The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 10.
WHAT HICKS SAYS
Some People Believe in the Weather
Prophet and Some Don't.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 190:2.
NUMBER :!0
Rev. Irl R. Hicks concludes his
weather gor February as follows:
"We believe that much unpleasant
wintry weather will fall in February
and March. All reasonable and pos-
sible precaution for the sheltering
and feeding of live stock should be
exercised, and wise planning for out
door work should be done. Much
needless loss and suffering can be
averted by carefully fixing in the I
mind the period of probable storms)
and changes and making preparations j
accordingly for the performance of j
the varied work of every day life. j
"We blieve that the months of j
April, May and June will be propiti-j
ous above the average for all agri-j
cultural and out-door avocations, j
While the rainfall generally for;
these monhs will not be up to the j
average, we believe that there will
he no disastrous suffering for moist-
ure, and that localities to the ex-
treme north, and perhaps the ex-
treme south and east parts of the
country, will have more rain than is
wanted."
of the term. By the end of the week
however the stragglers were nearly
all in.
Equippment for work has progress-
ed in proportion to the increased at-
tendance. The additions to the
library and to the laboratories are a
considerable item in themselves for
the first semester. Mr. Flynn lias
proved his friendship for the Univer-
sity the first lialf i n many ways. He
had a number of valuable reports
sent to the library throughout the
semester just closetl. Within the last
week, some reports on Philippine
affairs, and on Territorial affairs
came to the library, that will be of
great value to the classes in current
history. The University isone of the
government depositories for public
documents, and oflidal reports, and
the care and classification of this
material is V>eing emphasized.
The second half starts off success-
fully. Before it closes the new build-
ings will begin to take shape, and
several of the plans growing for the
advancement of the University will
ripen. The present outlook isbright-
indeed for the close of a year in
which something lias been accomp-
lished.
At the University.
The first semester closed and the
second opened up with scarely a
break. The movement was so quiet
and business like that a great many
people did not know anything had
South Carolina 's Liquor System.
In the current number Frank Les-
lie's Monthly Senator Tillman has a
paper concerning the dispensary laws
of that state, in which, he compares it
with the license laws of other states.
happened,'any yet, some of the great- j It j8 ^own that in prohibition Kan-
est things are done very quietly. At i gaS) witll a p0pUiation very nearly of
no time in the history of the Univer-! goutjj Carolina, there are 2,727 gov
sity has more growth been shown | ernment licenses for retailing liquor,
than in the semester which has just j or one 595 of population. In South
closed. Each department has push- Caroiina there are4(iti licenses, of
ed forward to the extent of its pow- j Qne tQ 3 005 pe0pje. Government
ers. Never has there been such a, jjcenses are not authority to sell
spirit of work abroad among teach- j j-,qUor They are merely evidence
ers and students. The reports from j that t|)e retailer's tax has been paid.
But, of course, it is a legitimate in-
ference that the possession of such
license means its use. Senator Till-
,
! man remarks that he thinks it is
■■■- ( I anomalous that the government
' *■. i should issue licenses in states where
! the sale of liquor is prohibited by
j state law. Of the 446 persons who
| haye paid the government license in
I South Carhlina, only ninety-four are
| under the law. The other 352 are
I illscit dealers a majority of whom
examination prove this. The num- are in the city of Charleston.
ber of good records is constantly in- The dispensary system of South
creasing To get an A or a B. means I Carolina restricts the right of manu-
an honor that is well worth striving facture or sale of liquor to the state,
for, and fosters a public spirit which, through a board of directors,
anion.' students that will not count-1 purchases the liquor under competi-
ance idleness or loafing. Parents live bids. The liquor is analyzed by
also have .riven more attention and the state cheni ist to see that it is
encouragement than formerly. He- pure. There i«a central depot at
ports were sent out to parents of J Columbia, where the liquor is bottled,
students and many letters have since The largest quantity put up is four
these "dry" counties there is as
much drunkenness as in the other
counties.
Ih the dispensaries the price list is
conspiciously posted. The pjace of
sale is a plain room with a counter.
The purchaser must fill out a slip
giving his age and residence, and this
is kept on file, the purpose being to
account for every drop of liquor that
the dispensary handles. No one is
allowed to drink on the premises.
There is no credit system. The profit
of the dispensary goes half to the
county, the other half to the town, the
state getting its profits on the prices
charged to the local dispenser. The
net profits of the state, county and
town for eleven months ending with
December, 1900, were $523,342 . state's
profits go to the common school fund.
