The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-03
AwALK1Ne DELEGATE.
rsa First American Story Written By
Rudyard KiplinF.

T,s-srlber number of the Century. Il is
-.ra4 A Walking Delegate" and it COW
alnaost every phase OF the labor cues
,t,r as discussed by the professional agi-
..,or. A number Of horses are turned out
in vermont pasture, and TO them comes
-sv-boned Kansas horse, who urges
tbsm to stand up for the rights of uni
,srsal horsehood. and to resist the op-
rrsssor man. His arguments do not fan
on fruitful soil. as the following brief
extracts will show. Boney, the Kansas
horse. is talking:
wow. 1 ask you'll ask you without
rreiudice an without favor-what has
Man the Oppressor ever done for you?
Are you not inalienably entitled to the
free air o heaven. BLOWN aerost this
boundless prairie?''
Ever wintered here?" said the Deacon.
nerriIy, while the others snickered.
Not yet" said Boney. Il come from the
bouudIess confines O. Kansas, where the
poblest of our kind have their abidin-
mace among the sunfiowers on the thresh-
Oh o the settin' sun in his glory"
An they sent you ahead as a sampler"
said Rick, with an amused CULVER of his
long, beautifully groOmed tail, as thick
and as fine and as wavy as a quadroon's
back hair.
kansas. sir. needs no advertisement.
Her native sons rely on themselves and
their native sires. Yes, sir"
Then Tweezy lifted up his wise and DO
lite old head. His affection makes him
bashful as a rule, but he is ever the most
courteous of horses.
Excuse me. suh," he said slowly. ''but.
unless have been misinfOhmed, most of
you. prominent slabs, sub, are impo'ted
H.
There was the least little touch of pride
IN the last words.
ANY horse dat knows beans" said
AIuldoOn, suddenly Che had been standing
with his head on Tweezy's broad quar-
ters), gifts outer Kansas fore dey Grip has
shoes. 1 blew in dere from Ioway in de
days O. me youth an innercence. an I
wuz grateful when they boxed me for
NYork. You can't tell me anything
about Kansas 1 don't wanter fergit. De
Belt Line stables amt no Hoffman House
but dey're Vanderbilts 'longside o. Kan
sas."
What the horses O. Kansas think To-
day, the horses of America viii think to-
morrow; an 1 tell you that when the
horses of America rise in their might.
the day O the 0ppressor is ended"
There was pause, till Rick said with
a little chuckle:
IF you put it that way, every one of
uo has liz III MS might, CeD' Marcus.
mebbe. Marky, j ever riz in yer might?o
Mop" said Marcus Aurelius Antoni-
nus, calmly pudding over a mouthful of
grass. 4 seen a heap o. fools try,
though"
You admit that you riz?" said the Kan
sas horse, eXcitedly. Then why-why in
Kansas did you ever go under again?''
Horse can't walk on his hind legs all
the time, said the deacon.
Not when he's jerked over on his back
fore he knows what fetched him We've
all done it, Boney," said Rick. Nip and
Tuck they tried it, spite O. what the
deacon tild 'em an the deacon he tried
it. spite O. what me and Rod told him; an
me an Rod tried it, spite O. what Gran
dee told us; an / guess Grandee he tried
it spite O. what his dam told him. It's
the same old circus from generation to
generation. Colt can't see why he's called
on 10 back. Same old rearin' on end
straight up. Same old feelin' that you've
bested EN- this time. Same old little
yank at yer. mouth when you're up good
an tall Same old Pegasus act, wonderin'
where you'll light. Same old wop when
you hit the dirt with your head where
your tail should be, and your in ards
shook up like brandmash. Same old
voice in your cart WAL We little, fool,
an what did you reckon to make by
mat! We're through with risin' in our
might on this farm. We go to pole er
single, accordin' ez we're hitche."
An Man the Opressor sets an gloats
over you, same as he's settin' now.
Hain't that been your experience, mad
ane?'
But what you do not understand, if
you will excuse me, madame, is that the
whole principle O. servitood, which in
GUIDES keep and feed, starts from radi-
eally false basis; an am proud to say
mat me an the majority o. the horses O.
Kansas think the entire concern should be
relegated to the limbo of exploded SUI
persutions. l say we're too progressive
IoF that. / say we're too enlightened
Tor that. Twas good-good enough s
long S we didn't think but now-but
nova new loominary has arisen on the
horzonl"
Meanin you2" said the deacon.
Inc horses o. Kansas are behind me
with their multitoodinous thunderin' hoofs
an we say, simply but grandly, that we
axe our stand with all four feet on the
lnaAenable rights of the horse, pure and
simple, the heightened child o. nature, fed
uy the same wavin' grass, cooled by the
same rlpplin' brook-yes an warmed by
me same gen'rous sun as falls impartially
on the outside an the inside of the pam
pered machine o. the trottin' track or the
bloated coupe horses O. these yere eastern
blood?"
Not by bushel an half" said the
oeacon' under his breath. "Grandee new
er was in Kansas"
MY! Amt that elegant. though, about
me me Wavln' grass AN the ripplin' broks?'
luck whispered in Nip's ear. THE gentle
man real convincin', think"
say we are the same flesh an blood
are we to be separated, horse from horse,
ny the artificial barriers of trottin record
VI are we to look down upon each other
On the strength O. the gifts O. nature-an
e1try inch below the knees, or slightly
more powerful quarters? What's the use
them advantages to you? Man the OPP
pIessor comes along, an sees you're likely
an good lookin, an grinds you to the face
the earth What for? For his own
treasure; for his own convenience. Young
an old, black and bay, white an gray,
rneres no distinctions made between US.
we're ground up together under the re-
dnorseless teeth O. the engines Of oppres-
Guess his breechin' must ha' broke go
N daown HILL said the deacon. Slip
perry road, maybe, an the buggy come on
Ter MIN, an he didn't know inOI1gh 70 hold