The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. 89, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 22, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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(That intellect galore is to be
found in the minds of men who
wear the overalls is well known.
The latest proof of this truth comes
to the Rebel desk in the form of a
powerful poem written by Com-
rade Carl Rosson, a young mach-
inist, who works daily iu the L. «
tell a ts
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E Aft EOS OUR KNEES — LET VS A RISE.
SATURDAY, MARCH 22,
FIVE MINUTE SERMON.
the Sec-
Mo 89
PROHIBITION.
By Rev. J. J. Pounw, Bishop, Tex
That Socialism is in perfect At 9 p. m. on St. Patrick's night
harmony with the spirit and the wjt^ a pj^ 0Jf a genuine sham
letter of the B ble and especially ^is coat, after fourteen
with the teachings of (hours continuous work, the editor
ily susceptible of proof. Christ s 0f the Rebel desires to say a fee
teachings form the basis of Ckrkt-
It is a law of social develop!
1 ' ^ . __ n tiAl
In the United States that no
jHIhe affairs of the state or na
en expression to their desires
iea their wants, their ideals
i who bave done so have
lie the swamp# ot peop-
nien
rhere lie
| scaree and ooarse, thier child-
temselves. find life naught wit
fcventh hour *ith slavery cbn-
*
claimf ' . | financial and moral profits to th
Shall peiniee that were hoarded . with I proudly boast, ""We carry
•;< childish glee . To istnore this law is suicidal and
P., 53 * «a «— .<* "" Lme d0the social «* to the d<J
no Cm fit#" I age- Their family's food
KBH o uoe . To spread d<Jstnletiou o'er thewve. L Q ^aVe the merest 6f education and
<-*** We in a^4|f footo.M.#^^
glaring iraua. > . L recognize" this law artd now at t)^
That while we pretend" to be a peace frohting them, the boldest, braittiest IB
lovingmatfea 'T.\LJs «du b v e organized a* Renters" tTnionaBfl;
01 shot through their darkened ttves^
Another class of workers who MM
ed to organize are the section fore'
and his workers, the men of the 1
whose daily toil in nil kinds of wea"
of the United States.
Because they have failed to o
station with no hope for their children
exist and existing the ybear the. to
toil worn shoulders. "
Over the rail, they apreadjiJie lordly eujuwer «*
by with haml on throttle and his pafl|u dollars a dw- What i the
.L-ert They are organized, iuat ftt and noth^ more. And_ao
with other branches, of th era.lway fcviw. who ^iThlt were thev
ganized receive approximately a hvisiwaee. It is true that were they
The al* eheadUnesof theHous-
ton Chrt tie of Sunday, March 9,
that he who run* may
lightning flash on a
it reveals the ecnonm-
Socialists went up and
. uthern states and said
orime mi % restitution, >we were
.n^d . \l to Bourbopa, revib
ed bV-' t .--ain type of preachers
and generally denounced by the"tip-
holders of the present system ,
The preacher was particularly i
emphatte 4n; asserting that tho wo-
men fell because they had «u in
their souls, n
The -bieutenant Governor of u
linois and his .investigating .com-
mittee have sholm they have fallen
because they did not have food in
their stomachs. ,
Between poverty and crime, betr
ween penury and sin there it an
almighty close relation. Multitud-
es <jf women today who have sta n-
less characters and who wtfttld not
brush their skirts with those of
their fallen sisters have not stopp-
ed to consider that were they to go
through the treadmill of poverty
that these working girls had to
wend th ir way through they them-
selves might have lived within the
glare ef the red light.
Consider for a moment the pos-
ition in which iftetf like Julhw R*
senwald, the manager of S«M®,
Roebuck and Hilman of HiHman
Jb Co., the managers of Marshal
Field and other department stor-
es and n/ail order houses find them
selves Aa a result of this invest-
igation they stand forth branded as
human vultures who have amassed
millions from the maidens of our
country. Where the white slavers
secure their victims in ones and
twos the mail order houses and de-
partment stores directly supply the
red light district with thousands;
in fact they are close akin.
- Horrible and repulsive, as is the
white slaver, he at least does not
wear the garment of hypocrisy.
