The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 304, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 2, 1917 Page: 2 of 4
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prematurely caused the arrests,
ler tlMwlun it had bwa intend-
«d tQ tot' the trouble go on to open
resistsnns to conscription and
then grab the leaden on a charge
of "treason."
From all accounts (I'm taking
thtir OWN press for it) the Se-
cret Bervioe went into the busi-
rms in the most approved Old
Russian style of "agent provacat-
ing," too, and, so another of Tom
Hickey's prophecies came true,
▼ii: "All secret servio# organiaa-
tion of the workers only opens
the door for the Agents Provac*-
lore," yet he was arrested aa one
tf the "conspirator*" 1
Listen to this: "Men were se-
lected for the higher degrees as
they appeared to ahow themselves
in the lower degree. Those with
rebellion in their souls were noti-
ced to appear for the last degree,
tfc« meetings of which were sup-
posed to bi absolutely secret.
Unfortuntely for the plans of the
leaden, however, the secret ser-
vtoe Agents, daring death upon
diMtvery, managed to get them-
aslvea elected to membership,"
etc, ete.
8om« of thoae defectives even
got elected as aeereUries of lod-
>!>gee and were in the "Inner Cir-
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night the day, that they must of
n necessity have, according to
their own press, done their best
to prove thenmelves acceptable,
"WitS rebellion in their souls,"
that is, to have done their share
of inoiting to "terror."
Now listen to this, for it will
give you pretty clear proof that
not all the "plotters" are in the
P. L. P. A.: "It is impossible to
aoke public at this time the full
inwardness of the alleged conspir-
•egrr" (In true "agent provaca-
tor" style, the names of all but
twe of the arrested men have
been eeppreet, thus leaving their
friend* in total ignorance and un-
able to some to their aid, and the
"Free Press" that commits this
gross aet or suppression has the
gall to howl " Anarchy 1" at the
Russian Revolution for CON-
SCRIPTING the LA^D and for
refusing to longer die for a
"British Peace/') Then the Kept
Press goes on to "allege" thusly:
"The reason for this is obvious
(f) since it harks back to the
deeds of enemies of the country
whether they be alien or of the
home growth variety. Under the
eireumstances, however, th« trail
has been so arranged as to carry
itself back in a rigzag way to one
branch of political power now di
rided as to its national policy.
That it is explained, may be a
eloak under which something else
is hiding." (The italics are mine.)
I Socialist Party Meant.
This, of course, meaning more
than a poorly veiled threat aimed
at the Socialist party for the
anti-war stand taken by its Emer-
gency Convention recently held
ant-war stand taken by its Emer-
igency Convention recently held
in St. Louis and is made by the
same bunch of Bulldozers who
have been holding down and rob-
bing the Land of Dixie for more
than a generation now by the very
methods they today allege they
ui so horror stricken at the PJ. L.
P. A. intending to employ, which
must be so, since we have their
"word-of honor'' for it, and they
•re "all honorable gentlemen.^
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However, I have often stated to
Northern and Western men and
women who were inclined to sap-
port the alleged "Democratic"
party as a "liberal party" that
they were destined to rapidly
awaken from their delusion if
that party ever got control of the
Nation, |or I am a Southerner,
born and raised for generation*,
know the "Democratic" party to
the core and, therefore, KNOW
ther« is NO CRIME it would hesi-
tate to commit against the Prole-
tariat for the Plutocraoy. It ever
was since Andrew Jackson's
death, is today and will perish
tomorrow as a SLAVE SOIL and
SLATE LABOR party. And all
its actions since learning the
mighty problems of today must,
of a necessity, interfere with their
right (f) to rob thb South un-op-
posed and unhindered. But this
is sure—once this gang of buc-
caneers are allowed to success-
fully attack the Socialist party's
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to
criticize and oppose the existing
Government at Washington, it
wilji immediately assault every
other organization, political or in-
dustrial, that in any way hampers
or interferes with the right of its
Masters tc exploit this entire
Nation to the marrow of its bones.
Call its hand, NOW, TODAY, or
Boon see the last vestige of Dem-
ocratic and Republican institu-
tions disappear from ALL Amer-
ica, North and South.
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Arrest of Hickey.
A grosser outrage of the Amer-
ican Conetitution never yet ooour-
ed in the history of this country
than was committed when T. A.
Hickey was aArested in connec-
tion with this "alleged" "con-
spiracy," fyr ALL wjlo, know
KNOW he h ever and
steadfastly opposed M/l ftfc.
erything that even savored of se-
cret or conspiracious organiza-
tion of the farmers and workers.
