The Hallettsville New Era. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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New subscribers to The
! Era the past week are
Frank Pilsner, R2, Moulton; J.
E. Hairell, R4, Yoakum; C. D.
D. Pierce, R5, Yoakum; Wm. Ten-
berg. R3, Shiner: B. F. Smith, Vi-
lenna; Fritz Niemann, R2, Shiner ;
H. G. Walker, Charco; Miss Ber-
tha Kaase, R2, Moulton; .Joe
.Thornton, Bebee; Willie Hoepfel,
Rl, Shiner; ('has. Edwards, R5,
jHallettsvijle; Miss Mary Trlica,
|Wallis; Tom Jaresh, R4, Halletts-
ville; E. F. Tubbs, R5, Schulen-
Hallettsville, Tex., Feb. 16, 1912. bur^r.
Trying To Suppress a Free Press.
Some democratic newspapers of Texas have pretended to be-
lieve that the Appeal to Reason, when it accused the United States
pcstoffice department of trying to destroy it by arbitrary rulings,
was making a selfish play for the financial backing of its subscrib-
ers. ' N
LaFollette, insurgent republican senator from Wisconsin, is
publishing his autobiography in the American Magazine. In the Feb-
ruary number he tells how, when all the republican papers of his
district closed their columns against him, and lied about him to help
the corporations which were fighting him, he and his friends estab-
lished a weekly paper, called the State, as a means of reaching the
yoters with his arguments. He writes:
“ T^he. bosses were alarmed. Here was a publication carrying
the truth week by week into every community. Its policy could
not be affected in any way—neither advertising nor offices could di-
vert it from its course. Something must be done. So they sought to
have the postoffice department at Washington deny the paper the
second-class mail privilege. I knew the affair had been instigated
by keves and the bosses,and I wrote the department inviting the most
searching investigation, but stating what I knew to be the purpose
back of the attack. Inspectors from Washington took possession of
our books, and made a most thorough investigation. I do not know
what they reported, but no order came from the postoffice depart-
ment denying us the second-class privilege.”
If the republican bosses at Washington dared try to suppress
LaFollette s insurgent republican paper twenty years ago, is it not
apparent that, fearing Socialism ten times more than they evef fear-
ed any republican insurgent, they would now try to destroy Socialist
papers?
They have tried it, and the only thing that has kept them from
arbitrarily doing it, is the fact that some of those bosses—the few
big men who have real brains, know full well that Socialism is going
to take possession of the national government within a very few
years. '
The Socialist press is getting the facts about the robbery of the
many by the few to all the people, and the big grafters are aware
that they will be called to a strict accounting for every abuse of
power of which they may now be guilty.
I
x r MORE ‘ ‘ SOCIALISTIC IMMORALITY. * ’
A new illustration of the immoral character of Socialism is af-
forded by the Boyce-Sneed tragedy. Both the millionaires concerned
in this case it is presumed, are socialists. Pendragon has never seen
their red cards, Tmt he takes it for granted they were red-card bear-
ers, because the capitalist newspapers assure us sexual and domestic
immorality is a characteristic of Socialism, and here we find the
limit in that respect. /
It is a grim subject upon which to base a jest,, but, comrades,
Pendragon utters it in order that the other fellows—the rich anti-
Socialists who lie about us day in and day out—most of them lying
in ignorance rather than in malice—may for once understand how
deeply such lies hurt decent men and women who are honestly try-
ing to lift humanity above the level of the jungle.
Neither Sneed nor Boyce, of course, was or is a Socialist. Prob-
ably neither knew anything, except most vaguely, about Socialism.
The^ were hard-fisted, hard-headed typical profit-grabbing million-
aires. ■**'•.-*
Old Inan Boyce‘s son made love to old man Sneed's daughter-in-
law. She accepted his attentions. Her husband, young Sneed, had
her locked up in a sanitarium as an insane person. Young Boyce in-
induced her to escape and elope with him to Canada. Young Sneed
followed them and brought-his wife back to Texas. Young Sneed
met old man Boyce and shot him deid. He did not shoot the man
that won his wife, but shot that man’s father.
Eminent lawyers have been retained to fight the case in the
courts. The probability is that young Sneed will be acquitted on the
ground that he was “not responsible” when he shot old man Bovee.
