Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-03-14
A Few Thoughts for Clyde Crit.
fifth.

Mr.. Editor: III you can spare Inc
space | would like to say few words
to my friend, Clyde Griffith.
First wish to correct an error in
Clyde's last article in regard to the
dates | gave as to how long l lived in
Whitwell. | said lived in Whitwell
from 1892 until 1902 and he quotes me
as saving lived there only from 1898
until 1902 Clyde, ! had ten years of
knowledge of the farmers prosperity.
So again | say they never gave me any
thing but they could always sell all
they had for sale. Now, Clyde, have
known you for long time. l knew
Won when you lived on the farm and
If you had stayed there you would
have been better off. | think it is
very improper for you to undertake to
defend the T. G. |. 81 R. r. Co. inter
est with no more experience than you
have had in mining coal. You want
ed me to crawl in a hole. Not yet,
CLYDE, until | put you up tree. You
wanted to know if |. didn't wish
could get job at Whitwell. Never in
this world if they had two unions
there.
want to tell you, Clyde that union
is forerunner to peace and happiness
for this reason: In the beginning of
time when God created the world, he
said, ''Let us make man. God was
talking to someone for he said, LET
us make man in our own image" SC
you can see that all parties that had
ANYTHING to do with the making OF
mankind were of one mind Union
means oneness; all of the same opinion.
This is union. For illustration, sup
pose some of the parties concerned il
the making of man had been of diff
ferent opinion to what God said about
making man in our own image an(
had wanted him like something else
the question might have gone to arbi
tration and we might have been jack
asses.
When you were farming, Clyde, you
would not sell bushel of corn or pota
toes for soc when the market was 75c
So it was with the Whitwell miners
They did not want to dig coal at 3
and 40 cents per ton when the pric
elsewhere was so and 80 cents per ton
When you were boy working TO
yoE father on the farm you were sat
fsffed with What he gave you; some
D.
when you became of age you said
Father, this is not enough for my la
Dor, and if you can't give me an
more / will quit and go elsewhere
You loved your mother and your HON
but your father said, "Clyde, 1 hav
got to add to my fortune $3, 900, 90
this year and can't or will not d
it." So you quit and some one come
along and says Here, Mr.. Griffith,
will take Clyde's place and work fC
my victuals and clothes. You posSi
bly, would think about putting thu
man out of business because he hs
broken your family union and sent 20
away from mother and home to hunt
Job. / have got you to the root of til
tree now. Clyde, and will have 20
on the first limb pretty soon.
Now, Clyde, in the wild forest thel
is certain kind of wild animal whiC
run in herds and when an enem
breaks in on them the entire herd ruI
and puts their heads together, the
heels outwards forming circle and a
kick for life and thus escape the ev
designs of their enemy This is Ill
ion. Now, Clyde, have got you c
the first limb of the tree-but, instea
of the working people doing like the'
little wild animals and standing fl
the union and better our condition
we can enjoy some of the pleasures
life, we run at each other and tut
our heels together and kick HI out
one another. So, up you go and lar
in the top of the tree, Clyde.
This is non-union.
A. L. RANKIN