The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 22, 1899 Page: 3 of 8
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THINKS HE IS SAFE.
P.
/mmusn! TRUSTS
STAN DARD
GOLD
plutocrats at work.
preparing for the great
fight of next year.
due to the heavy export tr.de. ThU 1 commodate,! thereby
.till mora. | When, therefore, population by lt
nd increase make. laud and
will probably increase
When our people are completely rob- en.tenee an
9w the Republican 1*
Wealth at tt Hark t
Pabllc 8*ntluieut—lla
Rurraui at Work.
bed ao that they can buy nothing an.l franchise valuable, it doe. in Ita way
work for ne.rly nothing, our manu precisely what the individual doe, I.
I facturers will be both able and com his way, when l.e applies his labor to
rty V.e. v*.t ,,eHed to export still more. the earth and brioga fort i pro uct
, Manufaetur* These letters also usually contain > I y that labor Lan an.i rai. i
the statement that silver is dead, value, are the public s own. They are
Some of them also quote certain pro. I the natural, legitimate source from
ollejres. Later, af- which the revenues of the publio
ter correspondence with Washington, hodld *> drmwn, and its expense,
ter corresponuc.il , ,, „a|j. They are the heaven-appointed
these professors are appointed ex- treMurv uf tll0 S(.eial mau.-UoT.
rt* on statistics" to certain United
1 oar National
tors of every bank, the officer, and | States bureaus and commissions. Still ( ^
larger stockholders of every railroad,
the employers in every protected in >'^1u>e Uuiled state, "have in-1
paii).
treasury
Charles llardon, in Ni
Churca Mag**
fes* ors in certain
There will be, on the republican side
in the campaign of 1000, the organisers
of every trust, the president and direc- Pl r
il.. ..Mt.iaM ami i JStil , m
later, workinguien ure surprised to
xpert statistics" show that .•Representative government" it a
1 failure—perfect and complete. It can
no more represent the purpoaes and
dustry, the managera and beneficiaries
of every corporation operated under,
eased 80 per
cent in the last Sir
of evcrv corooration operan-u ....... . ■
or ill hopes of special privilege; ami years. Others of these latere „ aspiraUou, of Ulu pe0ple than 1 ca be
above all these, the creators of and letters are sent to the religious press ^ However honeal a man may he,
• i.v ti... Lrreat mononolv of raou- and argue that silver means ttnan. ia jt j, impossible that he can, on a hun-
gainers >. ' - dishonor and national disgrace. More- (ired or more questions of government
ey. There will be exceptions but so obituary editor- „m, M„ediencv, think just as hi.
ey. There will be exceptions, but so j
few as only to illuminate the fact, and
this will occur no matter what the
platform, or who the nominees of the
party. The platform will be framed
1 to deceive, the nominee, will be
chosen to mislead. The controllers of
tho trusts can bo counted on to con-
trol republican legislation, no matter
what the platform, or who the chosen
tools Principle, count for little in a
party that represents 8.". per cent of
tho wealth of the land, owned by l:.'
per cent of the people. But this is by
no means all. Upon the republican ]
side will be not only those of great
wealth, but those whom they directly j
over, Bilver i. dead! Obituary editor- and expediency, think just
rated and papers are ie- thousands of constituents think. And
it may be, and ofti;n is, that the very
ials are requc
quested to "please copy." 1 liese letters
contain no cheeks. Ucligious people j
cannot be bought in that way. lhe
letters to the regular press only occa-
sionally contain checks. Most editor?
can be trusted of themselves to be on
the side of money. Still other letters
go to papers of the I nited States pub-
lished in foreign languages. These
contain editorials prepared in the var
ions languages, with a note to tho edi-
tor promising payment on receipt of a
copy of the paper containing the edi-
torial. These letters are also sent in
silver. Other letters
jucstlon upon which he honestly iliN
fers from those whose agent lie is may
be that one which is most vitrl to them
among all the matters upon which he
has to net.—Social Forum.
or indirectly control, who are many. „ ^ ^ great rel,uWicttn—ng
j with directions to send their weekly
j editions for six mouths to such an
I such doubtful voter* with notes that
Cabmen and coach drivers in New
York city are feeling uneasy since the
introduction of the automobile. In the
next session of tho New York stato
legislature a bill is to be introduced
which provides that automobiles and
electric vehicle, in general must be in
charge of competent electricians. Of
course this would disqualify a goodly
number of horse carriage drivers and
leave them to join the great army of
the unemployed. Hence this measure
...ill be toucht bv their association.
the paper is paid for by a friend anil
that they need not be afraid to take
them from the office. i ho paper is measures WIND ACCURATELY,
told to send the bill to the bureau.
mourning
HAVE NO VAUS THERE.
every man can get work in
new zealand.
