The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-03-02
THE STORY OF THE PEANUT
SHELLS.

As everyone knows. G. w. Post OF
Battle Creek, Michigan, is not only a
maker of breakfast foods, but he is a
strong individual who believes that the
Srades-unions are a menace to the lib
srty Of the country.
Believing this, and being natural.
born" scrapper for the right, as he
sees 1t, Post, for several years past,
has been engaged in ceaseless war:
care against 1.-THE Labor Trust" as he
likes 10 call it.
Net being able to secure free and
~untrammeled expression of his opin
tons on this subject through the regular
reading pages of the newspapers he
has bought advertising space for this
purpose, just as he is accustomed to
fer the telling of his Postum "story,"
and he has thus spent hundreds OF
thousands of dollars in denouncing
>srades-unionism.
AS a result of Posts activities the
people now know whole lot about
these organizations: how they are
tcneycombed with graft, how they OBJ.
struct the development of legitimate
business, curtail labor's output, hold
Up manufacturers, graft upon their,own
membership, and rob thapublic. Natu.
Eally Post is hated by the trades.
0nionists, and intensely.
lie employs no union labor, so they
can not call out his men, and he defies
sheir efforts at boycotting his products.
The latest means of getting" Post is
the widespread publication of the story
ahat car which was recently wrecked
In transmission was found to be loaded
with empty peanut shells, which were
Being shipped from the south to Posts
establishment at Battle Creek.
This canard probably originated with
President John Fitzgerald of the Chi.
eago Federation of Labor, who, it is
ssdd, stated it publicly, as truth.
Post comes back and gives Fitz.
gerald the lie direct. He denounces
S1tzgerald's statement as a deliberate
sAlsehood, an undetermined and coward
" attempt to injure his business, hav.
ing not the slightest basis in fact. AS
such an effort it must be regarded. It
u significant that this statement about
the peanut shells" is being given wide
newspaper publicity. In the patent
inside" OF an eastern country paper l
'0nd it, and the inference naturally is
that labor-unionites are insidiously
spreading this lie.
An institution (or a MANI which
will resort to moral intimidation and
20 physical force, that will destroy ma
ehinery and burn buildings, that will
'naim and kill If necessary to effect it's
ends, naturally would not hesitate to
spread falsehood for the same pur-
poses.
We admire Post. While we have no
enmity toward labor unions, so long as
they are conducted in an honest. Give.
and-let-live" kind of way, we have had
enough of the tarred end of the stick
60 sympathize thoroughly with what he
Ii trying to do. He deserves support.
A man like Post can not be killed, even
with lies. They are a boomerang; every
time. Again, wv kno1O, for hasn't this
weapon, every Weapon that could be
thought of, been used (and not simply
by labor unions) to put US out of bust.
ness, too?
l am going to dirk twe cups of
Postum every morning from this time
on, and put myself OH diet of Grape.
Nuts Bully for Pos.!--Editorial in
The American Journal of Clinical Ned.
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