Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-08-10
INJUSTICE OF IT

AAosc GJo, IL Is "A BTehb uIs-
tance from the United States to Ger
many and to effect the exchange men
TONED in your article of the issue Of
the third instant of the News. Now,
under capitalism l am satisfied it
would require extra cash from your
pocket to get your potatoes here an
the wheat there. for overin Kansas a
farmer refused 70 accert the market
price at home for his potatoes and
shipped a car of them over to Chicago
and had them sold by commission
man who called on Mr farmer for go
cents extra to finish paving expenses.
And just over in Franklin County
about twenty miles away. the farmers
decided to do their own shipping and
ade mp car of 80 many crates of
bbage each, and shipped it. They
4 the market in bad condition and
r1lrI1rg Seturns showed they must dig up
bach per crate, This fully Satisfied
I'm and fields of cabbage were left to
because the exchange could not be
lie, and many who would have been
"a to have exchanged their products
cabbage must "do without. "
Al these and more happen in our
ridden country.
IS civilization covers the earth soci-
8 evoluting to higher and grand
Eilization yet to be. We have
from savagery to barbarianism
re now living in what is known
Eecivilization period. War or
passed society from slavery
d. aud now to the wage sys-
Dat is known to Socialists as
p.
lavery the master owned the
the land. Under serfdom the
med the land only. Under
system (capitalism) the mas
the land and tools and the
Discharge. We have passed
Simple hand tools with which
eould produce only enough
consumption to mammoth
where one person. can pro-
Idndred fold more than by the
method. The result is more
Eban home can use and so a mar
list be had. By the aid of new
lltions, new and better machinery
&tantly supplanting the old, pro-
al dtion increases, and finally all the
people of our own country do not re-
ceive wages sufficient to buy back
what they have produced and world
market must be bad.
When our own people could use the
supply we had competition and early
learned from our copy books, eCompe-
tjtion is the life of trade The cap
tains of industry learned this to De
false and to save themselves were will
ing to save their competitors, and SO
honestly formed partne rships. and as /
development increased, experience IN
business brought the formation of the
corporation to be an absolute necessi-
ty. The corporation came as bodyf
large enough by the joint savings of
the individual earnings of many. to
own aud operate yet greater machines,
which produced goods for a larger
market. With many such corporations
competing for the market, meant death
to some, consequently still greater
organization the trust, and q greater
market must be had and following
this is the international trust demand
ing an international market, together
with an international dollar and con-
seouently at the bidding of the caps1
tains of industry we have 1873 grains
of gold for their dollar.
Under this gold dollar system labor
produces and receives wages barely
sufficient to be able to produce more
for the world market. Under the gold
dollar system labor is forced to pro-
;suce and the product is taken by its
masters to pay profit, rent and interest
on their dollars. To me it is killing
the goose which lays the golden egg.
This process of taking labor's product
except bare subsistence the daddies
Of the gold dollar system call ''em-
labor, but l call it down
right robbery. This system will go on
until the trusts ripen into information
al trusts, selling their goods in an in
market with separate flags
as if representing different govern |
yet one trust ridden world do {
ing an international trust business un-
der an international agreement be-
tween the trusts of different countries.
rhis is what the Socialists are glad to :
zee because we know it is capitalism {
into Socialism. Before capi- (
talism passes away it will be so well
organized and into such large indus :
.ries that the change from capitalism !
% Socialism, will be like slipping an 1
lid bridge out and new one in with
,ut stopping the travel.
Under our gold ridden country my
,otato and cabbage stories are only
lint at what is constantly going on. l
an cite many of my own personal ex-
,eriences This is called exchange by
he captains of our system, but l can
all it theft, and under such system
he products of laxer are made to rot
,r decay for lack of exchange 1t is