The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 285, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 20, 1917 Page: 2 of 4
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THB OOOPX&ATIVX MOVB-
By Ohaa. Linooln Phiftr.
A groat cooperative movement
haa been developing in America
luring the' last tea yeari until
fiow it hat reached .tremendous
jroportion*. It hat never beei
tdeqnatoly reported- The farm
«*, w|w chiefly were promoting
it, did their work quietly lest pre-
mature publicity interfere with
H. The etupid eity press, as us
•al, doted its eyes to everything
that waa happening a hundred
miles from its sacred preserve*
The Sdetaliat and labor press, ne-
ver with any real program for
anr one save the wage earner,
haa remained mum about
Now, however, when the coun-
try hat suddenly been made
«Wfre Of this movement as t foroe
that must be reckoned with the
labor pres* it dumbfounded and
th$ average daily begins to mia
represent it. The real awaken-
ing came when the results of the
election were announced and it
waa discovered that the West had
wrested political dominance
from New York and the
Northeast. They who had for
nftv vesrs bowed everything for
New York and New Rngland be-
gan to err. "Sectionalism." They
who had Ion? monopolized the
markets and boosted prices
Jar necessities bevond all reason
be^n to demand fake "invest!-
gatjons," to if possible fasten
their own crimes on the farmers'
eoonerations.
Tf the politicians had hsd onlv
common horse sense, tbev mi<rht
Ion? a<ro have discerned the ten-
dency in the woman suffrage and
prohibition movements that were
sweeping the country; but they
preferred to hide their eyes in the
■and. If Socialist editors • had
had the real "nose for news"
they would have discerned this
movement and have turned its ra-
dicalism to their own purposes in-
stead of permitting their party
to lapae through ineptneaa.
Immediately after retiring
from the editorial itaff of the
Appeal to Reason, I began the
study of the movement. I wrote
numerous letters and traveled ov-
er 4,000 miles in making investi-
gations. I attached myself to the
editorial ataff of a cooperative
P«P«r. I spent a month in a co-
operative colony run on the new
corporate lines.
, After two years of this inves-
tigation, I confess I don't know
much about the cooperative move-
ment. The largest organisations,
«f which there are five of a na-
tional character, will not reveal
their strength. T do know the
membership is very large. I es-
timate it at about four millions,
dire*tlv influencing perhaps 15,-
000 000. Tt was without assum-
ing anv specisl sirs that before
the election T told close friends
thst there were eoinp to be sur-
prising results. T knew it must
be so. In addition to the big na-
tional orrani*ations. there are
manv smaller ones and manv eo-
oneratives without affiliation.
There is *l*o. for the first time in
aeventv vesrs. a cooperative col-
ony movement that baa distin-
guish insr features which entitle it
to the term.
While we have been talkintr
revolution, the revolution haa al-
ready begun. It is a revolution.
The nation will be affected by it
for years to come, and its influ-
ence on legislation will be much
rreater than was the,Populist re-
volt that followed the coopera-
tives of the Wheel and Alliance
years ago. Htimately it may be
tricked out of existence, as was
the Populist movement bv the de-
lectable Bryan, the Progressive
movement bv the immaculate
Roosevelt, and the Socialist move-
ment bv the plausible Wilson, but
not before it baa turned the na-
tion nnside down. A tremendous
world-wide cooperative tendenev
will help it to hold out this result
accomplished
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"BSE OBACB Of 0H4MA0-
IB."
By Job Hantaan.
In the name of the great God , .
of guah and sluah, it is almost The 'oUowmg ahould be added
time for the opponent* of women f* M amendment to the eonstita-
suffrage to quit talking about tl0n oI the n t nal Socialist Par-
nolities degrading women. At
good t time to stop as any it right
now after Cardinal Gibbons has
<1
sloshed around a Httle more slop-
pily than almott anyone to date.
In an address to the Nationtl
Nssociation Opposed to Women
Suffrage (why does it never rif-
Any labor union, farmer*'
organisation, or ©f>-operative
enterprise, or any number of
members thereof, shall pe per-
mitted to become a Socialist
Party Local, without regard to
political subdivisions."
