The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 246, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 15, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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THE REBEL
READ BY 100,000 ACTUAL
FARMERS EACH WEEK.
Organ Land League of America.
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HALLETTSVILLI, TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL
T.A. HICKEY, Editor. J , * - *
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la. steady, Btep by step, state by state, the much-despised
greaser is confiscating the landg formerly possessed by his uativo
landlord and the plundering "Gringo." a
The Rebel was the first and only paper in America to publish
a comprehensive report of the ways and means employed in taking
over the lands of Yucatan, Mexico, for the benefit of those who use
and occupy them.
We now take pleasure ih recording the fact that the greatesf
and richest of all the eighteen states, Sonora, has, through an enlighf.
•ned Mexican administration come across as follows:
General P. Elias Calles, military governor of Sonora, lias
devised a plan for distributing thousands of acres of land
, confiscated by the state from owners who ('spoused the cause of
Diaz. The plan, which awaits tht> approval of General Carrnnza,
provides that,
All lands on the west side of Agua Prieta, which are sub-
ject to irrigation from the Agua Prieta river, will be divided
into small tracts and put on the market at about ten pesos per
acre. The title will carry the provisio that the new owner must
cultivate the lan(| or it will be forfeited to the government. The
f town site of Augua Prieta already haH been seized.
The funds obtained from the sale will be used in construc-
tion of a school house anil municipal building in Augua Prieta.
General Calles is to issue a still more radical dacument an-
nouncing a graduated scale of state taxes. The owner of a small
tract of land who cultivates his land will escape lightly. The tax
On improved city property will be light, that on vacant lots and
tracts correspondingly heavy.
The Rebel would almost give his life if he could have every
impoverished farmer in the South and every wageworker in the na-
tion to read the above, and see in a flash what it means. It's just
this:
A peso in revolution-torn Mexico is worth about ten cents on
the dollar (gold). Thus it will be seen that the Mexican revolutionist
can drop his rifle and take up the rich, black land (irrigated «t that)
of Sonora at a dollar an acre, and inasmuCtf as the government of
Sonora has shown that it is as radical as the Yucatan government so
far as assistance of the farmers goes, it will no doubt be ready to loan
the necessary money at cost for teams and tools and houses.
The Chicago Public, owned by Loui„ F. Post, assistant secre-
tary of eommerce and labor in the cabinet of President Wilson, com-
ments editorially upon this magnificently democratic land legisla-
tion as follows:
Governor P. Elias Calles of the Mexican State of Sonora is
apparently a better statesman than most American legislators.
In distributing confiscated lands he proposes a system of taxa-
tion that will bear lightly on those who put their lands to good
use. Is that additional reason for intervention ?
' Thus we see that those who hold land out of use are going to
have their eyeballs taxed off them in Mexico while those who do the
work will practically escape taxation and receive irrigated, black-
land farm homes besides.
But this is not all. Within twenty miles of the city of Augua
Prieta is the great Cananea copper mine controlled by the Phelps-
Dodge interests whose headquarters are at 99 John street, adjoining
W§dl str^t, the principal owner of which i8 Lord Arthur Douglass.
They own many miles of mineral lands adjoining the property which
thajr^ now forking. The result will be that this unused mineral
land will be taxed to its full rental value. Thus this Scotch-American
syndicate must employ labor to develop the Cananea mining lands
or surrender them to the state for development, with the result that
wage« will quadruple in the Cananea mines.
Who talkg now of the "ignorant greaser?" What can his
thoroughly exploited American brother in the city of Douglas em-
jployed by the Phelps-Dodge syndicate 300 yards from the Augua
" Pfiet* border custom house now say? What can the white American
* New Mexico or Arizona farmer say wh0 is staggering under the load
of usury, taxation, and land monopoly say? ^
And as thi8 land revolution carrying on its standards, 'Use
and Occupancy the Title to Land" spreads along the border, to
/Juarez facing El Paso, to Presidio, near Marfa, to Las Vacas
facing De Rio, to Piedras Negras, facing Eagle Pass, to Matamoras
opposite Brownsville, to Nuevo Laredo across the river from Laredo,
and grows ever more intense with the passing of the days, can the
r successful Mexican revolutionist be blamed if he sticks out his tongue
aRd points his finger in derision at the actual fanner on our side of
• the line and says:
"You poor devil, haven't you got enough character; courage
,nd red blood to. throw off the exploiter and thereby give your wive.
