The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 238, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 1916 Page: 4 of 4
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THE WORKERS MUST WIN
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(For The Rebel by Arthur Le-
Saenr.)
AU proposed Rural Credit I -
filiation to date ha* in a measure
at least, attempted to segregate
the farmer*, the idea being to re-
cognize him only as a separate en-
tity, naturally separated from the
rest of society.
Perhaps the prime reason for
this attitude of mind on the part
0f the authors of the different bills
is because of the fact that the far
mer has thus far not deemed him
not at all increase the purchasing
power of the worker*, nor at all
tend to increase consumption of
the raw material. This tends rath-
er to keep down the price of raw
material while raising the price of
the finished product Add to the
foregoing the fact that this ahu
tends to leave an unconsumed ba
lance for export and the whole vi-
cious circle of robbery is complete.
What has this to do with rural
credit?
Under the usual plan of Rura!
Credits, which i« followed by the
self an integral part of society an Mow Kill, it ia not proposed to a'
a whole, thru hia failure to under-
stand that all departmenta of so
ciety are gn t *nr* bound together
by a system of social production
which compels co-opcratiop on the
productive or creative aide.
This moans that farmers an
tied up with the commercial and
fir.t.ncial system as firmly as an>
ether grand division v of society
TV farmers deal in the production
of the raw material, and with cer-
tain exeeptiorg never produce ary
tMTijr for the gmcrat market.
The natural market consists oi
ultimate consumers — that is the
only open market —, while th •
market for the unfinished product
in which the farmer deals, consists
of manufacturers of different pro-
duct* of the farm. Wheat as it
leaves the farm is not ready for
the open market, hence the farmer
must sell to those who are engaged
in preparing it f°r OI>cn mar
ket. such a« terminal elevator com-
panies, millers, etc.
Wool cotton, flax, rye, barley,
corn and other staples are treated
in the s me * y before reachm.t?
the ultimate consumer. This
leaves THE FARMER WITH-
OUT CONTROL OF HIS RAW
MATERIAL. THE MOMENT
he attempts to
change it for thai
which he can use, whethe
it be money, machinery, or the fin-
ished product of hia own farm
The farmer loses this control be-
cause the market, the artificir
market, created by our system <
manufacture and exchange, is un-
der the control to a large degrve
at least, of the owners of the means
of finishing and preparing for he
open market the produce of the
farms.
But there are other factors
which enter into the matter. In
this exchange process, the Banks
and the railroads as well as termia
al elevators, factories and mills
play a large part. Every bushel of
wheat, every pound of cotton, flax.
rye, barley, etc- passes thru the
banks and over the railroads in
the process of exchange, and som-
of these products go over the rail
roads several times, and every time
they go over the railroads th?y
pass again and again
banks.
Every time this process is
peated a toll is charged by both
banks and railroads. From th.s
source comes the enormous in-
crease of the resources of the
banks. It is upon this same viue
that railroad "melons' grow.
This largely explains the wide
margin between the price paid the
farmer for the raw material and
the price of the finished product
to the ultimate consumer, which is
not explained hy the labor cost of
converting the raw material in.o
usable wealth.
The farmers are vitally inter-
ested in this system of exchange
because they are producers of the
raw material and consumers of the
finished product and are robbed
• at both ends of the transaction.
The labor cost of finishing the raw
material is of little moment to the
fanner because as the labor cost
rises his market expands because
of the increased purch <in:; power
of the workers. But to increase the
coat of the finished product by
means of increase of bank re-
sources, and railroad melons, doas
ought at least to be put on these®*
footing as the coounereial banks
and allowed to use their own
inirtitutions for all the vm to
which they can be profitably put.
This would mean that they could
oae their banks to carry on their
own exchange business, to fia
ance their own cooperative con-
cerns to finish the product of the
farms and fit it for use, thus giv-
ing the farmer* access for the f
time to the only Open market that
exists, that is the ultimate con-
sumer. «,
The farmer must to a degree at
least be able to control the product
of the land after be has produced
it, and to do that he must have
commercial banking facilities as
well as other divisions of society.