ouurage \wny aoes u never r r- V# \Z V, • V. . V; : ... ,
fie the bloom on a "perfect lady1-9 If the Party will in-
♦o join the anti agitators ), Car- ££?.r#t* *his in ite ???/
dinal Gibbons solemnly promul- rt «aoothly
gated the opinion that working over , othprwise b«50,n<
for auffrage would "rob woman tnJ?*?**?: _ , . . ,
of ber grace of character," . The Socialist Party lacks vital-
flihhofm ty. " has no source from which
to draw power. It gathers men
THB RAILWAY RO
Proof of the extent to whieh -- By B. H. LontreL
American railroad stocks are wa- The Rebel ia right Wore I
tered it afforded by the report oI to write the Soeiaii*t platform, it
the interstate commerce commit- would be this, alone: Vkot land
sion on the valuation of the Kan- *q*Dy to aDL
ssa City Southern railway, just Would that settle the
made public. question tool Yet, there it more
The report thowt that the road, money—people's money—in the
capitalized at $99,052,000, includ- banks than ever before. They
ing $51,000,0000 stock and $48,- had so much that billions were
5(&000 bonds, could be reproduce aent to Europe to help on tho
ed less depreciation for $38,258,- killing. After the nations have
909.
UUTO SQUALLY TO ALL." WANT ADS
!>• V W T nhImI 1 " ' i 1 "■
Rate, 9 cents a word m&
tion—eoab with order.
money No advertieoaent for teat than U
e*nt* will b* accepted.
Bach number, tign or initial
. . , - - Tfc« Holcomb Aplarica, J. R. Hei
killed each other to the limit of comb, Prop. p«n cxtracud ud
ral tnd tpiritual destinies of Bal- \° 6rh" P°wer" 11 K*h«™ men
tlmore. Not long ago a survey of from the fionr cf™5r*' bqt 'J hM
Baltimore unearttied a rottenness Won®,nj(! 5
in the redlight district that organizations, tt it th?
«ro«n.d th.t dtj with . p.™«.r ^ SW .
pre-eminence in its degradation ®n<1 the Socialist party
of wonMnhood. n a ttr.n w tort«t lonrM. ;
Whm * . C.rdm,l ,k"k
tW Did h, find tk.t woman 'h'« '><>',tK',1 lh.e
wm bring robbed of "her £ !",n' .Po,lh"1. P°WCT '
of character"t Th, "ovittr ™ offnpnn« of fronomit powt.
ahnckera" of Baltimore are' no- <iP«n a anlid ero-
torlons aa eaampl™ of the wor,t " b'(T " T. IfT
exploited women and ehildren in,0'''""1," '.h* ®?"
a nation that anlwiata upon «neh "*"'t ™>'«l m «•>«
exploitation. We do no remem- "J™"" 0,0"0p'ra,,1V*
ber havins read anrwhere any ,i"d ,T'a °T
proteat from Cardinal Gibbons "
abont the phyai.al and moral T. u .w
filth in whieh theae women and
ehildren tnnat work having any i!'j! 1PT ^
tendeney to roh them of theirlSiV* * ^
"grace of ebaraeter." 5™- "> «!>« • -
FVederiek Starr. America',1,'"I* ""'M. « <■"-
leading anthropologiat. haa point- ^''j? * !*"ed
ed ont that it i, po«nMe to exea.'^J .r"r,-v
vate for aneient inatHutiona inlf V 'nt? '
the depth, of present society •« '
•rch.clo.i... ^ «0 look after and protect the
W. aiucu wb w tut uuui ui coo#, mp. nil (Iiritua U4
In other words, all of the 51 physical endurance, they ean not bovej. Loving, New Hex.
millions of Stock and from two to P*y this money back. The mon- ——.
ten millions of the bonds are noth- ey is still in the banks, billions of
inir in the world but water. ijt ia not used for lack of paying
Tlnw fKia mrlin* laaV^I U im invMtmi ntfi on flip ti>tttis r^fillir
Gnlf, a subsidiary, $45,279,000 in
secoritlet were itisued against an
actual money outlay of only $15,-
288.751;
That thh it a general and not a
sporadic Anditi^n is indicated by
work. Present investment* a?c
capitalized, all the traffic will
bear to the 'consumer, in high
cost of living.
With free land equally to all,
monev the tool of exchange
the statement of the commission flow th«
that "excellent motive power and >5^ |l ^ T®?* ?}° V
other equipment have been pro-i^011^ " ou^i they
vided. and while the nropertv has w™ld have no alternate^ Specu-
not recovered from the results of lation must automatically cease,
its earlr management. It has come 'alM)r eaP't#l. moJ}^
to Ke one of the substantial and « not c Pital Md never was. The
" • ~ - monopoly of land the
coun-
effective railroads of the
try.*'
If this it the state of affairs on v.„
a substantial railrotd. what can the business
basic
wrong.
How to get free land now!
There are four ways ,either will
we expect in the esse of roads
that have really been watered?
