Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-02-23

''We are in the midst of great pros
perity." Living in an age of the
greatest civilization the world has ev-
er seen" MANY great men in our
country, such as our president "who
has done so much for the people" and
IF this government ever goes down
it will be on account Of 'dreamers who
imagine so and So -
! want to pay my respects to such
Misrepresentation and "Wild West i,
if it hits you, you may know that you,
too, are in the road of yet greater
prosperity and higher civilization yet
to be, if read the signs correctly.
Civilization off today seems a very
strange System" to me. where we
vote away millions of acres of land to
railroad companies, and the balance to
few that civilized man may have the
privilege of paying for the privilege
of remaining on the earth. Rent,
rent, rent. God has given the land to
be free to the children of men.
Our greatest civilization coins
money, hands it over to the leaders OF
this civilization the bankers, SO
that the people may and must pay
them interest, instead of issuing it di-
rect to the people without interest.
Verify it is a wonderful civiliza-
ton, much to be admired by great
men of the Taft kind.
Isn't it strange that civilized man
will vote away the peoples land and
money to railroad corporations more
than enough to build and equip, and
then pay freight on every blessed
thing shipped over the iron highway.
This is enough to cause every work
ingman to want to join the party
which stands for such prosperity as 1t
helps to keep him a slave. He should
be shouting happy all the time for iiv-
ing in such a civilization. 1t is a
'blessed privilege we have established
of working for the few to whom we
have voted the lands and money upon
which we must toll to pay interest,
rent and dividends to ''our" railroads,
which only charge "all the traffic will
bear"
This boosted civilization, aftel
building up such great corporations
will go on strike against them fol
enough to pay rent, interest and divl'
dends. They eat the coarsest food,
wear the shoddiest clothes, live in the
huts and bowels, raise their children
in ignorance and by the way, through
the power Of the agricultural and rell'
igous press, teach Mr.. Workingman te
vote the corporations in control OF
town, city, county, state and national,
and receive clubs, bullets, jails and
injunctions. This is why Taft is such
q great man.
Yes, | confess this to be the greatest
civilization the world has ever seen,
for its citizens vote to office such will
ing tools of corporations to make
laws, and not satisfied, vote increased
nay to them and reduced pay fol-
themselves, with sometimes no pay,
as no work can be obtained from the
masters whom their votes elected Ii
is. indeed, a fine civilization.
This great civilization, after skin
ming civilized man out of four -tifths OF
what he produces, is not satisfied ano
goes on continually demanding more
and more, and if citizen sees it and
has courage to denounce it, he is de-
nounced as dreamer ''imagina
tor, crank, anarchist, or Socialist,
and should be legged, "clubbed
.sbeaten", 'sshot", chung" or rur
out of the country.
This ''grand civilization has as Its
foundation, profit, rent, and interest,
to be paid by you, MIR Workingman,
for such fine mansions as ex-senator
William A Clark has in New York.
You, Mr.. Workingman, should rejoice
ever more at ''our great prosperity.
This mansion only cost eight million
dollars, required only eight years te
build, and then two million dollars
we're paid for the pictures in it This
should make you shouting happy all
the time, while you shiyer with colo
in YOUR little rented hut Don't for
get that this magnificent building hai
only 1871 rooms. Let it sink down
deep into your very soul that this il
the ''greatest civilization the world
ever saw
McClure's Magazine of April, 1907,
said: Twenty million dollars year
is made by prostitution in Chicago.
Only about $50, 600 in our country,
of this number tbs said three-fourtht
are shared and trapped, bought ano
sold. On Dec. 81, 1909, President
Taft COMMITTED the sentence of Au-
guste Roussett, Frenchmnn, convict
ed in New York for importing women
for the purpose of prostitution and
harboring an alien woman for lmmor
al purposes, from three year sentence
to two. This law has since been de-
cided unconstitutional. By this the
system aids in extracting profit from