Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-01-25
SOME COMEBACK, THAT.

The Duu lap Tribune sharpens
up it's bowie knife and goes for
us with the following alleged ar
gument:
1.-The ansWe err by the editor of
the News is one of the fiim-ham-
lest pieces we have ever seen and
sounds just like a man who has
had the Jim jams" Well, it is
about as good as the arguments
he has been putting up against
the good people down in Marion
county who are trying to advance
the county from a rut in the road
to a country that is inviting to
| men of means who want to To-
cate in progressive, country.
Who said that Schwab manufact-
ured flour, raised hogs or any
thing else? He does manufact-
ure steel and Bill knows that he
charges his next door neighbori
Just twice as much or more for
that steel than he charges the
people of Europe. Now go
search yourself sonny. Yes, and
Schwab is not the only or first
one that has raised the wages OF
his employees or has pat them on
a pension list. This is no more
than he should do. He is due
them this for back time when he
worked them for almost nothing.
Also Mr.. Bill knows why grub Is
so high but he is just too narrow
to admit it. Probably he doesn't
want the farmers to make any
thing. The only trouble we see,
Bill, is that wages are not III
proportion to meet this high de-
mand, and the reason of this is
because the trusts of the country
and just such people as you are
trying in every way to break
| Woodrow's prosperity and plans
of peace and plenty. We might
write column after column, but it
Bill would quit trying to cut the
printers threats with cut-throat-
prices and try to do something for
his country he would do better
and wouldn't have no room to
bellyache, and this would suffice
as an answer. All Scat, Bill. !"
We take the argumsnt in all its
beautiful detail.
The first is that what we said
two weeks ago questioning a
brilliant cogitation from the Trib-
bune was as good argument-or
as bad as that we have put up
over the road bond outrage in
i Marion county. We have been
defeated in our argument over it,
but not by popular vote. At
present. we have $4,000 worth
of the rottenest mud road ever
inflicted on suffering public in
return for good money. If the
Tribune's argument is as good as
the roads the bond enthusiasts
put on this county it is pretty
rotten. We had some fairly
good roads in this co unity before
this craze for building mud roads
began. but they are about gone.
The only thing left is the taxes,
and they are here to stay.
We are informed, reliably or
otherwise, that Mr.. Schwab will
raise the price of peanuts after
April 1. He will sell them two
for a quarter. The price to Eu-
ropean nations, according to the
) Tribune, would be, therefore,
approximately three for a quar-
ter. This is a great, big, rich
country, full of poor people, SC
it will be in order for him tC
charge itmore for peanuts. The
foreigners have about blown ur
or busted up all they have got,
: and hence what is the use OF
} charging them price they CAM
pay. We have got rich off OF
) them, thanks to the Wilson neu.
: trail policy of selling all the mu'
nitions and provisions possible
| so that our people will have less
: to eat-we don't need the mu.
nitions, although we are reliably
} informed that Mr.. Wilson wants
) a lot of twenty-five million dol
lar war vessels built, possibly tf