Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-02-18
The ANCIENT MAN VS..
THE MODERN LA80RER

Editor News:
When the world was new and men
aud women we're but little advanced
beyond the animals around them, they
swung from the branches of the trees,
slept in caves and hunted for their
food, nearly on an equality as to phys
ical and mental strength. They plan
ned for their safety aud fought siue by
side and VOL ked in union, neither sex
dominating the other, with few excep-
tious As wild, free animals there
was no advantage in sex and the evils
Of slavery and sex traffic were as yet
unknown. The cave man with MS
little group got enough to eat the
most of the time, and no cave man
went hungry all the time. Also ne
lived healthful open air life, loafeu
and rested himself, and found plenty
of time in which to exercise bis i'm
agination and invent gods. That Is
to SAY, be did not have to work all MS
waking moments in order to get en-
ough to eat. The child of the cave
man had a childhood, and what Is
meant by that is a happy CHILDHOOD OF
play anu development.
Unlike the caveman, modern man
can't get food and shelter by working
for it. Modern man has first got 10
find work and sometimes be can 90
that. His misery becomes acute.
This acute misery is chronlcled dairy
in the newspapers Not since the days
of the caveman has mans efficiency
for food getting and shelter getting
diminished. 1t has increased thous-
and fold since the days of the cave
man. Matter has been mastered, Tue
secrets of matter have been discover
ed. its laws have been formulated,
wonderful articles have been mace
and marvellous inventions, all tenuing
to increase mans natural productive
powers in food getting and shelter get
ting exertions, in farming and min
ing, manufacturing, transportation
and communication. and SO on. From
the cayeman to the hand workers OF
three generations ago, the increase or
efficiency for food making and shelter
ing the human family, has been very
great indeed, but in this day. by the
great inventions of labor-saving ma
chinery, the hand worker OF three
generations ago has in turn been III
creased many times. II man emcien-
CIV for food and shelter getting has In.
creased thousand fold over that OF
the cave man, then why is it that mil
lions of modern men have to live more
miserably than the cave man. rms Ii
the question that the revolutionary
socialists are asking the ruling CAPT
talist drones of toiay Do the capi'
talist drones and thieves answer? NO.
Thousand times no With all the
licksuittles and thugs of their de-
bauchery they can't answer II moo
ern mans food and shelter getting
has increased thousand fold greater
than that of the cave man, why ther
are there O,OO0, 600 people without
homes in the United States today
who are not properly sheltered o.
nroperly clothed and fed If the chllt
of the caveman did not have to work
| why then today in the United States
are there 1,750, 900 children working
| in the mills, mines and factories
They are dying daily, MANNED, Grip
pled and murdered for dollars ant
cents. Let your ears reach out in ev
ery direction, north, east west ant
south. and bear the means and groan
Of the jnnocents. See their bleeding
souls ground down under the wheels
and spindles of industries OF greed ant
demonism am suie to any slavt
man this will bring the indictment
OF this hellish system of robbery AM
| }ebauchery. How long, Oh Lord, Il
this to continuo9 Right here | make
nv appeal to you the down-trodden o.
the earth. to YOU who vote to tolerat,
this debauchery You ally yourselves
with robbers of your liberty every
time YOU vote tue democratic or re
publican ticket. Some day you vii
lament the situation. Good men, wls'
men, have pied with you, 10 thes'
centuries past and gone. to think, pn
| YOU have turned deaf ear lgnor
ance is the cause of your whole loss
May God help you to wake up ana se'
YOUR sinful conditions before 1t 10 to'
late The very class of men CHRIS
| called thieves and robbers when III
was here, you are taught by the min
| listers of today to call them gentlemen
Christianity doesn't exist in system
that creates milllonaires and pauperS
Wake up, you sons and daughter
of America, study books of right Un
ite YOUR advancing armies and witt
ballots fight Boys, don't fight witt
guns. The only two ways out is thu
peaceful solution at the ballot box, o
hell at the point of the bayonet I'm
der socialism uniting the producers o
all wealth, you would have peace OF
earth and good will to man. Unde
capitalism, you have hell on earth ant
abstraction to man. The bread lin
in New York is near half a million
You have been taught that war make
good times. Bully, indeed, for thes
E B. STATION,
McMinnville, Tenn, Feb. Is, 1915.