Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-03-11
SOCIALISM THE
VITAL PROBLEM

PARTY teaches workers of the world to
unite. You have nothing to lose, but
your chains. You have a world to
gain. Carl Marx in 1S4S mane the first
de laration of independence since
Christ an the apostles.
Nov to the law. The first law in
Genesis, 3r1 chapter, 10th verse, says
TO get your bread by the sweat of your
own face. Bot nov the capitalist sys-
tenn saws, get your bread by the sweat
of other mems faces wilfnlly, in rebel
lion against God.
I,aian, secoud chapter, 4th verse,
says: .'Tbey shall beat their swords
into ulowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift
MP sword against nation; neither ST all
they learn var any more. . In open
reb lion against Goa what do we tiuu
this chlisteudom Going Making ma
chine guns ami teaching young men
to plaut bullets in some poor mans
breast VINO never did him any harm,
10 tue name of some money monger or
other. There Is no place for christian
ity in this old hell-ridden, monarchial,
Mammon- worshipping system, and I'M
less the working class of people wake
mn aud see their dreadful condition
and rise IN their might and demand
restitution at the ballot box. there
won't be one left to tell the tale. We
are Aarons in this country, worship
ping the Golden calf. We are in the
wilderness of darkness. degradation
and shame. What will the monarch
al, hypocritical societies do in the Y.
S. Government touay' Mathew 23
chapter, 4th verse says, "For they
bind heavy burdens and grievous to be
borne and lay them on mems should
ers, but they themselves will not
move them with one of tn -ir fingers. "
Now, this accusation was made in the
days of Christ
Now, dear reader, the first law was
given in Gene.s 3:19, and says you
mu get your bread by tue sweat of
your own face. Evolution rolls on
| four &. on and years anu Christ. the
gre atest teacher tue world has ever
known says to the aristocratic Jews,
"You NUT not covet your brothers
goods /" Hence to covet means to take
| by interest, rent or profit Thus you
see, you must not take from your fell
| low man that which he creates with
his own hands Woe unto you, hyp-
ocrits, who vote to perpetuate a sys-
| TEN of robbery and make long prayers
on Sunday. You may say you have
right to do as you please in tnis mat
ter. No, no, my friend, you have q
right to do right, but you have no
right to do wrong If you vote OPP
preston on me and mine and you and
YOURS, You have no respect for your
| fellow man, and must meet Judgement
some day You can't serve God and
Mammon, too. What is Mammon,
YOU might ask. 1t is wealth Hence
you can't serve God and wealth, too.
Now, you hpyocritical teachers and
preachers, ask you how many ser
mons old you ever hear preached in
favor of shorter hours and more pay
for the working class of people, You
SUNK back in your hypocritical de-
bauchery and sing, SIN the Sweet
Bye and Bye" and at the same time
| in stones throw of your cay quar-
ters you hear the poverty wrecked
| cries of poor little hungry. destitute
CHILDREN Now, you may not think
that the working class of people are
not getting on to your hypocricy, but
here lie where you fool yourself. Mat
hew 9Th chapter. 49nd verse, says.
"Give to him that a.keth, and from
him that would borrow of thee turn
not thou away" Where are the chris
tiaus tonight They are sitting back
under the shelter of this Babylonian
society of get all you-can, and keep
it, it makes no difference who starves
| lust 40 they are safe in the traffic
laundering system. They are always
prating bell for some poor man to fall
| into when he dies, and them already
| in hell up to their eyes. want to say
| right here and now that the man who
can't see hell, feel hell or taste hell
under this system Of demon rule and
| robbery, that he will be saved on bis
| ignorance and he need not bother
| about that now, We are living in q
competitive hell today. It is hell to
be robbed I will state right here,
| that II you want to give a man hell,
| take something away from him. II
you want to give preacher bell stop
his salery and he Will tell You about
it.
Now to the readers of the News
want to say that l think it is high
| time to wake mp and see if we can't
| do sometn ing for suffering humanity.
"Not a man, not dollar for war;" Ia
| the socialist slogan While the work.
| ers of America have been asleep the
nation has drifted to the verge OF
starvation. Right now we are stared
in the face by wheat famine. A
merica has been feeling the war in
Europe for the past six months. Now
| it cannot feed its people at home.
You did not starve the war in Eu-
rope while there was yet time. Now
you and your family are threatened
with starvation. The battle cry OF
the American socialist against the
slaughter in Europe has been and is
| today, "Starve the war and feed A
merica - The socialists of America
call every man and woman who hates
war and wishes the welfare of it's peo-
| pie Co join in this effort to check the
war and to safeguard the lives of the
American workers. Now to the wom-
en- who read the News, will say 1t
will be pleasure to me to furnish
literature on the suffrage question, az
the socialist party is the only party
| who works for woman's liberty, and
believes woman is fully equal to
man, If they had an equal chance
| Would women vote for war? No.
Would women vote for an eight-hour
work day. Yes. Would women vote
for weekly pay. Yes Would women
vote for old age pensions. Yes. for
both men and women. These are so