The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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The Peoples
VOLUME 12.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1903
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A. POWEE IN OKLAHOMA
School Laiid Lessees Have Fully Twenty
Thousand Votes.
(From Times-Journal Okla. City.)
McCall
NUMBER 20
Has it for
Less,
The Combine 'And There
Is No Longer Doubt
THERE IS A COMBINE'
Has all its own way, while
consumer and producer
Suffer.
"The packers never had things so
completely under their control as
they have now," is an expression one
may hear a hundred times a day at
the stock yards. The commission
men are forced into constant contact
with the packers and some of them
tell of remarkable proofs of the com-
pleteness of the combine.
A member of one of the oldest firms
at the yards is authority for the
statement that it is no unusual thing
for a buyer of one packer, after get-
ting a train load of stock, to order
the herd divided and let each packing
house get a part. That is something
never done until within the last few
months and the stockmen familiar
with the facts do not hesitate to say
that they consider this fact the
strongest possible proof that the
combination is working perfectly.
SELFISHNESS WITHOUT LIMIT.
To the farmer who has stock to sell
the continuance of high prices for
meat with a falling market for stock
is proof of the combine and of its
unlimited selfishness.
Yesterday was Tuesday, November
17. The highest price paid for cattle
classed as shipping and dressed beef
steers, with the exception of one
animal, was $4..75 per hundred weight
There was one steer that brought $5
a hundred. The lowest price in the
same class was $3.50.
On Tuesday, November 18, of last
year thirty-two head brought $5.75
per hundred, and there was only one
sale of a small steer below $4.25. One
jteer that only weighed 840 pounds j
brought $4. *
In the class, '"Native feeders,'
yesterday's highest price was $3.50,
and its lowest $3.25, against $4.90and
$3.05 a year ago.
These figures taken from the mar-
ket report are official. They show a
difference of more than a dollar a
hundred on on average.
CONSUMER PAYS ALL THE FREIGHT.
And yet Kansas City is paying more
for its meat than it did a year ago.
It was stated yesterday1 that there
had been no reduction in the price
paid by the butcher to he packer.
Butchers who preserved their last
year's bills are authority for the
statement. Their customers who
doubt its truth i-hould ask their
butchers to see their bills. Some of
them may be destroyed, but several
butchers have produced the figures.
But that does nut account for an
advance in price to the consumer.
Prior to the fiood packers sent their
house
I street.
I BIG SAVING TO THE PACKERS.
I Since June 1, when the water cov-
| ered the West bottoms, the butcber
j has been doing his own hauling- A
I packer boasted recently that hiscom-
j pany would save $50,000 a year by
I taking off the delivery wagons, it
j was a saving to the packers, not a
j ground for a small reduction in the
| price of meat. The butcher now buys
his meat and gets it delivered ns he
can. Some send their own wagons to
the packing houses early in the
j morning, but the great majority pay
teamsters who haul at a stipulated
rate per hundred pounds. There are
a few butchers on the West side and
some of the largest dealers in the re-
tail district who get hauling done as
low as eight cents per hundred
pounds.But the great majority pay
twelve cents per hundred, and the
smaller butchers and those on the
East side pay fifteen cents per hun-
dred pounds. Nobody need expect
the butcher to stand that expense
alone. His customers are fortunate
if he does not add a cent a pound to
the price of the meat to cover pos-
sible loss in other directions. The
butchers get back all tbey lose and
more because of this addition to the
cost of them. That makes meat
prices actually higher.
NO SOLICITORS FOR THE PACKERS.
The wagons disappeared first and
finally the solicitors, who formerly
visited the butchers, have almost dis-
appeared from the city. One of the
largest butchers in the city said this
morning that he did not think he had
seen a solicitor in his shop in two
months.
"They know," he said, "that I will
buy all the meat I can sell, that I
must buy from some one of them and
they don't seem to care which one I
get my meat from. I can go to the
cooler and pick it out and then send
my wagon after it. There are some
of the haulers who take orders them-
selves and they may get some little
profit out of it. I think they do but
evidences of anything like competi
tion have been mighty scarce around
here lately."
MUST TAKE WHAT THE COMBINE OFFER
The bog situation is even worse
The shipments are smaller than they
were a year ago. The market price
to the farmer is $2.00 per hundred
less ane yet there has been an ad-
vance in the price of pork. Pork
tenderlains were costing the butchers
sixteen cents a pound a few days ago.
