Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-02
]. UNCLE TOMS LETTER.
= GI@I@Ie@N GRNIaAN ARI@LRIsIs

auuaCiSy 70 misfepfe5ent tnlAgS VILE
stay in and show them up as falsiferss
Another week has passed and only two
days work for our miners. We have a
man on this mountain who used to work
365 days in a year. At least I've heard
the foreman say as much and yet he is
very poor, grown old, and is laid on the
shelf by the companies he helped to
enrich This man never played
cards or drank to excess and foollshly
spent his earnings, yet he has nothing
for rainy day. We buried yesterday
one of our old pioneer miners uncle Bob
Mcdonald who died Feb. %, and was
buried 2Srd that from young manhood
to old age had been q servant of the
T.C.l.&. r. R. Co., and died pauper, had
nothing to leave his children, two sons
and daughter, and so it goes. There
are men here at Tracy whose heads are
frosted over that have worked hard all
their lives never gambled or drank
and yet would not be able to pay for
burying themselves If they we're to die.
Hundreds of men are just in this
condition while the employers they
work for have grown rich and richer.
There is hardly doubt but these old
| working veterans have enriched the t.,
| c., |. & r. R. Co. many thousand dol
lars, and now they are old and almost
on starvation, thru no fault,of theirs.
They are not lazy and have always had
a will and desire to have plenty and
wanted to work for it. It's an insult to
talk charity to such men That is not
what the laborers want. am puzzled
about how 1T is and why it is our best
and most regular workers live so hard
while others thrive and prosper and
don't work at ell. Which is the most
meritorious, the most honest?
Well, men, a little over a year ago
provisions went to the topnotch and
touched the pocket books of everybody.
A kick went up all over the land and
the cry was Back to the farm, boys"
The cry was to the poor toiler, and no
one else is trying to better his condi-.
tion. He had left the farm, and hum
dreds of acres lay idle. Because of the
unjust rentals demanded the poor
toiler got tired of giving half and two
thirds of his life to till the SOIL and
sought other occupations. Then the
money gang, who are we'll and COM
pletely organized, have decided these
toilers must return to the farm or
starve, so the starving process has been
inaugurated and will continue until |
the mandate of, Back to the farm,
boys" is obeyed. Mr.. Hill, one OF the |
great ans, said starve them back OF |
course the sanctimonious Rockefeller
and the mighty J. P. won't use any
such language as Hill used, but one
thing is certain, but little exploitation
OF our industries is going to be done un-
til the back to the fat land is obeyed.
About one year ago | said we hadn't
touched bottom, and we hadn't l say
now the best course for the tollers to
pursue is to plant and cultivate
every foot of land they can, and do all /
they can to become independent of cap
italistic bossism. am not abiding to
our little, petty concerns, but to the
upper and higher ones that control
everything in America If each wage
worker will cultivate the little patches
they can get it will help them to stand
the coercion of the masters little
longer. There is no relief in sight as
we can see. Don't some of you little,
narrow cymbling heads imagine l am
accusing you.
As to my friend, Butterfly" l can
excuse her for making such plumbers in
her letters, as am confident she don't
know anything about the deeper sub
ject matter and couldn't tell for her
life why she is republican, or even
explain to the News readers the prac-
tical part Of the christian religion. So
let's all forgive her and say no more
about her blunder. Like many others
who have never studied her own Great
ion and her relationship to God and
her mother Earth from which she was
taken, probably she does not know and
realize that she is an heir and has a
share in what God, the Father, has pro-
vided for all human beings. Lots of
people believe that private ownership
in land is according to thus saith the
Lord" and have never regarded it in
other light. Land was created for the
whole human family, and all human
beings are entitled to their share, and
deprive them of it is robbery and that
is why 50 many are poor, needy and
destitute. They have been and are de-
prived of their birth right as heirs of
God. Socialism breaches restitution
and teaches it just as Christ and the
A postles taught it. The fact is the
whole Bible declares against robbing
men of their inheritance and birth
right, ana / would advise all honest
people to study Christian Socialism be-
tore they fly off the handle and accuse
the poor of being lazy and trining.
Every man should study the Bible. its
doctrines and policies, and obey what
It teaches from the heart. The Bible
is the best political text book on earth.
TTNcV II rrnM