The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [3], No. 143, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 11, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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More Muddled
Donks.
The Donkoeratic party is in
the most inudcTled condition of its
stupiii life this ywtr. A condition
• Ifvoutfy to bo wished for and one
Fake of
From a Democrat
Congressman.
ft r governor
In this day and generation the man who expects a candidate
before t(u. Democratic primaries to come before tl«e
«.,w r..n ~a ;..i • . *e • *
in
which Tb® HelwJ rejoice i". The peopl,: vntl'a pbUfonu that is not full of jokers, is suffering fr.
autill, why have control of the vw,*-r on the brain or some se rious mental trouble.
In a reeent. i.smio of The Rebel we pointed out that behind the
Ball candidacy stood the railroad interests, particularly tlu> wicked
h nsco Railroad that the firm of Hall & Andrews, Corporation iu-
I".nieys, nave represented for years and of which- firm Frank Andrew*
...was rweiver for the rail mad that is sufferiug from the effects af fr. T
j zi<*d tisaiiee thii* netted the insiders million* of dollars.
nsHiuueh -is "Farmer" dim Ferguson, who has Invome ,v>\.
who nave
stale' machinery' for so long, are
split into a dozen warring factions
.111,| the Socialists ai;e now looming
up as the eliminators who can
cHminute the eliminators.
The Tom Hall Democrats, whoj
swear by that great eorp..rationI
lawyer, declare that lie is a Demo-! ,Ur,,w'!J wahhy farming the actual farmers, is at the present moment
.•rat of purest ray serene; the an ' lo h«v« a chance with Ball, we believe it is
tis swear that bn and his liavc eo.ie l,ut fa|r to tvint out the joker in that gentleman's ^latf.rm; the one
over lock, stock and barrel to the !,i ,,xl"" 's to reach the Governor's chair It is this:
prohibition party; thai they arej f_ _ '''' PlIAT IK ELECTED GOVERNOR UK WILL
not Democrats- but actually art
1iff Coruauche, Texas. It is written
ion the official paper of the United
Prohibitionists, who have torn
dovrii'th* columns In the temple of
Democracy "and are not fit to be
recognized! 111 the party's coun-
cil. '
Thus are the Donkoerats split
from stein to stern and we pause
to say that the pro-highs are in
the saddle and will wi* in the
primaries next duly. Many re-
markable complications will arise
out of this victory, for instance:
The backbone of the prohibition
sentiment is 'in Nortb Texas and
the strength of the ant is lies In
South Texas. The Reh l is pub-
lished in South Texas and we are
in a positio" to guage the strength
of tho anti sentiment in our midst
We have learned by bitter ^xpori-
. ins- that the anti-Donk hates the
Socialist party with all the vicious
hatred that has every characteris-
tic of the pro-Donk. Hence thc
antis are in a dilemma this day
mid hour, because the Socialists of
Texas, haw. by referendum vote,
nominated for 'OoKenwr .the.man
altovc all others i« South Texas
that most of the anti politicians
hate, namely, E. R. Meitzen, of
llallettsville. l^avaea county.
What shall the antis do then?
Vote for Tom Ball, vote for pro-
hibition : vote for a man whom
1 hey sav is not a Democrat: vote
for those whom th°y claim are
false to every principle for which
the "father of Democracy strug-
gled fort1'
Shall they do all these things
nud thus forsake the csnse of
'' personal liberty" for which
they have sworn they were ready
to fight and bleed and die ? No,
;• thousand times no- they shout,
as long as the Tom Balls deny us
high balls we are against them.
But how about itlie Socialist
. andidate for (Joverner? They
have fought and cursed him so
long that ho is .equally impossi-
ble. Everything that lie stands
for is in strict opposition fo" what
the autis stands for.
llow about the RepublicansT
They have gone a glimmering
since the post off ices and Federal
patronage generally twre taken
from them.
How about the Bull Moose ?
That unfortunate party has its
leader in South America and will
do nothing this fall, at least, not
in Texas.
How about the Prohibition par-
ty? What is left of it will sup-
port Tom Ball.
With all these parties eliminat-
ed. tlwfanti finds himself disfran-
chised, when the ballots are
•■otinted next November.
And that's the fate that falls
the stunid anti followers <"f the
more than stupid Donk.
Watch the Socialist vote next
November.
LAND, a paper published at
Woodville, Texjis, says in its last
issue in an editorial on the anti-
candidate Ferguson:
"Mr.Fergufrm says that the men
who came here years ago and got
t itl« to thc land by killing off the
Indiana, deserve much credit- for
their struggles and shtrald en joy
unrestricted the titles to these
lauds." That may be sound reas-
oning but we would not advise the
2f 0,000 T«xas tenants to try the
killing process tc get rid of the
present landlords tire far greater
enemies to producers than ever
the Indians were."
