The Oklahoma Representative. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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Trust lw> jaelwded all AmerVai,
■•wapaper. fro« that oountry. but
that will Ml materially affect the fir
rul*Uoo of the AmvrW-wn D<-w.paper
In pardoning the man who rx ff.-d
at hi* x>n( to Aeglr the kal.er '• oer-
talnly hla Kuntsn eou.il1 at
iea t one bettor In the clemency bow-
MO
THr. auprvme court of Ma «a« huwtta
ha« de.-ldnd that marriage la a bu.l-
fwii, and the girl. will lie more than
ever Improaed that young DM ought
to gvt down to bu lne ,
—■ a
TlloRE i« a elanh on In New York
lirtwnen the living picture* Uhlnil
the footllght* anil thoie in the opera
hone*, ami It i* 't e*|.-.ted that
liothani will know what |icacc I* any
more thin wiator.
It linn Itm *ald that a Scotchman
In never ao much at home wh« n ! •
i. 11111 .ukI, hut lie thai an ii may, it I*4
very .vrialn that there if no laud in
which he ha* lieen moi*- Welcome or
in wnlch he ha ma<lc hlmwlf moro
entirely at home than America.
Zol.A, the French a> n-.atlonal writer,
In coming to Ami*rlea to lecture and to
(father material** for n Iniok. lollop-
ing tho example c f Knjpli h Kaiitor
Stead, the dlnttngui he«l Krenchman
may (five u* Minmthlng very much in
hi« natlvo vein under the title "If
Zola ( ame to ( lllragt) ''
TnlM u MM « •
Whan la the r<>«r a of human
avant., It hwonn neoeaaarr for the
producer*, the manufacturer* and
*orkin)r people of the I nlted Ntatea
to * ert their financial lnde|H-iidence
of (.real Hrttain. ami to aaauma union*
the power* of the earth that W|«al and
separate financial atatlon, to which the
lawa of nat;:re and ef nature * <>ud en
- title them, a decent re peet to tfce
opia.ono of mankind the dupea and
victim* of the money power and a
'urging presK require* that they
mould dcclare the cau*e* which luipcl
them to ukMTt their Independence.
We hold these t rut ha to lie *elf erl-
dent; that in a free government the
producer* and wage hi I Mirer* ahould
have a Tolee in determining the price*
they are to receive flt the fruita of
their lalmi; tfiat their rcpre-entatlTes
in congress ahould not Ik* allowed to
openly au I dcHantly (>!•• for measure*
ruinou* to their Interest*. Otherwise
republican government i a failure and
a farce.
When a long train of almsea Slid
usurpation*, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces a design t
the ma**es t«
uimUm a uioncv
i their right, it Is their duty, to revolt —
peaceably, at the poll*, if may be,
forcibly, if need be.-sga'Ust the
American agent* of auch plutocracy.
Though great have been the suffer-
ings of our people, they are atlll peac
minco
Absolute bondage
power despotism. it Is
Jaub* Rr.ii> wak hanged for munler
In Kngland the other da\ There win
norae doubt of his ipjilt. but unha|>-
pily Kobert Buchanan. the play wright,
wrote a letter in hia defense. Buchan-
an Is a notorious s<*older and grumbler, «. . .
and It la the fashion in Kngland a-* ably diapoaed; hut an the Ionic tram o
elsewhere todlswent from hit opinion*, financial consplraciea, briberies of
ao Mr. Held wan duly handed
SrAi* ha* decreed the aliolition of
public executions, the ttatensihle rea
son l*ing that anarchist* and others
about to be executed abuaed the <xva-
sion by making incendiary speeches or
posing aa martyr*. The country
which once led the civilization of Ku-
ro| e hap lagged behind In thin partic-
ular.
