Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-05-19
BILL DOOLEY'S LETTER.

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about hasty conclusions but | didn't
say as much as | would like to say.
AS far back as we can reach with
the hoppole of history and the suck
er rod of tradition, it has been
crime for the common people to
learn anything new. The common
people are expected to accept old
ideas, old theories, old traditions, old
moral laws, old humbugs and old
frauds on account of their age and
reverence them on account of their
historical gray hairs--the old sickle,
for instance. To seek or yearn for
anything new is an evidence of scep-
tlcism and unbelief. The old things
were good enough for the old pioneers
and they should be better than ever
for the new generation, The old
Jaspers believed that the world was
fat and were ready to fatten out any
body who said it was round. l be-
lieve we owe a whole lot of our mis-
fortunes to this foolish idea of chang
ing the shape of the earth. A fiat
world is much easier to govern and
just think how easy it would be to
get rid of our Weary Willie if the
world had been left in its original
shape. On fiat world all we would
have to, do would be to turn the
way-faring mans nose towards the
east and oil him up with Dooley's
liniment and bull dog at his stubble
end and he would never come back
but on round world the blamed
fellow need only keep on going anC
in due time he would come bach
to the starting point, just like kicking
hin out of the back door in May anC
having him walk in at the front dooI
the following September.
1t was bad day when those ole
timers broke away from the old fla
tradition and balled the earth into
globular COB and when we located
the stars so far up in the azure vault
We exploded the theory that HEAVIER
was just up overhead like the owe
ten of bank barn and the rain wa
merely the overplus of scrub waite
stopping out of the windows. Sc
Noah's flood report for reference, ant
also the story of Babel, tower tina
would reach up through the celia
of heaven and allow the people t
crawl up the elevator shaft and ro
the angels while they slept but
blight fell upon the people in the ma
ture of confusion of voices and tn
Pennsylvania Dutch dialect and tn
Bradford county yankee cheese fac
tory slang was sprung upon the pee
pie, also French and Swede, Scand
inavian and German and hare-hp lir
90 and the broad "a" pronunclatlo
of the Southern corn cracker, ais
railroad slang, cowboy slang, an
worse and more of the same kind, bu
the college yell was created IN an il
sane asylum later on by man who's
brains had leaked out through hoI
kicked in his body by governmer
mule.
And bow the two old pohtic,
parties ridicule the idea of the des
people learning anything new abor
our political and industrial condition
Jeffersonian Democracy is good {
nough for half the people and Hami
tononian republicanism is good
nough for the other half High ia
if and low tariff is sufficient to o
cupy the common mind and the
/ new tangled ideas about governmer
ownership and direct legislation a
e all wicked infdellty, and likely
e produce potato rot and cabbag
, blight and jar the glazing off of Il
e town clock or worse. But Ii
!, thing is not what | began to writ
: | started to write to warn all me
not to form hasty conclusions. l
not be too hasty about jumping at
conclusion before you have absorb.
o all the information necessary
y guide and direc; you in the prop
!. direction. You have five senses