The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 247, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 22, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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Tille, Tex., *nder act of Mar. 3, 1871
HALLETTSV1LLX, TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1916.
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{Written for The Rebel by Bruce Calvert—'Tho Indiana Thoreau'.)
yhe United States government which should know says in its
advertisements fpr recruits to the naval service:
"Young Man, Think over what you have NOW and what pro-
njise the,FUTURE holds out for you: then, learn what the navy of-
fer! you. Check up each and every item in the two columns which'
follOU?; compare each item in the Civil Life column with the oppos-
ite, item in the Navy column—then judge which column sums up
kigher. {
\ READ EVERY WORD OP THIS:
In Civil Life.
uncertain; strikes, lay-
1. Jobs i
•ffs, sickn™.
2. Promotion and advance-
ment uncertain and slow.
3. Favoritism and partiality
frequently shown.
4. Pay small and limited
while learning a trade.
5. Same old, monotonous,
tjreaome grind every day.
6. Stuffy, gloomy, uninterest-
ing working place.
7.'When sick your pay slops
and doctor's bill starts.
8. If disabled or injured you
receive little or no pay.
9. If you die your family gets
only what you have saved from
your small wages.
10. Little- CLEAR MONEY,
nearly all yoUr pay goes out for
living expenses.
11. Old age, sickness, little
mone!y saved, your job goes to
a younger and more active man-
SOCIALIST ADMINISTRA-
TIONS.
Time was and not *> very long
ago when the Socialists were con-
temptuously referred to by the
Dopks and grafters of the United
States aa a sorry crowd of mal-
contents, calamity howlers, vision-
aries and all around foolish people
that, if ever they go into control
anywhere, would work wreck and
ruin.
In 1910 iu a three cornered
fight in Milwaukee the Socialists
were elected and following two!
years saw a city government ad-'
ministered better than a big city!
government was fcver handled in
the history of the United States.
II. HUM
A DONK SENATOR.
Eugene V. Debt writing in the
Terre Hautfc Daily Post on the
election of Tom Taggart said:
A Queer World
Editor Post: Tom Taggart
and Donn Roberta were political
pals.. They were indicted for
the same orime. Roberta was
. sent to the penitentiary at Lea
■T.A. HICKEY, Editor. _!'
50c p«r year* cluba of four or
more (40 weeks) 25c.
If this number is opposite ^ . Q
your name your subacrip- 24o
tion expires next issue.
MO. 247
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Peon-master's Wail.
In The Navy.
-. Steady and healthy employ-
ment, with good pay- — ✓ — — t—
2. Promotion quick and sure for This striking fact was testified to
deserving men. j by independent persons and civic
3. No unfairness or preference,1 experts in every portion of the
the best man wins. country. Two yean? later al-
4. Pay good with chance to though the Socialist vote increase !
learn a useful trade
5. Travel, education, know-
ledge, change of scene.
(J. Fresh air, sun, sea; clean,
healthful, athletic life.
7. When sick, pay goe8 on, doe
tor and hospital free.
8. If you are disabled you get
a generous pension.
9. If you die, six-months' paj
poes to your family—with a. liber-
al pension.
10. Your pay is CLEAR MON-
EY ; no expenes or outlay except
for clothing.
11. After 30 years' service, re-
tirement on three-fourths pay,
plu8 $15.75 for allowances.
over the 1910 election the party
went down in defeat because all
old party linos were wiped out
and Donks and Reps and Pros
united as one in the interest of the
plutocracy.
Now in 1916, after four years of
the 'worst municipal management
We would to God that the saw-
mill Blavcs of Don Juan Kirby
and the Rev. Dcacon Long, who
control tho lumber camps of
j Louisiana and east Texas, would
venworth, Kansas, and Taggart minglo with the millions of tenant
to the United Staes Senate at farmers in all the southern states
Wadiington, D. C. Roberts was and discuss the marvelous results
put iu the garb of a convict and of revolution.
