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THE TRIBUNE - DEMOCRAT.
Vol.
ENID. OKLAHOMA TEKKITORY, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER liH 1S915.
No. 1.
FREE HOME LEAGUE.
Call for Territorial Convention to
be Held at Perry 0, T.
A Territorial Convention of tin' Kive
Home League to lie compo.-ed of six
delegates from each organized county
i?- hereby called to meet, at Perry O. T.
on Monday October 9th, 189. at 1.110
o'clock p. in.
The objects of the meeting are:
First To formulate a memorial and
petition to congress.
Second—To agree upon tin.1 best
methods to be used to obtain tin* legis-
lation, towit: The application of the
General Homestead Laws to all the
lands in <)klahoma.
Third To extend our organization
to all parts of the territory of Okla-
homa,
We recommend that each county hold
a meeting to elect delegates at the
County c ourt house at 1 ..'10o'clock p. m.
on Saturday September -Hth I8(.).">.
At such timeMinorganized counties
will proceed first to elect permanent
League officers, men who are energetic
and pledged to assist in its work. The
(L'ounty convention shall then elect six
Alegat.es to tin* Territorial convention
ami the County President and Secre-
tary shall certify said election to the
Territorial President and Secretary.
The County League conventions shall
be composed of three delegates from
each local league in the county.
As county conventions are composed
only of delegates from local leagues we
urge the immediate organization of
every community. Meet at once and
elect officers and send us their names
and addresses and we will send
constitution for adoption
Kvery man and woman in Oklahoma
is directly interested in the success of
this work, fts importance to the claim
holder, to the businessman and to the
prosperity of the territory cannot be
over estimated. Success means the
saving of hundreds of dollars to each
settler which aggregates millions in
the Territory.
Therefore, let all assist in a united
organized effort for a cause which we
deem the most important and benefi-
cial of any issue before us.
By order of the board of trustees,
.James .1. Houston, Pres.
Henry s. Johnston, Sec.
Perry o. T., Aug. 2i , 181)5.
Deep Water Conference.
The deep water conference which
convenes in Topeka. Kansas, October
1st, promises to be a great success.
The governors of Missouri, Texas,
Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado,
Wyoming, New Mexico and Oklahoma
have each chosen delegates and the
leading cities of the west have like-
wise selected delegates. The attend-
ance promises to exceed that of any
commercial gathering ever held west
of the Mississippi river. The people
of the southwest are deeply interested
iu this movement. It means less
freight rate on every pound of products
shipped both from and to the markets
■ of the country. During the year of
1N94 the United States exports amount-
ed t ) $m.vj,l |0,f T2. Three-fourths of
^. that amount or $($69,109,4211 is directly
evolved from the farmers of this country
Of the remaining one-fourth, four-
fifths, of $178,428,114 consists of domes-
tic manufactures, the materials of
which are largely furnished by Ameri-
can farmers.
The freight charges to the Atlantic
will keep the west, poor until relief
comes. Relief can only be found by
deep water outlet at Galveston or some
other point where ocean going vessels
\can be reached and loaded
with the products of the section
in question. The proposed ex-
position at Galveston, in honor of the
completion of the jetties, which means
a deep water harbor at that poir.i. will
be of incalculable benefit, by bringing
* the lections closer together and estab-
lishing trade relations which could not
exist without a deep water harbor at
that point.
SILVER AMI WAGES.
how free coinage would affect
the laborer.
Americjtu Gold Uu^.h Will Bt> Keduced
to India Silver Wagctt -1'rofitn of Kui-
ploycr* Will ll«* Advanced—Silver Ques-
tion In a Nutshell.
The following is an extract from
"Free Coinage Dissected," u recent
number of Sound Currency, by the Hon.
John Do Witt Warner:
But there is another way to look at it.
We have seen how appreciation of gold
means higher wages to the laborer.