JUVK \ LAW BASSE!) PROHIBITING LANDLODRS FROM
A('(JEITL\(J MORE THAN THE THIRD AND FOURTH \S
RENT.
Do you see any joker there, my people? Don't you think that
is au eminently fair plank? Don't you sec that it alx>lishcs the tliird-
alLvound, half-tht crop and the bonus systems at one stroke? Don't
you think so? Lew is of the Texas Farmers Union says so. The oth-
er Farmers' Union ox-president, Peter Radford mars with joy about
it. The Ball leaders denounce it as Socialistic, and no less a gentle-
man t' i'.n W. F. Ramsey, the guiding spirit in Ball's campaign, do.
nouuees i' as Socialistic. And when such eminent gentlemen are so
wildly worked up about this plank for and against, surely there can-
not be a jnk. r in it. It must be a good plank. It must i>e the ideal
plank; in fact the practical plank that will take all the discontented
tenants away from the Socialist party an,] its land plank and gath -r
th"in witiiin the folds of the party that carries the Donk for <i
emblen.
But, alas, my friends for th< gullibility of Human nature. This
much heralded pl;.nk is the greatest ioker and the biggest fake of
anything of its sort ever penned by political crooks in Texas. L-* 's
get to roc facts:
.V/i. Banker Feruuson owns o ane-thousand acre farm near
Sparks (called after the man he has eliminated, Sam Sparks) in B-I!
county, Texa-. The poorest of his land is worth $l.r>0 an acre, which
can be readily understood when we realize that excepting for a f w
rocky lu oaks in the western portion of Bell county the poorest land
sells, from $!()() up. The prevailing pent i<4 the third and fourth with
fro 1A $:; to $^an acre bonus or from $6 to $10 an acre cash rent.
NocijJim ^Ferguson doesri't run a bank ami 'other"
entcrpr'oes^tffd travels overcthe state and works that $1CRK1 acre f:i-in
at the same time, hence some man must work it for him. What does
he pay these men? The third and fourth, beyond which he claims
1 flic Reot'l takes pleasure 4 j-u
woid.1 lv .iHui-v ? Not so that you w uld notice it. 1 ^ ^ ^rithn
FARMER JIM" IS SIMPLY WORKING HIS LMMENSRI - " U' Bur,'>r'of Tex
BLACK LAND FARM WITH HIRED WAGE LABOR, LAltOi* I •- i-°n*rwwii«n Oscar ( nlloway,
THAT 'S BOUGHT IN THK LABOR MARKET AT THE LoW-
FST POSSIBLE RATE, A RATE THAT IS FIXED BY THK _
COMPETITION OF MEXICAN AND NEGRO LABOR i go>.ruiueut and our Donk
. . , , _ „ , „ congressman admits tlut the ;n-
s" J'0" sw- my fnends why Farmer Fcrgiwui is pcrf-etly uil- dep.-ndei.t and individinU laborer
ling to a wish the third and fourth fo,- other landlords l>ecuus,. be jlus h,vn t.p,,Hhcd to powder tUMi
has air ndy abolished it hims df and has found the nci\ scheme «f no longf^r exists in this country <*-
exploit, f-on to work to tho queen's taste. ; (.„pt iu u„, ijUfwl yf ^ WMdl far^
".lit this is not all. Should he lv elected aiul such a measure ■ ,.r jU1d he is fiiwling his bf« be-
be ens " d and should it stand the test of the courts who will do"1'' coining unendurable; he tlieir ad-
for a ■num+iSt.'that it would "bv a signal to nil hind owners to qinf ' n,jt„ that the gov^umcm-
rrrt/i'm; 'h i"r l«nd and have it w°rked. )>y hired labor, particular'q * responsible for allowing then^
• nma of pro n Miriam .labor that has r'>wi< into thi.< state ^'ditions to develop. Tbe* ranffimi
multift ,1 Ihousatifh as <i rrt'dt of thf Mcriran revolution. j l)1Jin Hhould on to say that'
With thes< fnets before you, gentle le ader, can you blame Tin ||,c lH>inoeratle party Is In'r fidl
Reliel if ho says that this wonderful land plank of Farmer dim, Bed-' n)nt.ro| of the presidency ;irid both
' ford an! ' —*- '■ "-5"1 1 * 1 * L— '
be put
I Hil l Lewis is the biggest joker and fake that has l>een sought to jlPHtu.|„.,, -0f the government*, nri'
be put over on the people by a Donk candidate in the past g neratiert.1 jjoually, and in Tents they 'have
l."t us look backwardr Rome months ago The Rebel issued i'„ uninterrupVd .Mntnol for
wr;rnin,f to our readers under the head of "Can they repeat ?" We|-,M,<|rIy 5o VvU,,H all(j t)uil tiiey-haw
pointed out that not only the economic conditions were right for a ; provA| thcuweJveH 'incompetent to
eevolutw.nan- change in land tenure but that the gigantic success '>f ritfhl the wrongs of. tl^ workers
the Lai 11 Petition would eause the Donk politicians to st.nl our n.v-L.,,1 williuu- to ,lo s<> when eaWr.j
iiraal k.,.l «.t~ piank on M; tl l in t™li„K it thoy-wouKl ju llTa t} "ril
ulate it . nd seek to ride into power und defraud the mylfitude in the good citi/eys Congressman Call*-
fnliii'• as they have done in the past, J way included, t0 burv the party
W. said we believed that their game of deception was pbivsl|nf th(, |V)]lk ntuj e\H t W Socialist
out: t.'.ni the workers were toy intelligent today; that the growth of partv that biis constructive sci.
