Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-05-04
"WiId West" Makes Points

/ am very busy and cannot possibly
spare time TO take care of you as /
would like for week or two, Mr..
Brannan, but will give You brush
or two in this issue, and attend to you
more completely later.
Intentionally sprung that vital
question you refer to in my supply
store article If you have an intelli-
gent and plausible way of running
business under Socialism, l would like
for you TO present it to the people.
You have SO far failed to do this. If
YOU have no intelligent way it is due
the people who have the great respon-
sibility of casting ballot to know it.
charge that you open the door for
unlimited graft when you make the
government owner and controller of
the means Of living for the hu man
family. You switch from that and
undertake to tell me what things cost
under the present system You can't
cover SO much territory and do justice
to any of it, MIR. Brannan.
You say my store was capitalistic.
Not by any means, for I abolished
private capital as understood Social
ism to do. You say made shoes on
Jones machines. No, put Jones to
selling Socialist shoes and he began
stealing Socialist molasses meat, dry
goods etc. also referred to gang
of dirty nosed and filthy thieves, who
were in clique with Jones and were
not willing to do an honest days
work but preferred to steal from
your Socialist government. You answer
me by saying show that l hate the
very people Christ loved most. For
Christ's sake, Mr.. Brannan, be con-
sistent with yourself. Christ did not
love lazy thieves better than thrifty
honest people.
am sorry that we have 80 many
of these dishonest people to whom you
are constantly referring, but they are
here, and they would have to do with
your Socialist store. AS / see it,
there would have to be blockade of
protection against such people.
Can yoa and will you give us thor
ough description of that blockade of
protection you intend to throw in their
wayY If so, let us have it. The in
= telligent people of this country who
have not gone wild and fanatic, nor
become disgl gluntled are saying that
your theory cannot be reduced to prac-
tice.
I have read some of your Socialist
theory, and l have two reasons for re-
4 fusing to vote the ticket among others
that might mention, hut these are
enough.
1st. l think it is wrong.
end. / think it is impossible.
think it is wrong because it seeks
to throttle the progressive people AID
to pull them down to level with the
indolent and vicious. think it is
impossible for government to take
care of so many things with any de-
gree of satisfaction to its subjects.
In regard to your personal thrust at
me for hating the thieves you say |
Christ loved best, l shall remain si-
lent, as Fthink it in rather bad taste
for you or me to be asserting our own !
personal goodness to the readers of the
! News. But | do believe that a man
who is living Christ life does not
hate any human being on top side OF
the earth. To be specific, he does not
hate Taft whom you call beast, and
he does not hate Diaz, subject OF
your abuse. He does not personally
hate man who is making thrust at
the flag of our great government and
trying to dethrone good system, ana
substitute in its stead something that
addresses itself to the people as fanatic
and impossible. He is only sorry to
see him so overcome with fanaticlsm
that the canker worm of hatred toward
our rulers is getting the better OF
him.
join you in saying that Abraham
Lincoln WAS great man, and one OF
the best men this country has ever
produced and he was strong advo-
cate of "p-r-o-t-e-c-t tive tariff for
our home industries. r.... .. .-
I You think you have set up mighty
argument when you go at length into
the cost of making sugar, shoes, etc,
and that argument has caught thous-
ands of sap heads in this country who
have no more intelligence than to
drink it down without question, but
IL is a burlesque on the intelligence of ,
a simpleton who thinks once in great
while. Why didn't you go on with
it and tell me that workman can
string diamond necklace in Is min
utes, which would sell for $t16, 277 6624 s
and claim that the workman should I
receive half of it, That claim would s
have been equally as wholesome as the i
one you made. {
Mr. Brannan, while l realize that I
sap head will vote Sooialistic and q
think he has good reason from that {
point of view, feel like it is a slap at ]
the intelligence of the News readers ,
to even refer to the fallacy of it be- I
..,Sa ~ iS So plaiu Rut in the hopa ;