It will be alleged that when young Boyce eloped with young Sneed’s
wife he “abducted” her she being at the time an insane person, in-
capable of giving her consent to any man. But since her return
from Canada a court of inquiry has found her to be sane.
The Sneeds and the Boyces and their sort have mediaeval minds.
They do not belong in the twentieth century. They still believe wo-
men are property—the chattels or slaves of the men that marry them.
They do not know that in thifc century woman has become a free
agent* with just as much right as a man to choose or change her
mate.
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Young Sneed shot old man Boyce, presumably, because he re-
garded old man Boyce as the man chiefly responsibls for the “steal-
ing” of his wife, his property.
Pendragon takes it for granted that a jury will uphold that bar-
baric view of the case.
These people and their sort, when they discuss Socialism, charge
that it “breaks down morals”, when its “crime” is the assertion of
woman’s complete social and economic equality with man.
Socialism, in short, is only a part of the age-long struggle out of
slavery into freedom—and it stands for the freedom of woman as
will as of man. '
.The New Rebels o the New South.
• The fighting, fame of the old rebels of the old South rang round
the world, an inspiration to red-blooded men ol every race and na-
tion. Outnumbered, out-gunned, out-capitalized, ^ by more than
three to one, the boys of the early sixties put qp a tight for hat
tney held to be their sacred rights, the like of which was never seen
before by mortal eyes.
The time has come fer a new rebellion in the new South—a re-
bellion of the workers against those who rob them of all profit on
their labor.
The time has come for the wealth-producers of the South to re-
bel against a system which replaces the negro bond slaves of the
earlier era with white wage slaves.
The time has come to serve notice upon the profit-grabbing de-
scendants of the nigger-driving overseers of that earlier era, that
they cannot substitute v,bite slaves for black.
They are to be notified—at the ballot box—that Southern
white men will never consent to'allow their wives and little children
to be peonized in the cotton palches. nor New Englandized in the
cotton mills.
They are to be notified—at the ballot box—that Southern
white workers will no longer be look'd-with fake issues growing out
of a civil war now more than half a century distant in actual time
_a centurv distant in the evolution of our indust lies.
A new day has dawned in the new South. New issues chal-
lenge our attention. The same fighting valor that made the rebel
armies of the sixties the wonder of the world will be manifested
again by their descendants in the new revolt against oppression by
the profit-grabbers.
The Rebel was born to sound the bugle blast of the new revolu-
tion. It calls on every white worker in the South to rally to the
standard of socialism, for the emancipation ol the workers men,
women and little children—from wage slavery, from the extortion
practiced by corporate masters of the necessaries of lite. from slav-
ery to landlords and land speculators.
You have everything to win that a fighting white man holds
dear_home, security, comfort, education and opportunity for your
ehildren; prosperity now and peace and plenty in old age, for your
wife; self respect and real freedom for yourself.
You art* a great majority of all the voters. \ou have only to
reach forth, unitedly, and take possession of the city and state gov-
ernments of the South, and use that power to mark yourselves and
v*ur families and your descendants free and independent forever.
The socialist party—ruled absolutely by its rank and file, hence
forever secure against invasiou by powerful hostile influences—
comes to yod with aVoldly scientific business program of reorgani-
zation and restitution in industry; with a program of equal and exaet
justice for all men in the affairs of government. Its ultimate tri-
umph over the capitalist parties is now apparent to all disinterested
students of human affairs.
EVcry time you cast a vote for either of the old parties you cast
a vote to continue white slavery in the South.
Every time you east a socialist vote you vote to put an end to
white slavery, in field and factory; an end to landlordism; an end
to corporate extortion: an end to poverty, prostitution, drunken-
ness and crime.
Because all of these vast evils that afflict humanity are the na-
tural fruits of enforced poverty.
A vote for socialism is a vote to mAke the worker the owner of
his job and his labor product—every dollar of it.
Your fathers and grandfathers fought a splendid uphill fight
against invading armies sent here to destroy Southern institutions.
That war was fought on bloody fields, and its harvest was death
and ruin.
This newer war will be fought out at the ballot box and in leg-
islative halls, and its harvest will be peace and plenty and safety
and security now and hereafter for the workers of the South.
Choose where you will take your stand—with your own people,
a brave, free son of the old South, or a sycophantic, cowardly slave
trailing at the heels of landlordism and corporate misrule.