The significance of this to the
American people lies in the fact
that the railroads rivht now are
First: Place all taxes on land
values. This is the Henry George
plan, and he was right.
Second: The government to
condemn for public use all land
"•"* i cuiuieruu iur j;uuut: unr cat*
bnsv. with their strongest array needed to be used co-operatively
of legal, lobbying and publicity for colonization, any way to re-
archaclojfiats die for buried tab
lets in Babylonian monndR. In
searching for such institutions be
says we should observe the cus-
toms of women and clericals.
Whenever a custom is found
that ia peculiar to women and the
household, we may be sure that it
ia a cuatom which, in compara-
tively recent times, was common
to all society. The woman has
been made the conservative ele
mcnt by the suppression and de
nial o?
working class institution* from
the attack of their enemies.
rnle88 this step is taken, and
at once, the Socialists of judg-
ment will move out of the party
and into other radical organiza-
tions, as was done in Dakota.
Thia is a day of action, and ac-
tion must be our watchword. If
"big guns." striving to in<We
ron^re^s to *ao« tifv this entlrv
nam of w tered e P'* l an*' msVf
it tbe basis for fre?« ht and oas.
*eo«er r*tes. or ?f tbev are fore-
iT>t.n wmrernm^Tit owr e^ *"n. to
make it the basis of amnisition.
POOR GRBGORY.
lieve diaemployment. The money
to do this can easily be obtained
—there are many ways and means
at band—details unnecessary.
Third: An amendment to the
constitution making occupancy
and use the only land tenure.
Fourth: A mats strike of all
the workers demandine any one
of these. The black slave was
free<1 with a single demand. Tbe
economic slaverv of the world
BTV1 - ... . . ' ^"d now certain economists economic aiaverv
sured^that^ th^worM lSl j*bbin8 ^ ^eU-whettcd fm- must be abolished.
fill inn t n! Tt not U of scorn into Attorney Gene-, Free land equal for all will do
S ih«nM L yT^ aTv, M raI because he hasn't this. Nothine else can.
•: ri'T'u „ nvi; KH !• "nA-vT" " ffod the high cost of things by I Marx. Proudbon, Baknnin, .To
> social rights which "c over philosophic platitudes proMcutioM ^er ^ Shefmai siah, Parrin. the Ameriean, m
m an narliAr rtf ana to chant onr revolntion*rv ' ...
she enioved in an earlier stage of *od to chant our revolutionary _ t; t t
songs. We must wake up and anu tru8t ,e^«lation
society.
all
asrree to this as the basis. Toe
must be
t ... .. . Fact of the matter is that the new social structure mnsT oe
b\irtliermore, continues Prof. *P i?1, attorney general is at powerless built from the ground or not at
^.fwes of tbe world. We have fed M , hard-boiled egg. The single all
Starr, whenever the priesthood is v Vv • ♦ M hard-boiled egg. The s
found following any custom not' ® fv frtnn._ « instance of the Standard Oil pro-
followed by the remainder of ao.>,n in tM, mr H secutions i, enough to demonrtr.-
ciety. we may be sure that we our "
have dug up the fossilized rem-
nants of an idea or an institution
that was, many centuries ago,
common to all society, but that
has been outgrown and discarded
by the race a« a handicap.
Tvro of these ideas have just
been dug up at Washington. The
"anti" convention was a mound
that, when excavated, delivered
up the antiquated idea that wo-
man was still only a housekeeper
and breeder of children.
The clerical mound was rich in
relics of a philospohy and society
now buried deep beneath the de-
bris of civilization. One of theae
ideas was that proudly exhibited
by the cardinal, who still thought
that woman's "grace of charac-
ter" consisted of baing "silent in
the church" and bumble before
the priesthood. The idea is at
oncc labeled by the antiquarian
"A. D. 45." or thereabouts, when
it was first manufactured by the
Apostle Paul.
It is time to fill up tbe mound
The relics are not even interest-
ing—Milwaukee Leader.
'ir.il in this and onr party «ll„ tM> Gregory has inaugurated'
s lot of anti-tniKt Knits hnt hi '« vf&KAT UIBATB Bt
Lot Angeles. Calif.
IN PROSPSROU8 OKLAHOMA.
The columns of The Daily Okla-
homan have been filled with ator-
a lot of anti-trust suits, but he's
like a man in tbe bottom of a pit
shoveling up sand that always
rolls back upon him.
)ULED.
Stanley J. Clark vs. J. S. Warlick.