Senator Tillman sums up what he
thinks are the advantages of the
system. (1) That liquor is the only
article of commerce in general use
that is consumed at the time and
place of this purchase. It is safe to
say, he thinks, that three-fourths of
the liquor is thus consumed The
dispensary law will allow nothing of
this. A purchaser after buying it
must go elsewhere to consume it. (2)
The element of personal profit,
which is at the root of the saloon
evil, is destroyed by the dispensary
system, as the dispensers receive
salaries and have no interest in,
fostering the trade. (3) Treating is
destroyed, which is a great help
towards sobriety. (4) The dispen-
sary is open only from 8 o'clock in
the morning to sundown. The testi"
mony ot unbaised judges is that i
South Carolina drunkenness has
been reduced 50 per cent to 75 per
cent, since the dispensary went into
effect. The law, Senator Tillman
says, has been subjected to a series
of bitter contests, but it has always
triumped, and he thinks it is safe to
say that it is a fixture in South Caro-
lina.
ADMIT OUT IN RATES-
M oil cy !Mon cy ! AI011 cy !
YES—We htiva ati unlimited
amount to loan ou farms.
Time from six months to ten
years. Interest as low as the
lowest.
' We Lead on Terms Others Follow
Office Opera House Block. Attorney-At-Law.
Prominent Railroad Men Testify Before
Interstate Commerce Commission.
come in with a purpose to arrange
and stimulate the representatives of
the homes from which the letter?
gallons and the smallest a half pint.
The bulk is ill pints and quarts.
Everything is lc ept i ti stock for which
come More students of college rank there is a deraa ml, a nd all the liquor
resisted this year than ever before; are labeled "South Carolina Dispen-
. • • I u11 1 nuf f-f ol t t*
one result of the better connection
that is now had with the High schools
of the territory.
School opened promptly Wednes
dav morning at 8 oY
sary." There are ninety-four dis-
pensers appointed by county boards
of control and they must be, men not
addicted to th « use of liquor
lock and those 1 beverage. Counties have local option
student- not in their places were
marked absent for the beginning day
and there are two that have no dis
i tiensaries. hut it is noted that in
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BRING US YOUR
.ENS and TURKEYS
\\ i> will pay you the highest uitiiket
price in trade or cash.
lieuieniber We Are Headquarters for —°
Seed Potatoes of all Kinds. Onion Sets,
Garden Seed in Bulk.
REMEMBER THE PLACE, EAST MAIINSI Hl.i. I .
VINCENT & SON,
DRY GOODS AMI) GROCERIES.
NOP.MAN, OKLAHOMA.
Washington, Jan. 29.—Some im-
portant admissions of rate cutting
interstate commerce commissson to-
day in continuance of the investiga-
tion begun at Kansas City January
9. Vice President Paul Morton of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa he
and J. Ivl. Johnson of the Rock
Island, and J. M. Monroe, traffic
manager of the Union Pacific testi
fied.
All the witnesses admitted that the
published tariff rates on grain tnov-
j ing in and out of Kansas City had
I not been observed. I hey explained
! the methods by which the lower
! rates were accorded and contented
| that these concessions were neces
| sary. They conceded that there
were favored shippers on most of
j the transcontinental lines, but cl liin
|ed the practice was the nattirul re-
sult of the competitive conditions
of transcontinental traffic.
The most serious cutting of rates,
J they said, prevail between Kansas
City to Chicago. The witnesses ad
( mitted that at a time when the pub-
lished rate from Kansas City to Chi
cago was 12 cenis per ico pounds
I there was practically no grain mov-
1 ed at a rate above 7 cents.
Here is an admitted "discrimina-
1 tion" in favor of the grain trust
| the elevator combine—of 5 cents
i per 1 co pounds. Ou corn tins is 2
^8 10 per busliel and ou wheat of 3
cents a bushel, on the supposition
ithrtt the cut was only 5 cents per
i lot* pounds, whereas there is nothing
I in the testimony to show that the
! discrimination was not greater at
Mimes than 5 cents. The railway
j company "publishes a freight rate
charge and prices are fixed accord
ingly with a "reasonable" margin
for handling, insurance, labor, etc.
Now the "favored" shipper receives
a '"secret rebate," as testified to b\
the magnates above, and the private
shipper and the independent com-
panies are frozen out entirely, or
else if they liye and do business, the
"combine" rolls in wealth accumu-
lated from its 3 cents a bushel
secret rebatee ($15 to $20 per car)
that are given and received in de-
fiance of law.
Kansas farmers have combined
to form the Co operative Grain and
Stock Asssciation and it has already
secured the indictment of the grain
trust secretary for law breaking,
and has saved hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars to Kansas farmers.
We are informed that grain trust
methods are as bad in Nebraska as
in Kansas.