the So"ialist party to the point where it was the second political paHy J wprot(rani f„r t|,,. ,.|ir ina
f the -1;.te was proof of that fact; that the launching of the Renters'! A, 0f' poverty that is now going
on a
Urion vas another proof; that hence they could not repeat their 0fl a| un cv,,r ilu.nvJWjn^
fraud and this timely exposure of Banker Ferguson. Peter Radford ' amonK tfi(l flul#Wl^ Th« RHtxd he
W. D. L- wis and tb«'ir eommoivie.l s«.-cretary pals is another eonvirc-J ijt,V(>s tbat (War should have
mg pmif of that fact. 1
The d«v of jokers is past. This is the day when the fighters for
«v >rkiug . lass emancipation can 1111*11 on the light in the dark place?.
I'p and at those frauds, then you militants of the Socialist
movement. Up with our plank 011 land that save:
' USE AND OCCUPANCY SHALL BE THE TITLE TO
LAND AND ALL LANDS HELD OUT OF CULTIVATION OR
FOR EXPLOITIVE PURPOSES SHALL BE TAXED TO THEIR
JH'LL RENTAL VALUE."
This is the only legitimate,, land plank befor*Tth'e p^Mtf 6f
Texas today. Read up on it, work for it, vote tor it or by the ofmtrtr
Go.ls you will have to fight for it just an thoy are doing In war swept
Mexico 'K>W.
drawn an indictment like tbe ah
ove, but what can you expect
from a Donk congressman. Here Is
hi* letter:
if* 11
LUMBER TRU8T INDICTS
aINOLE TAX MANIFESTO.
An addre#8 to the public troai the
Singl0 Tax Conference h-*!! ic A'at h-
in^tou, I). C., January 17, 1.I1J.
It is a self-evident truth that law.-t
.-houUI be no framed as to leave pooplo I p^rnonal property, building*, improve
to do their best and not their worst nn*nts on land, und second, for the en
rri their fellowr en.
L'nforturntely two mis have
been 1111.de. First, tho earth ..nd all
its resources, has been treated, not a:-
a gift t"> all munk'oa, but ns 01: nrtK
of bargain and salo. Consequently, the
nii.jority of niuuliin I bus brc.a .lininhcr
ited. Thus we abnegate the glorious
li.'Ctrine of t'le broiLerbood of u.nn.
The second gre.it m -'ak • is tli
uoriti}.' of the ;>ecir;..r \ uluc of
tr-iid, the value which mcreut>e
'p
•he
J.(d
t>l)t
After four locg months of strik-
ing against unbearable conditions,
after all the attempts of the 84
gunmen employed by the associa-
tion, to get our boys iuto a pitched
bpttle with them, having failed,
after using every means known Lo
the boss, for breaking the strike:
the machinery of the state ha.-: been
oiled and is working like clock
work, with the result that four
members Forest and Luadx v
Workers Union, No. 275 are in
Colfax, Louisiana jail indicted for
tho. crime of shooting a scab when
as h matter of fact the boys were
not within three miles of the place
of "disaster," Also three of them
are '"indicted" for burning :•
bridge—this 'mind you wh< ii
guards are placed at every bridge
from the mill out to the camps ilav
and night.
It looks like the Lumber Trust
is going to pull off another
"impartial" (a la Lake Charles1
trial in Louisiana and we call on
all people regardless of applica-
tions to keep their eyes 011 Col fa-
Louisiana and watch that the asso
ciatiou fails in its war of exter-
mination.
