Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-04-13
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unworthy of any consideration.
would rather be right and alone thar
wrong and a leader of thousands.
You have majority with you now
who are in political and religious ig-
norance, but we are making inroadf
on the ignorance (which is cursing the
world) and have been for 90 wears.
Yes, we are doing fine without you
for then we had no Socialist litera-
ture, no speakers, no press in the coun-
try and no voters. So we beginning
twenty years ago with nothing,
have advanced until we cast a half a
million votes. We have more than a
hundred Socialist papers which your
system is not large enough to buy
The libraries of the land are being
filled with thousands of Socialist
books, including the Life of Jesus,
and the Socialist leaflets are like the
leaves of the forest in number. All
this done in twenty years, and ''still
the game goes on. /"
| You are not fool nor crank You
are a heavyweight and can tell me
easily if we did this with naught to
begin with what will happen in the
next 90 years with this vast leverage
to begin with. You may (ostrich like)
put your head down in the sand hills
of ignorance, and pretend that our
movement doesn't amount to anything,
but while you are doing this we are
making Socialists Of your neighbors,
and you can't help yourself. Did you
ever hear of Milwaukee, It is So
cialist City with an old capitalist
charter to circumscribe their acts, but
she is the best governed city in sour"
conutry.
Your slap at me with Maple and
Warren shows want Of ability on your
part, but you unjustly complimented
me when you charge my argument as
eminating from Fred D. Warren or
Dick Maple. AS rich men as your
great man, Taft, would almost suffer
death before they weuld meet either
in public. Whewl How little his
greatness would seem.
You ask and 1 answer. You contin-
ue to ask the same thing. answer
and you don't understand. "For now
we see through glass darkly" applies.
to you as long as you know nothing
but Capitalism. Your last question,
'Does the system force christian to
cuss'" This belongs to you and yours
and is no part of any argument ever
introduced by me as I charge your
lovely system with forcing its subjects
to unwontingly violate the command
ments of God and have explained my
self as to "Thou shalt not take His
name in vain," but since you insist
on an answer on your construction as
as it seems you know nothing but
''cuss" that is use 'cuss' words,
such as God with damn to it, since
this is what you are bent on, knowing,
/ say for your benefit that if Chris
tian knows your lovely system with
every form of guilt and sin lying at its
door he will be compelled by sense
Of Christian duty not only to damn it
but to call just God to damn it, and
in the language of the great Col. Dick
Maple. who when speaking of the
system. said, "My wife usually goes
along to keep me- from cussing, but /
feel sometimes that can't do justice
by the system without cussing, SO
leave my wife at home"
This was Col Dicks feelings with
respect to the system. Mine is differ
ent. To illu strate: Mr.. Horton was
the mountain with a load Of
eggs, butter, honey. etc.
His horse refused to pull at about
half way up the top hill, and when
he seized him by the bits the horse
Kept backing until he backed the
wagon off bluff about ten feet high.
This pulled the horse off. and Horton,
still holding, also went off. His
wagon was broken, horse crippled,
chickens killed or loose, butter, honey
and eggs mashed together, and Hor-
ton stood gazing, rubbing his wounds
when up walked Mr.. Wagner who
'aid, 'That's enough to make a
preacher cuss." Mr.. Horton said, 81
,ave just been looking at 1t and I de-
,ided | could not do it justice and so
here is no use to begin" Nonsense,
me man can't touch it.
Now, "Wild West. tell me how
much profit, rent and interest is right
rom a christian standpoint and we
will try to figure out how good your
'ostal Savings (National Bank annex
'ook is. My don't they hate So
islist, though.
A. J. BRANNAN,
Tracy City, Tenn.