Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1901-11-07
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Aut hb9 HObo ~ Lut pullblHdl pIobltlh
is down with trusts combines and court
house rings. The man we want to get
at is the man who Is sucking the cow
II a man aspires to political office the
first tn ng be does is to get in the ring.
lie says to the corporation boys just
drive up the old COW and give her the
the bran and I'll do the milking. You
just sit still and watch noe milk" SO
be milks the COW and gives the trust
the cream and the workingman the
whey. When you see a man supported
by trusts and corporations just put it
down that he is not tue man we want
for office,
am in favor Of expelling anarchists
from our land, am also in favor Of ex-
polling tyrants from our public Offices.
Think Of the campaign in 1896 when
corporations said to their employees
you must vote thus and So or forfeit
your job" Think Of a set of men who
dictate to the oficeholders what laws
we shall have and then turn to us and
measure out our meal and meat and cut
our calico to suit themselves.
say as long as we allow the rings to
rule our halls of legislation and con-
gress just so long we will live on hard
tack and go half clad and half warmed
in winter.
But the ring is all right in Marion
County, We get big wages for our
work and pay small prices for our goods
and can therefore afford to pay bigger
road tax, and feed the ring and dance
to the music while the county court
plays the fiddle.
We want about 500 of our little 2-for-
a-nickle laws and 2for-a-nickle polite
ians knocked sky high, and the people
given something that is substantial and
beneficial.
look back upon the days when the
people of France loated the banner in
the breeze with this singular inscrip-
ton: "Our children cry for bread" and
then think of the disaster which fol-
lowed, when thousands lost their lives,
when human blood flowed like water
in the streets and then think of the
continued oppression in our home land.
1t makes me shudder for the conse-
quences which may follow if we do not
secure by legislation protection for the
> laboring men of our country.
say we must get down to business
1t is The intention of this government
to deal justice to every man, woman
l. and child.
You say we are cursed to death with
: paupers. Yes, and what makes pau
pers? Milionaires make paupers
: Where we make one man a million
aire we make a thousand paupers.
r We were glad to see in the News re-
Gently a report of tue county funds
wonder if the trustee who ratified that
r report knew who smoked tho most Gig
ars out OF the 1874, 900 dollars expended
= this year in Marion County. Simply
showing to the public that $35, coo has
been expended does not convince the
e people that it has been rightly used.
nor does it lessen the poor mans bur
den to know that 81, 700 still re-
main in the treasury.
r Yes, the paupers. How much of it do
the paupers get? A man dies in our
q midst for want of medical attention and
is buried by common subscription of
the miners and citizens of Whitwell.
= Why didn't the county furnish him a
physician Why didn't the county pay
his burial expenses, No, we rake in
the last dollar a man has got and if he
hasn't got it we take his goods and then
let him die pauper and go to the bug
yards unless he's got friends enough to
/ bury him. A little girl dies for want
of medical attention and is buried by
common subscription of the people.
Why wasn't some of the county funds
expended in this case? | am in favor
of Marion County burying is poor.
Out of SOL, 900 surely we can spare a
few dollars to bury man who does not
ltdNG on ulI|ChG LlOHCJ O6ullAu w Jury
him.
know liquor in curse to OUT coun-
. | try, J know a great many working
$ men spend their money for liquor,
D have got nothing 10 say about Mrs. Ma
ton the Kansas saloon smasher but |
T. do say we need a Mrs Nation, the ma
S ton, to smash the trusts
= Why, we are the people. The goyen.
ment is ours 1t don't belong to the
p courts or the politicians. tits ours.
+ We belong to tbs government and the
. government belongs Co as,
q Our country is what We make it, Then
1 let us make it what we want to be. We
= can do it, Don't vote for man b..
. cause he has sugar coated tongue.
= Don't be bought With a smile, Vote for
p a man because be is a maa and 10 work
n ing for your interest.
j. NJ, CRENSHAW,
Whitwell, Tenn, Oct. -, 1901.
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