Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-08-06
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Editor News:
There are so many people striving
after the almighty dollar and studying
different plans to get it. that they ne
yer think what others have to do who
work and make it by the sweat of
their brow. Now, / want to say there
is but one remedy for the union men
to get Justice, That is to all come at
once and say, | will eat the herbs of
this land or get my rights, and do it.
1t is better to do this than to go down
to defeat Now, it is up to the men,
you can win or you can loose. Now,
gentlemen, Mr. Cary cannot win any
thing. Don't think this thing is left
to Pat Cary. All he can do is to plan
and tell us what to do. He cannot
win anything but if we will do just
as he says we will come to the front.
| have known Mr.. Cary for years and
he is Trustworthy and a gentleman. He
is a man who abides by the law of our
land and his word is his bond, but
don { think he can win anything un-
less you men stay at his back.
Now, gentlemen, am going to be
plain. l know plain road is the best
to travel. Twill try to be just as near
in the right way as possible. Now,
don't you know when we worked for
81 day in bad air and water and
were kicked out of the mines if we
complained, and were so tired at night
we would hear our wives say, "Darl-
ing, what is the matter with yOuT'
and then you went and got a rOsin
plaster and placed it on your back and
said to fool your wife that you had
kidney trouble.
Now, gentlemen | look for this
dreadful day to come back again, if
the men don't take some soothing syr-
up and get filled up with the thoughts
of the damnable contract sytem, until
it pulls both end of them tight together
and they get so weak they have to be
given the pass word before they can
realize they ever swore with their
right hand toward heaven that they
would not get in that fix. say this
will come if the men don't stick,
man to man. l would be glad if all
this would come on if the men sit
back and desire the dirty contract
system.
What caused the contract system? |
we'll remember when we stopped the
contract system and thought men had
enough of it, but to learn some men
any sense you must teach it to them
| through their stomachs. Then they
will remember when they get hungry
| what caused the weakness. Now, gem
temen, you will reap just what you
SOW, and now is the time to SOW your
seed. | know, for saw people in the
time of the strike at Tracy City work
| hard for the blessed company, and get
pay in cream and were put up with
the COW at night, and now they have
got what they needed. Now they say
they learned what they know through
their stomachs. Since the company
won the strike the poor cream eaters
have chewed the horns off of the COW,
and found no cream, and the owner of
the COW said he had no stock. If a
man gets any cream now he works in
water and bad air and goes half a mile
to get track to push his cream to the
time book. Then when he goes to get
it, the company has got it SKINNED
with house rent or some other necessi-
ty. Cream eaters once were grand
things at Tracy City, but it made
stump suckers out Of some men when
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not a hill but what has been hunched
by some contractor who was fed on
cream. There are men pulling coal
| three miles for 45c and SOC per car,
and they are so dern poor they will
hide their wives when you go to their
homes and tell you that their wife has
made trip to Wall Street, and at the
same time not bite fit for man to
/ eat in their houses, and in debt $50 or
800 at the Graball. Gentlemen, |
know this is fact have pulled out
25 cents from my pocket and given it
to poor half starved woman, and she
would cry and tell me she was almost
starving. Ask me to prove this if you
want to- And now they will first join
the church or go crazy and then come
and say, "Good old union, let me have
one good old Juicy bite now They
know this is fact and don { Grimm
ate them. God bless them, | am glad
they have got their eyes open, and
am glad they have lost their cream
cow A man that has got such little
sense as this ought to be beat out of
paradise with sutbag.
Let all men put hands on the wheel
of prosperity and say, we will have
our rights, and they will come
Come on whiting Bill, | know
you work and live well by the sweat
of your face. What is wrong with
"Uncle Tom" Guess he went to
work Come on, Country Boy. -.
All good union men write little next
week. | want to hear from Whitwell