It is an insult to the human in-
telligence (if there is such a thing
remaining on this blood-crazed
earth) to giv® "conspiracy" as
the "reason" for the arrest of
such a MAN.
Nor is it the reaaon of his ar-
rest. I have not the alightest
doubt that his arrest is due solely
and entirely to the LANDHOGS
and alleged BANKERS (Loan-
shaqEa. would be a better term)
to get even with him for the tre-
mendous sentiment that he, more
than any other one man in Texas,
has oreated in Texas, Oklahoma
and Louisiana for , FREE LAND.
That is the ONLY reason on*
knowing the real eoonomio condi-
tion of Dixie can honestly give
for such an outrageous arrest.
Free Land) Industrial Democ-
racy.
And this brings us to the ECO-
NOMIC reasons for such an "al-
leged conspiracy" as the P. L. P.
A. is asserted to have been engi-
neering, and you will please re-
member that all thru this article
I am taking the word of THEIR
bwn press for what is going ojh,
for I personally know nothing of
the demands of the P. L. P. A.
All I know is what they say on
the authority, seemingly, of their
detectives, but, in passing, hav-
ing seen detectives, both private
and public, testifying (t) in three
great labor "trials" I will say
this: I would not believe a detect
tive on oath in such trials.
But this is beyond the question
The VITAL question is: WHY did
this section of Texas, one of the
most purely NATIVE-BORN AM-
ERICAN sections of the United
States take such an extreme stand
against conscription and WHY if?
it that such a body of men were
willing, as the own press "al-
leges" they were, to ro to ihch
extremes against "prominent and
loyal citizens"! For such an up-
heaval as the Capitalist "Press
pictures this revolt to be does net
spring out of nothing nor do men
usually bitteriy hate other men on
such widespread range without at
least some reason, for the action
of the P. L. P. A. is alleged to be
based on the volunteer and not
on the conscript hate-plan. There-
fore, I repeat : WHY ,<gd this
great AMERICAN sectfjn of
Texas revolt! What are tnfmX)-
NOMIC reasons therefor! I do
not hesitate to asy that the REAL
bass of the whole trouble is
LAND MONOPOLY.
These men and women are, the
great majority of them, the sons
snd daughters of the FRONT-
IERSMEN, are, themselves, the
last of the Frontiersmen, the last
of thst strong breed who left the
old lands of Europe fighting the
Military Oligarchies every step
of the wsy from Europe's shores
and clear across the North Ameri-
can continent. They are no more
"anarchists" than the "Wall
Street" Plutocrate and down in
their heart of hearts are far bet-
ter lovers of their native Wind
than was this evil brood of leech-
es. Calling men names does not,
has not, and haver will settle gi-
gantic economic questions. With
the Old Order fast going on the
the world witnessed, whether the
with the World War overthrow-
ing governments and traditions
long eatabliahed, none but fools
thicker-headed than the brutish
"Nobility" that once governed
France to chaoa and ruin, will
for one moment believe that the
great, vital question of FREE
LAND can be settled by the sim-
ple method of the Russian Czar-
calling in the Secret PoMce, call-
ing out the Rangers, calling on
the Courts and sending alleged
leaders to prison or to death.
Three epoch-making recent revo-
lutions, the Mexican, the Chinese
and the Russian, have just prov-
ed that such "settlements of
economijjjji?^feifeSfr -81^-11^52^-1"-
all, for but yeaterday
juknpile of time throut the wor ,
Ruling Classes did or not, m Rus-
sia the Conscripts conscripting
the conscriptors.
Since, then we are "fighting a
war for democracy," why not ap-
proach the tremendous
economic problems from a
CRATIC standpoint and not from
an Autocratic standpoint. If this
war has proven anything, it has
PROVED Autocracy a curse to
ALL Mankind.
I asserted LAND MONOPOLY
waJat the root of thia revolt. Is
my guess wrong! I think not.
Three y*ars ago I waa in a part
of that territory that is todsy de-
scribed by the press as "infected
territory.*4 One day we traveled
thru mile on mile of land lying
idle and fallow, with etfcry
and then a town or group of
farms standing out like an oaais
in a desert. And I asked WHY all
this land was idle, and the an-
swer was: "It is being held for
speculation." As I remember the
name of the owner, it was Swen-
son of CHICAGO or NEW YORK,
and he "owned" ELEVEN HUN-
DRED SECTIONS of as ttne land
as there is on earth, and he held
it IDLE. The people all thru this
section were then hardly prest to
earn a cheap living and in all di-
rections we beheld the army of
"Wagon Tramps" moving up
and down the states—the last of
the Frontiersmen trying vainly
to find a home and an abiding
place in the land their fathers
and mothers had conquered from
the savage and the wilderness.
