Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-04-09
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Specidl 10 ne MS1o5.
Work is anything but good out here.
We are having some fine weather:
Nearly everybody is trying to garden
a little, but We writer has no place to
make a garden.
There IA very little sickness in this
part of the country.
Well, Mr.. Editor, after scanning ov-
err the News / notice an article from
one, Mr.. r. f. Noyes, giving some
explanation in regard to the tick law.
Now, 80 far rs the ticks are concern
ed, l am not able to produce any argu-
ments along that line, as am not very
familiar with cattle, nor diseases of
cattle. but after reading from time to
time the various articles from both
parties of those that are for the tick
law and of those that are against 1t,
and weighing both sides of the ques-
ton, | think that by the time the tick
law is out of date it will be developed
into cattle trust. The gentleman |
referred to in the beginning OF this
document, has given us slight sketch
of it. This trust will be the same as
the beef trust, tobacco trust, steel
trust, etc.
Now, when he said that such a law
would advance the price of cattle from
81 to $40 he was just putting it very
mild. 1t will be most likely to ad-
vance the price of cattle from $25 to
$J5, as the fact will develop itself that
there are many people that own cows
who are living in rented houses, lots
of whom haven't room for a little
truck patch. to say nothing OF a place
to keen a COW and calf Up. In that
event there will be many COW and
calf driven across the Sequachee river
and sold for inst any price that the Old
farmer sees fit to give.
Now, Mr.. Reader, of all the sput-
tering and spatting that has been 60
ing on in the News haven't seen a
single letter that looked like it had
been written by one of those old farm
ers. Methinks he sees it's coming his
way. Now, Mr. One-gallus, you can
see when the capitalist fails to starve
you into submission, it's an easy mat
ter to enact law that will make you
fall in line.
Now, you Mr.. Working Man, after
you have gone to the expense of win
| tering your COW, you can now drive
her over to the old farmer who has 8
pasture to keep her in, and take So OF
whatever he sees fit to pay you, ano
next fall when you return to get your
COW you will find the price Of cattle
has gone up when the old farmer
meets You with the argument that the
law forced him to keep his cattle III
all summer and it will be necessary fol
him to charge you from $45 to $50 fol
the same COW that you took IS for. HI
understands that your means are very
limited and that You will have to bu,
on the installment plan and that n
will have to have some interest on hi
money for waiting on you and being
so kind as to allow you chance to pa.
for your COW, say at IS per month. y
course it will be but few cows that h
will be able to sell at those figures ant
next summer he will get back what HI
did sell, and in this way it will onl,
be short time until there will only b
few that will be able to own an,
stock Thus the stock property will
all be gobbled up just as it has beel
possible for the capitalist class to COM
in possession of all the other wealth
Do you realize, Mr.. Reader, that il
1854 the working class owned 80 pc
cent. of all wealth Of the country
while the capitalist class owned 10 pc
cent. and since that time it. has beel
possible for the capitalist class to com
into possession of 80 per cent. of th
nations wealth, while the laborini
class have been left with only 10 pc
cent. of the wealth of the nation
And now, Mr.. Reader, this tick law i
the move to make it possible FOR then
to get greater portion of the remain
ing 10 per cent.
If space would permit think coult
give you an illustration that would b
an eye-opener, but for fear | take u
too much of our valuable paper room
will ring off for this time.
PARKWAY David.