reduced to menial servitude, Thomas Jefferson said that a
'while Tagpart was wrapped in revolution was necessary every
the sacred toga of capitalist twentffive years. Tho sage of
statesmanship and showered Monticello was correct and the
with American Beauty roses. time for a real revolution is here
"Tragedy to make angels weep? now. The benificcnt effect of re-
Yea, but the tragedy lies, not in Involution I shall portray to you
the lgominity of the fate of and in doing #cr I shall call upon
Roberts nor the honors heaped the most reliable authority, that
upon Taggart, but in the blind- of the Enemy himself:
ness of the people to the corrup- A committee of tho United
tion and dead men'B bones which States senate—tho committee on
lie behind tho American Beau- agriculture has been investigate
ties. ng charges against the Interna
Eugene V. Debs. tional j Harvester Company. It
as cllaimed that it had monopo-
Gene, as usual, goes to the_ heart [ tbo binding twine market
of the matter in a few words. It
" ' n I III 1*1™ aasov t*. a • *vn " ' •
that oldest Milwaukeeang had ever.jB the blindness of the people that
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There you have it straight from your Uncle Sam. Industrial
life in our great free land of America holds out no hopes for any-
thing but uncertain jobs, strikes, lay-offs, sickness; same old mono-
tonous tiresome grind day after day; stuffy, gloomy, uninteresting
work pl&C6; no chance to save a dollar, and finally old ag6, or^p ysic
al incapacity, thrown out on the scrop heap to die in a pauper s home,
and be buried in the potter's field, while the loafer xn the navyj>9
taken care of, piy goes on all the time, doctor and hospital care free,
lives the healthful outdoor life! „ ,
How do you like the contrast Mr. Workingmant You produce
the means whereby the millions live in comfort. Your hands
all the boasted benefits of civilization. You create e^^^ucta of
is The navy loafer produces nothing, but consumes the ProdJctf5
S
.rporito of to sorry plight i ■*
brained SocwHst. It is not the Muthmmoftheretormcr.
dl If. the calm, judicial mmin.ngnp ofth,
by ft. highest 'b?.'SfiS n has in it. areh-
The ^emment h ut inM ^ ^ m3t o[ K™g
ives tiie records of all the in s; man jn country. It
and economic standing in every ^ deceived. These are facts.
* gets its figures first hand. ^ ? is your pro-
Now what are you going to do about t ^ ^
blem. This is your government You^make^ jf you don't like
acribe the conditions unde^^ blame the employers, don t
it, don't blame the gove . power save that which
blame the capitalistic maste™& for better con-
Jv Sa pEr a capitalist that drives him back to work a
thebayoTiet's point, but other workingroan. > g()cialigtg do. They
You don't know what to dot weu, e ^ ^ fop_
are the only ones in this «*^^ons and abuse of the workers. They
ever put an end to ^.ch e ,p i<ms 0f p0wer where they belong—m
have a plan for putbng the mgns oi^p^ ^ ^ y f
the hands of the workers. OTaneipaUon of all
Baalism !>' bri,,!!ill!! ° SI any other fttet yon are
StaT Every time yon ^^wfiit'ol If yon lite things
helping to prolong yonr ow"., , „mT 0ld party ticketa. If
ag fte navy .a—ehildren's live, vote th
SOCIALISM.
MJElf THE CHINESE
Aire showing
proving themselves
than the' "Q—
more spirit and
_ less slavish
Supreme Whites" of
restore "Law-an-order" and a
'' Stable Government there T li
we don't, Sun Tat Sen and his Re-
bels may endanger Holy Jawn s
oil concesaionSj^What is the World
coming to, anyhowT First thing we
SS ^d uT men'Yuan Shi- ^w VeTenants and Peons of
Verified them that he ted-de- Dilie My be on the ramp^e «d
Sidt. abolish tbe^P^and tbinWng they bjve
^fthe6 Common People SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.
reason that tne u . I(m n have it! — Let 8 elcct
£ S^hed^lU8WliVch was, of Ted(Jy Diaz of the United States!
immediately OKed by the Hurrah for Patriotism, Prepar
rican press, especially of e^ness and Pellagra
iocratic South'\ then ye V.
d SS Md^rtTd The fifth semiversary of the Be
«dthTnan in the only bel wiU be celebrated on July ^
Tnesoot understands. Already in^uin^s_asking about a
! as unanimous for leading article. The Rebel ^not
as hewaa feow ^ ^
he wont abobsh prmt but it is tess tnw a
how about thousand we will sadly mil
seen the people arose in their
might, threw off the galling yoke
of old party corruption and placed
real city builders back in the scats
of the mighty.
Schenectady, N. Y., had a simil-
ar experience. The Socialists elect-
ed Rev. George Lunn as mayor.
His administration challenged the
administration of even his bitter-
est foea. Again the two old par-
ties united and beat Lunn, but af-
ter witnessing the incapacity and
general incompetency of the old
parties they have gone back to the
Socialists, realising in them the
great municipal managers.
Chicago got a taste of what a
live Socialist alderman can do.
Rodriguez was elected to the city
council by a few votes. His work
was so spectacularly efficient that
hia name became a household word
in Chicago. Backed up by anoth-
er Socialist alderman he dumb
founded the boodlers by introduc-
ing a resolution calling for the
taking over of the street cars by
the city when the strike started
( and then paralyzed them by in-
, troducing an ordinance that in
specific termtf ordered the jailing
of every strike breaker, slugger or
gun man that might be imported
into the city during the strike.
