The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 246, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 15, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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OUR REBS.
LAXDBOGS 7.V ALABAMA.
Senator S J. Harper of Loui-
giina, knowg a good thing when he 1
«eea it. He takes advantage of the
Rebel combination offer and or-
tier* 100 copies of the famous
'Yucatan Land Story." This
Democratic state senator is goiug
to learn something about Social-
ism now.
From aWay up in Page county,
Iowa, comes that militant Rebel]
Bill J. Taber. He is past 85 year
mark, but is still young in spirit
and ®ver ready to strike a"blow
for freedom.
"The best way to have the last
word in a political argumeht is to
have yonr opponents subscribe for
the BebeL By this means you get
a 40 weeks rejoinder for two bits.''
This is the way B. W. Lauderdale
of Stephens county, handles those
who disagree with him.
B L. Crowley, Bosque Co., or-
ders treatment for four to begin
at once and continue for forty
weeks.
M. C. Tipton, Stephens Co., be-
lieves in keeping a good thing go-
ing. He watches the expiration in
hiB community and calls upon
them and gets them to renew. It is
always easy to get renewals.
E. T. Higgins made another raid
on the enemy in Collin county and
captured four.
A. W. Lynn is another Collin
county Rebel that is fighting for
land and liberty. He sends a club
of five and orders land petition
booklets. Watch things pick up in
that landlord ridden precinct.
Hampton Steele of Thornton
sends in a club from Mexia and
adds: "While visiting here
ought I would do a little mis-
sionary work." You can't lose a
real Beb.
W. B. Wilson, of Menard coun-
ty, orders sub cards and says they
are preparing for war. Look for
results in November.
0. B. Long, a roaring Rebel
rustler of Grimes county, sends in
a club to the Rebel and orders
land petition booklets. He says the
donks are getting desperate. Why
shouldn't they be scared.
iW. H. Millican of Brown eoun-
, fires in a club of four and mo
destly pursues th^e chase for oth-
er*.
J. A. Alford, formerly of Hali
county, Texas, but now a resid-
ent of Boger, Mills county, Okla.,
orders sub cards and begins to
bombard the donks of that place.
Otto Weltner sends in a club
from Kerr county as an answer to
Ferguson's attack upon Social-
ism.
B. L. Bobinson, lands five Fan-
nin county donks in the Rebel's
corral.
C. C. Butler sends in from Free-
stone county a bunch of sufferers
from donk rule and asks that we
administer double doses until a
cure ^ effected
J. W. Green of Knox county, or-
ders ten Bebel bombs, and says
he is in the fight until the dispos-
sessed of earth come to their own.
S. H. Tucker comes to the bat
again this week in old Coryell
county.
M. L. Davis is still on the job in
Hopkins eounty. He sends in an-
other bunch this week.
R. H. Weigand of Scotia, Wash-
ington, sends in a club of five
from that place, and adds that all
five of them were born across the
waters in three different nations,
but regardless of nationality all
are agreed that it is the common
foe, the "enemy within" that they
must fight.
J. P. Miller is doing his part to
help carry Oklahoma for Social-
"7 He induces another bunch of
ks to try a forty weeks trial of
the Bebel.
J. M. Shanks starts a skirmish
in Martin county this week. He is
handing the enemy some hard
blows. Watch the election reports
this fall.
0. M. Bowman sends a club
from Burton, Washington, and
8ay„ he likes the 'fight the Bebel
is making.
B. T. Boswell is making a
against the enemy in Lee county.
He sends a club and orders Bebel
ammunition.
E. T. Higgins captured eight
Knox county political sinners and
dispatched them to head quarters
for safe* keeping.
Troy Deason says as times gc+-
harder subs are easier to get. He
is taking advantage of this serious
situation. He sends in a bunch of
Knox county Dubs this week. /
9. P. Campbell capture
te county Dubs and sends
to us for forty week* treat-
Among those to take advantage
of our combinations and three {
year offer are; 8. P. tleid, IB*.
r—„ A- A.
and A. B>
(By Herbert F. Ball.)
Though the Democratic or "
legra" party
P?-
them „
mentV
Geo. H.
Fruitt,
^ still hollering
whiskey or no whiskey", Land is
the question before the people
w* settled and as the Rebel has
o ten-said: wj|j never be set-
tled until it is settled right."
