Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-04-04
WRONGS WILL
BE MADE RIGHT
WHEN JESUS COMES

We are glad that-we have an unset,
fish paper in which we can express
our views. Those letters from the
different correspondents are interest.
ing for bv them we can hear from
many an old friend. The letters from
Uncle Tom and A. J. BraDnan are
very interesting to read. They give
some good points. We find in the
Scriptures a passage that reads like
this:
"Behold the hire of the laborers who
have reaped down your fields, which is
by you kept back by fraud crieth and
the cries of them which have reaped
are entered into the ears of the Lord
of Sabbaoth. james ga.
The above denunciation refers to the
last days, the time in which we are
now living.
Practically this text charges that
those who have heaped treasures to-
gether and those who have gathered to
themselves such colossal fortunes as
we see today, have done so by fraud
and oppression of the poor.
All wealth comes originally from
the soil. The Apostle James makes the
work of the laborer who reaps the pro-
ducts of the soil a type of all laborers.
who by their work add to tue worlds
wealth.
We have but to look about US to see
that these texts are today being fulfill
ed on every side. Never in the worlds
history was there such a heaping to-
gether of great fortunes by rich men.
corporations, syn1icat9s AMI trusts a Q
at the present time, and never amiu
such plenty was there such general
want and suffering among the poor.
Such colossal fortunes. such boarding
of treasures, such combinations of
wealth with such rapid increase of
poverty was never witnessed before.
Our age fits the prophesy.
Dear brothers, it is not a crime to
accumulate property, but when this
property is acquired through oppres-
sion, through grinding the face of the
poor, those who are the real producers,
then the cries of them are heard by
the Lord of Sabhaoth, and one day He
will require a terrible toll from the
hand of the oppressor..
We are not of those who clamor for
a leveling equality, the one whose
brain institutes and whose capital car
ries forward any enterprise is entitled
to his share of remuneration for the
same. Still, the workingman who
furnishes the bone and muscle and the
skilled labor necessary to the carrying
out of their plans are equally entitled
to fair remuneration for what they
bring into the enterprise. If the prin-
eiple advocated in Gods word could
be carried out, there would be fewer
great fortunes and poverty, privation
and suffering among the toilers of the
earth would not be known. The chief
grievence of the laboring classes today
is the inequitable distribution of
wealth, every dollar of which is the
product of labor, either mental or
muscular, The producing classes do
not receive the proper equivalent for
their toll. They reap down the fields
for SPECTATORS, they build railroads
for capitalists, they u manufactor-
les for corporations, they delve in the
mines for m~onopolists and make bare
ly enough to live while their employ
ers amass princely fortunes from their
toll.
The tendency of our age is to turn
the laborer into a mere machine and
forget that he is a man. In some
manufactures the employer would
consider it degrading TO speak to his
hired man. These men are mere ma
chimes holding their places as long as
they are any good, and in their old
& are thrown out on cold charity
when they must either beg or go to the
poor house to end their miserable
existence. If the laborer received his
just dues from his work be would be
able to end his life in comfort and
ease. The ambitious laborer does not
look kindly toward such an end, and
as a result we have the frequent
strikes, lockouts aud labor riots all ov-
er the civilized world. These all re-
veal the facts that the question of the
just amount of wages paid by the en-
is the chief cause of dispute be-
tween them. Here is the conf ct and
it can never be done away with so
long as circumstances remain as they
are at present.
We noticed where one of the CORES
pondents in the News a while back
said that we had the most prosperous
or government in the world.
At the close of the Civil Wal in the
United States President Lincoln said:
time is coming which alarms and
hhO . mo- "bOh III NV u
will be in the hands of a few. l have
anxiety for my country now than
the war, unpleasant as it may
be to admit it. It is at last becoming
evident from the enormous increase in
power which has marked
The present century and is still going
on.'
When Lincoln spoke the above words
fortunes Of the present day were I'M
Known, so there were but few million
aires in the United States, but how
they increased during the past
'orty years Men now living can re-
member when there were not half a
dozen m~illionaires in the land. There
ire at present four thousand six hun
lred ~millionaires and several whose
'early income is said to be over a mil
ion. To the rich the Lord says: "Ye
ave heaped treasures together in the
asst days." but the rich will not long
njoy their riches unmolested. 1
The Apostle Paul says, I'm the last ,
avs p%erilOus times shall come. 80 r