Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-14

by the rich oppress and enslave thu
! poor. We have a rigid law against the
importation of pauper and contract Ia
Dor. Yet it is not enforced because Il
is TOR the interest of employers to com
! pei domestic labor to compete with un
derfed, ill-clothed, ignorant foreign
| labor.
| The committee of Congress appoint
ed to investigate the cause of the 1907
! panic, called as a witness one Teddy
Roosevelt, who was then directing the
affairs of State at our national capi
tai. From his testimony it was showI
that the Steel Trust wished to bring
under its control the Tennessee Goa
& Iron Co., which act would render
the Trust liable to prosecuting under
Sherman Antitrust Law. and the
Trust Magnates plainly told Teddy
that his permission to that combiDa-
tion and his promise not to prosecute
the Trust therefor alone would avert
proportions. Under this threat Presi-
such permission and promise and ad-
ded, II did exactly right. " Hence
we observe the disgusting and revolt
ing spectacle Of once proud and in
dependent nation groveling in the dust
begging for mercy before the power Of
selfish greed.
And quite naturally and necessarily
has this condition come about from
the fact that the producers of wealth
have slept on their rights while their
exploiters have been vigilant day and
night until seven men actually own or
directly control more than one-half of
the entire wealth of the United States,
and by owning and controlling lines
of travel and communication and mon
ey and credit, the balance of the
wealth of this nation is also in their
hands to control. Therefore we'll
might President Roosevelt declare he
did right to humble this nation before
his and its real masters, the Trusts.
So at last. yes at last, the laboring
men have decided that they must
choose their own representatives and
judges to help make, enforce and in
terpret the laws they must obey.
The next most important question to
determine Ia. by what means or party
shall we act politically
Shall We form a new party or shall
we cast our strength with a party al
ready organized and governed by our
selves, which Is ever fighting our bat
ties and espousing our cause, party
that seeks to give to every man the en-
tire product OF his toll and make ev-
cry law a rule of conduct for every
man regardless of birth or station in
life' Think how happy we can make
the capitalists by dividing our forces,
by forming a new party. and thereby
wasting our strength. Years 1t would
take to attain the effective strength of
our Socialist Party. And what could
we gain by such division No plat
form or declaration of principles or
party organization and government
could excel that of the Socialists.
They declare and work for every prop
er claim of the laboring class, and in
all things the majority by referendum
rules, and laboring men compose that
majority. The Socialists maintain
that the whole system of capitalism is
wrong because in its very nature it
exacts from labor all except bare ex
isteuce and has so grown that this Un-
tied States government is of very lit.
tie significance beside it. In Germany
no one ever questions the politics of
worker for he Is always Socialist,
and in two years that party is sure to
control the German Cooperative COM
mon wealth.
With the workers united. under the
Socialist banner, nothing could pre-
vent their victory, and now when cap
italism is exercising all its .inhuman
devices to exterminate the labor lead
ers, is the time to crystalize your for
ces into one great party and let that
party be your true and tried friend
whom you now control, the Socialist
party.
In closing, let me bring a matter Of
The greatest importance to your atten-
tion. We must establish and support |
BY subscriptions good paper for news
IN every large city. We must have the
news as it affects us as workers. To-
lay the capitalist press publishes no
news for our benefit. 1t remains for
ls to do this through our own press to
De established by us.
L. YOUNG,
Salt Lake City, Utah.