Mid babice a chance to live tinder a government at leaet Xjood'ia
A. this land revolntion growe The Rebel woidd warn hia
reader. U, look oW for an ever-increasing roar from the American
nutocracv for intervention. If American soldiers paid out,of Am-
month clothes and rations, d. not g, into Me,
ieo and break up this land revolution then Hearst will lose tyfs 16.-
000,000 stolen acres in the state of Chihuahua, the infamous ,Otis of
t Lo. Angeles Timeg will lo«K. 20,000,000 BoAefeBere
, Goggeriheima, the Phell*-I>odge., the DongtoM «nd'-«W^athol.
, hiemchy, if yon please, will lo« their enonnon, coj.cefc.on, that
rfewk for a song from Dias; but worse than all is this:
The soeoess of the l^d revolutionists in Mexico means the
of the land revolutionists on this side of the line and with
for the past sixteen years that was
infamous from thia district, may
be well forgotten. The silent Shy-
lock, (Schleicher, from Cuero,
landlord and usurer that he is,
may fold his tent and disappear
in the shadows of obscurity from
which he arose to enter this race.
The landlord-usurer-lawyer Da-
W1TH THE GARDEN
SEED. *
The Rebel will, as a matter , of
course, seadfastly struggle for the
Socialist nominee for congress in
the congressional district in which
he lives and in which, as we write,
a furious fight is raging between > 7
four Donk candidates for that of- vidsou, than whom no more Ber-
fice. Did the good Lord of vile tool of the interests ever dis
the universe curse us from graced the state senate of (tilt*
birth with a vacuous mind and a state, may see his congressional
cotton backbone with the result hopes fall as did the walls of Jer-
that we would enter the donk pri- icho at the sounds of the trumpet
maries we should give our hear- when he and the other candidates
tiest support to Judge Mansfield hear the clarion tones of Judge
of Columbus, Tex., whose platform Mansfield from Columbus:
is "tip with Wilsou," and "Down! "Down to the bottomless depths
with Garden Seeds." j 0/ Dante's Inferno with the Con-
It is not given to any man the gressionnl Garden Seeds."
power to understand the grand-
uer, the majesty, the sublimity
not to talk of the solemnity of this
Milwaukee Captured.
COME To (i RA S DO LOT EX AS.
awe-inspiring issue. As The R<>
bel makes a careful genuflexion
after swinging his Underwood
three times around his head, he
arises to positively ask the ques-
tion, what, congressional garden
seed has done for suffering hu-
manity? Echo answers: "Notli-
ing.
On the contrary it has blasted
the fair hopes of the courthouse
farmers who have toiled long and
painfully for thirty minutes after
an arduous days work at whittling
and domino playing and tobacco
chewing in the temples of our li-
berties where justice « dispensed
with.
With torn and anguished heart
we have witnessed the planting of
the succulent rutabaga only to
find that it came up in the form
of a sweet pea. The devilish imps
of mammon, as the immortal Donk
truck patcheg by sending us car
rots that no Southern white
man not to speak of a negro would
ever eat unless he was first blind-
folded, chloroformed and backed
up against them because too well
does the Southern man know that
the flavor of a Jimpson weed is
like the wine of Lucullus compar
ed to the do gone things.
Still further have they trans-
gressed upon our innards and in-
terfered with our jittliim by send-
ing us northern com that won't
grow in the South and if it does
sprout it wouldn't produce a
bushel to fifty acreji. So with the
soporific onion, the luscious leek,
the odorous garlic; Too often have
we planted them with delicate care
only to find them wilt and die un-
til our garden seemed as if cover-
ed with the fallen leaves of Val-
lambros8a.
Away then with the pestilential
demagogue who thunders to the
mob about the land question in
Texas, Who cares if four fifths
of our state is locked up in the
hands of our gentry who havv.
speculated in God's gift to man?
Why worry about 2,000,000 souls
who are tenants or mortgaged
farmers ? Why be excited because
99 per cent of the bankers of "the
South draw from 12 to 2400 per
cent interest each year! Why
concern yourself with the fact
that 117,000,000 acr s of land are
held out of cultivation in the state
of Texas alone and while in Okla-
homa 95,000 heads of families are
tenants and wagon tramps?
The Rebel pauses, ponders and
pukes as he puzzlingly asks about
these thingg in face qf the danger
that confronts us in the form of
the damnable, infamous garden
seed.
