West and South. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1894 Page: 2 of 4
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OFFICIAL PAPER Or THE PEOPLE'S
PA1TY Or OKLAHOMA TERBITOHf.
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fOMPAXY
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, ' ". : ,, •; • . T' \ U I SUUUBr ur Me < ""«>• <*d ou.er|M«M lor in in «„UUUY. From
*11 the products of labor just aa low naret are not .naintained by gold. ■•• • -
us poMible, as they are coMamart. | In tioiM of panic and calamity,
Butoa the other hand it ii to the i shipwreck and disaster, it beoomei
iuterost of nil producers and legiti- the chief agent and minister of i
thi# catalogue of 188 pages, illustra
ted by hundreds of cuts, cjid sever
"1 colortd plates, we learn that the
THURSDAY JAN. IS, ISU.
i , ,, ..i«, - - ruin, labovo business occupie) about 30
mat. merchant, to ka,e the .am. if, No nation ever fought a groat war building, and 300 acres of land, J
not as b.Kb a, po«,bl. at a fairly ; by the aid of gold. On the contra j employ, 200 persons. The prke of
milium r« pric >. ry, .u the crisis of ,jreat peril it be the catalogue to those not extern
, "T"' k' ar* "«! • >«• i comes an enemy ,r„ p ,teut thao ; er., f. twerly five cents, and the
led class',-lv3 raised tha cry for the foe in the field; but when the total number'to be issued for the
l.o.i9*t dollar. the do], battle is won and p,«co h,e been |year 000,000, requiring 370 to.s of
secured, g old reappears and claims paper, worth when, printed $SO,OU0,
ti.m fimt of victory. I u our own the portage and mailing costing ul
ciril war it ia doublful if two gold
of New York Hud London did not
wink us greater
dollar, meanijg the
!ur that will commit the greatest
I loL'itria* on tho producer and thou-
| -ai.ais i f us have been ar.sh implaca-
ble fools as to join in (be cry and
| thus become thu mere echo of our
■ .. injury than the
rol lers. Now certainly every man j powder, lead an.! iron of ihe rebels,
that can put 2 and 2 together and J It wus the most invincible enemy of
Gold paid
kjiv. A. tt. Coklakd,
Mm. 11. A. OiriLtMi
- - JCilltur.
Atsoelale Kilitor.
SlBSCltlPTIOH RATES,
One /ear, In advance
Six muiitlu. "
Tkrse woutiu, "
$1.0®
lead the result rnuot know that the
| price of labor products, other tilings
[ being equal.just Mides up and down
proportioned to the volume of mon-
! >y in circulation. The abovu is a
j principle that almost all political
economy's aie agreed on, and ever)
■bsirvent reader of the history of
&(> 'he prosperity and adversity of na
tions and the causes thereof must
admit lo bo hisrtorically true.
Now fanners and uiarehanls had
w.j not better try to help ourselves
out of this tax difficulty, in the only
SractAL xotic*re si**cnhiei:ii-\VIi(.'ii
yonr «opy of tin1 \l lit ami Sjji'iu
••■ivs to you with this p:ir jfrr.ph
■narked with a blue er «, Ii is j noil
filiation that jotir sub«sri|;lloii has , le^i'imute and sensible way liv cast-
expired. In iase of a |> is lli'i i.iisl ,':e !, .... , 1L_
we will make the proper correction
on reunivlag such Information with
explanation therefor.
S bs«rlbcr should nut fail to notify
the publishers of non receipt of their
liaper by the 10th of earli month.
Misalne uiunhcrs cannot be supplied
al ter that date.
our votes against the money
ri:ig8 an l salaried classes by muking
p!«utier and hence more to pay tax
es wiib, to be befogging the nir
(villi our imprecations against the
the public credit
soldier or sailor. It refused the
national obligation. It was worth
most when our fortunes <vere Uwest.
Ho'erv defeat gave it increased vnlne.
It was in open ollinnco with our en-
emies the world over, and all its
eneregieu were evoked for our da
struclion. lint as usuai, when dan-
ger has been averted, aad the victo-
ry secured, gold iw.iggers to tfca
front and ussei'te. the supremacy.
But silver is the money of Ik- peo-
ple. It is the money of wages and
retail. Its tendency is toward diffn
sioa nud dissemination. It enters
into the minute coueorns of traffic
and is exchunged day by day f r
daily bread. It penetrate* th' ra
motbst channels of commerce, and
Taxes, High Taxos.
