Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-04-11
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The Beginning
Of the System

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We are now living in an age called
civilization. Let us re-descend the
scale of mans progress and we may
conclude that society, or u govern
ment is but the product of evolution.
This period began with the inven-
tion of the alphabet. This might be
classed as the end of the last of the
three periods of barbarism, known by
historians as tue iron age or the smelt-
ing of iron. Preceding this came the
period of barbarianism in which the
animals were tanned. This was pre-
ceeded by mothers invention of the
pot, which marked the beginning of
barbarism, or the close of savagery.
This began with the use of the bow
and arrow. This marked the close of
the fire period which began with the
discovery of the use of fire. This
marked the close of the first period of
savagery, known as MAN With Only
His Inheritance"
Let us now begin here and notice
the effect of inventions and discoveries
as we reascend this scale.
Many great writer's claim that mai
discovered his advance above the 9th
er animals of the world, but supported
life from roots, fruits and nuts dur
ing the first period. Second period of
savagery beginning with the use Of fire
we find that fish was added to their
food and the first appearance of the
division of labor, fol- the women were
left to mind the fire while the men
searched for food. This brings US to
the third AMI last period of savagery,
when the bow and Trow was invent
ed, which added to their food of fruits,
nuts, roots and fish, game, which the
DO" and arrow enabled them to OBJ
tain
The fourth period began with the
making an use of the pot or pottery
DuriUg all t6is time cooperative labor
and cOmmon ownership of productive
pro nertY existed.
Then came the animal tanning peri
Cd known as the second in b~arbarism,
which had. it seems, a greater effect
on the world than any previous peri
cd. Cultivation of the cereals, the
building of homes of brick and stone,
etc. Cooperative labor still existed
and collective ownership of all proper
ty so used, now including fields, herds,
and houses, was the law of the land.
A great change in diet and clothing
took place. Their herds grew in mum
bers and the people began to separate
into tribes, and each tribe began to
want permanent possession of wider
fields for ~pasturage.
Then came the Iron Age or the
smelling of iron and society began to
move as never before. Iron tools were
made AMI plows succeeded the CROOKED
sticks. Iron weapons for hunting and
wal succeeded the bow and arrow.
Tribes began to federate into nations.
According to..Homer, the great poet of
this last period of barbarism, they
we're found to have in use, rice, bar
ley, wheat, corn, rye, oats, peas, beans
and onions, gold, silver. brass, iron,
tin and bronze, the sickle, the prun-
ing knife, the spindle, the shuttle and
the loom, the harp and the shepherds
pipe, the dyke, bridge aud irrigation
ditch, garments of cloth and shoes of
leather, houses of brick and stone, the
cog, sheep, goat, hog, COW and horse.
the wagon of four wheels, the saddle,
pottery. the basket, the mill for grind
ing, and sailing vessels.
The women had been minding the
fires and doing the work, but now
were reinforced by men captured and
held as slaves.
The tribes we're pressing on each
other for territory as their herds were
out growing their pastures. The
tribes we're increasing in number.
They would federate and fight, and
so war came to be the regular occu-
patton of the men. Tribe against
tribe and federation against fedora
ton.
The results of warning declarations
as with the tribes, was the confisca-
tion of the lands, 1ocks and herds of
the defeated ones to the common good
of the successful ones, and the making
of slaves of the prisoners.
Then came the invention of the al
phabet. This period was marked by
the beginning of private property in
herds, and lands, as we'll as slaves.
Thus you will see that society was di-
vided into classes and what govern
ment existed, did so by force and not
by the consent of the governed and
by force until this good day.
Those who did the work were the
WOLu6U anu CdpJuI6u p~IIaOucI6 "HO
were put to work with the women as
They were disfranchised, dis
graced, discredited and disinherited,
and thus the class struggle made it's
beginning and continues to this good
day, and has grown from tribal, fed
Grafton, state and national, to a world
wide struggle between these classes
and nothing short of a world wide
movement will ever be able to estab-
lish Justice between man and man.
This made its advent into the world
about sixty years since and is now
working in every civilized country,
and no power on earth can even check
it's onward march for the complete lib
of mankind.
During savagry and barbalism COOP
for the brotherhood seems to
have been the prevailing idea and
force has ruled the world, the
great principle of cooperation and
brotherhood still lives. Savagry and
barbarism as epoch making periods
have passed away, and a new world
an ever increasing soldiery and
states struggling against each other
has succeeded the old order of broth
ers struggling for each other. 1t new
Or occurred to man for many ages that
the earth could belong to only a por-
ton of the race.
With this came slavery of different
kinds down TO now when wage slavery
is found to be the most profitable form
of SIauoTv tho world has aver Saan