Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-16
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ply to Mr.. Taft for the position Of
Press Censor for the News. Then you
could do as some of your lovely pals
have done, put fellow in Jail if be
talked Socialism, and suffer none to &c
into the columns of the News ''as il
would not be very pleasant reading for
the News correspondents and other
readers
You state the laboring man of today
becomes the business man of tomor-
row. You failed to state the business
man of your tomorrow just how
many fall out the next day and become
wage slaves of today again.
You give rate of increase of wages
in some of the building trades un :
ions. I ask isn't it fact that these
increases have been won by the work
ers against the will and consent of
those who own the jobs and even then
charged out in the necessities coll
umn.
Admit for the sake of argument that
j
where man received one dollar wag-
es he now gets two is he any better
off financially Examine statistics
and you will find per cent. of the
families of Sour" country owning So
per cent. of the wealth, II per cent.
owning 80 per cent. of the wealth, 3S
per cent. owning 10 per cent. of the
wealth, and so per cent. of the fami-
lies owning nothing. So, if you can
admit, as it seems you would. your
wage system, which in. the evolution
of society succeeded cbattel slavery,
must sooner or later perish. Under
the wage system, no worker can live
who does not first make profit for the
man who owns bis job When no
profit, no work. No work means moth
ing to eat, which means no life. It is
a shame, and l say it with all due re-
srect to our fathers, who ignorantly
but honestly gave their all to help fos.
ter system on us by which we are
systematically robbed, that we pro-
duce so much that we must live in
poverty, Listen to Roosevelt and De-
pew, "The American people produce
two thousand million dollars worth
more than we can consume" I ask
Why This means profit to the few
who control the jobs. 1t means wages
sufficient to exc out miserable exis-
tence.
1t means we do not receive wages
sufficient to buy back what our labor
produced. 1t also means take the
working men s sons in the armies and
hunt market If no market can be
had, then whata Close down, turn
the workers. out to tramp for jobs till
the captains dispose of the surplus.
This is capitalism, which not only
ruins the bodies of the people by ex-
cessive toll, poor food, miserable
houses, impure air, unhealthy condi-
lions and unemployment, but it stunts
and blights the minds of the masses
by the conditions under which they
live and work. Science and education !
have scarcely begun their work in the
faculties of the people, because of it's
1t fosters and nourishes sell
ishness, the power of man over man.
It hinders love and brotherhood and
ihe Christ life, its normal expression
Ind exercise. Then conclude CAPT.
ialism is the enemy to body, mind and
oul, and should and must Inevitably
,e abolished. ~
Under Socialism, land and machin-
Try would be owned by the whole peo-
lie, just as we now own the schools
ind the postoffice system. Every man
would be guaranteed work. There
would be no enforced idleness Wages
would be high, hours of work short
med. Women would not be slaves and
Ridges at miserable wages. Child
EN- would live glad and happy lives.
Did age would be sweet and honored.
Poverty Sums and the fight for
read would be known no more This
o me would begin to look like ''Thy
ingdom come on earth as it is in
eaven.''