Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-07-28

It has been said that the strongest
man in the world is he who stands
alone. This the majority may not
grasp or understand, but the history
of the world, and in some instances
the unwritten part, proves this to be
true. / do not cite the above to justi-
fly myself for having found myself
with the minority for at least twenty
SIX years Of my life. 1t is very pleas
ant to have your neighbor and those
whE should be your friends to be Sc
strong, because they unfortunately
find themselves with the majority and
regard those alone, or the minority, as
having no place in this Universe.
About eighty years since small
bunch of laboring men in Pennsylvan-
ia began to advocate a free school sys-
tenn. They were denounced by the
public generally. Notwithstanding
this, they kept at it, and today that
once small minority has grown to be a
very large majority, and we have oui
present free school system in every
state in the United States.
About the same time very small
minority wanted to call the people to-
gether in the schoolhouses and discuss
the building of railroad. The school
directors said, mo. you shall not use
our school and church buildings for
such a purpose. If God had intended
His people to travel at such a fearful
rate of speed as fifteen miles per hour,
He would have said something about
it in the Bible" Now we travel at
far greater rate of speed by land ovel
the sea, and through tine 'air, and nc
one questions Gods will in the mat
ter.
You will more often find youl
neighbor, who is in the minority,
right than wrong. Nothing of any
consequence to the world has ever hap
pened which did mot begin with mi
nority.
Christ was crucified by majority
while very small minority found nj
fault in him. Today in our country
majosity pretend to believe in Christ
NeariAall denominations preach Chris
and Sunday Schools teach Him, bu
here comes Jew denouncing Him ant
Christians want him ''run out of thu
country So it goes
Now, the object in referring to these
things, is that the minority has rights
and should be respected in them. The
strongest man of your community may
be alone, that is, may have opinions
so different to the majority as to abso'
lutely exclude him from a hearing
among you.
1t requires a great deal more cour-
age than most of us possess to breal
away from a compact majority, anc
advocate cause we know to be right
and receive the frowns, the slurs, an6
even boycotts we are sure to receive
from the majorities.
Having experienced and observed,
feel like / know the lesson well. Yes,
Il know that the most dangerous foe tc
truth and freedom in our country IL
in the ruling of compact majority,
which is led and Influenced by
small self-constituted minority of this
majority Take as an example, the
great democratic party of Tennessee,
which today is rent in two If they
wanted to be democratic, why not sub
init the question of the liquor traffic to
h vote of the people by referendum
that this question might be settled
The trouble is too little democracy.
The will of the people is feared.
noticed Representative in last
weeks issue, going into spasms on ac-
count of the republican party, which
nationally is responsible for more pow
erty and woe, sin and death. misery
and wretchedness than all other pow
ers that be or have been. take 1t
that Representative" is working
man, but he may be one who works
the other man. In either case he is too
small to vote the republican ticket.
/ venture to say that If he will take
any Rne act Of his party and study 1t
frorrf q standpoint of truth and JUS
tice, he will condemn it. His own
party in Tennessee is divided, too, and
one division will vote with one of the
democratic parties and leave our state
in no better condition. Represents
tive sheds his tears for party suprem-
acy. Why not be man enough to use