Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-06-01

understand him to be Socialist pure
and simple. 'Uncle Tom" is very
flexible and can flop around easily, bu
he knows, Brannan knows, and | know
that there are shiftless, lazy thieves
in all the walks of life and when you
undertake to argue that the laboring
class is immune and free from thest
things, you slap the intelligence of the
workingman himself, for he knows
that these qualities are found there as
we'll as in all other classes, and hon.
est workingmen are as much opposed
to dishonesty and theft among work.
ingmen as among others and will turn
his hand to help punish them for their
crimes.
| You know, if you will admit it, Mr..
Brannan, that there are people who
are opposed to work and not willing to
do it, all over this country, and that
is one of the reasons of the poverty
which you charge to the system. An
other reason is that many workingmen
waste what they earn in one way and
another. Many homeless people who
really do work hard. could have good
homes if they would use economy and
try to save some of their earnings.
AS l see it, we are all mutually de-
pendent on each other and a proper
adjustment of business conditions is
right. If there are reforms needed,
and l think there are some, they
should be made under the system we
now have, for | still think, as | ex-
pressed myself in my first letter, that
our system of government is one of
the best the world has ever known.
''This government, the glory of the
earth, has long been the desire of the
wise and good of all nations. For
this, the Platos of Greece, the Catos
of Rome, the Tells of Switzerland, the
Sydneys of England, and the Washing
tons of America have sighed and reas-
oned, have fought and died" am
opposed to Socialism because it seeks
(instead of to reform) to destroy the
system of government, and to set up
something that its own advocates can
not explain.
To my friends who may be on the
verge of casting your ballots for So
cialism, l say, think it over carefully
and without prejudice before you cast
your ballot that way. will not go to
the extreme so far as to say that you
unchristianize yourself if you make a
mistake, but do say that your right
to vote gives you the right to rule this
government. I cannot agree with
Representative" in saying you are
disfranchised, but say, 'The people
have, do now, and will continue to
rule this government. If majority
of them want Socialism, then Social
ism will rule.
don't want to stir up an argument
with you, Representative, for there
are too many things on which we
agree, but am afraid you have not
given the matter much thought when
you say Socialism is dead issue. In
my opinion, if the conservative, level
headed people of this country do not
awake to the danger of the situation
they will finally awake to find it
very live issue and it will turn loose
on the people of this country like a
shock from an immense battery of
believe it is the most dangerous is
sue that has ever confronted the peo-
Pile of this nation, and unless they
awake to the danger of it soon it will
plunge them into the greatest disaster
that they have ever encountered.
My reason for thinking this is that
it is so easy to create class prejudice
in the minds of ignorant people, and
then you make a Socialist. All means
available in the way of misrepresenta-
tion are being used to create and keep
alive this class prejudice and that is
making the Socialist party grow like a