The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 298, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 21, 1917 Page: 3 of 4
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SAFETY FIRST ARMY ' OR-
" QANIZATION.
Washington, D. April 7, 17.
-Among many things which have
happened around the Capitol in
Se last few days, which have been
Service.
Regiment No. 2. of the Safe-
ty First, Army, is being formed
tin /Washington. The movement
was started by Jack McKeoh of
Farrell, Pa. It is unique m that
„ , , . the volunteers will not have to
doM carefully ed.ted Iron, ft. K0 (1) th(, front unti, Every bank.
Capitalist press, I note these few, Ar yhn Awmtmm ,
at random, which may be of inter-
est to you.
The day before the vote was to
be taken by the Senate, authoriz-
ing the President to declare war
on Germany, uniformed soldiers,
members of the District National
Guard, entered the headquarter*
of the Emergency Peace League,
and abused the, women in charge
in a moet shameful manner, us-
ing language which would have
made a man fight for the honor
of his mother, and even going so
far as to threaten the women with
er who draws interest from war
loans, every stock holder who
draws dividends from the manu-
facture of war munitions, every
capitalist who profits by the ex-
portation of wealth exploited
from labor, every politician who
votes for or declares himelf in
favor of war, every editor who
writes editorials and in favor of
preparedness, every preacher
who prays for victories of war,
every teacher who pollutes th«
minds of the young with jingo-
ism in the name of patriotism—
has enlisted or has been con-
scripted into service and is act-
st priv-
Safety
CONSCRIPT RENT.
(By Covington Ami.)
In a recent editorial the Hous-
ton Chronicle said: "It (this
country) has plenty of land, and
plenty of people with both the
time and capital to work a suf-
ficient part of- that land to pro-
vide enough for all." — •
All of which is and is not true,
for it only partially tells the
facts in the case. It is true that
there is plenty of land in this
country and also plenty of capit-
al (which in this case means mo-
ney) and also plenty o? people
to work this land and use this
capital, but what the Chronicle
ails to state in the vital fact in
the case, viz
PUTTING THE BAN ON PEAR-1
SON'S.
rape, if they did not close the hall
by twelve o'clock noon; they then uall*y 0Q the firing line „ ,
left the hall, and after a few mm-1 Roldier Then the „
utes appeared with brush . pi„t Regiment" will be ready to'
paint, and painted the plate glass Ro tQ the trencheg if necessarv.
front , with yellow paint, which Araong thoge who hat/ joincd
peeled off, and then to make their j the Washinf?ton regiment, are
work more durable, they pasted Wm_ Mahoney of the peaM
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yellow paper over the glass win-
dows. After this was done, a man
in plain clothes came into the hall
and told the women to close up
the hall by two o'clock,which the
women refused to do, and then
not satisfied with that, a man in
highly intoxicated state, was
sent into headquarters, to make as
much trouble as possible, and to
abuse the women in any manner
he saw fit. Chairs were upset, de-
corations torn from the walls, and
the most vile language used in ad-
dressing the three elderly women
who happened to be in the hall at
the time, every man or woman
walking on the street, who wore a
white peace ribbon, was threaten-
d in some manner, or physically
attacked. There were three of
four days when the tension was
so great, that a peace advocate did
not dare open his or her mouth in
public.
Among those to register as de-
legates, at the Emergency Peacc
Headkuarters was Miss Leonora
Warneson, of Kansas City. Miss
Warneson was the sixth grade
school teacher, who last Novem-
ber wrote the following quota-
tions on the black board of her
school room: "Why enlist! You
have nothing to gain and your
life to lose." "I refuse to kill my
brother and hide my fist in the
folds of any flag." She gave me
the following interview. "The
sixth grade children were study-
ing European history, and while
we were talking about the war,
the quotations were placed on the
blaek-board. Nothing was said
about the quotations' until the fol-
lowing February, when, after the
children had written a letter to
President Wilson, asking him to
keep the country out of war, and
stating their position on peace,
officers from the Navy Recruit-
ing station came into the school
room, and eraced the writing
from the board, making the state-
nt at the time, that they had
received a telegram from Wash-
ington, asking them to find out
what was going on in the sixth
grade, at the Kansas City school.
I was then called before a meet-
ing of the school" board, and ab-
used by the Chairman in a most)
shameful manner; he said awfi|l
things to me, but so many people
wrote him letters/ condemning
him and commending my posi-
tion, that nothing was done with
me. A mass meeting was held lat-
er by the people, and I was asked
to come to Washington as a dele-
gate to tell |members of Congress,
that the Kansas City people did
not want war. Some of the Mis-
souri people were at the meeting
and they asked that I represent
them, also." The representative
of the Associated Press, was pre-
sent when Miss Warneson gave
her interview, but to date, no
mention has been made of h^r
riait to Washington, by papers
aubscribing to the Associated
Mahoney,
League, Elizabeth Freeman, who
has charge of the Emergency
Peace League, and Rev. Father
Martin O'Donoghue.
