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

envy. or any other enemy, can't
pick his chicks by moonlight.
We are darned glad Mr..
Schwab is giving back what the
Tribune charges he stole. The
men are very appreciative Of this
noble deed. If they ever wanted
assistance it is now A man who
works for a dollar a day now,
really gets Soc. The purchasing
power of the dollar is cut in half.
and the Tribune knows it. In
Cleveland times. if you ever got
hold of fifty cents, you could buy
something with it. Now you get
next to nothing for it. Do you
remember the 16 to l craze, son?
The both of us suckers howled
for it, vamped for it, voted for
it, and got beat. 1t was said
then that a man would have to
have bushels of money to buy
grub, and itscared the financiers
and they beat US. Now we have
high prices under, a democratic
administration. but strange to
say it is under the gold standard,
republican policy. So we have
got what we wanted. The Tri-
bune seems to think it fine, but
his party is already weakening
on the proposition and a note Of
alarmis being sounded that the
foreigners may repudiate the
gold standard and force us to
take less for what they owe us.
And 80 we are the cut-throats
in the printing craft in Sequatchie
Valley? We always like to tell
the plain, unvarnished truth, and
the Tribune has laid down the
bars and in we go. A Methodist
minister standing in the store of
a Whitwell merchant about three
years ago, heard a printer from
your end of the valley say,
Whatever the price the News
wants for job printing, put down
our work a quarter under its
price. p" Another instance some
few years ago we were asked to
bid on a job that was being got
out by the Tribune. Baptist
church paper. We refused to do
SO. saying that the Tribune as
doing the work by priority was
entitled to it. In a conversation
with a printer from the lower
end Of the valley we mentioned
that we had refused to take
the job away from the Trib-
une. and what was the result?
The next time that sheet came
out it was printed in that office
bin the southern end of Sequachee
valley, and the supposition is
that the noble printer aforesaid
Immediately or as soon as we got
away from his shop, safe himself
down and penned a request to
the publisher to let him have the
job. Now who is the cut-throat
printer of the valley. We have a
| faint suspicion that there are
some others than us.
By the wav. son, what do you
mean by the expression would
mt have no room TO bellyache?"
Gould Browns good old grammar
states that two negatives are
equivalent to an Affirmative,
hence your meaning is slightly
mystic. The refined meaning of
thesentence would then be would
have room to bellyache. y But
that would not gee with the rest
of the noble sentence. A belly
ache is a pretty serious affair,
especially when it is a leanness
caused by the lack of Wilson high
PRICE grub, and then it does not
require much room for such a
bellyache Will the Tribune
please elucidatethis noble thought
so that a suffering public may
know what we are expected to do,
to bellyache or not to bellyache.
| We hope the Tribune will fee
better after perusing this epistle
to offset its vagaries. 1t is not
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