The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-09-25
THE TENDERFOOT INDUCES
IN HUMOROUS THOUGHT AT
THE EXPENSE OF DEMOCRATS
The Fall In Eden Was Not Misfortune, Since It In
troduced Labor AS a Necessity to the Human Race



ct without any s,opoyers, There ney
er was u trucr maxim thBn that "Sntan
finds work for the Idle hands to do. II
may be that there IN no such thing
~ az ever present devil. but u there
IL not the results accumulate before
the idle Just as though there was
There is something ou, Of gear in the
mind that has no desire Ia labor. II
IL diseased. II does not necessarily
follow that there should be n frenXied
desire to work ones self 10 death in
the shortest possible time. hut nature
has installed into all healthy consti
tutions n desire to do something and
unless tho person does something
good and useful, he will do something
bad, There ~ no variation from the
rule. There il a morality that IL bred
In sweat and confirmed in callous
spots that build up structure that
time can not ehace. nor adversely cast
down. n imparts self reliance that
~ hll W NH bWp' hHu HNhUlnh thhl
acts for itself. This Is especially the
case where the labor has some object
beyond III" immediate needs of the
hour. The Negro and the Mexican who
labors because he must IL on the same
plane ~ the white man who II shift
less and would not work at all IL he
did not have 10. Given n worthy oh
ieci. aud labor enoblcs all whom II
touches. II builds temples Of celestial
beauty in the green meadows Of the
future. aud inspires To constant en-.
desvor and better and purer impulses.
II is the chief destroyer of sorrow and
the arch enemy Of want II II the
best safeguard for the body because II
crowds out disease, aud lessons the
tendency to sin; healthy fatigue les
sens the more or less natural desire
to travel the smooth road The man
who works hard ten hours or more n
day has no time to play smear in the
saloons, or whittle dry goods box
10 pieces. He does not have time Ia
grumble over his lot, and he thereby
makes IL better all the time. The wo
or Rossips. There Is no relief like Ia
bor to those who are distressed men
tally. II takes the mind away from the
vexitics Of the moment and in me
chhnical occupatin builds up new and
healthy tissues of body aud brain. The
boy who in a hard worker will make q
man that IL man, and the girl whose
fingers are never idle will develop In
to woman who blesses the world
and is ~ for the holy touch Of moth
erhood Neither the young man whC
is averse to work or the girl VIII,
grows up M an ornament has any NOR
al right "a assume the duties Of citi
zenship or taste of the ineffable joy
of parenthood. Labor Is n necessit,
10 the Ierfect man or woman, and I,
the useful member Of society. The per
son who will not work in parasite
and should be treated as such by law
This town would he better off IL lo
Of such lice were run clear of the map
m would every other town in tn,
country. The person who does nothin,
should receive nothing, not even a rec
oguition Of the clami that he has I
tight 10 live. Labor is the safety valv,
of the world, and any person Of abl'
BODY who evadcs it should be ostra
cised. There are men and women IL
all stations Of life in this town witt
would soon he missing from their nc
cuStomed place II labor were lega
necessity, and the town would he bette
OF for their going.