The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 291, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 3, 1917 Page: 4 of 4
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WHO WANTS WART
Breaking off diplomatic (rela-
tions -with Germany should have a
(toadying effect on the market^
It Is {fee oonoensus of opinion of
strong financial and business in'
tenets that, even if the United
States becomes involved in the
great war, there is little likeli-
hood that this will torn the tide
of OUR prosperity. If anything,
it should result in further expan-
sion of business both domestic
and foreign.
—Weekly News Letter,
Jones & Baker, Brokers,
50 Broad Street.
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RURAL POWKR.
The possibilities of this situa-
tion is a thing to which we have
been looking forward.
Prank A. Yanderlip,
President National City Bank.
War with GermanJ will result
in a great activity in this coun-
try .. .
- James 8. Alexander,
Pres National Bank of Commerce.
WHO WANTS PEACE t
In The French Chamber.
The conception of peace found-
ed upon the free will of peoples,
and not upon the force of arms
should become the charter of the
civilised universe. And it is the
more necessary at this time that
democrats of all nations, wher-
ever they may be, should rise
against imperialistic ambitions
and against their bloody and
ruinous consequences.... To pre-
pare and hasten an early and
just ending of the present war
and to assure a future of peace
ful civilization, the Socialist
group asks the representatives of
all the belligrent nations to press
upon their leaders a trial in good
faith of th« noble experiment of-
fered to humanity by the head of
the great American republic.
— (From a resolution passed by
the eighty-nine Socialist Deputies,
Jan. 26.)
• • •
British Labor.
" A lasting pence cannot be
secured by a policy of conquest
followed by a commercial war,but
onlJ by a policy that lnys the
foundation of a real international
partnership."
(From a resolution recentlj
passed by the Bradford Trades
and Labor Council.)
• • •
American Students.
Those college presidents .whj
have exceeded the speed limit in
the offer of university halls for
barracks and student bodies for
immediate service, must feel some
what dashed by the result of the
post-card vote just taken by Ray-
mond Bristol, graduate student of
Teachers' College. The advisabil
ity of a popular referendum on
peace or war, submitted to the
students of Barnard, School of
Journalism, Union Theological,
Graduate Department of Teach-
ers' College, and - Columbia,
brought, in an affirmative re-
sponse of sixty-four per cent. It
is to be noted that no campaign
on the referendum preceded the
rote; also, that the later votes
were more favorable than thoso
taken earlier. •
(Look upon this picture in the
Dominion of Canada and then
look upon the republic of Amer-
ica where the electric trust con-
trols and confines tHe use of
power.—Ed.) (
By 84wn Black.
The province of Ontario, Can-
ada, has pledged itself to give
the farming population oquU
treatment with their city brothers
in the distribution of public own-
ed power generated at Niagara
Falls and other points of conven-
ient development. Such an un-
dertaking at present is well un-
der way, guided by the Hydro-
Electric Power Commission, one
of the most extensive and success-
ful public ownership projects in
any part of the world. With a
system of trunk lines now com-
tioni received from rate payers,
end to enter into an agreement
with the government — if they
chose—for power at a cost to be
agreed upon. In each case
list of subscribers must admit of
further additions, and the rate of
charge must cover the municipal-
ity's investment with sinking
fund and interest. It is the prac-
XHLITARIST8 8FXAK.
By Covington And.
At last the Prussians of the
^ United States have spoken, and
in words no one but a fool can
mistake or a knave defend—tbo
bill to Prussianize the United
States has been reported from the
committee to the U. S. Senate.