Now let me show you what this so call-
ed appreciation of silver means. I short-
ly sinco heard a very pleasant gentle-
man, Mr. Cannon, a delegate in the
next congress from Utah, expound the
silver side of the free silver question,
and he went on to explain, first, that
prices of goods were low here because
they were measured in gold, and then
that, on account of our wages here be-
ing paid in gold—which was costly—
and wages in India, China and Japan
being paid in silver — which was
worth only one-half what it had been—
they had a 50 per cent advantage, and
that therefore there was great danger of
manufacturers being driven from the
world's markets. Do you see what that
means? That their wages are so much
lower than ours on account of the appre-
ciation of gold here; that, unless our
wages are made equivalent to theirs, in
that respect at least—unless prices aro
inflated here in this country so that our
gold wages will buy 110 more than their
silver wages—their labor will tend to
drive our labor out. In other words, the
proposition to appreciate silver is prac-
tically a proposition to cut the wages of
the laborers of this country squarely in
half in order to increase the profits of
their employers.
Three months ago, though I should
have argued this—for I believe it to be
true—I should not have ventured to
state that it was the serious contention
of the free silver advocates. But I have
not merely heard it put forcibly by the
gentleman I have mentioned as speak-
ing for that cause, but I have it in an-
other statement. Sir Henry Meysey
Thompson is one of the leading silver
advocates. He offered a large prize for
a man who would write the best essay
explaining how it was that China and
India and other silver using countries
were getting an advantage over Eng-
land, and a great many people competed
for that prize. Mr. Jamieson, the Brit-
ish consul at Shanghai, wrote so good a
paper that he was awarded the prize,
and that essay is now the chief stock in
trade of the British agitation for the
restoration of silver. Now let me read
you something from it. Sir Henry
Meysey Thompson is proud of it. Here
it is: "Wages in the gold using coun-
tries have, through the appreciation of
gold, become 100 percent dearer than
they were relatively to silver wages,
and the manufacturer in the silver stand-
ard countries can obtain his labor at
half the cost which he formerly paid;"
hence "while old established industries
in England are barely paying expenses
new industries in India aro arising
broadcast and paying handsomely."
And the remedy proposed by silver ad-
vocates in England is to correct this ap-
preciation of gold and raise prices, so
that the British workman, though get-
ting the same nominal wages, will get
only half the real wages he gets now,
and the British manufacturer thus be
enabled to compete with the Indian
manufacturer.
A similar view is taken by Senor
Romero, the Mexican minister at Wash-
ington, in his article in The North
American Review for June, when he
asserts that the depreciation of silver
has favored Mexioan capitalists by low-
ering the actual wages of their em-
ployees.
There is the silver question in a nut-
shell. It is simply the question as to
whether our wage earners are getting
too high wages. They may as well face
the question. If wago earners believe
they are getting too high wages, and
that this country is suffering in conse-
qnencc, all they have to do is to take
lower wages, or if they prefer a round-
about way they can favor free coinage
of silver, and they will get their wages
eut down half without any further trou-
ble on their part, and we will be bless-
ed as are India and China.
\
OSCAR III, KING OF SWEDEN AM) NORWAY.
Fiat Wheat.
I
A PROCLAMATION
Governor Renfrow Urges Attend-
dance to the Deep Har-
bor Conference.
Kxeentive Department, Office of Will-
iam C. Kenfrow, Governor.
(iUTHRIE, Ok.. Sept. II.—To the
mayor of each city, the president of
chamber of commerce, hoard of trade
or other commercial body of the terri-
tory <>f Oklahoma: In pursuance of a
proclamation of his excellency, E. N.