Should yon care to come to our
aid financially our secretary, O. T.
Thompson, Bentley, Louisiana is
the one address.
W. IT. Lewis.
(The above is clipped from tbe
Voice of the People, New Orleans.
It clearly shows that the Donko
erats of Louisiana acting in the
interests of the Kir by, Ball,
Long Lumber Trust are at tli, ir j other < oinm.-.d.->s. another part of
-old game of destroying tile Lum- j 'Hmianity, by the appropriation of land
bermon's Union through privave
est use or ather non use; is to discour-
age thc energy that begets prosperity,
and to encourage the speculation hat
begets poverty.
Therefore, this conference declares:
first for the—repeal of laws taxing
''tinents of constitutional amendments
and laws which shall concontrate all
t:i>cs on the site value of land and
thus take community values for com
munity purposes.
(The above excellent staVniont
of tho single tax position contains in tin
one great error in that it
speaks of the private ownership
of land as dividing society into
toilers and spoilers, which is a
mere catch phrase, and does not
recognize that it is the private
Washington, t). C„ Mureli
Mr. A. Barry,
Waco, Texas.
My d«*r Mr. Burry:— 1 * —
letter of March 15, with ref«
ene# to the question of tho unen
ployed and stating that Colny wan
marching on Washington, re«'«ved. It
is true, 6f course, that betweeu oignu
ized labor on the oen hand und organ
ized capital on the other tho inde
i pendent arid individual laborer hue
All incorporated cities and ^c,n cru-lu,jl t0 and no longer
towns require high power electric exiBta in thi" cuontry ««ept m the
lines to l>e constructed by skilled ca80 °' tb" smal1 and l"
and competent labor. These re- ,indin« biH Hf' ,0 har'1- "°
quirements are for the protection abl** so t0 futa" hoP" that hi"
of life and limb. Certain eon- n0M and «>" Kht*rs are abndonmg the
struction companies are buying, 'ftnn t0 t0 l,><, f0 mi1 10
the right of way through the rural s,ffu^,c for V^rmtni
A
WOftl) OF WARNING TO
TilF FARMERS.
districts and using unskilled work- and "how- Th" ha"
We the Electric Workers rwP«n ibl"! of ''our",>- f<lr «owiug
to warn you of the danger
I
which divided the world into cap
ruses tw.ui> tir i itali-'ts and wage c
the seed to one | ing the fact thai the tools of todav
men.
want
nw of such labor. Should
♦lie of thes ; high power wires get
down, it wowd mean death to
stock or human life slionld they
cme in contact, with it; should
one of said wires get down against
a barlted wire fence, the same re
suits would follow; and should a
f. nee which was connected to a
tl'rough thc effor'1 of the .jv.ner
nitli c\ cry incrcisc of population, -iius j 0U lu l-*diip of luntl and CAPITAL
leading to land ;-ji V'til iti.-n
When the faruic;
fifty bushels fr'u.i
•lushel, it is at ott.'e evident, th:;t iliit. j have become gr.yit social tools in-
iucrcase of valu • is l.ie to in-Iie-itv i stead of the individualistic tools
: nd indicates :in ie cas; ,n wealth. 'of our fathers and hence should Ik*
Hut when an acre of land increases sO.'ially owned, the singl'e taXer
in value from 011c dollar to millions of [ makw his grave blunder. For in-
dollars as it has mv ju/ larg# cities, it j.stance; Montana is a state that
•ndicales not an Tnc/eMs.-d quantity of!embraces 246.0W square miles. Ouj ARL RECEIVING AS HIGH
un! biu en in.•reared x arcity of land! one lone 15 acres <d that state '"si AS *f>00.00 PER TOWER.
•ause.l ,(v the eroding of the ciu'ti
1 udc WMle la'.o^ i-; making valu*1
•iic speculators are tuUing value
Therefore, while one does tbe work an
i.thor takes the wtfulrli.
Ry ignoring
: ion between thes
splitting society asunder
While labor .oil-i continuously j of the smelting tl'ust. Again the tioti as th«
through all the ag.-s fo inaintiiT, suf-1 railroads of tlte nation are social porated cities and towns
ficient'v of foo.i.
italiyts and wage earnersBy ignorjbarn or a house, become charged
, with electricity in this way, it
would mean destruction of the
house or barn bv fire.
