Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-03-29
Letters the % Editor
Things Prospered Under Union.

Editor News. ! would like to have
little space in the dear old News to
give American" an answer to his
little piece of rot.
He says, having reference to q verse
of scripture Romans 6: 30, Let us
change this to The doom of a working
man is death, if some dirty, cowardly
cur can hide himself in some dark corn
er with q shot gun and shoot some
poor man who is at work, and then be
shielded and protected by mob who
call themselves good union men. >"
Now, american, you know the
union people of Tracy are all honest
people but you are just like all the
rest of our enemies, you are trying TO
lay all the meanness that is done in
Tracy on the union You asked where
Rust and Dick Henley? The union
people know less about that than you
DO from what can find out.
Some people were surprised at your
going to scabbing, but you did not fool
me- | thought when you were around
preaching those union sermons that
YOU were wanting a little change.
! Can you take me by the hand and look
me in the face and say your conscience
is clear, and you are living on the
heavenly highway
You say ''yourso called union. If
all union men were like you it would
be q so-called union.
You say it can be proved that the
union has been a terror and menace
to the peace and welfare of Grpndy
county. say you cant prove any
such a thing l say that the union
prosperity did more for Tracy City and
the county at large in eight years than
had been done for it in the sixteen
years previous to the union. Where is
our good schoolY Where are the bust
ness men that occupied the now vacant
business houses of our town. Where
is the Grundy County bank? Was it
the union that closed our ten months
school2 Was it the union that bank
rupted the Grundy County bank? You
know if the union men had worked on
we would have still had our school and
bank and other enterprises.
You don't practice what you preach.
You used to stand up and condemn
things that you now take part in. Five
or six years ago, if one of the neigh
bors gave an oyster supper you would
Jump on them with all four of your
feet, and also on the neighbors who
went to it. Now, you are going to
them yourself. How do you expect
any person to put any confidence in
you? | like to see a man do right be-
cause it is right, but man that does
right because the law makes him do it
or to carry his points is no man.
Wa a wi lli1oO fn ho III tot
= ed to by some flannel mouthed John
Bulls. l would to God that this coun.
try had more such men as some of thu
Johnnie Bulls.
| You say, walk back the corridor
of time with me, and let us talk will
l George Washington. All right, her
we are in the presence of the hero 0
3 our Independence. He cannot say tina
man who turns traitor and Joins tn
g other side is our friend. 1t is the MAJ
who fights for liberty and freedom
You say AS the Israelites of old di
: when they had crossed the Red Sea an
escaped the oppressive hand of Phar
o oah. But you will remember tina
some of the children of Israel, afte
IS they had started on the way to tina
:; Beulah land, where they could hav
Il freedom and liberty, some of the1
Q wanted to go back into bondage lik
: you have done. You want to get bac
IS under task masters like we were unde
. few years ago, when they would te
you to send them out ten cars for on
% dollar. You know that under the cor
g tract system that men loSded ten Cal
of coal for one dollar and you ough
IL to have sense enough to know that
the union was removed from here 20
/ would have to do it again.
II You should remember the Golde
Rule, "Do unto others as you woul
Q be done by" Do you wish some on
to scab you out of your job2 Is takin
70 another mans job brotherly lover
do not like to write on this sui
ject | believe we have already ha
too much published in the News abou
union and scabs. | would rather tai
10 to a man for l am a poor writer, BIT
Ie my talking machine is in good order.
d Bowser's Cat.