SCRIVCK shows that fiosslhlo danger
lurka in everything Butter, for in-
ntance, may contain ftathogenic germs,
and every one knowM how l a<l they
are 80. alao, it la shown in the lx>n-
don I<ancet, that bn a<l contains many
kind* of living bacteria And the con-
clusion ia reached that many unac-
countable diflcam «< may lie eventually
trac« d to the agency of brea<l
8y thf WM Raiortw Prets AsMto' o*
wuiim*r
THE LOGIC or THE BOND ISSUfc.^
WiXTr.K racing is becoming very
popular In the South. Pome of the
fsstent ateppera that move over tho
JrfT^a J.n rt>« Korth In the mromer
and fall are transferred to the South
in the winter. The Southern people
are great admirers of sport, and the
racing so far thla season ha* l>ecn
unusually well attended and some very
fast time la being recorded, both iti
trotting and pacing.
Italy haa some of the finest Iwttle !
ship* and erulxer* In tho world, and
prohably want* io teat them against a
weak power like Brazil before taking i
aide* in the new Kuropean political
shuffle She may. however, well boar 1
In mind hor last naval e*perlenco, |
when at l.iana. the Austrian Admiral |
Tegethoff with wooden ahip* rammed ,
and sank the Italian iron clada. gain- i
ing a most Important victory for his
country.
Vol cannot down tho enterprising
space writer. A reporter for a morn-
ing paper was writing up a wedding
at a hotel lately and remarked to an
obliging clerk, who was gl* ine him
information: "Youngest bride ever In
legislation and robbery of the people
causes the aplrlt of all true Americans
to revolt, they will certainly. Isefore
submitting to financial and industrial
I slavery, provide new safeguards for
their future security.
The history of the conspiracy of the
gold tru*t of (ireat ltritain Is a history
I of repeated injuries and usurpations.
*11 having In direct object the estal^
llsliment of an absolute money power
tyranny over theftc fctatex.
i To prove this let facts be submitted
\ to a candid world.
The British trust, composed of
money lenders snd banker* of Kurope,
has acquired it* present world wide
! organization during the past fifty
year*, with this purpose in view—to
absolutely control the gold of the
| world and to make gold, In which It
I (lemsnds i's debts paid, the
eolu. •-
I taring this period it has so eonaol-
I idated Its power as not only to have
j enslaved the people of Egypt, Ireland,
! India, Austria. Argentina and Austi n
lia, but It is rapidly, by the single gold
j standard, confiscating the sixty-five
billions of the property of the people
! of these I'nlted States
i Thi* trust ha* by bribery and con-
spiracy Inspired the greatest crime
I since the crucifixtion of Jesus Christ,
in the subtlety of the fee ret" demone
I t/ation of sliver In 1K73. when John
Sherman, as the agent of the Koths
child*, struck the silver dollar from
the coinage code, thus rendering him-
self infamous as Benedict Arnold for
all time to oome.
This trtist has, by it* baneful influ-
ence and sinister power. Induced our
congress to sacrifice our whole country
west of the Mississippi, and by destroy-
ing silver In closing the mine* of the
Rookies snd mint* of Inulu
stockholder* oppressed to the verge of
ruin, and then reorganized within a
year or two by the new "plan" of this
trust and their Wall street agent*.
This vast conspiracy of usurers.own
ers of the world's gold, who daily in
crease ita buying power by making it
more sea roe to redeem credits, has re-
duced this country to the condition of a
British province, so that (ireat Britain
makes the prices of our commodities, j
and ia virtually confiscating our wheat,
cotton and all other pr< ducta,is forcing
into existence a commonweal army of
several million trampn; in driving our
farmers to desperation; is bringing on
another gold scare by withdrawing
gold; is fostering a panic in wheat; is
itnpoverishng Wall street, which can
not flourish while these conditions are
Wing brought about, and is causing
scarcest I a" the great railways of the country
to be run at a losa, thus forcing them
inb« )*nkruptoy.
At every stage of these oppressions
our fnriners. producer* and wage peo-
ple ha v., protested and pleaded in
vain.
A power whose character is thus
marked bv every act of nvarice and
greed which may define a tyrant is un-
fit to dictate the financial jmlicy of
this great nation, flowing as it is with
milk and honey.
