The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [3], No. 113, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 6, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, „1913.
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SLOWLY, steadily and as surely as the advancing of the tides
comes the recognition of the Jact that the one great question before
the people of Texas for solution is the question of the private owner-
ship of the land % great corporations and landlords.
Each day that passes finds 'ever more men discussing the
problem and never does the sun go down without a newspaper be-
aming a convert to the views of the Renter's Union and the Socialist
party on the subject. ^
„ The Renter's Union position stated in the fewest possible words
u this*v'4That use and occupancy shall be the sole title to land; that
to achieve this end all land held for speculative purposes shall be
taxed to its full rental value. Flowimg out of this position comes the
demand for a constitutional amendment to the present state Texas
constitution wtarein it is provided that no land shall be taxed more
than 35 cents on the $100, said amendment providing that land shall
he taxed f#8 an acre if necessary should it be rented by landlords or
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Isr that sum.
^ The latest convert to this view it Senator J. C. McNealus, editor
of the Dalas Democrat. In the last issue of his paper he treats the
land situation in Texas in comprehensive and scholarly manner as
follows:
D«® H get scared about the fads, the fancies and the extremes of 8oc.
iaUstn. The common sense of the people caa be depended on. We have been
making applications of Socialism ever aincetbe first tribal or patriarchal com*'
pact for mutual protection was entered into*—Comanche Van^iate.
Bnt think a little further, Mr. Editor of The Vanguard: Isn't this
■country promoting Socialism of Wealth through Special Privilege lawst Is not
;ti e Socialism of Politics the natural offspring of the Socialism of Wealth f
Eugene V. Debs, as the Socialist nominee for President, in 1908, polled about
7,000 votes in Texas. This same Deba* four years later — in 1912 — running
for the same office, as the nominee of the same Socialist party, polled nearly
2«,000 votes in Texas. And, the prediction is here made, by a live-and-dle Brass
STlar Democrat, that ttaless the ad van™ 0f Socialism' of Wealth shall
checked during the next three years, this sam^Debs, as the nominee of the
same Socialist party, will be likely to poll 100.000 votes in Texas in 1S16!
There art in Texas, approximately, 225.000 TENANT FABMEBSt That is
the respectable name that they are known by in their,business relations with
"the leas than 10,000 LANDLORDS of Texas. Tn common, every-day conversa.
tion, they are referred to as "RENTERf?". Bnt in their t-rue relations to life
—as units in organised society —they are nothing more nor less tbanWhlte
Peons of the large land-holding aristocracy of Texas. This immense land-
holding minority of the agricultural interests of Texas constitutes the corner
stone of the Socialism of Wealth tn this state. It also constitutes the gravest
political danger confronting the Orgaaiwsfl DettWrraey of ,
There must not Be permitted to exist a permanent land-holding mono,
poly poTicjr in this State that brings as its industrial result the condition.
"ONCE A RENTER ALWAYS A RENTER'1! There must be some reason-
able chance of a Lome i ud a homestead. Xr htfpn for this hhall finally flee from
the head and heart of the 225,000 TEaNT FARMERS of Texas, the perma-
nent ascendancy of Democracy will be ieopardized and the dangers of Politic,
al Socialism coming forth as the offspring of the Socialism of Wealth will be
more than a remote apprehension. It would he well for the Democracy of
Texas, from this time forward, to adopt as its most progressive "slogatr:
•"LANDS FOR THE LANDLE88 ANT) TTOMES FOR THF POOR!" until
the PEONAGE OF RENTAL shall have dfsfljjpenred from the confines of the
Commonwealth! This is humanitarianis
good Democracy! This is the oppoaite of
Special Privilege. Thia ia the oppoaite 01
policy by which to surety defeat the
given title to land that REAL OIVILI
in the doctrine of OCCUPANCY AND
of "JLAND FOR THE LANDLESS
practical application would make of Tijfcas the most prosperous and the
happiest (ftate ia the Union.. Some day that doctrine will be applied and then
the dangers of Political Socialism will vaiaixli with the disappearance of the
Socialism of Wealth. |§ ,1. C. McNEALUB.
