibilities in the world.
"While the country over which we 1,0 Equal !<. tlio Occasion When
passed (as fur as Sail Fernando) is al- ! Asked an Embarrassing Question,
ready under cultivation, yet, with mod- The late Isaac Bromley, a noted ed-
ern implements and ideas of farming*, j itoria.1 writer, was "cool, calm and col-
the country could be made to produce 'ectod. Seldom was he put into place
in excess of what it docs now, both in llEht that 1)13 "nervf dld not, dls"
. ... r . close an open door. The New Haven
quality and quant.ty of Ha present. Register ^ ^ jtory Qf the way h9
y'el<'-' ■ once saved himself: "Bromley was
•'ltow do you compare the Cubans lecturing before a local Institute la
with the Filipiuos?" [ Litchfield county, Connecticut, upon a
"Well, they arc altogether different trip he had recently made to Califor-
people, though somewhat similar in
physique. Cubans are quite superior
to the Filipinos; they are a braver and
more capable people. You see top bet-
ter class of Cubans have a higher or-
der of intelligence than the bost class
here. It is a little unfair to Cubans to
make a comparison."
Great Milk Giver.
John Milton of Gardiner, Me., has a
cow that can be milked three times a
day. She recently gave in three miik-
'ings In one day 34 1-2 quarts of milk.
Average Ace of Marriage.
The average age at which women
marry in civilized countries is said to
be 22 1-2 years.
There wouldn't be much milk in a
cocoanut if some dairymen had the
construction of It.
nia and tho Yosemlte valley, and coo
eluded with beautiful description o.
the Bridal Veil falls, which so charm
all who visit them. As he took his
seat he was surprised to see the man
who had presided over the meeting step
forward and say: 'In accordance with
our usual custom we shall now be glad
to hear any questions that the lecturer
may be desired to answer in relation
to the subject upon which he has been
talking.' At this a tall, red-headed
man rose in the audience, and with %
rasping voice said: 'I would like to
ask the lecturer the exact height of the
Bridal Veil.' Bromley, who had ex-
pected nothing of this kind, and was
nevei strong in figures, was entirely
taken by surprise, but gave no sign
thereof as he rose and advanced to tha
front of the platform and cooly an-
swered: 'I did not measure them, but
as nearly as I can remember the exact
height Is 361 feet 9V4 Inches.' No fur-
ther oeustloni were asked.
citizenship; they have established j by lii
home rule in every community; they —
have destroyed partisanship and es-
tablished a government of the people;
they have quieted disturbing political
elements, disarmed tho politician, en-
throned the people; by the vote of the
people tha,y have assumed authority
over the railroads, express companies,
telegraphs and telephones, reducing
freight rates, express charges aud tolls
more than 78 per cent below the cost
for like service under private con-
trol.
In our own country direct legislation
lias been Indorsed in 38 state plat-
forms.
The city of Bussey, la., employed
the referendum in voting for a bond
issue to establish an elictric light
plant. The city of Cincinnati in refus-
ing to sell the Cincinnati Southern
railroad, demonstrated the will of the
people to be overwhelmingly opposed
to the politician. After Boston had
built a 83,500,000 subway to take cars
off one of her nrost crowded streets,
the legislature of Massachusetts grant-
ed permission to the street car com-
pany to relay the recently torn up
tracks; but a member put through a
referendum amendment, and the peo-
ple of the city, not "country mem-
bers," will eventually decic'.e the mat-
ter. The city of Duluth, Minn., made
practical test of the referendum in
voting for the issue of bonds to build a
water plant, in opposition to a private
plant already in operation. Milwaukee
and Detroit have made remarkable
strides in fighting monopolies and cor-
ruption through the vote of the peo-
ple.
is idleness, lie is, involuntarily*
at once a slave and a slave-driver to
the mau in the mill whose place he
seeks. They are neither of them free
men. They are robbed of their birth-
right, and they are ns much slaves as
a captive in chains. If these slaves in
the United States of America could be
placed in one corner of the land and
marked by a distinctive race or color,
public conscience would awaken.
