Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-06-02

titution. This law has since been de-
clared unconstitutional No, guess
not. Good profit in white slave traffic.
Ever hear of him saying anything
when wOrkingmen came out on strike,
trying to force their industrial masters
to allow them better conditions or
more of what they produce. and being
clubbed, imprisoned, and in some in
stances shot to death. No, stree, Bob.
Ever hear of him being interested in
any way when a worker was honest
and earnest in behalf of the working
men to mount box on the streets of
any city, and tell the world just what
capitalism was doing for the working
man, who often has been dubbed, Jail
ed, starved and sorely mistreated2
Ever hear of him taking any interest
when the President of Mexico, who is
a tool for the capitalists of the q. S.,
demands Mexican who has escaped
the capitalists of Mexico and gotten
into the U. s., to be returned to him
in order that he may be confined in
dungeon and left to starve, or be shot
to death for no other cause than fight
ing system of government where
wage slavery has gone to seed, and
where the average wage is 25c per day?
Why, no! Ever hear of him doing or
saying anything for you, Mr.. Working
MANI
| What if he tried, what could he doP
Nothing. When the Constitution was
written the U. S. Senate was to kill
what the lower house did. If they fail
the President may If every man in
the U. s. votes for law, Congress
and Senate unanimously favor it, the
President signs it, there sits five men
appointed for life who declare it un-
constitutional.
Such as l have above written are on
ly mutterings of the coming storm.
Socialism or pure democracy will
sweep this country and man will, for
the first time in the history of the
world, come in possession of his own
1t never satisfies me to hear from
that disappointed court, "Its uncon-
stitutional. Why are constitutions
Why be compelled to live up to one
written by men who have all been
dead hundred years. Our lives are
the sum total of all who have lived be-
fore us. May we not profit by the
mistakes of others. You may mention
Socialism to some and they say, 'It's
too good to. be true ''It can never
be, because lit has never been. +"
But things change. When was boy
it took a mechanic 11S hours to make
one landslide plow. Now, by the aid
of machinery, he makes it in 8 hours.
Then he received $1.00 per day and re-
ceived in wages for making one plow
about $12.0 now he receives 26 1-3
cents per hour, or 70 cents for produc-
ing the same plow. A ten-year old
girl working II minutes in match
factory, for which she receives cents,
produces 1 gross boxes of matches,
which retail for $3.50. This has not
always been so When was boy it
was my job to hunt bark to cover at
night to keep fire, for we had no
matches.
To produce I dozen ladies' broad
brim, high crown, braided chip hats,
which retail for $50, requires hours
and minutes, for which labor receives
$1.9s. This has not always been so.
The time was when we had no hats or
bonnets, either, and will come again
to great many before we obtain
equality of opportunity.
Instead of the hand method Of our
fathers, we live in the machine age.
Were it possible to bring our fathers
from their graves, they would not re-
cognize this old world, neither would
they know the democratic party. We
are struggling in the grasp of the own
ers Of these machines, who have enter
ed the political field and so far have
been able to force democrats and re-
publican workingmen alike to accept
the conditions of life imposed by them
on their own terms. Men, women and
children are forced to attach them
selves to these machines, thus becom-
ing part of them without having any
part in the production.
Many through ignorance, curse the
inventions of our times, and would
gladly return to the hand method
Then what they produced they receiv-
ed. Now they produce and the owners
of the machine get all except just |
enough to live, be able to do the work !
and produce enough to take our places.
The world once thought this right, |
but today mans conception of himself
is different. Why should I, a child of
God, be forced into involuntary wage
slavery for my brother Tell me that
God wills it, I answer back, Mol A |
thousand times, Mo- /, together with
eleven million Socialists who girt the
globe, stand for the democracy of Je-
sus, who preached the doctrine of the
Fatherhood of God and the Brother
hood of Man.
The real religion of Jesus is in the
world today, in the thickest of the
fight, inspiring men to do and suffer
and die for human rights. Let me ad-
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