Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-05-11

ham Lincoln that to the laborer be,
longs his product. ''WIld Vest
agreed with me in his last that Lin
coin was a great man and now | want
to give again what Lincoln said con-
cerning labor, that You may 'measure
up" and see the difference in your
kind of republicans and his.
He said, ''Inasmuch as all good
things are produced by labor, it fol-
lows that of right all such things be-
long to those whose labor has produc-
ed them"
Again he said, "To secure to each
laborer the whole product of his labor
is worthy object of any govern
ment."
Then I conclude that if society had
SO far evoluted In his time as in ours,
he would have been "sap head to
you.
stated in former article that you
might call me anything you please, as
that is your principle stock, and So
cialists, just as all the reformers of
the past, have had such to bear. 1t
hasn't been century since small
band of laboring men in this country
began advocating free schools in our
country. They we're denounced as an
archists and everything mean by the
class you love so we'll, and had you
lived then I feel that to you they
would have been 'sapheads.
Only two years since Mr.. F. Ferrier
was court martialed and shot for ad-
vocating free schools in Spain. This
was done at the instance of church
after he had been tried and freed in
the civil courts. Another sap head. "
Jesus of Nazareth was crucified for
teachings which were regarded 80 very
radical as to endanger the Jewish
Church. "Ssp head" too
Paul was martyred for teaching
christianity, together with many 9th
ers. More of your ''sap heads with
out which the constitution of the Uni
ted States would never have been writ
ten.
It has never been the dirty noses' I,
honest Producers, who have bent and
twisted it for their convenience. 1t
was not the working people who franz
ed plans to take Cuba for the capital
lists of our country to make millions
from the Sugar industry of the Island
under the great pretext of love and
liberty for the oppressed working peo-
pie. They we're slaves of the captains
of Spain and now are slaves of Ameri-
can capitalists, yet looking and long
ing for that promised freedom. They
got their freedom, but it's the same
kind the American workingmen have,
that is, of serving an American cap
tain on his own terms and conditions,
or starve. See government report of
Sugar industry of CUBA also how the
Island is governed. 1t required about
sixteen million dollars to elect Mr.. Nc
Kinley president, and he was compell-
ed to take the Island against his will,
and it required very hard work, but it
worked when the Maine was blown
down.
"Wil9 Vest wants fellow to read
the Census (given out by the Captains
who planned the taking of Cuba) and
believe them as final. | am by them
az am by the speeches our Congress
men have printed at the expense Of
the producers and send out for us to
read. much prefer reading the ones
they don't send out as these are the
ones which do the work for the pro-
ducers. No difference whether, as you
claim, two officers and 258 men or 266
went down. The whole capitalistic
press knowing we'll how to play the
game, told the story and caused that
great patriotism to run high. indeed.
you say, for the starving Spanish. y
How about the starving BoersF How
about the starving Mexicans, or better
still, how about the starving Ameri-
cansf
Oh, heard you thinking now, we
control them by the courts, soldiers,
policemen, detectives. injunction bills,
detectives aided by few Harry Or
cbards and Teds to pass on them as
undesirablss and God only knows how
many, and what other kind Of things
in the shape and form of man, who
are SO depraved by the system they ev-
on hate the lives If your "dirty nos
es' since called b, you, "dirty nosed
thieves II they aye thieves they are
only SO because of your system which
you so dearly love and you should be
the last one to condsmn them.
As to your idol, lift, land we have
millions of better men in order to get
this off your brain, (as you holding
or expecting something from himf /
will repeat that he was ut responsible
for the passage of the White Slave
law, to my knowledge. eiter by word
or deed. The Socialist pre-, aided by
the Socialist work on Colress, did
more to secure the passage othis bill
than all else. He did commu three
wear term man in the penitehary to
two years, thus proving find to
those who ruin and spoil the les of |
our girls. and reduce them to lhs of