Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-02
WILD WEST" REPLIES
TO Mr.. BRANNAN
AND JUNGLE TOM. :"

Editor News
1t seems that my last letter has
aroused tho indignation of one Of your
explosive correspondents in so much as
to cause him to issue forth an impat-
lent challenge to me to bring forward
some evidences bearing out my state
ments, and to also map out some other
propositions for me to prove.
He is pleased to call himself Bible
reader, and yet be said in his letter,
II verify despise yes. hate charity. :"
How does he harmonize with Paul,
Mr< Brannon9 Paul said. "And now
abideth faith, hope, charity, but the
greatest of these is charitY." He also
tells us to follow after charity and
desire spiritual gifts. Do you mean
to tell us that you despise the thing
that one of the greatest of the inspired
writer's puts above faith, the bed rock
on which your religion rests' If you
are Bible reader and want to hang
your religion ON the hat rack of the
Socialist party, you will do well to
guard yourself against such inconsist-
ent statements as that. Besides, the
world knows that charity is one of the
most beautiful and commendable
things in existence. Even the untu-
tored and illiterate, who cannot read
the Bible, are forced to recognize the
great beauty in the noble principle Of
charity.
You say further, that you never beg
pardon for telling the truth. You are
in error there again, MIR. Brannon.
When it becomes necessary for you to
tell painful truth, politeness and
courtesy would suggest an apology.
But since you have taken the opposite
view, 1 here and now suggest that you
take the trouble to go over and beg
''Uncle Toms" pardon. "Uncle
Tom" did not say that he wanted the,
preacher in politics, but was particu
lar as to the kind, as you say he did,
but on the contrary, he has branded
the preacher who dabbles in politics as
being unworthy. In other words, he
has claimed that the preacher should
keep out of politics. "Uncle Tom"
has made himself plain on that point
in "a number of his letters.
Again, Mr.. Brannan. when you re-
fer to the President as that man, or
animal, don't you think you are side
tracking from that noble theory of the
brotherhood of man. When you say
animal in the connection in which You
use it, you surely must mean beast.
Are You going to boast of religion
with such high motto which is in
deed good, and then apply such cpl
thets to the chief ruler of the land,
and when your noble theory calls him
your brother
Yes, l agree with you when you say
you might say too much in contro-
versy, yet that statement would sound
inconsistent after reading your length
y account of your religious tendencies
and your Bible study, for it does seem
that the man who had mastered him
self to that degree would not be afraid
of his own tongue.
Now, as to showing you one instance
in which the republican party has
done something for the honest produc-
ers of this country, that can easily be
done. If you mean an act of congress
raising the wages of the laboring man
in direct manner, l will not try to
give it, nor do the honest producers
demand such thing. The laboring
class is one great class in the indus
trial world. and. expects to be treated
fairly and they want such laws as will
protect them in the peaceful pursuit
of his occupation.
Under republican rule, wages in most
all classes of labor, have had a steady
increase. Take the time from 1900 to
1907, and we find an increase of wages
in the building trades Of 31.6 per cent.
In foundries and machine shops 1915
per cent. In iron and steel blast
furnace work t.06 per cent. might
continue this list and mention many
other trades in which wages have in
creased, but these should be sufficient.
Our republican party has within the
past few years, established Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. Under
the supervision of Mr.. Taft, the pos
tai savings bank has been established,
where the laboring man and Others
may deposit their surplus money at in
terest and have the government as Sc