Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-11-21
American Labor.

I didn't know the labor question was
such a question as it is until | began
to study it, Why, friends, it is the
greatest question / ever thought on.
1t 5 a slave striving for liberty. It's
the down-trodden seeking its rightful
place i'll the world It's the nobility of
earth endeavoring to aggrandise itself
at no ones expense save its own.
Stop and see the misery and gloom
that would come to the world if labor
was to cease business. Let us look at
facts and not things. Get your eyes
open to the reality Of the question.
Fine dresses, lovely hats, nice musi
cal instruments would soon be an eye
sore to many of us Who are the bust
ness men of earth2 Why the working
people, the producers, and every single
one of them are forced to organize for
self protection against whom? The
non-producers, who are trying to grow
rich off of the labor and production of
others. Can this be right and is it
right in the sight of Gody Is dollar
gained by such methods an honest dol
lar2 Is it not gotten by fraud and the
evasion of the Divine commandments,
expressing people who produce all these
articles of commerce, refusing to even
allow them to have voice in the fix
ing of their wages or the price of their
prOductS2 This is sorry condition of
things-a new order of feudal times
and chattel slavery. There must be a
change This yoke of servile bondage
must be broken. 1t barbarism in an
age of enlightenment and fostered by
men no better than the feudal lords of
old and they hope to continue their
usurpations until labor is subdued and
placed on plane worse than chattel
slavery ever was. The igratiOnists
are most generally persons tinctured
with feudalism and care nothing about
the American and his familys well
| fare, Just so they can get cheap labor.
| That's their object and chief aim.
They want a laborer they can drive
and cuss at their will and pleasure.
American labor has become so en-
lightened of late years they won't sub,
nit to it and consequently American
J labor, especially the negro, is being
. traduced as being of no account and
| now the question is asked where are
the Irish and how does it happen that
the pick and shovel is welded by ltal
ians. The Irish are here but are not
going to submit to any more invasion'
on their manhood by heartless EMPLOY.
ers. They have become liberty loving
Americans and not menials as former
ly. Emigrants may continue to come
but they'll be enlightened by theil
brother American worker. Where il
the Irish house maid? Why this cry
of scarcity of house servants Tit
time has come, my dear sisters, wher
your sister and maids refuse to do ou,
drudgery and be called servant, 81
you can't get them to serve you unit
you learn to treat them as ladies anC
quit rushing into print and calling
them servants. Our ladies' magazine
are an insult to every working girl il
the land and ought to be kicked out o
America. The servant problem can b
solved readily and easily when Ih
mistress learns to treat hired girl a
her equal Oh, she is not my equal
Yes, she is, and nine times in ten he
life is purer.
Servants! l hate the name, | don
blame the, girls for quitting sue
places.
"Your Friend L. "