Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-12-01
Tracy City.

SpeciaifO The NrTos.
Work is real good here now and
everything is looking up. All the
company lacks is places. From the
hest information can get. the com
pany is short on that We have fine
set of miners, and it is said that we
have the most law-abiding camp in
the United States. don't hear any
charges against Whitwell as not being
o. K. One thing is certain, our
girls and boys are improving and are
looking mp, trying to be something
and somebody.
The Mountain Herald put on her
war paint last week because somebody
suggested in Mrs. Grundy to cut off
the salaries of political preachers.
Well, my notion is if it was necessary
to divorce Church and State then kick
the preacher out of politics or the pull
pit one. When we go to hunting up
reasons why they should not NEEDLE
we find plenty. Most of the divisions
we have among the people is traceahle
to preachers. A small town like Ira
cy City with its six or seven denomin-
ational hurches says there is division
l am catholic in principle and hold to
the one church idea, and believe all
men of God should have a higher con-
ception of their calling than to enter
the filthy cesspool of politics. So /
favor strongly giving these meddle-
some demogogic political preachers the
G. B Not one of them is democratic
or fit to preach Their kind are stir
rers up of strife and has drenched the
land in blood. Remember our own
great civil war. Its origin is enough
to convince any man. Preachers,
mean the meddlesome kind, are dan
gerous beings and always have been.
Now if anyone differs with "Uncle
Tom SO be it. ! am not talking
about good, true genuine followers of
Christ, but about the busy body set,
the ones who sit on the street corner
and talk politics all day and squirt
'sStar Navy juice twenty feet. He
is the kind of preacher / object to and
we've got just that kind. The people
should cut off such mems salary and
let them dig for their living.
Then again, some of them say they
can't live on seven hundred dollars a
year, but must have thousand. Well,
I favor not giving that kind OF a
preacher anything. / know honest,
Woodworking men with large families
living on less than four hundred but
he is a poor, forsaken workingman.
NV my Is there any such thing as
religion9 If there is no one breaches
or talks it but social democrats. I've
been reading the christian Socialist
and l tell you it has the right ring
and talks to me like brother, and
shows me how l ought to do to help
my brother. 1t don't abuse me and
say I belong to the liquor gang or
that I am under the influence of the
whiskey ring because l voted for Bob
Taylor, or that l am beneath the bet
ter element and all of that kind of
stuff, but it tells me / am entitled TO
my share in what God, my father, has
created for me, and that it is wrong
for me TO defraud and take from my
brother what he has created and made,
for it is his, all of which l believe. 1t
teaches me to help my brother, and
not allow him imposed on or robbed of
what God created and made for every
human being, so begin to see how
wrong and unjust our system and poll
cy of government is, and how it opens
the way to fraud, graft and every
thing else that is wrong, unjust, un-
christian and unfair. Looks like any
man ought to see our system of govern
ment is not whit above the rules and
of robbers and thieves.
Now, think over this. Come along, |
"a. j., your doctrine is the doc
trine of Christ Preach it, teach it |
and sing it day in and day out, and
we II run you for the State Senate two |
years from now as social democrat.
Uncle Tom |