Ah! gentlemen this is a solemn
moment and it were well for our
great state that a noble Donk like
Judge Mansfield, with the grand
courage so characteristic of the
Bourbon is able to enter the lists
to fight with might and main ag-
ainst this growing menace against
our prosperity, our homes, pur
hopes and oi r libertU^,
The black flag rascal,
who has , ^presented
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Texas has;
More cotton land than any coun-
try on the face 'of the earth and
more white peons, Mexico not ex-
cepted.
The largest state agricultural
fair in the world and more graft-
erg within its gates than have been
seen since the rise and fall of the
Roman Empire.
Tho largest cattle feeding plant
in the world in spite of which the
cattle raisers are so skinned that
they demand the collective owner-
ship of packcries.
We have the world's leading
crude oil exporting port and 17(5
senators and representatives that
are «o saturated with the stuff
that if you light a match in the
legislative halls the bells begin to
ring in the fire department.
We have the longest telephone
line in the United States and if
every pole oWM speak it would
cry out for the honor of being
draped by a landhog carcass.
We have the longest pipe lino
iu the United States. It reaches
from the capitol at Austin to the
White House.
We possess the largest Bermuda
onion gardens in the world, most
of which rot in the fields because
the workers can't pay the prices
the speculators demand and the
farmer doesn't get.
We had the largest farmer's or-
ganization in the world. It
sold out and lietrayed by it8 lead-, complete majority and they have
Last Tuesday the Socialist# of
Milwaukee stormed the forts of
capitalism. Dan Hoan, the Social
ist city attorney, was elected May-
or of Milwaukee by a majority of
3162 over a coalition of the De-
mocratic-Republican and Prohibi-
tion parties.
Milwaukee's population is over
400,000 and it is the ninth largest
city in America. The Socialist* al-
so elected 11 members of the city
oounril and the alderman-at-large
(Emil Seidel.)
Arrayed against Hoan wa« the
j Milwaukee St reet Car and Electric
! Light, and Power Company, the
munition manufacturers and the
Allis Chalmers machine-works, the
breweries and members of the Ma-
nufacturers Association.
The capturing of the Krcat city
of Milwaukee on the eve of a pre-
sidential election is an indication
of how thiutfH will «o in the idea
of November. We can not hope, be-
cause of the ignorance of tho mas-
wS to elect Allan L. Benson pre-
sident this time, but it is well with-
in the bounds of reason that by
1920 the Socialist party will be hi
full control of the government of
the United States and there will
be a tremendous gain in vote next
November.
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What the Victory Means.
Tho plunderbund that runs the
United States government has
been staggered by the election of
Dan Hoan in Milwaukee. It is the
hand writing on the wall* It means
more than a cleaning out of caba-
rets, red light districts and eth-
ers of the little things upon which
other elections were held. It
means that in this great manufaet4
uring city that 400,000 people
speaking through the eleetori%>
have decided that the working
(jlass are going to have a square
deal in Milwaukee and that no pri -
vlte detective, gun men or scab
can ply his trade in that city for
at least two years.
It means that the Socialists of
Milwaukee, defeated by a combin-
ation of the old parties in jtfl2,
have gained enough votes to gain
ers. Requiescat in pace
We have the largest cotton sea-
port in the world wherein cotton
was valorized by our federal gov-
ernment last year to Europe for
speculators at 19 cents per pound
while the farmer got six, which
was five cents below the cost of
production.
Texas outstrips Oklahoma, Ala-
bama, Mississippi and Georgia in
pellagra, the poor man's disease.
In fact we can boast of being the
great state of Pellagral*. The
Texas Medical Association states
that we have 100,000 cases now
and they are steadily increasing.
Texas has the greatest area in
the union and the largest collec-
tion of yaps. (See election re
turns for 80 per cent Ferguson
and railroad Tom Ball and for
the Donk machine for the last 50
years). '
Texas \has the largest dry ter-
ritory in the world. Reason: The
Donks are busted.
Texas has more crooked poli-
ticians that ever graced the walls
of Leavenworth or Sing-Sing -*•
most of them are at liberty at
present.
Texas is larger in area than
Germany or Prance, and has only
four million people in her borders.
One half of them are on the rag-
ged edge of poverty all the time.
Come to Texas if you want to
see unbridled hell.
Come back" to stay until the
co-operative commonwealth is es-
tablished.
The election of Hoan does not
mean the end of the class struggle
by any mean*, but it does mean
this that all the powers of govern-
ment in Milwaukee will be turned
loose toward the worker's side in-
stead of the capitalist side.
