Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-02-17
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3 UNCLE TOMS LETTER.

Men may dodge and twist and evade
what they please. but nevertheless the
truth will stand. There is a vast
amount of difference between landlord
ism and farmer. Some of our most
splendid farmers do not own foot OF
land, and hundreds Of others who have
left the agricultural fields are also
splendid farmers. Many of the wage
workers of today understand the till
ing of the soil just as well as the land
owners do, and when ] said the land
owners were the cause of present con-
ditions, meant exactly what l said.
Mems freedom has been denied them
to cultivate Mother Earth without
paying an enormous price for tnat
blessed boon. The landed despots are
exercising more cruel heartlessness
than Nero, for they, by their greedy
exactions, are bringing large portion
Of the human family to the point OF
starvation and nakedness. Food and
clothes human beings must have, yet
the landed gentlemen have let their
greed SO sway and influence them that
there is not enough hog and hominy
raisers engaged in that pursuit
1t is we'll established fact that
scarcity of farm labor has been
brought about and while this is admit
ted. it seems no one has the courage to
point out the cause, and the feet OF our
agricultural secretary gets cold when
that is brought up. / believe in blurt-
ing out the truth, regardless of land
owners, and let them wear the gar
ment they cut and made.
Farm conditions are not such that
men Of ambition appreciate. The ex-
actions are unreasonable, so much so
that its but little better than cbattel
slavery, and the land owner gets the
lions share, and the man who does the
work hai dly gets enough to feed and
clothe his family.
How many tenant farmers are there
making handsome living3 None. No
man on earth can refute the bible and
we never read of poor man in 1T
going to hell, unless it was a greedy
cuss like Judas, butt have read of the
rich man that died and went to hell.
This rich man seems to have enjoyed
so many good things in life that he, l
guess, doubted there being any hell,
but poor folks all know there is hell
for they all have had taste OF hell
here on earth, and consequently they
shun that place and try to treat each
other right. while the big land owners
build their barns larger and seek to lay
up goods for many years. This rich
man asked favor in hell. He wanted
poor Lazarus to leave the bosom of Abb
raham and come to him and give him
drop of water to cool his tongue, for
he was tormented in this flame. Laz-
arus was tenant of this rich man and
Law at his gate and lived on the crumbs
and waste stuff not good enough for
the rich man and his family. How
strange it is that rich man, though
in hell thinks poor man is under OBJ
legations to him, and will seek to have
him wait on him as is their wont here
on earths How like and true to life
docs the bible draw the picture Of Di-
yes. 1t makes no charge, only that
he allowed Lazarus to live on crumbs,
while he himself Jared sumptuously
every day. He was landlord that
was clever enough to allow poor man
a place to stay at his gate, hut that
was not enough to keep him ont of
hell. Neither is cast off clothes and
a pittance of food to the poor going
to keep men and women out of hell
in this day. st. James declares such
things to be fraud and tells the
landlords to weep and howl for the
miseries that shall come upon them.
Undoubtedly the most aggravating sin
of all ages has been and is today the
sin of landlordism, and no nation that
has allowed such has ever stood the
test. To fare sumptuously every day,
enjoying the good things of earth,
while your brother lives on crumbs, IL
sure passport to hell. The very ides
of private ownership of what Goo
created is ridiculous in the face of His
declarations concerning the birth righ'
of man, denying to men in life what
we dare not deny them in death, q
resting place in the bosom of his moth
or earth. Faring sumptuously every
day while your brother starves, OF
"while thou in thy lifetime enjoyed
the good things" is all the charge
made, but you let your brother hav'
the evil. Yes, you helped rob him o.
his birth right How true is that to
day. Landlordism forcing men to cit
les, towns and public works to get thu
crumbs that they may live and no
: die. Cruel. unjust, unfair is it not Il
, drive men away from the breast O
their mother so be cannot get his sus
taenance from herr Can't you see the
brutality of the thing and how heart
less it is and how unchristian land
iordism is and how it is the cause o
vice, immortality of every kind ant
disposition, the hot house OF hate ant
anarchy and wickedness in high plac
es, even prostituting the government
to wink at the robbery of men.
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