Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-02-02
THURSDAY, :. FEBRUARY 2, 1905
HARD TO CONVINCE.

In two column editorial, too length y
The Sequaeaee Valley News, again,
and in answer to our article on the sub
ject, assails us for permitting the whis-
key ad to appear in our columns, set
ting forth her virtues and the fact that
she is teetotaler and then in labor
ed effort tries to Justify her position in
filling her pages with patent medicine
ads, not being aware of the fact it seems
that most all patent medicines contain |
from 20 per cent. to 80 per cent. of alco-
hol, and yet our contempory thanks the
Lord for these advertisements 1t has
been our experience that If most of
them were made entire OF the ''unadul-
terated stuff and then used according
to directions and with common sense"
they would save many doctors BILL
Bat our contemporary in her zeal to
fight against the rum traffic would mis- 4
construe the Bible, as the answer to
Gains question is, you we'll know that
l am not my brothers keeper. But
further, let us see if our contemporary
is as spotless as she would have US be-
lieve. We notice that she has aldouble
column advertisement of the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat and elsewhere In her
columns she exhorts her readers Ito
subscribe for the St. Louis Globe Demo
crat, which is published in the solid
central city of the Union and stands at.
the front among the few really great
newspapers of the world" Now, we be-
lieve this statement is deserved, but our
contemporary overlooks the fact that
the Globe Democrat carries the whis-
KEY ad in her columns and in fact islo-
Gated in city where the people use the
beverage largely instead of water. So
the "News" is doing indirectly what
she refuses, and is willing to swear she
will continue to refuse, to do directly.
''And so the world moves on."-Mrs
Grundy, Tracy City.
''Onl Stanley! On!
Charge, Chester Charged"
At first thought we decided we
would not reply to the above. 1t
seemed too weak and vapid in ar
gument to make reply necessary,
yet for fear any of the sentiments
may be wrongfully construed, and
the facts in the case perverted by
erring statement we harness up
Bucephalus, point our lance and
charge, aud the old gentlemen who
directs the forwarding of whiskey
advertisements may take the con-
sequences.
The first sentence is misleading
in various ways, and at the outse,
we challenge Mrs. GruDdy. if she
be such a mighty paper and sc
powerful in resource, to print oul
alleged 1.-TWO column" editorial ir
full, in order that her readers may
have the full benefit of our argu
ments ungarbled and just as w
have written them, for the purpos'
of deciding for themselves who j
right in this controversy, and
the good lady will get out be
specs she will find our argument
not as lengthy as she believes it t
be. 1t must have been so warn
that it seemed long.
We do not doubt the editors ex
perience with the ''unadulterate
stuff" He may persist in the Ell
ror if he will. What we are afte
is for him to stop tempting thos
who read his paper by printing &C
yertisements of the stuff, unadult
Grated or not. II he prefers tn
unadulteiated stuff to the pater
medicine, that is his prerogativ
DuL as ne Soeulo w OO a SOhH
in the matter, we cordially exten
to him the following proposltio
We will agree if he will come ov
here to pay all expenses OF trav
or board. keep him out ofthe ham
of our sheriff, who is instructed
arrest any drunken degenerat
found perambulating the count
and safely return him to Grunt
county, provided he will drill
enough of any one of the pate
medicines advertised in these c.
umns to make him reach that ha
by stage described by Shakespea
in his "Seven Ages of Man.
though hardly applicable in II
case-"* ~ sans mind, sans evei
thing" and We will agrss 70 bsni