Stanley J. Clark, acknowledged
to bo one of the foremost Libera
The only cure for trust squeez-
ing is government competition,
• , . .. „ . as haa been successfully demon-«•«
Oklahoma; hoHu "2" have " 10 oratora of the nnited St.-
declared greater dividends than dJ? .rmoP ' ft0L in tbe mat-' Warbck, one of
ever in the history of the atate, t .'i rotton. irrnins «n#i '^lest debaters of the Chris-
how r p.t^;pmi!, „ ^ .jflX h n„w,«U (Campballite) chnrth will
who lives by owTning and controll- and dMS not face each other hi joint debate at
mg e anas, anks and other to those who combine and ,tht City Hall Auditorium, Dallas
THB LOOT.
Because a man waa born first
into ownership of a large part of
<he earth, is no tign that he
should continue to shut others off
the use of the earth.
If you fail to do your duty as a
Socialist NOW you will be like
those at BeUhaxxar's feast:
Weighed and found wanting. ■
But truth i/mighty and doth pre-
vail;
II break* the bar* of the strongest
jail;
ft atrip* til* H* of the masks ift
"It's no use," sighs the nature
wizard. "I may as well give up."
"What is bothering you!" we
ask sympathetically.
"1 got started a few years ago
on a whim of mine. I took a
head of cabbage and crossed it
with a white potato and grew
eyes on it; then crossed it with *
squash and grew a neck on it;
then crossed that with a coconut
and grew hair on it. but haneed
if I can figure out what to do for
a nose and mouth!"
"Just let it go at that, and
make it an old party voter," we
responded."
The announcement that the
Mexican government is to resume
possession of illegally alienated
oQ lands, might easily cause re-
newed demand for intervention.
In taking that step the Carrsnza
government strike* at the most
powerful of the interests in be-
great resources of the Mmtletoe raitr pric„ 0B ,hhl<ri thrn
state is sleek with a fatiiMa that t)l<. ,„nd,ill(r of tWrn
baa almost reached the bunting mait r,„ not with ,h,
. farmer in rawing foodstuffs, as it
These prosperity stories are us- ean thf armor manufhetur-
ualJy to be found under scream- er,s for inst„„ bnt it pan com.
in,j headlines on the front page, ^te Rnd MIn.
but damnable stones like this one migsion men who htBdle far.
*way on. * mer's products and largelv de-
of theOklahoman, if they are termine
printed at wl: j pnt somebody has pot to be tbe
On the bare springs of a bed for eorernment V belple**-
m a small bouse near the corner sru1 Grecorv's it. Orerorv
of Oak street and Robinson aye- he ought to show folks that
nue lies a frail giri just a child. v earning his salarv and so be
She li« there all through the Ion* wbo«e ouIt effect is
days, her fever racked body toss- 4o make the bmmess world mad
ins* on the rough wire surface of fhe administration and to Aow
her couch. Her family baa no th„t onr Fnited Stages «npreme
Texas, on the nighfa of January
21. 23, 23 and 24.
(freat interest is being shown
tad a large tttendance from Dal-
ltt and turrouading country is
tapseted. Ho on* should miss
this ssries sf debates foe there
will he a clashing sf brain-powers
tfeA a* Dalits haa seldom witness-
ed 9sme one. etna* all.
eonrt still has a corporation soul.
means \rith which to buy her ev-
en a mattress.
'"This is a case reported yester-
day by Capt. F. O. Bnrdick of tbe BOTICB TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Salvation Army. Tbe child is snf-J _____
ferine from pneumonia broneht I The annual meeting sf the
on by exposure during the firod Wkholdei* of the Socialist Print
season wben sbe was compelled to r. . ,
sleen without shelter. Captain iffip ^ *** fct
Burdic asks that som. one donate « P««y ™ Hal-
a mattress until the pirl's narents lettarrille, Texas, Saturday, Jann
can «*ct the means to buv one. jary tf. ts act upon roeh matters
"B>- reone^t of the ri^'s pa-l„ n.T eome before it, including
(VdahT Ttnr^ck '■rfl ' fU«k ^
complete information to interest directors for the en
SO WBSAY.
When the great Danton was
riding the storm of the French
revolution, menaced by enemies
within and without, badgered by
many a fear and dobt of half-
hearted followers, he was asked:
"What in God's name are we
to do now?"
This is the reply that electri-
fied the Convention:
DARE! DARE onee more!
and DARE again!*
ed r*rsions."
Many old partv Taw-jtrivers are
smelbnp the smoke of revolution.
Shovel in more cos! and s*e then
eome through with more and
more remedial measures'
IKPOKTAHT HOTKJE!
