The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-07-30
Asks That Hereto" Will
Pardon Him for Inability
to Discuss the Subject on
Knowing Grounds.
REMARKS THAT ARE
WORTH READING
The Tenderfoot Throws Out
Some Sound Advice on the
Problem of Spanking
and When To Do 1t.
The Matter Of Prayer Meetings.

In the course Of my daily walks AZ
newspaper man ! receive many com.
munications concerning things ! have
written, sometimes in peevish and
Both are thankfully received. Some.
times these correspondents place prop.
ositions before me, and usually ! am
unable TO meet them fair TO middling
like. Once in while however, ! run
against something that puts me down
for the count. For example, the other
day I received an interesting communi.
cation regard to prayer.meeting prac.
tice, and for once / was counted out.
II IL had been on politics, baseball,
fishing, religion, the single tax, the
tariff, dogs, eating or most anything
else, I could have staid a few rounds
anyhow, but mere was matter upon
which my education had been sadly neg.
lected. However, see the point that
Heretic" makes, and ! will bet a
cookie that every preacher who reads
this will see it. II is so plain that "a
true, too, though l arm inclined to
believe that the grievance complained
of has it's birth in the reluctance of
the bretheren TO lay hold, and the
preacher not desiring to see the show
become a frost, has no option hut TO
grab the knot himself and pull. As
a usual rule the mid.week prayer ser.
vice, anyhow, and with the vast ma.
jority Of them, they are entirely too
busy to attend the prayer service. If
their religion was an everyday affair,
and they had the courage and the will
to take part, / believe the preachers
would gladly drop out, and make up
the batting list from brethren. OF
course all Of this is more or less In.
ferential, and / sincerely hope that
Hereto will pardon me for inability
to discuss the subject on knowing
grounds. His remarks were well worth
reading, anyhow, and are certainly back
ed by knowledge that | do not pos.
sess:
Dear Brother Tonderfoot:
Brethren interested reader of your
Very valuable publication, I have read
with pleasure your Impressions OF q
Tenderfoot," or in other words your
list Of grievences, aud IL with sadness
and profound grief that observe that
you are forced TO resort to the well
known device and time honored Gus.
tom Of publishing Spanish ordinances
TO fll up your valuable columns. You
have, 1 believe, pretty we'll covered the
ground of the konwn world In airing
fads, faneies and grievances of all
shades and compilations, from woman g
suffrage to Socialism and finally wind
ing up with a letter from He'll itself
Now the said letter purports to be
from one yellow jacket, but II has the
hall marks OF Tenderfoot. II smacks
decidedly of the said gentleman. But
as / started In to say, no one person
can be reasonably supposed to discover
everything and therefore wish to say
to the public through the medium OF
your esteemed publication, that | too
have a grievance which I wish to air
To.wit, the prayer meeting. Now 1t il
q we'll known fact that the prayer meet
ing has long been the betenoir Of the
tried and true. Not from any lack Oi
piety, on tho part Of the aforesaid, but
from the irresistible temptation Of tn,
clergy to be the "whole show" Al
the said meeting.