1 returned to Pickens eounty,
Alabama, on March 8. last, after
an absence of six years to a day
a"d I found things changed,
changed as ever for the worse for
tlie people. The land has been se-
parated from tliem by the land
hogs as usual ami the men of in-
tegrity tell me that the agents for
the corporations who are buying
up the land are the most unscru-
pulous men that ever came to
this county. Chief among these
land monopolists are the lumber
companies such as, Bells, Lath-
rops and the Pioneer Lumber
Company, buying all the land
that they can tret for a song and
they will sell none of it at all, ev-
en after they have cut the tim-
ber off.
They will offer to sell at a low
price to run your land down but
will not carry out their promise ti
sell.
I see some land owners are buy-
ing up the lands and wherever the
saw mill owners can they are loc-
ating their planing mills and pait
of their saws in the electric-lit
towns which occur about even-
five or ten miles along the rail-
road. They use lights so as to be
able to run twelve hours a day.
They work mostly negroes at these
plants, and the white farmers are
mostly hauling and cutting timber
in the woods. They have many
mills off in th(. woods and every
farmer who can is getting a job-
They say that they can't make a
living by farming. It may be a
blessing that this timber is here
but, with the land goes Freedom.
The trees will not always be here
to make timber, and then what will
the people dot
You can hardly get a bill of
lumber here to make a house and
there are long train loads of it go-
ing out every day to make boxes
and crates to ship munitions of
war to Europe.
THE HANDWRITING ON THE
WALL.
When the sun rose on me in
Alabama on March 8, there was a
cold biting north wind blowing.
One of the first sight* I saw that
I revolted in spirit against was an
aged grav-haired man, plowing
with a poor mule among the
stumps on a piece of steep hillside
cutover land, with a Georgia plow
stock which knocked him from
side to side as he struggled and
stumbled along. There w*re two
women with him, P1)1"? bl™'
and the train rolled by they
raised up and I saw their torn.
and by the holy mother of God^if
one 0f them was not an old graj
decrepit "Southern white lady,
working side bv side by a negro
woman. Talk abort race
Lower the curtains, comrades,
senses fail me. I * «•£ !
feeling. I ima h>med.Ikn
have seen hell. T am nled. U
SmCAU. '
Tho Single Tax Beview, of New
York, the single tax organ of Am-
erica, in its April number makes
this interesting and significant
obserbation: "Marx taught the
full Georgian S'ngle Tax a gen-
eration before the publication of
"Progress and Poverty gave a
definition of Single Tax that has
never since been equalled for ac-
curacy and conciseness; and also,
in some minor matters, Marx is
even more radical and consistent
than is Qeorgej^ggeH^,,^^
PETER COLLINS IN THE PJL.
SI'EAKS.
LORY
(Written for The Bebel by Bruce
Calvert, 'The Indiana Thoreau.*)
Human society seems destined
to work out itg problems along
three lines of progress. It began in
Individualism, passed into Capi-
talism and is now facing ita next
evolution into Socialism. We have
reached the end of the capitalistic
era. Capitalistic ownership and
control of industries has gone as
far as it can. Society hag nothing
more to gain from that system- It the fact that the competitive sys-
haa contributed all it ever will to tem — the private ownership of
the development of the race. We industrial organizations —creates
BENSON
Yonkers, X. \\ April 10.—Al-
lan L. Benson of this city, Social-
ist candidate for president and the
earliest named party leader for
the November battle, today to'd
why he believes Socialism has an
especial appeal now. Benson pro-
phesies the organization will get
between 1,500.,000 and "2,000,000
votes this fall.
"It is very simple," he said.
' The European > war is opening
the eyes of the working people to
have reached the point of dimin-
ishing returns. Henceforth capi-
talism means a drag upon pro-
gress Att^ it must go.
Socialism has now become the
an owning class. That owning
class, which has the trade at pre-
sent, must struggle to keep it, and
must struggle to extend it to oth-
er countries. That owning class
Morton of Texas.
The following membera of the
regular Rebel army report again
thin week with the customary club
of four: Lee Grant, Borden Co.,
T. M. Johnson, Floyd Co., J. E.
Howard, Childress Co., P. J. Bar-
ker, Delta Co., John Pa"?n, Cal-
lahan Co., D. J. HoUejr, Keutoan
Co A. M. Smith, Coryell Co., J.
G. Gray, Cottle Co., 0. H Bector,
Gray Co., J- W. Sorrell, Colhngi,-
worth Co., J. M. Andre* Com-
anche Co., J. W- Pntchard,MJn.
son Co., E. D. Melton, Jack Co.,
j. T. Weatherby, Briscoe Co., J.