Rosenwald, whose firm made $v
000,000 net last year has given $1,-
000,000 for philanthropic purpose.
He is a heavy contributor to the Y.
M. C: A. He is a prominent figure
at charity dinners and balls. jHe
robs wholesale and doles" out pen-
nies in charity retail. He and his ilk
stand a large chance of being dub-
bed the meanest men in America.
But the thinking man will ask
himself what remedy has Lieuten-
ant Governor O'Hara, of Illinois,
and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who
is leading in this investigation of
. •. i • i.-
G N. shops at Palestine, Tex. The uian or of men can have a voice
poem was born as a protest against tion unless he or his fellows have ft-
Governor Collquitt's call on the ky means of an- organization that
school children for pennies for a and their aspirations men women
silver service for the Battle Ship The realization of this soci ^ . ^ditiona may
Texas. Read it and heed the mee-hn eVery ^alk of life to organize to Wr#"* tlmt®E2Sl^i +k/t
■be improved and theirrwelfare safeg
organizations have sp/ung up from
ianity. Chriit'anity means Christ
life and if Socialism is in hanaony
' with the teaching of Chriat then it
follows that a Christian mast be a
S<*iaii«t jin this good eid.U. ft of A. Ot
| The Gospel of Christ gave Patrick's days in xay B^elanc
power of God unto salvatam to ^ olj Womea w^h the pi^.iouiic
sweet thing* about prohibition aad
the Ant'-saloo* League.
To begin with the editor of thn
groat religioua.weekly is one of thf
strongest believers in temperance
^"t^tt^^.'S |hnman ^."untH eie'n *£ *• +
1. Thus it has happened that
to time from every strata of
ks of Texas have with much
organized a union.
every one that believes and
"God willeth not the death of any-
one", bttt that all should eaaae to
repentance and further: "God
1 so loveth the world that He gave us
his Begotten Son" to save aiius- rjieAjtjesi boys tiat ever ,aul,l1ri^
kind, etc., therefore something mother was nrond of came into th
needed to establish true farther
usee
pud
wisdom of their age and
to say, that the prijpf of
ding yfiM in the eating thereof anc
so with .the . libel. Forty:four
years have jpaas^jfi^ce one o^ ,thf
hood and justice oja earth; to help
| the poor to acoept the Wrtpel.* No
person who is suffering for some-
thing to eat and Wear is in a con-
dition to go out and hear the €k*
W.e spend more Wr war than
cation. • _ _. ,
And when pomp and ceremony demand
more 1 '
We again appeal childhood • tean-
ty store.<
And thus it is witb burbane pride
"W® parade out folly on th® tide.
Ah! parents, teachers, children of the
Lone Star State •
Will you not pause a moment to con-
template
The folly of honoring this hideous plan
Of the legalised murder of your broth-
er man!
Heed not the cry that in protection s
name , .
They can justify; this, a nation s
"towering shame. ; ,
lira vest spirits amongst them nor in a proper frame of
rcii dy ra£S ,of hops have been to receive it.
je reason or another have fail-
.section meny the kingsnipe
;car. th^ shovel, pick and bar,
makes possible the commerce
„ they suffer loss of caste and
|hilc unorganized. They merely
of a nation's travel on their
?*. THMi filet was pointed out by
Christ when he T*rst fed the asult-
itude, and then gave them His noted
sermon which fonns the bsois tor
the demand of. Socialism. • How
then can the poor be saved unless
.the earthly buWfen is taken off
-them and they\are elevated! How
can a preacher eonsider himself
"sent" when he eannot reach those
who cannot hear him t The real
mother was preud.pf came into th# . ..
vale of sunshine ,q#ul tears lhaf
much resembles th,a climate,qf 1% .
piafaM, and it waa only three nightf \f
ago t^t 1 put. a 2$. pound man on
a chair and picked him up ,with on*
hand. I advance t|is statement of %
fact aa a proof of the fact that 1
have led | teapej$te iife. Never
have I set my foot jiwhind a saloor .
>ar, but as t never, carry a cloak, of. t
hypocrisy to adorn ,my form I will t
admit that many times X have rUc .
ed my foot upon th« rail and gazed
at the big back bar.
