Speaker 1: I'm going to break you. There are a lot of
people here who are ripe to tear you down, and
all they need is a good enough reason. I'm going
to give them that reason. Have gone, We'll travel, Starring
mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2: Ah, good evening, Misswa, good evening, mister Chang, Hey boy,
Oh yeah, oh when are you all finished?
Speaker 1: Very soon?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Then maybe we go out together, eat it dinner.
Speaker 3: You don't eat here in cotton kitchen.
Speaker 1: No know where we go? Then?
Speaker 2: Oh, hey boy, I know it's good. Little cafee, lots
of good food, food, drink. Edge of China too, run
by uncle of.
Speaker 3: Hey boy, Sunday nice.
Speaker 2: Okay, we go, but first must run find missa Paladin.
Have message for him, But I find him very quick
and be back you wait, okay, okay, everything foggy, dark
and drippy, can see nose in front of face, sweet miserable.
Oh Paladin, hey boy has message for you. Oh excuse me,
please fuck you? Someone else really embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Mista Paladin over here?
Speaker 2: Oh, oh glad to find you a live, mister paladin,
look all over for you.
Speaker 1: I told you I'd be right here in the square.
Speaker 2: He's up, but difficult to locate you in black hop night.
Speaker 1: You know there's something exciting and adventurous about San Francisco
on a night like this. There is down there in
the bay and around this hill, the city stretching away
on the scene in all directions, the city filled with
people working, dreaming, living.
Speaker 2: He's all very nice. But or the same thing too
on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Oh hey boy, where's your romance? You're a spirit of adventures.
Oh my romance is waiting for me back at the hotel. Well,
I come and tell you this message. Oh what is it?
Speaker 2: A message come from person called Buchanan, come from place
called North four. A message say trouble.
Speaker 1: In North four. Come right away? What you says a paladin? Well,
I'll be back at the hotel in a little while.
Hey boy, I'll decide then. Oh I know you, miss
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Speaker 1: As it turned out, North Fork was two days stage
ride from San Francisco, and it consisted of three framed
buildings on one side of a rutted and dusty road,
a livery stable, a saloon, and a general store. I
figured the store would be the best place to start
looking for this key Buchanan. Inside, a tall man with
a full beard and dark clothes was having trouble with
the storekeeper. Rather pretty, You stood quietly to one side
and listening lies own this story, You Mennonite boe nothing here.
We work hard, we mind our own business. You make
me sick when Indians rode through last week? Where were
you all?
Speaker 5: Religion forbids us to raise our hands.
Speaker 1: Against any man? You Mennonite caused trouble wherever you go.
That's not true. Who were you? My name's paladin in Pennsylvania.
The Mennonites are model citizens, been there since before the Revolution. Well,
let's saint Pennsylvania.
Speaker 6: Black half black coat, got a beard like a billy goes.
Speaker 1: It's a filthy thing to say.
Speaker 6: Please let her talk up black Beard. Tildy always was
one to say what was on her mind. Or maybe
she don't do that no more now that you told
her away.
Speaker 3: Take that back, jud Pope. Nobody stole me away.
Speaker 1: I wanted to live with the Mennonites.
Speaker 3: They're decent people.
Speaker 6: I suppose you think they're better than me. Huh, they're
better in your own paw.
Speaker 1: Maybe pause a drunken old man.
Speaker 6: Tildy's no good quar Let her talk up you him
singing rabbits.
Speaker 1: You let a man slap you and do nothing. I
forgive thee.
Speaker 6: Forgive me good then and turn your other cheap black beauty.
Speaker 7: No, you got out of fight.
Speaker 1: Have you tilty? Leave her alone? What did you say, mister?
I said leave her alone? Now wait a minute, here
will be no shooting in here. You want to go outside? Now?
Look all right? Then get out? Why get out? I
thank THEE friend for helping. I am Brookner, my pleasure,
mister Bruckner. And this is til the Buchanan T Buchanan.
Speaker 3: Yes, mister Pelladin, I'm t Buchanan.
Speaker 1: Yes, I sent for you.
Speaker 3: Mister Bruckner wouldn't approve if he knew it. Didn't know
what else to do, mister Paladin. What's going to become
of these people?
