Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-04-16
"MORE ANON'S" LETTER

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S~N-~Nr~NI-~N ~NDI~Nr~Nr~NI~NS~NI~NSI Q
After four months and two days out
ing, got home tired and worn out
On the 9th the Old Reliable Sequachee
News came to hand, with its many
correspondents, which ] read with a
relish, as | had not seen a copy of the
News since after | left Sequachee in
the winter.
Ny recollection is that "Sampson"
or Samuel, misunderstood my
meaning in regard to laboring men. /
have not got his letter before me as |
read it while on the mountain in Jan
uary. | am a friend to labor and want
laborers to get ALL not part. of what
their labor is worth, but | do not
think the labor unions are taking the
right course to get it. Strikes will not
bring it about. | do not think any
man or corporation has a right to say
how, or when l shall work | do not
think union men have right to say
shall not take job they throw up. 1
have plowed for rs cents week and
board and did good work. l have
worked for ten cents day and board
ed myself rather than tramp. | had
wife and four girls at the time l
had plenty to eat as | was batching
and did my own cooking. Meat was
ten cents a pound, beans, 10c a quart,
-four 75c a sack of "a lbs, coffee 1876
per ID. | ate bean soup, batter cakes,
coffee and meat and had plenty. live
harder today on $24 per month than
when | got only ten c-nts day
1t is the fault of ignorance which is
the cause of our present financial
trouble. No political party platform
has any thing in it that if carried out
would give more than temporary relief
Until the people are educated as to the
real cause of panics there will be no
permanent remedy.
| told the readers of the News in my
last letter, if they were willing to pay
my fare and feed, | would visit each
section and demonstrate on black
board, and show exactly the cause of
panics and point out the remedy. They
are not ready to be educated. The cost
to learn will not exceed ten or 10 cents
at the outside each to hear a lecture,
if an audience of twenty would attend,
and two lectures would show up the
whole secret, at not over SOC head.
You laboring men are democrat, a
republican, a populist or socialist, as
you have been raised or educated.
was whig first, then a republican,
never democrat, yet republican doc.
trine carried out to the letter won
bring relief, yet it is nearer right thar
the other parties on tariff and govern
ment ownership than either of the 9th
ers
The tick law seems to be worrying
some of your correspondents. 1t is {
bad law in some respects, as it works
o hardship on the poor by deprivinG
the kids I lived in old Marion OF
Cumberland mountain and in the val
ley over fifty years, and while few
cattle died of murrain, milksick ant
starvation, nicknamed 'hollow horn
Il always thought "hOllow belly" fit
ted the disease better) our poor haC
the entire woods to pasture their COWS
sheep, hogs, ETC., and they nearly al
had something to eat without going tx
the store or commissary. 1t is th'
.. fault of all of us, myself with the rest
that our people, many of them, ar
brought to suffering on account of har'
times
| know landowners do not want 9th
er peoples stock to run at large o.
their premises. | have lost hundred
of dollars ON account of other peopl
letting breechy stock run at large
Breechy stock caused the stock law.
| notice in every newspaper mention
| NJ nr.lyi i1,r only of
two, three days in the week idle. Sue
: about periodically as long rs the pres
ent money system exists 1t makes n
t difference what political party is i
power. If Harrison had been electe
: instead of Cleveland the panic that fol
3 lowed would have been just as bad
because the time was up for it t
come.
5 Whenever you get ready to hear tn
! true cause of panics, and will contrib
9 ute small sum to pay expenses, lie
me know through the News, and | wi
5 be glad to educate you in politics
economy that you may, if you wish
bring about good things with an as
{ surance of no more panics ever comm
again. A few men can create goo
= times in each community, by workin
o together for that purpose independer
/ of other communities. The remedy
simple. All you want is to know how
y and act Each laborer will receive tn
entire value of what he produces, nj
+, just part of it,
Wishing all the readers of the News
together with the News, good health
peace and plenty,
MORE ANON.