Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-11-28
Tolbert. Texas.
Sp(fiaI fo n 40.

We are having some awful cold
weather for this season Of the year.
We have had freeze which did con
siderable damage to cotton in north
west Texas and Oklahoma Cotton
was late and farmers have suffered loss |
from green bolls being frozen. We had !
ice nearly half an inch thick.
Most all the farmers see and realize |
that the whole attention of the money |
power is turned loose on the laboring |
man and unless we as mass OF labor
ing men stand shoulder to shoulder 4
and contend for freedom, we will still
have to labor under bondage to GER
tain degree, so let's all be as brother
laborers and seek the welfare OF labor
and farm products. If all VIII STAND
together we will win and gain our
rights as free American people. l say
it is not right for those New York
gamblers to sell our cotton before we
have it planted and then force us to
take less than half what the spinners
have to pay for the cotton. think
Congress ought to stand for freedom
and help the oppressed farmer to real
ize the benefit of his labor. If the
farmer is of use, appeal to congress
men to help to protect him. IL he Is
of no use and is curse to you money
powers, Just continue to grind on him
L. AI,n ~ nTaH
to the grave in poverty, rags, ignor-
ance, shame and hunger, and then
jump up in the face of all this and tax
him to send the gospel to the heathens.
want to tell you to remain at home
and convert homefolks if you have the
power. Please use it at home You
can show nation on the globe that
has as slack protection for labor as our
grand United States Then do some-
thing for the sake of the poor that are
| being trampled on and their rights
thwarted. 1t sure is here in this land
shat you brag of as being a free and
independent republic. | am going to
tell without fear of successful contra
diction that we are anything else but
free people. The money power sets
the price on what we grow, eat, wear
and learn. Then show me the point of
freedom, if you please. You may call
it freedom but have another name
that | can prove to you is more suited
for it. Now, just let one of us poor
dogs, as they call US, gamble little
and see how quick we have to raise a
little coffee money for them, and am
proud of it, too, for | am opposed to
gambling, but bless your soul l am
more opposed to the rich men gamb-
ling off of my labor and taxing me
with the debt too.
| Oh, but someone says, he CANDLES
legally. He does? Who made it legal
for any man to gamble? Does the
divine law permit anyone to. ga1nbleY
| No it does not. Then if it doesn't l
want some of you great d. DIS to
tell me where their rights come from
Who gave them leave when the God
of Heaven does not? Who has higher
power? VIII you please tell me when
it is right for any any man to gam
BILE? | must tell you that our lawma
kers will have to suffer the penalty for
making such laws that allow legal
stealing, gambling or defrauding the
poor out of their labor.
| Now, we have to pay nine dollars a
ton for all the coal we burn. What
does the poor man get for digging it?
l never dug but hear the diggers say,
from Acc to 60c. Oh, what shame to
extort in such way, and then say it
is done legally. I want to ask you
lawmakers who gave you such legality
Where do you get it? Who is to blame
for all this? Just let poor, laboring
man go to town and you can see lot
of two-bit dudes standing about on the
corners of the streets grinning, and
now and then you can see one jump
up to spit out above his standing col
lor. Oh, how glad | would be to see
our lawmakers stop legal gambling and
let few of those ten-cent dudes go tC
work. Will such ever be the case? Not
as long as you elect lot of ten-cent
lawyers to make and control our laws.
Let me ask you to help to see after
the lawmaking and when you get gooG
laws, help to enforce them and let's
try as much as is in us to stop this le
gal gambling on our labor.
JOE HACKWORTH.