Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-28

Cab6u D9 SuCn men until YOU receive
an average wage of about 1920 per
year. Statistics also SLOW you pro-
duce an average of about 81, $50. This
shows you are afraid of confiscation,
for all these and many more is what
You vote for and then have the brazen
audacity to stand up in church and
say in your poverty that you are on
your way to heaven, and some go even
further aud say they do not sin, and
Cry and beg all to come and go with
them. My advice along this line would
be to quit voting for so many things
condemned by the Saviour you profess
to be following, and help make this
old world as Christ taught in "Thy
kingdom come.
If "Thy kingdom" was to come,
there wOuld be many of this class flee
to Taft, Roosevelt or Bryan to know
how to get away from Christ-like
! life
Don't think now that am against
the church. l am not. / am against
that kind of religion which votes to
confscate my life. the lives of my
children and their children's children
into the hands of a moneyed aristocra
cy which is today responsible for the
monster sins of profit. rent and inter
est, and is responsible for nearly, if
not all of the wickedness of the people
of 'tour' country.
You may say, Brannan talks too
plain. l am only telling you the truth
and would freely give my life to have
the working men of the world know
our condition as l know it. If there
is anything could willingly die for,
it would be Socialism. Then they
would change this old system of rob
berry, and we would not dread old age,
poverty. or think of what will become
of our children when we are dead. If
tie land belonged to the government
and every man was guaranteed as
much as he could use, you would new
er see a landlord or landlords s over
seer sitting around in the shade while
some poor widow woman's children
cultivated his land for him. No tax
on government land, or as much as
you could use, but tax that which was
privately held with which to enslave
your brother, and it wouldn't be long
until Mr.. Landor. d would dump his
land on Uncle Sam as be could no
longer confscate the lives of his broth
ers, and would have no use for it, and
the tax had become burden to him.
The bonded Indebtedness of Tennes-
see is about fourteen million dollars,
on which you, Mr.. Workingman, must
pay interest to that same set above re-
ferred to. Some more of your lovely
confscation.
If had it in my power l would
land mean for the producers of our
country change our monetary laws
andsI would print enough to nay every
bond in the United States, both state
and national, and to feed them on the
same kind of feed that they have fed
us on. / would change the unit of
value then to that of labor, and their
money wouldn't be worth anything,
and they would realize for the first
time in life what God meant by "In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread.
You would then hear of their stony
hearts being broken and the earnest
prayer of contrite heart, what wilt
thou have me to do" and God bless
your souls, they would do it.
This would not be con6scation, it
would be establishing Gods will on
earth or in the language of justice,
the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber. Call it what you please, think
as you please, | am not a candidate,
and if ever am / will not swerve
from what believe to be right for
votes
To the Socialist readers let me say,
write for the News. l am glad to see
anything from you. We are growing
wonderfully. In Los Angeles in 1890,
we polled less than 5000 votes. On
December 5th the capitalist press re-
ported the Socialists defeated They
forgot to tell you that we polled more
than SO, 900 votes They did tell you
that they did it because the McNama-
ra boys we're Socialists, confessors to
the crimes with which they we're
charged, and even the great 81 am
Tom Watson, who wants to reform our
evils, and keep EN-, joined in. They
arc a hungry set for something to tell
on the Socialists, even if it is lie. Mr..
Watson charged their crime to the So
Socialists They turned out to belong
to Toms democratic party and mem
bers of the Roman Catholic church,
and that branch of that church which
was organized to fight Socialism. He
will now tell you this has nothing to
do with the democratic party, but he
will give the Catholics fits, or lay it
on some poor union labor fellow.
Verify the way of the transgressor
is hard, and be sure your sins will
find you out.
Give me dollar and / will give you
the News and something else to read.
What do you say7
A j. BRANNAN. |