Thin is goofl Americanism! This is
ouopoly! This is the opposito of
the Socialism of Wealth! It is the
inli*in of Politics! The only God-
iTlON has ever known ia embodied
K! That doctrine is also the doctrine
SBOMES FOR THE POOR!" Ita
The Muddle of Mulkey
Judge Oivtnt writes a Utter and'white prisoners, and was allowed,
Treats the Truth With Silent it true," jiberty of the five cells,
Contempt, and will not dignify and the run around." He was
the article concerning the death locked in this enclosure and was
vf old man Goodman with ser. lying on the bare floor with tooth-
ions thought. I ing but an old shirt upon him and
We are reliably informed that bruises upon his limbs and body
August 14, 1913, Judge E. R. | from lying on the floor or in the
The above is sufficient to make ilerv man with an ounce of gray
matter in his head to think as he haa lever thought before about this
question of the land holding aristoetacy of Texas. How long shall
they continue to dominate the statef. How long shall Col. Slaughter
and various bankers and capitalists keep up the fake issue of prohibi-
tion and anti-prohibition while they continue to enslave the masses
and under the influence of emotional incitement prevent the people
,frora being robbed, deprived of honM wh*l| the pro and anti land-
lords revel in luxury ? How long thill the million tenants and their
dependents in Texas remain in the degraded position of "WHITE
PEONS," as Senator McNealus terms fiem T THIS IS THE GREAT
ISSUE THAT WILL NOT DOWN, THE ISSUE THAT WILL
NEVER BE SETTLED UNTIL IT IS SETTLED RIGHT.
In another column The Rebel presents the views of the Honorable
William, Bagby, the able floor leader of the Colquitt forces of the
House of Representatives. Mr. Bagby, who is recognized as the great-
est orator in Texas and a leading Texas authority on con-
stitutional law, is another of those who has seen a great light. Sena-
tor McNealus, Representative Bagby and other "live arid die brass
collar democrats" are recognizing the hand writing on the wall. They
see a hundred thousand Socialist vote* in 1916. This they are willing
to admit, bnt they fear the entire state will !«' swept by the Socialist
party in 1916 if something is not dona to settle the land question.
Personally, The Rebel believes that the Democratic politicians
will only move under the lash of an awakened public sentiment. Now
is the time to get together and make that sentiment so overwhelmingly
strong that the powers that be will pa* the revolutionary land amend-
ment to save their political lives or better still make that sentiment
so strong that the Renter's Union wij] go on to the six figure maj£
and the state will be captured by the Socialist party in 1916
That The Rebel has been the gfNkt factor in opening the ey<*
of the multitude to the land situation in Texas is something that we
are, of course, proud of and^yet what matters it to whom the honor lies
so long os the deed is accomplished, viz; the opening of the state to
the quarter of a million renters and all their kith and kin. Wherefore
The Rebel sayB:
TURN TEXAS LOOSE PROM THE THRALDOM OF A ROT-
TEN LANDED ARISTOCRACY
on
Owen wrote a letter to the Rev.
Abe Mulkey in reference to the
case of .T. W. Goodman, for the pri-
vate use of Brother Mulkey tn
public.
In this letter Judge Owens dis-
claims any knowledge of how Good-
win was treated after being de-
clared insane, but refers Brother
Mulkey to the jailer. Judge Ow-
ens savs: " I do not know personal-
ly what treatment Mr. Goodwin re-
ceived, but I do know that the
county has a good jailer and one
who treats all of his prisoners hu-
manely."
Judge Owens further says: "I
had noticed the article contained
in the clipping, in a little paper
distributed in Cortioana, but I
treated this attack upon various
good citizens of our county and
its public officials with silent eon-
tempt and have not dignified it by
even mentioning it, or giving It a
serious thought, and only make
this statement because of a request
from you, and for such use as you
may see fit to make of.it, in your
own behalf. The true facts phen
phoperly understood and shorn of
misrepresentation and exaggera-
tion are not such as to affard a
basir, for any criticism of any of-
ficer or citizen of the county."
