New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-21
"oUIcK FREE LUNCH" The CRY FOR 'ss
AN ADVOCATE OF THE POLITICAL RIGHTS OF
THE APPETITE.

TO the Editor OF The TIL n e.
Sir: As a daily reader of The Tribune for almost
a quarter OF a century, permit TO congratulate you
upon your appeal TO public sentiment In oenai OF
quick lunch. This world IS ruled by public senu
ment have been waiting for the appearance OF some
popular appeal TO this public sentiment on which the
Republican party could enter the camaign of os as
sure winner. The Tribune has supplied the Issue
make lunches quick. and add, make them fFee
The popularity Of the ceunch counter Is not because
Of its freedom much 1t is because Of It's qnchness
We have more freedom In this country than we Know
what to DO with, but in this age OF seam' electricity
rapidtranst and nicSen-the- machines, something
must be done to take the free lunch counter away
from the Democratic party, Cleveland will carry the
country next year. There is not moment TO spare III
corporate non assessabe, non-eXplosve company win
millions of dollars of capital form fee-luneh trust
control every free-unch route and you disarm the
Farmers Alliance stroke The cry of the free
trader will become weak and childish in the land before
the rush and roar Of the quick lunch brigade.
While dining recently In Philadelphia l noticed
that some enterprsng New-Yorker had, in the spirit
Of John the Baptist crying In the wilderness, opened
there Is quckunch counter where experienced base
ball pitchers were employed TO hurl the nurment with
lightning dcXterity from the quaker kitchen to the
counter The proprietor explained that this system
was only a temporary expedIent. lie intended to
supplant 1t with system of pneumatic tubes by which
he could take free and unsophsticated steer sport
ing the Western plains grind him into hash and put
him into the human stomach I'm pre- digested state
In thirty seconds and guarantee the purity of the hash
The food and health expeditions which now rag
ing over the country will be with you your plat
form OF quick free lunch the cheapest and quickest
method OF preaching their gospel OF the lost stomach
The manufacturers Of food products will be only too
glad to avail themselves OF this quick method of intro
ducing their best brands.
My admiration for the integrity OF the wag OF
dogs tail has never prevented my approaching the
quiet and lightning-ke dignity with which he can
beat the record of any quickfree unccounter devoee
In putting meat where the flies will to trouble it,
In case the Democrats raise the cry OF free beer,
the Republicans incorporate localoption bill OF
fare in their platform II the Republican party should
connne itself to QulcSlunoh amendment TO the Con-
stuton and allow the Democrats to steal their
thunder with free and quick lunch, including beer,
substitute for IT, the Republicans next would not
know they were running.
The Tribune has the call on the rest OF this nine
teenth century, If it will only crystalline this quick
free-lunch sentiment. Man more around his
stomach than he does around his head, and the older
in life he gets the larger this dsproportlon grows
The head and the soul have absorbed too much space
in history and this stomach question has to the
quick free lunch is appreciated by ten where
quicker communication between North and South
America Is desired by one. ELISHA WINTER.
eW-YOrk June ID, 1901.