The agents of the gold trust, in this .
country have l>cen deaf to the voice of
justice and consanguinity, and by the
failure of all their prophecies as to the
blessings of the gold standard, have
-proclaimed themselves unworthy our
trust and confidence.
We, then, as the representatives of
the toiliug masses of our poverty
WILL IT BE DONE?
TilE report of the commiasion to in-
vestigate the Pullman strike throws
tli** res|>onsihility all on the railroads
pnd exonerates the American Rail-
way I n ion Now what? The courts were
against the union: the 1'nited States
troops were ordered out against it. and
thousands of men are thrown out of
employment because they belonged to
it. If the leaders of the American
Kail way 1'nion had been found re-
sponsible they would have l>een thrown
into jail. Now bring out your huge beef
cutter of civilization and mete out a
like punishment to the general inanag
agers of the railways, the corrupt
judges of courts and the man who
ordered out the United States troops.
Ik) it, or admit that civilization is a
fa rce.
A Westerly Dommrnt.
Senator Peffer has formulated the
l>est possible answer to the sneers of
his enemies and detractors in the re-
port on the "Causes of Agricultural
Depression," which he recently pre-
pared for the senate committee on
agriculture. That report is not only
one of the clearest and best presenta-
tions ever made to the senate, but it is
written in a style which is noticeablj*
in adxainec of the average report and
shows the skill of the practical writer.
Senator Peflfer takes issue with the
secretary of agriculture at once. He
showa by long tables of carefully com-
piled statistics that the question of
overproduction and oversupply have
hud little or nothing to do with the re-
duced scale of prices for farm pro-
ducts. As a matter of fact, the crop
dnaed our farmers nnd miners to hope
thla hotel, ain't sho?" M)h, no," re- j less poverty. And now it seeks t<
plied the clerh, * not by several sacrifice the w hole country eaat of th
years. ' The spacc writer wrote "She
a as almost the youngest bride by s v-
eral years who ha 1 ever b rn married
from this hotel.n
New York grocers are com-
plaining in the Sun that the enterpri*- !
ing dry goods houses In their exten-
sions and grocery annexes are en-
croaching nn the groeerV business
Hut the dry goods merchants do this
by judicious advertising Instead of
emulating the example of the dry-
goods merchants, and advertising ex-
tensively, as the) do. the grocers, by
their complaints. ar«- advertising their
rivals still more, and without expense
to them
(>k* of the sources of safety for
hanks is a perpetual rotation in office
1-et the receiving nnd paying telle-
exchange places, the bookkeepers e\
change hooks, the vice president ami
president scan one another's personal
accounts, the cashier now and then
put on the messenger's cap If som«
thing like this ha I taken place in the
Shoe and leather l ank the thlevlny
Arm of See ley A Baker would not
have gotten away with or
864,000 centa.
father of waters in order to open new
innrVeta for foreign capital in foreign
industries.
This freedy and terrible trust,
whose members arc the lineal de-
scendants of those money loancrs nnd
usurers « h«i blotted out tireeoe. I! mr
the Netherlands and sll civilization in
the early and middle ages, now bv its
sinister influence, by a subsidised
press, and by bull doling the law
making and executive branches of onr
government, iins stricken down <>*>•
half the metallic money of redcfnpti.oi,
compelling our people t.. pav twenty
billions more vnliie than wns nomi-
nated In the bonds, and reducing tliem
to such abject slavery that th< \ must
labor like tli. serfs of Pharaoh to pa
furty billions of debt w ith tive hundred
millions of gold.
This trust has rednced the prices of
our fitrni products t',0 per Cent, and bv
1 he manipulation of ..liver has estah
lished an average of prices for wheat
in l.ondon which gives the western
farmer little more than the lndiin
farmer, who works for .** cents a day
Thia band of Jtritish conspirators
which has a most potent weapon, a
j terrible demon of destruction, con-
cealed iti its usurious cent per cent in-
terest table, and is devouring the
1 world by the usury and extortion of
now seeks to confiscate
the property of our railway corpora
tUVns by schemes forcing them into
bankruptcy, lnt«> foreclosure, and into
their reorganization plans.
