Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-05-28
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| have left off politics and murrain ticks
and all other ticks and Scripture tits.
! will try to contine myself To what is
( going on in this part Of the moral
vineyard.
Mrs. Ella Myers, wife of John Myers
and daughter of Dallas Hargis, died mt
her home in Tracy City at nine o'clock
on the morning of the twenty-first.
She leaves husband and four child
rem, father and mother, brothers and
sister and host of friends to mourn
their loss.
Ann Eliza Srum is not doing very
well as her disease is complicated.
The steel is being laid on the road to
Pryor Ridge and is already laid a lit
tie over mile. In two weeks the
trains will be running as far as Cope
Springs. In four weeks it will be at
the mines.
The company is running "A saw mill
near the Bennett place. The same is
being logged by g. w. Davis, Ben
/ Harris, Frank Srum and Joe Srum.
There are several very good houses go
ing mp mt the Bennett place They are
square houses of four sixteen foot
rooms.
Ye writer has been at Whitwell for
two months, and am sorry to say that
the mines only run three days week
AS for the cause | cannot tell. The
coal is of fine grade and the finest
drum and tipple and fans ever saw
are there. They have four motors,
three inside the mines, and one out.
side, pulling Nos. I. B and TO tip mt
No. ,. The screen is being rebuilt
and suppose the slack will be cooked
at the ovens there This will give bet
ter sale for the coal There are a few
company men working every day at
low wages, some as low as ST. 10 per
day. dom t know how these diggers
get living after paying their house
rents and doctor bills, as this is all
held back in the office The house rent
is all right, but the doctor bill is
wrong, as it often causes a man to pay
two doctors as they all have ii choice
and besides this puts their business in
the hands of guardian. Why not ev-
cry man do business according to his
own will1 Well, as | asked tine ques-
ton and no one is present to answer,
will give my ideas. It is because we
have not sufficient wealth to make III
popular with the great big man.
am as poor as Jobs turkey as to
wealth, but think that by nature ]
am just as good as any old millionaire
that belongs to Wall Street, or any
where else, and ought to be as free to
take charge of my own affairs as they
are of theirs. Poverty is no disgrace.
| will admit, it is very inconvenient,
for this life, but wealth will do us nc
good when death comes.
| was at Tracy City today in com.
pany with Mute Fults, of Sequachee,
and saw lots of grub carried off from
the United Mine Workers Hall to the
g several homes of the union men of that
place.
. Well, as it has been said by some
that was ON the wave, | will give &
little explanation along this line. Sc
far as the capita and labor question il
concerned, think that they botl
$ ought to have their dues. | consider
that labor is the very axletree of any
L government, and if this is true, give
the man that labors value received fol
+ what he does in the way of labor, ant
give capital what will be REASONABLE,
s per cent. for their investments. 1
looks rs if capital in many places wal
getting their labor done too cheap. al
Q they get immensely rich at an earl,
date, while the laboring men wear on
g their lives and do not accumulate any
thing SO you see there is something
i dead up the creek The meanest thinl
now is the prices laborers pay for wha
! they buy If a company settles on tn,
price of labor with the men and give
: them their prices they will put up thu
u prices of produce to get it back. s.
the men are in no better condition
The farm owner is surely living cas-,
as corn meal, flour, meat hay and ev
u erything is higher than they have eve
been for years. | wonder if ever
L foreman or superintendent thought o
what it took to supply the necessitie
Is of a laboring mans family Can b.
pay three or four dollars house rent pc
month and doctor dollar and sup
ply his family at the rate of dolla
or dollar and ten cents day? 1t i
no wonder that he cannot put decen
clothes on his wife and children, lie
alone giving his children decent edu
l. cation.
/. saw letter written by "More An
OH d Wullt DftCh. MY lIlcli'l tllO w
d tell of the prices you worked for an
the living you had out of that, think
le ing someone would believe it or di
you just write it for pastimeg W
t. have Plymouth Rock rooster thG
would starve to death on what you lily
la ed on Now, brother, don't be tellin
h any more such whimsical talk as tha
or some one will say if you had eve
90 worked any you ought to have bee
rich, for you never did eat anything
er Don't you be trying to make operates
a. and companies give the poor men al
other cut, for if they thought thu
I'd men could live on less they woul
give them another reduction in the
a wages.
rs Now for what we as a laboring PEI
pie should do for our interest. fin
/ that at this day and time that ma
e. seeking Office has learned to talk
III suit the man he meets, and then wht
ne elected he sells ont to the man that hi
the money. Now, let MS select a goo
man who is equally for rights to q
and special privileges TO none. The
are such men, so let us find them, IN
lay up in the gap with them, regar'
less of primaries or conventions.
The second Saturday in June is Il
n day set to clean off the graveyard I
Oak Grove Everybody is invites
~ Come one and all, and bring a fu
e. basket as there win be dinner on Il
s. ground. Bring tools TO work witt
ST A loo 90, tl,a +h;rl Saturday all ara II