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Show THE STORY OF THE PEANUT SHELLS. As everyone knows. C. W. Post of Butile Creek, Michigan, is not only a maker of breakfast foods, but ho is a Etrong individualist who bellevo that the trade unions are a menace to the liberty of the coiiDtry. Believing this, and being a "natural "natur-al born ' scrapper for the right, as he sees it. Post, for several years past, has been engaged in a ceaseless warfare war-fare tpnlnst "the Labor Trust," as he likes to call It. Not being able to secure free and untrammeled expression of his opinions opin-ions on this subject through the Tegular Teg-ular readlne pages of the newspapers ho has bought advertising space for this purpose, Just as he is accustomed to for the telling of his Postum ' story," and ho has thus spent hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of dollars In denouncing de-nouncing trade-unionism As a result of Post's activities the people now know a whole lot about theso organizations; how they arc honeycombed with gTaft, how they obstruct ob-struct the deelopmcut of legitimate businecs, curtail labor's output, hold up manufacturers, graft upon their own membership and rob tho public. Naturally Post Is hated by tho trades-unionists, trades-unionists, and intensely. He employs no union labor so they can not call out his men. end he defies their efforts at boycotting his products. prod-ucts. Tho latest means of "getting" Tost is tho widespread publication of the story that a car which was recently re-cently wrecked in transmission was found to .be loaded with empty peanut shells, which were being shipped from the south to Post's establishment at Battle Creek. The canard probably originated with President John Fitzgerald of the Chicago Federation of Labor, who. It is said, staled It publicly, as truth. . Post comes back and gives Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald the lie direct. He denounces F1t7,eorald's statement as a deliberate falsehood, an underhanded and cowardly cow-ardly attempt to Injure his business, having not the slightest basis In fact As such an effort It must be regarded. It Is significant that this statement about "the peanut shells" is being given wide newspaper publicity. In the "patent luslde" of an eastern country coun-try paper I find it. and the inference naturally Is that labor unionists are Insidiously spreading this He. An institution (or a man) which will resort to moral intimidation and to physical force that will destroy machinery ma-chinery and burn buildings, that will malm and kill if necessary to effect its ends, naturally would not hesitate to spread falsehood for the same purposes. pur-poses. Wo admire Post. While we have.no enmity toward labor unions, so long as they are conducted In an honest, "llvc-and-lcl-live" kind of a way, we have had enough of the tarred end of the stick to sympathize thoroughly with what he is trylnp to do. Ho deserves de-serves support. A man like Post can not be killed, even with lies. They are a boomerang, every time. Again we know, for hasn't this weapon, every ev-ery weapon that could be thought of, been used (and not simply by labor unions) to put us out of business too? I am going to drink two cups of Postum every morning from this time on, and t'ut myself on a diet of Grape-Nuts. Grape-Nuts. Bully for Post. Editorial in The American Journal of Clinical Medicine. - |