Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-09-02
THE KICKERS.

the regular number this year. If
this camp was a veritable garden
of Eden under the control of Gods
and goddesses with a presiding
elder in charge of each department,
and the angel Gabriel at the head
of the police there would still be
kickers.
Comrades and friends, did you
ever realize who the kickers are
that Is who Is the first to start the
kickr. The kickers are the ones
who pay the least and demand the
most. The men who come here
with money to spend don't kick.
The liberal hearted. broad-headed
fellow who buys things in the camp
and tries his chance at about every
thing along the line from bowl
of soup to little neck CLAIMS is no
kicker. The men who pay good
privilege" prices are not kickers.
The genuine "old vet who comes
here with full mess chest and
big canteeu of white mule is no
kicker. The men who have been on
ike firing line" are seldom kickers.
The genuine chronic kicker 10
generally the pistol. eaded crank
who comes here expecting to turn
an old soldiers reunion into a Cha
taqua circle or camp meeting.
There are many wedge-headed
people who are unhappy il they see
others enjoy themselves. They
don't mind a little sin in a quiet
way, but ii grieves them to see any
one else have things they can't use.
A few years ago an old crank.
mot DR.. Parkhurst) went out all
through Camp Logan into the sub
urbs and beyond-out where he
had no business the branch
down by the river, entirely beyond
the Jurisdiction of the association
and what did he fiudr He struck a
few bootleggers, female dancing
girls and hop tea place, and final.
1y went up against n pretty stiff
game of chuck-a-luck-the old sol.
dier's national game-a game en-
dorsed by nearly every general aud
chaplain in the army-a game that
has ever followed the fife and drum
and is as near and is as dear to
soldiers heart as gray.back is to
q confederate blanket.
Now what did the old bigot do?
He came back to camp. got upon
the platform aud kicked! He kicked
and roared! He roared and kicked!
He had been well entertained by
the association. The reception COM
mittee met him at the depot and
gave him the best of everything,
but he kicked! He came here 10
kick and he kicked. He would have
kicked Camp Logan into the river
IL he could.
What has made the Baxter Eenn-
ions so famous and grand as 10 out
shadow all other gatherings of a
like naturef We believe il
is because il 10 run on the
broad guage plan; we believe there
10 a place at Camp Logan for nearly
all classes of people. The farmer.
the miner. the mechanic. the mer.
chant. the clerk. the laborer. the
dude, the good Snowman, the poll
tician, the professional man, the
lightning rod man and the hired
lgirl, all have place in our camp
and all are made welcome. We are
not exclusive in any sense of the
word.
Things that give enjoyment to
one man make others miserable;
the sanctimonious deacon who &C.
OCCASIONALLY takes a shot ut baby
rack has no use for hOotchy-
koOtchy chow, and the young lover
with his sweet honey" on his arm
blows in his Last dime on Tom
Lees lemonade. hut cares nothing
for the speaking" on the platform.
The Joplin miner smothers a "crai'
CIDER but could hardly 40 mild
drink. And 80 II goea; what pleaees
one displeases another. and u our
managers confined the amnsr-
ments to a skipping rope and a -big
hog" show the institution would
soon 60 to pieces. We wouldn't
have money enough to pay oar ga
oline bill.
We caution all who are afraid
they will run into something cloud"
TO stay close in camp. You will
hear nothing from the speakers
stand that IL calculated 10 Offend
the most fasiidious. Don't hui l
around for something 10 kick abOn'.
II there is anything that Is iilrgHl.
unlawful or hereticsl keep awHy
from il. Don't bet on auy ones
game; don't drink anything bni ,,p'
juice; keep Out Of the sliow gFon,'st:
stay of the dancing Pls,iorui, bu,
. bale Of ~, and be mural, hRpi.y
and pious. and sbOvr all rrlnsiss
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