Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-09
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won't do them any good, as from all
indications they are joined to theil
idols. hope they will comply with
my request. If Idon't lie a person
don't fool with him. For sometime
one has been using insulting. sarcas-
tic language in her letters and actu-
ally misrepresenting me, accusing me
of things l am not guilty of, and
if am l have forgotten them, to-wit,
being class leader at the Oak Grove
Church. She's got that down wrong,
for never was a class leader out
there, and don't even belong to that
church. hope she'll never read an
other one of my letters. AS to my
politics l am Social Democrat and
argue and stand fol the good old fash
Toned democracy, democracy that
means something to the poor man.
The republican party has on its hands
a monster octopus that has outgrown
its sire, and as such it is bossing
mighty near everything bossable, to-
wit the trust and combines. Social
democracy is the only hope of relief as
it don t stand to reason the republican
party will murder its own child. No.
not even giving it mild whipping by
enacting or endorsing reciprocity be-
tween Canada and the United States
As to the preachers, my letters have
caused some exposures not creditable
to them. | only attacked the political
crew. But it seems from Bro. ''Pine
Tree" and Parker" we have some
worse than political partisans. In re-
gard to prohibition. none OF. you can
put your finger on a single sentence
I've ever uttered saying Intoxicating
liquors were not an evil. All I've said
along that line is there are worse and
greater evils than liquor. and now l
declare l believe the worst evil under
heaven today, and the one producing
the most poverty and misery among
the human family is the unlimited
ownership of land. l believe it was
and is the greatest curse among the
civilized nations today. Now don t
you little land owners fly up and say
| mean you for 1 don't and l don { |
know how it would be if there was no
small land owner on earth. I've moth
ing to take back in anything I've said.
I don't believe God ever intended for
one man to own and control more land
than was necessary for him to produce
living off of, and do doubt a relig-
ion that endorses such policy as priv
ate ownership of large bodies of land
This rehearses my former letters.
And now. if contending for the
rights of and privileges of the poor
people of the whole earth makes me
odious and causes the spiteful spleen
of people in sleeps clothing to be
hurled at me, so be it Read their let
ters and see if haven't drawn their
pictures about right. / don't believe
in policy and system of govern
ment that makes the rich richer and
the poor poorer, neither do kindly
applaud system that makes tramps
of men, causing people to have to
leave the family circle and the home
of their youth in order to earn a mere
pittance ola living, swopping you
might say, one maste for another. /
have no faith or confidence in such a
method feel that robbery is the
cause of all SUCH don't believe that
if Justice was melted out to all men
alike any of them would be forced to
take the road and hunt for job. In
our own community there is plenty of
land for all, but the sharks own it,
and no man is so ignorant but what
knows how renter is fleeced if he I'M
dertakes to cultivate it. Let the peo-
pie have their Inheritance y
According to thus saith the Lord,
the most ungo1ly thing under heav-
en- is the robbery of the masses by the
Ahabites They covet everything and
then produce false statements to shield
them. openly say am for anything
that will reduce poverty, and misery
and restore unto the landless their in
heritance Now do you understand
me2 If am hypocrit I don't know
it. IT, have misrepresented condi-
lions it was because didn't know the s
facts don't have to leave home or
travel to find out the truth. First
1unt the cause of a thing and then re-
move it. No man is free that is land 7
ess Bondage and noverty go togeth- !
,r All moor men are in bon 'age in X
,oma form. The very liberation of Is r
,ael from bondage teaches us that God d
li1n't intend them to be in bondage
10 the Canaanites. He gave them land \
md they became free peonle. There
s plenty of land for all which would 9
mean and does mean plenty for all, if d
'eal God-like justice was done. There
3 no Justice in method or system e
hat compels and forces men to tramp,
lunt and beg for a job, and such ad- S
rice and counsel is no good. Better
ret busy and help remove such con- I
ition. It would be more Christ like. n
Now. in conclusion, if you can't
cad my letters without displaying r.
our sarcastic spleen, please let them a