Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-03-31
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8 UNCLE TOMS LETTER.

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town don't know when l have re-
eeived such beautiful bouquet of
personal compliments as I've received.
was surprised. Men came to me
smiling and taking me by the hand,
said, "Uncle Tom. we've been reading
your letters and you've told the truth
every pop -
Well, I've tried to, friends. l be-
lieve our experiences and observations
have been such that we know the facts
and have them pretty well by heart,
and will not be so easily duped and
misled as we have been in the past If
the party in power had done the least
thing helpful to the poor man, we be-
lieve we would have felt it before
now, but as it has done nothing by
the way of legislation to abolish pow
| erty and lift men to a flee and indie
pendent condition, hardly think we
are under any obligations to keep it in
power There is simple and plain
way to eliminate poverty and misery
from us and that is by abolishing the
system that causes it. Then we are
asked what causes so much poverty.
Just ask yourself what would cause a
healthy baby to starve, not old enough
to eat, and you have the answer. Keep
il from its mothers breast and it will
die. All you have to do is to prevent
men from tickling their mother
Earth's breast and poverty and misery
is the result. There is no chance to
dodge this truth, for a human be-
ing is more dependent on the earth
than a child is on its mother. and he
is part of the earth as declared in
Holy Writ.
Now, am aware some don't like
my position on the land question,
while about two in every three do,
and some who own large farms favor
the doctrine preach. They know and
realize that landlordism is the womb
that gives birth to poverty and misery.
They know that the system, if contin-
ued, will pauperize children yet un-
born and are honest enough and have
the love of humanity in their hearts
strong enough for a restitution to be
made. Some of them declare if they
ever get chance to vote on the sub
iect they will vote to give all men a
home and so acres is enough for every
man. The hearts of such men are
right before God and man and are the
kind of men that have fellow feel
ing. We have world of people trot-
ting here and there, preaching reform,
but when you sift their ideas and doc
trines down it is about as false as what
already exists. A real, genuine re-
form would restore unto men their
heritage.
Now l don't want to antagonize any
reforms or charity, but can't see any
thing very helpful in them for a poor
man. A poor man doesn't need chart
ty, but he does need to possess what
his God created for him, and allowed
him to enjoy it. Landlordism is cruel
and brutal and places the great major,
ity of the human family completely al
their mercy. It has been said the
farmer clothes and feeds the world
Yes, but landlordism will starve II
and grind it out if we are not careful
The severe exactions and demands o.
landlords have brought conditions thai
are not relished, we all know Bu
who has the courage to champion thu
cause of the poor man and remarry
him to the soil2 Lots of us can figh
companies and corporations and maxi
the welkin ring with our anathemas
but we haven't the courage to fight TO
i the rights and privileges of poor mel
that would give them permanent relic
not9 I hate to attack the church o
any other noble institution, but
would to God the church would preac
the doctrines of the Bible and live it
and quit giving its service to Caesar
l venture to say you couldn't get bu
few of the mouth-p pieces of the churc
I to preach restitution, doctrin
d strongly taught in the Bible, but 20
J. can get them to rock along on tn
Q fleeing business to send the Gospt
g to China and Japan to people VIII
q treat each other better than we dc
q and whose government provides home
:, for them, but our CAD abouts go owe
b there and come back and give us
II doleful and dark picture of their live
., and never give thought to the povel
q ty and misery in this country.
,, Charity begins at home and l al
q not sure but Confucanism has abor
as much of God in it and brotherl
love and fellowship as our own do
trine. They are not altogether igno
ant of great God as we heard the
m were, and in some things they exec
$ us in brotherly kindness. The peopl
10 we would civilize and christians
Of are not surfeited with landlordism
3 UNCLE TOM.
a. Tracy City, Tenn.