The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31
Farmers Educational
AND
COOPERATIVE Union
Of America
The Kicker and the Other Fellow.

noid MS tongue when he sees things
gong wrong. He calls things bv their
risht name, a spade, he calls a spade,
noe, hoe. Sometimes his unpol-
ished sentences seem harsh, but they
are brought with meaning. The cur
is The other fellow, the fellow who
keeps quiet because he don't want to
make trouble; who stands route when
wrong Is done because he doesn't want
TO hurt the feelings of the wrong
doers. He don't kick even when he Is
kicked himself. There are no illus.
trious personages on the side of the
cur; but a bhg list of famous names
lined UP with the kicker.
The first famous kicker | mention
Is That of the prophet Jonah. When
swallowed by the whale | imagine
Jonah set up terrible kicking He
kicked the whales digestive apparatus
out of fix; so that the gastric juice
failed to perform its proper functions.
Alter three days and three nights of
awful stomach trouble, the great fish
|
swallowing such a kicker so he dis
sorged him upon the shore This ia
| nous kicker went Immediately to the
| city of Ninevah and told those wicked
sinners of their awful doom. John
the Baptist was another famous kick
or, and by his boldness in denouncing
wrong he lost his head. The prophet
| Daniel was a kicker in his day, and
it landed him in the den of lions. Time
would fail us to mention the Hebrew
children, the prophet Nathan, the apos-
tie Paul, who formed the long line
of Bible worthless, that made up the
potential forces in overcoming the
wrong and establishing the right upon
the earth. As we come on down the
| corridors of time we hear the voice
of John Hurt, Martin Luther, Me-
lanchton and others who kicked
against the tyrannical powers that en-
shaved the human mind, and sought
to keep humanity in midnight dark
ness. We also find some famous kick
ers on this side of the pond. George
! Washington was famous kicker Pat
rick Henry kicked loud when he said
give me liberty or give me death.
No cur was ever brave enough to say
this. The men who made teakettle
out of the Atlantic ocean were kickers
| of the right stripe. Our revolutionary
| fathers kicked against the stupendous
wrongs sought to be perpetrated upon
our country by a tyrannical power
In consequence Of their potential and
mighty efforts the sun of liberty has
| kissed our beautiful country. We are
designated as the land of the free
and the home of the brave" But the
hydra headed monster of tyranny
comes upon US in a different form
Every year the powerful trusts and
| combines are enslaying our people
! The products of our rich soil are
eagerly sought by spectators. With
their boarded millions, wrung from
the sweat and blood of our Southern
farmers. spectators toll not in the
fields, neither do they spin in the fac
tories; yet Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like these men. There
is a field wide open for the kickers.
Many of them are improving the op-
portunity. The ours say it is no use
to kick. it will only make matters
worse. Lamb-iike they submit to be
shorne of their wealth. While some
monuments of iniquity that have been
kicked down by illustrious kickers in
the past, lie in all their putrid ruin
yet the ours say 1t is no use to KICK
The Louisiana lottery that once con
trolled its millions of money, and was
enthroned in the hearts Of wicked
gamblers, and walled about by the
laws of great state, has been kicked
into smithereens The whiskey traf-
fc that once stood up like an Egyp'
tian pyramids in its collosal strength
and greatness, is now rapidly being
kicked to atoms by the stern UNI
finching heroes of the nineteenth cen
turv. that dare to stand up for the
rights of humanity, while the cowardly
ours tuck their tails and say it can't
be done. The exchanges that gamble
in farm products and pose as the
great and indispensable business en-
terprises of the age are the targets
against which the honest kickers are
to direct their guns Think of one
man making eight million dollars In
one day. Think of the gamblers and
middlemen making 800 million dollars
and more from each cotton crop. Think
of the New York exchange selling 1O0
million bales of cotton in one year
the worlds production is only Is mil
lion bales. Think of the few men
who don't plow getting more clear
money from the crop than the man
who puts his sweat and blood into
1t. Think of the Southern women
When pigs are kept eight months