To hsve such commercial facilities
will permit him to manufacture
cooperatively the farm product
of the hard- fisted banker No ru-
ral credit system that leaves the
farmer at the merry of a trust-con-
trol market will ever relieve him
Organization and cooperation
must go all the way down the line.
The fanners must cooperate in the j
farmer thru other channels men-,
tioned for every dollar that he
pays in interest on a farm mort-
gage.
Commercialize the farmers
credit, so that he controls the com-
mercial side of his transactions,
and then solve the land question
so that land hogs cannot hold land
while others starve for want of the
use of it, and all other problem*
such as unemployment and slums
and poverty will be nine-tenths
solved at the same time. Bring the
landless man and the manless land
together and allow them access t >
an open market and the trick i •
turned.
AS TO MORTGAGES.
Haliettsville New Era.
thru the
re-
low the farmer to escape thix
shearing machine which we call
oar financial system, but it i*
proposed to make it possible for
him to conveniently produce mom-
of which it may rob him.
What the farmer needs tV<j i;
free access to the means of ^ni
mercializing his credit, not tor
thirty-six years but for such tun-
as he requires whether it be Ion?
or short. He needs to bo allowed
to use the institutions that he buys
and pays for. to do all of -the
things which he needs to have
done which that will conveniently
and effectively do.
A land bank which will not and gasres. but do not forgt
cannot be used as the medium
thm which these exchanges can be
cartjfcd on is of no earthly use to
the farmers, for it is not as some
suppose thru the mortgage loan
that the farmer is most seriously
robbed but thru the so-called com-
mercial hanks thru which he must
connect with the commercial
world in order to market his goods
and buy that which he must have
from the commercial world such
as machinery, twine, groceries.
clothes, lumber, medicine, educa-
tion, all of the things that go to
complete his equipment for lif*
and work.
Any banking or financial sys-
tem for farmers that does not fill
this need leaves him at the mercy
of the hard-headed banker.
Again the tenant farmer needs
to be able to borrow upon his
character and reputation so as to
be enabled to finance hi§ short
time indebtedness at the cost if
the sen-ice.
Commercial banks now make
such loans, hut at exorbitant rates
that preclude the possibility of
prosperity on the part of the poor-
ep class of farmers.
Again it must be remembered
that cheap land loans will not re-
lieve the situation for the farmer
who has no land of his own, fur
the inevitable result will be a raiv:-
of the price of land which will al-
ways equal the decreased cost of
the mortgage loan, for the measure
of the value of the land is the in-
terest which it will pay on the in-
vestment. When the cost of mort-
gages is reduced on land the value
of land accordingly rises.
The whole question, then, is tied
up with the land system, and one
of the most effective steps towards
preventing the rise of the price of
land will be a land tax, taxing the
land to its full value, so that n"
land can be held out of use for
speculative purposes, thus forcing
those who hold land whether as
landlords or as speculators, to let
go of it in self defense.
As showing the tremendous vol-
ume of business upon which the
commercial banks took their toll in
recent years we find that about
two hundred sixty three billions rr
exchanges went thru the regular
clearing house of the United States
in 1914. Add to this the stupend-
ous totals that passed thru local
clearing houses in the two or three
bank towns, and the local clearin'/s
of checks between banks through-
out the country, and the total
would likely reach over three hun-
dred billions of dollars, more than
ninety-five per cent, of the total
exchanges of our domestic trade.
$33
He tapped some More, thinking.
He had mors to my. 1 waited, and
by and by he found his words.
"Say, yoa described me ones.
You wen talkfcg about all of us,
all of ua bo—*, and — I don't
know about the rest, but you nail-
ed me. You said we thought we
were only stealing here and there,
and bribing, and all that; and you
•aid, I remember, that we thoug!
we were crooks. That's right 1
thought > I was only stealing and
bribing; a—crook. And I didn't
mind it. I was in good company.
The best men in this town divide
with me."
There was bitterness in this; and
it seemed to me it was a relief to
him from the deeper emotion he
had felt. Anyhow, he gave way to
it. *
"And the press that roasted me
they were in the game. Some news-
papers belong to the same kind of
men that I play with—men in on
the divvy; business men who are
ADS.
