Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-03-12
Pryor Ridge.

Have lust returned from Jasper
where / thought was summoned to
meet the state inspector of the tick
mandatory, as l call it, and scheme
TO spread disease all over our noun
tain. Now, if we have healthy coun-
try. as we think we have, how can we
hep it so when we have to drive our
cattle to corral to be inspected where
there are diseased cattle from Tennes.
see river, Sequachee river and all
other parts where there are infected
cattleS We have been treated worse
than all the people of the world save
the Indians, and it will soon be that
our treatment will excel that of the
negroes. Indians or anything that ever
was treated with cruelty. 1t is claim
ed that there is tick that causes the
disease. If this is so, why did we not
have the murrain years ago. We had
ticks then and the same tick then that
we have now and no other. The dis
ease is one of its own and no tick is
the cause. To sum it all up it was a
fine thing for the speculator to get the
poor mountain man s COW for nothing
without cost except little Doodle mon
ey Dalu III Ln6 NHib6 JlOuSe 10 Tile
fathers of the school law and the dog
law, road law and all other laws enact
ed against the poor man. 1t is a plain
fact that this will make us mountain
people put up our cattle. Then what
will be the RESULT The big COW man
will get the cows and a thousand or
two little children cry for milk and
butter, while cold hearted spectators
get the profit. We learn from obserya-
| tion that we have few men in our
mountain country that are going with
the spectators to make their names
famous They had better go to these
money hunters and take up their abode
there for the good they will do hereaf
ter. We do not contend that we should
be legislated for and leave others out,
but think our case ought to be consid.
cred once in twenty years. We have
been taxed thousands of dollars fol
pixies, iron bridges and lots of other
things that never did us dollar,
worth of good, and if we get a footlog
across a creek we have to build it.
! Why is it that we are not to be heard
in publicr Because we are poor. II
selecting a community for the location
of the corrals they must all be men OF
renown and no poor mountain man il
to be considered in as little a thing az
this, save one little fellow that has
licked up lots of public money from
this county.
There is another fine gentleman wht
lives near place where corral i!
contemplated to be located on thu
other side of the cove, who wants t.
be tick inspector. He left good jol
at place where he ought to have
stayed several years ago 1t would
have been a good thing for the specu
lator to have had the legislature com
pell the poor man to let them hav,
their cattle. as they say they will drive
them to the woods and shoot theil
brains out and let the dogs eat then
before they will let these valley intrud
ers have them at any price. We have
been sugar coated and honey -fuzzle(
by these wide-mouthed take-alls, unit
we are up against it, and they are on,
friends no more. This day | will sci
off what little cattle | have, and thinl
all wise men will do this, for this il
only step to no-fence law, which
will finish up the poor for this life, bu
they have the promise of eternal life
while the rich will go down as tn
rich man did While this is so plail
and undisputed why will men trade il
such shape as to exchange the chanc
es for heaven for dollars 1t is salt
that the love of money is the root o
all evil. think that any man tina
would offer to tamper or take an otfic
to deprive people of their rights is al
inconsiderate and cold-hearted being
1t is unjust and unfair, and low-down
deep-skinned rascality.
Well as have given my views 0
the little, naughty laws enacted, l vii
close with best wishes to the News
Whiting Bill