Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-05-19

thing to which you can apply the
other four senses, Smell and taste
the subject aud hear all you can a
bout it and then carefully feel it
over before you trust the whole
thing to a mere casual glance of the
eye.
Don't trust man too far because
yon see him go to church every Sun.
day and regularly attend prayer
meeting on Wednesday night.
Churches don't alwsy represent
Christianity. Sometimes the church
is only a cog in the political wheel
the wheel that boosts some to the
top of fortune and grinds others into
the mud of poverty, drudgery and
want.
The Gar of Russia is the head of
the Greek Catholic Church in Russia
not for saving the souls of his sub
jects but to play off.on their prejudice
and superstition and mould them into
the long suffering taxpayers, who
believe in his God-given gall and
presumption to lead more than eigh-
ty million dupes around by the nose
of their ignorance.
And in this country the big capt.
alists, who build up powerful corpor-
ations and trusts to pinch the hard
earned dollar out of your pocket
while you pray for deliverence: the
same old frauds who build churches
and grease the pastors and congre-
cations with fat contribution selected
, from the pile of plunder they pilfered
, from the people; when they want the
friendly shadow of the church to
, soften the light that shines OH their
crookedness and no true church is
willing to cast a shadow for them,
( they build their own church and
, and supply themselves with its sha-
! dow in spite of true religion and ii
r the scheme is too thin to cast sha
dow of the required density they can
/ easily get church members from then
t own church to fill the vacancy and
a shove them in with both hands full
/ like the farmers wife filing up the
!. bed with long rye straw Or corn fod-
n der.
r simply mention these facts tt
5 touch your five senses and put yor
+ on your guard because you are OBJ
e liged to reach some sort of conclu
d sion every day of your life And OF
It these conclusions hang all your fu
r ture hopes and the little wad of mon
o ell you have balled up and laid a
b way for the proverbial nainy da,
a that is sure to follow each spell o
: dry weather.
e The common people are Away
e getting it in the neck simply becaus
: they arrive at conclusions and Swal
} low conclusions before they are ripe
/ When politicians want to catch tn
l. common Jasper'5 vote all they neeo
n do is to advocate some politica
10 measure that looks sound on th
d surface and Mr. Jasper will jump a
1t the conclusion and gulp it down an
l. complain OF industrial indigestion TO
e weeks afterwards, or until ne Swal
.e lows another indigestible conclusio
1t with a nightmare. Satisfied at on
little peep at subject or thing, c
al one little smell OF it, or to teel Of
Ar with wooden mitten on your han
1t and a clothes pin clasped on the en-
$! of your nose will not do.
= Don't conclude that pap's pohtic;
l. ideas are the only genuine ideas j
e. the world or his religious greed ii
+ only religion in existence, or his pr,
G. fesslon the only dignifed voeatio
Sc in the land, or his head the most pc
ut feet store house Of information in ii
re world. | have been as pap myse
to and know from experience that a
,e paps do not know it all. Too man
he paps jump at conclusions and g
lis fooled like inexperienced boys
.e. For lack of room 1 close.
an Yours truly,
DO BILL DOOLEN.