Result: When Rodriguez came up
for election two weeks ago he se-
cured nearly 9,000 votes out of
14,000 cast, having an overwhelm-
ing majority over all parties com-
bined. That same story of honesty
and efficiency has been shown in
Berkeley, Cal., Haverhill and
Brockton, Mass., Pasadena. Cal.,
Butte, Mont., Flint, Mich., and in
short in every portion of the na-
tion where our party has seized
political power.
Come we now to the Sunny
South. We find from the record
that the Southern Socialist is as
competent as his northern com
rades. The Socialists captured
Roger Mills county, Oklahoma,
last year and after one year in
control the farmers found their
taxes lower by forty per cent,
than the previous year, so says
Harlow's Weekly, published in
that county. The Johnson county
Free Press runs the Harlow Week-
ly story and comments on it as fol
lows:
Socialists Lower Taxes.
The report shows that under
Socialist rule during the past
makes this profligate sit in tho
seat of the mighty. A notorious
gambling house keeper of Lick
Springs, Ind. will find a lot of
cronies of his kidney when he gets
to the senate chamber. Within
ten days after his arrival a crap
(TSme will positively be started in
the saloon in the basement under
neath the senate chamber and the
men who give away the nation's
waterB will not hush their voices
while they srnily shout over their
crtmr do mint, "Come seven, come
eleven."
What-a contrast—'Gene Debs
and Tqm Taggart. One the lead-
ing member of the Socialist party
of Indiana, a soul aflame with the
spirit of social righeotisnees. The
other the "leading Democrat" of
Indiana, a typically rotten pro-
duct of a corrupt political party.
Then we see preachers of the
gospel line up with the unspeak-
able Taggart and against Debs on
he lying plea that "Socialism is
irreligious."
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LAND SPECULATION.
through an agreement with sisal
growers of Yucatan. On March 4,
Oanara Palma, one of tho large
sisal growers was placed upon the
stand. He complainod that since
the revolution labor in Yucatan is
hard to get. He was asked by
Senator Wadsworth of New York,
whether this was due to political
conditions. Hear tho reply to the
U. S. senator from this master of
men's bodies and souls. After
reading it clip it, pin on your
bedpost go that you may read it
before retiring then dream about
it and when you arise in the morn
ing read it again so you may
think about it all day. Here Is
the great hacienda owner's reply:
"YES: IN ADDITION TO
THE SCARCITY OF LABOR-
ERS THOSE THAT REMAIN
ARE RESTLESS. THE REVO-
LUTION HAS FREED THEM.
THEY CAN COME AND GO AT
THEIR PLEA8URE. WE CAN
COME TO NO UNDERSTAND-
ING, NO AGREEMENT WITH
THEM. THEY WORK LESS
THAN FORMERLY."
Do you/ get the full significance
of that statement from the former
master, ye miserable rent and
wage slaves of Dixie t In the light
of this reply what right have you
to talk about "greasers"? If with
the ballot in your hand and with
the right to organize in your posr
session you fail to organize a Land
New York City is said to be the
most congested city on earth as
over 5,000,000 people live within
its borders. Speaking on this sub-, —- ~
iect Louis F. Post, the gre&t Single Lea*™ local and *> nto thoKf°°k
Taxer, said recently: primary you not only ought to,
"Is there a spot more congested but y°u be wafj?n, , 1
with people t Yet. New York is on- and The Rebel would laugh at
ly half built upon, even on Man- your suffering were it not for the
hattan Island. It has plenty of va- fact that innocent
cant places and insufficiently us- children are compelled to saffer
ed places hdd out of use by enorm- from you daiunable ignorance^
nrir wi " I want you slaves to learn more
And so the landlord parasite of what this man said to the. U. S.
gets in his work in the mighty I Senate committee after he
congested cities as well as on the
vacant prairie whose virgin soil Is
in the same condition as when
"Adam delved an4 Eve span.
The banks last year cleared for
their private owners a profit equal ^ waR t,aiQ yatuJ
to the entire corn, wheat and cot- partiy jn currency or checks on
ton crop of the United States. I . .*—T« n«it
made 'the statement published
above.' ••
He continued, explaining that
formerly the peons were compell-
ed to work every day. On being
asked what were the means of
compulsion, he explained that la
bor was paid partly in corn and
They took it out of the hide of you
and other working jaspers that
vote the Donk ticket because your
daddy did. ,
j the plantation stores. To
I work left them penniless
quit
and
without food. "Wen yowr peons
freo to leave you and ta an-
other planter?" aakod Senator
Wadsworth.
"Mino were. Others wo«e aot."
Palma then told Senator WatJb
worth a story that wait interest
ing. He ran a sort of employers'
welfare department on hia planta
tion. "The boat way to have work
done is to have it done willingly,"
lie explained. Palma managed his
peotia ho that they "worked wil-
lingly." Some sisal planters fore*
ed the peons to work. He $d uot.
