Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-03-04
SOCIALIST IDEAS ON
PRESENT SITUATION

EllUOT NEWS.
Your shoes from Brocton,
Your watch from Waltham.
Your butter from Elgin
Your soap from Chicago.
Your locks from New York.
Your apples from Colorado
Well, just everything you have and
are, including your skin, your bones
and breath, ara all the work of doers.
1t j. the business of doers to make
things they don't get. 1t is the bust
ness of the capitalist thieves and their
pet lackeys and thugs in the political
arena is to take things they don't
make.
How do they dc it, Ask the child
rem of Lawrence, Massachusetts
When the wooden mill strike was on
the mothers of America were shocked
to learn that children in the mills.
whose business it is to make wooden
goods, could not afford even cotton un-
lerclOthes to protect them again.t the
cold Of the Massachusetts, winter, the
little makers of warm WOODEN clothes
walked half nakeI through the snow
to their work. They made warm
clothes; they wore poor, thin, cheap
outer garments and no uuderclothes.
Why Because under the democratic
and republican parties the capitalist
system works that way. The child
does days work, the capitalist thief
or his hired lacky, says: Here, Bub,
il 40c. Your work is worth dollar
to me, SO keep 60c for my profit,
you don't like it you are free to quit
nd 8 70 nd RI
organize, l will apply to head quar-
ters of the democratic party, which
we. the capitalist grafters own, and
we will call the militia and there shall
not be mnant..left.to-tell the tale. "
Now, remember, if You voted the
democratic ticket, this is what you
voted for, and if you voted the repub-
llcan ticket tomorrow, you would vote
for the same system. Now, Mister,
you who are rea1ing this page might
tnink that the capitalist system which
skins the Lawrence mill children cut
of their underclothes, doesn't skin
you. This country is worth one hun
red billion dollars and the doers
made it worth that Do you own your
Share9 If not, why not2 And if not,
are you tired of dividing ~, but you
near the lackeys and political tools OF
the democratic and republican parties
-ay it ia the socialist party that want
to divide up Now, friend, will you
look this square in the face1 Ii you
8re working man know you will
Two per cent of the so-called people
in this country own "A per cent of all
tBe wealth Now, what ale you going
to do about it, You have been vot-
ing the divide up plan ever since time
you voted the democratic ana republl-
can party ticket, and now the socialist
party says that the interest, rent ami
proft system has got to go, forever
ending the divide up system.
| worked on farm last year.
had to plant and cultivate three rows
of corn for one. If that isn't dividing
no don't know what it is If you
like it, vote the democratic and re-
uubIican tickets Nov, Mr.. Work
iugman, like the hog under the apple
tree, you never look up. You ought
to get busy and look into the situa'
ton yourself Don't let your ignor-
anre get away with you. Read fol
yourself if you can read. You ought
to vote against government tnat
won't school its children.
The Farmers Union made great
demand for the farmers this year In
the shape of farmers loan bill The
democratic party turned it down. Can
YOU show me where the democratic
or republican party ever did anything
to help tbs producers No, but can
show YOU where they have murdered
and starved producers and that for tbs
big thieves, murderers and robbers
too. The socialist party demands tue
aboIishment of the profit system As
Abraham Lincoln declared, the abol'
ishment of the chattel slave system.