W. Brown, Befugio Co., J. T. Al-
len, Nueces Co., J. T. White, Tay-
lor Co., W. W. Gilbert, Bain* Co,
J. T. J. Culpepper, Nueces Co., J.
C. Wiggins, San Saba Co., J. E.
Rovnor, Commanche to. O. u
Cur*y, McCulloch Co., W.
nett, Mitchell Co. fc
San #aba Co., J.J8- Gober, Brown
at «*
big paper for the ■*
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only alternative for self preser-1 *^uch hasn't the trade is bent up-
vation as against certain self des-'on getting it, no matter how."
traction. We cannot go back to the -A®d there is the cause of the
early individualistic regime. There wa^,
isn't room enough now on the! "The soldiers in this war, I
earth for every man to have* a think, are realizing more aud more
principality or a barony or a king-' that they are not fighting for
dom. We have to live too close to-
gether. We are too interdepend-
ent. Capitalism from being a ne-
cessary step in production has now
become an engine of destruction.
There is nothing more to be ex-
pected from it. It. cannot reform
itself. Each day that it continues
we are becoming weaker, less able
to throw it off and take the next
step.
There is nothing left for us to do
then but to go forward to the
third great stage, Socialism- Since
we have to live on the earth and
live close together we must corn-
nine for the social good to make
life tolerable, or we must fight to
our extinction in the vain effort
themselves nor their country but
for their industrial masters. More
soldiers are reading and learning
the truth in this war than ever be-
fore.
"They are learning that fight-
ing is a business no man should
take part in except for self-de.
tense.
"My campaign will be an effort
to save the United States from
the fate of Europe. For 40 years
European Socialists have been
warning the old countries that
this war of owning classes would
take place. But their warnings
went unheeded.
"Now we propose to warn the
United States. Our nation has
to keep the outworn, inadequate i come to a state where it is what
institution of capitalistic owner-
ship in force. This cannot be done
much longer. We can no longer to-
lerate the wasteful, overlapping,
duplicating method of production
and distribution. This obsolete and
wasteful system must give way to
the more scientific, democratic
system of social ownership an! co-
operation.
Socialism must come. It has to
come. Nothing else is possible. We
only have to decide whether we
had better spend our strength in
the useless effort to fight it off,
suffering in the fight as wc will;
or shall we embrace it and save
our energies for constructive ef-
fort. Do we want the bitter lesson
of Europe forced upon us! Hadn't
we better turn to Socialism, the
inevitable, now while we are in
good shape to stand the strain of
the transition f How much better
for Europe if she could have done
that before this awful war. She
will have to do it now with a weak-
ened, crippled, disheartened peo-
ple to work it out.
UP TO THE DONKS.
(By Covington Hall.)
the economists call an 'exporter of
capital.' It has so much money
that it must seek space beyond it*
own borderH to invest that money.
"I do not believe wc are in any
danger of being attacked. I do not
believe President Wilson thinks
we are facing that danger. If ho
did, wouldn't he lie pushing the
completion of the two superdread-
naughts, authorized in March,
1915, which were to be the biggest
in the worldT Their keels haven't
been laid.
"I believe capital is stirring up
all this business of 'prepared-
ness'.
"I purpose in my campaign to
show what brought about this Eu-
ropeon war and to demonstrate
that the same forces are now at
work here and will inevitably
plunge this country into war.. I
do not mean war this year, or in
ten years or in twenty years
"I think Europe is sick of fight-
ing, and no nation or combination
of nations has the stomach to at-
tack us. But if our owning classes
keep reaching out, like those oth.
er„ did, we will eventually be at
war.
"Then I purpose to argue that
if the people owned the nation's
industries (which is the Socialist
Now that we have it on the au- , ., . • , iM .. , , . .
thority of President Wilson and •"<> ,f J?10" '"dnslne.
_ ■ nrni«A aRaMI▼ a/i Saw llfllA maI frt
his floor leaders in the U. S. Sen
ate, Stone of Missouri and Lewis
of Illinois, that American citizens
were back of and incited Villa's
raid on Columbus, N. M., and that
these citizens are "known to tho
American authorities," will these
American citizens be shot along
with Villa!
If not, will justice be donet You
Donks know they won't." You
know the Democratic (!) govern-
ments never shoots and jails any-
body but poor men. You know
Wilson, Ferguson and Company
would not dare even lay their
ig on the "American citizens"5
who incited these raids, even
though they are "known to au-
thorities."
In the meantime, your "Demo-
cratic" (t) government has ar
rested and thrown into prison
Enrique and Bicardo Magon and
is hunting down Wm. C. Owen,
the editors of Begeneracion, on
charge^ of "sedition," btffln real-
ity for the crime of agitating for
"Land and Liberty." Also Cline,
Bangel and eleven other men and
boys are in Texas penitentiaries
for the same crime, warring for
"Land and Liberty."