Th re is being a great deul
making the air blue with th-ir dis
ual moaning over exhorbiUul tax
ation and lmrd timo*. As an illus
tratiou, wa know a good honest old
democrat who bus 160 neren of ex-
cellent laud that could uot bo pur-
«hascd for leas than lu,< 00, fairly
well improved, and very productive;
and who has all the stock necessary
to carry on a farm of that biz", glo
rios in the fact of owing no man anyj
thing, with n small family to sup-!
port, and whose ta.ies are about
♦60. Now every time you mention
taxos in that man's proseuce (cuttle
fish like) he muddies the very air
around him with his imprecations
upon the heads of everybody con- ,,9 t||l)
ueoted with the expenditure of the have kuo^n
constituted power*. Not long since its abundance, bulk, aad eubdivis-
a V' ry aSrswed citizon, and heavy [ ion prevents its deportation in suf
Scion' amounts to disturb or tinsel,
tie valu.-s. If it rotires ut the ap
pruaoh of danger or from tho p:oa
enco of aa inferior ctwn-y, it still
remains ai home ready to respond
return.
| tax payer of fjogan county, came to
j me and aid, why are you not giv
"'"'ling the commissioners of Logan
•bout high taxes. Many good a did i n c n <>
* , , county bell, for tho way they are
old republicans and democrats aro ■ ,„k., , , ,
r iiintiingus in debt. Wo brushed
, dowu hia feathers by sayicg, you I to the first snmmons for its
| aro just an capable as any man, if j —Southern Mercury.
there is corruption there of finding ;
it. We wdl publish the mult of , ^ f„.. „„,i i t ,.
' | Largo Business Aggregations ae B K| "8"rei because wa behevs
of our Times.
together $120,000. It a*ys, iu the
busy season we rcceive 7, to 10
thousand leitera a day and the mail
wo soed out averages thrue tons per
nay for every working d..y iu the
year.
Here is a business magnitude for
you, made possible only by the bas
iness machiuery of our civilization.
Who does not congratulate John
Lewis Childs, on hia splendid buo
cess, as projector of ibis vast busi
utss aggregation, and shall I not
add philanthropic enterprise. What
benefits accrue to a country from
the introduction of a single plant,
tree, or vine? What would Ireland
have done without Raleigh, and the
potato? A writer asserts that na-
ture made her supreme efforts in
producing the Bartlett pear. Out
in mountainous Idaho, iu about tho
latitude of Quebec, wharo the mer-
cury sometimes runs down 40 be
low zero, a lady, Mrs. Mulkev, was
presente J with a fine cheektd pear,
she saved and planted the seeds.
This circumstance shows she was
thoughtful and benevolent.
Nay more, t am prepared to as-
sert that she must have baen beau-
tiful, for is not the higher form .,[
personal beauty, tho reflection of a
good soul iu tho countcnance?
Socrates says: "We lovo a beautiful
THE TOY EMPORIUM,.
OF GUTHRIE
WILL BE FOUND AT
F. B. LILLIE & CO'S
N
o v>r Store,
With entrances on hoik F:
Harrison avenue.
Udu cn:i
HOL
street mul
■ the. new I 'ietor Block, whore
'rflf largest and moat complete stoek of
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GOODS.
Also the mosl cnm/il. te ami vest equipped
Drug, Book and Wall Paper Store in the West.
A cordial invitation is extended to all farmers to make
store headquarters when in town.
tfcir
BESPECTFI'LLY YOUR FRIENDS,
F. B. LILLIE & CO.
W The Twice-a-Week Times VA"
TWO PAPERS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE.
any investigation you tualo.
j So say we to all if thero ia cor
rnption any where find it and we
will publish it. But in the abscnce
of such investigation it is both hvp-
ocratical and mean to ba casting
undeserved columns upon our pub
lie servants whom e believe to be
ou ami all discharging tbiir du
tios houestly and faithfully. Neith-
er is our taxea too exorbitantly
high (there may have been aome
erronoous assessments making tax
high in isolated oases) we
over 6 dollars on the
public money and levy of tax, and j bundred in old #etI,ed
than 40 cent wheat uud 0 cent cot
ton cause in for their share iu his
states, ours
is only {<4:70. which is not exiogs
■ on wuo in ior irieir suare iu uis i ;-^i_ i :„i i.i , """i "u t'i| uoiu ouuouiior pop
... 'vely high but ev?ry thing elseis' , .- ,, , , , r 1
anathema meriuathn, but he usually „i i , - ulation is paralleled by vast mauu
J , excessively low. because inonfiT is ■ . *
I excessively low, became mouev ia
Wind, up by showing in the most Lxctesiyely toarce Bud lllg>, Curo
nnmutakab'e terms that he has not j tne latter and you wi,| „ot ^ tbe j
Jet quite lost coufldonae iq the lion 1 foriuer | Krowl'1 our people.
