Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-03-07
THREE REASONS WHY A MAN
SHOULD NOT BE A SOCIALIST

ing in the News, | want TO saw tbero
are three reasons why a man shorId
not be a Socialist
First-Ignorance.
Second--Prejudice.
Dishonesty.
The first and main reason why neo-
nile turn their nose up at Socialism is
because they don't know what IL l.
They don't know what il teaches
They are taught by the tools of CAM.
talism to believe that it is Anarchism
and everything else but what it is 7
don't mean that the people are FOOLS
when say they are ignorant I saw
they are ignorant of the question mn.
der consideration.
The second reason is prejudice. They
let their prejudice over balance their
good reason, and common sense Tbev
won't listen to anything concerning
the question, because it don t suit their
politics. Some are so party -preiudiced
that they would rather stick to tba
marty and sink the nation into a manic
as to use reason and common sense
Reason and common sense win teach
any thinking man or woman that nm
less the system is changed that we are
bound to meet panic in very short
time and if the foreign market was
to play ont at the end of the year of
1907, that the panic would come before
the end of the year 1908 Then reason
and common sense will teach anv
| thinking man or woman that the for
eign market is bound to play out be-
fore great while. The United States
now produces large surplus and must
have a market for the surplus, and if
the foreign market plays out, the peo-
pie of the United States cannot con-
sumo the surplus because they can't
buy it off the market They could use
it all right if they could get enough
money for it when they have produced
it, to buy it back, even allowing the
20 per cent of idle people their equal
share. But they can't buy 80 per cent.
of what they produce off the market
with the same money they are allowed
for it after they have produced it. So
you see that we have got to have a for
eign market. Now, how long are we
going to have that foreign markets
All other nations are fast being devel-
oped, and when developed they will all
produce surplus, as the United States
does now, and then where is your for
eign market? l will leave that for you
to answer. Will you, please?
l said the third reason was dishon-
esty. l don't mean that the people
that reject Socialism are all dishonest
nor even one-third of them, but we
have got class of people who would
rather see a panic than to support a
system that would force them to make
their living honestly. We have lawyers
in THAI class. We have lawmakers in
that class We have spectators on
cotton, BATTLE, hogs and in fact on all
farm products, in that class. We have
spectators on coal and other minerals
in that class and we have spectators
of timber that God created as well as
the coal and mineral and even on the
earth which God created for His peo-
pie.
| dom believe that God cfeated the
oil for the Standard Oil Company, nol
the coal for the 7. G. l. Company any
more than he created it for you and
me. Do you?
Let S look at home and see how many
big, stout, hearty, healthy men we are
feeding and furnishing fine whiskey
and cigars to that don't produce {
dime. We have many that are rob
bling US by trading horses, many b!
gambling with cards and dice, man!
that sit back in saloons and hire thei
work done and pay for it with our la
Dor.
Still with all these idlers we that d.
work, produce a surplus. Then if tn
, conditions of things were such that ev
cry man would have what he produc
ed, less the the cost of manufacturing
and transporting, what part woul'
this class get? Again, if this i'd
: class. was forced to produce something
or have nothing, we would produc
more capital than we do now, woul
we not? There would be more work
, ers and fewer bosses, and the peopl
| that labor would have what they pre-
duced by their labor. The manufact
urers would have what they produce
and the middleman what they produC
ed, and we would have no surplus an
would not need a foreign market
9 Then the United States could consum
the wealth of the nation.
. CHRONIC KICKER.
. Waneta, Okla.