Imployment
Lower Scale
'ha Government Furnish®* I
to all the t'namployed at
of Waf«h, However. Thau l Paid by
Private Individuals—How It Works.
In New Zealand each township nas
Us town clerk, each borough and city
ward has the same. Each of these of-
ficial. keeps a set of employment
booliS. Any person wishing work ap-
plies at the employment office,
fame, age, etc.,
His
here recorded.
What "kind of work he w.uts, etc. Any
needing help can apply here, look j do liow can we g
Monopoly Rl«l lcn.
Of all the corporation ridden coun-
ties in California, I am persuaded that
Kern county is the worst One com-
pany owns all the water and the major
portion of tho land upon which the as
people are living. The company has
400,000 acres and farms a larger por-
tion of all that is uuder cultivation.
When tho people want water, a con-
versation something like tho following
ensues:
people—Whose water ia this?
Company—This is our water.
V_What! all tho water in the river?
C \cs, of course; this is all ours.
1>—Ilow came it all to be yours?
C—Why! we claim it.
| p Hut you do not need it all and we
Intellectual Serfdom.
An editor in New York, chafing un-
der the conditions which bind hiu,
thus pens an honest confession
This will include, for example nine
i tenths of the wealthier clergy, who
1 preach to rich men's wives and receive
| rich men's checks. It will include!
■ most of the poorer clergy and religious .
j workers among the poor, who, as a |
' rule, are more dependent upon wealth
even than those with larger salaries. It
1 will include the lawyer who expects j
large fees, or who seeks a bank rail- «« ^ am, contain sugges-
roador corporation practice. Stand P ^ ^ treat,„e„t of employes,
Inrr for silver in 1800 cost man} a law n
mg lor Sliver m Hnanclal dependent., etc. One sug-
yer a remunerative practice. It will k „„ ioani lo
<—*t; t rissssr sss—«««■■ j-
T„„. .„ch H.1.8 to A merle. .Ill -vrl.. I tlTS."
■ — r- *-r
P 11)d as they please? All such firms are also
reminded that silver is dead, and to
. , . i,i ...:ii i,,. publican organizers tluoughout tli
rectly influenced oy wealth will oe j i
ost college presidents and professors,
Other letters do not go to the press,
sent to the banks, railroad
Now I>i'vice
few brilliant
ception
tho press will be a
well-known papers and the noble army
form spread the news
't it?
oyer the books and get acquainted
with each other. All this without cost
to any one. Ilutthisisnot.il. After
fny name has been on the book two
weeks as one deserving work, I can
bring the clerk's attention to the fact,
when he will give me ail order to the
proper officer and I will be set to work
<or the public, building roads, bridges,
leaning streets, working on public
buildings, etc., at a lower wage, how,
«ver, than private parties are paying-
Thus, if a day laborer gets 81.25 per
•flay, the public employment bureau
Will g've, say UO cents. Now, no one
work for the town at 90 cents if
from others at
and
C—By working on live land
and raising livestock
vrill
fee can get employment
Cl 25. If a mail is "hard up, out of
work, he works for the public at 90
cents end supports himself. The ques-
tion of tho unemployed lias been set
tied satisfactorily to every one.
"If a 'vag' should emigrate from our
great country to New Zealand and
commence begging, lie would be im-
mediately turned over to the employ-
ment bureau and set to work-made to
work, if necessary—and then paid for
his labor. The 'vag,' you see, has been
Changed to a laborer who need never
be out of work more than two weeks
at a time."
Gold contradlctionists say that gold
alone is honest money. Gold has
floublcd Its value during the past
twenty-five years. Therefore, if a man
locked 52,000 worth of gold in a safe
twenty-five years ago it would now
purchase property which at the begin
tiing of the time would have command-
ed $4,000 in gold. Can money be hon-
e.t that, locked up in a safe, will steal
the property of another and transfer
it to tho owner of the money?
Factories owned by trusts and scat-
tered about the country, managed by
employees, do not produce goods as
growing grain
with which to pay for it
P—Well, then, wo will go to work,
and what will you chargo us for water
on this piece of land?
