Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-05-25
SOcialiStiC
Regeneration

Before we can have a Socialist store
the government must own the land
and guarantee every person a right to
Z live on and use as much land as he or
she can use, for I'm the sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread must be
made a lie until this is done.
We must own the transportation
lines that exchanges may be made at
labor cost, as there is no other just
cost of anything produced by man.
B No profit.
We must own the telegraph and tele-
phone lines, as the rapidity of ex-
change will demand this, and should
be as part of our P. o. system, be-
longing to the people, operated at Ia
Dor cost. No profit.
We must own our machinery and op-
crate it at labor cost, producing things
for use and not for profit.
We must forever wipe out of exis-
tence our money system, which is
shame and disgrace to anything call
cd civilization. We must abolish
buying Office by establish ing law dis
qualifying anyone who asks for an
office, and then the office would seek
the man.
We must establish an industrial as
well as political democracy, with the
Initiative and Referendum, with the
Wright of recall, and we, the people,
twill establish democracy for the first
time in the history of our government.
II Owning, controlling and operating
the above for the benefit of those who
work, knocking out profit, rent and in
terest, we absolutely put to work
those whose fortunes have been built
up at the expense of the workers of
1.-THE world. This would stop robbery
of every kind. We would need jails
and penitentiaries for a while to put
Hhose in who never worked and believe
work was only intended for the poor
land ignorant creatures of your lovely
capitalistic system. Among these for
she prisons, you would find lawyers,
Electors, preachers, bankers and graft |
ters Of every description, and I forgot
the great gang of professional office
Holders
Mr.. Worknglhen, who have been
! Slaves all your days, working, starry
Eipg and freezing, have raised your
Families in ignorance because you
have been compelled to give half of
your life as rent to some landlord, |
then a share to our robbi ng system in
Interest and still another share as
profit to special privileged class,
known as merchants, | say that before
1.write on a Socialist store [ want to
write on what we now have that we
may be able to contrast the two. In ,
my town the success OF failure of
Avhat is known as business depends .
sm mining and numbering which is at
b low ebb just now.
esMr. A. produces ton of coal,
which God created for the use and .
blessing of the human family, for ACC,
sensus report, but in reality receives
about 35c for which the people must
bay SO. so because we as christians he
kslieve it right for few to own what
God created for US that we may pay
them r-e-a-s-o n-a-b-l-e profit, just
enough TO make millionaires of them
h and paupers of ourselves.
\ The private owners believe we have
the best banking system the world ev-
or saw, and it must be so as each of
them belong to church, and after
7 pegging Mr.. A. for part of his AZ
dents to pay the preacher, (he is afraid
not to pay as it's pay or loose his job,
right to live, they make good the bal
ance of preachers salary. He, the
/ preacher, cant make out on less than
d Thousand year, while statistics
show A. to. receive less than $420, co.
But you say the preacher belongs to a
different class and must educate his
children, send his family to a summer
resort that sister preacher may regain
1 her lost health etc. l heard some one
+ say there were no classes in this coun
Il try and the fool Socialists should be
4 drummed out of the country as "they
4 teach class hatred" Say Mr.. A,
cant you ever catch on.
Mr.. A. after paying the preacher for
fpfeaching, Servant, obey your mas
ter" ''Be good to them who despite
|Sfully use you,' ETC., proceeds to the
kcompany store to buy some things he ,
must have and as they pay no money,
but wild Vests" punch out script,
#he draws 40c in punch outs as two
cents is checked off in Office for his J
soul saver With his 40 cents he '
walks down in the company's store
land calls for some matches which are
put up by the Match Trust, (allowed /
&by the SYSTEM in scent packs, the la
#bor cost of which is one-ffth of on g
cent per box of 100 matches, so he re- l,
ceives thirty FIVE cents and his match
les. He takes pound of rice, 10c,
(which costs to produce one thirty sixth /
r1of one cent, and his check is punched ]
aghin Only twenty five cents remain, j
lie must have soap, one bar. the labor
cost of which is seventy -three-one-