No individual, whether connec-
ted with The Rebel or not is an
suing year, and similar important
matters. Stockholders will eith-
er appear in person or authorise
proxka.
Ths Socialist Pristiag Co.
A. C. Meitien, Presidest.
R O. MsHsoa,
tbe
the
.v - . - Like the abolitionista
liSS I! 50* we may nevw eopU., w
via m vj« av. tut want Luu i ^ TJebel 5>nd all jpoTvrnment, nevertkaleat ws thsO
half of which ^he mterventwa • monev to IV . !^ l
movement m bemg earned on. Tht Bobd, HaHettsville. Tex. lSli*£
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Aim
•VHi KARWER« ANV) OTfTBUS
a* a
isMriass brrt Psiaag (Mas
htgt to aaD. I. 3. ~
PBCAK TBEE8 ut mmQy
mi yiald Um mt Midew sate. Ts-
risJtw eapeelallj adapted to Tassa
sad 'LosUaaa. PHeaa aad iaforaa-
Itea fm. J. B. WlfM,
HEBE ABE THB PAMPHLET*
Yob waat "How to Acquire th«
Coming Kingdom" alao "War on Um
Wkite Slave Traffic", price 10c each;
10 copiea 50c; Wat po«tpaidl. Bend *r-
to Kazy B. Kole%
115 Bamfeoa St *. «, Ptttelmrf. f .
THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT"
The Roman Honey Truet A bosk
that will open jour eyea. Dime poet-
paid. GktnraD Oo, Dept A A,
1*1 So. AaMasd Bhr&, CUcafe.
COMRADES—A valuable aocret^ewt
me |10 from old doctor of 40 yean
practice ;make your own liniment cheap
cured my rheumatiem of long etandiag,
beet remedy known for erampa J
colic in man or beaat Dead ahot for
pneumonia; 25c eoin.
T. r. Woolley, Oaosvffla, Tea.
SMALL lflROOURI FARM - tit
cart aad 18 monthly; *e btUrmH or
taxee; highly productive land; elose
to S Mg markete; writs for photo
graph* aad fall iafonsstisn. Miutr
C-154, N. T. Life Bid*, Xaaaaa OMw
Ms
BBOTHEB—ACCIDENTALLY 4U-
covered root curee tobacco habit aSd
in digestion. Gladly acad particulate.
Florida.
T. B. Htokee, Mohawk,
SOUTHWESTERN PROTECTIVE k
DETECTIVE ASSN.
Do you wiafc to join an Association
tor the promotion of Law and Order
and. at the same time make good mon-
ey f If no write above Ase'n. at oace.
Box 836, Tu cum earl, I. M.
Ear aalo: Bagliak aad walker wsM
and fox hounds, all agea, boot blood
flruaranteed. O. P. sa^
aad boeome indepeadeat. Qood-pariag
PtaWona aMnred. Eaay to leara. Serfd
foe PREE CATALOGUE. St. Ltala
Wttotaaaklsg School Depl **, St.
INCREA8E your income!!! "]
da! Success" sir months, 15c. No
PREE copies. Bobbins, Publishers,
871 First Ave., New Tork.
OABUBBS CUBED
Skia diseaeea, eta.
Reference: Alvia Stats aad Citteea
State Baaka.
Alvta. Texas.
Write me, eaelooiag stamped eaevetef*
P. A BSMLBT, M. B.
AGENTS: Our eradinm Lumiesa
Crucifix ehiaes ia ths dark with a
bright, mystsriona glow. Bvery Catholic
wanta one or more. T1
IMS W. Mi
MABBT. Hundreds risk wish
riage aoon; eonfidsntial; m
descriptions free. "As
Olak,"
aji Atrro Toxra.
Mm Mary Rules, ths noted
aad organiner, win laavs
Pa, January 1, 1 1T, ia a
car, accompanied by her daughter ae-
ing South. She will eater Texas by
way of Wichita Palls. Peb. 1, working
in the Thirteenth district, fkea wfD be
opea for dates ia ths Soteeath db-
trict- She ean come te the most re-
mote poiats and ds pioneer wsrk if
nseeesary, as Sy mesas of the car she
la able to de this mack better tkaa %v
railway. Pot datea aad
Mia. Mary B. Kulea, US
N. SL, Pittebagk, Pa.
BAeh, asw ia ths
ths stiff** fight.
The GREAT
It wtrld-wM*.
B*d« Texas aad ethsr Statss, it ia being wagsd
Kwtata a®d her esWnta, in Sosth Atoenca Mi
LAND
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