The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-03-06
BUYING OFF
a REBEL
By M. QUAD
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1914, by Associated Lit
= eEary Press.

much to Kick at. He had good wife.
good health, and he made profit ev-a
cry year.
Sometimes when election came
around be drove to the polls and vot-
cd. and sometimes he didn't. He had
no interestsiIl politics. He belonged
to- certain party because his father
and grandfather had. If his party won
ont all right; II it lost all right. 1t
was nothing to the farmers gain either
way.
Take It all in all. John Noyes was
as content as any man in America, and
when he happened to think of it he
said to his wife:
Il guess it's purity good country
to live in"
And they went right along believing
that and wondering why other folks
kicked until one fatal night when a
tin peddler was taken in as a guest.
The peddler was man Of CAB out
side Of tfef CAB he had to use in his
business. He was also a politician, or
thought Id was. He likewise boosted
that he wis Socialist of the deepest
dye. andl he carried with him and
handed BIT to whoever would take
them a 81 bck of pamphlets entitled:
Are You a SLAYER" rs Freedom a
|Myth?' did Our Grandsires Die In
|vain?" "Will You Tamely Submit to
the Yoke?'
That evening the peddler told John
Moves and his wife some things to
make them gasp. and he had the doc
uments to back up what he said.
This was a government composed of
few rich men. and they were sworn
mot toilet the poor man get fair liv-
ing.
| All the judges were bought and sold.
/ The great burden of taxation was
borne by the poor.
The rich were entirely to blame for
he high cost of living.
Let a rich man steal 100000 and
tie Judge let him off with a mild rep
rhaand and divided the plumber with
hirl.
Let a poor man steal frostbitten
potato for his starving children and he
was sent to prison for thirty years.
There was much more of the stuff,
and when the farmer and his wife had
read and heard they We're aghast.
The farmer had been placid and con-
tent for long years. He had had little
to worry him. and no one could remem-
Der when he had been seen to lose his
temper. Such man goes all to pieces
when the change comes. He slept very
/ little that night. and next morning he
did not go to work. He sat down to
read those pamphlets through and
through He got worked up as he read
He exclaimed; he swore: be felt blood
thirsty: he pounded with his fist
II wouldn't get all het up over it."
said the wife as he finally got up and
stamped around
"Bnt them burned rich men. Mar
thai
II know. but mebbe they can't help
it."
And them blamed tyrants!"
"They haven't tried to boss us any"
And them Judges
But we don't have any lawsuits"
Il tell you. Martha. the people are
being driven to desperation. and the
cry for blood will soon be heard all
oyer the land!"
well. Wen stay home and mind our
business
Once started on the wrongs of the
people. John Moves was a fanatic
He could talk of nothing else. He be-
gan planning how to right those
wrongs. He finally sent communi-
cation to the county paper reciting the
wrongs of the people and offering him
self as leader in the movement to
redress them. He detied the powers
of the United States and went so far
as to dare the government to arrest
him. The spark reeded to fire the
country would be struck when min
Ion OF the tyrant at Washington laid
hands on him. g
After his defy John Noyes loaded his
| shotgun and retired to a straw stack
\ to wait for recruits and the army OF
the United States. Neither the re-
cruits nor the army came.
Better give it up. John. and &c
back to the cornfeld." advised his
wife
Bat I'm here to help redress the
wrongs"
But it looks as If the people didn''
want them redressed, and that corr
needs hoeing mighty bad
The farmer held out for another day
and might have made it a day and 1
half had not Deacon Travis. who LIVED
a mile away. come over to say:
Hey, John. don't want this couu
! try all mussed up jest now"
But the tyrants must be wiped out.
was the reply.
/ II know, hut don't wipe 'em jes
now Put it off another year"
Il don't see how ! eau"
"John. You have a bull calf yo'
wanted TO trade me for hog. Thu
hog Is wuth two OF the calf, but If yo'
are mind to give this thing up wei
call ii an even trade"
II might do IT," was the doubtful re
ply.
.nt or,,,,x 80, xy;I, Sa;d tha Wife