Your kinsmen who died fighting on a hundred Southern bat-
tlefields—there is no doubt in my mind where they would stand
were they here today.
They would spend the last drop of their blood lighting against
such damnable wage and rent-farm slavery as that which now
grinds millions of Southern white folks into the bitter bondage of
poverty.
HOW CAPITALISM CONTROLS THE GOVERNMENT.
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Hi MERTZ MILL. * Hi BRESLAU. *
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(DelavJd.) ! . Mask Ball a Success
Feb. 8.—A moving picture show j The yearly mask ball which was
will be given at the Pleasant Grove‘held here last Saturday was a sue-
school Saturday night. FYb. 10. ;ce8S respec . eop e
were in attendance from Halletts-
Sorry to report the little daugh- j^ Voakuni Appelt's Hill, Mo-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Rud. Frietseh Qld Kinkier and Komensky.
very ill. I)r. Renger was called jF(m‘' prizes were dihtributed to
out to see her. tj1(1 four nicest character masks.
The norther Saturday night They were: Hermann Stratmann,
kept people from going to the representing “-‘Uncle -Sam’ . fist
dance at Appelt 's Hill, but still 'prize, $1; Frank Valcher, also rep-
they sold 43 tickets and wilWiave resenting “Uncle Sam.' seeofad
another mask by.ll oil F’eb. 20. -* prize. 50 cents; Miss Mary Schae-
The^ F’ertseh and son Adolph of'fer> Flowei Girl, tirst prize,
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our city, were out here today ou
business matters.
Richard Spies. Rud.
ets were sold. All present seemed
to enjoy themselves to their
$1; Miss Louisa Arndt, “Rain
bow” second prize, 50 cents. The
Lueke String band of Sweet
* ritsch, jjom furnished sweet music for
H. C.Iy>ehn ami Emil Fertsch of the and ninety-two tick-
your city visited the home of
Geo. Stratmann Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs Geo. Schultz and heart's content,
children visited relatives a^ Wit- i Quite a number of youngsters
ting Saturday returning Monday. surprised Miss Emil Sebastian last
Emil Mertz of Yoakum attend- Tuesday night in honor of her
ed the dance here Saturday. eighteenth birthday auniversarv .
Sheriff Houchins of your city] All kinds of out door games were
was on our streets Wednesday. played, and the hostess treated t e
Miss Lillie Riley is visiting Miss surPr^sers r0**a^' "V , f
Tonic Mertz this' week.' °’«>°<* al> the *U,-S,S for
their homes, assuring the hostess
A ho5t of friends and relatives ^ had spent a nice time,
surprised Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mikus ^ also wishing her many happy
Thursdav in honor of Mr. M.kus' of faer naUl day
thirty-fifth birthday. parties ar„ becoming so
The band of Radhost school fur- numerous in the surrounding;
wished sweet music and a keg of communities that we are almost
buttermilk" was served. May he unable to attend all.
celebrate many more such birth- $t. Vlentine day is with us
days. again . Hope everyone will re-
Mrs. John Gerdes and Mrs. Lena member his dearest one.
Fritsch of vour city visited at! H. L. Stulken left Sundav or
the home of Wm. Appelt Frida^. ]San Antonio on a prospecting trip.
White Lily returning yesterday.
___ _ Misses Lillian and Annibelt
H^ Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi £fi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Friedrich visited at Komensky last
Tuesday.
Hi THOMPSON SCHOOL Hi E- J- Fr*v* of Wlttl“g W8S 8
£ pleasant caller in our burg »un-
Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi - HiHiHiHi Hi !<*a.v evening.
; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coldewey oi
School Library. j near Shiner attended the mask
Feb. 14.—The school lelebrated ! ball .here last Saturday and also
Valentine day with/ a! benefit visited with relatives here Sun-
partv for the school and also col- day. _
‘ v Johnny Trlica was here Sundav
on some important business. ^
Several from here expect to at-
tend the grand ball at Moravia
Saturday.
_. ------- M A finp ra}n fen here Monday
were fishing Sunday on Rocky niffht which put a good season in
tor
leeted $V.30 for a library.
Miss Alice . Dilworth is visit-
ing Miss Nettie Donnelly at pres-
ent.
F. Kahanek and Chas. Mezera
Creek.
