Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-12-12
"Uncle Gid" Argues With "Ten-
nessee Sheep"

MIN III ne really unuerSJdnuS the dog !
law. If he does, upon what authority
does he say that it does not make the
owners of female dogs criminals
What is an indictments | guess the
gentleman went off half-cocked. Now,
/ want to know of the gentleman by
what authority he insinuates my wife
and children are clothed in rags. II
have two running dogs and two pup
pies, and, sir, my wife and children
wear as good clothes as any mans wife
and children in my town. But in COM
mon with all your sort, you are ready
to make false assertions against man
and his family whom you never saw.
Your kind has driven hundreds of
men from the farm to public works.
They couldn't own any stock without
paying pasturage and the houses they
had to live in were novels, not fit to
pen stock in He couldn't have any
thing and now you sheep lords don't
want him to own dog According to
you its awful for negro or a poor
white man to have dog. 1t takes
the childrens breadY Amt your
charity rather selfish when simmered
down? SO selfish doubt you having
any, Oh | am aware how sheep lords
talk. I've heard them and | know
who the law is aimed at It's the
poor white trash and negroes You
see, sir, l amt in the dark. Having
quite lot of well-to-do relations and
friends in Middle Tennessee, |, of
course, am on to the racket, and l hap
pen to mix and mingle with these
landlord despots good deal It's not
the love they have for poor man s
wife and children. Oh, no! If it
was, many of the men on public works
would be on farm herding sheep.
, guess the lords of the sheep ranches
will get awful mad at their Uncle for
exposing them, but, like you said, l
don't care. am in favor of the poor
est man in Tennessee having dog if
he wants tco. Why, sir, l paid five
dollars for splendid young hound the
other day. The money was mine and
didn't belong to the Tennessee sheep
lords.
was among the first to pay my fe-
male dog tax, but it's the low, dirty
principle that underlies the law. That
is what am fighting and won't vote
for any man who favors the law and
why? Simply, sir because it is aimed
at the poor man and negroes chiefly. /
am an ex-confederate and always voted
the democratic ticket and before |
would plunge my dagger into poor
man and deny him the right to own
dogs, I'll cast my vote for men who
are his friends and not for men who
propose to rob him of hard earned dol
lars to please a lot of skin-fint sheep
men. In little while, if check is
not put on this despotic legislation, a
poor man can't kill himself a mess of
squirrels or have any sport or any en-
ioyment whatever, unless he starves
and stints himself. A poor man who
will vote for men favoring such laws
is wrong in his head. want him tc
enjoy his life the same as the rich OF
we'll to-do man. Don't talk to me a.
bout ragged children for it makes my
blood tingle. l know the cause and
whoever says dogs brought them tC
rags errs. It's two-legged dogs that
horya yravo1 on tha,O dow in aOl 0aN
out, the vultures of the worst type
pursuing them like a pack of hounds
+ pursuing a fox. These are the facts il
the case and can't be successfully refu
ted. Dog law If the renter and wag'
worker had no dogs and all the dogs IL
Tennessee belonged to the rich anC
well-to-do there would be no dog law
Don't finch. You may be welltodC
for all | know, but if you amt yOl
are trying to herd with them all th
same. Every man with a thimblefu
of sense knows exactly who the law i
aimed at. Why, yes, I've plenty o
fox hunting friends who don't min,
this doy law and why, because tn e!
are able to pay it. Now the hunter
really favor dog law, but not th
kind of a thing we've got. Next time
you write try to keep yourself from
false insinuatiOns, and if you eve
come to Tracy ask for "Uncle Cid o
Uncle Tom" and call on me and yo
can see whether my wife is clothed il
rags or not, and if you want to sta
all night you can see what we have t
eat and the beds we sleep on.
If you have anything more to say
say it, and if you don't like the charg
es I've preferred against the shee
lords, refute them. / know how farm
ers treat their tenants and how the
skin them, and the kind of houses the
furnish them. I've an uncle who
said to be about as good to his hire
lings as any, and actually the house
amt fit for stable, and it is so a
over Middle Tennessee. Little ceda
cabins that you have to stOop TO g
in at the door. You are fine fellow
to talk about ragged children Sue
talk makes me almost vOmit. Let
man prove his faith by his works
Who can put any confidence in sue
when every thing is begrudged a poo
man, even to his dog.
Well. sir, the story is interesting an
not half told. Guess I'll fire things II
later on for mean to fight the do
law fellows without gloves. / am g
ing TO use grape and canister so as