Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-02-09
A TALK WITH
THE FARMt RS

| law a hOeaAO W AodIb Jdlk WITH you,
What l want to talk to you about now
is matter in which you ought to be
deeply interested. Mr.. Farmer, you
as class pay more taxes than any 9th
er class. If you are a thrifty, hard
working man, it may be possible that
you can escape the mortgage system.
Mr. Farmer, did you know that the
farms were fast falling in the hands
of the National Banks? Did you
know that the Banking System was
rotten to the core' Who do you think
will own your farm ten years from
today You farmers who are still stay
ing by your party and voting for a
Bankers Trust and their funkey at
torneys to make laws for you while
you and your wives are living at the
back of the field, on the same farm
that you once owned but had to give
the Bank mortgage on and never was
able to pay it. But you will yell
yourselves hoarse and ride a good horse
to death trying to elect some two by
four lawyer that hasn't got brains
enough to fill the Office after he is
elected.
Now, Mr.. Farmer, I want to be
plain with you. Under the present
system can you farm your land and do
unto your hired man as you would like
toy No, sir, you cannot do it. It so
happens the farmers who number more
than any other class and who pay more
taxes in proportion to the value of
their property, receive less benefit
from legislation than any other class.
Here is lesson for the farmers to
learn. If he votes the same ticket the
trust magnates vote and want him to
vote, he votes for them and not for
himself. The farmers and wage work
ers have it in their power to WELD
more influence in legislative matters,
and the proper place to begin is at the
ballot box, by voting the Socialist
ticket in selecting men to represent
them in the law making bodies. The
Socialist party represents system
that will give to every laboring man
that which he earns Socialism will
lift the mortgage from your farm by
killing the system. It will put out
the National Banks out of business by
killing interest and rents.
The damnable falsehood that the So
cialists want to take the farmer s
land away from him and destroy the
home is scare crow raised by organi-
zed predatory capitalism, and those
who use it are either henchmen of the
trusts or ignorant of the true princi-
pies of Socialism. Before the farmer
rejects Socialism he should inquire
we'll into the character Of its enemies.
The farmer sees the need of industrial
The wage Garner sees
the same thing, and why not join to-
gether and smash this old capitalist
begrimmed system to smithereens, and
build on the ruins a new system, a
new order Of things9 And you, Mr.
Farmer, are the worst paid working
man in the country today. Govern
ment statistics show that you get less
out of your work in the long run than
your own hired man. At the same
time nobody works harder than you
do. From one years end to another
you toll in the sweat of your brow to
iced the world, and about all you get
out of it is a poor living and chance
10 pay taxes. Now, nobody is more
% blame for this state of affairs than
Yourself. The profits arising from
your productive toll pass into the
lands of others who do not produce
md why is this9 Well, one reason is
hat when you buy the necessities of
ife you find the prices set for you by
he trust. You can't buy nail today
" hammer to drive it with, pair
# shoes or bag of fertilizer, a pound
# sugar, without paying taxes to the
rusts. You must have farm machin-
Try and yet when you buy it you have
o pay three or four times the worth of
y. u0 ldbb COubub GOiio ub UhAot oAS 1
ost of making two horse wagon is
;7.60. Just get that fact, you practi-
al farmers. Figure up the money
'ower's gain and your loss similarly
II along the line. You are being rob-
'ed at the same time that the wealth
f the country is pouring into the
ockets of few very rich men. Cen
us statistics show that the number of
nortgaged and rented farms is con-
tantlv increasing. Whys The aus
yer is so plain that You can see it
ourself almost. Everything You have
ot to have in order to live is away up
n price. The trust gains because you
ose.
The Republican and Democratic I
ewspapers all tell you, toiling farm
RS, that you belong to the capitalist
lass because you perhaps have few
cres of land and hired man. Yes,
indeed you belong to the capitalist
lass, soul and body, and breeches.
That your work really amounts is a
omewhat permanent job with hard /
'ork and low wages, but it is through )
ofitics alone that the money powers