Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-28
CONFISCATION
How Wealth Has Been Con-
fiscated, Is Being Confisca,
ted, and Will Be Conflscated
Still More Unless You Get
Busy and Think Some.

l was approached Gnls WeeA DJ "
farmer thus: .-,.-..
II understand that you Socialists
want to confscate the land.
To which l said, ''No, we do not De-
liave in confiscation, but it's going on
all the time. When you pay tax on on
your land isn't that contiscation
'Yes," said Mr.. Smith.
"Then, Mr.. Smith, isn't it true the
more paupers we have the greater the
tax rate, and the greater the conhsca-
tionf"
eyes, but-we-ll, how are you 60
ing to fix itP' ;a
"Then, as all taxation must be pala
from the products of mother eartn
and pauperism is rapidly increasing
as the years go by. isn't 1T fact that
confscation is increasing correspond
inglyr bo oro Won
going to fix itf'' -.
This puzzles democrats an1 repubi- :
cans who ote"just because, when IN
fact if they were in earnest ana want
ed to ''go about doing GOOD, as
Christ did they could solve TINS prop
lem easily.
Now, Mr.. Smith, here is a thought
tfOr you anu III lS SOOu AOou Iva --1
man wanting to do right 1000
We spent for killing in the year ,9oo
four hundred and one million dollars
in the United States, and more every
2sear since. We spent for education
rec hundred and eighty-one million
q Nfs the same year Ihlrty mllllon
&br of murder. :,
&forced by con6scation i've mil
fr,
Age slave men obtain the necessI-
81 flife. :,
fTorced by confscation two mil
&children away from school lnto
xkshops and factories.
III Ne spend more for war ito XIII lthan
z4k education, that our women and
shildren may writhe in the hands oI
Va heIlborn set of aristocrats VINO nave
established system of government oy
which the product of their labor may
be confiscated except bare suDslsI-
ence, lust enough to raise more to take
their places after being worn out thru
toll, hardship and privation.
1t is enough to cause old Satan 10
blush to hear man who has spent his
life in honest toll and yet has not
enough of Gods gifts to man on which
TO live, say, uoh Inv ~,
because it wants to contiscate the
land. +"
This ia already confiscated to ma
iority, as less than five million homes
are owned free in this great Christian
nation of ''ours, while more than
two million are mortgaged, and more
than eight million are rented, by
which the greater part OF the very
f.T 10
fiscated for the benefit of the set above
referred to.
IF Won. Mr.. Smith, don't like con-
tiscation, why do you vote for IT. II
you vote for it, please inform yourself
and don't be making false charges
against the Socialists, as they are the
only people i'll the world who oppose
confiscation, and thank God we are
not confined to the solid south or the
republican north, or to the United
States, but wherever mankind dwells,
Socialism is there, working under the
same platform of principles, and every
clause in it condemns your scare crow
of confiscation.
not err therein, for let's take what we
as a christian nation spend for war or
murder, for which you vote. and buy
land. More than four hundred mil
lion dollars invested at $lO per acre
will buy forty million acres. This
divided into 40-acre tracts would To-
cate one million families on lands.
Let us confscate every year for twenty
wears as this war fund, and take the
poorest families (they were the ones
Christ loved most) in every communi-
ty. nut them on this Az acres, loan
each the necessary amount to equip
for one year, for which they pay to
the government A per cent. annually,
till the loan is returned, which would
,eouire twenty five years, the land
forever to belong to the government
The improvements are the product OF
vour oW n labor. In other words a
mart of your own life, which is your
own private property, and which you
could transfer as you transfer land or
ANYTHING which you possess today.
The earth which God created for his
family has been confiscated to many
who now live only by giving up the
abundant life we read about in Gods
hook. II is also contiscated to more of
the unborn unless Socialism or some
other ism steps in to kill the three
greatest isms of our "Christian civili-
zation,'' profit, rent and interest.
The total net earnings OF national
hanks in this Christian civilization
in % 1908 was about one hundred and
thirty-three million dollars. after pay.
ing fifty million dollars in salaries and
God only knows how much to keep
Won in Ignorance They also paid two
hundred million to their surplus fund,
which could and would be used as the
Gar fund and will be as soon as the
beople make money for themselves, in
staad of for good old democratic and
last year, 1910, it cost to run this
hlistian government more than one
billion, forty-four million dollars,
nearly three times what 1t cost In
1880.
We as 'ctristian nation, paid
Mr., Taft. or to maintain him, for the
year ending Jan ., 1910, 1929; 4sO'
while what you produce, Mr.. Work
Hoon ovd 10 hein0 nOnfiQ.