Yours truly,
R. R. Owen,
County
We are informed that the "above
i.s an exact quotation from Judge
Owen's private letter to Rev. Mul-
key for public use in places where
The Rebel and Plain Dealer are
not read. We may be mistaken as
to the. exact language of Judge
Owens We think we are not.
. For Judge Owens we have al-
hammock, if hammock he had, or
on the springs that were plaeed In
the cell for him, according to the
jailer's letter. The night he died
two aeffo prisoners carried a
blanket upstairs and raised htm
np and plaeed the blanlet under
and hs d<
hint and he died alone, in jail,
about 10 o'clock at night and no
one mew him after the negro*'
upetairt and placed Mm on a
blanket. Be was found dead next
morning by a prisoner that slept
down ia the negro department
rather than be locked Bp all night
in the Cells for white prisoners,
with a dead sua. Tknre are
more facts behind and rflent con-
tempt "hall not deter us from pub-
lishing the facta
Who bathed this old man every
dayt Was not his condition ser-
ious when "our very efficient
health officer, W. D. fountain,
called in Dr. Prey and the state
health officer for consultation, and
all pronuoneed him hopeless and
that it was only a question of a
very short time until the old gen-
tleman would die." Was not his
condition so serious that he was
not able to give himself a bath ev-
ery day t Did he have strength or
mentality enough, to take a bath
upon his own initiative f Who did
bathe him every dayt We do not
METHODIST CHURCH
STATES POSITION
x ON UNIONISM.
GIBBONS AND WOMAN'S SUF-
FRAGE.
J
WHY 1 AM A SOCIALIST.
Memphis, Texas Aug. 22, 1913.
Editor The Rebel:—
The question is daily asked and Pnrt Record: Cardinal Gibhons |Dear Sir:—
? , persanallv does not believe in women i t _i _ ,
with increasing frequency, why \.Qtm haB a]wavs oppo9e(1 it> His j I note you have opened the
are the workers deserting thq church hafl not passed on the subjects "V 1 am a Socialist column,
church in every state in the Uunio T He has an old-fashioned idea about the | This would "indicate a variety of
Why would they rather go fishing woman and the h0me. Be thinks wo. reasons, else whv the questions.
™ s™d«y than take part in re- 1 "J-J? *• "
ligious services? The Rebel be- vvry 0ia man.' a close observer political, therefore, entirely out-
lieves thqt the answer can be foflnd aifd interpreter of the signs of the side the sphere of religion. Christ-
in thp that fhp rulers nf t.he tidies He is
At a meeting of the American
Federation of Catholic societies
li<'ld in Milwaukee last month,
Archbishop S. G. Messmer ruled
that women must not discuss the
suffragette question. This ruling
wax about as inteligent as the dis-
nision that some of Messmer's
fri'-nds. had some years ago when
th<-v decided that the world was
flat and resembled a three story
house.; Down stairs was Ilell,
humanity lived on the second floor
positive that suffrage is ianity, in fact, is not a test of polit
certain to come to women.the civilized faith in any partv. This, per-'ami if you could get * ladder long
world over; and it is eommg. , , *,C • i - '
I\urvt! od it onahI/i • CtllCrWlBC
enough you might poke vour finger
,tl rough Athe sky iand ^gaze into"
heaven. Some more of his friends
then proceeded to argue for nine
weeks this beautiful question; how
many angels can sit on the point of
a pin? And now we are informed
that women must riot talk about
suffrage. The Rebel will bet a
in the faet that the rulers of the
church have taken definite stand
for mammon instead of righteous- "°r,u u,cx' """ 11 *' haps, as it should be;
ness. With scarcely an exception Why should the amiable Fitzger- some creed or church might aspire
when a fight takes place between aid waste space in informing his to rulership. The Bible "cuts no
labor and capital the powers of the readers that Cardinal Gibbons is ice" in politics. Yet my own rea-
church are placed on the side of opposed to Wo«nn'B Suffrage; sons for being a Socialist are based
the exploiter/ Scarcely a day when in the world's history did a entirely upon the Bible.
