Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-11-02
TWO SANDERS REEUTED.


take place in a saloon town, and yet
cheerfully assists one horse show for
compensation 10 sWlndle the public
Sequachee News.
unmitigated falsehood! Whether
conceived in jealousy and malignity, or
born of mental imbecility, we are not
in tho least concerned to say. Evident
ly something is seriously wrong when
little three line pun, spoken in spir-
1t OF pleasantly, provokes lot Of auda-
cious falsehoods and hysterical perform
ances OF which the above is only asmall
excerpt.
The editor Of the Statesman Democrat
has not been inside of circus tent with
in twenty years. Perhaps this is more
matter OF taste than of moral convict
ions. The cheerful assistance in the
matter of advertising consists in hard
cash. We don't propose to try the mer-
its Of every decOctiOn advertised in
these columns with our own stomach, or
to guage other peoples tastes by our
own. The circus has not been outlawed
by either church or state. Until that
is done it has a right to its seat when 1t
pays its fare. That they ought to be
outlawed is another question. They
are generally, If not exclusively, an ag-
gregation Of gamblers and women of
loose virtue, but these traits do not APP
pear in their advertisements. We are
free to say that they ought to be out
lawed. South Pittsburg Statesman
Democrat.
Anyone by referring to the files of
the Statesman Democrat will find the
corroboration of what we said. The
Statesman Democrats contribution to
/ assist the convention was mesgre in
deed. The "unmitigated falsehood"
business like boomerang, is refexiVe
in action.
Vituperation seems to be the States
man Democrat editors speciality, What
a seething vortex of base insnuations
emetics, purgatives, "wurreem" cures,
falsehoods lies, snakes, fools, idiots,
hysterical performances, g., he appears
to be. A regular maelstrom of choice
epithets. No wonder he is as lean as a
last years oyster she'll. Anyone carry
ing such load of the unpleasant things
of life can hardly be blamed for acting
as though he was going to attend spec
ial lectures at that institution of learn
ing commonly known as the State In
sane Asylum. The statement that the
circus has not been outlawed by the
church is not true. The Southern
Methodists the largest religious body
in tho Southern States, in convention
at Baltimore a few years ago, wisely de.
clared against the circus evil, and there
are other churches which, while not as
pronounced in the matter, look upon
these travelling sinks of iniquity with
the same distaste. We would advise
the editor of the Statesman Democrat
now that he has not been inside of a
circus tent for twenty years, never tC
venture inside of one at all. Circus
people are continually on the watch fol
freaks and no doubt the circus people
would seize upon the attraction with
ayidity.
Another thought is suggested. The
editor of the Statesman Democrat is nO
bowed down with years, no grey hair
surmount his noble dome of thought
and his step is as spriugy and elastic a
that Of the plowboy as he follows hi
plodding team. He is young, yet al
most too young to be exposed to tn,
hard knocks of this cold, unfeelinI
: world. Let US suppose that he is thiI
, eight years old. Deducting twent
years, we find that at the tender age @
t eighteen he had passed through all tn
! vicissitudes of life, tasted the bite
dregs Of trouble, and had swallowe
: deep draughts from the fountain of soI
t row, His cup of bitterness had bee
5 filled to overlooking, and with a ster
determination never more to expos
! himself to temptation, be had abjure
$ the circus, then and forever. 1t mus
r have been moral eruption of Vesuviu'
= In the blaze of pyrotechnics caused b
4 his determination to save his soul an
d bankrupt the circus by his non-attent
ance he has not forgotten that none
I was to be gained by advertising the'
destroyers Of souls and for hard cash
he will assist in drawing as large
crowd Of people as his paper can Il
fluence for the circus people to fleece.
The trouble with the Statesman Dem
Q crat is too much venom. When it star
V into an argument it falls into a passiC
n and torgets all about the argumen
3 1t blinds itself with its own madnes
l. But what can you expect when purg
s. tives and emetics are used so lavish,
], But as a matter OF fact the Sou
10 Pittsburg people had things their ON
II way as they we're largely in the major
D. ~, and from the frantic demonstrate,
z, they made when the subject W
4. brOached, the old-time theater with /
T. paid clacquers was fOrcibly suggested
? Sequachee News.
THE "war Of words" now going
between our local contemporary and Il
parody on the craft az SeQuachee ov
the Sunday school convention does n
Nv engage US In the lsast-not a. present
n but the insinuation that the people
South Pittsburg who bad the Sund
os school convention in charge inflated 6
hired clacquers Of the ancient theat
ye is too gross an insult and maligna
falsehood 20 let pass unnoticed lt is n
the first offense OF the character co
IL mitted against some Of the best pooy
of the county by the Sequaches mishl