The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1910-01-29
POST AND AIS CROUCH


THIS health business has brought
some queer birds 20 New Mexico. l
am safe in making tins remark, since
| cume to New Mexico iUr health rcas
ous myself. The biggest part OF tins
ncalth colony are ticklcd stIh II they
gct better, aud 50 grateful that they
ioye New Mexico with depth vi emo.
ton that is 30 sincere that 1t keeps
1t from being silly. You bet 1t is
all right-the man that Is not CRATE
iul ~ tue agent that saves hls lie Is u
pup who ha. no night 10 i've. once
IA while We catch "A tartar in this
mcss, and 1t ls more than hhely that
!, wLnt we are going to get IN the per
SOD OF Y. ". IUst, tue battle IfeeA
Dalod hay man, who threatens to settle
in Albuquerque, and stay there II that
is the metropolis of the territory, its
troubles are more or less the property
Of the rest Of us. Post is distinguished
IN coutemporaneous American history Us
the Man With the Biggest Crouch. lie
In u self made man, aud the pioneer Of
the numerous bunch at Battle Creek
ia the manufacture of Tryagoba, Alfal'
farino, Torn Grain Biskits, EKcelsioro
aud n few other forms of the elusive
mirage called breakfast foods that /
do not now recall. lie landed ON the
graft early, aud had lead pipe cineh
ou the game before the people realized
now smooth he was. There Is no harm
~ his game. An anaemic old maid
could eat IA peck of his stun aud tpe
rniy harm would be "A stuiiy fee nk
in the meridian that can Z DO washed
out with u gallon Of Mostum. Ihey
even stood for his Mlk.Nuts, which
is simply brown bread ground up fine,
and seemed to like it. All Of the dope
is perfectly sanitary, easily digestible,
and therefore what elements of strength
thore are in il are available. The Amer
lean people took to Charlie 5 ideas like
u sick kitten to q hot brick. Ii was
such snap for the lazy woman who
hated to hustle arour . and make bis
cults and flapjacks for breakfast that
there was no heading oil the demand.
Postie had no desire to head it oil, on
Tho contrary ho encouraged 1t, for It
brought in cleanly simCleons. After a
white though he got in the habit Of eat
,ng has own productions, and as nigh,
naYc been expected, he Immediately con
tractci dyspepsia. The next thing IN
order was the development Of u Crouch,
one day, while an extra heavy charge
ui Punko growled in his stomach, he de-
>eloped II, and since that day 1t has
never left him. The Object Of the
crouch is Organized Labor. Post has
spent Ia million in trying to convince the
Americr! people that the trades union
In an immediate agency Of the ever
present devil. II has been sort Of like
nollering down rain barrel. The afore'
said American people don I care darn
for his Crouch, or what he thinks Of
Organized Labor. They have troubles
enough OF their own, trying to rustic
the price OF Fluiied Peas. AZ might
have been expected the labor people re-
sented his sweeping demonstrations, and
did not fall over themselves to buy
Post goods. This is putting 1t diplo
matically. The result was the same
it stimulated the Crouch, and whom
ever Post can pry hole into news
paper he lets OF a miscellaneous collec
tion OF head about how this country IL
going to the bowwows because OF Un
ionism. Ia the meantime tho American
mechanic is growing healthier, hap
pier more contented, better educated
a truer citizen, because Of that SAINT
Unionism that Post denouncos. Th'
American people who are not attached
u either are not dun fools. They So
the conditions, aud draw their own con
clusions, namely, that Post merely ha
a Crouch. They side.step his piffle n
soon IN they escape the deceptive head
lines and tumble to what the whine
| about. They have no time for II, an
they merely euss softly and pass to al
other page when they run across hi
stun In the family paper. They wis
hs would 60 and coll his woes 70 Oh
first policeman. This being tho case, tn
prospect in not promising In regard q
the invasion of New Mexico by Post
1t is a horrible thought that perhap
he may bring that Crouch along. Adde'
20 our various territorial heartburnings
the load win be almost mnre than w