S"orthe"commis^n""tThMdle Thftt WU provides for every out-
its power supply as a wholesaler, on democratic institution*
delivering to the municipality at the **ti-railitarists predicted it
its borders, but undertaking no would and for infain,es th*y
local distribution or construction, vcr thoQ8ht to ch&r*c t0 the mlU*
although all local mattery man- , ,
agement, equipment, rate of W"h th« wooden-headedness
charge and even the disposal of that distinguishes all Militarists
the annual profits, are under the everywhere, their bill P1"0™ **
•dictation of the central body of that their wmseript army shall
Commissioners. "never, be used except in a de-
An interesting illustration of feMive war or th« imminenw
the eagerness of the Ontario thereof," and that it shall never
farmers to procure power is *>• ued in 8trik<V or industrial
prising 285 miles of high tension' h<>wn in a northern township. A disputes," this as-a sop to Liber-
«rvic' and 500 mil* low ten-' <>•* of r... payer, living on t.rta i W*" if «h. demo,
sion, affording an ideal source of widely separated lots agreed to cratlc forces of this country were
electrical energy to thirty-eight finance the local distribution of drugging for attact,ic; and not for
municipalities, and representing a electricity from the Commission's * yITAL S0CJA]L PRIf™ '
capital expenditure of $4,000,000,. truvk lines, and they cut dow:i • would Militarist
the Commission linked to its pro- «cores of poles in the swamps and «n o th-
gramme, about three years ago, dragged them across country The b,n even forces men who
the involved question of rural din- where the linemen of the govern- hav« religious scruples again u
tribution. The manner in which nient superintended the more ex- *ar to serve, but graciously
pert operations.
PA8TORIZA WINS.
this is being worked out follows
a composite plan derived in part
from a painstaking investigation
of methods adapted in Utah and
other American states. Hon. Ad-! John Henry Kirby, Jesse H. Jo-
am Beck, chairman of the Com- nes, Jake Wolters, and four or
mission, devised through his en- five others that represent the
gineering staff a somewhat uni plutocratic reactionary interests
places them in the "noncombat-
ant divisions of the army." What
in hell is a "noncombatant" di-
vision of an armyt Are not the
men and women in the munitions
and arras factories, in the Red
Cross Service, even, warring,
helping to murder their fellow-
que scheme which Ontario looks of South Texas and Louisiana beings Jl18t as 8ure'y M are those
upon as more precisely related to were handed a glorious swat in at 'ront ^fchting the can-
its requirments than any other, the city primary of Houston,when no.ns and the ri^es* Could hypo-
One of the novelties in the Com- J. J. Pastoriza was named as ma- cr*8y ^urtber
mission's plan of reaching the yor by a big majority. It was also ^en read t*ns yon
farmer is a demonstrating car, re- a bitter bait of crow for the ^ave any doubts that the Ameri-
sembling a small tool house on Houston Carbuncle. can Prussians are any better than
wheels, fitted with a twenty-five Joe Pastoriza is a sincere and ®ennan Huns : -
horse-power motor and sufficient militant enemy of landlordism
equipment to place it for action and special privilege, only he
in a barn-yard with wires running thinks as yet that he can make
to the nearest power pole. Al- headway against these evils
though twenty-five horse-power through a Landhog party. Politi-
is the standard of the Ontario cal wiseacres now predict that he
may make a try for the governor
ship on a Land platform, as his
record in that respect was the so-
demonstrating cars, it is intended
that a three or four horse-power
motor shonld serve all the pur-
poses of the ftverage rnralist —
thrashing, feed cutting, grinding,
pumping, etc.
Under the direction of an ex-
perienced engineer these cars
The committee measure,
which is based on that prepared
by Major Moseley, formerly of
the army general staff, fixes
military training as a duty of
citizenship, denying naturalizh-
tion until such training has
been at least begun or exemp-
tion granted. All Government
creit of his success in the mayor- —.. employment would be closed to
alty race.
We Rebels need merely sit
back now with hands folded—
if we wished — and watch
hav% been sent up and down the our land movement shaping and
A further evidence of the non-
militarist mind of American col-
legians is to be found in the spir-
ited student delegation wheh, un-
der the direction of the Emer-
gency Peace Federation, will
storm the Capitol on Washing
ton's Birthday.
F. M. W.
It is bitter sometimes to stand
opposed to the brutish system,
but what an everlasting soul-can-
ker to stand for it!
province, heralding their ap-
proach by public notices. So en-
thusiastic has proved the interest
in their coming that crowds num-
bering into the hnudreds have
given up a day or two in busy
seasons to the attraction, mani-
festing real delieht at the results.