Speaker 1: Well, it's hard to say, till THEE. They're not easy
people to defeat. A lot of it.
Speaker 3: The way folks feel about them is my fault because
I joined them. Judd, the one you almost fought, he
thinks he loves me and he hates them for taking
me in. I suppose he has reason. My father sold
me the Judd for fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: A month ago, sold you when he was drunk.
Speaker 3: When I ran away and no one would take me
in with the men and knights. And now it's horrible
for them last week.
Speaker 1: Their feels were burnt and if somebody fired them.
Speaker 3: Yes, mister Bruckner insists that it was a heavenly messenger.
But I found a coal oil.
Speaker 1: Can near the fence. How bad it was? The damage
all corn Hayfield's.
Speaker 3: The only thing left is five acres of wheat, and.
Speaker 1: That's probably blight infested, like all the rest of the
weight I've seen around here. No, it's not, mister Buckner.
Speaker 5: Wheat stands strong and green. Mister Paladin, We've never been
bothered with blight. Our seed comes from the old country.
The crimea but five acres is pitifully small. And we've
had a meeting and decided to sell our lands to Culligan.
Speaker 1: And move on. No, mister Bruckner, you can't. We have
little choice selling the Culligan. He's wanted to buy this
land for a long time. Mister Bruckner, Would you do
me a great favor? Of course, let me do your
dealing with Culligan.
Speaker 5: You must promise there will be no violence, mister Paladin.
Speaker 1: Well, I can only promise you this, mister Bruckner. If
there is any violence, it won't be mind making. The
following message is brought to you by the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company. Come on, have a nice trip. Don't
forget the phone when you're away from home. This summer,
put long distance to work. Most people do. Like this
couple smeil that Mountain air.
Speaker 8: I'm so glad we telephoned a head for reservations.
Speaker 1: George, aren't you? Oh uh sure? Sure, dear, oh George.
Speaker 8: Now you're not worrying about business, well, why not call
the office? Then get it off your mind so you
can enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Long distance helps you have a
care pre vacation. Call mount While long distance rates the lowest,
remember whenever wherever you go this summer, go first by
long distance. The next morning, I rode into North Fork
ahead of mister Bruckner and the others. As I passed
field after field of blighted wheat burning under the sun,
I kept thinking of how the Mennonites had endured silently
and patiently, without raising their voices or their hands. And
I told myself that I would try try very hard
to remember their feelings about violence, ten sense of bush will. Well,
we didn't come here to have our crops stolen. You
want to eat blighted weight yourself. Go to it ten
sense of Bush'll take it or leave it? I reckon,
We've got no choice.
Speaker 9: Come on inside, hey, As.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you.
Speaker 9: Who were you Margie b kenn Huldy's father? I want
to talk to.
Speaker 1: You about her. You want to sell her to me? Now?
Is that what you want? Oh?
Speaker 9: Look here she put in with them in the night.
Speaker 1: Here Now you you make me sick. Mister hey none, Well,
there's no words near enough. Culligan and you knew it.
Take it or leave it? Okay, Well what do you want?
I want to talk to you. See what you gotta say.
Menna Knights have decided to sell. Bruckner says you offered
five dollars an acre. I'm representing that offer included the
standing crops. Now that the corn's all burnt, I'll pay
three dollars, not a cent more. You're a disgrace to
your fellow man. You stir up prejudice that makes a
mockery or everything a decent man holds valuable, while you're
a vulture who can't wait to pick a meal from
the dead. I just heard you with that man, Ferris.
You're gonna sell it or not. No, But I'll tell
you what I'm going to do. Kulligan, I'm gonna break you.
There's a lot of people here who are ripe to
tear you down, and all they need is good enough reason,
And I'm going to give them that reason. People here
will stick with me. I help them build this town
right from start.
Speaker 5: You think you listened to a stranger traveling gunslinger.
Speaker 1: I promised the man that I wouldn't commit vice on
I have never found it harder to keep my word.