But they found it not. From New-
Orleans to Bomarton, Texas, I
came 810 miles on my trip into
that section without a stop, and
all along the way there was
the MANLESS LAND and
LANDLESS MAN.
It was thin I said for the first
time with full conviction: Tom
Hickey is right — the LAND
QUESTION is of equal import-
ance with the LABOR QUES-
PROM "MEMOIRS OP A RE-
VOLUTIONIST."
In every town of Russia, in ev-
ery quarter of St. Petersburg,
smsll groups weCre formed for
self-impg$vement and self-educa-
tion; the works of the philosoph-
ers, the writings of the econom-
ists, the researches of the young
Russian historical school, were
carefully read in these circles,
end the reading was followed by
endless discussions. The aim of
all that reading and discussion
By Soott N earing.
The financial snd business pa-
pers in sll parts of the country
are alarmed over the new men-
ace—the most serious one that
has confronted the American
business world since the outbreak
of (he war. Business men every-
where ere profoundly concerned
over the prospect of a big in-
creese in wages.
The ordinary sources of labor
which rose before them,—in what ^ praetor ceased. The birth
could they be useful to the mas- j . ,, . . , ,
•ettle among the people and to 1# * w ....
U e « P«P>«'. "ft. Toon, men
went into the village as doctors,
doctors' assistants, teachers, vil-
lage scribes, even as agricultural
laborers, blacksmiths, woodcut-
tors,,snd so on, snd tried to live
there in closest contact with the
particularly acute at harvest time,
Unemployment which in a "nor-
mal" year might have gone to 15
or even 20 per cent did not get
much >bove>7 or 8 per cent last
winter. At the present time it is
a n> i - * . v , probsbly well below 5 per cent.
peassnts. Girls passed teachers L. , , . . / , ,
i , j ., ; The general labor shortage with
examinations, learned midwifery • „ , , .
| its mtenest pressure during the
'harvest season cannot but result
in an increase in wages such as
or nursing, and went by the hun-
dreds into the villages, devoting
themselves entirely to the poor-
est part of the population.
Here and there, small groups of
propagandists had settled in
towns and villages in various ca-
pacities. Blacksmiths' shops and
small farms had been started,
and young men of the wealthier
classes worked in the shops or on
the farms, to be in daily contact
with the toiling masses. At Mos-
cow, a number of young girls, of
rich families, who had studied at
the Zurich university and had
started a separate organization,
went even so far as to enter cot-
ton fsctories, where they worked
from fourteen to sixteen hours a
day, and lived in the factory
barracks the miserable life of the
Russian factory girls. It was a
grand movement, in which, at the
loweet estimate, from twe to three
4>omm^^erso2l-ltjrA-iir; v e
part, while twice or thrice is
many sympathizers and support-
ers helped the active vanguard in
various ways. With a good half
of that army our St. Petersburg
circle was in regular correspond-
ence— always, of course, in ci-
pher.
The literature which could be
published in Russia under a rigo-
rous censorship— the faintest
hint of Socialism being prohibited
—was soon found insufficient,and
we started a printing office of our
own abroad. Pamphlets for the
workers and peassnts hsd to be
written, and our small "literary
committee", of which I was a
member, hsd its hands full of
work. Serghei wrote a couple of
such pamphlets — one in the
Lammenais style, and another
containing an exposition of So-
cialism in a fairy tale— and both
had a wide Circulation. The books
and pamphlets which were print-
ed abroad, were smuggled into
Russia by thousands, stored at
certain spots, and sent out to the
local circles, which distributed
them among the peasants and the
workers.—Peter Kropotkin.
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TlON~fo5 Free Men CANNOT
exist on SLAVE SOIL.
With this Nation and all its
allies facing FAMINE (again I
take THEIR word for it) I chal-
lenge him who DARES to say
this Nation commits JUSTICE if
it CONSCRIPTS the LIVES of
its workers" and then refuses to
CONSCRIPT the idle LANDS of
the country and the DOLLARS of
the RICH.
America! JUSTICE and SELF-
DEFENSE is crying this in your
ears: "FREE THE LAND!" My
Motherland! you dare not do oth-
erwise !
FREE THE LAND!
ON TO LIBERTY!
j- 1 *
DOWN WITH GUNS! LET
YOUR SLOGAN BE- "CON-
SCRIPT THE LANDLORD AND
FEED THE PEOPLE!" ORGAN-
IZE! ORGANIZE!!
men have not known in modern
.tithes. If the law of supply and
demand is permitted to operate
in this case as it has operated dur-
ing the past few months in the
case of potatoes, pork, shoes and
steel, wages might double in a
month.'
