Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-04-07
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9 Uncle TOMS LETTER.

We are going 10 get the boy back to
the farm, says Uncle Jimmie Wilson,
hack to earth. Yes. but how are
YOU going to do it. Uncle JimmieH
Please tell us. What sort of lay are
Won going to give the boy to get him
to tickle his mothers breast. Boys
don't run away from mother without
a cause, Uncle Jimmie. Remove the
cause and you won't need any agricul-
tural schools. All the schools that can
be concocted won't relieve the situa-
ton like little bit Of legislation will.
Inst a little limitation on the number
of acres a man shall have will cause
the boy to think may be he does have
little share in his mother after all.
You see no proud boy likes for less
than half of the people to own all and
he nothing,
Bro. Taft and Bro. Wiley and Uncle
Jimmie Wilson are getting mighty an
xious about the boys and have called
a big convention Maya at st. Louis
and there will be quite lot Of farm
ers there who never plowed a furrow,
and professors who don't know as
much about farming as our old back
woods people know about watch max
ing. Yes, the picture so far is we'll
drawn, but how in the name of sense
are you going to stop the drift of farm
ers to the cities Uncle Jimmie says
if they can stop this drift and get the
boys to return to the farms it would
be the nobIest work since the days of
Christ. / declare, is it possible they
have found out there is Christ
Well, if they have they ought to have
brotherly kindness enough to restore
unto the boy his heritage and not force
him to become a tramp and vaga
bond. He, too, was created by God
the Father and has right to share
in what his father owns and his moth
er produces. No use to acknowledge
Christ and use deception with your
brother, Uncle Jimmie.
This trio of statesmen are proposing
wonderful things in behalf of the boys,
but are silent as death on the tribute
they will have to pay some land syndi-
cate for the privilege of raising hog
and hominy to feed the world on.
Wouldn't the world be better off just
to give these dear boys about so acres
Of land on the condition that they cul-
tivate it2 l think so. Greed says
No, make them pay tribute. Well,
boys amt as easily gulled as formerly
and thousands of them have an idea
that they are really heirs of their
Father and Mother and entitled to a
share in their estates.
Oh, yes, they are going to back the
great agricultural university with
millions It would be better to invest
this money in land for these boys and
let them till it than to spend it as they
propose. Slavery is cheaper today
than 80 years ago and costs less, and
men have made more out of it. Look
at the wealth piled up. Who made til
The boys they love so well, but not
enough to let them have homes as God
designed and said they should.
Well, they are getting mighty uneasy
all along the line and they are afraid
the working men won't come to time.
Any man who votes the republican
ticket amt friend to the poor man
or the poor mans interest. Our Gov
eminent has just been run any old
way and men have been allowed to
gobble up more land than they need
until boy can't pay the price exact
ed The very thing from which the
human family must draw their neces-
stiles is held for speculation. Facts
are facts. Cook books, good roads,
prohibition, DIR Wiley's lectures, and
Uncle Jimmie's fine agricultural
schools won't remedy the evils and
bring the boys back to the farm. I'm
Gle, remove the cause and note the
result. Out of population of 80 mil
lions we've allowed less than mil
lions to gobble up almost everything
Ill blRuG anu III lOOhS Ike lbS dDOuU
time we adopted some limitation of
ownership in land and stop the ungod-
ly, inhuman and hellish speculation
in what we know is an absolute neces-
sity to the human family Sixty acres
is enough for any family and all any
man should be allowed
Republicanism claims much and
does nothing. They haven't touched
the evil that grinds and impoverishes
men. Common sense ought to teach
us that men don't leave the farms for
amusement and flock to public works.
There is cause and that cause is
known to be what 1 stated heretofore.
Bro. Taft, DR.. Wiley and Uncle jim
mic Wilson may keep up their trust
bursting machinery till doomsday and
unless they institute and correct the
and evil, ten years from now will find
the country in worse condition than
aver. UNCLE TOM.
Tracy City, Tenn.