Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-02-04
THE MENACE
OF THE SITUATION

Editor News:
The big plutocratic q. s. govern
ment is in trouble and more trouble is
coming People are dissatisfied. Bus
mess people feel that no amount of
energy and devotion to business can
secure them against failure, that back
of the usual elements of chance, there
stands something else, the unem-
tramping and begging for work in this
hell ridden monarchial system of in
terest. rent and profit. !, The democrat,
ic party is farce to the core Every
wOrkingman aud woman knows there
is something wrong. The republican
party says, "Let's put tariff on
mole hides, that will fix things all
right, SO the republican politician
marches off with brass band footing
for home and native land, and y, the
dear people. he comes back home.
"Well, did yon get 'er through
eyes, bnt l was little bit too
late"
Can you working men see the trick
in this fabulous scheme to keep you in
ignorancer A nameless terror which
fills as all with unrest like cattle
stalked at night by an unseen beast of
prey. What's the natter What is
soaring us2 Now, friend, if you are
working man, or working mans
friend, just follow me down these
lines, and see if we can't understand
better why the working men and wom-
en- should join party of their own
class Now, what's the natter The
autocrat tool, the democratic polite
ian, jumps out and says:
"Let me fix it. l know what's the
matter. It's peanuts. Tariff on pea
nuts
He marches off with a brass band
crying, "God save Dixie and the sun
ny SOUTH" but he never says, "God
save the crooked politicians. He
marches back with a little spot Of
blood and little bunch of hair.
''Did you kill the tariff on pea.
nuts"'
"No,'' replies the democratic poll
tician, "but cut an inch off its tail.
Now the country will flourish.
Thus you see YOU are tricked again.
So again and again you have been
fooled until the burden has warped
your top piece. You and your family
are in destitute condition.
Now, my kind friend, you ought to
appeal to common sense. We Social
lists know what is the matter. 1t Is
the capitalist system. You might ask
what is the capitalist system. It is a
gang of evil men doing evil deeds.
No, it is not what you thought it was.
We dom believe it is horned devil
nor big black thing. 1t is you and
your neighbor Jones and neighbor
Smith and the Widow Bloodiwbo, etc.
The capitalist system means the
making of goods and trading in them
for profit. This is nation of skinners
and swappers. Everytime you swap a
democrat politician, you get the skin
ming Everytime you swap republi-
can politician you get the skinning.
You see, friend. it is the same robber
system. 1t matters not If you elect a
democrat today, a republican tomor-
row, your poverty still continues. The
rich are getting richer and the poor
are getting poorer. Rockefeller has
! skinned us out of the oil, Morgan has
skinned us out of steel, Hill has skin
ned us out of the railroads. Armor has
skinned us out of beef liver. So, you
s66 Tue system is as TOGUeu as u6ll IL
self
Now, let me reason with you on this
old rotten interest, rent and profit sys-
TEN. Now. friend, the next shrewd
politician you see, it doesn't matter
what he calls himself, democrat or re-
publican, it's no difference, they are
in the same boat, stand for the same
system, but you be candid, my friend,
working man, and please ask him these
three questions:
First lis it right to take profit
Seconds 1t right to take rent
Thirds it right to take INTEREST,"