Once wages are raiaed they are
reduced with difficulty. Work-
ers become accustomed to a high
return ancf resent any cut in the
wage scale. Henee the serious-
ness of a situation that promises
widespread wage advances.
During the past 40 years the
bulk of American wage earners
have worked for a wage that re-
presented more subsistence or
lees. Therefore millions of them
lived in poverty. The present
situation promises a living wage
and more for even the humblest
TOAer^
'"nfgre's many a slip" how-
ever, and it now looks as though
business would find a way. From
all sides come proposals that THE
PRISONERS OF WAR, TAKEN
BY THE ALLIES IN BATTLE,
ARE TO BE BROUGHT TO THE
UNITED STATES AND SET TO
WORK. In this way the threat-
ened labew shortage with its in-
evitable wage increase may be
forestalled.
Incidentally, the increased cost
of living alone, since 1912, would
justify a wage increase of from
50 to SO per cent. Quite as a mat-
ter of course, farmers -who were
glsd to get a dollar for Wheat a
few years since are now indif-
ferent to three dollars, while
other business men have doubled,
trebled or quadruple^ their pro-
fits since the war began. The
huge fortunes that have been
made in the handling of food, and
the other necessaries of life are
"all in a day's worksV They
cause little comment and almost
no excitement. It is taken for
granted, in business circles, that
profits should increase many fold
in this crisis, but the possibility
that the wage earners who re-
ceived 30 cents an hour in 1912
are to get 60 cents in 1917 or that
the five dollar a day minimum of
1914 will become ten dollar a
day minimum in 1918 ia too ter
rifying to contemplate- "Such a
situation contains alarming 'ele-
ments that cry aloud for redress"
and they may be redressed in the
future by the important of invol-
untary (slave) labor from war-
torn Europe.
* The suggestion that European
prisoners of war be imported to
work for American employers is
welcomed in many business cir-
cles. It is promising. Thus the
danger( of high wages) may he
met. Thus the plague (of wage
increases all along the line) mav
(be stayed, and the business inter-
ests of America may be protected
and safeguareded against the
menace of high wagee.
OUR REBS.
T. E. Pendergrass remits |5 snd
says: "Send me 100 single shot
and 16 bombs." He meant to do
hia "bit". * , ' . • .
"Five subs enclosed and fiv&
cards wanted for immediste use
is the way J. R." Cheaney's last re-
port reads.
Steve Msnning reports ten new
recruits.
. J. G. Belt, who has been on the
firing line for the pest 14 yean,
ia still doing good work; his last
report showed the ssptum ef
five.
W. H. Neblick of Oklahoma or-
dered s bundle of snb cards up
on reading the sccovnt of Hick-
ey's Illegal arrest.
T.-B. Grsnberry sent in six
lest week, five again this week
snd yfclled to the force to make
room for others thst are sure te
come.
S. S. Wiggins sends five with
out instructions; they will receive
the regular 40 week course of
treatment.
"Hand this to the red headed
girl and tell her to start the
treatment at once and keep it up
until the Dubbs are cured," was
the introduction of C. C. Curry
when sending in his last catoA.
H. L. Walson fires in five that
be took the past week.
J. W. Mondy's report for the
past week shows a catch of five.
C. M. Reaves sends five a
says, look for mors.
. J. N. Isbell sends five Tennes-
see citizens who ere seeking the
light
"Can't de without the Rebel,
it is like psrting with an; old
friend," thus writes W. P. Nor-
ton when pushing ' his figures
three years ahsad.
T. B. Granburry sends six and
says, "I have enlisted
fray; yon 11 hear from m# a'
soon."
Ed. Matix ma
rounded tfreijAf^
immediately went
five others.
"Am lining up these who have
heretofore (refused to read the
Rebel; now is the time to strike",
so says J. J. Manly. , *
L. L. Smith writes from Mis-
souri that he saw his first copy of
The Rebel in a lobby of a hotel
and liked it so well that he wants
it for himself and a list of friend#
C. A Copeland secured five
more Oklahoma Meruit* last
week.
Leo Meitens sends a elnh ef
eight from Arkansas.
G. M. Poterfield sends five snd
instructs us to ministsr te them fc
large doses.
ones, and
una got
TAKE BACK THE LAHD.
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Take bsck the land! From the
earth we came; from the earth we
live; back at the last, to earth we
return. Forever to the earth the*
Race must come to replenish its
wealth and strength. Even the
ladden cities, blots upon' its
beautiful bosom, must plant their
skyscrappers in the earth. To the
earth all the ships of the seve
seas must anchor at the
Without—free land free men ca!
not exist. Take back the land.-
Cov. Ami. V
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