Another instance of corporation
influence for corruption comes from
St. Louis, where millionaires by the
dozen (perhaps several dozen of the
most prominent men in the city) are
mixed up in a bribery case. One
hundred and thirty-five thousand
dollars has been locked up for
months to pay for "influence" of
members of the city council and for
votes to give away to a corporation
an extremely valuable street fran-
chise belonging to the public.
Some idea of the high places that
| will be hi' in the investigation may
I be had from a perusal of an extract
from a recent dispatch:
"A prominent St. Louisan who is
very close to eastern directors of
the suburban railway states that a
director in the railroad told him
! that certain prominent citizens of
i St. Louis whose names are sure to
j be dragged into this scandal would
I have gotten together and put up
$10,000,000 to avoid this expos-
Tlie only cure for such wholesale
' corruption lies in public ownership
| of public utilities, and the whole-
! sale demoralization arising from cor
i poration greed and crime will hasten
| the day when public business will be
| done by the public.—Central Farm-
! 6r'
PEOPLE VS TRUSTS
Government ownership of rail-
i roads has been advocated by a cer-
j tain element of the people for a
number f years. Events in the in-
dustrial world are moving -.<> rapidly
that it is iftipossible to foretell what
may occur in the near future.
One of the chief dangers of the
great combinations of capital is
| that the effect may be t<> lodge mo
much power in the hands of a few.
; If to avert this great danger the
! government should acquire posses
1 sion of the railroads and undertake
I to operate them it would put too |
| much power in the hands of the !
government. I he time may come j
j when it will be necessary for the
! people to make choice between
1 these evils, and many who have been
equally determined against both
i combines and government owner
j ship may be driven to advocate the
1 latter as the lesser evil. It is a grim
! battle between the people and the
gaints which looms up in the future,
and the problem is .1 knottj one.—
1 Baltimore Daily Sun.
Proclamation Declaring Norman a City of
the First Class
Whereas, an enumeration of the
inhabitants of the town of Norman
Oklahoma as defined by a town plat
in the ollice of the Register of Deeds
of Cleveland county, said Territory,
together with certain additions
there to having been taken in ac-
cordance with section 1, of article 1
of chapter 14 in the Statutes of Ok-
lahoma. and a report of same filed in
1 the Executive office of the Territory
of Oklahoma, showing a population of
j 3313.
; And whereas, a petition signed
by a majority of holders of said city
having been filed with the Governor
of the Territory prying for the or-
ganization of the said town of Nor-
man as a city of the first class.
Now therefore, I, T. B. Fergu-
son Governor of the Territory of
Oklahoma, by virtue of the authority
vested in me, by the laws of the
Territorr, do declare and proclaim
said city of Norman as aforesaid to
be a city of the first class and hereby
call an election to be held in said city
of Norman on the first Tuesday in
April, April the 1st 1902, for the
election of the following city officers,
to-wit: one mayor, one police, judge
one city marshal, one street com-
missioner, one city attorney, one city
clerk, one city treasurer, two mem-
bers of the city council from each
of the four ward of the said city, as
hereafter described:
All of whom shall hold their re-
spective offices until the next regu-
lar city election.
1 he boundaries of the wards of
i< 1 city shall be as follows: first
ward, all that portion of the said
city of Norman laying north of Main
street and east of tiie Santa Fe rail-
road track; second ward, all that
portion of said city laying north of
Main street and wc st of the Santa Fe>
rail road track: third ward, all that
portion of said city laving south of
Main street and west of the Santa Fe
rail road track: fourth ward, all that
portion ol said city laying south of
Main street and east of the Santa Fe
railroad track.
The voting places for said election
are hereby designated as follows:
first ward, at .the Oil mill office:
second ward, at McGuire building 011
west Main street: third ward, at the
' Wallace building 011 west Main street,
i forth ward, at the office of the
j Carey Lombard Lumber Co.
The clerks and judges of election
shall be as follows, first ward, clerk
Ilobert Mapbis. W. I!. Morter, judges
Fred Carder, S. A. Ambrister, G. T.
Webster.
Second ward clerks I). O. Fox ( has.
Flesher, judges. Henry I'erry, J. P.
Monroe and J. S. \\ ilkin
Third ward, clerks, C.
C. W. Brewer, judges, 1
1 M. Corn, Frank Flood.
j Fourth ward clerk 11
| Vincent: judges ('ay
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Said
ducted in
the laws
lahoma
In witn
hand and
Williams,
iailey, J.
Cook Tom
T. J. .Johnson,
nd.
lection to be held and cou-
pects according to
Territory of Ok-
<n I ha vi
caused
Oklahoma to be atti
of Feb. A. D. 1902.
T. B
hereunto set my
the great seal of
i this llth day
Pi
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Governor.
By the Governor.
William Giumi - .
Secretaiy ot the '.eiiitoiy
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