Morrill, governor of Kansas, issued at
the request of the governor of Texas,
calling a western states conference to
assemble at Topeka, Kan., at 4 o'clock
p. ni. on the first day of October, 189"),
for the purpose of securing the united
action of the people of the great west
in a movement to utilize the deep
water obtained on the Gulf of Mexico,
in the state of Texas, and to arrange
the best plan for holding an inter-
American exposition to display what
the great west can profitably produce
and export, as well as what will be
her interests to export, and designat-
ing as delegates, among others, the
president of each chamber of com-
merce, board of trade or other com-
mercial body, and the mayor of each
city west of the Mississippi river, and
an additional delegate to each ten
thousand inhabitants or fraction there-
of, of each city, and authorizing the
mayor, presiui i. f each chamber of
commerce, board oi trade or other
commercial body, to appoint ;in alter-
nate in the event he is not able to
attend, 1 do hereby request that the
mayor of each city, president of each
chamber of commerce, board of trade
or other commercial lw>dy in the terri-
tory of Oklahoma arrange to attend
this convention and appoint alternates
I as provided in the proclamation of the
I governor of Kansas.
i The gravest interests of Oklahoma
' will be affected by this convention and
j its importance to the territory, :i < well
as to all states west of the idississippi
river, can scarcely be over-estimated.
Prompt action will be required to the
end that the representatives to this
convention may by investigation be
thoroughly prepared for intelligent
discussion, deliberation and action.
William C. Rf.nfkow,
(tovernor.
Farmer—Wheat is only half a crop
this year.
Free Silver Politician — That's all
right. We'll have n law passed to make
two pecks a bushel, and then yoVllhavo
us much as usual.
Oklahoma Press Association.
By virtue of the authority vested in
me. I hereby call a meeting of the Ok-
lahoma Press association, at Norman.
(>. T., on Wednesday, October 1ft, 1 HOfi,
at '■'> o'clock p. m., to transact such bus-
iness as may properly come before the
asHoeiation, and to take part, in the ex-
cursion to Galveston, leaving Norman
at midnight the same day.
T. F. Hknrlkv, President.
Lon Wiiorton, Secretary.
A COLD6UG LIE NAILED
Among tin- favorite falsehoods of the
gold bug bankers and their hired stump
speaker*and newspaper shooters, none
is more frequently reiterated than their
claim that there is in circulation in the
I'nited States over $000,000,0(H) in gold.
But now comes the New York World,
published next door to Wall Street, and
mainly owned by bankers, it being the
chief newspaper fugler for gold buggery
in last Sunday's issue, after admitting
that "tin.1 question of how much gold
is in the United States at a stated time
is not readily answered." then proceeds
to rake .mil scrape together nil the sta-
tistics and reports it can reach showing
the amount of gold money in this coun-
try. The result is interesting as throw-
ing some light on the presistent and
picturesque lying of the gold bug organs
the World included. For the sum total
of the'best showing that the World can
matte is that there is at the present
time less than $'100,000,000 in gold in
the country; or, in other words, not one-
half the amount that the exponents of
monometalism have been claiming
there is in eirculation,
The figures collected by the World
show that on .1 uly 1 lSih">:
The tot ill jrold in 1 lie United Slates
treasury was #1.V ,000,000
The total gold hi national bunks 100,000.000
Total nold in < i her hanl\ h ss i han.. 10.000,000
Total .. W'M.OOO.OOO
If we double the amount estimated
by the World, in banks other than na-
tional, making it $20,000,000, and allow
that there is in the hands of private
persons $25,000,000, it still makes the
total less than $300,000,000, one half of
what the gold men claim was in circu-
lation: but of this $.'100,000,000 oVer one
third of the total amount, or $100,000-
000 is unlawfully locked up in the
United States treasury by Secretary
Carlisle :it the command or '•persua-
sion" of tin' Wall street bank crowd,
so that the actual circulation is less
than $200,000,ooo, or only one-third the
amount claimed by the treasury de-
partment and WaM street organs.
Thus vanishes into thin air one more
of the favorite lies of uoldbug, cur-
rency ontrneting robbers. Next time
you hear any campaign shouter esti-
mate the amount of gold money in cir-
culation in this country at $000,000,000
remember that he i> lying to the
amount of $400,000,000 that's all.
HVjAliNbl r-Hfcfc bILVfcK.
Unlimited Coliiu^t* Would >IhU«> America
the I>illit| ltic lirouud.
