The Meeker herald., 1914-12-05
BUYING OFF
A REBEL
D NJ QUAD
Copyright. isi4. by Associated La
3 srary Press.

srary Press. III
John Noyes. farmer. had lived to be
forty-avs years oid without finding
much to kick at. He bad good wife.
good health. and b. mads profit sv-
cry year.
sometimes when election came
around he drove to the polls and vot-
ID. and sometimes be didn't. He bad
no interest In politics. He belonged
70 . certain party bseauss biz father
and grandfather had. II bis party won
ont all right: II II lost all right 1t
was nothing to the farmers gain either
way.
Take Il all In all. John Noyss was
- content ~ any man In America. and
when hs happened to think OF It b.
md to bis wife:
II gusss It's . purity good country
b 1--we in."
And they went right along believing
that and wondering why other folks
kicksd until one fatal night when .
tin ,peddler was taken In a. q guest
The peddler was q man Of CAB out
sads Of the CAB hs had to use in bis
business. He was also politician. or
thought be was. He Likewise boasted
that he was . Socialist Of the deepest
dye. and b. carried with him and
handed ont to whoever would take
them Z stock Of pamphlets entitled:
"Are You SLAYER "Is Freedom .
Mythr did Our Grandsirss DIE In
vainr' .Will You Tamsly Submit to
the Yoksr
That evening the peddler told John
Noyss and bis wife some things 10
make thsm gasp. and BE- had the doc
umsnts to hack up what hs said.
This was government, composed Of
. few rich mon. and they wsrs sworn
not 10 let the poor man gst fair liv-
Ing.
All the Judges were bought and sold.
The great burden Of TAXATION waa
borne By the poor.
The rich were entirely b blame for
the high cost Of living.
Let . rich man steal 100000 and
The judge lst him OF with q mild rep
rimand and divided the plumber with
him.
Let Z poor man steal q frosthittsn
petato for his starving children and be
was sent to prison for thirty ysan.
Thsrs was much more Of the stun.
aDd when the farmer and his wife had
rad and heard tbsy were ashast.
The farmer had been placid and con-
te1k for long ysars. He had had little
- wosry him. and no one couid rsmsms
~ when ~ lad been SEEN 70 Iosa hts
tsWpsr. 0uch man eoss oil 70 p1sess
wAaA tt cInan9e consa. He slsQ4 yery
lletis that night. ard nsxt morning ~
IA MT 70 b wsek. Hs sat down b
Rad those pamphlsts through and
through. He rot worried up ~ be read
H egcialmsd: b. swose: be felt blood
tAtrsty: hs pounded with his ast.
II wouldn't sst all bet up over t."
md the wife ~ ~ nnally got up and
oeamped aruund.
-Bnt them burned rich msn. Mar
thar
Il know. bot msbbs they can't hsip
~
.And them blamed tyrantsi"
'.They haven't tried to boss % any"
"AnA them judgssr' l
sBut Ne don't have any lawsuits."
Il tell you. Martha. the psople are
bsing driven to desperation. and the
ef3 for blood will soon bs heard ali
ever ths land!"
"wsll. well stay home and mind our
buainess."
Once started on the wrongs Of the
psople, John Noyss was 4 fanatic.
He could talk of nothing slss. He b.
gan planning how to night those
wrongs. He 6nally sent communi.
cation to the county paper rscitins ths
wrongs Of the psople and Offering him.
sssf ~ leader In the movement to
redress them. he dsfed the powers
q the Unitsd States and went 70 far
- to dare the government to arrest
him. The spark needed to Ore the
country would be struck when . min
ION Of the tyrant at Washington laid
hands on him.
After bis defy John Noyes loaded his
shotgun and retired to q straw stack
b walt for recruits and the army Of
The United Statss. Neither the 70.
csuits nor the army came.
Better give It mp John. and 90
hack to the cornneld." advised his
wife.
"But I'm here to help redress the
wronss."
''But It looks ~ II the people didn't
want them redressed. and that corn
nGeds hoeins mighty bad"
The farmer held out for another day
and might have made II day and .
halt had not Deacon Travis, who lived
Q mile away. come over to say:
ssK3Av Jnhn donst want this coun.