Will the Texas boys organize r.
regiment, and send in their nam-
es to John McKeown, Farrell,
Penn., who will see that all the
names sent in, are sent to the
proper authorities as a protest,
against members of the working
class taking part in this war un
til those who want the war have
given their services to the Gov-
ernment. Nina Lane McBride
WAR WALL STREET AND
WORLD BROTHERHOOD
The office of the Pearson's ma-
gazine was recently raided and
the remaining 400 copies of the
May edition were taken, on the I
grounds that it contained an ex-
pose of the New York night!
courts by Editor Frank Harris
that might corrupt the morals of |
minors reading it.
All the matter on which the
night court article is japed came
from the official record of the |
court and the stenographer's mi-
nutes. And the language used by I
the editor was the mildest that
could have been used to describe
such outrages, committed in t1;©
That they who|name of j,lstice- «« wy * ''U''
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roo
fro
\ne
By William Madison Hicks.
Editor Rebel:—
As a really patriotic American
citizen I bow my congratulations
to my fellow corn-patriots, the
big business gentlemen of the
dear old Wall Street contingent
The idea of allowing a few com
mon old fanners, a few laborers
a few small store keepers, a few
old and tender-hearted mothers
of boys to the numbers of fiftcer
millions to interfere with our
sacred profits to the extent o
600 per cent is too much to de
mand of the country. Why there
are not more than 90,000,000 com
mon folks in this country against,
war, and such a terrible thing as
not forcing the men who have
nothing else to do in this coun-
try to go and be shot just will
not harmonize with t^e modern
diea of patriotism. S\) I am out
for war. Let every man who has
been working only fifteen hours
a day for the last twenty-five
years, and getting the huge am-
ount of 17 per cent of the values
he created now go and enlist at
once. No danger of getting his
brains shot out, none whatever;
he may get his head shot off, but
there will be just as many brains
left as there was before. Crush
all common old workers as ever
piled up profits for us gentlemen,
it is the will of the Lord. Any
man can verify this by asking
THE REVEREND WILLIAM
SUNDAY. Let every boy hik
for the "cruiting" station, his
mother will not miss him. He is
only a working man's son, to jum
bo with him. We must have war.
When the war is over Old Kizer
Bill and the business men of this
country will celebrate the feast
Of course the mothers of the boys
who die will not bg at the ban-
quet, workingmen are made to be
shot while defending our profits
See? Nobody is idiotic enough to
expect the owners of the steel
mills^to go out and let some sun-
tanned farmej or section man
shoot at us. We are needed at
home to put the prices of things
to where the useless workers
can't get anything but grass to
eat. Hurrah for the country
right or wrong. Hurrah for pro-
fit*—they are alwaji right
would rake the crops have neith-
er the land nor the capital.
This being true, why are the
men who are willing to use the
land and to produce badly need-
ed food supplies not allowed to
take possession of the landT Why
should certain individuals, called
Land Lords, be allowed to stand
between the people apdjlie laiul
and so-doing, "imperil the na-
tion"? Did they, the Land Lord*.
MAKE the land? Are their paper
titles of a diviner origin than are
the LIVES the Government says
it will TAKE for war purposes*
WHY NOT CONSCRIPT
RENT?
If it is true, as has been calcul-
ated, that over sixty percent of
the products of toil are taken p.i
rent, why does the Government
hesitate to conscript this charge
made by private individuals for
the use of the Earth, and thus pay
its war and all other expenses, be-
side having a nice sum left over
for other
slaughter?
j I offer this suggestion to the
REPORT THEM TO WAR DE
PARTMENT
Here's how one little woman
who is strongly opposed to the
saturnalia of sin men call war an-
swered a "superpatriot." He
knew she was opposed and as
soon as they met on the street he
began on war. She sweetly ask-
ed: "Doctor, have you enlisted?"
He flushed, and said, " Kr, no,
but there are many other things
men of my kind can do for the
government without enlisting."
"Well," she replied, "you are in
the prime of military age and
what the government is wanting
now is men in the trenches, right
up against the guns and — YOU
wouldn't advise other men to do
what you would not, would you?
If you have not enlisted within
the next ten days I will report you
to the War Department at a
■lacker." The "patriot" flushed
to the roots of his hair and was
silent.
This tip is passed on to your
wives, mothers apd all opposed to
war for like action. Pick out
the "patriots" in your section
and REPORT ALL NOT EN-
LISTING to the War Department
as SLACKERS.
