Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-03-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
UNCLE TOMS LETTER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

wonderful things are being en-
acted and it does look like we
could not want Tor anything else.
but the people are not content.
They are dissatisfied and a gen.
eral unrest prevails.
Some blame the high cost OF
living and want more wages to
meet the increased cost of living.
Others seem to blame the law
for their troubles. This condi-
ton is very prevalent all over the
land, and you are not in the swim
unless you fall into line and raise
howl, too. Never before have
wages been better than they are
now, and never before has the
farmer sold his produce for as
high price as he gets now, and
he, too, is dissatisfied. He does
mt want to pay the wages the
tenant and hireling demands for
a days work. Perhaps there
may be an inequality, but that
has always existed. The thing
will adjust itself when the peo-
pie produce more than they con-
sumo.
1t seems the prohibition law
has caused resistance to its en-
forcement, yet it is better to obey
it than to risk its violation, for
both the state and national gov
ernmen!s are able and will en-
force it. | never knew a man to
resist the law, but what came
out at the little end of the horn.
can hardly understand why
men and women defy the law
and risk their liberty and free
dom in doing so. Yet it is being
done. can hardly believe that
a man will perjure himself be-
fore the courts of his country,
vet it is charged they do so, all
for the sake Of John Barley
corn" This unrest has produc-
ed a delinquency among our Of
ficers, at least the charge is open
ly made they will not do their du-
ty. Never before has such a
condition existed as confronts
the people. Officers are being
shot in the exercise of their
sworn duty. They are being in
Inundated for putting certain
men as veniremen. Jurymen
are bounded because they dared
do their duty and switches laid
in their yard as a warning.
This method of the liquor element
is producing no end of trouble.
We may not like the prohibition
law, but it will be better to accept
and obey it than to resist it. We
should encourage our officers to
do their whole duty without fear
or favor. The best element will
have the law enforced in spite of
all resistance. There are men
to get on the law en-
forcement force. The law there
is in it is just as tempting as that
of bootlegging.
/ am really sorry that men
will violate the law for a mess of
pottage and not get a full mess.
My advice and council is to obey
the law, whether you like it or
not, and my council is to all of
ficers who don't propose to exc
cute the law and do their duty is
to resign and get out of the way.
The government is not an old
granny sort of a thing, as some
may suppose, but a very live
something with plenty of power
to compel obedience. Our Of
fees are just as much bound to
obey the law and do their duty
as anyone else. The State goven-
ment and UncleSam will see that
thev do it.
! know we have plenty of peo-
pie who actually believe the MAX
ing and selling of liquor is not a
violation of Gods law. | re-
" hen it was made and
drank by al classes, both men
and wome,, church members
and all.
| am not here to condemn our