In thla way such roads as Krie.
Northern Pacifli\ In ion l^aclflc. Mls-
tricken country of the I'nitcd Statc^ j (>f the I nited States has apparently no
connection whatever with the price be
cause of the freedom with which our
products can be exported. In 1491,for
instance, the crop was 25 per cent
above the average, but the prices were
much l etter than the preceding year
The question of the cn p of the entire
world ought to make more difference,
but the following table of the world's
of America, appealing to the supreme
judge of the world.for the rectitude of
c^. oar intentions, do, in the name of the
tfood people who toil for their exist-
ence, declare that we are a 1 solved
from all allegiance to this British gold
trust, and as a free and independent
people, all fiftanciul dependence on
(ireat Britain is hereby whollv dis-
solved, and that if drivea to tho last production of wheat refutes thia arga
extremity w-e shall demand the pay- j mcnt completely:
nt of all debts due the British gold Year*,
trust "in coin" as provided in theorist*
Owe of the interesting subjects
of future legislation will grow out of
competition between steam snd elec
trie service in carrying express and
mall matter It Is to he doubted that
the electric railway companies wiP | thr gold bn*
wish to e*tend their business Iteyond
the single privilege of the passenger
service, am! It Is equally certain that
the steam railway snd express com
paniea will make a formidable opf>osi
tion to such encroachment upon their
business The results ought to t*e
governed by considerstIons of public I Mmij i^ ttic, Atchison. New Kngland,
1 and convenience. ' probably St. Paul and Burlington
will be thrown lu}o bankruptcy, their
Inal agreement and not In goM of which
the trust has sole Control. Anil for
the support of this declaration, with a
firwi reliance on the protection of di-
vine providence, we mutually pledge to
each other our lives, our fortunes and
our sacred honor.
And we agree, as brethren In the
vauie holy cause, to further aid each
! other in the work of restoring pros-
perity and reseuing our coon try from
j 'he curse of falling prices, by forming
' \incrican independence and silver
cagtie clubs in those parts of theooun-
try respectively where we have oar
liomt or the homes of which we may
I liavc Ih'cii robbed by the British gold
trust -Written for the 1-ti Metal list by
! Kngene Bloodgood BccIk*.
Th* srpielchlngof Populism in Kan
*:is and Colorado has increased the
value of property in these states at
bast C5 per cent.—Globe heinoerat.
Even if that statement were not ab-
solutely false, it would not Wnefit the
laboring men of those states whose
wages are reduced immediately after
election.
• It will be a long time before the
democrats have the opportunity to lick
anything unless it is a postage stamp;
yet it is remarkable how loud they can
whistle.
If labor-saving machines only fed
the laborer* whom they "save."
1SS4 .
1 MS.t .
1 HMll. .
1HH7.•
1*1H..
)8H9..
18V0..
1901
1HU2
Bushels.
290.0^9,000
.2, KM, 034, (KW
.2,227,1I.V600
.2,212.843,000
. 2.0H.">,M).' ,C< 0
.2,170,123,WX
.2,2SH,M3(000
2,253, H00,000
to fin,000,000,000; the total public debt,
including state, countv and municipal
debts, amoant to $2,027,170, M9. The
I'nlted States alone, then, has a debt
of 91 s,000,000,000, while the total
amount of gold money in .the world is
only $3,772,000,000. The reason for the
appreciation in the value of gold is
seen at once. Senator I'efTer quotes
the statement that 'Wall street
moves the money that controls the
affairs of the world,** and asks,
"Why ahould the banker* of Wall
street l>e permitted to 'move the money'
that controls the affair* of the govern-
ment of the 1'nited States and the
business affairs of the people?" He
says that our monetary system is un-
scientific. illogical and impracticable.
