Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-05-02
WHERE DOES EQUALITY
COME IN ?

capitalistic civilization of profit, rem
and interest for the few and unjust
private property of the natural gifts Il
mankind forced on Us by this few con
trolling the soldiery.
As stated in my last, up to thi'
time, cooperative industry, common
property and government vas based or
kinship and not by force as ouls is to-
day. History reveals to us the fact
that il was through cooperative labor
and common ownership that the whole
line of discoveries and achievements
were effected which finally landed US
into civilization.
This we socialists know as commun-
ism, which some mistake for social
ism. Communists want to produce
and consume in common. Capitalism
says that a great majority of our fell
low citizens must work for a minority
and give them the lions share in the
form of profit, rent and interest or the
privilege to work. The workers under
capitalism do not get enough to eat,
cannot dress themselves properly, or
live in decent homes on the wages
they receive. Besides this, they are
not allowed to speak and act as they
feel. If they do SO, they lose ''their"
jobs, and consequently the right to
live, as in the case of the discharge of
the socialist at Whitwell.
The socialists claim and can prove
that even the we'll to do classes are not
free. They are tied in their business
life by regulations of trusts and COM
bines, in their social and religious life
by considerations Of their positions, by
.-,L1s, o,sr;oo and hu Tho nrn1o,,pa cf
the powerful.
Socialism demands the collective
owner hip of the means of production
and distribution. We will produce in
common, the distribution will be the
full product, and consumption individ-
ual.
Socialism evolves from modern on
ditions-of the invention of machinery
and the Capitalization of capital on
one hand and the demand for a pure
democracy by the workers on the 9th
er. 1t is but the evolution of society
and will come whether we will or not.
We are fast learning that our constitu-
tional capitalism is the hardest form
in the world today. 1t has never been
changed only by war, for it takes a
two-thirds majority of Congress and in
addition thereto a majority of three
fourth's of the legislatures of all the
states to change it.
We socialists want a constitution
that can be amended by a majority
vote. Under it we are only a pretend
ed democracy. The people ought to
rule and will by and by.
Before our constitution came the
famous Declaration of Independence,
which declares IAN men are created
equal and are endowed with certain
i%nalienable rights; among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" Eleven years after this, the
silk stocking and plug hat crowd wrote
another which is proposed by some to
govern us forever.
Let us look at this and under it see
the ..workingman's child, born in a
howell, surrounded by poverty and mis-
cry from and before its conception.
1t is born and grows up a slave, with
out education, learning little of heav-
ell in this life, and nothing about re-
ligion, and rarely belongs to any
church In fact, it is hell for him
here, and the preacher tells him it is
hell for him ever after death.
How about the child of the rich who
is born to enjoy the unmerited wealth
of one of the few under 'All men are
created equal" This child is sur
rounded by all the comforts and pro-
tections which paternal love and mon
ey can furnish He grows up in COM
fort and security, and receives an ex-
cellent education. When of age he re-
ceives as a birthday gift a million dol
In re m;%b vph inb tn ctayt IN lifn uo
starts business. employs the workers
son, and others, taking the whole of
their product and giving back part of
it in wages and he becomes a multi
millionaire. He has always given lib
orally to charities and the churches
and so when he died he gets a front
seat in heaven, or the preacher tells us
80.
Then l ask, care all men born
equal" or was this uttered to cause
the slaves to fight under promises of
freedom, to whip the mother country
and then to be still further e%nslaved9
l believe this, al it required eleven
years to write the Constitution which
forces these inequalities on us. The
men who wrote it even talked about
what to call us, whether free men,
''citizens'' or ~"slaves." John Adams
said it made no difference as long as
1--WE give them what they earn as a
h%andout."
If "All men are born equal" what
has become of the equality
"Ohr" l hear you say, equality
before the law" This is not true, for
only this week men have been arrest
ed and thrown into Jail for speaking
on the streets, there striped and beat
en-, then carried out fifteen miles on a
desert and left without food or any
only, "If you come back we
will kill you"
The few make and execute the law.
The few wrote the Constitution. The
few allow us workers to take choice
for Congress between a Moon or a Will
liams, then give US another choice be-
tween one of these and another of re-
publican party, and tell You that all
men are equal in this government. Go
and vote your sentiments. Either
will satisfy them as they have named
all and you had nothing to do with it.
You are not allowed to vote for Sena-
tor or any other officer in this govern
ment and if you protest against such a
system, you are to lose your
Job See the bows DISCHARGED at Whit