Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-02-12
JACKsONlAN DEMOCRAT REVIEWED.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Jackson
ian Democrat reminds me of story Of
an old backwoodsman who set a tooth
less fee on a pig. The old gentleman
set the fee on the pig and his old lady
ran out and said, "old man, you will
lust let that fee ruin that pig" "Oh
no, said the old gentleman, in mild
tone of voice, go to the house and be
quiet" So the old lady went to the
house and when the fee got through
the Old gentleman went to the house
and the old lady asked him if the flee
had had not ruined the pig, mo, by
lack" was the response, "but it is the
worst slobbered over of anything ever
saw in all my life" Just so with my
former article. II is not ruined, but 1t
is the worst slobbered over of anything
ever saw.
j. D. asserted we are politician in
that we said nothing about strikes.
Well we are confident of that fact and
didn't intend to tell every truth in
one article, but he makes fault in our
article for what was not in it. Who
would think of looking for every dish
at one meal? One might as well rail at
Joint of beef because there are neither
carrots nor radishes on the table. Just
hold your blowing apparatus for mo-
ment, buddy, and let us tell you some
thing. Protection to the laboring man,
protection to the farmer, protection to
home industries, and free ballot and
fair count are the fundamental princi-
pies of republicanism. Under the wing
of this government every one enjoys
protection. What nation pays more for
wages than ours? viii Mr.. j. D, tell
us? No, for he has been having his So
nambulistic spasms to terrify the audi
tory nerves of the world, and unjoint
the machinery of business ever since he
has been big enough to squall. Won
der If he knows that the average miner
makes about $1.9S day. The best Of
them make all the way from $50 to S75
month. Pretty fair, isn't it, j. D?
Let the operators and miners who
hazard their lives in the bowels of the
earth get $40 day. but the free
rights of every American citizen must
not be forgotten. 1t is for the operator
to say how much he can and will pay
and it is the miners free privilege to
say whether he will or will not work
for it. The strikes and the coal famine
and destitut tion that followed are not
the fault of the administration, the coal
merchant, or the coal cars, or the effect
of extreme low wages as j. D. intl-
mates, but OF the men who failed to
work last summer. We only refer to
this as matter of fact and not to
: wound the feelings of anyone.
j. D. says he endorses high tariff,
, God bless his soul, he knows it is the
7 only thing that will support a govern
: ment. Somebody trotted in low tariff
one time and made an awful mess of
things. lie also made great ado about
my being three months preparing our
former article. 1t is much easier to
slobber over an article than to give the
public something substantial. The
reason we did not write an article soon
] er is we were gone from home hold
ing political revivals and did not return
: till very recently, but since our return
/ we thought we would write a few politi'
cal sermons for the News. We preach
!. old-time republican gospel so straight
Q that it brings many an old mossback j
D. to the mourners' bench in trot II
"gits 'em goin' an cumin'"
= Thank heaven. old sister Graham, OF
: Than's, is sound in the faith. ]. D.
$ says for us to come near as be has some
. thing to tell us. We have been very
, near. Yes, we have perused his article
= which is pretended reply, and note
= that he has not told US anything yet.
y Dear reader, if you are getting tired
' of prosperity all you have to do is tC
r put tin rooster on your hat and vote
a for J. D: He would rather wear one OF
4 his hat and drink free soup than to owl
d cattle on thousand hills. How muct
better it is to get work than to wear
Z tin rooster on a hat and drink free soup
q and to march to the sound OF the fact
ory whistle than to the drumbea of
q Coxey army.
,. Now let US Sing and be dismissed
II Let everybody sing:
IS On Jordans stormy banks l stand
And cast a wistful eye
Towards that far and distant land
Where there is so much pie.
ST. JOHN.