The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-18
Owen Wister
On Kickers
He Emphas:zes His Praise Of 1hsaa
With q PHI ladelpliA Trolley Ta'e.

VfOU know that Herbert Spencer has
~ said We Americans are losing our
Sre Wrong o. but sei' know ~ssy ns 81 %has
he means we suffer host Of daily
& routine Imp impos!tionns !1non rather I'er . than Wn
suffer these things not at all from good
nature. but from a species Of cowardice;
she'e sse wora osf kieker. THANK heaven.
rather, than dispute i: And 4 you ask
ys hsa hs will ve be ap Her to say sat he feels
comfortable because he has got round the
corner from his cowardice. But 1t Is there
If # he he had disputed his bill the next
man would 90 it. toe. and presently tya,nS D,lls
the motorman as the president did. pres
emily motormen would be more careful.
here come to the rear end OF the ma
chine and find standing. on 1t all too ire.
| quenUy special sort of coward. the sort
who refuses to turn a drunken and dis.
orderly messenger out afs of the Hs ear naid and
ride as anybody"
You havs m prSoablEy bly, me anis pnsnaiy
knows that powerful corporation. II not
a political pull, stands behind him. ana
less YOU happen to be president OF the
United States, will not weigh much with tn
public. ground between the upper and
neither miistone of capital and labor be-
cause we are afraid to be "kickers.
One afternoon case of this grindlne
was taking place in Philadelphia. The
sas up sa aRs f
Srty M ann aste them druna aa. he Mas an
haa fsnTe ne 10 to 0s there hs
ductor knew this. and therefore took good
a il Sat in his h'f essr s" Se Tunes
81 1t fnse ann was s'a e forbidden: but
you know this trick OF the cigar IN inc
You know also what We men were all
,, doing. We were behind our papers. or
, otherwise pretending that nothing % was aa
, wink of it to fool our consciencss. =
take it we were few Of MS secretly at
, ease because the cigar and the drunk
i. to two women. TheE. poor things; "a aarea .i,d
i to make no more complaint than we n,.. aiu.
afraid to be conspicuous; they shrank
i from a scene; they chose rather to suffer
, ! an ill-sneling invader of their rlgnts
:, than be stared at for telling the con-
' ductor to do his duty. ..
pnnsy Tn" n an"s
{ OF the into!erable. but for refreshing
| interruption. There sat among US In the the
!. .. | plain clothes Of labor one who was nor
of ourselves. Living in Phi!a delphia had
not ye, cured him of his independenee, &c
. He had earned his bread west of the
u u sometimes as a soldier, and he now pro-
e ceeded to disclose all the symptoms OF
\ \ "Conductor," said he with pleasant
intonaton tand we all came from from be- so
I, have been put out some time ago."
g g The conductor. went through quite
9 performance of being busy "ith MS cA-
. YOU heard me. conductor" said the the
passenger wish could Una maFe it y9u not t too
!. late yet
:: At this the drunken man began to ,;,s show
ard brIiigercrt while the conductor was
Is now forced to play his customary false
'''s hes e: paid i'i his fare He's got good
:, right to ride as you have"
D "veua "a not say that if he had smallpox
=. Well I'll have to get out nysef. Ana NJ
walked out of the door; .,,,
n n drunken man. furiously following the pas
senger to the platform, ecs where NE of Th th
West and set down in the track behind
y" and the car went on without him. ~,
appied fFs is Just rght This man VINO had go
as his full growth made the rest OF US me me
be in that ear look k small ,is ~ ne s1u9a uber Is
&C ways. among which muscular strength
us was the least important lnaesd; It ,rniy ma:
~ ~, well be that in the mere mattaffol throw
he present pre- as as able as he. But brute force /
ot oped in a gymnasium. Nor even is reaai =.
re . ness of brain or pronptness of action gut It
ey s,rperior man. 1t was unquestionably 81
s. s. perior $50 at least l think to play tha
ne drunken citizen like trout ana ianu nneal niI
~ nS the conductor, then, after sizing up ~
-, victim, to mention snalipoX ana theivn es;,.,
el instantly accomplish a wholerap1d dsslgl
rs No tussie in the car, no fright for the Ia
en- dies. the entire business dispatched neat
, mn much ci, such brains and quickness, sue
ne perfect coordination between thousht an