Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-02-14

who have fashioned laws whereby they
might steal and rob with impunity.
Socialism is scientific method
whereby it would remove the tempta-
tion of loot and fraud, fixing condi-
tions 80 that it would be impossible
for our representatives to steal one
cent more than they were paid.
Uncle Gid says all governments
have had too much power, and our
rights have not been respected. 1t
will always remain so as long as few
individuals are allowed to run things
in the interest of few. Yes, the land
question is an important question, but
we do not want to retard the laws of
evolution by going back to the primi
tive tools. These tools have been Gre
ated by the workers. These mines
have been opened by the worker; these
railroads have been hewed Through the
rocks and clefts by the worker; these
miHs and factories have been built by
the worker, and the worker is entitled
from o natural law to the fTu1it of his
hands, and while labor has produced
all of these things, she has been handi-
capped by about one out OF every ten
persons, whom we call capitalists, rid
ing on the backs of the producer. You
said in one of your letters that you did
not have any use for . person who stole
or took from another. Neither do |.
So all we Socialists ask If the lazy
drone who is not w0rker ibut shirk-
or, but who has stolen the wealth
which labor produced, under the guise
,df law and Christianity, lis to return it
to the producer. Socialists will not
increase the power G governments to
steal, but ON the other hand take that
power from the few individuals who
are doing SO now, who call themselves
ethe government.
AS to sarcasm and ,calumny I have
nome to offer. I shall be plain and let
the people judge for themselves wheth-
or Socialism is the illieSt off nonsense.
is cooperation Theory instead of q
living TRUTH Cooperation has beer
practiced and is today, and is sue
cess. One lodge in Belgium clears ov
er one million dollars eryear through
cooperation. The second lodge of Bel
gbum clears about $800,000 per yea
through cooperatissn- in {
small way. A law that holds good Oh
q small scale, wilthf put in operation
OK scientific lines hold.good for man,
ou large scale. Ees, right to lif
SHOULD be the right to the means o
lf3e, therefore We Socialists claim
Firstly, that we should have the land
and that it should be nonsalable Sec
ondly, that we shsuld have the tool
to produce food and raiment and built
shelters or homes; Thirdly, that W
shGGld operate the fines of distribu
ti0G, and put the idle drone 80 usefu
employment, and as the gigantic ma
chane has usurped the place of th
priRiitiYe or hand tool, and as W
work collectively running these gigan
tic machines. to create profits for tn
trusts, or corporations who own them
we daaim fourthly we can rgn ther
collectively and save ithe profits to our
selves. Fifthly, as labor prod9ced tn
gigantic machines and equipped tn
factories with them, ,and whereas
knocks thousands of men out o. EN-
ployment while it produces more tina
the capitalist can diSpose of, thereb
creating q panic every ten or fftee
years, thre wing thousands more on
of employment and creating area
suffering, ;therefore we demand tn
factories and mills, etc, 8n the grain
that we created them, and are entix.e,
to them These mills and factories
be nonsalable hut solely fO: the use q
society. ~ we will render to Caes.
, that which is his-the S1in of ta
realm. His picture and superscriptiOt
are there, showing that from a natura
law it is MS. and labor has no use fo
it, but Gods nanre is writteE in ever
tree, in every shrub, in every flower
} His Face is stamped in the sun, th
moon and the stars. So render unit
, God and his people oil Mother Fart
and all of the wealth which is con
tanned therein.
l think / have answered ar
brought argument to prove my posi-
J tion and facts instead of impractical
theories. but if you think not, com
: again. and you will find |, at least
will come. until You prove that scien
tifc Socialism is not the remedy, an
! when YOU bring with that proof a re