The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
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The Kicker and the Other Fellow.

about. The kicker is the man who ,
speaks out in meetings, and does not
hold his tongue when he sees things
going wrong. He calls things by their
right name, spade, he calls spade,
a hoe, a 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 long 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.
After three days and three nights OF
| awful stomach trouble. the great fish
decided he had made bad job OF
swallowing such a kicker so he dis
gOrged 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
err. and by his holiness in denouncing
wrong he lost his head The prophet
Daniel was a kick,i in his day, and
il 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 tyranncal 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 sail
give me liberty or give me death
enough
=. this The men who made teakettl
~ out of the Atlantic ocean were kicker
a of the right stripe. Our revolutlonar
u fathers kicked against the stupendou
!. wrongs sought to be perpetrated upo
h our country by a tyrannical poWe
5 In consequence of their potential an
mighty efforts the sun of liberty ha
At kissed our beautiful country. We Al
r, designated as the land of the fire
Is and the home Of the brave" But tn
50 HYDRA headed monster Of tyrann
g. comes upon us in different form
ID Every year the powerful trusts an
es combines are enslaving our peopl
IL The products of our rich soil al
ze eagerly sought by spectators. VIII
their boarded millions, wrung fro
Ia the sweat and blood of our Southel
10 farmers, spectators toll not in Il
III fields, neither do they spin in the ia
ne tories: vet Solomon in all his glo
'o- was not arrayed like these men. The
III is field wide open for the kicker
Nv Many Of them are improving the
~ portunity. The ours say it Is no u
a. to kick, it will only make matte
-" worse. Lamb-like they submit to
w shorne of their wealth. While sol
~. monuments of iniquity that have be
~, kicked down by illustrious kickers
~. the past, lie in all their putrid ru
~. vet the ours say it is no use to klt
The Louisiana lottery that once c.
trolled it's millions Of money, and
~ enthroned in the hearts OF WICK
gamblers, and walled about by
~. laws of great state, has been KICK
into smithereens. The whiskey tt
fc that once stood up like an Eg
q tan pyramids in its colossal strens
to and greatness, is now rapidly be
VOC kicked to atoms by the stern
in. finchinl heroes of the nineteenth
ava tury that dare to stand up for
nm. rights of humanity, while the cowar
ked ours tuck their tails and say it ca
He be done. The exchanges that gam
eco in farm products and pose as
lole great and indispensable business
the terprises Of the age are the tare
mp. against which the honest klckers
ling to direct their guns. Think of
} to- man making eight million dollars
pes one day. Think of the gamblers
COW middlemen making 900 million dol
cap. and more from each cotton crop. III
the of the New York exchange selling
'ior' million bales of cotton in one y
GRO the worlds production is only 1S
'efs lion bales. Think of the few
~ who don't pillow getting more c
. - money from the crop than the
who puts his sweat and blood
II Think of the Southern wol