The latest price list for the same
grade calls for twenty cents a pound.
The reason assigned is that the pack-
ers can sell all they can produce at
twenty cents a pound. The farmer
asks why he cannot get more for the
live hog, but he gets no satisfaction.
He may take what the packer will
give him or keep his hogs. The con-
sumer will pay the price or go with-
out pork. The packer counts on the
necessities of both. He knows the
farmer can't keep his hogs forever
and knows that the consumer will eat
meat whether he gets it at a fair
price or not.— Kansas City Star.
The Oklahoma stock raiser has been
at a loss for some time to know why
fat stock is so low: but if he will
THE NEW STATEHOOD BILL
Guthrie, Nov. 2.1.—One provision in
>elegat.e MoOuire's statehood bill for
Oklahoma is causing anxiety among I Bill Follows Close^ By the Lines of Flynn
Republican politicans, regardless of i
factional affiliations. One of the I
Measure-
[Hv the Associated Press.]
Washington D. C. Nov.,19—Dele-
problems of statehood will be whether I ffate McGuire today introduced in
the school lands in Oklahoma shall be j congress his Oklahoma statehood bill.
,ld and the money held as a per-1 No reference was made to the other
money Held as a
manent fund for the support, of the
oommon schools and for the higher
educational institutions, or not sold
and the annual rentals used for that
purpose.
Again if they are to be sold, shall
prefence right of purchase be given
to the lessee occupant, or shall the
lessee be ignorned after he has been
compensated for his improvements
and the land sold at public auction to
the highest bidder, without further
restrictions ?
CONTROL 20,000 VOTES.
The 7,000 school land lessees of Ok-
lahoma, controlliug 20.000 votes, are
organized to securc ownership of
these lands at the lowest possible
price. They take the radical position
that these lands belong to them more
than to any other person, and will
fight to the last ditch to gain their
point. On the other hand, there are
more the half million people in Okla-
homa who hold that these lands be-
long alike to all the people of Okla-
homa: that the lessees have long en-
joyed the use of the lands at ridic-
ulously low rentals, amounting in
most instances to about what were
the taxes are on adjoining lands, and
that after the lessees have been paid
for their improvements they would in
equity be debtors to Oklahoma for
benefits for which they did not pay a
fair price. Politically the lessee's
organization holds such a balance of
power that neither the Republican or
Democratic party has dared to anta-
gonize it. No legislature has had the
courage to enact laws for the regul-
ation and control of the school lands.
A republican party manager said
this week that the republicans won
in the last congressional campaign
only by buying the influence that con-
trolled the lessees. Neither party-
dares take the initiative for or
against tue lesseas in Statehood legis-
lation and both tremble at the
thought of being forced to declare
themselves.
McGUIRE'S BILL FOR THE LES-
SEES.
The statehood bill introduced by
Delegate McGuire as reported in
Washington dispatches, provides
that the school lands,, shall be ap-
praised and sold under rules and regu-
lations prescribed by the legislature,
and that preference be given to pur-
chase to the lessees. In a measure
this commits the Republican party
to the lessess. In taking any side of
the question the Repub icans invite
defeat. The same would be true of
the Democrats. Bepublican leaders
alarmed at the prospect, are prepar-
ing to secure a modification of this
provision in the McGuire bill, and
the delegation to be chosen to go to
Washington and assist McGuire will
be urged to reccomend a change that
will enable the Republican party to
escape the threatened danger.
One plan favorably discussed at
this time is that tha commission |
territories except a cla ise providing
that of the state of Oklahoma shall
consent, that congress may at anv
time or from time to time attach ail
or any part of the Indian Territory
to the stale after the tribal lands in
the territory is extinguished. The j
provision is identical with the clause
in the former measure.
The McGuire bill provides for a
constitutional government of seventy
five delegates A commission to ap-
portion the territory into seventy-
five districts consists of the governor
chief justice and secretary of te>ri
tory and one delegate from each dis-
trict. Three representatives in con-
gress are provided instead of two as
iu the former bill.
A new provision prohibiting poly: ■
mous and plural marriages was in-
serted.
if school lands are disposed of th«y
shall be appraised and sold um.tr
rules and regulations prescribed by
legislature, preference fight to pur-
chase to be given to lesees The pro
ceeds are to constitute a permanent
schooi fund, If levees does not pur
chase land and improvements sli t!J
be appraised at a r.-:tfonqble value
The lesee to receiv the amount of
the a ppraisement ui der rules and
regulations presciibe i bv legislature
Land grants to educational institu-
tions and the same is in former lull
except that the normal schools re-
ceive one hundred thuusan i acres ad-
ditional.
