Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-01-14
SERIOUS MISTAKE
OF EXHANGE EDITOR
Grief of The Republican Was Taken
As Bit of Humor.

The West Virginia workman, organ
of the Ancient Order of United
| Workman of West Virginia, has
seemingly taken offense at the recent
! announcement i'm The Republican of
| reported fact concerning the cab
! bage crop in that state. Far be il
| from the purpose of The Republican
| To eXult unduly over the misfortunes
| Of any commonwealth or community.
1t is not the fault of The Republican
that the cabbage crop Of West Viz
ginia was not as good as usual, nor
does il appear that il should he TAX
an To task for explaining as a great
newspaper should, all the reasons it
can secure for the high cost of the
necessaries of life. 1t is compli-
mentary to the Wheeling section that
a shortage of it's cabbage crop should
be felt clear out here i'm Arizona. Ii
is truly a deplOrable situation for
which The Republican is deeply
grieved and properly sympathetic. 1t
is bad enough to be without the
sauer kraut. still worse To know that
due Ia regrettable economic cOndi-
tons so many people even as far
away as Arizona can afford nothing
better than stinkadoraS for the
peace and comfort of their worried
minds. But the thought that even
they may no longer be obtainable. is
most appalling. 1t is truly no time
for levity. The republican is sad
Following is The Republicans COM
ment and the Workman's criticism:
Stogies and Sauer kraut.
II is announced from Wheeling. w
Va. that fewer cigars of the holiday
variety have been put out by the
manufacturers of that city. famous
for cigars of the "stinkadorO" variety
simultaneously and Significantly.
there comes from the same city that
the price of sauer kraut has advanced
in consequence Of the shortage of the
cabbage crop.-Arizona Republican.
So our journalistic brother is dis
posed to make sport of two of our
leading industries. both Of which have
done so much toward the physical
and mental. and incidentally. the
moral bettcrment of the people i'm ev-
cry state and territory Of our broad
land.
Who can doubt for a moment that
the child reared and nurtured on the
succulent and nourishng kraut. will
not. If he survive the ordeal. be
marvel Of strength and endurance?
With a digestion trained from in
fancy by such heroic and Spartan
diet. why should even the pungent
hot tamale of the Salt River valley
have any terrors for him?
Kraut was the physical pabumm
that made it possible for the lusty
GOths and Visigoths To overcome the
mighty Romans. who had become en-
ervated by their diet of peacocks
and humming bird tongues Today
the outwardly despised sparerbs and
sauer kraut enter many an aristo-
cratic stomach. in the little cafe
around the corner. To satisfy the crav-
ing of the elemental man for the
food of his far-off forbears
And what more fitting than the
virile Wheeling stogie as an accom-
paniment or. If you will. an antidote
after a manly meal of this mellOwed
corpse of the murdered cabbage?
No red and gold bands encircle its
fragile yet sinewy form, so our stogie
needs no outward mark of quality.
~ ptANitdhft bt al NtdhilUk mere
and there who has gone from penny
royal to Dukes Mixture but balks at
a mans smoke. and affects contempt
for what he really fears: if such there
be. let him lay the blame where il
belongs, on his lack Of manly cour-
age or his want of a manly stomach
To successfully pass the ordeal Let
him continue to burn his little paper
cigars with the chorus ladies and
leave the Indian weeds to real men
The millions Of these messengers Of
peace and comfort that roll from be-
meath the deft and cleanlv hands of
the Wheeling stogie makers find their
way To even the cactus fields Of Ari-
iona and go far towards making life
even there. tolerable. if not positively
happy.