Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-05-13
r. L. DYKES SPEAKS TO THE PUBLIC
ON THE LABOR QUESTION.

Gentlemen, we stand today between
a law and a captain, what / call a
push, pull and be-dam law. Now, how
many men are there today that don't
obey this law There is not one who
labors for bread who don't keep up his
dues in this hellish law, and yet they
will go right up to the polls and vote
for what they get. want some one
10 tell me what show or what authori-
ty poor man has got to help each 9th
er in this world. They will toll day
by day and go half naked and without
sufficient food, yet the poor little
weak-minded wretch will go to the
polls on election day and listen to one
of the grand robbers who probably had
figured after all the poor wretch had
made in ten years and when the poor
little wretch hears the word democrat
or republican named the blood flies to
his little green "simlin," and at the
same time he would take a mans life
over his side of politics, and gentle
men, just as long as people keep this
green water in their "simlins' they
will get what they vote for, and God
knows what that is
Now, gentlemen, study and come out
of this hellish condition. The only
way is to vote for the Socialis SITS to
come in power.
just as long as we people who labor
vote like we have voted, just that long
we will lay in the belly of hell. Now,
my poor old father voted a democratic
ticket all his life and died poor man.
He was honest in his voting. l am
just "a years old and if the democratic
party did not do anything in my old
fathers lifetime, God knows they
won't do me any good.
Some men will have to turn Social
list through their stomachs while 9TH
ers will have sense>enough to vote next
election. If the Vanderbilts get anoth
er price on what we eat by next cleo
tion people will all be so darn weak
they will have to vote Socialist tick
ct or claim that they have got a bad
case of consumption. God knows it is
better to vote the socialist ticket.
don t know how people are elsewhere,
but thank God they are asking for the
cleansing blood of Socialism out here.
Pull your back bone from your stom-
ach and come to the light. The negro
was freed years ago but the laboring
white man never has been free and
who is to blame7 1t is the darn fool
who is willing to be under bondage.
Now who is it that makes conditions
like they areY 1t is the voter who
caused the laws to be like they are.
The voters did it. How many acres of
land do the laboring men own? How
much tax do they pay for possessing
what little they do own. Why do they
have to pay it? 1t goes to the master.
What for2 Guess. l guess it is be-
cause you voted for this and it is good
enough. Pay it.
Now, gentlemen, when you get what
you vote for why do you kick? If you
can better your conditions by voting a
Socialist ticket, why in the dickens
don't you vote it2 Get that poison out
of that green "simlin" of yours and
vote for what God intended for us tC
have. hope the time will soon come
when the democratic and republican
parties will come to the light and vote
for a party that will practice what
they preach.
This world will not be anything bu
trouble and slavery to the poor work
ing men and women as long as mel
vote like they do. Don't let some bis
Vanderbilt pat you on the shoulder be
fore next election and say, "Vote foI
me and l will make laws that you will
only have to chew your victuals ant
swallow them, and God will onl,
make you die. just now the partie
are in power and can your stomach ge
what it likes best. ? No, but the re
publican party makes it eat bacon a
18c per lb flour "a lbs. for ST.. 10; sug
ar, 10 lbs. for 81. 90; lard at 16c per ID
l will guarantee one thing. Tha
is this: labor must have better stom
| achs or more money or vote for Social
, ism, and God knows this is the onl,
} way to get more money. All mel
| know better stomachs come from God
and money from the capitalists, S
pray and vote until next election.
{ R. L. DYKES,
D Meeks, Tenn.