By so-doing you will render an
occurence at the night court.
The entire newstand and sub-
scription edition of over 100,000
copies had gone out before the
authorities decided to put a ban
on it. Those who read tl «:e lines
should by all means procure u
copy of the May edition if pos
sible and read the night court x-
posure and then pass it on to oth-
ers to read.
Later —. News dispatches an
nounce that the Women's night
court exposed by Pearson's is to
be abolished. If Pearson's should
never again he permitted to eir-1 inestimable service to the Govern-
culate through the mails, its ed- J
itor and publisher will go down
in history as having performed
a great service for humanity.
A TALE OF TWO CHRISTIANS
By J. R. Secrest
The versatile Billy Bvran, erst-
while apostle of peace at any
price, has turned another flip and
got into the press again after
uses than" wholesale | havin? beon Wetted by all the
agencies of publicity, while
preaching peace. Billy turned a
iWdent mi kno^ft| ""mmersault vririnsr
I do, for I have heard them, all
these Land Owners, fervently de-
clare time after time that they
were "ready to shed their last
drop of blood and give their last
dollar to the Government, IF
NECESSARY" — knowing them
as I do, I am convinced that they
would no manner, Rhape or form
resist such an order of con. op-
tion, that their PATRIOTISM i?
too pure and true-blue to even
dream of resisting so just an act.
This being true, and this Gov-
ernment, in common with all oth-
er civilized states, assuming the
right to take tfie lives of even
those citizens opposed to war,—
lives it cannot possibly give back
upon what ground of justice
and right will the Government
defend its refusal to CONSCRIPT
RENT?
For rent is clearly a SOCIAL
PRODUCT; it is a fund created
mcnt, for it is a principle well
known by every General from
Cain to Hindenburg and Hitch-
enfir and Leonard Wood, that it
is the men who BELIEVE IN and
WANT war who make the best
soldiers, since their HEARTS are
in the fight.
GET BUSY. YOU PEACE
GIRLS!
RETORT ALL PATRIOTIC
SLACKERS AT ONCE.
BRITIflH SIKE "CITIZENS 0 T
ALLIED NATIONS.
Eight Russians who left New
York on March 27, to Rail for
Russia were forcibly seized on
President Wilson fro mTallahasse,
Fla. that he believed "it to be the
duty of each citizen to bear his
part of the burden of war and its I April 5, and taken from the Nor-
perils." It will be noted that wegian steamer Christian George
Flip Flop Billy did not apply at on which they were taking pas-
a recruiting station for permission and placed in a Nova Sco
to "bear his part of the burden I tia detention camp by the Brit
ish military authorities. Why
should the British seize and hole
persons passing from one allier
nation to another. The imperinl J ist government. I would rather
,be lined up against a dead wall
and perils of war." — Actions
speak louder than words, when
they speak at all.
Billy Sunday, hellfire and
damnation fighter, sent the fol-l German government has never at-
lowing message in prayer to Je- tempted /inything half so raw as
bus, the Prince of Peace, from this. The following message re-
Buffalo N Y.: I ceived by Novy Mir, a Russian
"Jesus, you're sure taking a Socialist paper of New York,
lot of back talk from the kaiser, " from several of the seized men
"I wish, Lord, you'd tell America will probably throw some light on
to help wipe Germany off
EUOENE V. DEBS AT SHEN-
ECTADY. —7
"The reason we are selling onr
food supplies abroad is that, some
people are getting rich, by starr.
ing the workers.
"They tell us that our nation
will be 'disgraced', if it does not
go to war. No mortal on earth
can insult me, but myself; no na
tion can insult us, but ourselves.
"You don't imagine that Mor-
gan or any of his friends are go-
ing to the front, in case of war.
They want your blood to stir with
patriotism; but I wish it was
your brain that would stir.
"The politician and Columbian
orator ^omes before you to instill
patriotism into your minda. ne
stands close to a big American
flag — a flag as big as he is lit-
tle — and he takes hold of the
folds of the flag and then you
take a fit, and want to go out and
kill somebody.
"When Senator LaFolette in-
troduced in the senate an am-
* -J
endment that the navy should net
>e used to collect loans of Amer-
icans made abroad, his amend-
ment was overwhelmingly de-
feated.
"Why go to war to protect
people abroad? Do you know of
any workingman who is browsing
around Europe? No, you are not
in the danger zone in Europe;
but you are in the danger zone in
this country.
"Never in history have the
people of one country declared
war on another. It has alwaya
been the ruling class that have
all to gain and nothing to lose by
bringing on a war. The worker*
have all to lose, and nothing to
gain.