There would arise a Beecher and a
Greeley; the nation would again be
thrilled by a Wendell Phillips, a Garri-
son, and a Lovejoy. There would again
be underground railroads, free taverns,
and means of transportation for those
who sought relief; but now the toiling
masses in the Uuited States are sub-
jected to conditions more deplorable,
and if, because of lack of employment,
a laborer seeks to fiud it, he is nick-
named a tramp, becomes an outcast,
and is regarded as an enemy of society.
M. II. Cazier, of Chicago, in The Out-
look.
and will not fail.
Night.
Expansion is a trick word invented
to swindle the intelligence of the
American people. The expansion that
finds favor with Americans is the ac
qnisition of contiguous territory to be
settled by American citizens and ulti
mately added to the sisteriiood of
states. It is not expansion to conquei
and subjugate by force different couu
tries witl% dense populations of alie
people whoso civilization has little or
nothing in common with our own
Christiana, Norway, with a popula'
lion of 150,000 and 5,000 exchange
lines, furnishes telephone service at
nn annual cost to each subscriber of
822.25 for the first phone, 85.50 to 88.2;
for the second phone ou the same 1 iu
to the same subscriber, aud 8*. 25 to
811.10 for the second phone to a third
person. So that two neighbors can
unite and obtain good service for 810
per year each. The system pans
per cent ou the capital invested, after
putting aside large reserves, writing
off values for buildings and lines, and
providing relief funds for employes.
RAILROAD TROUBLES
Thing
IN CUBA,
imtomjr
Ingersoll on Philippine War.
"I have one sentiment for the sol.
dlers, cheers for the living and tears
for the dead. It it were meet to weep
over the sacred dust of the brave who
died to render our flag stainless, and
keep It in the sky, it is now in order
to flood the graves of the boys who are
falling in the I'hilippine islands. For
they are not fighting to add to the lus-
tre of Old Glory or to save the Union,
but as mere machines at the behest of
the administration, which, for the
time being, is the government of the
United States. War with Spain, for
Iu Ohio the referendum is employed I which the volunteers took up arms,
by municipal corporations in voting i lias long since ended. Congress has
for improvements of streets, sidewalks, j not declared war against the I ilipinos
for bond issues, for sewerage, electric uor voted money to carry on a foreign
lighting, etc. With this form of the war of conquest Then why this tliun-
referendum our people are already fa-1 der of gnns, the flying thunderbolts of
miliar. They have witnessed the peo- hell, and these new-made graves as
pie going to the polls and voting on a j numberless as the stars'.' It is a war,
measure of common interest, partisan- not in the name of liberty, but agninst
ship having no part in the contest, ' it. Our arms are not adding glory to
politicians being ignored; the good of ihe flag, but instead are staining that
the community being the only motive j ptarry emblem of freedom with the
—A. A, Brown in Arena. i blood and tears of a people fighting
i for the right of self-government The
Falllne Prices an.l the tnemployeJ. 1 .old;,.r j., not to blame, therefore,
I beg to submit some comments sag- when he falls in such a war, his bier
jested by a syllogism the truth of should be draped in the deepest
which all will admit, mourning and drenched with the tears
Major Premise—There is an uuliiuit- of his fellow-countrymen."—Col. K. G.
ed demand for wealth. [ Ingersoll.
We hold it to be true that if a man
who is engaged in useful labor for
eight or ten hours each day and can-
not supply himself and family with
something more than the cheapest
kind of food and clothing, that man
is someWheie and in some manner be-
ing defrauded out of the greater por-
tion of his just earnings. In a coun-
try where wealth produced amounts
to from 810 to $14 per capita each day,
every man should, and under a proper
adjustment of things would, be able to
keep his family in comfort—yes, in
luxury.—Living Issues
An object lesson in the enormous
value of street railway franchises is
found in the Metropolitan system of
New York. The system comprises 227
miles of road operated by horse, elec-
tric and cable power. The current
market value of the securities is 8209,-
153,380. The whole outfit, includiug
tracks, real estate and equipment,
could be duplicated for 835,000,000,
leaving a franchise actual value of
$174,153,380. This franchise value of
such properties measures the public
interest in them, and the revenues de-
rived from such interests ought to go
into the public treasury. There are
only two ways of insuring to the
municipality what belongs to it One
is municipal ownership outright The
other is taxation. Tax the franchises.