It i8 only an hours distance from
Milwaukee to Chicago and when
Emil Seidel was mayor in 1911
the fact was established that
Ithe police of Chicago beat up the
pirls and women in the garmerit
workers 8trike in that city while in
Milwaukee the Socialist mayor,
Emil Seidfl, ordered that the wo-
men and children be left alone?.
The Milwaukee Garment Workers
won their strike. The Chicago gar-
ment workers lost. Why? Because
chief of police in Chicago elected
by the interests beat up women
and girls until they were carried to
hospitals as the record shows from
A question i« asked as to the
amounts paid by tenant farmers
for credit. We told him that they
vary considerably but on an av-
erage they are about $90 each per
annum over the icustomary inter-
est rcV. ^
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that success will go the ownership by the American people of the in-
dustries and ttf the nation.
on Maxieo.C Back off Preparedness and des-
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the ambulance record at least U00
in number.
No such crime OKaiimt jroman-
hood will occur in Milwaukee for
at least two years, and for eternity
if Iloan has hi way. One thiug is
certain that whereas Seidel was
beaten by combination of the old
parties, Iloan wins out over both
this time.
Tho Rebel knows positively that
while Mayor Hoan sits iu the high
chair in the city hall of Milwau-
kee every private detective agency
will bo carefully scrutinized ami
will be ordered out of the city
when one of their pimps commit
the first overt act against tho
working class. Further, every K'in
man that the allied manufacturers
bring in to break a street car
machinist or any other strike will
be instantly jailed by his chief of
police.
Wages will automatically go up
a# the result of (loan's election.
Hours of wage laborers will auto-
matically deerease<
Dan Hoan is a single taxer ; be-
lieves that, the taxation of land
values will strip the cities of their
surplus population and stands
four square upon the proposition
that all public utilities shall be
owned by the people, in the terms
set forth in tho Texas Socialist
Amendment to the State constitu-
tion which is:
"Taxation shall be equal and
uniform, as to property subject
to taxation. Provided, however,
that all form* of property which
shall have been created by the
labor of human beings shall for.
ever he exempted from taxation,
and that the state and all poli-
tical subdivisions thereof, gen-
erally known as counties, cities
and towns, shall assess for tax-
ation only the rental of the on-
improved value of land, ir-'
pective of the improvements
thereon, and the value of the
franchise of public service cor-
porations that use the streets
or lands of the state or any po-
litical subdivisions of same, and
shall be empowered to fix such
a rate a« to produce the revenue
necessary to defray the expen-
ses of the government, econom-
ically administered, in said.state
or political subdivisions of
same."
This amendment applied to
Milwaukee's conditions will re-
sult in a greater Milwaukee, great-
er Wisconsin and greater nation...
Honor to Hoan and tho magni-
ficent men and women who elected
him to the chair. We would to
God that the citizenship of the
other citicg of the nation had the.
same charecter of Milwaukee that
has been made eternally famous by
the election of a real represent*
tive of the people1 such as New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St.
Louis, San Francisco, New Or-
leans and Baltimore does not pos-
This wc now know regardless of
how the tides of progress and re-
action run that there is no closed
season for gunmen, scabs, priv-
ate detectives and Rockefellers
and Morgans and their Demo-Rep.
pimps in all the terms applies.
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. ^ Two years ago the Socialists of
Chicago elected as alderman Com-
rade Rodriguez. He came up for
re-election last week. There were
14,000 votef cast in his precinct.
He got 8,500, being a clear major-
ity over Democrats, Republicans
and Prohibitionists. In fact he
made a clean sweep over all op-
ponents just as that great Irish-
man, Dan Hoan, did in Milwau-
kee. What the Socialists have
done with Hoan and Rodriguez
will be accomplished in every nook
and corner of the United States
within the next few years. Then
there will be no closed season for
capitalists and John D. Jr., may
be hung to g sour apple tree for
the murder of the women and
children at Ludlow.'
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Milwaukee this spiring means
Texas is ours soon.
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Another reader inquires
about the number of farms in
Texas that aro rented by specula-
tors and then subrented. They
are 39,000 that are rented on a
third and fourth basis and boma-
eg are charged tenants in $pite of
the Ferguson bonus law.
The sheep and goats are being
divided. Either you stand for the
rights of the toiler or the spoil* of
the idler. Decide this day.
This year is the time to decide
once, and for all whether you w;ll
vote with labor or with capital.
E very party except the Social-
ist party stands for the robbery of
the worker, for war, for choking
of the soul of man.
The Southern farmer will have
to choose between Pellagra and So-
cialism this fall. '!
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 246, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 15, 1916, newspaper, April 15, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth395026/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.