Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-07-18
Uncle Toms Letter

dm very MuCu huIpIiS6u ludI uI6u
/ who claim to be followers of the meek
and lowly Nazarene, have such a poor
conception of His teachings. If chris
| tianity is not for the general better
ment and uplift of the human family,
| would like for someone to tell me
what use we have for it, If the king
dom of God does not mean government
what does it mean No wonder our
| Saviour impeached the Scribes and
Pharisees as hypocrits, for they Occu-
pied Moses seat in church and state,
but did nothing to better conditions of
the human family. Men profess to
love and serve God but they had as
we'll sing psalms to a dead horse as to
preach to me and tell me the teachings
of the Bible are not applicable TO this
day and generation. The law of God
is for living men and not dead ones.
Yet in the face of its teachings there
are men who say times will never be
better. Well, if they are not l don't
know what is to become of the poor.
Get to talking to some of these greedy
avsriCiOuS church members and you
would think there was no God, there
cry is profit, and they can't do kind
ness without profit. God teaches us
in the 5th charter of EccleSiastics that
the profit of the earth is for all. The
king himself is served by the field. |
believe conditions can be bettered and
| believe it the duty of all God loving
and God airing men to 10 all they
can to improve conditions and to be
successful they must improve and ele-
vate the political parties and break
the grasD or Mammon on them. Un-
doubtedly the liquor element owns and
controls the regular democratic party
and much of the lawlessness and viola
tions of the law are chargeable to its
opposition TO prohibition The truth
is, the democratic party has always
stood in opposition and been deaf to
the cries of the down trodden 1t
fought the abolition party to the bitter
end and drenched the land with innO-
cent blood and today it is parsimOni-
Ous toward the Confederate veterans,
who it lured and duped into the great
civil war and now it would drag
down the Federal soldier and put him
on u starvation pension with the ex-
Confederates. Not only that but it
will read every man out of the party
that dares advocate one dollar a day
for the old veterans, and breaches
morality and the upholding of the NOR
al laws. AS it has fought the aboli
tion of Chattel slavery, so 1t will fight
the abolition of wage slavery and
drench tho land again in blood to pre-
vent the liberation of men from the
CALLING chains of the oppressors. No
wonder the democratic executive COM
mittee has declared war on the social
ist party Of Grundy county, which is
composed chiefly of poor working men.
These poor, down trodden men have
nd their unions destroyed and now the
regular democratic executive commit
tee has declared against the socialist
rarty, the only hope they have of ever
Iib3rating themselves from bondage
grip. As the democratic party hated
the abolitionists OF the COS, so it hates
socialism in 1919 1t is the insoleut
slave party it always has been, and
is just as much against the poor and
down trOd1en rs 1t ever was No won
der it is split in twain. Good, sober,
honest men are dGselt ting its ranks
daily is no mistake. Its treachery and
to labor is such that honest
upright men can no longer support it.
It offers nothing to alleviate the suf
ferings of the masses, yet it would
drown their misery in the grog shops
and cause them to ravel in the broth
els of every nature and kind. Its lead
ers cry out, "Freedom and liberty
and deny it to men who have to work
for wages and if they dare to under
take the task of bettering their condi- !
tion, armed bands of soldiers are hurl
ed against them with all the ferocity |
at its command. They must band |
themselves together to get anything at |
the ballot box without incurring the !
of these political lords who /
are the cause of conditions as they ex-
ist The best people will not lend
their support to this organized band of
free hooters who prefer flooding the .
country with mean liquor and slavery
to the moral uplift of the working
man.
Yes, am socialist because l be-
ieve it stands for the uplift of the /.
whole human family, and | dent !
think it would drag down and debauch .
the people and teach them to violate .
the law as is being done by the demo-
cratic party, and make itself so odious
in its teachings and practice that good
men could not affiliate with it. Ac-
,ording to the doctrine and practices
If this so called regular democratic
larty, everybody is free to violate the
aw except the workingmen and their
friends. They must toe the mark or
De placed in felon's cell. Detectives
hound and dog their very footsteps.
are bought and paid for.
whether right or wrong and the labor
1nions are sought to be smirched as
lens of vice and conspiracy. Nothing
, laboring man does is right except
;amely submitting to the demands of
he lngodly task masters.
Now you have read my charges are
Iou for labor or against it? If you are
or labor then tdrn your back on the
,arty that won't be specific and plain
IN the subject Don't vote to uphold
party that won't aid labor and is too
to treat the old soldiers
Justly.
UNCLE TOM,
Tracy City, Tenn.