Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-04-20

bn6 WATSON JeuerSOulan magazine.
In the United States there are thous-
ands of home owners who have had
old fashioned democracy presented to
them, under the name of Socialism,
and they have embraced ito They are
as yet intensely irritated at my alleg-
ed unfairness and misrepresentation
They will learn in due time that |
have been rendering them, as well as
others, a valuable service by letting
them know to what destination ia
bound the train they have taken Ed
itors, like those of the Appeal, who
are driven to the desperate extremity
of disowning Herr Bebel, the supreme
world figure among the leaders of So
cialism, furnish evidence of the COR
rectness of my contention. They
know, as well is do, that when our
farmers come to realize what the
loathsome doctrine of socialism actual
~ is, they will drop it as they would
any other thing that is obscene, filthy
and socially ruinous,
With resolution which nothing can
shake take my stand for the ideals
of the Old South. For the law and
order which makes for the equitable
distribution of prosperity | will work
until the curtain falls as hard as the
grand statesmen of -bellum years
worked for them. ''WE HAVE NO
POOR!s' cried Legare, McDuffie and
Calhoun. They told the Gods truth.
Under the democracy of jefferson and
jackson and Benton, breadlines and
armies of unemployed were impossible.
Those noble hearted, great minded
men did not frame up Dingley and
Aldrich tariffs to enable one class to
steal from the others. They did not
form copartnership between the rich
men and the National treasury. They
did not pack the Senate and the Cab
mate with rascally lawyers They did
not establish secret alliance between
the Pope and the United State govern
ment. They did not go in for an imi-
tation of European aristocracy, caste
legislation and militarism. They did
not surrender the sovereign power to
create money They did not consider
it an bonorto mortgage and remort-
gage the republic with bond issues,
They did not keep $50, 600, 900 of idle
gold in the treasury, to remove 1T
from competition with Morgan money
trust. They did not make war on
Spain for the purpose of surrendering
the Gem of the Antilles to horde of
negroes, nor did they shed precious
blood in the PHILIPPINES in the interest
of the Sugar Trust and the Catholic
Ne, indeed, the magnificent South
ern leaders, whose mantle l pray God
may yet descend upon shoulders worthy
to ear, spent their days in anxious
thought and earnest labor for the wei
fare of the country. the happiness of
their fellowmen. Here choose my
ground form my line of battle here.
/ fly the flag Of revolt against misrule
and public corruption. and the people
are going to come, sooner or later.
may not live to see it. My heart may
be dust long before the good time re-
turns, yet nothing but a Voice from
on High could make me waver in the
belief that the Southern ideas will
come again They must, or the last
Of the great republics is doomed.
But the people are coming. Almost
as the sick girl of the beleagured and
city caught the distRnt
drone of the bagpipes and cried, The
Campbells are coming, SO great up
lifting faith wells within me, and
me in the fight that | am
making.
Our Lucknow has been sorely beat,
but can catch the steady footbeat of
the determined men who are marching
to the rescue. Thieves have defiled
he temple and traitors have been riot
ing in the rich rewards of treason,
out, by the splendor of God honest
men are not all dead. The Civil War
brought its Generalization as well as
Is havoc and slaughter, but the flood