Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-11-23
Tracy City.

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Your Uncle Tom hears lot Of
stuff dished out these days about the
poor and needy. | believe with all
my heart the only method by which
/ poverty can be abolished is by the
Golden Rule our Saviour taught.
hope this utterance of mine is not
blasphemy. | believe as much as any
man or woman that we have a friend
in Jesus, but it makes me shudder
when / see so many poverty stricken
people living near our magnificent
! churches, who receive nothing but the
cold shoulder. Wten our friend "Jen-
ny Bryan, takes one of his prince
! of Peace, spasms and breaches, when
the capitalist ami working men all get
religion, everything will come out
right William believes in religion,
but when he or any other man under
takes to pump religion in a capitalist 8
hide, be has got job on his hands of
the impossible. The working class
don't oppose christianity No sensible
working man fights religion, but they
are disguised with the hypocrits of the
church. Socialism is friend to the
working man and christianity, and all
poor people can sing, "What friend
we have in Socialism" and Why
Because it stands for the Golden Rule.
Socialism gives the capitalist the
sbudders, and Why Because they
know it stands for even and exact JUS
tice between man and man. Socialism
is not a complicated piece of machin-
cry as the friends AND allies of capital
ism would have you believe, just a
plain, simple advocate of right to all
men. How many of you ever read the
story of lobe Spilkins9 lobe, in
writing to one of our Socialists, says
he has never written to Socialist pa
per but has put in goo time writing
for other papers and running for sher-
iff on the democratic ticket, and when
he has time, goes a-fshing, and when
not engaged in electioneering, just for
recreation helps his wife and children
raise little cotton and corn. He ad
mits he hasn't made any money writ
ing and running for office, but expects
has been expecting to get an office.
He thought he sure was elected once,
but the populists beat him and now in
his words:
"The dad-gummed Socialists are
getting so thick that you cant throw
a rock without hitting one, and it
looks like the pesky creatures are GO
ing to sweep things in the next cleo
tion. They have got the democrat pa
pers uneasy and the women folks are
beginning to sing, "What a friend |
have in Socialism," 1t beats six bits.
Another thing l have against the So
cialists, and l want the women all to
know it, is the Socialists are opposed
to folks marrying. That's what our
preacher says about them. He be-
lieves in folks marrying, for he gets
five dollars for every couple he mar
ries, and then the lawyers and other
officers of the court get $50 for I'M
marrying them. Now If folks don't
marry what is to become of our
preachers and lawyers I've got good
many things against the Socialists.
They would upset the country and
change the constitutional thing l
don't want-and then another thing
the Socialists favor that don't want
is they want every fellow who works
to have all he makes, and that would
force me to quit running for Office and
20 to work or starve. This is an aw-
full proposition for fellows like me
who don't work. It is dangerous
doctrine, shores you are born, Mr..
Editor. 1t would inter fere with my
politics and freedom. Just such doc
trine as that would in few years de-
stroy the great fortunes that are such
q blessing to people who have got
them, and it would destroy our pres
emit beautiful system of government
where the rich can buy themelves into
office. No, l can't be a Socialist. The |
idea of everybody having to work or
starve wasn't born to work. I'm
afraid, sir, every man who works will
join the Socialists and decide to quit
dividing up with fellows who won't
work. Think of the starvation. 1t
will never do to let Socialism get OH
top. Republicans and democrats will
have to join hands to prevent Social
ism from winning. Hoping these few
lines will find you the same, l am,
"Yours truly,
Joe SPILKINS, DEM"
My friend, Mr.. Spilkins, has lot
Of other objections to Socialism.
guess Mr.. Spilkins is honest, but since
be has butted in want him to under
stand my objections to capitalism.
First. 1t is based on murder, WAR,
theft (legalized robbery, idolatry
worship Of gold), and covetuousness
How good honest, intelligent chris
tian can support it with his vote.
can't tell. Can your Mr.. Spilkins re-
nearses only small proportion of cap
talists objections to Socialism. Why,
sir, there are just lot of thick-head
ID, thin-skinned people who actually
believe that Socialists are anarchists,
and that they are the scum and off
of creation, most especially
he high cockelorums of community,
md would il they could, impress it
lpon all men that Socialists are not