Ludwik Kahanek and Joe Kou
J-
Dave Landa is so well satisfied
with the business «^one last year
that he has decided to stay AT
jjfelit onte 4, | LEAST another year.
cleaned and made
;new. No dying done. Sat-
guaranteed. Paices rea-
“Henry M. Flagler's remarkable ocean railroad line
through the islands of Florida, opened on Monday with ceremo-
nies at Key West and shame to the taxpayers of tho nation.
“Not a tremendously big shame—just the ordinary shame
that comes out almost every day when some big mnjn proves he
owns more of the government than do the ordinary tax payers.
“Two months ago 80 firemen on Flagler’s road struck for
$3.50 a day. F’lagler parleyed with them until Christmas morn-
ing. Then sardonically ordered all firemen discharged. The act
was his ‘Merry Christmas.’
“To increase the wages of these firemen wand have cost
F’lagler $2000 a month.
“Flagler feared violence. Through Washington, where
F'lagler and his kind are all powerful. Flagler obtained the ser-
vices of 540 deputy United States marshals. F'lagle-r has been
using these government employes, paid by taxpayers, as if he
were the general of an army and they were his soldiers. He
doesn't even pay for their feed.
“Flagler's line to Key West from Jacksonville is 522 miles
long. lie has enough marshals to guard every mile of it. It
doesn t cost him a cent.
“Uncle Sam pays these marshals .82600 a day <0 thf* tax-
payers' money so that they can help Flagler save $2000a month.
“Flagler has put on negro firemen, two ot them taking the
place of one white man. During all the celebration one detec-
tive rides in the engine and one more on tin* back of every train.
—Houston Daily Press
What do the railroad men of Texas think about that ? It would
He a shame, wouldn’t it, for the people to take that railroad away
from the gentle, generous, Christian democrat, F’lagferT paying hijjh
its fair cost in non-interest-bearing government bonds, and then pay
those firemen, and all the other employes, decent wages, with decent
working hours?
Of course, if railroad men would rather be slaves of such profit-
grabbing slave-drivers as Flagler, Lovett, Kruttschnitt and others
like them, than to be free men and control their own jobs, wages
and hours en a publicly-owned railroad, it is their legpl privilege to
keep oa voting democratic and republican tickets. •
Mr. and Mrg.. Fred Schaefer of
Witting visited several days with
her sister, Mrs. E. Lueke.
Miss Della Jurach of Westhoff
Tex., visited Miss Clara Kasha
Monday.
School Girls.
Chest pains and a dry, hacking
couch should be treated with
BALLARD’S HOREHOUND ST-
RUP taken internally, and a HER
RSICK’S RED PEPPER PLAST-
ER applied to the chest. Buy the
dollar size Horehound Syrup; you
get a Porous Plaster free with
each bottle. Sold by all drug-
gists.
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“Cardui Cured Me’
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For nearly ten years, at different times, Mrs. Mary Jinks
of Treadway, Tenn., suffered with womanly troubles. She
says; “At last, I took down and thought I would die. I
could not sleep. I couldn’t eat I had pains all over. The
doctors gave me up. I read that Cardui had helped so
many, and I began to take it, and it cured me. Cardui
saved my life! Now, I can do anything.”
TAKE The
,ARl2UI Wo mans Tonic
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- If you are weak, tired, worn-out, or suffer from any of
the pains peculiar to weak women, such as headache,
backache, dragging-down feelings, pains in arm, side, hip
or limbs, and other symptoms of womanly trouble, you
should try Cardui, the woman’s tonic. Prepared from per-
fectly harmless, vegetable ingredients, Cardui is the best
remedy for you to use, as it can do you nothing but good.
It contains no dangerous drugs. It has no bad after-effects.
Ask your druggist He sells and recommends Cardui
Wrth io: Ladies’ Advisory Dept, Chattanooca Medicine Co, Chattanooga. Tern,
tor Sprdai Irutmctrotu, aadW-pafe book. “Home Treatment for Women,” sent Iron. J 84
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the ground and the farmers are-
preparing to plant their corn soon,
ha, 'two students of Thompson pook out Air. Farmer, wg are $tiTl
schptl, hav9 joined the Boys Corn ^ thfi earl? month of February.
Club. * American Banker.
Miss Emma Wasek of Yoakum]
visiting her sister, Mrs. Tom
Jaresh.
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Meitzen, E. R. The Hallettsville New Era. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1912, newspaper, February 16, 1912; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1016016/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.