Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-06-13
Labor Produces All Wealth.

Editor News: All readers Of this
paper are kindly requested to follow
me carefully through this brief article.
There is not one word in it that is
prompted through i'll will or malice to-.
wards anyone. On the contrary il is
written with desire ON my part to
make plain to all that the heading
statement is absolutely correct Many
intellectual workers think that Social
ism is against their interests. This is
not true. More and better intellect
will be required to operate our govern
ment, which will include all the great
industries, under Sociaistic form,
than is now required. Mans superior
brain is that which distinguishes him
mostly from all lower animals. There
is no kind of labor that is not perform
ed best by those who are intelligent.
And now to the subject. You are
bound to admit that no article of food,
clothing, fuel or anything else that is
necessary to the human family can be
produced without labor On the other
hand: Suppose all the gold, the sill
yer, the paper and all other kinds of
money should be depended or, to pro-
duce these things, what would be pro
duced? Any school boy in the LIST
grade can give the answer to the ques-
ton, which is, Nothing Then what
is money, that the people of the entire
earth should go money mad? Here is
the answer: Money is the greatest
power ON earth today, because it is not
only the ''root of all evils but also the
equivalent or exchange for all earthly
goods And the possessor of fabulous
sums of it is worshipped more than
God. 1t is the power behind, or rath-
er in front, of all Governments and
it is notorious fact that the laborers
that produce not only all this money,
but also all the real necessities and
luxuries which it buys, receive only a
small part for producing all.
Probably the workers are exploited
most, in the manufacturing industries.
Government Statistics show that upon
an average less than'20 per cent of
the proceeds is paid to those who do
the work in factories. And now par
don me for a small depression from the
subject. The condition of the toilers
in the manufacturing districts. pre-
sents very pathetic picture. Most of
them are living in the most abject
poverty, in need of the very things
which they produce surplus of. A
large proportion of these are women
and children. Thousands of frail moth
ers and almost infant children, are
wearing out their miserable lives in
the factories of this, the greatest ma
tion on the globe Laws prohibiting
child labor would do no good 1t is
better for them to work themselves Il
death than to starve to death. Suct
conditions are a disgrace to a civilized
nation. May God help me, and you
dear reader, to do our utmost to ale
viate their suffering Socialism offer
the only real remedy, for under So
cialistic form of Government the work
! ers would receive the equivalent o
, all they produced. Consequently tn
mature male members of each famil,
could easily care for ALL And familie
consisting of frail mothers and infan
, children only would certainly be care
! for by a Government founded upol
justice and right Now, then, if labo
, produces all wealth, why it is not en-
titled to it,
Any man with common sense know
that it is not just, no matter If it is j
accordance with law, for the owners c
the machines to receive four times a
,, much as those that do all the work
| will write more anon if / am allow
ell the space. | desire that 'the wi
of God may be done on earth as it
done in Heaven. ED ADAMS.
Meeks, Tenn.