At .the Iov. a Republican convention,
held at Dcs Moines < ti July 10, the Hou.
Joseph R Lane, temporary chairman,
made the following reference to the sil-
ver question:
Silver being necessary in the money
of the world, we must either maintain
its coinage at par by legislative limita-
I tiou of the amount or change the coin-
age ratio of the basis of its market val-
ue. Under the policy of legislative limi-
! ration of the amount, aided by redemp-
tion when in excess of demand, we have
j been able to maintain at par our silver
I coin, although its intrinsic value is
much less. This policy was satisfactory
so long as the price of silver continued
| high, Kut when it became reduced, on
account of overproduction and other
causes, there sprung up a demand by the
producers of silver for special silver leg-
islation. This claim has now crystal-
lized into a demand for free and unlim-
ited coinage of gold and silver at the
ratio of 1(1 to 1. This means to give to
every man, to every nation, the right
to deposit at the mints of the United
States silver in unlimited quantity and
to demand and receive in return, freo of
charge or cost, that silver coined into
money at the ratio of 10 to 1, bearing
the stamp of our government.
In my judgment such a policy will
make America the dumping ground of
silver for the world. It means wo would
1)0 brought at once to a silver basis. It
means the degradation of our dollar to
50 cents. It means repudiation. It will
bring an avalanche of silver, but a rest
for labor. The Republicans of Iowa op-
pose this. In the state of Iowa if we
owe a debt, we expect to pay it in money
worth 100 cents on the dollar, in money
of equal purchasing power with any
other money of the world. If any one
owes us, we demand and expect pay-
ment in money of equal value. This is
a vital question to all classes. The farm-
er, the laborer, the merchant, the man-
ufacturer, all classes have an interest in
the maintenance of good currency. The
dollar they receive for their productions
and labor should have the highest pur-
chasing power and be as good as the best
purchasing dollar in the world. Upon a
sound currency depends to a largo ex-
tent the development, the prosperity,
the success and the maintenance ot our
people.
DEMANDS of silverites.
They Ask More For Silver Than IlaH Ever
liceii (>ranted to Oold.
Ouo of the claims made by the advo-
cates of silver is that the government
should treat botli metals alike. How
does the government treat gold? For
every 23.2 grains of pure bullion de-
posited in the mint the owner receives
a gold dollar weighing 25.8 grains and
nine-tenths fine. The government stamp
adds nothing to the value of the metal.
It simply certifies to that value and
puts the metal in a form convenient for
use. Everywhere in the world gold thus
coined is worth $l. If you go to Eu-
rope, the little piece of gold is worth
$1. If your house burns down, the little
lump of gold that was worth $i pre-
vious to the fire will be worth $1 at any
jeweler's anywhere.
The advocates of free silver do not
want silver treated this way. Oh, no!
They ask for more. They ask that the
owner of silver bullion be permitted to
take it to the mint and have tlio govern-
ment stamp 371 grains, with the
necessary alloy, as a dollar of equal
legal tender with the gold dollar when
today the value of the bullion in the
dollar is worth only 53 cents. They ask
that the government stamp, its flat, to
the extent of 47 cents, shall be put on
every 5!! cents' worth of silver they take
to tho mint. Say the house burns again.
The piece of silver worth $1 the night
before because of the stamp only is only
worth 53 cents when taken to the jew-
eler.
Don't you see that the silver people
are asking more from the government
for silver than was ever granted by any
government in the world for gold? One
metal stamped $1 because of its value
the world over; the other stamped
♦ I, and worth but 53 cents anywhere.
If we are to liavo fiat money, why not
have it all fiat, and not 47 cents fiat?
If we are to have fiat money, let it be
paper. But tho silver people claim that
if tho government passes a freo coinage
of silver bill silver will immediate-
ly jump in price from now being worth
53 cents for 371^ grains to 100 cents
for the sumo amount. Do you believe
it? Some people aro almost willing to
believe that tho moon is made of green
cheese.—Humboldt (Tonn.) Messenger.
