The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-08
is A BOLD, BAD MAN.
SO THE PLUTOCRATS SAY OF
THE "CAlAMlTY HOWLER."
The Money Power of This Country Would
Like to Have Him Abolished as it is
Done In Russa-Skies Have Not Bright
PneGl.
Keep Tn the HO.yIin..

Keep Up the HowIinS.
The calamity bowler" is a bold. bad
man. By his continued bowling he
helps to create Il condition of distrust
in the honesty and good intentions of
the bankers and money combines,
among the people The calamity
bowler should be suppressed.
If a man proceeds to howl calamit:
in Russia he is sent to Siberia to die
in the mines of that frigid region. If
a subject Of King William bowls ca
lamity he is arrested. and ii he is howl
ing calamity through the columns of
newspaper his paper is suppressed
and he is imprisoned. These are the
countries that suppress the calamity
bowler and keep him suppressed.
The money power of this country is
favorable to having the calamity
bowler abolished in about the same
way. 1t does not come out and say it
favors the arrest and suppression of
the man who is guilty of the crime of
criticising the public police. but that
will come i'll time. Ii the people quiet
~ submit to one encroachment on their
liberties. others of a more radical ma
ture will follow in regular order, and
it will not be long until the Russian
system of political prescription will be
in full bloom in this land of the free.
There has been, recently, much crit
icism of the man who has freely eX-
pressed his condemnation of the policy
of the Government. He has been
dubbed "calamity howler." Every
body has heard of the calamity bowler.
The goldbug press, under English
! nouncing the calamity bowler. This
howler is not Il monstrosity Of some
kind, outside Of human creation. He
is not freak nor crank, neither is
he desperate nor an anarchist. He
is just plain, common sense, every
day American citizen, who dares to do
his own thinking and give his thoughts
voice. The moment a man denies the
right of the plutocrats to rob the COM
mon people and pauperize labor. lie is
called 4 calamity howler, no matter if
he does not talk louder than whisper.
If there is a calamity to howl about,
every citizen, from the least to the
greatest, has an inalienable right to
howl, and he ought to exercise it. One
of the declarations of the first great
calamity howl was that England had
! no right to interfere with the people in
their public assembling to ask redress
for their grievances. If the people
should meet to-day in public assem-
blage and ask goldbug Grover and the
little Congress to redress the wrongs
that have closed the work shops, made
production Improbable, and changed
million or more of the free and equal
citizens into paupers, they would be
called calamity howlers.
| If an American citizen is to be
! abused and derided, called to an &C
count, and his citizenship denounced
because he dares criticise public Off
GERS and complains of the i'll effect of
vicious legislation, the people may as
well make up. their minds to fight for
liberty again. This is the first evil
dence of its death.
The masses of the people of the
United States have always displayed
good sense in their decisions on public
matters. If there is no cause for a
howl it will DO little harm. If it is
| we'll founded, then the louder and
longer the howl the better for the
country and the rights and liberties
of the people.
The calamity bowler is necessary.
He is a safety valve that warns the
| people when the steam is too high and
danger is imminent. Let the calam-
ity bowler howl on. If there was an
army of them now in Washington,
bowling around the White House, and
in the halls of Legislation, bowling at
Grover. Gresham. Carlisle, Hoke
Smith, and J. Sterling Morton, howl
ing at each member of Congress who
does nothing but draw his salary and
stuff cotton in his ears to deadea the
cry of want coming up from the land,
the results would be salutary. There
is a calamity abroad, and it should be
| hOwled about. Let the bowling pro-
! ceed-Dallas Mercury.