But Wilson, the Apostle of the
"New Freedom," has not yet and
never will order, the arrest and
slugging of Hearst, Otis, Rocke-
feller, Guggenheim; Morgan ft
Company.
.With aU this injustice staring
you in the face on top o& the
BILLION DOLLARS the Donks
helped the Plute* to STEAL from
Dixie on the cotto ncrop of 1914,
tell me, will yon go t<Tthe polls
and vote them in again!
Even mules don't, help make
their own harness. Are you fool-
isher than a mule! j
were operated for use—not for
profit— there would be no wars.
Peoples themselves would never go
to war unless urged by monarch
ical or industrial rulers.
"TherP would be nothing under
Socialist rule but kindliness and ti
spirit of 'help the other fellow.'
"All natural resources, all in
dustries would be in the hands of
the government. The government
would be in the hands of the peo-
ple — which it oertainly is not
now — and the people therefore
would truly and actually govern
themselves and their work and
their production."
Tse Socialist candidate expects
to swing around the northern sec-
tion of the United States from
September 1 on, going from coast
to coast. The candidate for vice
president, George R. Kirkpatrick
of Newark, will tour the south-
ern states at the same time.
Alter the War.
"W-'Tl Col!l""' Mter k" an m;"' editorial wri"^'."^".
Windbag Pete," who has been nfter th« *«r is that
hired to warn the working c!
against socialism, has been adver-
tising himself over the country by
pulling off hisi chestnut "chal-
lenge" to Eugene V. Debs un<l of-
fering five hundred dollars to
various nations will erect tariff
"•alls, wagog will be reduced and
hours increased The labor rnur-
anyone who would induce Debs to , will I* glutted by the sol<Sl-
accept his "challenge." Of "'"t come from the trenches Th.
course Collins and hi* braggadocio I #timulU(l that has ' been
were ignored by Debs and this I * 'Cn !<> ^ttry by the manufa"
emboldened the "Windbair" to ure of munitions of wsr will stoi>
*a a matter of course Thn
"j" ^ diminiahwi
per II, "'*k"W " 'houaand
Nih.,it,r«vxT™,,pia'e
■Ion, on m ?r7
rtllUutably
anothc k" '""•'""d to tak,-
r°. in ",,r ".I
^•nd a little more hunger trust
ta God and we'll
when we di#
™ ifi beautiful prospect
that capitalism portrays for us
/ay Owl Almighty everlastingly
damn the fool wretch who supine-
h submits to such a future and
worn, than all if he votes for it
wherever he has a vote. The Re-
bel believes that after the war is
over should the working class no«
««" tick of even hflMn
"ense we can have the most pros-
perous t.me, the world has ever
seen by carrying out the following
Program:
First; Hang every king, kaiser,
czar, pontiff and^plute in Europe
and the United States. These ras.
eals have brought on the Euro-
pean war and the internal war
that is raging in the United
•States. The blood of millions is on
their heads and the gallows yawn
for them.
Second: Repudiate every na-
tional debt in the world as thor-
oughly as the north repudiated
Confederate currency.
Third: Tax all land values and
make use and occupancy the sole
title to land just as the Mexicans
have done in Yucatan.
Fourth: Compel tho govern-
ment to take charge of the bank-
ing system and loan money to
states and municipalities without
interest and to home builders at
one per cent for forty years thus
cutting the usurer who robs us of
a billion and a half each year at
the pocketbook. 1
Fifth: Take back the entire
public domain that has been given
to the trusts by such infamous
steals as the Shield bill which gave
away our water rights last month.
Sixth: Collectively own all in-
dustries now owned by the trusts.
These few simple measures win
abolish poverty from the face of
earth forever, will stop all war,
will add to the nation's wealth a
hundred fold, will develop educa-
tion, prevent panics, lenghten life
and make of this earth a paradise.
Can it be done! God bless your
weak mind and simple heart Look
at Milwaukee! All that i« neces-
sary is the same character of
courage and native wit If dis-
played in every community in the
United States next election day it
will produce the same result and
The Bebel will walk to the funeral
of the plutes clad in a palm beach
suit and a sweet smile with a flow-
er in the button hole of hi« coat
when the flowers do bloom in the
spring next year.