"If Rockefeller and Morgan
declare war against Germany,
wi]l they dress up in khaki and
fight for thirteen dollars a
month, and have their bodies shot
to tatters? No, they have some
sense. They own the country and
don't fight for it; you fight for
it and don't own it. When they
enlist and go to the front, then
there is time for you to do so.
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"I will face the word alone, rf
necessary, in opposition to war. I
won't go to war for any eapital-
the the questions
map, aR you commanded Israel to "The British military authori
destroy the idolatrous and cor-j ties found that we, a group of
rupt Canaanites. Count Billy I Russian Socialists, are very dan
Sunday in up to his neck, Jesus,] gerous for the cause of the allies,
when war comes." "They took us off the ship and
When Christian Billy Bryan] sent us to the interment camp at
by the labor of the entire produc-| getg Qrders frQm Christian Wood- Arlhert, Novia Scotia, where war
ing population; it isjiot the re- rQw wiljgon t0 g0 to the front and prisoners are held. We protested
L at*n| catch Christian Kaiser Bill and and refused to leave the ship, but
wring his neck; and the Gentle they carried us out by force. We
Loving Jesus sends Billy Sunday sent telegrams to the Russian
to wade in human blood up to I consuls at Halifax and Montreal,
his neck then five hundred thous
and workingmen should enlist
Not before.
suit of individual effort
and, can be more jmlfrly taken for
social uses than any other tax!
imaginable.
No matter from what angb
times like thesa^it is the sura to-
tal of social injutsice to allow s
handful of men to take this im-
mense fund from the nation's
treasury and apply it to
After the four years of war
their I between the states came the ter-
own selfish aggrandisement, for, 1 rji,ie reconstruction period which
in the first place, THEY never proved almost as terrible as the
made the earth and, therefore, war itself. And after the present
have not the semblance of right t.) War must com® another readjuit-
charge rent for its use, ing period.
Not matter from what angle
you look at the proposal to CON-1 Is life so dear, or peace so
SCRIPT RENT, it is just; just to sweet, as to be purchased at the
the landlords, since they wish to | price of chains and slavery?
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make any sacrifices for their
country, who use the land, since
it would relieve them of an im-
mense burden of taxation; just
to society, since it would relieve
the danger of actual hunger stalk-
ing the country; just to poor and
rich alike, since it woidd give the
latter an opportunity to practise
the sacrificial patriotism they so
strongly preach. , tQ jeVy taxation for private
And not only ia this true, but I purposes? Why not write him and
the President has been quoted 31 aak him how about it.
saying that he was driving thi«r CONSCIPTING RENT?
I
know not what course others
may take, but as for me, give roe
liberty oil give me death!—Pat-
rick Henry.
nation into the war for the salva-
tion of "democratic institu-
tions": If go,y*hat greater act
of democracy could he commit
than to abrogate the undemocrat-
ic law that allows a privileged
to the Russian Minister of For-
eign AffairR at Petrograd,. to
Comrade Tcheidze in the Duma,
to the New York Call and to a
few other prominent persons."
Congressman Meyer London of
New York, has taken the matter
up to Ree if the Britifih will not
take some retro-active step in
the matter.
According to M. Rodzianko,
President of the Russian Duma,
more than half of the millions of
acres and other holdings which
formerly were the personal prop
erty of the czar and the roya
household are to be distributee
gratis to the masses. Now that
Darkest Russia and Barbarous
Mexico have set the pace it ii
time for us Americans in the goo<'
old TJ. S. A. to fire some lords
and take the land back for the
masses.
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In the recent election in Mexico
a lady and several Socialists
were elected to the Mexican con-
gress
and shot as a traitor to the Mor-
^an-Rockcfeller interests than be
a traitor to the working claw.
Isn't it ridiculous that war is be-
ing supported by the followers of
the Prince of Peace?"
FOB THE BOBS.
They have gone into the tren-
ches,—
For the Boss;
Filled the streets with painted
wrenches,—
For the Boss;
While their babes for food ara
erying,
In the shambles they are dying,—
For the Boss.
They have broken with eaeh
other,—
For the Boss;
They've doserted wife and mo-
ther,—
For the Boss;
They've forsaken friend and
neighbor,
They are traitors unto Labor,— (
For the Boss.
They are falling by the million,—
For the H^s;
Wasting treasure by the billion,—
For the Boas;
They have turned to fiends and
devils,
Sunk to low and lower levels,—
For the Boss.
By old superstitions driven,—
For the Boss;
They their brains and hands have
given,—
For the Boss;
Unto Fredom slackers, shrikers,
They are paying now, the Work-
ers,—
For the Boss. , .
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