A provision for state officers and
for courts are identical with old bill.
Senator Quay will introduce the
McGuire bill in the Senate this week
championing the same in that body.
Senator Quay is confident that he can
pass the bill in the senate's regular
session.
Senator Meve> idge will oppose the
admission of the territory. A hard
fight is expected 011 the bill in the
hou*e committee on territories.
Plans are being made for a vigorous
campaign. Leaders are anxious (for
the bills introduction p lor to the
regular session to begin lit;tit for Ok-
lahoma.
Irl R. Hicks 1904 Almanac.
Kev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for
The Rev.
The
1904 is now ready. It will be mailed
to any address for thirty cents. It is
surprising how such an elegant, ost*
ly book can be sent prepaid so ch- ap-
Iv. No family or person is prepared
to study the heavens, or the storms
and weather in 1904, with ir this
wonderful Hicks Almanac and Prof.
Hicks splendid paper Word and
Works. Both are sent for only one
dollar a year. Word and Word and
Works is among the best American
.agazines. Like the Hicks almanac
.c is too well known to need further
commendation. Few men have la-
horod more faithfully for the public
good or found a warmer place in the
hearts of the people. Send orders to
Word and Works Publishing Co.,
2201 Locust St. St. Louis Mo.
Last week a committee of citizens
ot Perry came down to Norman to
investigate Norman's electric light
and decided afer the investigation
that they would just duplicate the
Norm in plant for Perry. Norman
lias one of the finest electric light
p'ants in Oklahoma is the verdict of
everyone who ii- conversant with
ti. ■ electric light plants of the terri-
t<.ry. The plant in Norman since it
r-t.irted last Aim i 1 has never been out.
of repair for a minute and furnishes
a tine strong lit lit.
Free Free l Dinner
The Celebrated Semi-Vitreous Porcelain, hand-
painted Decoration, with Gold Trimmings,
Given Away Free to o':r Customers.
carefully read the above
will get an idea of the trouble.
''The Land of Now"
article he authorized to call the election fori
naming delegates to the constitution-,
al convention shall submit to the peo-1
pie of Oklahoma at this election the
We have saved no expense in getting up the most
beautiful patterns ever made.
You Can Get a Dinner Set Free!
question of what disposition shall be
made of the school lands. This would
The above is the title of a new j
pamphlet destriptive -of Oklahoma rlnit political parties to pro-
issued by the Rock Island Railroad j cee(j wjt}lout fear of the school land
Co., and any of our readers who n ( i lljrh,(nlr j,,r the control of
Giv
en away with our cash sales, piece by piece, and continued until you get
a ■ omplete set. Set coti-Uts of Cups and Saucers, Pie i'i:: tes, Breakfast
Plates, Dinner Plates. Sauce Di hes. Platters. \ egeta > Hsbes, sugar
Bowls, etc., etc. Anything which goes to makes up a • set.
Alfred Moten
back to his farm in this county 011
the Dave Blue from his claim over
in Oommanche county. Mr. Moten
thinks the Dave Blue pretty hard to
beat when it comes to raising corn
wagons around every morning to de-1 and cotton. He put out 60 acres of
liver meat to the butchers. Now a j wheat in the new country before
wagon with the name of a packing coming back.
! lessses in fighting
I the state governmen tand the election
jof Senatorsand members of Congress.
| Any concession to the lessees in the
I statehood bill gives them political
and family moved I advantage that would almost destroy
I tho nartv receiving their support.
might want to know more about Ok-
lahoma and its resources should send
to John Sebastian Chicago III, for a
copy of this booklet.
We use these dishes simply
WAY TO OBTAIN Til KM
friends to trade with us ,11 <i
them with these I)isl>e> Fl!i-.
advertU
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for
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us and get your
ipplying you and
the party receiving
The mass'of the voters in Oklahoma1
are determined that the lesses shall
receive fair treatment, but nothing
more, and will eliminate from public
life any man who attempts to cou-
sumate any plan that would sacrifice
the school lands.
GEORGE M. WINANS & CO.,
Dealers in General Merchandise. Dry Goods,
Boots, Shoes, Furnishing Goods, Groceries, Flour
and all kinds of Country Produce.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA.
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