We are trying to do impossible things,
to do a business of $100,000,000,000 a
year on a basis of $ 100.000,000, which
is equivalent t«s trying to do a business
of $1,000 on s basis of $1
The remedies he proposes are to
bring the Itanking business under
government control, to restore silver
coinage, and give the issuing by the
government of full legal tender paper
o supply the lack of money. I^ong
time loans on real estate at 2 }>er cent
re alao a part of the plan, and their
necessity is shown. Take it altogether,
the document Is the ablest which has
>een issued this year by any of the
senate committees, and is being eager-
ly sought for by legislators all over
he country, because of the* great
value of the statistics it contains and
for its clear, terse statements of facts.
The senator from Kansas is very much
be congratulated. — Farm, Field nnd
Fireside
• to.non for m Man'* I.if*.
Would you sell your life for $|0,<HX)?
Oh, you wouldn't, eh? let ns see
There are 312 working Oaya in the
year. Suppose you get $2.00 n day
wages every working day of the year,
and have a dollar left after paying
the expense of living Save the*e dol-
lars and you hare at the end of the
veer $312. The average human life is
>nly 3A years. You certainly do not
expect to work more than thirtv
•ars. At the end of that time yon
ill have thirty times $312, or $9.,MM>
$H40 less than $10,000—and be readv to
die. Why not take the same price
now? But $3.00 a day I* big wnges
for these tknee. The average laborer
does not receive as much f«<r his whole
life's labor as was spent at the first ;
banquet of iirover 4'leeeland. How
re yon voting?
the ground, leap hurdle* with the
horse alighting from the animal juat
before the hurdle ia touched, and
vaulting Into the saddle as the horae
.Hears the obstacle. I have also seeu
our West Pointers chang • horses
while at full gallop, or one take the
rther behind him All these exerclae*
I have seen done not merely with the
•addle, but without; and not merely in
the riding school, but while riding
out on country roada.
These are the exercises in whieli
the C( aaack chiefly excel*, write*
Poulteney Bigelow in the < entury, and
it may hie added in parenthesis that*
the horse of the average < oxsack re-
sembles in many reapects the degener-
ate boast which the government place*
at the dis|*H(ltlon of the I'nite:! States
military academy. The < osaa< k
learns these trick* a* a l* y a hen he
i* allowed with his mato* to ride the
horse* bareback to water, and Inciden-
tally is encouraged to indulge in
avery manner of s|a>rt on the Way.
lie is encouraged also to persevere in
exercises of this kind, and to be pre-
Itared to make an exhibition of him-
■«elf when a* a soldier he i* garrison**!
in towns, where auch exercise* smack
of the circus rather than of the liar-
rack yard. The Cossack is so often
pictured in the act of doing daring
things with his horse that it has be-
come common to think that all Cos-
*ack* are up to this work. As a mat-
ter of fact It is only a small and *elect
j ortlon that keep up these exercises,
and these are embodied in a special
aectioi^of the cavalry regiment, deslg
nated • lhihigits.'' The Russian regu-
lations of war order the encourage-
ment of theae acrobatic cavalrymen.
|tarti<*ularly when they indulge in any
oxercises which may he turned to
practical account in war as, for in-
stance, leaping over an obstacle and
firing at the same time, or com pel ling
the horse to stop suddenly and fall to
the ground, so that its body may bo a
breastwork behind which the trooper
may shelter himself.
Average 2,197,9f3,00<
Now while the crop for 1HH4 was
tr.MS7.0U0 bushels above the average
for the whole period and 30,209,001
bushels larger than the crop for 1802
In spite of the Increase and population
and consequent greater demand, the
average export price of wheat droppe<
from $1.07 In 1M4 tb $1.03 In 1892. I
is shown, therefore, that we must look
ebew here for the cause of our d
pre** ion.
