Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-04-09
UNCLE TOMS LETTER

Another soldier and ex-Confederate
veteran has been called to go hence to
await until his change shall come.
Comrade A. D. Roddy was "a years
old, and was a member of the oelebra-
ted 9th Tenn. Reg, commanded by
Col. John Fl. Savage. He leaves a
wife and several children. He was
member of the Southern Methodist
Church, and also of the Kirby Smith,
Camp, No. Ss4. U. C. V. Fueneral
services were conducted by his pastor,
the Rev. S. M. Keathley and conclud.
ed by the veterans at the grave. His
death occurred March 81 and burial
April I. A large crowd of friends
and loved ones was present. His death
leaves only ten living Confederate
veterans in Tracy City and some of
them are very feeble in health. A
few more years and all will be gone,
but the Lord has been good to all of
the old veterans, allowing many Of
them to live to good old age, so we
have no complaint. We all know our
summons will come soon. Only be
ready for them, Is the best
Oliver Kilgore is better.
Mrs. Julia Nunley is not doing we'll.
Mrs. Ben Thornesberry Is on the
puny list.
Uncle Bill Hatfield is also on the
sick list
Politics are very low. There is
nothing doing yet. From the best in
formation can get, the sheriff will
be democrat this time. The Social
lists are laying still, doing nothing as
yet.
People who are of sensitive dispo-
sition have no business to write to
newspapers, most especially on reli-
gious or POLITICAL subjects.
Let me say to Troubled Girl" it
would please me very much to attend
one of your religious services, for I as
sure you there is nothing l enjoy so
much as / do a good meeting where
brotherly love and kindness are mani
tested and predominates. We used to
have good meetings here at Tracy
City, but we don't have them now
any more, just a kind of cold, formal
service, resembling more the meeting
of some political ring or clique.
What do you think of "Know 1t
All's' letter about Ben Slatton9
Don't you really think it was uncalled
for and unnecessary. know moth
ing about either but from the reading
and tone of the letter judge Station
to be as good man as "Know 1t
ALL" and much and more of a gentle
man for hardly believe gentleman
would rush into print and abuse an
other like this man has have
slight acquaintance with few ladies
and gentlemen and | never heard of
one yet, no difference what the pro-
vocation, abuse their fellow creatures
WHAT if his wife and children did pick
berries That is nothing more than
the wives and childlen of the men of
Tracy do every berry season, and they
do it because they need the berries or
the money they will bring l wish
the republican party, while it had
such long lease of power, would have
enacted laws that would have emanci |
pated these women and childrel from
the berry patches, mines, factories
and workshops, but unuer republican
rule they have had to do many things
they didn't want to do and had things
thrown in their face that was hard to
bear Poverty and misery is terrible
enough, but to have it hurled in your
face is cruel, inhuman and brutal.
Will a gentleman or lady do such
things7 A lady told me in Huntsville,
Ala that she was considered one of
the best knitters in the mill, but said
she had a mother and little girl TO
provide for and she couldn't get
enough ahead to buy herself pair of
shoes, and cried about it. Thousands
of women and children would be glad |
to even get the chance to pick berries
but in some communitys they are de-
MED this privilege. Notices are stuck
up forbidding trespassing. No use of
preaching to the people the good deeds
of the republican party. 1t has never
done anything but get the Offices and
keep them and squeeze the people.
That is why Mr.. Stations wife and
childen have had to pick berries, as
we'll as thousands of others and they
ought to thank God they live in the
where people have not lost
all their humanity and the berry
patches are free Well, Station is not
the Socialist party any more than Dew
is the Southern Methodist Church, and
I. heard a fellow say he believed a Job
was put up on Dew. If "Know 1t
All' can point to siugle thing the
republican party has ever done to help
poor people, wish he could lay aside
his vitriolic spleen and point it out,
1t has been entrusted with power a
long time and poverty and misery has
increased in the place of decreasing.
The working people have resorted to
everything they could to check the in