«sty and statesmanship of Grover;
CMav<| ud und Carlisle, the politick
•postles of his salvation,
H clearly tes^ that they have
broken the most vital promise in the
great Chicago epistle, and have
made a right about fao« from demo-
cratic principles, and are directly to
blame in carrying out tboso republi-
can principles of contraction that are
alone responsible for 40 cent
mnd a like depression in other pr<
duets of labor.
Now that 00 dollar taxes is high
Tho Trencher/ of Gold.
Kx Senator IngalU, of Kansas,
in a speech in 1878, iu tho Uaited
States Senate, made use of the fol
lowing language:
TLe original American idea was you will find the business machinery
a single standard of silver. Gold | of your age equal to your wants,
was an innovation, and in my judg ; The publishing of Noah Webster's
wheat !men'a grave mistake. If we are dictionary, is an illustration of the
to have a monometallic standard, I great Briarean baud of business
Relieve silver to be immeasurably ! utrulohiug over a wide land aad fas-
preferable to gold. It is less sub | tening a common language upon u
on lfiO aarea of laud when every j8ctfluctuation; its production . numerous people and thus forming
product of that piece of land is sold
at or below the cost of production,
them to be animated -vith a beauti-
About a half c«uiurv ago, Web j *^ I am sure Mrs.
ster, in the preface to his dictionary, 1 ^ulkoy must have b«eu bsautiful, as
made the following statement: It wl)"B8 1'iougktful and benevolent,
has beoa my aim to furnish in this ' would like to see her picture
work, a standard of onr vernacular 'n "ll3 M.iyflower Magazine. Well
tongue, which we shall not be i ^'1B- Mulkcy planted hor pear seed
ashamed to bequeath to five bun- I ""'oh spirit, as wo aro
dred millions of puople who :tre n t""!iveler on a dusty road
destined to occupy, uud I hope to : str#wcd acorns on his way; und one
adorn, tho vast to.ritory within our tPJk r00t aut' sprouted up and grew
jurisdiction. This is a sweeping '"to * 'rte« R,"l 'n coming yeara,
statement in regard to population, weary travellers, restol under
seeing we have not yet reached our i 'ts ^ade, while songs of birdsin ibe
lirst onu hundred million, but tho branches, and tho rustle of the
other millions are crowding foi' -j I'reeres among the leaves would put
ward, and this bold outlook for pop : 'hem to slumber. As with tha trav
elers acorn, so with the pear seed.
In five years tho fair planter had a
poar tree, which bore fruit, and bore
tha now celebrated Idaho pear.
Did nature exhaust herself in pro-
ducing tho Bartlett, excellent as it
is?
For an account of tho Idaho see
page 178 of the catalogue We
may not all be kings of business
like Mr. Childs, nor make so dis-
tinctive .i mark of onr painstaking
benevolenoe as Mrs. Mulkey, bat let
us felicitate ourselves iu the hope
that some flower of beauty, or work
of benevolence marks tha course of
our pilgrimage through tho world.
facturjng, mercantile, and carrying
companies ever expanding with tho
Wherever rail roads and portal
routes go there are sure to go the
comforts the luxuries and esthetic
acooinpauimentu of our civilization.
I-i the words of Daniel Wo'oster, 1
will say advance, theu yo future
generations, aad when you are come
no one can deny. And tinder a like
Dont Forget our Meeting.
„ ... i. j j -. . i , ... .. .... . We hope that everybody interas
is more steady and its cost more j along wit!, its auxilliaries, our pus- ... ' .
.. ... , , tod m reform principles in Lognn
uuitorm. | tal system, and carrying companies,1 . ,, . .
1 , , , . , . , , county, would attend tho meeting of
No enduring fabric ,if national i the mercantile machinery which has . ,, .
a , . the t antral committee on Saturday
regime, it ia only a questiou of time j prosperity can be builded u gold.; made large business enterprises pos
•when taxes caunot, and will not bel^'old is the money of monarehs; j sible. There have boon business
paid.
But suppose we chinge the condi
tions and make wheat \ irth $1, and
kings covet it; the oxchanges of na- combinations, having inception in
tions are effectod by it. Its tend-j waster intellects driven by greed
ency is to accumulate in vast ma6S i ll"d unscrupulousue>s I lint have
cotton worth 8 eents, and other pro- t 88 'U the commercial centers, and to J become a menace to the morals and
ducts proportionately high, then ITO move from kingdom to kingdom ia damage lo tho welfare of couiiuuni-
taxes would not be felt, as the net such volumes as to unsettlo values! ti® ; which have to soma extent and
products of any four acres would
pay it, whereas the net products of
the entire quarter section will not
pay it now, for the very good reason
and disturb the finances of the world, and should iu every case, call down
It is the instrument of gamble™ upon these enterprises and their pro-
and speculators, and the idol of tho jectors repression by law.
thief and miser. Bring tho object of | Happilj, on the other band there
that there is nothing loft above the ! so much adoration, it becoru 's Ben are enterprises, which, while they
cost of producing, harvesting, etc.
