Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-16

On February the 9th in an article
published in the News over my name
quote the following: Excuse me fo
using the word charity, for l verify
despise. yes, hate charity. Give th'
working people what they produce ant
you will never be asked to give back {
part of what has been worse than stol
en-, from them, as charity
From this any unbiased mind will
easily see what regarded as the
meaning of charity, or in the sense
used it.
am glad I have learned enough
to Justify me in saying fully indorse
the above quotation, and regard chart
ty in the above sense as forced plant,
and as as signboard to the unjustness
of the system under which we are try
ing to live lives we should live, but
fail.
Under sys tenn Of government sup
ported by Mr.. "Wild West, . which
legislates for the few to own the God
given gifts to man as their own pri-
vats property, by which the lives of
the many are controlled by the few,
then comes the sorrowful necessity for
your giving back part of what labor
has created to keep it from starving.
This thing miscalled charity, of
giving your old clothes, a peck of
meal, quart of molasses. and worse
yet, 60 to your sectarian church, put
in your nickles to feed the poor stands
as perpetual reminder of the unjust
ness of your system, and when you
know and realize that poverty itself is
not natural but forced on us by your
unjust system, you will be forced to
change your views, and admit that
christian whose burning desire was to
please God in every act, can not vote
for such thing / hurl back at you
your own Scripture. beg you for
your own education on this subject to
read the 18th chapter of First CORN
thians, substituting the word ''love"
for Charity; then take your text on
the 3rd verse which follows: "And
though l bestow all my goods to feed
the poor, and though give my body
to be burned, and have not charity, it
profteth me nothing"
Your straining at this gnat was use
less, only delusion, and didn't mean
for you to vote for system of govern
ment which would make a few mil
lionaires and multiplied thousands of
paupers that you may go around over
the country begging and preaching,
"give him this or that to keep starv-
alton away and call it charity"
Paul never meant any such stuff. Paul
meant love, "Wild West" l thought
you knew betters beg pardon, since
you hold that people must be made
poor that charity may abound, you
are excusable for voting just like
'pap" did but since you have learned
better you will be very ungrateful i'll
you continue voting as you have done;
My what camel you have been
swallowing SO long You stomach
must be steel lined
accept your correction of "beast"
but don't let it get out as / do not |
want to get in position where l will
be compelled to apologize to Mr..
Beast. / might add now that / never
knew Of beasts killing their own or
to do so. You don't fail to
remind Mr.. Beast of this when you
tell the other. /
You Mr.. "Wild West, vote for
beast of Capitalism. which is more
british than any brute | have ever
known and after so years of such rule
You try to point out something good in
Il and utterly fail. Your boosted
Savings Bank bill'' was only cow
,rdly makeshift and might be termed
m annex of your lovely banking sys-
;em by which they get such money
interest. Impossible to tell
The readers this time, but will give it
ater.
You are so party blind as to be uni
able to see anything unless it comes
via s'pap's''6ld road. You should APP