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PABMKB8 AMD •VHK!t£
Was sfrisj m* food oaljr «
fi*d adrertieeaaeeta.
and free him from the JormMtion *"< « tb'ir> ®r "«> «
to. Affd say. I could get em call-
ed off, any of 'em, when they went
too far It was a part of the
game to holler at me. Bawlin' the
the boss out helps keep thc.'ten-
tion off'n the real bosses. 1 know.
And it's all right, and I didn't
squeal. No. But I knew thnt they
its, hat
of The BebeL
the European war
with one of west Texas' schol-
ars, Mr. R. W. Lauderdale, at
the close of the Waeo conven-
tion, recommended to him that
bo read Marx's "Interpreta-
tion of History". He writes):
T. A. Hiekey, Haliettsville, Texas.
Comrade:—Apropos to our mid-
night eonversstkm at the Braxis
Hotel concerning the coup d' tict
(anarchy by the "state") of Louis
Napoleon, I have kept my promise
by resting Karl Marx ^on that
Yoleanie period of French history.
Or rather Karl's diagnosis of the Bm* ,««ber, aiga or initial Ml|, a.
festering eauscs which culminatei a word.
in such an issue of pus and . _
blood from body politic. Haven't
read the 18th Brumaire yet but 8«*d li.oo for my bedbug extenr,
"Civil War in kifl* the™ their w ru,r
We swisiss mat can is
elssnAsd advertiaesaea
Is impoeaibU to
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,Eft
it
ftad advertiser peraooaily w« «ar
not guarantee their reHabiM*. but
we reqneet th• isiitim at 0iIf
readera is exeladiag aaytiia*
tioaable.
m tsls. tz'.
have read the *' Uivil war in
France."
that led up to the bombardment oi
Paris he reveals a prodigy of wick-
edness that would "stagger the un-
belief of Satan." Theirs, Ferry,
Prevy, Faure, Traehus et al state
with complacent infamy that their
devoted pountry is already bleed-
ing at every pore.
make us hate the earth itself if our
savior had not have slept in its
boaora.
bOClALlbT i^ditor asd Printer !ur
s growing county paper. Uuat be a lr *
wire. Wasted at once.
J. B. Morris, Paula Valley, OkU
BEBXL BUVDL88 DO THE WORK
It is enough to K0W FOi THE 1#l* CAM
n
FOB SALE — Jackaon rouad bo!!
anil Lone Star cotton seed for planting..
This presents to me a new plia>0 Von can't beat 'eni for big boll . B1S
of Marx. The phase of a Neme lintJn^ ,tro th "
. „ , \ . . , • • 1 mjf- $1.00 per bushel in sacka. F. 0. B
sis. Passion does but clear his mind Sylvester Texas.
and fanev only steady his arm
more dead-
down with
, , , , nvmi.nH.n p-fU all af 'em, kidtcil alKuit that hi* blows may be
rnjinnfamirp qt thar hri,^ „ld th„ ly. 1,,. u.ol«,k
when they do a free mnrket will N , j}|ry (}ar(, didn't want to this reflection; ''Cvpii
their portion but not before. \es. totJcj, on t},e r(^j thing. They nil j d\e.
I secure cheaper rates on farm morr. j stand for that.
but do not fowt that one, business and th.
A. H. Ash, Sylvester, Texa«.
S<^eT
' ' . , „ . . . t ,1,w-f-re always with me. but thev had
hundred dollars is stolen from the, « • -
We are booking orders for 8wp t
Capitalum mu>t Potato Slijm, Dooley Y%m. Old Fashion
It must die because the r^- Pinnp^in \am, Nancy Ilall, Vinelt^
Thr. Iiit/i i i .• . i, i,„.s „ .! Vam. $2 50 per thousand delivered frr>'„
f [volutionarj j>oletanat has sau Mtreh 25 to APrtli5th, all good «tron„'
e newHpa[>er croo^H that it must die. Has said in its BUBNET PLANT FAHM,
h^art that no expedient is Us low, * Milano, Ti*x;>..
mean, subterranean, underhand-
ed, hidden or deadly to compass
its destruction. Socialism is com- " vere<j root cures
rtfr
high sounding names for their
srraft, and the public never knew
See!"
