Show yi THE STORY OF THE PEANUT SHELLS f Asf everyone knows C W Post ot i iBaltIo Creek Michigan Is not only a maker of breakfast foods but he Is n t strung Individual who believes that the t l tradesunions are n menace to tho lib ertyof the country Believing this and being a natural born scrapper for tho right as ho t see St Post for several years past i Sos been engaged In a ceaseless war 1 Carts against Tho Labor Trust as ho likes to call It F Not being able to secure free and l r untrammeled expression of his opln h i < lout on this subject through the regular nwmg pages of tho newspapers ho + ban bought advertising space for this purpose just as ho is accustomed to for the tolling of his Postum story surd lIe has thus spout hundreds of m thoosamlB of dollars In denouncing 1j trade u unlonism As a result of Posts activities tho a rt people now know a whole lot about these organizations how they nro y I honeycombed with graft how they ob 4 utniut the development of legitimate m lnu ness curtail labors output holdup hold-up manufacturers graft upon their own n membership and rob tho public Naturally 1 Natu-rally Post Is hated by the trades t unionists and intensely Ho employs no union labor so they a can not call out his men and ho defies t I their efforts at boycotting his products Tho latest means of getting Post Is I tlus widespread publication of the story l I J that a car which was recently wrecked i 1af i > Iii transmission was found to be loaded with empty peanut tmollH which were hsy l ling shipped from tho south to Posts nfuiijusiiuiuiii ut imiuu VJIUUK This canard probably originated with to President John Fitzgerald of tho Chi cage Federation of Labor who It Is said staled It publicly as truth Post comes back and gives Fltz gall tho lie direct He denounces Fitzgeralds statement IIH a deliberate 01 I falsehood an underhanded coward I Ii attempt to injuro his business luw ins not the slightest basis In fact As p y Such nn effort It must bo regarded It t I tit nUknnt that this statement about ty + al t ttoo Ie nut shells is being given wide newspaper publicity In tho patent + j inside of un eastern country paper I find It and the inference naturally Is thai labor unltmites lire Insidiously 1 spreading this Ho stn institution or a man which CII1i L mason i to moral Intimidation ando and-o fuToea forco that will destroy machinery ma-chinery and burn buildings that will malm and kill If necessary to effect its I ends naturally would not hesitate to I spread falsehood for the same pur I y Poses iVo 3 admire Post While wo have no rr cemriVty toward labor unions so long as t they arc conducted In an honest live f and lot llvo kind of a way wo have had y < enough of tho tarred end of tho stick 1 I i 4o sympathize thoroughly with what he foe trying to do Ho deserves support I Annan like Post can not be killed even r J gsACh lies They are a boomerang every I I fate Again we know for hasnt this ireapon every weapon that could be iionglit of been used and not simply riiy labor unions to put us out of busl n < ess too H am going to drink two cups ot vspostutt every morning from this time 1i i an and put myself on a diet of Grape 1 BiutH Bully for Post Editorial in P < 27 > c American Journal of din Jl Med a < i p t |