My talk with color and it didn't bluff, and I
knew it hadn't worked. I had no idea yet what
my next move should be, but I knew that the
trouble at north Fork was bound to explode. It had
to explode, and there was bound to be violence when
it did. In the saloon, I found a corner table
and sat there, nursing a drink and a threepennce Agard,
Oh I gotta talk to We don't have much to
talk about, can I can? I another glass or two
won't make much a difference, said down and help yourself.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're not a pretty sight. You can and you don't
like me?
Speaker 9: Paladin there ain't no reason why he issued it. That's right,
But believe me, it ain't all my fault.
Speaker 1: Oh it never is. You said you had to talk
to me. Judd pokes out to get you. Oh, he
just left Collagen's place. He's hired a gunfighter. He says,
you will never leave town a Lyve. Oh why are
you telling me this? Why are you concerned with Judd
Polk's plans for me? Because Paladin your you're Tilly's last hope.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 9: Tildy's caught right in the middle. The men of the
Knights won't fight for and I can't. I don't have
the spirit for it anymore. We're drowned in a thousand
husky bearers.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do?
Speaker 9: You've got to help till they find some kind of happiness.
She'd kill herself or she'd marry Judd Polk. Oh please,
mister Paladin, will you help?
Speaker 1: Will you do something? All right? I will? And I
want you to do your part. I will you Just
tell me what I can do. I'll try hard and
I'll do it. Then find as many farmers as you can.
Tell him to come here and hurry.
Speaker 7: Constipation can be a problem for anyone, even doctors, and
when constipation occurs. It's interesting to see just what doctors
consider important about a laxative they might use or recommend.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 7: A majority of the doctors we heard from had this
to say. A laxative should be effective, gentle, as close
to natural acting as possible, and a medicine that can
be used with complete confidence. Now, xlax has been popular
with many doctors and millions of people over the years
because chocolated x slax is effective overnight, it helps you
toward your normal regularity. X lax is gentle next morning.
It gives you the closest thing to natural action, and
that's why many doctors and millions of people use x
lax with complete confidence. X lax, the lax that helps
you towards your normal regularity gently overnight.
Speaker 1: Is x lax in your medicine cabinet almost a Polden. Hello,
mister Bruckner Tildy.
Speaker 5: We've been looking for you. Did you talk with mister Culligan.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's trying to steal your place at three dollars
an acre. Oh no, that's less than we paid for.
We don't worry. You won't get it for that that matter.
He may not get it at all. I don't understand
you will.
Speaker 9: I told the farmers, I told every last one of them,
and they'll be here there.
Speaker 1: Oh hello, Tildy, what are you doing here? Pa?
Speaker 9: I'm trying to help, mister Paladin. I don't trust you,
Paul Tildy. I've done a lot of wrong things, but I.
Speaker 1: Do love you and I wouldn't do you no more harm.
You learny the.
Speaker 5: Good people you've been for driving us out of the country.
Mister bu Canada.
Speaker 1: That's right, I have you see you admit it? Tilley,
Please let him explain the way I figured it.
Speaker 9: Till They're your only chance for a decent life was
to get away from North Fork, and for me. I
hope that if the men of Knights left you go
with him, then you'd be free.
Speaker 1: Of everything here. Ah.
Speaker 9: I don't care if you believe me or not any
of you, but just help till you get away.
Speaker 1: What up, mister Paladin?
Speaker 5: How are you all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You shot at that man, you killed him.
Speaker 9: I know that's the gunfighter jud Pope hired.
Speaker 1: To kid here.
Speaker 7: Paladin.
Speaker 1: There's Judd all that Pope right where you are. Now,
Wait a minute, Paladin.
Speaker 6: You don't want to kill me, not over a worthless
piece of trash like your.
Speaker 1: Juddon. This is for a lot of people. I've never
seen a sorrier collection of people trying to call itself
a town. You're not a town. You're a mob, and
you'll always be a mob until you start thinking for yourselves. You, Ferris,
how did the blight affect you this year? Lost? Most
of them a croft had a seller for father. And
the rest of these people, how they do? A lot
of them lost everything? Yeah I heard now these men
of Nites whom you've been trying to drive out of
town have got seed that resists blight. Yeah, well I
never heard of bright free wheat. There are five acres
of it on the Mennonite farm. What good does that
do us? How much would you charge for seed? Mister Bruckner,
mister Palladin.
