Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-12-20


will try and give him another, my
only object in life being to do all the
good can for my fellowmen, and my
one aim is to leave this old earth in a
better condition than | found it.
Now, each and all of us know that
conditions are horrible in the extreme.
While the laborer gets higher wage
than he formerly got, yet the commod-
tiles of life are so much higher that in
the long run he is but little better off
than he was twelve or fifteen years
ago, except in working conditions. OF
course the cause is easy of attainment.
The capitalist have each end of the
rope in their grasp, and when they
raise the price of labor they also raise
the price of the necessities of life, Civ
ing with one hand and taking it back
with the other hand.
In Carroll D. Wright's report of
1900, the wage slave gets seventeen per
cent. of the wealth which he creates.
In the reports for 1860 the wage slave
got seventeen per cent. of the wealth
he created, so how much better off are
we today than we were forty-six or
forty-seven years ago. The above are
facts, and the so called prosperity be-
longs to the capitalist class. Why do
they prosper then and not us? We
produce more than we did then.
Through the introduction of machinery
we probably produce as much again,
so our Z per cent. would be doubled,
but when we take into consideration
the commodities Of life have more than
doubled. therefore we are in the same
boat we were in several years ago. In
other words, through the Trades Union
movement, wages have advanced II
per cent. and the commodities of life
have advanced Al per cent. while the
other per cent. which belongs to us
by the doubling of production, is TAX
en- off through the banking system now
in vogue, and rent.
By the banking system each dollar is
reduced in purchasing power to ninety
four cents THAT is your good Republi
can sound money! SO in summing
up the matter, each worker in the u.
S. earns 50, 451 He turns this pro-
duct over to the capitalist class, and
each worker taking the aggregated
receives S437, giving to the capitalist
class per each worker, two thousand
and fourteen dollars per year. You buy
your job at such an enormous price
per year. and yet you cannot have any
say so about your job. The man you
buy your job of claims the right to
discharge you at his sweet pleasure.
Now, if you buy coat or horse OF
any article other than job, you have
full say so of that article So you can
plainly see that the wage Garner is as
much of slave as the chattel was fif,
ty years ago. Now, the products
which we call the necessities of life,
which cost $l25. % to produce, are sold
back to you at $500. co. AS You only
get $437 you see that $400. 90 will buy
only $62. so worth of goods at the above
price; or at the rate Of SIS. 62ls pei
500 dollars. AS you will then have
SIT left it will purchase about six dol
lars at the above figures, which give
you for the year, about sos dollars a
the actual cost of production,
Now, if this won t jar any thinking
man, after he sees through it, then
will say he is caloused-not in tn,
hand, but in the brain. Now, broth
ers, there is but one way to stop thi
fearful robbery and slavery, and that i
to vote as you strike. Organize OF
the industrial and p-litical fell; so q
to the ballot box in solid phalanx anC
there WELD your power, and should
they fail after we have won by on
vote, then we could say, Mr.. Capital
list, not a wheel of industry will NOV
till you get down and cut Just thinl
for a moment With not whee
turning, and 10 one to cook for tn
capitalist, or do any other service, ant
when labor has all the railroads tiec
up they would vacate in very few
days, for they are dependent for thei
existence ON Labor, while the,
cram it in your head that you are de
PENDENT upon them. Remove ever,
capitalist FROM our land and labor
would continue just the same.
THE CRANK.