Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-30
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the other fellow before be does you.
which stands for the 4]rule of gold in
stead of the golden rule, which stands
for a man owning the earth if he can
get money enough together to buy it,
which stands for the private owner
ship of everything God crested for the
use of the human family and eonse'
quently the ownership of the labor OF
those who desire to live Godlike lives
Think for few moments of the great
inequality of opportunity caused by
this system. Think of the unborn yet
to take our places. You are more hon
est than many who try to write a
gainst Socialism. You acknowledge
that we have classes because you speak
of the working class, and / will
add, they are the best people Gods
Son ever died for. Now, without the
workers, this old world would soon be
depopulated.
The earth was made for human
paradise, instead we have made 1T a
hell for the majority Of those who
work. You can't pick up daily pa
per without reading of it's work. I
want you to think on this line before
/ tell you. Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain. y
You can't point back to time in our
history when we failed to produce
enough and some to spare. You can't
find state in our union where the
people are not blessed with schools and
churches, built and supported by those
who work and you can't deny it, for
labor creates all wealth.
4 You can find in our own boasted
civilization, with all of our schools
and churches, great poverty and even
starvation in the midst of plenty. 1t
may not be in your immediate neigh
borhood, but have seen several states
and | failed to see country yet where
poverty did not abound, and to be
plain and truthful about it. it is posi-
!, lively the fruit of the system you pro-
fess to love.
Now when you go to God TO bless
you after supporting such "system"
which God condemns from the book Of
Genesis 10 the end Of Revelations, you
.are taking the name of God in vain,
and He will sas surely hold you re-
sponsible as if you were to do any 9th
. er thing forbidden. The idea of a
man praying to God who openly vio-
lates His commandents seems ridicu-
lous to me- You are by this as you
were by charity. You thought fell
low had to "cuss'' to take Gods name
in vain.
This only proves to me why you
thought when Butterfly and 'June-
bug came to your relief, you could
soon get rid Of the Socialist crowd.
You may turn loose all the flies and
bugs you may be able to get up and
the more you try to kill Socialism the
more rapidly it grows. You surely
kept up with Roosevelt's attack on So
cialism and how ridiculous he made
himself. will give you few of the
principles for which Socialism stands
that you may measure up and see how
you stand.
list. We favor the public ownership
of the natural. or God given gifts to
man together with as much of them
as YOU can use. In other words you
get only what you can use, but none
to rent OF sell for profit, consequently
it would be impossible to enslave your
brother by compelling him to pay you
one-third and even half as rent. Every
man would have place to work and
SIN the sweat of thy face" you would
eat your bread, and SO woald every
man. Under the system You are try
ing weakly to defend you may eat
your bread in the sweat OF some broth
er's face. You may be doing this and
uttering long prayers in public. You
may be patting the preacher on the
back who tickles your ears with some
thing against Socialism. You may
have accumulated enough or had it
given to you to feel secure above want
but want to tell you, and you may
stick it in your old hat that If you live
until Socialism ia dead you will be
here when the trumpet sounds for time
to be no more.
This first principle of Socialism is
enough to cause every working man to
vote and work for it, and especially If
he is what is known as christian
(member of some churchl as it propos-
es to forever destroy profit and rent on
land and thereby secure home and
the fruit of his labor to every one.
Think just little bit, honestly and
Before man was, the earth
was. Whyf For man to inhabit, not
10 rent or sell. but to use. In every
man dwells soul and God wants
these souls for his glory. Your sys-
tenn dwarfs the soul, the mind and the
bodies of your brothers, and if you are I
trying to serve God and vot :
ing for such system, you will be as
wicked as Cain who killed his brother, /,
4 you continue.