The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 231, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 25, 1915 Page: 4 of 4
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Ballad of the Rebel Workingman,
Air: "IVlas of Victory".
I was a rebel worker
Who called for a revolt;
They put me in the dungeon
And chorged me with asaault.
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They carried out their plan
Ta crush, aa in all ages,
The rebel workingman.
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Titty led me from the prison
And bound me hand and foot,
And coward aoldiera, hiding,
Were called upon to about.
1 shouted my defiance,
The guns spit fire then,
And lo! the broken b wly of
A rebel workingman
Yet they did but release me
From fetters of the flesh;
To stand with martyred millions
Miter life afresh i —
serf aod slave and hireling
inoe ever time began;
And even the tramp of Nazareth,
The rebel workingman.
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We were begrimed and ragged,
And ignorant, they say;
Far we were vagabonds, denied
The right to light of day.
Now we have seized the Heavens,
And we are living well,
And every Dives coming here
<£ hustled down to bell.
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And now we're arganiaing
llnseen and full of fight,
And calling on the dogs of earth,
"Unite, unite, unite 1"
We'll help yoa take the fullness
Of everything yon acan,
And all you make you shall enjoy,
You rebel workingman.
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The Governor of Utah „
Must needs mighty Spry
If he would put in prison
The rebels of the sky.
At efforts of the masters
We mock and laugh again;
We haunt them ill' their palaces,
We rebel workingmen.
The fools wha rob the workers
And drive them forth to kill
Imagine in the. slaughter
To work their wicked will;
But every mangled victim ,
Where wild the fury ran
Becomes an unseen, deathless
And rebel workingman.
Joe Hill calls on the armies
Of millions robbed and slain
T« muster for the battle
Where you shall freedom gain.
The fury of the Heavens
Against them flames like hell,
Ye rebel workers, bow arise,
And win you must and shall.
The Rebel will vote for one bil
lion dollars for battleships, sub-
marines and puns. But we will
hazard a guess that within ten
days after Uncle Sam has appro-
priated one billion there will not
be a paper in the United States
including the Dallas News that
will talk about Preparedness.
/«.. ysk:
Pay your poll tax NOW, this
minute. Pav it if you have to sell
the shirt off your back to raise
the money. This is the only way
to freedom.
We need preparedness for dem-
agogues, Donks and damphools in
1916, so circulate The Rebel in
•Vftiy nook and corner of the
South.
Don't be misled by side issues,
knowing why you fail to
1th you create.
:4i*iS^Mmnny.
1776; Americans may rise „
to p«t tyranny down in our re-
public."
This is the utterance of a woman
possessed of a million dollars and
the heiress to more millions Mifc
Francis Crane-Lillie. daughter of
the late Bichard F. Crane, multi-
millionaire iron niw-
In a Chicago police court where
she stood a prisoner, Mrs. LtUie
made her reunciation of. the faith
in wealth and power, and publicly
espoused faith in social and in-
dustrial freedom.
Mrs. Lillie had been arrested
for interfering with a policeman
while she was on duty as a picket
in the garment workers strike in
Chioago.
Because she protested against
the abuse of a striker she was ar-
rested.
"For many years," the million-
aire's daughter said, "I have felt
that a social and industrial sys-
tem that made it possible for one
man to a<ieumulate millions while
many men an4 women starved was
wrong.
"I gave charity to the poor. I
knew that charity was but a sop
to make them forget not merely
their raiaenr but the underlying
muse of their misery, the social
injustice that made them paupers.
"In the garment workers'
strike I saw for myself how ter-
rible the industrial conditions have
become.
"I believe in trade unions; or-
ganization is the workingman*'*
most effective weapon. And I be-
lieve in the general strike, tho I
know that is quite revolutionary.
But if labor halted in its work, ev-
en for an hour, the world would
understand the power of labor. ./
"I have been on the verge of be-
coming a Socialist for some time,"
said Mrs. Lillie, "and now I've
definitely made up my mind. The
incidents of the last 10 days nearly
convinced me; those of yesterday
settled the issues.
"I am ready to do all in my
power to right the wrongs com-
mitted against the working people.
If our society can be maintained
only at the expense of the working
classes. I'm in favor of changing
the social order.