C—Ah, but this is our land.
p_What! all this laud where the
ditches are?
C—Y'ec, certainly. Why should wc
run our ditches and our water off of
I our own land?
| p—To be sure. Well, how did you
yet all this land?
C—Why, we bought it of course.
You do not think that a respectable
company would steal it, do you?
P—Well, no, we did not think so,
but how did you get the money?
C—We sold the water which we
claimed and bought it.
p—But you cannot use all of it, nor
do you need it all. Can not wo have
some land upon which to grow the
grain with which to buy water?
C—Y'es, indeed; you can have all you
want We will rent it to you and sell
to you the water and take the grain
and the live stcok which you raise and
buy more laud to rent and build more
ditches to carry water which we will
sell to other farmers, who will go and
do as these faithful farmers are doing-
Why if it were not for the company
the farmers would have no water and
no land and would starve. Blessed be
the name of the company!—Class
Struggle.
out in tho country towns. I am paid
for keeping honest opinions out of the
papers I am connected with. Others
of you are paid similar salaries for do-
ing similar things. If 1 should allow
honest opinions to be printed in one
issue of my paper, like Othello, beforo
twenty-four hours my occupation those „ |,0 dcsire to become such and
would be gone. The man who would teac)lcrs ¥Cry generally, in schools
be so foolish as to write honest opin- bolll pUi,lic and privnte. l ew are so
ions would bo out on the street hunt depeudent today as tochers; those in
ing for another job. The business cf pubuc school. upon machine policies,
a New York journalist is to distort the j^ose in private schools directly upon
truth lie outright to pervert, to villi-
fy, to fawn at the feet of mammon,
and to sell his country and his race for
his daily bread, or for what is about
tho same thing, his salary. We art)
the tools and vassals of the rich men
Sccuro Data on V«'loelt|r
of Air Current#.
Realizing the necessity of obtalnlDO.
for scientific purposes, some more ac-
curate method of determining win
velocity, the Royal Meteorological so-
ciety of London charged Its committee
on wind to devise a more practical
system of Installing the official ane-
mometers than the one In use liltherta
The committee has recently reported
that the unreliability of the instru-
ments was caused by the infinite num-
ber of obstacles that surrounded them.
* not only in the crowded cities, but alsd
sometimes iu rural and coast observa-
tions. They held that the present sys-
land, and usually contain large checks. winj gauge is a perfectly trust-
Tiiia money goes ultimately to repre- wort|,y 0ne, hut that everything de-
resent.tives more or less under pay, pcn(ja tlpon the installation of the In-
contested district, in every gtrument. They said that, first of all.
•very close precinct it was absolutely necessary that the
the United States, especially in the wind velocity should be taken sum-
in many doubtful riently high above the ground^ not to
anls, l,e affected by any
in every
doubtful ward, in
mon i
eludes the multitudinous small mer-
who may need loans from
ovlded
\ al ue i
of 1,500 yards. To effect this freedom
from obstacle the committee recom-
mended the erection of a high tube ex-
tending into the air far beyon a
neighboring elevation; that It shoul
he made pivotal so as to swing toward
the wind, and that its riouth shwl4,
be funnel-shaped, like the "wind catch-
vessels at. sea. Asked as to
foreign precincts. Ill many uu„...... by uny counter-currcnt.
wealth The only professional men. j citie. the party has, in the close wan s ^ natural or uflcla,
x...r, ,;-r rs-r
ent, aro p ly.ici Vl,3 of lhe er letters contain no checks, butic- m(,nt no hnl tr(,Pi wall. tower chim-
ztJSzzzzL"™
•« j- ~ 1 r.rjk
jacka They pull the strings and we independeut. licsidiffl the professions, ' •
dance. Our time, our talents, our tjiere will be at the command of the • " > '
lives, our possibilities and all the prop- moneyed a large number of the un-j THE PUBLIC'S TREASURY.
erty of other men. We are intellectual mon;ed in need of money. This in-
prostitutes.
x„ W„„. McKlnley: | oh nU -'^^."^"n y who have! Tho public, like the individual, has j ,Te nece.arv to place
mortgaged property, and, according to its own property; in the first place il whetherjth of thi,
the last census, only thirty-five per owns itseif; we do not say it own it- he[ rcpiied that
cent of our own people own unmort- self in relation to t.od, but In rela, lnstn;menU should be placed at
■raged homes. It includes vast nuni to the individual and to other possible ^ Uie funne, aIld that the air
ters of the salesmen and clerks in publics. In relation to the individual, Hrp Join th„ "chimney would
stores and offices. Indeed, the whole external nature, the sun, moon and regUter the velocity
commercial class, as a whole, can be slars, the air, the rains the clouds the
counted upon faithfully to kneel be- sunshine, the ocean, all lan .