Oklahoma is all iVht, when It rains
alitlle.
Col. Jones
Col. \Y. (.lone", ex-l'nited States
marshal, and for a number of years
chairman of the state democratic com-
mittee of Kansas, was tliiiivirn Won)
his earl Tuesday morning by a run-
away horse, and instantly killed. The
accident occurred at his farm nearlola
Kansas. Col. .tones was well known
to iiianj people of Kl Heno and If we
mistake not was the tlrst marshal of
Oklahoma.
Too Mucll liUHiUPHM.
Office Seeking Editors.
How easy it is to discover when an
editor lias political ambitions. Such a
one will hedge on every question where
there can possibly be a purely party
question and one upon which his party
is c nunitted. He ignores all local
questions, whereby in speaking out
some voter may be otfeuded. It is
nothing to him if the people are rob-
bed, for he may need the influence or
good offices of the robber, lie keeps
his eye upon those things that are
afar oil and goes for the irregularities
of other cities, for he ban no voters
oil there. Hut of what value is his
newspaper to a community? None
whatever. He does not run a paper
for the benefit, of the community, but
for his own advantage, and when his
party gets into office he will step up
and get his reward in the public print-
ing or advertising and he himself will
expect an office. A good newspaper
for the people and a political office-
seeker as editor are not found together.
St. Joe News.
NO RUMMY NEED APPLY
The Sovereign Lodge of Odd Fellows
iu session last week at Atlantic City
N. .1. amended their by-laws, or rather
constitution, prohibiting saloon keep-
ers, bar tenders or professional gamb-
lers from becoming members of the
order. We are glad to not this, im-
portant step taken by the Sovereign
Lodge and would commend a careful
reading of it to the subordinate lodge
of this place, and especially the mayor
of the city and a goodly number of the
common council, odd Fellowship al-
ways has stood by the homes of the
country, always has upheld honesty
and integrity, and now that the su-
preme body has placed its official foot
upon the rum traffic and refused ad-
mission to the keepers of gambling
hells the country is to be congratu-
lated that such an order exists.
Si- V
FUKIi t'lLVKtl MARKS UNCUi SAM A SLAVE.
Indian War.
The report is given out that the
I'nited States troops w!lI be called
upon to drive gold seekers out of tho
Wichita mountains, ('apt. Baldwin,
agent for the Wichita, Commnnche,
Kiuwn and Apache Indians says that
hundreds of miners, from Missouri and
Colorado, principally, are in the,moun-
tains prospecting ami that the Indiau
police are unable to cope with the sit-
uation. He says the Indians are very
nervous and much dissatisfied over the
situation. It is feared that a guerrilla
warfare is likely to ensue between the
Indians anil prospectors at any time
and the importance of troops to preser-
ve order has lieon suggested to the
commissioner of Indian affairs and he
will make such recommendation to the
war department.
It has been discovered, through ap-
parently trustworthy documents that
Jeff Davis and Ulysses S. Grant were *
descended from the same great grand-
father. This ancestor was William
Simpson, who came to this country
from the north part of Ireland In the
middle of the last century, settled in
Pennsylvania and fought in the Conti-
nental army. His son .lohn was Oeu
Oram's grandfather, and his daughter
Anna, who married .lohn Davis, was
the grandmother of the Confederate
leader. The circumstance possesses u
curious interest, owing to the promi-
nence of the men, yet it is not after all
half us strange as the division of im-
mediate families and the lighting of
brother against brother which took
place more than once during the war
of the rebellion.—Kx.
Several correspondents ask al>out
the word "Valkyrie." The name is
from the Norse myths. The Valkyries
were maidens that served In the ban-
quet balls of Valhalla. Ddin sent
them forth to point out those to be
slain in battle. Ordlnarly the y is
pronounced like e. But Dunraveu
and the English bring it under the cus-
toms of their own pronounclatlon and
call yatcht "Val-kye-rle."—St Louis
Republic.
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