FROM A DEMOCRAT-SINGLE
TAKER.
Tex., Dec. 1st, 1915.
Mr. T. A. Hickey,
Dear Sir:—
Have read with much interest
the platform adopted at the Waco
convention of Texas Socialists,
and fail to find anything socialis-
tic in same.^ Most any democrat
in Texas can endorse the entire 27
planks therein. The last phrase in
the 24th plank, "including board
etc.," smacks of Socialism as the
outsider has come to understand
it. The homestead exemption
clause in the land plank is prop-
erly "class legislation," but I
have confidence in any people who
adopt your land plank reaching
the rightful solution of the land
question after a bit of experiment
with the exemption of homesteads.
Plankfl 6. 7 and 8. money ques-
tion. will be unnecessary when
land plank is amended to exclude
the exemption. Plank 9 (compul-
sory insurance) will also be un-
necessary. Plank 16, franchise,
corporation and inheritance taxes
will also be unecessary, as likely
will be plank 26. public welfare.
That the platform reads many
anti-Socialists into the Socialist
warty, but the party name,
and his kind will serve to keep
them out. Personally, I am for a
nnrty with only one plank, "sin-
gletax," though I go into the dem-
ocratic primary for fun, still I am
frank to say you are doinq a pood
work and you have mv well wishes.
„ Yours Truly, .
„ in the
world to be said in favor of ex-
travagance on the part of a people,
and it is admitted on all side, that
it has no pinch of virtue. Economy
is rather ltd be commended in a
people no matter how great the re-
sources of a land. But, where does
busineai come in ep this savings
proposition f
Mr. Busmen man, little busi-
ness man on Main street and little
corner grocerman. where do you
get in on this savings movement T
Is it not out of the expenditures of
our people that you obtain funds
with which to pay next month h
rent! Is it not a fact that "under-
feet" expense and "alack busi-
ness" now have you backed al-
most into the bankrupt court f
Now, you pay your hard earned
money to the papers in the hope
of getting the people to come in
and spend so you can keep your
creditors off your back and your
good business name off the docket
of the bankrupt court, and is it
hot rather discouraging that these
good bankers come along and pro-
pose retrenchment in spending?
Ii it not now up to you to in
augurate a counter movement?
Selfpreservation ia the first law of
nature, and you are justified in
combatting this movement which
if successful will drive many of
you little fellows into receiver's
hands.
You will have to do something.
What will you do? Why not pro-
pose that all join in a movement to
establish equal opportunity for all
to enjoy the use of the earth?
Ask all to join you in repealing
tax laws that fine industry and
discourage development and at the
same time rewarding, with incre-
ment earned by the workers, the
title holders of land who withhold
valuable land from use. Urge that
we first give men. access to earth
on which to produce something to
save, since they cannot save what
they do not get. Labor for an equi-
table distribution of the products
of labor and then it is quite pos-
sible those Whom they would as-
sist in encouraging to save woulr
have something to save. Can you
keep your cake and eat it tpo?
Onlooker.
BOY SCOUTS TOO WARLIKE
Ernest Thompson Seton. natur-
alist and writer of books on nature,
has announced his resignation as
chief scout of the Boy Scouts of
America, in a statement explaining
his action," Mr. Seton Baid he re-
signed because of a gradual change
to policies to which he is opposed
and for which he blames James E
West of New York, the present
chief scout executive.
"Militarism now comes first and
woodcraft, the original purpose of
the movement, second." according
to Mr. Seton, who announced the
formation of the Woodcraft's
League, inviting members of the
Boy Scouts to join it.
"When Baden-Powell and I or-
ganized the Boy Scouts of Eng-
land in 1908 and the Boy Scouts
of America in 1910," Mr. Seton's
statement Baid, "our purpose was
to make all young people of Arner
ica outdoor children by teaching
them thejoys of outdoor life. As
originally formed, the Scouts of
America was to be a message of
conservation and brotherhood
The study of trees, flowers and
nature is giving way to wig-wag-
ging, drills and other activities of
a military nature, thus destroying
the symbolism of the organization.
As it stands now. militarism comes
first and woodcraft second.—Pitts-
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Dear Sir:— _
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