fore its feudal lord, ! rights of way and transportation, ov ,
I Yet this is not all. It is startling to ; thein, belong not to him, but
! realize that on the republican side will public, and with absolute equality to
be many working.nen, especially all. The public, however own. noth-
among the poorest. Almost all rail- ing that is tho product of human la-
road employees, a large per cent of the bor; it owns the ground, but it cannot
employes in protected manufactories, ! own a house except by purchase,
monopolized industries, street car . raay own the ocean, but not a ship; a
companies, etc., with a vast proportion j virgin forest, but not an orchard a
of the ignorant foreign voters of the l.erd of wild animals, but not a do-
cities will, of necessity, be enforcedly mesticated animal or a wild one
republican. Practically the whole cnuglit; the fish in the ocean, but not
bought vote, the whole ignorant vote, oue taken from the ocean.
bulldozed vote, is today re- The individual properly owns him
Would you mind shedding a ray on
this case of Carter? Eighteen months
ago Carter was convicted of stealing
SI,600,000 from the people of this land,
lie got this money by forgery, cheat,
embezzlement and direct theft. Ilo
was sentenced to dismissal from the
army and to be locked up five years, j
The case has gone from dilatory pillar
to post, until it's now in your personal
and presidential paws. And Carter is
not locked up. On tho bird-like and
amazing contrary, Carter is exceeding
free. He wears the epaulettes and
draws his pay, and is as loose of ball
and fetter as the frivolous wind. All
this is direct fruit of your wish, order
and assent. Whereat curiosity becomes
wide mouthed. Would you miud tell-
ing us why you thus screen a felon and
become Carter's accessory after the
fact? Or does your press censorship,
so valuable in Manila, take in the Car-
ter case?—NewY'ork Verdict.
wind at the upper extremity
tube.
of the
of the
PAUPERS RESTED AT AUCTION.
Ilow Maine
i>w nslilp" It
Providing f<
From the New York Sun:
loctmen and overseers of
the small Maine towns
Poor.
The se-
he poor in
that are too
poor to own almshouses a-e congratu-
lating themselves over the fact that
the annual auction sale of paupers has
resulted In a great sa\'.na to tho tax-
payers. In many tonrx Where the
timber had been cut o'f aid the I H(
ade poor from nuch crop-
Mr. Hanna «ays that no man need go
hungry in the United States. He prob-
ably has reference to the nourishment
derived from licking revenue stamps.
It is 3ur chief diet nowadays.—Colum-
bus Press-Post.
An Anxious Public.
The business methods of the Ci _,o
„ - - has been ma.
his, together with the self and the products of his own labor; ping (he pauper charges a'? the ihmv
ctable vote that j not in relation to God, in whom he est item in the annual ta> assessment.
As these towns own no jj.lorfarm t.ia
paupers are put up at auctnn, tiie low-
the whole
publican. T
great, ignorant, respcc
A man may live in a cabbage-garden it can indirectly buy, is n oney's main ; lives and n.ov
and dream of Paradise or He may live ; reliance. repllblican * Mm'self and to the public. The pro- est bidder getting the contr
ork? There are four duet. 0f toil belong to the toiler U- them for the fiscal year T
national bureaus at present iu it. ser- bor has a just title to the ownership o oa ^ ^ ^ the chiet ar
* title can never * . i. i.ivu/
in Paradise and dream of a cabbage"
garden. — Oriential maxim.
lie who controls your bread controls
your ballot. — Webster.
. and has his being, bu
: in his relation to other beings lik
Do we realize
party is now at wo
a single one of these employs its products, and this
i hundred and fifty clerks; and one be justly abrogated; but no just title
icallv as they were produced gentleman who failed with liabilities
under individual ownership. But the
trust can dispense with much of the
expensive machinery of distribution,
cut down the wages of their working
men, advance the price of their pro-
ducts, and cinch the producers of raw
material. In this way only can they
pay dividends on their inflated stocks.
