Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-07-16
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Of the country is getting better, and
crops are good.
saw letter in Mrs, Gruady,
written by "Uncle Tom, charging
the labor order with many hard things,
claiming that the union had totally de-
stroyed the very cause of religion. 1t
looks to Inc that your people are al
most out of grace when they let world
ly institution step ahead of their relig-
ion. 1t looks to me that people that
has one of Gods elect for guide
would yield to his teaching
Now, Uncle Tom, you have shot
off your head in regard to all sugges.
tions made by anybody in the church
or any where else and if you knew how
little people were thinking of your
way of doing, you surely would change
it. You are trying to make bad inn
preston on the union The union new
er did cause anyone to leave off their
religion. and I will say right here that
do not believe that there is chris
tian on earth without a union princi-
Pile in his heart, because the church of
God is union-union that binds his
people in ties to him and one another,
Now, Uncle Tom, don't you be
prodding in other peoples eyes until
you get the beam out of your own If
your religion was so little that it
would yield to earthly things it would
not carry you to that better place any
how. You were initiated into the I'M
ion, and was like that other Judas.
Just as soon as you could act the part
of a traitor and get the price, you did
not do thing but take it, SO it lis al
legged.
We are in peace and harmony with
one another, and you are trying to get
the people stirred up in anger toward
each other. We want all operators and
companies to have their own and give
laborsits own, because it is honest
and right and the union asks nothing
else. Uncle Tom, you are like a
bad dollar, always on hand You say
that people cannot serve two masters.
| agree with you on that line, and
while lots Of these union men are liv-
ing up to their religious duties, you
are bowling around, trying to stir III
malice among the laboring men to d.
vide them. You may be successful, ]
don't know, but man like you could
never put any change on me. You say
that God did not SOW the seeds of pre-
JUDGE. am aware Of that fact, but
the devil sends his workers around tc
sow such, and in my opinion, you have
the job, as we never hear of anything
wrong until you tear out. You say to
trust in God and do good and we will
be fed, and we are recommended tc
| get our living by the sweat Of oul
faces. If we allow such as would beat
us out of it, we would not get it after
all our sweating. Ii you would gel
out and go to work little and quit
stirring up SO much tomfoolery, yor
might relish your religion more, if the
union hasn't blacklegged you out Of al
of it. You say that worldly institu
tions for gain is no place for a chris
tian, that God proposes to take care O
him and see that he is fed. | CUES
this might be So as never see you
strike a tap. Such little whimsical
talk There is nothing to it If
man is a rogue he might get living
without working, but nothing short o
that. Unionism is credit to any gen
tleman that is for the cause of uniol
in anything if practiced as it ought t.
be- So don't let the union bother you
for it is not going to get in your way
but / would be ashamed of such let
ter and falsehoods as you have trie,
to impress on the public.
Now, "Uncle Tom. = old Brothe
Kilgore that you heard at Floyd's, i
going to preach at or near Oak Grov
, and will probably protract the service
and if your little dab of religion is no
all gone you might get another appli
citation, and that of the kind that
not mixed up with earthly things
You listen to what good things Their
are going on, and leave off these gain
sayings and eggings-up of malice an
prejudice. You are not gaining an
! friends rich or poor among good pee
pie with such, and so quit it, and
you cannot write without writing sue
stuff, don't write at all, for it is ever
bit falsehood | know that there wa
, great trouble and l am sorry, an
wish that the guilty parties could /
/, brought to the front to account fc
, their crimes, but the thing is wearin
down and the people are getting MOI
, reconciled, while you are going alon
: and trying to get up more trouble an
, that without cause. Now, stop an
live like man that wants to liz
! right, and let's live in peace and ha,
/ mony. You are surely not gettin
anything for such, so don't do it.
You can find the men that committe
{ the horrible crime, do it, but don Il
: to get up more such strife and trouble
I Now, a few words 10 w. A. Cha'
q wick. AS TO your Scripture, it is a
right, but that is not touching my r