Indeed the rural curiosity has
been of such "high tension" as to j
earn for the demonstrating ear
and staff the sobriquet of "Beck's '
Circus."
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reshaping public policies and
making and unmaking public
men in "the Sunny South.
The revolution has started and
can't stop, using all kinds of in-
struments to attain its end, and
Pastoriza is one of these instru-
ments.
those who could not produce
certificates of training or ex-
emption and private employer;
would be similarly prohibited
from employing any man who
has evaded his military ser-
vice. A blanket penalty with
a maximum of $1,000 fine and
a year's imprisonment for each
offense is provided for the vio-
lation of any section of the acr
except that those who evade
training when liable for it musl
serve a longer time.
SMALLER LEGISLATURES.
Libertarians of all the Amer-
icas, unite! Unite in defense or'
your firesides and freedom against
The Daily Oklahoman is advo-
_ eating smaller legislatures, claim- the ENEMY WITHIN.
While Ontario is in the prepar- ing that it would reduce expenso
atory stages of rural power de- and expedite legisation. Correct,
livery (for the main problem of it would reduCe expense f0r the
enlisting cities and towns had interests, who would have fewer
first to be overcome), it is sig-
nificant that scores of rural muni-
cipalities have declared their
anxiety to become customers of
the Commission. The reason of
this flood of petitions is, primar-
ily, that no commercial power
company has so far interested it-
self in the problem of the farmer.
There exists, moreover, an over-
"expense bills" of their legisla-
tors to pay. As to expeditiou,
most any bill of interest to the In-
terests can be jammed through a
legislature of 400 members as
quickly as through one of 40
members. It is the people's bills
that dies in committee or on the
calendar.
It is not a question of numbers.
whelming p.blic confident, in „ j, , qaution of wh„ class ,
the ideal to which the government legiBllture repre9ent8l It oup
I saw one republic more—Am-
erica—the mightiest and the last;
for the justice of heaven on the
land, the most terrible; for the
mercy of heaven to mankind, tho
briefest in its devastation. But
there all was hypocrisy that was
not horror; the only equal rights
were those of equal robber; the
sacred figure of Liberty veiled
its face; and the offering on its
violated '^hrine was the spoil of
honor, bravery and virtue.—Wan-
dering Jew (Extract).
has devoted its best men and full- pre en,atives were wage workers
the scientific souml- workjnR farmera b . - -- ---- --- -
Commission's mptli-1 . , , unci ruled by cldss
a political-economic organization
est means;
ness of the
ods has never been brought into
of that class, we would see a
question; and there is the tanei- floc«1 „f p„p„l„r measures in never
ble testimony that the advent of 8,ream
"Hydro" in Toronto and other
centers forced the commercial
The drive to fundamental de-
mocracy lflLQD. It may run over
aoms, but thank God it is on.
monopolists to cut their rates
from twenty to thirty-five per
cent
But what can you expect frorn
courthouse ring shysters, land-
hogs,
movement that is composed
conscious
workers is revolutionary, regard-
less of the label. One that is not
so composed and ruled is not, re-
gardless of the label.
maggots and their ilk?
North Dakota has given
The insistent demand from ag- little lesson along this line
ricultural districts was followed
by a bill passed in the Legisla-
ture enabling the Power Com-
mission to distribute power "lo-
cally," and obliging municipal
Ninety per cent of the people
profit-porkers and money- 0f Texas are farmers and wage-
workers. Yet your state legisla-
i ture is composed of 80 per cent
lawyers, and of a mighty poor
quality at that. Wake up.
us A
In war the killers are better
fed, clothed, and medically cared
for than the workers in time of
peace. Some day the mutts will
councils to forward all applies- ^ ggg the point.
The Rebel will have some big
announcements to make soon as
to new plans in the fight ^or land
and liberty.
THB WRONG WAY,
(Coming from sh ultra stand-
pat source this editorial . gives
some idea of the good the martyr-
dom of Mrs. Sanger, Mrs. Byrne
and like noble souls is doing.—
Ed.)
