Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-06-15
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I UNCLE TOMS LETTER.

cOmmOualitY we're ever more lntelll
; gent and understand what is justl
7 theirs than at the present time. Thi
knowledge has created dissatisfaction
and discomfort. They know, as work
iugmen and working women, the,
have created and produced all wealth
and they know they do not possess it
They have found out why it is becaus
of a system and policy of government
more cruel and unjust than that of th'
sayages. They believe all men should
and are morally entitled to enough
land to make an honest living on, anC
that God never gave it or created i
just for few men to monopolize, and
they are learning that the government
is the robber that is robbing them OF
their Inheritance and birthright.
Charging Mr.. Brannan with saying
many things against the preachers and
churches hasn't strengthened your case
a particle. Brannan has scored more
truth on that line than you think for.
They stood for Caesar in Christ's day,
and many of them stand for Caesar in
this day, and make the kingdom of
! God a sort of secondary thing. You
have advanced not single suggestion
for the uplift of the human family,
and if you have had an idea of i'm
provement, You have failed to set it
forth, while Mr.. Brannan has given
you many suggestions worthy of con-
sideration. AS to prejudice, you are too
full of it to do an opponent justice,
and you hate the doctrine of Socialism
so much that you couldn't refrain
from accusing the people of being ig-
norant In what country or nation has
ignorance brought disaster. Hasn't it
always been men protesting to be
smart like you that brought trouble by
opposing the good. Certainly the COM
monality has always stood for reform
and no reform ever originated from
your upper ten class, those like your
self who think man must have book
learning before he can have any sense.
From what I've read of your letters,
that is about your estimate of the peo-
pie. You want to do all their think
ing for them, and the acting too.
Your threatened withdrawal is moth
ing more than has been expected, but
your proposed substitute is not want
ed. He by his own mouth, admits he
is O traitor to the labor union, and |
don't suppose any union man or real
Socialist would care to recognize him,
as You propose. If he can get any sat
isfaction out of being scab or de-
serter from the union, he can have it,
but that is all he can get. OF course
we are not running the News, and the
Editor can do as he pleases, but are
not bound to honor him with reply.
We had supposed and though*Shat you
were not traitor to the union and
that you had never scabbed or did any
thing to drag a workingman down,
and that you wanted him to improve
his condition so he did it honorably. |
Your last letter of June the list has
created some suspicion that you are
against the wol king man and his I'M
ions. The fact is, my friend, you are
about as ignorant of the teachings of
the Bible as any man l know OF. The
Bible is against oppression, and so is
the New Testament. Did you ever
read the 9Th chapter of st. James.
Don't it say the laborer was defrauded
and don't it tell you who did it. Don't
you know labor is defrauded in this
our day? If labor was not defrauded,
how comes it, sir, that the wealth it
has produced is in TIE hands of others.
Micah tells you plainly in the second
chapter. A religion, sir, that don't
help a fellow creature, is false and So
,ialists, whether christians or not,
know it, and you know it, and that is
Why you want us to sever the spiritual
rom the temporal. Well, we don't in
;end to hoodwink and blind people up
With religion that has nothing for a
nan in this life. We want to unmask
The devils in the church as we'll as
hose out of it. Not man Of you is
tDlo w COubIONOlU plcNC DASh AAh |
lie and Fred Warren has lied. You
amt do it, and you know l love pure
eligion and 1 love the church. Like
,thers, / can see creeds and dogmas
ire nothing toward building up of an
universal christian brotherhood. No
unity of purpose, no fellowship ac-
ording to thus saith the Lord.
In conclusion let me say to you,
on't arrogate to yourself too much.
FOUR kind are generally wise above
What is written. The acts and con-
luct of men toward each other do not
armonize with christianity. We So
ialists know Mammon is the God of
be world, and we know men like you,
nd your Illinois pal have no use for a
eligion that means anything to your
elbow creatures. You. like the law
er, don't relish the command, Love
by neighbor as myself Well, we
ove that sacred and divine command,
nd propose to stress it wherever pos n
ible. That is our mission. Now creep
IF and hide if you wish, but you
ant hide from the truth and doctrine