Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-04-27

Editor News:
| am amused at the way Mr.. Bran
nan tells us that the system forces
christian man to ''cuss". Tha
will be pleasing to the box whittlers
who can swear by note They will
probably divide profanity into foul
parts, set to music-tenor, alto, sopra
no and bass. and give 'cussing" con
certs on the street corners mixed with
abuses of the system and talks on So
cialism.
You are mistaken, Mr.. Brannan,
when you say called God to help me
skin you alive. l would not think OF
asking His help to do so small a job
as that. only called A. J. Brannan,
of Tracy City, to my help and by his
unwilling assistance the work is pro-
ceeding along rather bluntly toward
completion.
If the readers have followed you as
closely rs have, they, no doubt see
but of eourse, am jerking off piece
of hide now and then when you leave
1t hanging. True, l omplimented
June Bug and Butterfly for be-
ing in TIE ring, as you call it, but l
didn't call them in. think l told
June Bug" to keep it up.
You have spread your answer in re-
gard to the commandment over almost
Your entire letter in an effort to de-
fend your position, but will bring it
together and apply your answer to
your own broad statement and see if it
stands the test.
The readers, perhapss remember that
you said, ''The system forces God S
children to unwontingly do things in
direct conflict with every command
ment of God.
In your attempt to justify your
statement, you say take God name
in vain when vote to keep His king
dom from coming. If I accept your
theology, and if l should take His
name in vain by admitting, for argu-
ment, that Socialism is Gods king
dom, (Oh. snakes rats and other
vermin! Bah Hic y l am "forced"
to not vote against it? The only place
you touch the issue, Mr.. Brannan, is
wheh you say, "They don't know any
thing else and are forced to pray for
living, even though they know they
are taking Gods name in vain"
If you had gone little further with
that prayer. which Christ taught his
disciples to say, you would have said,
"Give us this day our daily bread. !"
Are yon going to tell me that to pray
for living is to take Gods name in
vain when Christ taught his disciples
to say that prayer You need not take
a page to tell me what dread" means
in that prayer, for you have more ur-
gent work to do.
Yen are caught in this matter,
whether "cussing" is wrong or not.
For the sake of retaining the conf
dence of your new converts to Social
ism, you would do well to retract that
broad statement, Mr.. Brannan, and
these broad statements carefully when
you find them in the Socialist pamph
let's and see if they will stand the test
before You copy them off and hurl
some fanaticism in them. (doubtful).
What on earth has caused you to take
MP this Cuban matter, Mr.. Brannan'
/ would like to be gentle with you
in it If possibl but shame on the au-
thority for such statements as you
made You read it somewhere and
you are swallowing what they give
You, both as touching fact or senti-
ment as a toad does flies. Your
ssbrothers" in Cuba both native and |
American people were herded in the |
town and there forced to horrible |
death by starvation, while their homes
in the country had gone up in flames
and the whole island was almost |
wilderness. While the destruction of |
the ''Maine" hurried the war, yet it
should and would have come without
it, whether the Maine was blown
down or up. You say with emphasis
that all the men who were killed on
the "Maine" we're workingmen. That
may be true and may not. How do
you know they were? You say that
all the officers were safe. That is
false, Mr.. Brannan. There were two
officers and 258 men killed. But that
is not the shameful part
of it. 1t is the horrid sentiment you
express against that patriotic spirit
which caused the pulse of every man
10 beat high, who had the least spark
Of sympathy for starving, bleeding,
imprisoned and murdered humanity
That war for Cuba's liberty stands
Dut as snow white spot on the pages
,f our country's history to be handed
down to future generations as great,
grand and glorious deed, one that will
forever make the name of Mckinley.
md the noble young men of this coun-
Try famous as lovers of right and SYM
Datbizers with suffering humanity.