Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-09-02
BELLVllLE. ILL.


but there is one whom | must say has
the most unlimited nerve of anyone |
ever saw. In the first place You
thought you gave me roasting. |
don know what other people think
but ! think you made show of your
self. You say you are in peace with
God. You may be, and | hope you
are, but / had rather risk my chance
than any ones who will take the bread
from poor women and little children.
A man would have TO have, in my
opinion, a spy glass to see the heart of
man even if it was on table, that
would try to down and put wages so
low that a man can't hardly make
decent living Now, you say, or
write words that mean the same, that
you have made a good living since you
went to Empire You did not tell the
pubic that you run contract and
hire men to do the work and made the
profit off of them which should have
gone to their children. If you Just
had got your share how much would
you have made, and while YOU made
that good living how were the others
making out9 Did they all have one of
those 80 per cent. contracts2 | know
they got small wage and did the
work, and you got the big money. 1t
is right for you to do the best you can
to make a living, but when you do
something you know will in time run
wages so low that three-legged mos
quito can't live around a dead frog,
much less a man make living for his
wife and children, what about it.
You said we were staying away from
church and Sunday school to write to
the paper. You are mistaken. What
| write is true and you never saw
man have to figure to tell the truth
He just opens his mouth and it falls
ont.
| didn't write that piece because |
was so deeply interested in your well
fare, but it is what you are doing Ito
day, and if continued will cause you
and l and all other laboring men to
have hard time to get living, when
you could join in land fight for your
rights and get fed until you win. We
union men in Illinois would divide
our little earnings that we make in two
or three days per week for ten years,
if it takes that to win.
Now, friend, you said you belonged
to three lodges, among them the Odd
Fellows. | know they don't tell you
to take your fellow mans job You
said you were a man and more. |
don t doubt it in the least, but | new
er knew what it took to be a gentle
man before, and will say that | am
satisfied to be a man and not a gentle
man, If have to be houored so high
just count me out AS to the naughty
tricks | have done, don't claim to be
good. | have been in mischief few
times, stole sugar out of the cupboard
when kid, stole watermelons and us
ed to throw rocks at your fathers
geese when going from school. Lots
Of other things could own up to do
ing, but never in my life have | done
one thing to down my fellow laborer's
cause. Hope | shall see the day when
they will win the strike and all make
decent living, and you can do the
same without working a lot of poor
men for half they earn. You know
me.
As to your letting me know where
yOn go when you leave Alabama, there
is no use, for if you keep on trying to,
break strikes the whole country wilg
know where you are. We always -
the names Of the strike breakers. I'd
men who used to belong to the uniA
and fell back ought to Just think
the obligation you took. You SURF
cam look at anyone when YOU kn
that they all know you held up ~
right hand and swore to never WI
your brother. Then some will Cd
far as to guard the strike breakers&
then influence all they can for
poor little company, for $40 per dal
prehaps. That is big money but
man whose oath isn't worth more tina
$40 should hide his face.
Some writer who wanted to show the
dark side of everything, said the UNI
ion had a lot of agitators in it. You
are right, we have some, and dom del
ny it, and if you will show me an or
der that hasn't unworthy members OF
church with ten members and no
hypocrits, | will eat my hat and the
dust is'nearly an eighth of an inch
! thick on it.
Arthur Jones has quit boarding and
gone to house keeping
We worked AZ days last week after
being off thirteen days, and we have
hopes Of work getting better.
| suppose "Bonny Boy will be
careful and not venture so far away
next time. There hasn't been any
mail for him--they surely knew he
was coming.
w. NJ. Jones, of Orme, | sent you
some postals Did you get them.
We had a $50, O00 fire here Sunday
afternoon. n. A. JONES.