One argument of the peace and gen-
eral disarmament advocates needs re-
vision. They say "replace tiie soldier
by the judge." Before that is done wo
would like to see the judges replaced.
Most of the laws that are now grind-
ing the life out of the producing class-
es are judge made laws. Arbitration
is better than the sword, providing tho
arbitrators are the right kind o( uj''u.
-Nebraska Independent.
Whleli Shake |fp One'*
utiil One'* Feelings*
When one wishes to leave Havana by
rail to see something of the real Cuba
—say, to take a trip to Pinar del Rio
or to Cienfuegos—he must get up very
early, says Harper's Weekly. The
through trains leave at 6 o'clock in the
morning. I asked the chief engineer of
the railroad to Pinar del Rio why so
early a start was made for a town only
10 miles away, and he said it was ao
as to get back the same day. Tho
American traveler Is not only likely
to grumble when he is compelled to
hurry to the station in the thick gloom
of the early morning, but when he
reaches the station and finds that he
must pay about 5 cents a mile in gold,
and from 7 to 8 cents a mile in Span-
ish silver, to ride In the back-breaking
cars known as first-class carriages, and
that for an ordinary trunk he must
pay about half fare, he is inclined to
scoff at the primitive mode of travel,
and long for the luxury of the stage
coach journeying on a western moun-
tain road The amazing amount of
computation by the ticket agent be-
fore he sells a ticket, the smoky lamps,
the three preliminary tooting3 by the
engine before the train starts, the final
ringing of a bell by the baggagemaster
as a signal that the train is really go-
ing,the crowded condition of the aisles,
choked with luggage for which the pas-
sengers do not care to pay toll, and
every margin the train, from the con-
ductor down to the barefooted brake-
man, smoking tobacco of varying de-
grees of excellence all this is likely
to weary the American traveler usej
to the luxury of Pullman cars. A few
hard Jolts soon after the train leaves
the station bring up to the imagina-
tion the prospect of a miserable trip,
and one is Inclined at the very outset
to rail at the crudities of travel by
cars in the island of Cuba.
variably ti
e Truth.
has trulv
Bnid,
Some wise man
"When the wicked reign, the fooli
carry torch-lights and follow brasi
bands and drink bad whisky. Thi|
sago must have foreseen the presun!
reign of lianni and Rothschild.-'Q
lid ti v.
Haunted Grove of HritUli Officer.
In Abu Hamed, in the Soudan, is the
grave of a British officer which has the
reputation among the tribes of the
Soudan of being haunted. It is the
resting place of Major Sidney of the
duke of Cornwall's light infantry, and
Bey in the Egyptian army, who was
shot while charging at the head of his
regiment, the Tenth Soudanese, in
the battle of Abu Hamed, August 7.
1897. The natives are convinced that
it is watched regularly every night by
the ghosts of the native soldiers who
were killed at Abu Hamed, and who
mount guard over their dead com-
mander's tomb, challenging, with
every military detail, all passers-by.
So implicitly is this legend credited by
the blacks that none of them will, after
dusk, approach the grave Any one
doing so is believed to be promptly
halted by a phantom sentry, and even
the words (in Arabic) Guard, turn
out!" are often plainly heard soma
distance off across the desert.
Paraphrasing th® Text.
Marian, 1 years old, Is a cunning .It-
tie Mount Vernon girl, who attends th«
Methodist Sunday school. Not long
since the golden text of the week
chanced to be the verse from Matthew
commencing "Let your light so shine."
When Sunday came the little maid
trotted off to Sunday school with her
older brothers and sisters, and when
the teacher asked her for the golden
text" she promptly slid from her seat
and convulsed the class by repeating,
gravely: "Keep your S*s burnln' —
Truth.
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