MANY FARMERS ARE GIV-
I Mil THE RIGHT-OF-WAY
(getting only a small sum of from
$10 to *25) WHILE OTHERS
one smelter that cost $15,000,000 j Only some few days ago. a
to build. To lax that 15 acres and j young man near the city of Fort
not tax the smelter would in no J Worth, while out kodaking, hav
way l>enefit the workers. Without; ing climbed up one of these tow
thesfl conditions to develop. What i>
is to do now to correct the conditions,
I '
is a serious ami momentous question
All kinds of panaceas arc offered on
every hand, but. wb.'n examined they
are all found to be impracticable, un
developed and would, iT put into ef
feet, augment the eVil they ■"'«). te
relieve.
I wish as much as any man on earth
that it could lie removed, but in my
judgment it cannot be removed by dol
inj( out money from the treasury tff
tIk* I 11 ited States to the hungry
hordes. Whatever mono* tb« govern
ment issues ou>. must be collected
t'roni soinelKHly, an dthe mode of legis
latiou collects it from the very poo
pie who have necessarily struggled to
get what t.hev have. One trouble is
that we have allowed the foretifn
countries to dump their irrespoasibl
hungry, paup^'r |al or on our slkortw
without let or hindrance, moro than
. . , . a million a year, for the last, ten years,
i that *15,000,00O smelter the aver-.or* within a tew feet of the high • That ht*t0 bo it0 d> uuti, we cnB
. _ .t. f . . . 1. — _ «■ I r\ i.\m 1 It lit n 4 n i-vi, 4 A ft* ik Mr*
essential di.sttn-.! age working man who is a pro-'power wires which these towers
"v i values, we nroU-poetor and finds a small mining carry, was killed. The farmers of
1 property is absolutely in the grip Tt;xas not^ jnst as much protec-
t least tak0 care of the hungry that
nre already within our territorv
T do no recall a previous letter from
peop e of Otir incur- vou w();|^ th,, letters In answer to
Your
l..thing, shelter and
detective iVatw uj>s. Any ReVl
reader with a dollar to spare
would do well to send it to the sec-
retary mentioned above.—Ed. Tho
Rebel.)
values i: enabled to li.--, 1 ot by toil-*
ug, but by stib'iin^:. With every in
uv receut leter wer^ coming in at a
tools and must be socially owne I. proteetion lies in demanding or- rate of from fwo to four hundrftd a
The failure to recognide this great, ganized labor m the construction (, .f DW,^ry to i:onftne thf
Mr. T. A. Iliekey, E<l«tor
• Dear Sir:—
Conditions in North X?xa8 are
Says Thomas Paine: '•'Society
in every state is a blessing, but
government.,leven in its best.state,
is but a necessary evil; in its worst
state, an intolerable one. The
trade of governing has always
ieeh monopolized by tbe most
•rant and the most rascally in-
ividuals of mankind."
sociological truth is what -renders ■ of thes<' towers
the single tax propaganda of j Internatioanl Brotherhood of El-
little if any value to the working ( oetrioal Workers,
crease in the population, the owners . lass of the nation. We must hive j
of th< valuable sites, euu demand | free land, true, we also must have:
'(.neater and tribute. TVua Vs free tools.—-Ed. The Rebel.)
soi'ety ipvidtsl in-1 i-ile;s and spoil-1 <m o tm
into pnlaces and slun>«. Mgetting The Fwt Worth Record asks:Net- forth in the above article, and
:i civilization, not n breiUerhood, not j "('an a man accept Socialism and (being a subscriber* of your paper
of fellow feeling, but of severance and j believe in God?" The Reliel asks:lrnd a member of Tbe Brother
hostility - condition fatal tv the m 1 !"Can a man refuse to accept So*|hood of Electrical Workers, we
bility of the true freedom, %f rue rc j eialism an<J believe iQ Oo<l?" To j are sending it with the hope that
ligion. and of successful civilization, j help out all who desire an answer j you will see fit to publish it.
To tax people for producing is to j to these questions wo would sug J. D. Judd
penalize the honest usfl of the land ; gest that they might look up Gen. J. 0. "Wright
and to encourage ts dibhinest o«e oft 1:26-28; Lev. 25:2^: Isa. 2p4 lind H. B. 5 now
the land' and to encourage its dishon 1 The Acta 4:34-85. |^' Ft. Worth. 1129 E. Terrell.
office force to responding to the ro
quests for various publications until
that was attended to. Kvery letter
shall b« answered, though there has
necessarily btvn some delay. Assnra
'oil' you that I shall be glad Jo hear
frurn you af an ytime, and to sewe
yon whenever possible, I am,
Very truly yours
Oscar Callaway.
Tlie young man that writes the
ai-tielm for the Fort Worth Twins
Radfoad and l^ wis, is very busy
thi'Se days. Ban|jer Fcrgoson
must have a verj* big bank roll.
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