Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-06-30
INDTYIDUALISM

ing, my educatlOn, my enNAfOnmOnV
all made me stronger in my individu
alistic ideas.
have learned individualism to b
the opportunity of the strong and pow
erful. 1t is the despair of the common
people. It means destruction to tn
weak. The mighty beasts of prey
such as the lion and the tiger, of tn
wilderness, are the lords of the brut
world and devour the weak at will
So, under TOUR" system of govern
ment, the lords and captains of indus
try prey upon society at will. Thes'
lords and captains have learned thu
power of cooperation and have formed
trusts and combines and now practl
cally control every thing produced by
labor for the good of the human fam
lily. They own the lands, the tools
th e shops, where many must labor OF
starve. All these are operated for ne
other purpose than profit. Every yeal
they grow stronger and the social con
dition of our people grows worse.
How long will it take the producers Of
wealth to learn the capitalist lesson OF
cooperation. How long to see those
who do no work take from your pro-
duct the lions share.
Under such a government you are
not allowed to beg. You are not allow
ed to steal. You cannot compel any
one to hire you, but you are sentenced
to death by slow starvation. If you
beg you are jailed as vagrant. Ii
you steal you get term in the peni'
Tertiary and it is often longer than fol-
bank defaulter who steals all the
money of a bank. Our bosses. lords
and captains have been telling us how
to vote and throwing out bone in the
form of a democrat or republican fol
us to fight over while they made laws
that rob us every sleeping and waking
moment of our lives and even after we
are dead.
A few years since I had the pleasure
of having two of the great l am
Bill Taft's federal injunctions served
on me, commanding me to keep Off
my land, ''don't speak to my
slaves. This was an eye opener to
me. 1t is enough to cause any honest
man to think and think deep. Keep
off my land. "Don't speak to your
brother if he happens to be my slave. =
This is more individualism. What
would happen if every man who owns
a private title to the earth should in
Join me at once2 There would be
nothing left me but go as Elijah did.
No, Mr.. Workingman, you have no
place in this government except to be
plundered or robbed Of what you pro-
duce. "Uncle Tom referred to why
the working men do not attend church
and came close to the reason. Now, |
want to add that those who preach for
us often receive their salary from the
Captains who nave kept back so much
of what the laborer produced as to
leave the laborer unable to pay. The
preacher receives his meat and bread
from the Captain and for which he d.
reefs your attention directly to heaven,
teaches you that this world is only a
probation for you and then proceeds to
save you soul by telling you, ''Serv-
ants, obey your masters, )" etc. Never
tells you that Christ's ideal was So
cial world. He evidently believed the
best way to fit men for heaven was to
bring heaven to earth that man might
get foretaste here. Listen. When
He was speaking to his disciples. He
said: 'When you pray say: Thy king
dom come. Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven. We all pray this
but go on voting to keep it
from coming Working people are
catching on to the racket and get moth
ing from the church or leaders of their
and few more panics will
open the eyes of many who are yet
gone on the church. You had as well
sing psalms to dead pig as to talk
CnElSb huu Ills CIuCluAiOu w oUaAN
ing man.
No, Mr.. Preacher, you surely can't
be so everlastingly burdened about my
soul when you don't care what kind of
a rented shack / live in, what kind of
rati ons 1 live on, what kind OF clothes
wear or what kind of anything I
have while you and your master Cap
tain fare sumptuously every day. Men
tion socialism to you and to hear you
tell it. it is too good to ever be. You
are scared of your job, that of soul-sav.
ing, while our bodies are living in hell
right here where we have churches at
every cross roads. You vote for muir
der robbery and everything hard or
mean which could be imposed ON a
working people If you don't believe
what / have written. or desire to deny
it, come at me. have red button
for you when ] fail to make good.
Socialism is christianity applied.
Yes, it is better form of government
than that which has hitherto prevail
ed. You democrats and republicans,
I challenge you to mention just one
principle of justice for which your
party stands and l am tempted to say
I would give reward for it,
/ noticed some republican, calling
b imself "Cold Wave, writing up for
the republican candidates of your
county, said something about settling