Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-10-15
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ed by the required number of states,
and Washington was elected as the
first president, the new government
was organized and the United States |
started on its course as one of the re-
cognized governments of the world. !
This new government was founded up
on the principle that the people were
the sovereign power and was called
democratic republican government,
wherein the men who made and exc
cuted the laws were to be elected at
stated periods by the people The
judges were to be appointed by the
president and the governors The
ablest and most far-seeing statesman
of that period, Thomas jefferson, OBJ
1ected to that provision Of the Consti
tuition. He predicted that the judicir
airy would become "the sappers and
miners of the liberties of the people,
Does not government by injunction in
these modern days of corporation rule,
prove that his fears were we'll founded
and that he would see danger when
none of his associates could2 Notwith-
standing this defect, the American re-
public made most wonderful progress,
and did fairly we'll for the first fifty
years of its existance Little, howev-
er, did the patriot fathers realize that
| their representative form of govern
ment would prove failure during the
first century OF its existance Little
did they think that the peoples rep
resentatives would go into the business
OF creating creatures by law and plac-
ing public utilities, such as the dis
tributioning agencies of the, wealth
creators, money and transportation,
| dollars and wheels) wholly under
their control And not only that, they
! gave those law made creatures the
right to own real estate, making them
presents of immense amounts of our
public lands and also to have and con-
troll large tracts of our valuable miner
al lands. These lawmade creatures
called corporations, have increased
with most wonderful rapidly and
have grown to such monstrous proper
tions that they control congress, state
legislatures, our courts, both of the
old political parties, many of our uni ,
versities and colleges, and have aQ
ally got the church in fear of til
power-all within the last third of
century. They can now say, and,
say, "The people be id"
For the benefit of the readers o.
News, I will now describe corr
ton, the creatures that have overE
cred the people, the political pal
the associated press. the telegrs
news distributors), and are now
vising and preparing a scheme to
lence freedom of speech: In brii
creatures that have grown to be grea
er and more powerful than their creaS
or. No person has ever seen corpor.
alton. The Jail is not yet built that
will hold corporation, neither has
the rope been made that can hang a
corporation (many of them ought to be
hung for the murders they have com.
mitted), and yet they are legal per.
son, can sue and be sued, and have
their vested right" SHOULD be, vest
ed wrongs) protected in preference tt
the property and lives of men, womer
and children. Query, right here
Will some learned professor of tn,
, Honest Money" university please
: condescend and answer "fiat in
FAINT 81 question, viz: "If, by tn
mandate, decree or fiat" of law, /;
legal but invisible reunion can b.
created, why cannot legal and in
visible dollar be created by the sam
kind of fiat? And further, IF
piece of flesh and blood "a man, cal
q represent this law-made creature &
0 corporation) in court of Justice
n either as plaintiff or defendent, VIII
; can not piece of paper represent tn
: dollar in the same court as a debt pay
ing instrument. But let us see wha
|. corporation is. The corporation
an artificial person with no sense t
. feel, no conscience to reprove, no bod
to die, and no soul to save or to b
id, either, what pity-the latter
l mean, yet it possesses a power equS
to that of many men. The corpors
tion is creature dangerous to the lii
critics of the people, and the life of tn
| republic. Corporations have no polit
cal principles, except to make none
| and to increase their power. The pc
| itical platform of a corporation can /
expressed in two words-avarice an
| greed. A corporation, being impei
sonal and soulless, is exempt from 81
cial Ostracism, though not from publ
detestation. The corporation possess,
the strength of civilization without i
; mercy. A corporation cares nothiI
for the ''inalienable rights of man
life, liberty and the pursuit of happ
ness. These attributes of cOrpor
| tion are the controlling forces of Il
| corporations which have secured Il
| complete control of our public utiliti
| money and transportation. By co
trolling our dollars and wheels tn,
| have it within their power TO explc
| and rob the wealth producers, the n
tion builders, Of this or any 9th
government which goes into the bui