passes hut the proof of this state- cardinal ever take a stand for any The main purpose of Socialism
ment piles up. The latest cas* In measure that tended towards Dero- is to better the economic condl-
point we glean from a magazine ocracy? Why should the cardinal tions of people and this same must
called "How," an organ of theNa- believe in Woman's Suffrage? It have been the prime object of the pood cigar that Messmer belongs to
tional Manufacturer's Association is not so very long ago when a Bible because the religious sentl- the party of the Donk: Hurrah for
The July number contains an ar- college of cardinals debated for ments of a people are-proportlon- the Donk and Messmer.
ttcle from the pen of Bishop Me- weeks on the-question of wlr i her a ate to then- economic conditions. 1 '— ■ . -
Cabe of the Methodist church, woman had a soul < , After Moses was the first Socialist of There are armies and armies,
He says: some 89 days they took a vote and whom we have any record. Not some for peace and Rome for war;
,<T , . by a majority of one they decided that he was called a Socialist but the war army is sitting on its
ehorchTTnd thVstatement' is officjal. +-bey hada soul. Woudn't our wo- his work proves him to have been., hunkers down on the Gulf, wasting
We are opposed to having a small per. men be in an awful shape if one of The first work of Socialism is to time and money doing nothing; a
eentage of laboring men run the entire these cardinals had changed his free the people from superstition ! peace army was organized in Mis-
laboring claea in a high-handed and an- and voted in the minorit? that thev may free themselves from snnri last week, when 350.00O
Of atich stuff are rardinala made. ,W This waa the flrrt work
of Moses, who received his inspira-
m i mm tion from God.
Properly speaking the land be- In the new dispensation Jesus
longs to these two: To the AI- Christ, who came not to destroy, w-
of the 90 per cent of laborers who re.
sent to bossism of the union as we are
of the 10 per cent wlio are doing the
bossing".
"It ia an imposition for a few men
to say, join our nnion or you cannot
work
men
ho!e!tlyswaeat. As"now'coSS £ wel1 on Jt No feneration of men should do unto Us we should do to
hor unions cannot long stand. Either
mighty God; and to all his Child- established the doctrines of pure
.'It is an-impoaition not to allow ren 0j j£en ^at have ever worked Socialism, in that He taught that
to work aa they will, if they wbrk wejj Qn or lhat 8hall ever work whatsoever we would that men
they must reform themselves or they
will cease TO eiist as they are tt(>w uu-
safe jind unjust, and the Lonest work-
ing man cannot long be subject to op-
pression without rising in revolt
"I want this statement to be pub.
lish^d broadcast, so that there can be
no^kibt as to the attitude of the
vMetuJfcgts- toward honest labor. I be-
lieve tlis should become part of the
ereed of every Piotestant Chureh."
.<
Since the Bishop published the
above mass of rot thousands of
good union men and women have
quit the church; thousands.of oth-
ers are preparing to leave and The
believes that if the i^ the olden times.
can or could, with never such sol- them. In other words, brotherly
enmity and effort, sell land on any love. This is in direct keeping
other principle; it is not the prop- with the principles of Socialist
erty of any generation.—Thomas and opposed diametrically to the
Oarlyle. " spirit of greed, which seisins to per-
. j vade all the other parties. I sm
a Socialist, therefore, because it is
McCabes continue to expose their1 founded upon the truth, the word
hands the last worker will soon of truth, as revesled to us in the
pass from the doors of the church Bible. I see in it truth, justice and
that is organized on such reaction- loVe; an effort to bind the devil,
ary lines. What a glorious time we and so forward the day of glad tid-
would hare if Christ were to re- inge when peace, good will, pros-
turn to earth; how he would lash peritv and happiness shall alike
these whited sepulchres as He did "be enjoyed by afl;
toilers volunteered to make good
rnnds for two days free of charge.
The Rebel takes off his hat to the
army of peace.
It, is estimated that the unem-
ployed in the United States at the
present time, amount to about
3,000,000. Capitalism to exist
must have its reserve army of un-
employed.
I Others may have good reasons
•'•■ysSp®' -• 1 *• *
the Bible btjjt, as for met I am a
for being Socialists and still deny
Socialist because 1 first believed
the Bible. . The doctrines of Social-
ism being identical with those first
taught in the Bible can't under-
stand how one can be a Christian
and not:a Socialist. Yet he maybe
a good Socialist and not a Chritian.