"Did your peons ever leavo
you!" continued Senator Wails-
worth.
"'Sometimes. Not very often."
Palma added, however, that when
his peons did leave they soon re-
turned.
"How did you make the peons
come back, Mr. Palma, after they
had left from dissatisfaction?"
"They had to come bask to
their families"
4 Oh, they had to come back to
their familie. You let the meu go,
but kept their wives?"
"Yos, air."
"Well, now, how did yon pre-
vent tho wives from leaving with
their husbands?"
"By persuasion."
"Persuasion? What sort of
persuasion?"
Palma explained that he would
persuade the peon's wife that af-
fairs were worse on other planta-
tions, and thua keep her from
leaving. He furthermore ques-
tioned the wisdom of the revolu-
tionary system under which "they
can go and Work for any one they
want to, and, if they do not get
what they think they are entitled
to they can go somewhere elae."
• • •
, Now then, Mr. Renter, Mr. For-
est and Lumber Worker, Mr. La-
borer on Public Works, Mr. In-
dustrial Wage 81ave, here are the
naked facts presented to you not
from Tho Rebel, but from tho
United States senate committee on
agriculture. What are you going
to do? Are you aa good as the
erstwhile peons of Yucatan. WiU
you do as they did, strike blow
for your rights? You are as maeh
peon now aa they were before they
shot their way to freedom. They
have "use and occupancy" as the
only title to land. They lave a*-
ricultural banks backed by tho
state who loan Uj,em money prac-
tically without interest TWy er
tablished a publidyJowned mar*
keting system. They have arisen
to the majestic stature of manhood.
You are literally on your knees.
Your children are walking la in-
creasing illiteracy. As sure ss the
sun will rise in June you won't
have even a wagon to tnaap is if
the Donk politicans have their
way. It is up to you. Tha issue
is plain. You have srot to vote out
the donk administration or shoot it
out, starve and go to helL The
Rebel repeats that H is up to you.
The Yucatan peona on the borders
of tho Pacific ocean have po t-
, ed the way. What is yaus an-
swer?
•nr.
THE CLAWS OF THE LAND-
LORD.
year the expense of county gov
ernment has been reduced $12.-
244.72 or nearly 40 per cent,
from the amount expended for
the previous year. This is the
first chance the Socialists have
had to show their ability to con-
duot a county government in
this state and this record will
undoubtedly be used liberally
in all patts of Oklahoma during*
the com&g campaign.— Har-
low's Weekly.
The above is ft portion of
statement in Harlow's about
the Socialist administration in
Roger Mills county, Oklahoma.
The report referred to wisa ata-
■ i ^ t l, t 2 • • I • , ,1 , ? h
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ditors' who were ordered to au-
dit the records by a "recent conn'"
ty convention of the Socialist
Party. ;
Now Mr. Taxpayer, you had
better consider such records as
this before you aprain become
a party to putting the same old
plundering pie appetites in con-
trol of Johnson county.
What the Socialists of Roger
Mills couty have done to reduce
taxes there, the Socialists of
Johnston county can do ^ere.
An enterprising clothing store
keeper named George Goldsmith
built up a colossal retail business
in . New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton and Providence. He is now
closing oiit these stores in Boston
and Philadelphia because of the
excessive rents. This merchant ob-
jectg to continue paying $38,000 a
year for 3,000 square feet. Twelve
years ago he paid $6,000. They
were milking the cow dry so
sign:
m§
■ i-M.
Georce put up a
"Thia lease and these pictures
.• •. • I for sale." Just as the enterprising
The moral of thia is if you want George Goldsmith is out of busi-
minus graft I neat s0 are thousands of small
clean ^— . u . BU ———-— I
and later the full produet of your I merchants facing.ruin all over the
toil vote &e Socialist ticket from country because of the landlord
top to bottom and cfoltroy the parasite. Did these business men
Donk and Rep. rjpoaseas any breadth of
t
m
'•V, ■
under-
J
n
standing of economic prinsiples
they would support tho movement
that purposes to free industry
from the landlord shacklea. On
the first of each month when they
write the check for the landlord
they ought to consider how much
better off they would be if this
unnecessary tax on their resources
were removed. The Socialist party
alone points the way. That is by
taxing all land values to the limit.
Wake up Mr. Business Man before
you go into the potters field of
bankruptcy to which undesir
able spot you are headed now.
. f'-j
'Mmafcr
Let the nation own the banks
and kill Interest, make occupancy
and use the title to land and de-
stroy Rent, and collectively own
the trusts and abolish Profit.
That spells Freedom. That is So-
cialism.
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