SLAVERY is AMERICA
The steel workers at Youngs-
town struck last month for short-
er hours and higher wages. They
receive on an average of $8 a week
for 12 houi? work, seven-day weetc,
and on the 14th day they work 24
hours consecutively. They are
dried up and burned out at 40
years of age, when they are thrown
on the scrap heap to literally
starve.
J. P. Morgan, the biggest man
of the trust, was asked by Frank
Walsh in New York recently if
110 a week was sufficient for a
workingman. His reply was hon
est anyway, he said:
" It is if $10 is all he can get and
te takes it."
The Rebel prays to God Almigh-
ty that the millions of industrial
and farm workers will not be satis-
fied to earn $10 a week but w.'il
have the brains and backbone to
throw the Morgans off their backs
and demand the full product of
their toil.
bkothek— accidentally
Socialism is com- "'Vered root cures tobacco habit
i„g b^se ft. Red Brotherhood
is coming. Justice will be its w-
coueher, not Benevolence. It is 1 >
coming because the class conscious j war)t to fjnd (wme ^ th;it
will f.?ht for it in any way the ^ Forre8t,g firgt oW Ro.
capitalist make it necessanr even Com , A CaptfciB W
to the l>arncades. Let us be mis- ^ 'Bacot
XV
trustful of any expedient that a i
kept press has not slandered and
that a prejudiced pulpit has not
hissed at Your friend,
B. W. Lauderdale.
HOW THEY MC?ZLL\
A New Era reporter happened
to look over the mortgage record in
the county clerk's office and found
some significant figures. For ex
ample in the 12 months ending
Feb. 9. 1911. there were just 65C
mortgages placed on record. Wi
skipped five years and found thai
the number of mortgages reconle
for the year ending February 19
1916, had reached the alarming to
tal of 2563. In other words the
number has more than quadruplet!
inside of five years, not counting
hundreds of mortgages not on re
cord, with the population of tht
county the same now as then and
with no appreciably greater pro
portion of mortgage holders re
cording their mortgages.
Those who are ever so ready tc
aeribe the poverty of the people U
"bad management," "shiftless
ness," "laziness." will do well t'
look at these figures again, fit it
foolish to say that the "shiftless
nes*" of our people has increased
four hundred per cent, in five
years. It is wiser to say that the
robbery of the people by a few
plutocrats who control the mar
kets,, money, land and other ne-
cessities of life has quadrupled.
It is also well to remark that
Lavaca county is no worse off
than any other county in the
South and in the nation and if the
. your ammunition with yea. Ts in
soon find the American people m a thes let him de-
the same condition as wewk the part without something ts read
masses of Mexico prior to tbe re
The anthracite coal >p«5n5tors
have instituted a $2.0<)<''.000 ad-
vertising campaign to tell .he An
erican people that they cannot af-
ford to increase, the wace* of the
miners a single penny. The opera-
tor's slogan is: "Millions for pub-
licity, but not one cent for wag
es." The Rebel warns its readers
to look out for advertisements in
Texas and other Southern dailies
like "Nujol," the Standard Oil
product.
This time the ails will be from
poor downtrodden billionaires of
the coal trust On top of this loos
out for pace ads from the long-
suffering railroad trust in anti
pation of the railway strike that
may break about May 1. It is su*>-
sidies like these that keep the mil*
zled harlots alive. Boycott tbe
Gal.-Dal. and similar publications
and support yortr own press.
BFN9LE RATES
J. M. McClannery, Kopperi, Tax.
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whereever men and women gather
together, you must be able to ex-
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have
volution, unless they get backbone
and intelligence enough to vote
If the ballotless peons of Mexico
could fcee themselves with bul
for themselves and their loved iets. why can't you enfranchised
ones.
peons do it with the ballotf
Every current of public opinion j Human flesh and Wood can en
is setting in toward the ever-riaing ! dure no more than the peons ul
flood of revolution. Soon the man Oklahoma and Texas have endut-
Now when the farmers are require® ^ w^0 fights Socialism will be as ed. Something is going to rip this
to pay for bank stock as is provid-, popular aa a polecat at a picnic. , year.
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 238, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 1916, newspaper, February 19, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394526/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.