Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-01-17
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.

We S6c VIC dlt ilhciy W Always nave
the poor among us but we are warned
not to oppress them. Military despot-
ism and conquest under government
supervision has produced evils that are
terrible to bear Knowing this can t
see for my life how any sane, sensible
man can argue for government owner
ship. A sober thought, it looks to me,
would be enough to deter any one
from wanting to place into the care
and keeping of governments by owner
ship what is and does belong to man
alone as an individual Every Gov
ernment is more or less despotic and
to increase its power would, to my no
tion, perpetuate the wrong already
done, and sooner or later would prove
the greatest curse to the human fami-
ly the world ever knew and one of the
hardest and most cruel masters the
people ever served. The governments
of the earth have robbed men of their
rights in all ages, and our own govern
ment is doing so today-selling land
that she has no authority from Divine
law to do. She is the monster that is
depriving men of their divine rights
and kicking them out of their inheri-
tance. It's the truth and you Socia-
lists would increase her power if you
could and persuade workingmen to
give their votes for the continuation of
the policy. Governments, friend So
cialist, are dangerous to liberty unless
kept we'll muzzled and limited. Rome
was once free county but in the
course of time it produced a Nero.
Spain produced the Spanish inquisi-
tion. All grew drunk ON power. Too
much power and the liberty of the peo-
pie were lost.
All governments have had too much
power, hence the birth right of men
has never been respected. Their in
heritance was appropriated and made
merchandise of by the governments of
earth
The land question is the most i'm
portant questions confronting the hui
man family and upon its solution
hangs the destiny of the same.
No nation can trample upon the
birthright of man with impunity for
ever. Example after example are left
ON record where powerful empires
have risen and flourished for season
and been overthrown because the
rights of man were not respected. The
Divine right of man cannot be invad-
ed with impunity by a Government
and that Government live. Her cup OF
iniquity will fill up and she will be
made to drink it to its very dregs.
The divine right of man is his inheri
tance bequeathed to him by his father,
God, and no Government can forever
overun and set at naught the decree OF
His almighty power. There will come
q restorative period when men will MOI
be told to move on and keep off the
grass. There will come a period wher
governments will not be allowed to de
prive men of their inheritance but will
be forced to recognize the superiority
of man in his rights and will not dar,
molest him. God made the earth fol
man and not for Governments to own
Each man will have his lot or share il
spite of Governments.
am sorry you Socialists are so un
wise as to lay hold OF theory in place
of living, active truth. Get YOU
eyes open and contend squarely fol
your rights before God and all man
kind. A right to life gives every man
right to the means of making a liv
ing to; to a share in the land, if you
please, but it does not give him any
right to invade the personal field Of
another. His inheritance consists OF
land, air and water-not in railroads
and manufacturing plants. God Great
ed the first three for the use of all
man the latter, and while he and hi
business should be controlled by law
no Government should ever have tn,
power to dispOssess him and his part
ners or own his business; neither ha
the Government any moral right t
dispossess or deny to any man enough
land, air and water to live on.
Now, you have my candid and hon
est convictions of the subject. Is i
bosn? If so, prove it Your theorie
| are simply silly to say the least of i
and not practical, and would eventual
ly create an army of Government
slaves, the like Of which was neve
known. Is this assertion sense? n
man can be independent who is Geniet
his right to the soil A newer of WOO
and drawer of water he will ever b
without a home. am for a home 70
b. the homeless AMI not for your govern
ment ownership theory. 1t is their
by every law of Divine right; his yer
creation makes him an heir, the equa
of all mankind, standing preeminen
J above all Governments and institution
, erected by men, Let him possess hi
share, is my doctrine. Now, I'll qui
and let you Socialists proceed wit
your theories that l consider foreig
to the real needs Of the human family
! UNCLE GID.