Now it must be apparont to the
superficial that it takes nearly
or quite ae much mon v to run a
government, when prices are low
as when they are high, from the
(act that all our officers are
sitive and haughty and shrinks at enrich their projectors, leave only
the approach of danger, and when
ever it is most needed it always
disappears. At the slightest alarm
it begins to look for refuge. It tlies
from the natiou at war to the na-
blessings and brightness in their
track. 1 would like to write over
the gates of every fairly conducted
Ponological, Horticultural and Hor
ticultural establishment iu this land,
the honorable motto, "We benefit
and we beautify." Of this benefi-
tiou at peace. Wrar makes it a fu
•ab-rie'd, and saleries do uot change gitive.
to suit the tiines;conseq«ently there! No people in a great emergency 1 cent class of enterprises I wish to
is as much taxes necessarily raised ever found a faithful ally in gold |Call attention to the maaimoth plant
wbui wheat is only 40 cents, as It ia the meat cowardly and treach of .lohn Lewis Childs,atLong Island,
wber: it ia worth one dollar. But it j erous of all metals. It mnkos no; New York. The catalogue for 189-1 that the election
iu to the interest of ev ry salaried treity that it does not break. It! of this large business demonstrates are working like weavers, not for a
<,fli t und every money loaner, and ' has no friend whom it does not, it lo be the leader in this clitss of gain of of 200 or 700 por ceut, but
•lanuary, 20th, at 1 o'clock p. m.
sharp. A suitable hall will be pro-
vided and if wo are not able to an-
nounoa the [dace ef i. feting, through
the oolums of the West and South
iu duo time, you can learn of the
place by calling at our office. Now
let us awake from our hibernal slum-
bers, one and all, and get a move
on us, and make the earth tremble,
onca more w:th tho tread of free-
men. Our principles are not only
absolutely right and therefore
worthy of our best endeavors, but
they are an absolute necesity stand-
ing as they do between us, and wage
slavery.
Our cause ia progressing splend
idly. Everywhere in the American
government, think of a gain of from
200 to 700 por ceut in the old party
ridden States of the east in our last
election. And the grand host of
reform do not seem to resognize the
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for victory complete. And that is
just the kind of mottlo that is al-
ways crowned. In many Stab's our
pejplebave been engaged iu a school
house campaign almost ever since
the ballots of the last election were
counted. In fact in old Virginia,
where we gained 700 per cent the
returns do not seem to be settled
yet but the battle goes right and
Tom Watson has had Georgia on
fire so long that democracy is dead
down there (of the Cleveland kind
they cant stand any sort of fire) as
it is every place where men do their
own thinking, and pray to God al-
mighty instead of Cleveland.
The campaign has also begun in
dead earnest in Texas where our
people confidently expect victory,
and putting forth every effort to that
eud. Alabama, Louisiana, Tennes-
see and Kentucky are all falling in
liHe and many northern State are
NOTICE.
In the Probate Court, Logan CMinty.
Caarms F. IIau*
Defeadftat,
Defendant; Charles F. Hah* will take nolle#
that bo has been sued by the above named'
ng r
id Charlns 11 ahn for abandoning the plaintiff
and ftii.iim to pravide tor hor. on are farther
notified that you must answar this petition.
14th i*
filed by tha plaintiff on « r before th©
Ur
an true and a divorce entered granting an to
the said plaintiff a divorce from you.
Witness my hand and the seal of laid «eart
thi a 2d day of January J8i 4
L?nai.] S, S. LAWiaica,
y. 1), Dkckkr, 1'robate Jadge.
M. M. Ehuart, Attornoyi.
[First Publication Jan. 4, 1HM.]
NOTICE.
In tho Probate Cobrt ef Logaa Coanty, Okla-
lahotua Tenitory?
Francis W .Jacobs,
Plaintiff,
vb.
Ida b. Jacobs
Defendant.
To theabovo named defendant: You will
take notice that you have buen sued In tko.
i s - - tit- above named court by the Plaintiff Franoil W
looking hopeful for our ( HUSO. W © Jacob* fordivorce. and that you must appear
appear
filed in
Febru-
ary 1894. or the petition «f plaintiff thcreia
i„. , „„ j i filed will be taken aa truo and judgment render-
laud and company, or W© aro gone < mi accordingly for a divorce against you.
gO*lingi Dated Jan. 2, 1 W. ti. 5. La*uisri,
must have enough reformer, in the !
loxt congress to Bit down onCle/®- ;,0!" "
Probate Judge.
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