Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-22
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1.-THE great Francis r. willard, th'
most bonored and beloved temperance
and prohibition leader America evel
knew. said: ~ once believed intem
nerauce to be the cause of poverty.
now know poverty TO be the cause Of
iptemperance. beg you hear hel
last message delivered at the W. c.
T. o., in 1897; before her death, which
is destined to ring on down through
the ages to come until the world catch
es up, in spirit. to full realization OF
what she then expressed.
Time has proved that she lived be-
fore her time and the world has moi
vet caught up, The same battle on
the liauor traffic is going on. It Is
now proposed to roll the wheels of pro-
Rress backward twenty odd years and
leave it to a vote of the people again.
"Take it ont of politics. "
This matchless temperance worker
struck the keynote and understood well
the remedy for she said:
'Oh that were young again, So
cialism should have my life 1t is
Gods way out of the wilderness and
into the promised land. 1t is the very
marrow Of Christ's gospel. Il is Chris
tianity applied"
ssLook about you, the products Of
labor are on every hand every object
in your room has in it for discerning
ewes. the mark of ingenious tools and
the pressure of labor hand. But is
it not the cruelest injustice for the
wealthy, whose lives are surrounded
and embelished by labor's work, that
he has no time to acqnire the educa
tion and refinements of life. that would
make him and his family agreeable
comranions to the rich and culturedg
The'reaso why l am Socialist comes
in just here" ns
III would take, not by force. but by
the slow process of lawful acquisition
through better legislation as the out.
come Of, wiser bullot in the hands OF
men and women, the entire plant that
we call civilization, all that has been
achieved on this continent in the 400
wears since Columbus wended his way
hither and make it the common prop
erty of all the peonle, requiring all 10
work enough with their hands to give
them the finest physical development
but not to become burdensome in any
case and permitting all to share ailke
the advantages of education anu renne-
ment | believe this to be perfectly
practicable, indeed, that any other,
method is relic Of barbarism.
81 believe competition is doomed.
The trusts, whose single object Is TO
abolish competition, have proved tnat
we are better without than with u.
and the moment corporations controi
the supply of any product they com
bine. nWhat the Socialists desire is
that the corporation OF humanity
.&hould control all production. Below
ed comrades, this is the frictionless
way; it is the higher way: it eilmin-
ates the motives for a selfish life; 1t
enacts into our every day living the
ethics of Christ's gospel. Nothing else
willSdo it; nothing else can bring tne
glad day of universal brotherhood
Remembering what this great. tenn
perance leader said, please answer tue
following and you will arrive at the
conclus that poverty is the greatest
demon on earth and leads or drives our
people to unwantingly violate the law
of God and man.
''Why life so full of woe'
Why hear ts so dull and slow?
Why homes so bare2
Why purpose rare, suppressed by
carking care'
Why want and strife prevallg
Why doubts and fears assailH
When generous earth with peace and
mirth
In brotherhood we d share,
Why mothers weeping lone
For son or daughter gone9
In bloody field his life to yield,
: 1 n 4. nd
Why chiidrens' stunted growth?
why vice and filth and slothf
Why life distressed, when Joy and rest
Would warm all hearts congealed"'
IL the people who are worse than
wasting their time in their efforts to
check intemperance would turn their
labors to the cause of poverty which Is
The mother of intemperance and join
tbe great army of thirty million So
cialists, there would go up from the
lsstraights'' and 'standpatters" the
preatest wall ever known from those
who are responsible through deception
FOR all the evils of our land and even
,ur Mrs. Grundy, which in recent
sane said. s'The Socialists nominated
Eugepe v. Debbs as their presidential
candidate in 1900 who after receiving
n. 74o votes vanished from the field"
wohld then remember that the same
party nominated the same man four
years later when he received nearly
,ix times as many votes as in 1900. If
his paper could deceive or compel all
,he people in Grundy County to be-
ieye what it said you would have the
me privilege of paying an eight cent
orofit to the writer Of that article for
1O-cent drink, and be would not care
Il II did cause more poverty, etc
I want to say to that writer that he
|an't find in bis encyclopedia the
|hing he charged against Socialism;
ior can he prove it, unless he resorts
\ a corrupt heart of some one who
Sonld sink in poverty people for
IroGt Socialism will live on and on
(ftar we are both dead.
I'VE defy you TO do youi best, but
warn you now that your "click'
,ather with any combination you
Md be glad to form with the boss
nhlicans have a fight and you have
= load to carry, too. l would ad
Won to "lay aside every weight
ibe sin which doth so easily beset
sand FRY "A clean race if it's in