For those who w sh a life of tem-
perance and struggle to see their
fellow men and women wear the
preacher will and muat reach them,! white flower of a stainless life, 1
which he can only do by preaehlng bave not now and never hav
equality, justice and brotherhood
which ia Socialism.
For what protection do they secure
To the thousands of the nation s
Btrugg.-ng pot
Who bv reason of a reign -of gold
Few'ngh* , in their country longer
• holdt . _ %
The chief executive seems unconcerned
That the millions by the hand of -
horeafMd
To them has been less a source of Joy
Than to the hosts that are trained
to destroy
:iT^,„iml thev "could own the wMM&Wt™, hot the fact rtanda th.t other -ealled preaeh.™ are yet
SttHhe Kotionmen ahow the apirit'ffa.nhood «h.t mmbut hirelings of the rich and pow- |have
in ga card they will not recede and
fellow slaves in the cabs, baggage.
cars.
had any but the utmost
respect and admiration. And
many misguide*' men
believed that I carry
Realizing this great truth some
issued a call for organization and h
)t fore- recognition from their erfti even though they may firm- jsonw brwf for those who fight the
• u „..U rtMMTicmr 1„ Th^ir hmins nrohibition movement. A greater
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pullman's or passenger iy believe otherwise,. Their brains
ar« eaked by an intellectual pro-
ighted men in the ranks have cee8 in theological "eemeteriea."
entrusted the Rebel with the Any preacher that votes the old
these worker* of th« rail— party tickets which propose th*
prohibition movement. A greater
mistake could not be made because
what I have fought is the organiz-
ed hypocrisy of Democratic polit-
icians robs ride into office on a Pr<
•iwfc." OMwP ,€■***
Too: ho views with no alarm'
The increasing tenantry on Texas
s. farms
Or if so; has given no intimation
CM! the fact by official proclamation
Thinking; perhaps Jbat these questions i
of state —> . . , .
Are less important than shining
guns and annorplate.
Bnt "Father Time," who with relent-
lass tread
From the past has brought, and tie-
fore the present, spread
History's pages replete with tore
Shows what folly "'tis to ignore
The eternal truth that Intelligences
course
Can not be *ay*d by brutal force
Therefore, dear children as tnyj ltnowl
edge doth impart
A greater sympathy to every human
heart v
The old patriot's creed should be re-
vised - v,
And the modem one recognized
That declares openly to all men
That brutal war must iorever end.
/ CARL BOSSON.
taking of rent, tottiwt and p «, m "J .t th<
al™. „f ,h. ntroncest amone the spinte among the aMtion fore- are by this act branded aa .nmuo
^n^tilnSlTeS.hedTna.ion.1 taW. d of ,he Word of God whia. ^
done the neeeaaary preliminary work for the branching of . great na- claim to npbo d «d pre^i.
fXl orSSnof theatoVeaofthenil. ... ■ " ' They are nraply preaehlng not
The following eloquent addrei* to th. section foremMi and section for the poor or riA man a Mlyn-
. la! WnitumnA bv those in charge. They have entrusted the tion but for the salary they get
Rebel with the publication of this call and ask all those interested to
which is furnished mainly by the
get in communication with the secretary-treasurer, whose name is rich. .
printed below. Read carefully and then act. Paul said: Study to show your-
4 self th eproof of God, a working
man to be shamed by dividing the
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coach with *bbm i wnj. FUii word 0f youth." This admonition is
T™..BEU- OOBD ^ Viokted every day by capitolirt
Thm waa an old nan in O. preachers for they prMcb only
that works! most all of his life on half th<j truth and thereby tell the
the track. h* t ld his daughter the greatest falsehoods, since "a lie
next morning of the request tbelady ^ -R hajf t^e truth is hard to
made. The daughter listened witt in- , „
terest until the story was finished. By co^pftt* . .. ,. , . ,
thatltime the tews began to fall from The Socialist-fighting preachers
Bailey is going to have his pic-
ture painted. The Rebel would
suggest that, so there may be a due
regard to the fitness of thing!, it be
the causes of prostitution, to offer j painted in OIL. ^ ^ ,
for this deplorable condition of af-
TO SECTION MEN.
yhe Oo-Operative Industrial Union
Railway Trackmen.
