Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-22
Uncle Toms Letter

For a month or more I've done but
little EXCEPT sit around not stoves and
listen to political discussions between
democrats and occasionally repubE-
cans. The biggest thing between the
Democrats is their anti and prohih
principles. / listened yesterday to q
lot of hot air stuff on that question.
When they got thru l said to them.
Gentlemen, wouldn't it be better to
let the government own, make and
d~ispense the stuff than the way You
fellows have got itr" They had no
argument to present against the idea
Socialism stands for the best in all
things, while the two old parties stand
really for nothing beneficial. The vi
ces and immoralities that have grown
up under their system and rule of gov
eminent, like a disobedient child, are
almost beyond control, and things are
growing worse each year. and the bur-
dens on the people are heavier than
ever known and neither of the two old
parties have anything to offer to light
en- their burdens, and what little of
the Socialist ideas they have purloined
and enacted into laws are not enforced
as they should be. Socialists all see
and know the farces and frauds prac-
ticed. If the Socialists capture this
year a single county in Tennessee, they
will enforce the law OIL their officers
will be asked to step down and out.
Allowing men and women to bootleg
right under the officers nose does not
speak we'll for the officers. The So
c~ialists don't want any such officers.
The best officers Grundy County has
ever had we're men highly tinctured
with Socialism. In fact, it has been
said they were Socialists.
The evils that afiict the people have
all grown up under the rule and do
minion of the two old parties, and to-
day d industrial enterprises are but
the poor that are employed in them.
We have no promise of either party
doing any better in the future than
they have done in the past. True,
they are quarreling over the offices as
they have always done, trying to get
up an excitement for this or that man,
while the people go on suffering. We
haven't an evil but what has grown
up under the administration of one
party or the other. l repeat that
crime has kept pace with the graft
practiced in everything. In Hartford,
Conn, a mass meeting was held the
other day and go, 900 copies Of a
"White Slave" circular we're distribu-
ted. It looked like this:
Danger!
Mothers, Beware
go, 900
Innocent Girls
Wanted to Take the Places of
so, 900 White Slaves
Who Will Die This Year in the
United States"
This all has originated and grown up
under your ~capitalistic system of gov
eminent, and did you know that many
of these brothels are under police pro-
lection? Some of you old dyed-in-
the wool democrats and republicans
ought to secure ''The Cry of the Child
rem" and read it before you cast an
other vote. l don't see how, under the
condition of things any man calling
himself a christian gentleman, and
who knows anything about the inhu-
man and brutal conduct going on, a
afford to support either of the parties.
Poor old Senator Bailey, of Texas,
says that to create a Children's Blu
reau in tie Department of Commerce
and Labor, will put your children son
a level with a pig" that is, mere fad
ism. It is awful, according to Sena-
tor Bailey for the government to
spend money on the children. Can you
afford to vote for a party headed by
men like Bailey3 don't believe the
people will ever be protected from the
avaricious greedy by supporting either
of the old parties. They are out of
date and have lost their virtue, if
they ave- had any. Try Socialism, but
first study it's principles, so you may
be able to act your part at all times
and at all places.
Socialism stands for virtue and the
home, and teaches a doctrine of pa
ternalism that caused the children of
Abraham to cleave together as one
man. Socialism in the family, social
ism in the church and state, will soon
create a new order of things SUCH as
the world never knew since the days
of Samuel. The outs want the ms out,
that is all there is to the matter. We
have a man who has announced him
self for the state senate, subject to
the will of the democratic party. That
means he is in favor of the continue
tion of the saloon business. Grundy
county will have out a man whose
election would mean nc saloon and
something more besides
Now, in conclusion. let me say, a
you name an evil of an industrial and
commercial nature but what has grown
and fattened under the government,
and crime has been increased in the
same ratio. Yes, we Socialists aim to
capture Grundy County if possible,
and insert the probe good and deep
and try to bring to light all kinds and
species Of graft. More than that we
intend to enforce the law INT time, IL
it can be done We consider every
mar a part and particle of the govern
ment.
Socialism is hated by the avaricious
and greedy as bad as the devil hated
Christ. They know Socialism means
help and protection to the poor, and
they are lying and doing all they can
to defeat it. Why, yes, they say So
~cialists won't pay their debts. Well.
there are other folks who won't pay