Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-06-20

s RELIGION.
8 Socialism is not antagonistic to re
: ligion. Capitalism is antagonistic t.
= religion. 1t Compels the masses Il
1 scramble for bare existence and set
= aside the Golden Rule, and deprive
) men of the time to develop their spir
itual natures and causes them to vic
ate the Sabbath day. This is sufficient
, to demonstrate that capitalism and 8
capitalistic government is antagonistit
to christianity and the religion of Jes.
us Christ. Any community where
capitalism dominates violates the COM
mandments of God with impunity,
most especially where He says "In six
days thou shalt do all thy work, and
on the seventh thou shalt rest and
the church of such a community ac-
quiesces, for it is generally dominated
by the bosses of the capitalists, who
hold the purse strings, of that church
and have tied the preachers tongue.
Should the poor preachers tongue get
unIuly, a jerk of the purse string is
sufficient to make him stop preaching
against the desecration of the Sabbath
day, by these anarchist Sabbath break
ers. who control the industries of the
land. l am sorry for preacher thus
hampered by lot of hired capitalistic
bosses, who make the people sin, as
the rulers of Israel caused the people
to sin in their uay. Socialism is not
against religion, but is against the
vile avaricious hypocrits of the church
who cause whole church to grovel
before capital Such churches are an
insult to Almighty God, and the chris
tian religion. Are not you little bit
sorry for the pastor of such a church,
muzzled and bound so he can't preach
the truth or act the truth There is
plenty of evidence that capitalism is
antagonistic to christianity. l admit
there are some preachers who up hold
capitalism thru ignorance instead of
| hypOcracy. Socialism means the eman-
cipation of christianity and claims
men are spiritual infants at the pres
ent time, and that religion is not near
what it will be in the coming genera
tions when socialism will provide
more favorable condition of develop
ment. Won't it be grand when chris
tianity will become man and act a
man under a system of government in
harmony with the divine plan referred
to in all the prophets and the teach
ings of Christ and His apostles, So
cialsm will eventually weed ont the
false and spurious stuff and it will do
it by education and nlightenment.
Then the people will be able to. dis
cern the true from the false What
religionist can. object to that? Doesu,t
every honest man want the truth to
prevail Certainly, so then, how will
socialism hurt the church The church
needs a fruitful soil to cultivate
Then socialism cannot be fatal to
christianity, but it will be a foe to
hypocrits as long as one exists, and
they are the ones who accuse the So
cialists of being against christianity.
This is the truth. Religion is n priv
ate matter, but socialism stands for a
complete religious liberty. Have you
got it? No. WhyY Because capital
ism forces your sons and daughters to
desecrate the Sabbath
Capitalism has no memory. 1t don't
remember the Sabbath day where it
has control and the church submits
without a protest.
SLAVERY.
A few men own the industries of the
country and have the mines under
their control and they do as they please
about when they shall work and where
they shall work, and if they dare to
disobey the masters they lose their
Jobs. Consequently they have no in
dustrial freedom worth the name, and
the church is dead letter and moth
ing more than a sounding brass and
tinkling cymbal in such community
where capitalism and bossism holds
sway. No intelligent man can work
on Sunday and be christian. He can
play the part of hypocrit, and pre-
tender.
Now in conclusion, let me say So
cialism is the greatest friend of strug
Cling christianity this world has ever
known or probably ever will know, for
it proposes to break off the chains of
slavery of all kinds and description
and combat every single evil that pre-
vents the human family from living
the life an all wise God intended them
to live. The avaricious and greedy
will be restrained and prevented from
robbing their brothers of their birth
right and of their Inheritance among
their brethren. Men will not be al
lowed to own property they did not
earn There will be no more confisca-
ton of the earnings of the industrious
worker. Capitalism will have to stop
robbing. plunderiug and stealing what
labor produces and what man has
actually earned by the sweat of his
face, labor and toil in the past, and in
the future will be made sure to him
living. God never intended men to !
rob each other. but these great indus !
tries, trusts and combines have not
been earned by the men who claim to
own them. They stole the capital from
the men who produced it and am in
favor of compelling them to restore it.
as we would compel any other thief to
restore stolen property, but what a |
man has gained by honest toll should
and ought to be his forever, but we
know the great bulk of the industrie ies
have not been earned by the men who
own them. They have stolen them
under a so-called legal system. there
fore, l say the poor workers have been !
robbed with impunity. I've no educa- /
ton, but hard experience and observa..
tion has taught me some things and
one of them is that capitalism violates
every single law and commandment OF
God, and many of our church leaders
wink at it. Now, don't they, and
won't even preachers ride on railroad
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