The propriety and wisdom of
the propaganda in which Mrs.
Margaret Sanger and her sister,
Mrs. Ethel Byrne, hsve been so
active may be debatable. But, ad-
mitting that it is both improper
and unwise, the fact should not
constitute a crime. Jail is the
wrong answer.
Error has never been combated
successfully by imprisoning its
advocates. Indeed, no more ef-
fective method could be devise4
for giving it substance and en-
listing sympathizers. ^
The court is justified in com-
mitting Mrs. Byrne to prison, be-
cause the court must bt governed
by the law. But society can not
protect itself against the ideas
promulgated by Mrs. Byrne by
any such simple process as lock-
ing her in a cell. Society is plac-
ing its confidence in an untrust-
worthy means of defense when it
shelters itself behind a law
against ideas.
Galileo's conception of the uni
verse was regarded as subversive
of religion and morals by the au-
thorities Cf his day, and he was
tortured into recantation; but
Galileo's glimpse of truth surviv-
ed and conquered his persecutors.
The advocates of birth control are
sincere and seriously minded peo-
ple, who offer their theory as an
answer to certain very real and
poignant problems of modern life.
It may be a poor answer or n
wholly wrong answer, but that
will not he proved by making
martyrs of those who urge it.
Many of us were stirred to in-
dignation by British persecution
of suffragettes. England impris-
oned women for destroying pro-
perty and disturbing the public
peace. We are imprisoning them
for teaching certain physiological
facts. The laws that make this
course necessary are not enlight-
ened laws. They are not even
good laws from the viewpoint of
those who believe that birth con-
trol propaganda is wrong. The
way to meet that propaganda is
with argument and the offer of a
better solution for the problems it
professes, in part, to solve. —Chi-
cago Evening Post.
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HOP1 ros ma asowtf.
It is beginning to look like th«
plot of the munition and money
trust and their henchmen of press,
pulpit and rostrum, to drive presi-
dent and congress into involving
the nation in the European war
ia hanging fire, thanks to the
great anti-war agitation of radi-
eala of aU political faitha.
On February 27 Indent Wil-
son went before congress and ask-
ed for authority to establish if h«
deems it necessary what he terms
"armed neutrality", meaning for
the1 present the arming of Ameri-
can merchant ships or the convoy-
ing of them by warships through
the submarine zone.
He expressed the hope that it
would not "become neceaaary to
put an armed force into action,"
and said he was "not now propos-
ing or contemplating war or any
steps that lead to it", inasmuch
as the "American people do not
desire it and our desire is not dif-
ferent from theirs."
Of course the president's policy
does not mean that the danger oi
bloodshed is over, or that the In-
terests that want war at any cost
are going to lie down. However,
it does look more hopeful now
than it did at the beginning.
Let the people continue to de-
mand a referendum prior to de-
claration of war; let them con-
tinue to advocate that the ex-
penses of the war, -if declared,
shall be borne entirely by the Big
Rich that alone profit from it— ^
and you will hear this howl for
blood from those who have no in-
tention of spilling any blood
of their own, grow weaker and
weaker as the days go by.
What has become of the old
time preacher who used to raise
a crop and preach at the week's
end, Maybe the landlord doesn'ty
give him time to think of heaven-
ly things.
_ The Rebel is in the fight to stay
and will use any and all instru-
ments that come handy to help
win it.
We Rebels are the chosen ones
of the angelic hosts of brother-
hood. We may appear in the
minority, but we are not.
"If the Socialist party is not a
working class party it is no party
at all," says 'Gene. We'll have
to come to that more and more.
The GREAT LAND FIGHT
is world-wide.
Besides Texas and other States, it is being waged in Gn*eat
Britain and her colonies, in South America and elsewhere.
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the British Single Tax monthly journal, yon may see what is
being done far and wide to secure the Peiple's rights to the
land by the method of Taxing Land Values.
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 291, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 3, 1917, newspaper, March 3, 1917; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394735/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.