Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-02
OH, YOU "BUTTERFLY!"

Butterfly, you are dandy. Why
don't you come. You tell "Wild
West" to hit me. why don't you do it.
Simply because you are only product
of the System. You may have brains
enough but you lack training. Your
will is all right, but got nothing to
offer except some old chestnut you
heard someone else use.
You guess am hungry. l might
guess you to be rascal and l might
guess lie. You may guess anything
and guess work is as good as any
when it hits but / am not guessing.
see it under my own eyes and do my
best to tell the truth when l write and
whatever you may read from my pen
you may bet your life that | know
what am talking about and / beg
you to believe me and don't forget
that l have heart full of love for
suffering humanity.
You may be landlord and working
some man and taking part Of his Ia
Dor. You may be what is known as a
trader and skin your fellow man now
and then of enough to have good
time. You may be a business man, If
SO that means chat you have the abili-
ty to rob your brothers of what they
produce.
If these are true or not, if you will
look around your home you will find
some one living at the back OF your
field in little hut, working for
landlord at 60c day, to feed, clothe
and educate his family, and you your
self, if you receive what you produce
you would receive five times what you
do receive, but you don't know it.
That would enable you to know more
Of nature than you do know. You
don't want it simply because you
know nothing above party prejudice.
which keeps you in ignorance of what
man should really be.
You feel like you want to be a
brother or sister to the angels but you
are unwilling in this life to claim the
great mass of mankind who are living
at the sweet will of some landlord or
captain of industry 'tfrom hand to
mouth. | tell you if you ever enter
the pearly gates yon will sing differ
ent song. You will not get in by call
ing the working people who are Gods
people lazy, INDECENT good for nothing
folks. If we are bad it's because the
system makes us so. Read a five cent
pamphlet on Socialism and you will
begin to see something.
We want you more than you want
"Wild West" TO shit" me- "Wild
West" and all other VESTS are not in
it.
/ beg you to study the life of Jesus.
You will learn (you don't know it
We II that He loved nothing but human
beings and if he had any preference or
favorites it was the poor, the down
cast, the neglected, and those rejected
by the rest. Listen 81 lay down my
life for the sheep" 81 come to deliv
Ell the captives. to set at liberty the
people that are bruised" Take the
life of Jesus aid you will do more
than talk on Sabbath days about man
sions in the skies, You will try to
make just system under which pow
erty and ignorance will be forever
banisbed from the earth. The very
soul of Jesus and essence of his teach
iups and life was tender selfiess dis
interested love for human beings.
Yes, love that went in all possible
ways to make human life glad and
good
Forget your "Big r. and little
YOU. Study the life of Jesus. then
instead of singing, more and more
like Jesus" do more and more like
Jesus, and you will not have time TO
laugh at the poor | am not mad at
you. only sorry.
A. J. BRANNAN.
Tracy City, Tenn.