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

NIT that Socialism is growing and i
soon to capture this government. Yol
admit classes already existing whel
you say we capture the "ignorant,
evidently meaning to say the uneduca
ted ones. | am glad to sav we have
the best brains of the world, some oi
the ripest scholars of every country
and are depending only on education
instead of bullets to capture the world
for Socialism.
The only thing which puzzles me il
for a man of your education, for yor
had splendid opportunities as compar
ed to some of your neighbors, not tc
be able to reason from economics
above the robbing system under which
we live.
You maintain that our government
is the best in the world, when in point
of fact, we have outstripped all Others
in capitalism, and fastened the fetterf
of slavery on majority of our people.
No, it s>not perfect. It's going to be
made just government as fast as the
human mind can solve the problem OF
Justice.
We have been nation of hero wor'
shippers divided into sects and parties,
ever working to extend our sect or our
party, losing sight of the greatest
good to the greatest number.
You need not worry about any
mans religion. That has nothing to
do with Socialism as Socialism is only
the intelligence of how our bread and
butter comes and who should have it.
whether he that produces or the fellow
who shirks. As for me | know that no
man can practice in this life the very
things taught by Christ and thus will
be Christ like without being Chris
tians so far as this life is concerned.
Mr.. ''Wild West" l want you to re-
member one thing of me, and that is
that we have this life to live here, and
if we go on 'soul saving at so much
per, and leave the bodies of a majority
of our brothers in abject poverty from
which there is no escape under the
system of wage slavery and profit,
rent and interest, each of which l in
tended to take up and show how un-
christian and unbrotherly, it is l say
if it is Christlike to save souls and
leave their bodies in the hell of power.
ty, created by the system you so dear
ly love, you are of different variety
to what my mind has figured out a
christian to be.
Yes, | don't deny what l charge
against the majority of preachers.
They can't help themselves. They
must preach for their economic mas
ters as they have ever done and you
know t. | refer you to the M. e.
Churc during the war of the sixties.
In the north where their economic
masters could not use slaves to advan
tage they opposed it, and so they
preached against it, In the South
where slavery was profitable, the
preachers of the south preached for it.
and they both wrote books pro and
con from the bible because of their
economic masters and consequently we
have the NJ. E Church, South. and
the M. E. Church, North. In the
South the republicans joined the
Northern Methodists, and in the north
democrats joined tine Southern Metho-
dists.
Not long since at great body of
preachers, they began to talk of So
cialism. They, like you, we're free to
admit its coming. One arose and said,
"It is our duty to get into this great
and direct it, "
Under Socialism a man must preach
the truth, as there will be no captains
of industry to be made rich from the
sweat and toll of their brothers as
now.
Your blast as to the people ruling in
this country is ridiculous to child
able to read the constitution of "our''
government. If the people rule as you
5dyy WhCu uiu bhOJ huNO ohy UhlhS W
do with their constitution. When did
hey ever vote for any law on our
statute books.' Not single one.
Look, now, at the appointing power of
Taft and see who he appoints. Whew
Ignorance is what Socialists dread,
but thank God, we are scattering
books and pamphlets by the thousands
and leaflets like the leaves of the trees
al over the country.
Socialists papers are ever increasing
and now it's hard for your union hat
ing pals to hang workingmen by the
aid of few Harry Orchards and lie
swearing Ex-Gov Taylor's and capi-
salist paid thugs under the name of
detectives. This is why you hate
Warren so, but God bless your little
lwarfed, twisted, petrified soul for hu-
nanity, Warren haters will be dead
and forgotten before Warren gets thru
making history for the children of the
,uture.
| must close but l want to tell your
lnion hating ''scab'', whose name
lave forgotten, to come on with his
goods. am sorry you quit us. Am