—Will some Christian please
answer. •
• i Respectfully submitted,
C. B Hill.
ttfnk the jailer did. The negro
Judge Navarro County, prisoners did not. If he waa re-
informed that attention
why was he lying on the floor dy-
ing and why were negro prisoners >•
sent upstairs (after a white pris
oner had complained that the old
man was dying) and ordered to
put him on. a blanket out in the
run around, not of the hospital
ward, but in the white prisoners
ways had the highest regard and department? • ' V f
are sure that we hdve been his ^ was not our object, or pur-
friends, personal and political. P08* to blame any one in partlcu-
We. are equally certain that Judge we "tated specifically that the
Owens does not know what he is .in^er and sheriff were not to.
writing about, when he says thai blame for the eounty did ntft pro- . "
the article misrepresented or ex< v^e nurses, or any other place for • *
aggeratcd the facts We feel sure *be insane, ai d allowed the jailer
that Judge Owens will feel more but 45 cents'per day for feeding
shame before this matter is fin- prisoners, and only a small salary
ally closed, than he has feelings of f°r the jailer.. We were blaming:
silent contempt for the writer of *be people,"arid the Oommiatnoners
an-article that did. not. tell half of Court for a bad, and niggardly
the real facts. policy of economy in not making
We are sorry for. Judge OWens ' better provisions for insane. Why
w«i really believe that- he is kind Judge Owens did not you send this
hearted and sympathetic even °\d man back to the "Home Iter In
though he treats any article writ- idigents where nice houses for ten
;ten bv an honest- person with st- ants are maintained and kept neat,
lent contempt. Can the. denial of cl«an, and tozy for people who are
Judge Owen's in a private letter Reot there to be cared for"? Mr
for public use in select places add Goodwin was delighted with this
dignity to the manhood or reputa- home, and the food yoii htfnished
tion of any man? him while there. He told you him
And Judge Owens treats a self on several occasions. Sfee your
public statement, made by an hon- private letter to Rev. Abe Mulkey.
est man with silent contempt and Why did ytm act send him bacfjto
will not dignify the statement by these plessaaft surroundings upon
notice or serious thought. Well the "County ftor Farm", ele-
Judge, this is a matter-for your gantly styled by you: "Our Home
own conscience, but are you war- for Indigents"? Why did yon not
ranted in treating the truth with "end him back there, with a nurse
silent contempt. Does the truth to wait upon him, instead of send-
need dignifying by your denial ? ing him to the County Jail, where
We reprint the following state- be could be, and was, locked in a
ment that has not yet been pub- prison cage, and left alone in hts
lishedttin connection with the facts misery, and helpless condition? Do
of this case: r you, Judge Owens, endorse the po-
"After old man Goodwin had licy of only allowing the pitiful
been declared insane and placed sum of $7 to bnry the old, insane,
in jail, our very efficient county and helpless citizens who come In
health officer, Dr. W. D. Foun- old age to the County fbr skelter,
tain, Dr. Prey, and State Health protection and sustenanes fbr life.
Officer, Dr. Brunner, made an ex- and die alone in jail ? Do you en-
amination of Mr. Goodwin's men- dorse this system of treatment?
tal and physical condition. All Do you endorse the policy of wrap
three of these doctors stated that, ping an old man in the blanket.
Goodwin's base was a hopeless one
from the beginning and, that ips&a
only a question of a very short
time until the old gentleman of
about seventy years would die."
See letter of John CuringtOn, the
jailer to Abe Mulkey. August 15,
1913. ' --
This old man, hopeless from the
first, was confined in jail for two
months without a nurse, or watcn-
man. He was not in the hospital
ward, he was in the second story
of the jail, in the enclosure for
rl
M
to
that he perhaps died upon, after ft
was usflhed est by fee &el{>
era. and in an old jshirt, perhaps
the same one he died in, as it was
one made for him two years ago
by his son's wife, and putting him
in a Coffin tn he carried tb the
"Potters.Field at the Poor Buffi"
which was only prevented by the
arrival of relatives, who had been
located by the undertaker, Mr.
Suthe:" *
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