Speaker 5: We came here hoping to be our new home. We
want to be good neighbors. Good neighbor never acts like
a businessman. We have plenty of this seed, enough to
give some to everybody so that they can develop seed
of their road.
Speaker 9: Anyone who takes that offer can start looking for another
place to get their supplies.
Speaker 1: We'll take our chances, Colligain, and you go out of
business no time because no one will deal with you.
Somebody else will open a decent store here to replace you.
Mister Bruckner. I'm Tom Ferris. That's Bill Holly over there,
and Carl run in there and editate him over there. Well,
what I'm saying is we have men very good neighbors, Bruckner.
What we'd like to be.
Speaker 2: Oh, I missa hiding. So you've been back from North
Fork three days now, that's right. And every day since
you've been back, we take a walk. Right he saw
one day along Nobby Hill, one day through China Khan,
and in today we walk from one end of m
Baccadero or to other?
Speaker 1: What I want to know?
Speaker 2: Easy?
Speaker 1: Why I like this time?
Speaker 3: Ay?
Speaker 1: Boy? The more I see of other places, more I
like San Francisco. Oh I like?
Speaker 2: Is San Francisco too Batka?
Speaker 1: Not when I run all over it? We're not running
all over it? Oh maybe not you? But hee, hey boy?
Speaker 10: Does to keep up?
Speaker 1: Oh? And I'll slow down there? Not better?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh he's a thank you very much?
Speaker 1: Oh say, hey boy, how's your romance coming along?
Speaker 2: Romance?
Speaker 1: Miss wong.
Speaker 2: Oh not too good. No, take her to dinner nightly
for Northfolk. Don't see her again for two days?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: Started out to have dinner at a restaurant of uncle,
But change your mind. We saw go to the Italian
restaurant instead, eat lots of food, dreny wine, love, tell jokes,
and next day he's a woe in bed with his
hot stomach. Oh cannot digest elaborate food. Who she mad
at me?
Speaker 1: Who she said?
Speaker 2: Hey boy, next time we go to dinner, we go
to a nice Chinese restaurant. Eat nicey, plain Chinese food
like a growlmond duck sweets our park? What a just
not a burdener soup? Want done soon? My chiky soap,
gum fried shrimp, soy sauce? MOVEU got aking.
Speaker 1: Corners?
Speaker 10: Have you ever heard of case smooth seal? Why?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 10: Why know?
Speaker 1: Is it new? What does it do?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 10: This is off the record, just between us boys. Your
automatic transmission does it ever make a noise?
Speaker 1: You mean a little kind of grinding? Does that little
chatter matter? I hear a very weird weird Sometimes it.
Speaker 10: Doesn't sound good, boys, But let's be sure when you're
sitting at the light and it goes to green. You
put your foot down hard. Have you ever felt a
sort of a jerk, a kind of a jar, or
having helped you a real thudd bump?
Speaker 1: Oh me too, I've had a stranger. What do we do?
Speaker 10: Well, don't buy a horse and don't trade your car.
Just get yourself some new case site.
Speaker 9: Smooth seal, new case site, smooth sealed, new case site smooth.
Speaker 1: Seal, new case side smooth seal. How will that help? Why?
Speaker 10: It's made to soften those shrunken seals which are apt
to leak when there's power on the wheels. It stops
those stud bumps, jerks and jars that are apt to
creep into these modern cars. What is k site smooth seal?
And one application can pack them all off on a
long vacation and it's less than two dollars at your
service station.
Speaker 1: A little new kay site smooth seal.
Speaker 10: Boy, Come on, I'll go, and if it doesn't work,
you get double your money back.
Speaker 1: Have gun Will Travel. Created by Herb Medow and Sam Rawl,
is produced stand directed by Norman McDonald and stars John
Dayner as Paladin with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's
story was written by Irving Rubine and adapted for radio
by John Dawson. Featured in the cast were Lou Krugman,
Joseph Kerns, Jess Kirkpatrick, Harry Bartel, and Vic Perrin. Congratulations
to station w DBJ Roanoke, Virginia, which celebrated its thirty
fifth anniversary on the air June twenty, nineteen fifty nine.
This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again
next week for Have Gun, Will Travel.