Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-06-22
Socialism WIFE Come
from a MOral Uplift
Editor Valley News:

ing, and if space permits would like tC
give few facts for the benefit of all.
We want nothing but facts. 1t would
be stating facts to say that all right
minded people are Socialists. The
mass of voters are more or less sc
through selfshness, and born allie.
glance to party name blinds them tC
the general interests, and under the
whip of partisan prejudice they have
been unable to analyze the situation,
Though they are beginning to see that
democrat is the definition of republi-
can, and vice versa, and hence a true
republican or democratic form of gov
ernment would be Socialistic in the
highest sense 1.-THE greatest good to
All, :" would be it's motto. Such a
Government would safeguard the peo-
pie, whereas the principle now. is to
safeguard property, first, last and all
the time; and the more property, the
stronger the safeguards.
No thinking man is satisfied with
the present order. Even those who
have the best it affords are unhappy.
The more they have, the more they
want, and thus selfishness becomes
their slave master. This is true OF
the poorest. Let poor man fall heir
to riches or become prosperous and
wealthy, and nine times out of ten he
will become slave to self and tyrant
over others. 1t is the law of sin in
our members. The extent of the pow
OF of money is only revealed in the
awful records of crime. Take a few
items:-
The looting of the United States
Treasury by servants ~ of the peo-
ple'' has been systematic for so years,
say statisticians. The steals were COW
cred by erasures, by destruction OF re-
cords, and by every perfidioas art. A
few of the stolen fortunes as taken
from official reports of Senate Com
mittee' are as follows:
In the Pacific r. r. debts, $40, 600, 900
Further discrepancies, ..... 331, 4O9, 634
Missing warrants, ......... 400, 0O0, o0o
Discrepancies in six reports, 93, 600, 600
Bond Sales disappeared, ......1, 72O, G67
Overcharges on pensions, ..12, 600, 600
Stretched IRA I'D warrants, 23G, 900, 900
Pacific r. R. steals, ....... .58, 63o, $50
Warrants disappeared, 4, 3S7, 967, 96S
These items are found on pages 80 to
53, above report.
Take another item: Up to 90 years
ago it is stated that Congress had Civ
en- away the public domain to rail
roads and other corporations, an area
of 266, 900, 600 acres about equal in ex-
tent to France and Germany, two
countries which support between them
a population much greater than thu
United States when the last census
was taken.
The total of 75O, 900, 900 acres which
remained is locked up in govern
ment reserves, parks, ETC., and thous-
ands of miles of mountains and des-
erts, inaccessible and inirrigable at
present. The private ownership of
large tracts is enormous Henry Mill
er owns and controls 4, 500, 900 acres of
fertile land-22, 600 square miles, equal
in extent to the total area of Massa
Connecticut. New Hampshire
and Rhode Island. One Col. d. G.
Murphy of New York, held title when
he died to over 4, 900, 900 acres. Other
samples of individual holdings are up
in the millions, and are too numerous
TO mention. One hundred men hold
title to II, 900, 900 acres in the Sacra
mento Valley alone. The trusts hold
vast tracts of terra firma. The Steel
trust holds in one tract coal lands val
ued at $50, 900, 900. The U. s. Leath-
81 Co. holds 500, 900 acres of hemlock
timber. Another one man concern of
st. Paul owns 30, 900, 900 acres. The
.ost of peace and war equipments is
beyond our comprehension. Edmond
Burke is authority for the estimate
hat not less that $500, 900, 900 men
lave been killed in war in the annals
# hi8tory. It costs in round numbers,
g, $50, 900, 900 each year to keep up the
worlds military equipment. The an
Iual sacrifice of life to greed and
narhmon is awful to contemplate. The
Interstate Commence Report, 1908,
ays: Lives lost in coal mines, 1901,
70, 525; in 1902, 154, 533; in 1903, 1872
70; in 1904, 191, 434 in 1905, 1S1, ,S73; {
n 1905, 1856. 313; in 1907, 1873, 026, in s
90S, 1852, 9S7.
The sacrifice in railway service is s
iven for four years: 1907, 90, 17S, {
verage per day, 252; in 1906, so, $50, I
per day, 22l; in 1905, 20, 1914, S
verage per day 1872; in 1904, 77O, 500, G
per day 1913, ETC., etc. In /
,untries where railroads are owned t
nd run by the Government accidents g
nd fatalities ale said to be very few t
From Col. Roosevelt's message on a
observation, we CLEAN the awful story a
waste in natural products. The to- a
i amount of petroleum used in 1907, p
,bic feet, 400 600, 900, 900 Wasted by t.
-aporation, ETC., 400, 900, 900, 600 Av- b