Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-06-15
False Charges Against Socialism
By As J. Brannan, Tracy City, Tenn.

wanting to "divide up" when in
truth we are fighting it. We want to
quit giving the greater share of our
lives to an idle, worthless class.
1t is charged that we destroy indi-
viduality and want to reduce the peo-
pie to dead level when. in fact, we
want to destroy the dead level and
give the people chance to develop
their individuality. We are charged
with desiring to ruin the home, when,
in fact, a majority are already ruined.
You charge us with stirring up class
hatred when in fact your system has
produced the classes which we want to
destroy by forcing every man to pro-
duce an honest living. This will for
ever do away with classes and class
hatred.
You charge that we want to abolish
private property, which is already
abolished for majority of our people.
Your lovely system confiscates the
greater share of what the laborer pro-
duces. Then it is impossible for the
average wage slave of your system to
own his own home or anything else.
Go into the rented shack they have
been taught to call home and you will
find the cheapest furniture, clothes,
food and cheapest everything which
all put together is not worth two
hundred dollars. In fact, it is not Mt
for junk. Capitalism has prevented
him from owning what his labor pro-
duced and then paid share of this to
have some one preach "Servant, obey
your MASTER" ETC., while they are
continually forced deeper and deeper
into poverty.
There are more than ten million
homes or places where families dwell
in the United States OF these six
million are rented, one million mort
gagged, and less than third are own
ed free. The number of homeless is
ever increasing The number of mort
cages is constantly increasing, while
the number of home owners are as
constantly decreasing. Any man with
common sense can easily see that it is
only question of time when the his
tory of our country will be the same
as others which we are following,
Greece, Rome and other countries (gov-
ernments) fell when only small per-
centage of their people owned the soil.
Socialism wants to establish private
property for use and not for the pur-
pose of robbing our brothers. Seeing
the condition of the working people
and how they live, how can an honest
man tell them to practice economy.
Look at the idle rich, see the unearned
luxuries which they enjoy. When,
Mr.. "Wild West" did you tell them
to practice economy? When you
charge poverty as being the result of
riotous living among the vast MAORI
ty of working people, you either show
your ignorance or disregard for the
truth.
know and am personally acquaint-
ed with men who spend more for pleas
ure in one month than the average
working man does in ten years, and
the hard part of it is they don't pro-
duce cent of it.
1t is q base insult to the intelligence
of workingmen to cry economize to
them when very great many are un-
able to pay years subscription for
their county paper.
Socialism will abolish luxury and
poverty, and furnish a just govern
ment under which there will be plenty
for all with time for physical, men.
tai moral and spiritual development
NV friend "Wild West" has fired
his parting salute and bids us goodbye
Please remember Brannan has no Ill
will towards you. believe l met you
once in life in a teachers institute
You arc by far better educated man
than I. but being clothed with right
and Justice I am never afraid. / have
decided from the letter from your
chun that be may be sanctitied
preacher, and political and indus
trial "scab', and thinks he has some
thing to tell me about Gods kingdom.
He wants it in the air and want it
as Christ wanted it, right here and
now. He wants only to save the soul.
want to save the body. for in it
dwells soul which may be more east
ly saved then.
As to Warren's belief as to Christ, !
am not informed. l have been read
ing his writings for about seven years |
and don't remember ever seeing a
word from him as to whether he be-
lieves anything as to Christ, but Mr..
Maple expressed himself in the April
number for the first time to my knowl-
edge. This does not affect you nor me
nor anyone else.
You, Mr.. 'Wild West" strain at
little things and swallow camels when
it suits you. Why don't you reason
that as Bob Ingersol was an infidel and
a republican, that all republicans are
infidels. refer you to Thomas Jeffer-
son, etc. You might apply your same
reasoning to him, but you are hunting