Is being organised. Ton are aware
of the fact that some of the track
men's unions of the past have been
only partially successful. The reason
for were: 'v—|UHW ri _
First .Ton could not get the travel- her ^ ^ ^eat big torxs at that. are but hirelings and "a hirel'ng
ing public to understand the dangerous a^e cleared her throat she said: careth not for flock for when the
conditio^ of the track they ride over, rsOsr. why don't yon get the men ]f ^ hireling will floe,
and the cause of it being dangerous. !t# , you know if Jie engineers wolt comes ine nireung w u uce.
Your union waa organised an(j conductors and brakemen and the wolf will scatter the flock
on the craft union system which is fast wen not organized they would not be and devour them, but a good shep-
lotdng its usefulness and industrial un- Ketting any more pay fian you get })pr(j wjn die for his flock.''
ions taking its place in line. .The in BegUl— your work such hard work m, dying for lack of
dnwtrlal onion of railway trsckmcn is 4ye^ important as thflln pwi . . .
co-operative, that is, it 1s the stepping g^ction mm you ^ave a chance to the true word and the spirit of God
stone'towards the union of the em get tat0 % Jni0n that is going to win. and the capital'sts preachers are
ployees of the railway in ustey Intone 8end your app'icstlons and help responsible for this condition. "A
gnat of the liquor ev*l, swallow tht
camel of capitalkm.
When I found landlords support
ing the prohibition movement whilts
at the same time they locked nj>
fourfifths of the land for specni-
ative purposes and thus render
multitudes of clean-living Texas-
people homeless, I struck at the
scurvy scoundrels as hard as I pos-
■ibly could and wished to the God
of my fathers that I could have
woven ef worfjfc a whip dipped in
sulphuroUH fire that would makf
them feel the agony of the damned
Wlien I found that there wer<
more prohibition preachers in the
penitentiaries than bartenders and
saw that that each one of them
stood for the maintenance of thh
home-destroy'ng system I cast the
mantle of charity in the ditch
published the fact and only regret
ted that I could not write this of-
ficial record in letters of fire ac
ross the southwestern sky.
When T went to Oklahoma City
to attend a state convention of th*
Soeialist Party last December th*
big'union of industrial workers of rail^ gend the messrje "to every section man nian can no more go to heaven fax t was rubbed under my now
way and transportation companies of ^ United States. . through the that 'n no city of its size in the n
fairs. ,
Do these gentlemen not know
that the capitalist system contains
within itself certain economic
laws that Cannot be pushed aside
The Wall Street Plutocrats want
war with Mexico. War is hell, let
them go to JFTell, War, or Mexico.
or
abrogated by all th, .Mb** Baptist Chnrch of Texaa and
the world.
The trackmen's union is strictly in meniture that win teach eye of a needle. How then can a
sympathy with all industrial unions tbfl traveling public the facts regard- man that owns millions of doliare
and seeks theij co-operattnl .Bv|cry condition of the track they ride worth of property have the audae-
member bw a voice and vote and^the ov#ti ^ c<mdition of the men u f to church. How can a mo-
sz'oxjs'Azi ^ -< «««.
vote of the dues paying members. We gengeT controls the speed of the thousands of acres of land whieb
are arranging with the Eebel to send a riding in. .Every track (Jod says: "shall not be sold for-
copy of our can to forner membm- mM1 an engineer no more ever" ^ a reai Christian t How
4n vu® uniica „M.uAu «-Va «aaa/I t\f a train thtn hft t i „
can these men escape damnation
to every section gang 4n me uniMa controla the of
States. .Are you willing to help? .We tte* uand of
ing committe.® th.t could convene^er geOtiemen f Ui tan are
in a thonaand years! facing mlUo® °f„
Do these gentlemen not know th«t, they become partners of_ ta,
one of the laws of this capitalist; Roebuckprwident, the Hon. Jo-
ayatem ie that labor ia bought and ,1iiua Rosenwald .
