Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-08-14
Sammie P. and Claude S.
Discuss the FitteSt and Unfittest

brains and tools we charge about four
fifths of the product of 20 ur labor. We
have figured out that the donkey class
can live on one-fifth Of what they earn
and we give them that amount Now
as to these nuts. furnished the sack
and club and the brain work. l told
you what tree to climb and how to
snake off the nuts, and you did moth
ing but perform the labor. You must
not expect that muscle will get as
much as brain work. You poor, stup-
i'd Sammie p, don't you know that
God gave the fittest classes the coal
mines, the gold and silver. copper and
zinc, and even the nuts in the forest,
the power of steam and all the lands.
and that he has ordained that we
smart people shall keep you donkey
fellows busy at work to prevent you
from becoming lazy. 1t is necessary
to keep you poor so you may be good.
The preachers understand this all
right and are on our side. They know
all about Gods plans and they say he
will burn you in bell forever if you
form labor unions and become one of
these peskY socialists who want the
working people to receive all their
honest earnings. They are atheists
and anarchists and free-lovers and l
want you to steer clear from them.
"Well, said Sammie, ~ see now
what Doctor P. meant one day when
he told me that the census shows that
the wealth producers receive but one
fifth of what they produce, that four
fifths go to this smart class who pro-
duce nothing at ALL This is what you
call the fittest. Well, Claudio, we
will return to the nuts. You take
your 80 pounds this time but inform
you now that we go buddies no more.
The next time go nutting | will get
for my partner Henry Brader and the
wise old Orie, who are both good,
clean boys and willing to tote fair and
give their fellow men a square deal, |
and now, buddie, we donkeys may be
kind of stupid beings but we are get
ting our eyes open and I think that
some people are badly off in thinking |
that we poor working mules are COM
hitting great crime and will go to
hell for wanting the full value of
what we produce and nothing more,
and the socialists are all sorts of bad
people for befriending what you call
the donkey class altho it looks to me
that the unfit and the donkey class are
those who do nothing but plot and
to amass wealth by sharp
;rickery, those who do nothing to add
wealth or wisdom to the world, but
pend lifetime in greedy selfishness.
having no higher aim than to acquire
wealth for which they return to their
'ellowman no equivalent But this is
Ill right. haven't time to discuss
his any more, now. You take your
% lbs. of nuts and give me the lbs.
md when you Acrack and eat those
luts think seriously over this. wheth-
II or not this Ia a square deal, and
while You ale in a serious. reflective
mood consider il industrious, honest
working people are not about as desir-
Ible citizens as You idle scheming mon.
productive people. l will be tolerant
With you because I know your theory
8 wrong about this matter, and some
lay you will see like I, and won't fear
socialism as you do now, for your
ears are unfounded. Our foundation
8 Justice to all, and everybody shall
70 rewarded according to his work
10 good mon ming. Claudie. Think of
hese things. Don't be standpatter,
mt more forward towards a higher
md better civilization. Join the So
ialists for socialism Is the next step
4 humanity forward an upward and
8 bound to come
- s. 8. PLUMMER,
comfort, Tonn,'