The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1919-11-11

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| tain task. Every man is free tC
choose the job he wants to do, and nc
organization has a right to say tc
another man that he cannot work al
certain job because he does not
happen to belong to the union. "Ii
one man lays down his pick anC
shovel, or his hammer and saw, and
goes out with a union, he does not
have right to prevent another man
from taking up his work"
The government guarantees tc
every one the right to own property
The laborer is worthy OF his hire, is q
teaching in the Bible which holds true
in our economic system today as il
will ever hold true, and no man has .
right to take from another that which
he has earned by the sweat of his
face. No man is too rich and nc
woman, no matter how many jewels
she may have on her fingers, is toe
good 20 do honorable work, for in
the table Of commandments handed
down to Moses by God Himself, ii
was stated that six days shalt thou
labor, and every man must earn his
living by he sweat of his brow. But
the syndicalists would come along
and say that no man has a right to
own property, that it will be taken
from him and divided among the
masses. How many farmers woulo
sow their seed this fall, if they
thought that tomorrow some one
might come along and take their
property away from them? And in
this preaching they are violating
another of Gods commandments,
Thou Shalt Not Steal"
1t is right that man should pro-
vide for his family. That is his duty,
and it is right that he should accumu-
late something for the days when
hard times come. And the governor
remarked that these are the fat days.
That lean days are coming, and that
tastes, and their dress today and that
some day, when the lean years shall
have come, they will regret having
spent their money so foolishly and
so lavishly today.
The governor spoke further in
condemnation of the work of the
anarchists who term themselves syn
dicalists. He said that they would do
away with the sanctity of the home
they teach that woman is common
property to be passed from hand to
hand and from man to man, and what
worse hell could there be than for
such conditions to prevail, where the
sanctity of the home is done away
with, where Woman-Whom we have
placed upon the pedestal as Gods last
creation but His best and most beau
tiful-shall be abused, mistreated and
dishonored. But this is what the
syndicalists would do. And then the
governor told pathetic story OF a
girl who had recently come to Ameri-
ca from Russia, who told what life
means in that land under the red
flag. She had been mistreated, she
had fallen into the hands of lustful
men no we're not only satisfied with
abusing her body by gratifying their
lustful passions, but that she had
been bruised and cut, and scars were
evident where she had been mistreat-
ed. She found asylum in America,
and believing that she had, through
PrOvidential means, escaped from
that land of barbarity, she was going
about the United States, visiting the
governors-and he was the twenty
second she had visited-appealing to
them to go out and tell the women of
America just what life means under
the rule of anarchists who are stir
ring up strife in America, and who
are trying to set up the red flag and
tear down the Stars and Stripes.
Gov. Roberts frequently quoted
from the Bible and cited it as the way
for men to walk His address was
sermon within Itself, and the earnest
ness in his appeal, and the. sincerity
of his efforts to keep America free
from the hellishness of the rascals
who are trying to overthrow it, made
a deep impression upon the minds
and hearts of those who listened to
him.
The governor said that with faith
in God and right purpose in their
minds, true blooded America would
come through the storm of unrest
that is now rocking the nation from
ocean to ocean, and which is throw
ing the entire world into convulsions,
and all would be we'll some day when
the peoples of the world shall sail
into the harbor where God would
have them come.
He closed his address by telling of
a visit of a friend to Uncle Joe Can
non in Washington a few months ago.
He said this good old confederate
friend had come to his office to COM
mend him for the way in which he is
trying to uphold the principles of
true Americanism, and that in the
course of his conversation the Nasn-
vile man said he had come to think
more of Uncle Joe in recent months,
and that he was ashamed that he had
ever had unkindly thoughts about
him, now that he has proven his true
Americanism and his interest in the
peoples of this land. The old Con
federate friend on his visit to Wash
ington called upon Uncle Joe, and
apologized to him for differing with
him so often in years gone by and
not respecting him as the leader he
has proven to be. He stated that
Uncle Joe said the United States is
facing the greatest crisis that has
come to it. That the world is facing
the greatest crisis that has ever con-
fronted it, but America would save
the world and the south would save
America.
The old Confederate soldier asked
Uncle Joe what he meant by the
South saving America, and the veter-