Fortunately for the cause of public
righteousness, the forces of plutocracy
are overdoing it. Revolt and discon-
tent are showing themselves in unex-
pected places. I find many who were
.upporters of tlio administration a
.liort time ago, who are now openly
denouncing Its polioy. The sycophants
nd camp followers .ing its praises,
but there ato many eyes being opened,
ud the day for reckoning of sins for
commission and omission U near t
hand.—Social Forum.
of 81,036,078 and assets of $5 may not
be commendable, but a great multi-
tude of citizens would like to know
how he worited it to get credit to that
extent.—San Francisco Examiner.
In a proper condition of society there
will be no pauperism.—Shelley.
Even President McKinley's friends
see with regret his frequent change at
the apparent dictation of plutocratic
interests. For instance; In the begin-
ning of his term he publicly promised
to uphold the civil service law which
within a few weeks lie has practically
killed. The illegal anil inexcusable
war which he is now waging against
the Filipinos he declared but a few
months ago to be "criminal aggres-
sion." Such things look like a govern-
ment of the people by the politicians
for the plutocrats. Somewhat of de-
parture from Lincoln's ideal.
New Mall Box.
A Washington inventor has devised
an ingenious attachment for a mail :
box. Every time that the door is
opened by the collector of the mail a
small movable sign is changed. This
sign, which consists of a card, is visi-
ble from the outside, and shows when
the next collection will be made.
Men who live on little are called
economists and men who live on noth-
ing are called tramps.
W.vnen Sign ratnter*.
Derlin has added sign painters to the
daily increasing list of women who
work at men's trades. These women
have served a regular apprenticeship,
including gymnastic training, so that
they will not lose their nerve while
working on scaffolds or ladders. They
wear the gray linen frock and cap that
is the house painter's badge as well as
his shield from paint.
No barber lias a right to charge a
man 15 cents for opinions that he
doesn't want.
vice
one
hundred and fifty clerks can send out
many letters in two years. I^ct us
open their mail bag and see where
these letters go, and what are their
contents.
Many of tho letters go to the city
can ever be given or acquired to pri
vate ownership in nny portion of ex-
ternal nature, as unaffected by human
tide of consumption, though ciothins
was also taken Into consideration,
even if ihe paupers wore cast-off gar-
ments. When flour was worth $7 to
$10 a barrel nobody could afford to
jver the whole land.
matter for publication. They tell us ' uie values
business is improving, and how uredly its own as the products of toi
is going through the j :ire the toiler's
labor On the other hand, the product ta](e 1)al]per for les.; than t- to $-
of labor is always the property of the : a week Now that flour has gone down
individual. Labor is the individual's t0 $4 or $5 a barrel there are plenty ot
tinir value; the public; families who will contract to feed and
* clothe a pauper for from $L to a
week. The bidding has been very brisk
in nearly every town "here the prac-
m-ess and more to the country papers raethod of crea _
They contain • iias an entirely different method, and clothe
it thus creates are as sa
that
much money
clearing houses. It is easy to show
this. Last year on the average nearly
two trusts were formed a week, ihis
year business is better, and now a new
trust appears almost every morning.
A valuable thing is one which can
be sold. Salableness is the quality
and measure of value. The public j
creates value by its presence, or exist
ence. A piece of ground in the midst {
tlce still prevails. R*rorU f''<"" som-
erset and Piscataquis ewntles. where
[ew manufacturing plants have been
erected sho.v that the cost of keep-
ing paupers for 1899 will be nearly 50
per cent less than in U98. In one town
well-to-do farmer took the job to
If the trusts could only perform a new o( or nea'r a dense population is very j s„pp0rt the entire pauper population
robbeiy etwy hour stumor, money vaU,al,, iiud its vaiue is
ransferred and go through portioned to the dmsiU 01 me p 1
The letters too iation. Products of labor, on the con- ^
trury, are less valuable iu proportion •
as the population is greater; because a
dense population lias greater economy j
of production. Rights of way and
transportation over the eaith, whether (
rise in value
would be trf
the clearing houses.
report in glowing terms what cases
there are of wages being raised five or
ten per cent, but forget to explain
how, in the previous two years, wages
bare been cut again and again five or
for the same seivice.
on Tree..
trees buds an4
ten per cent, twenty or thirty per cent people, goods or news,
oil Tb# v also forget to state how ivjth the valueof land am
mall. They also forget
I the prodnct is increasing and what is ; 0f population, because
lid the increase be
In a grove of lemon
blossoms, and both green and rlpe frult
may be seen on the same tree all the
time all the year round. Wouldnttt
nice if our own apple fee. were
more are ac-
tbaJL.wWU
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