Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-05-10
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.

thing about your aims and objects, and
did you know that there are men who
live at your very door who do not fully
the nature of this contest
you are in? Have you ever taken the
pains and trouble to enlighten them
and tell them plainly why you are not
at work and what motive and princi-
pie is swaying you? Most of you peo-
pie who are writing for the News rare
ly ever explain or try to explain or
give reason for your idleness.
| hope, friends you will exert your
intellectual powers in the future in let
ting the people know what you are
contending for. 1t will do your cause
more good than jumping on some poor
timber backed fellow and proceeding to
do him up. Not many very intelligent
people are going to work against you.
| am glad organized labor has said to
the pastor associations, Come affil-
late with u.s. !" Yes, all good men
should be invited to visit your local
unions. No honorable, honest working
man objects to the search light being
turned on. Let them all know that
you are contending for and the prin-
ciples that actuate you. If you are
contending for anything just and fair
let the world know it. l believe in
being aggressive and educating the
people up to our doctrine. When labor
prospers everything else prospers.
Take away the collective rights of a
man and confine them only to individ
ual rights and he becomes slave to
corporate greed and the moneyed class
"a condition as bad as chattel slavery
and worse. His master would only
dole out to him mere pittance and
not enough to support himself and fam
lily. Slavery was instituted and brought
about by militarism and held as such
by force and soldiers are used to this
good day to over awe and subdue the
working man and make him surrender
what little liberty he possesses to those
who would make him hewers of wood
and drawers of water. This contest is
fraught with danger serious danger
wherein the liberty of the working
people is threatened. Will they sur
render or not? I don't believe they
will
Now, Mr.. Editor, for one, believe
that all true liberty loving people can
not help from being on the side of the
union and will glory in lot of poor
men who have the courage and nerve
to Withstand the onslaughts of despots.
For good long time was in the dark
about this issue | actually believed
the union wanted to rule or ruin and
did not take kindly to it but when
found out what the real issue was
then, as an American citizen, / heart
lily Joined them in the struggle
have no regrets for doing so. l hav'
watched everything closely and if the!
are guilty Of what is charged agains
them, then your Uncle Gid hasn
found it out. Then again frankly sa,
l don't believe they are. | mix, min
gle and associate with them and m
honest opinion is they have been lie
about from A to T. If there has bee
any wrong doing not one man in ever
fifty knows it, if that many.
Now, let me say in reference to tn
non union men some of them are blind
ly doing what they are doing, nc
realizing the danger to themselves j
the future of having their wages Gu
!. when ever the companies can safely
so. l pity that kind of men, but tn
deserters are doing all they are doin
with their eyes wide open and are nc
to be pitied in the least.
Some fellow said 1 could borrow h
gun. All right, friend, express it
Bacon Station.
Say, girls, if you all will come
see Uncle Gid I'll give you feller {
, piece. If you want frying size, hal
grown or full-grown one you can haN
him but you can't pack off min
Now, the gal that gets him will hay
= to stay with Uncle and Aunt Cit
I'm hard to get along with but ma
easy. She has three daughters-inlay
l but / dom t claim them. The fact
daughters-in-lawa and sons-in-law a
an evil l can dispense with, yet the
t all seem to dote on the old man al
come to see me without being invite
+ What makes folks so ill-mannered
don't know. Guess they come to S
me. In fact they say so.
Charley, the little fool, kicked abo
+ what | said and swelled up like to-
e frog. Say, that gal amt been bac
l. Guess | bluffed her out. Well she
d pretty and nice but a little timi
> Say, like a gal that fires back. s
y suits me-one that is daring.
4 Now, Mike and Bill Just come up
Il Tracy and the first real good lookii
n old man you see-for there isn't b
T. oue-vou ask him where Charley
and he may tell Won There are sew,
al old men here but very ugly I
Cary can di1erils me. Most %
! want a good-lookiug father-in-l
+ and suspect that is why all my ls
are married. tiee whiz. its sigl