sold according to the law of supply The coffcltmonthettougMful
- •• raan or woman will come to arter
reading of the destruction of these
and demand; is bought and sold as
a'commodity, and when there is a
large supply apd a' small demand,
the price of that commodity, he it
iron, coal, pork chops or human be*
ings goes down and if there is a
young women through low wages is
this: Destroy rent, interest and
profit, the props of the capitalist
ines goes oown ana n - system, destroy Monopoly in land,
laqje demand and a *g
With the enormous developtnent uring relief from
of labor saving machinery and the Build up an army of emancipation
"1 ihmvi * ■ ,
monopolization of the land that m
the state off Texas alone amounts to
four fifths iif the entire surface,
the cities must ever be congested
and consequently the ifrice of both
I the male and female worker must
ever tend downwards. Following
this line of thought we fiaff
when Colonel C. C. Slaughter of
that will not only scorn the Rosen-
walds, but the system that breeds
them. ' „ .
Build up the Renters' Union, in
the south, ' industrial unions
through the nation; wherever pos-
sible vote the Socialist ticket ant
then, and not until then, will our
womanhood be,«fe
a train than he
controls tte* uand of hie watch, or
tion was liquor sold more openk
or brazenly on the Sabbath da?
and the imps of chance who rodf
the roulette ball enjoyed the Devil >
Dance while the church bells wer<
ringing-— I published this fact anc
wished that T could chip the Rock"
Mountains into . stones of trutV
that would frash through the thict
skulls of thoae who innocently be-
have placed the dues for members-at ^hlTdims. Cher's watch hundred miles when the hireling preacher is up-
lige at 28 cents jw which is the^axher s watch nun ^ them in Equity! YoujHcve in the prohibition fake anc
°f *ou know that Section foremen should have pats can't escape by sitting in the Amen jcherisli tV delusive hope tW ^
theCOTeachTran' teacher^ lawyers, doc- books and section laborers be given corner y0u may deceive men but, could settle for alltimes the ra^
£ ZStSwSand Pa— Just the same u cj^act^ yQU c(m,t deceive Qod ages brought by the demon nm
don't you know that they would not the fig i^o employ May God help *uch preachers through prohibition meth^a
work at the work y0u 0n The faack he fed hive the and convert them so they may he] It was because T was a Secahr
dollars per . * . f authority to pay you. .Station agents f0 repentance and preach the .and an advocate^ trf temperan'f
i e not or «hopld be anthorlxed topayjtayla, who]e Q { truth; which « the .that I wrote on this question witb
S4" establishment on earth of justice language that cut and stung h
Some time since there was a wash^■ ^ foreman that is in chrage of through righteousness and -univer- was because I told the ru
out on the Kock Island north of Dal *™ sal brotherhood which is Social- '; Dr. Rankin was been silenced m
hart. A bunch of secttca men were | _ ^ u rtpite of the fact that my article*
"STrn mT. ins ■ have appeared in the f rteet
_____ The editor Is proud to say tfcaV
that the trackmen are organising they he is first a Socialist, second, ke
will volunteer a little raise as they edits The Rebel, third, he does not
have heretofore. We are not going to ^ave t0 ijve jn the State of Louie-
let up until "the trackmen are organ- ^
and ride to tthe ft.tnru. They had Just
got settled down on their soats when a
lrdy in the coach requested the con-
ductor to remove those,rough working
men' into another coach. She had ttf
■ttake the second request before the
conductor replied and he said:
"MADAM: THESE MEM BUILT
THH BAXL&OAD, AKD TSBY
HAVE BETH OUT -LL EIGHT EE
PAIRIEO IT. HOW IP TOTT DOJTT
■phimw TOU OAK BIDE IN THE
lied. We can accomplish this with
your help. Will yon help?
A 8E0TI0 FOEEMAE.
Trackmen send application and dass
to J. W. Maxwell. ■ecretary-Treas-
urer, Orssson, Tex* a
When the Rebel has 1000 niha a
week we will increase our sine to
seven columns. ShoojLyour sube in
now and watcb-us grow. .
iag paper in the south.
That \
ate of the situation and that prohi-
bition does not prohibit can be seen
from two facts: p ' '
First: The Internal Revenue
Commissioner at Washington, D.
C., has published a report showing
that in the year 1912 in spite of ail
the prohibition victories there haf
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