Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-30

lowed be thy name. Thy kingdom
come, Thy will be done on earth as 1t
is in heaven When you vote to keep
it from coming you are only mocking
God, and yOu had as we'll pray to a
dead mule. You are not practicing
what you preach, and you know You
are taking Gods name in vain.
Mr.. "Wild West is about the bold
est republican have been mp against.
He loves capitalism much better than
the teachings of Jesus, as / see him.
He stands for the very things Jesus
condemned is the great reason why he
wants to 'skin" me alive, and vainly
calls God to his help. When ''June-
bug and Butterfly" came in the
ring he became over confident and
then knew, 81 am now convinced that
there is a sufficient number of us to
clean up this cranky Soeialistic
crowd" This is the first iRtimation
that he wanted to fight Socialism, as
in his first article to me he declined as
he knew just what would satisfy and
interest you, Mr.. Reader.
Roosevelt and Taft know too the
kind they would like you to read. that
we all may remain ignorant of the
painciplesof life as given and taught
as by Jesus while on earth. He no.
where indorsed profit, rent and inter-
est but ''Wild West" serves God pray
ing for them.
You, Mr.. ''Wild West, should ap-
ply to your great man, Mr.. Taft, for
position of press censor for the News.
Then you could do as your pals have
been doing by the Socialist boys, put
them in Jail as it is impossible to
meet the Socialists in argument with
out condemning the teachings of Jes-
/ u.s.
You are clever dodger, as you are
anxious to talk of everything but So
cialism, the very thing you hate.
"You have stuck to the religious prin
ciples your parents taught you. -
'3They taught you some politics, too,
didn't they2 Look out for the other
principles they taught you, or you may
do them likewise. - utterly impos-
sible to live christian now." "Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord,
thy God in VAIN These are ridicu-
lous charges to "Wild West and he
feels and knows in his own mind that
| am crank as he proceeds to dish
out to me the same old rot of ''prac-
tice economy" l would feel myself a
base liar and hypocrit should adopt
your instructions and begin telling
this to a man who was working every
day your systems captaiAr would let
him, eating the coarsest food, wearing
the shoddiest clothes, while his child
rem were growing up in ignorance,
and at the same time the captain who
controls the job may be praying to
God publicly in church and Sabbath
school every Sunday and taking profit,
rent and interest from this worker sew
on days to the week. Your system
spends $3 SO to bury workingman
who is poor, and as much as ten thous-
and dollars have been spent to bury
poodle dog. Your religion cares for
neither If any preference the dog
gets it.
"Now, Mr.. "WiId West" l ask you
to say if rent is just If SO, how much
to take. Is it just and right to take
interest, if SO, how much' Is it right
and just to take profit, if so how much
Before you attempt to answer let
us reason together. 1 want you to
learn what christianity should be and
we will neither ''belittle the wisdom
or power of God" also ask you to
not worry about my poverty. I am
not afraid of starving. Bob Ingersol,
the noted intidel, said, ''When l sit at
my table loaded with the dainties of
my land and know of hungry children
in my country, my stomach loathes
everything.
This brings me to the cold. stubborn
fact that whether you admit it or not,
Bob Ingersol recognized the brother
hood of man, and the Book of Books
teaches us the fatherhood of God, and
| believe in both with all the power
If my soul. The earth, which was be-
fore man, know God intended for
human paradise, yet we have made it
! vale of tears and roughly stating
t, veritsble hell, for a great and
yery great part of the people who n
,abit it. Is this the will of God of ,
oveS /
Abraham tribe wandered contented- I
Y about, finding pastures for the I
heep and cattle, which gave them ,
God and clothes, and no one ever ,
Uttered hunger while there was food :
n the camp. Take the history of the ,
avages and the barbarians and you r
will find they always had food enough ,
or all and the latch string ever hung I
ut to friend and foe. How is it now
With our boasted civilization. Ahl 3
his is what interests me. Our boast :
d civilization in spite of the Will of Il
Tod and contrary to the teachings of r