Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-03-21
VOTERS OF GRUNDY,
BE ON GUARD

one wants q land tax. ask for th
benefit of those who are afraid the So
cialists will confscate theii lands O
their private property, If any tax ism
confiscation. If so. who can name it
limit when the interest of the publi
demands il.
We as a republic may force its citi
zens into war, and when we do vi
confiscate their lives because the inter
est of the public demands it. Grea
republic this. We may confiscate tht
lives of our young men land they
must be the flower of the country il
war; we may confscate the lives o.
our children in the cotton mills of tht
country that few operators may be
come milliOnaires; we may conhscatt
the virtue Of 900, 900 of our girls annu
ally by our christian (wage slavery
system, all in the name of "publiC
welfare demanding it, but to talk Of
guaranteeing every person as much
land as they can use, which would be
serving the public, indeed, some skin
flint or some miser, who has lost all
feeling for humanity, begins to yell II
can never be, we have had the poor
always and will have them as long as
time lasts These are the ones who
preach, every fellow for himself and
the devil take the hindmost. Now,
believe in every man for every man
and the devil left ont of it.
Where is the man who can say the
majority has not the right to establish
a system of government guaranteeing
equal opportunities to all men, even if
it did confiscate the private property
Of few.
believe the majority may be trust
ed, and when the initiative and refer
endun, together with the recall, is the
law of the land, there will be no
begging for opportunities to live, but
the people will soon arrange system
of government under which every man
may work and must work or starve.
am anxious to see those who have
been on labor's back so long, doing
something useful. Think of the vast
multitude who have been riding labor
SO long, at work producing their own
living. and then you would see labor
stand erect and come in possession of
it's own.
was told last Friday by man who
wants to be elected Justice of the
Peace, that no man could be a chris
tian and be socialist, to which ans
wered, the socialists are the only peo-
pie who have made program under
which the church may attain it's mis-
sion in this life. Talk, if you please,
while I write this, of the vast army of
1875, 900 men in one American city
idle, and begging for work. Think,
in the same city, of 900 fathers leav-
ing home, that their families may be
fed by charitable institutions. They
love their families or they would not
stand in the bread line for hours for
a half loaf of stale bread, and re-
fuse to go home, because the institu
tions of charity refuse to feed their
families with an able bodied man in
the house. This is in the great city of
Chicago, and its mayor has been at
last forced to call together the city
council to try to devise some way of
relieving the poor. This is the con-
tinued task of capitalism parties,
and for a man who supports a system
which is constantly making the poor
poorer and the rich richer, to say that
a man cannot be christian because
he opposes such a system. | think be
needs to learn something of the life
Look at Lawrence, Mass, where
women and children have been club
bed, shot and bayonetted by soldiers
and policemen under orders issued by
u democratic governor and republi-
can mayor for asking for enough of
what they produce to keep themselves
from starving. This is some of your
kind of christianity, and you boast
that you will be elected in spite of the
socialist party who oppose such hell
ish system.
Such, practiced by the system you SO
dearly love for Office, is what causes
socialism to grow SO rapidly. and
people are finding it out in
spite of your pretense of friendship.
No man or party is my friend that
refuses me job at which | may live.
No government is just which will !
'orce its subjects out of work and then |
Jail them for begging for work. If it |
;akes voting for such a system to make |
/ christian / will never be one, but am
glad it does not
When we think of our 80 million
people and 10 million of them on the I
,erge of starvation, if yon are honest
'ou can't help but say our govern
nent is a failure, and will fall as sure
IS we travel on rs we have.
Any sane mind must admit that "A
hnnge must coma and is coming, and
when / meet man running for
hce" as democrat and he brazenly
eclares, II am democrat, | know
Ie is either ignorant or against jus
ice. He has my sympathy.
The great Cardinal Gibbons (Catho-
ic1 has said, ''No friend of his race
an contemplate without painful emo
ions the heartless monopolists and
avarice which has dried up
very sentiment of sympathy, and sor-
id selfishness which is deaf to to cries
distress. Their whole aim is to re-
lize large dividends without regard
. the claims of justice and charity.
'hese trusts and monopolies crush ev
ry obstacle that stands in their way.
hey compel their workers to work at
wages.
The socialists of Grundy county, be-
eve the above described system to
. wrong, and that to vote to perpetu-
to it we would be voting to fasten a
gstem of slavery on ourselves and de-
which is unjustifable by
ny cause of reasoning We will nom