Let's get busy. Let's be pre-
pared for a war against the mak-
ers of war—for the only war that
is worth a thraneei—the war ag-
ainst the war. ,
HAVE 70V READ
■ Covington^ Hall's book of poemsl
the "Songs of Love and Bebel-
lion"! If not, you have missed
something worth your while. Send
for the following combination:
The Rebel, one year 50c
Rebellion, one year 50c
Songs of Love nd Bebellion 30c
Windbag" to
bray his "challenge" from the
housetops. Recently Collins re-
peated his silly stunt in a western
citj- and the local secretary of the
Socialist party sent Debs a clip-
ping containing a report of the
challenge" and asked him what
he had to say in regard to it. The
letter was received by Theodore
Debw and below will br found n
copy of his answer which is print-
ed hero for the purpose of forcing
Collins to prove his lying charges
or stand convicted as a cowardly
and infamous falsifier:
Terre Haute, Ind., Mar. 28, 1916.
Your favor of the 24 inst. is
at hand and in reply I have to
sa'y that. Peter Collins liellows
hi,, ''challenge" only to adver-
tise his own filthy performance.
He has repeatedly run away
like the yellow dog he is from
Socialists who called his vulgar
and cowardly bluff.
As for my brother he. doc*
not hear the Collins at all; he
does not deal in sewn^e. He
never gets down to the level of
a liar and blackguard, and Col-
lins is both.
For instance, this degenerate
tool of Capitalism and Roman-
ism has spread the lies for
years, knowing them to be lies,
that my brother lives in a house
built by scab labor, and that
when he was editor of the Lo-
comotive Fireman's Magazine
he ordered a committee of union
printers from his office for de-
manding that the union label be
placed on the magazine. These
and other liea out of whole
cloth, made to fit his putrid
propaganda, Collins is still cir-
culating, nowithstanding the
leaders of the labor union^ here
where my brother lives have re-
-peatedly denounced these lies
and branded their author as a
foul-mouthed slanderer.
Now if you deem it worth
your while to test the crooked
ness and cowardice of Collins
you can say to him that I will
give him five hundred dollars
if he will come to Terrc Haute
where the facts are known and
I do not prove him to be the
biggest liar in America.
You are furthermore author-
ized to put it up to Collins that
I will give him a thousand dol-
lar,, if he will have some cardi-
nal or arch-bishop meet my
brother in debate, Archbishop
Ireland, the pal of "Jimm"
Hill, preferred.
My brother is wasting no time
on such insects as Collins; he is
after the big beast of capitalism
and not after the crawling Col-
linses that fatten in its hide.
Yours Fraternally,
THEODOBE DEBS.
This puts the matter squarely
up to Collins and he will either
come to the front or remain in the
rear and be branded for what he
is. He has been going up and
flown the country for years spread-
ing his slanders and the time has
come to make his prove his charg-
es or force them down his lying
throat.
There is no chance for escape.
Let the above letter be shoved in-
to Collins' face wherever he ap-
pears and let it also be published
in the loeal papers that are in the
habit of advertising his "chal-
lenge." Slippery ss he is he will
not get out of the pillory in which-
he has placed himself on exhibi-
tion as a cowardly defamer of
honest men and the foul-mouthed
slanderer of a righteous cause. —
American Socialist.
All three for —_
$1.30
4100
Or will send you The Songs
alone for 30c, postage prepaid.
Benson and Kirkpatrick, Meitz
en and Noble, is the ticket that
stands against monopoly of land,
money and necessities of life. All
other tickets stand for ihe present
beH
Jim Jones, of Waxahachie^sked
The Bcbel what the farmers of
Texas pay for money annually.
The Rebel published the answer
to this question three weds ago
and quoted Congressman B L.
Henry, who in a speech delivered
on the floor 0f congress last month
that the '-amount was
$55,000,000 each year. The peo-
ple of Belgium are not soaked any
more thoroughly- by the German
army that haa taken their soil at
the point of the sword and the
NOTES.
The officers of the Single Tax
League of Texas are B Bedicek,
Austin, chairman; J. J, Pastoriza,
Houston, treasurer; and W. A.
Black, of San Antonio, executive
secretary.
• • •
L. K. Bhodyback, of Snyder,
Okla., writes: "I notice you,
Hickey, wear hob nailed boots
with needle points for spurs and
don't seem to care a solitary damn
if you step on a social viper or a
dozen of them." He wins.
....
Robert H. Austin of Jacksboro,
wants the Bebel to come to his
town and skin a landlord preach-
er. We will be glad to do the job
in the go6d old summer time, but
at the present we are too busy
getting out this great religious
weekly.
• • ,
Abolish afi taxes on personal
property, buildings and occupa-
tions. Do awsy with eteiy ts« «
labqr or its product Then wewfll
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