Senator Peffer takes up the que*
tlons of option dealing, of the alien
ownership of land, the effect of trust
and combines, unjust railway charges
nnd all the other evMs which hsve
more or le** influence nn our prosperity
as an agricultural nation, treating
each one in a masterly way. He close*
with a powerful statement of the
monetary condition of our nation
which he show* conclusively ia more
responsible than all other caaes pat to-
gether for the poverty of farmer* and
the total destruction of profits from ag
riculture lis estimates that the pH
rate debt of the I'nlted fltatesamonnts
Talltal* PtaloBimr
When this gentleman got aboard of
a Broadway car at Forty-second street
he must have been one of the chonr-
fulest creatures In New York. He was
excellently well-dressed, was als>ut 35
year* of age. He waved a hand blithe-
ly to some male friends standing at
the curb, arlti then, with a smile thai
lit up his face like a hdiographic sig-
nal. put the same hand in hi* pocket
and drew out a letter. It wa-4 large
and square, and as he o|>enod it the
odor of orris root filled the :ar as
though some one had taken out the
stopper of a big jar of sachet |* wder.
The not** was evidently not a long one,
for he had read It and torn it into a
hundred plocet while the conductor
was ringing in his fare. Then the
heliographic signal was cut of! and
even the fleeting summer'* ruddiness
seemed to fade. Kver\ line of his
face that had gone up came down, his
collar grew loose, and his nerveless
cuffs slip|KHl down over his hanging
hands, .fnd every on • in the street,
car knew that she couldn't or wouldn't.
N Y. Sun.
At the C'lrru*
The elephant hit the bars of tho
tiger's cage a whack with his trunk.
♦•W hat do you want?" growled the
tiger.
••I wanted to know. ' replied the ele-
phant mildly, ''if you knew we are in
winter quarters?''
••Of courts? I dot what do you take
me for?"
"Well," smiled the elephant, 4,I
don't have to take you for anything,
thank goodness; but if I did, I sup-
pose I'd take you for medicine." and
he blew a trunkful of du«* into the
tiger's cage.
Th* Itrtton And III* Silk llat.
No orthodox, respectable Briton
would ever dream of going to church
on Sunday Iti a straw hat or a derby.
Tall silk tiles art' de rigueur, and
ever since that Inconvenient head-
dress came into fashion, at the be-
ginning of the century. It has al-
ways been a problem as to how todis-
l* se of it in the most convenient man-
ner during divine service. If one puts
it on the floor ls*neath the s«*at it geta
covered with dust, while If it is placed
on the *eat it is likely to l*- sat uponr
to the Invariable dtollght und satisfac-
tion of one's fellow *orshi|>er*.
Wh+r* th# ntam* Mr#.
The republican |>arty is primarily
responsible for the distress of gold
contraction The party approved the
fraud of 1872. which struck the silver
dollar from the list of coins.and on sll
occasions gave three-fourth* of its
votes in congress to keep silvar de-
monetized. The democratic part} ,
until the election of Mr. Cleveland.was
npposed to ,he gold standard and voted
for congre*«. to restore silver coinage
But Mr Cleveland, after his election,
took leaaona from Mr. Sherman, joined
the gold republicans and fought with
them, finally, In extra session, by his patriotism in his composition
power and patronage he brought over
from the ranks of the free rrrfnage
democrat* enough republicans to the
gold republicans to ratify the crime of
is:3 and perfect the work establish
ing the gold standard *M*nator Htew
art.
lorMt land of th* South.
The Smith contains over
000 acres of forest land over on"-half
of the woodland area of the I nlted
States. She has almost an en Hess va-
riety, so far as quality Is concerned.
There are nearly 6,000 saw mills in
operation, employing o\er
hand*. The output of the planing
mills In 1H90 was $22,000,0'h).
rapatrlottr.
I am *(r>iil Ktinkinx hadn't tmtob
••Ye I hftppenoil to «ay to him
that thli an lh< jrrcatcut country on
the «<arth and the 1*1 iot wantttl mp to
explain why I thought no."
Fakvkb* should (food
and Totr for ptirr (forernnn-nt
In 1K96 will com, the battle of th.
ballot*.
A Sara thing
| Young l^dy —Itortw, ran you reo-
j «mm<>nd something that will make ms
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Vincent, Leo. The Oklahoma Representative. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1894, newspaper, December 20, 1894; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc94765/m1/2/?q=%22United+States+-+Oklahoma+-+Logan+County+-+Guthrie%22: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.