Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-02-07
SEVERAL CHANGES NEEDED.
Editor News +;

Editor News:
As my thoughts run over the wealth
of our country and the hams that it is
in, knowing how they grab the wealth
of our country and how they get it. 1t
is time for every man that has to labor
for a living to stands for his rights.
The writer has all his life been a re-
publican and voted nothing else. Now
| am up in the fifties / say that if you
vote a democratic ticket it is so like
the republican ticket there is not much
difference in the two. One wants TO
make the rich man richer and the 9th
er wants to make the poor man poorer,
and you see that both are driving the
same nail. Now, we will look at
these coal companies. How much land
do they own and how did they get it.
OF course they paid for some of it and
today they are trying to law men out
of the homes that they have had for 90
years. This is fact One may say,
how can they get it? It's the money
that gets it through the lawyers and
courts. There is no law to protect a
poor man. If he has not got land and
plenty Of money and property one
might say there is no way to stop 1T.
Why2 Did not God make man from
the earth and for man to inherit the
earth will tell you how every man
can get his rights. %This is the way.
Every laboring man should pull the
same way. But they will not do this,
for there are so many men who think
more of the almighty dollar than they
do of their wives and children. Look
at Whitwell where men hung to the
company instead of standing out for
their rights like men. Some tell me,
"Oh, yes we are making good money
now. - If that is true what is money
to compare with mans principles.
The T. G. l. & R'y Co. is good pay
to what they promise. | worked for
them in different places for nearly 20
years, but they haven't got money
enough to hire me to work against the
interests of my children and my union
brothers and their families. No! No!
Not | ! | love my fellow men but do
not like the ways of some, but we all
nave our failings, even the law.
The laws of our country ought to al
low every man and boy 1850 acres of
land and no more, and never allow him
to sell it.. That is the law we need in
the United States. And give the black
man country by himself and send
him there and keep him there.
But look at our country. They will
not try to elect a man If he is not a
lawyer or doctor, some man who
doesn't know the interests of the farm
ers and other laboring men. Look at
the road law. Is it just2 No, it is
not Just for man that has no property
to work the road as many days as one
that has. One may say, well, he has
|, to have hauling done over the road.
!, That all right. He has to pay til.
man that does his hauling and a big
J price, too. say that every man from
81 to so ought to be taxed one dollar
road tax and then according to his
property.
| was born and raised in Tennessee,
but look at her today Look at the
school book law. | was always taught
to tell the truth and have tried to raist
my children to be truthful, but now il
| send them to school they have got to
learn from book that is fiction. Ant
they force us by the law to use theil
books. Some think it is good Jaw.
1t is for the man that makes the books
If you exchange your book three times
how much does the first one cost you
If you pay % cents for the filst cos
you pay about GO cents for the las
one. This is fact. Hope every la
boring man will look ahead and al
pull the same way. OLD BLUE.
Tatesville Tenn