The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 6, 1912 Page: 1 of 4
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JEHOVAH BOANERGES
the Baptist Stand-
~ Boanerges
J. Killion, a
Minister of Christ atSweetwatar,
Texas, bare been havingsome ik.
correspondence over the
ara .brothers. The Rever-
Cranfill first published an
* * at the Baptist Standard
th£ MoNamaras a* So
cialists and for about all the
things he could think about. Mri
Killion wrote him a reply setting
forth the well khown foot that tte
McNamaras were democrats and
mm$' hw that his Wild accusa-
tions against Socialism were falav
fitted with the spirit of
r Christ (1) declined to
publish a retraction, refused to
meet any Socialist in debate and
lifesChfiitian gentleman fIT Mid
that he was not afriaid of Mr. Kil
Son and that he had heard it thun
der before, as forsooth that settled
the matter. ^
Elder Killion Writes: "When a
preacher publishes such a batch of
pure slander as the following and
Smu when his attention is called to
the want of truth in hi* imputa
tions, and replies that he is not con-
scious of having done anyone an
injustice, that he is not intimidated
by my militant epistle, that it is
only thunder, etc., there can be no
[ defense made for him.
at Will every Baptist that
has any regard for truth, and is not
so narrow as to hate everyone who
may differ with them, think of this
their Goliath. If he were a back-
woods farmer and did not make
micji nigh pretensions to morality,
wisdom, Christian piety, etc.," ;.t
would not look so ugly."
' Now let every Baptist that reads
thifl consider the following: Cran-
fil charges that the McNamaras are
Socialists. As Socialists we deny
it and demand the proof. He has
refused to substantiate his charge
or to apologize for his slander.
Hie Rebel
wishes to make it plain that Cran
fill, Rankin, Tooraey, of the Dalles
News, Ousley of the Ft. Worth
Record, Bailey of the Houston Post
and all the other gutter snipes of
the muzzled press have thoroughly
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Democratic party was their chief
defender and that the Socialists
were hair-brained freaks. Believing
this lie J. J. McNamara when sec-
retary of the fridge and structural
ron Workers fought With all the
vigor of his big manhood against
to as only because we tit an oar knee*—LIT US ARXSB.
SV1LLE, TEXAS,
T. A. HKHKX7, Editor and Owner
60o pr yr; clubs of 4 (10 wks) Me
THIS IS NO. 40
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his "brother." Hf jad not realise
that this is not an individual fight
rat that it is a tvinendous fight
between two great economic clas-
ses in a nation. Hence in his fight
McNamara makes use of
dynamite to kill off his "broth-
er." The Socialists with their
footsteps lighted by the lamps of
science know what would happen.
In the flash of the Times explos-
ion they but wad a little clearer
the story of the class war and
when the MoNamaras "brothers"
; ailed them we did not pause to
question why but sprang instant-
ly to their assistance for they
were of our flesh, blood of our
blood, they were our kith and kin.
What mattered it if they used
ist Fought
[whip.
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For more than half a eent
naked backs of state prisoners in'1
men, white and* black alike, ha*
ground face down and lashed into
guards, for trifling infractions off
than being too side to do as much'
to be done. Man after man has'
ed from his injuries. The legislate
last of several'-revealed a eondt
and prisons that would have
est Africa. Whke men, guards,
beat up helpless prisoners as a mat
huge leather bats an inch thick,
seven feet long. Bow some of th
stroke, and could knock a man
told hew they drew the bat under
sand into the leather and make it
Convicts--* lfi<ge number of them
tigating committee and showed rol
—scars that nothing could take
dynamite in this struggle! Did "&««* whipped more Han twenty
not the capitalists use dynamite in
POLITICS, THE PRESS AND FIVE MINUTE SERMON.
THE STtUKE. |
I "Art thou ctUUd being a wr-
(By Nat. L. Hardy.) w n*f Core not for ii but if tkom
At my d«k M editor .t th.
Laborer I come in contact with er- 1 Lor- 5JU\
many union men and officiala of - . Here name is given to the twa
various unions. They have ail ex- conditiona in which is bounded
praised great amazement at the the whole cope of man's mortal
amount of inside information on li'«- That of servant and the a -
the Hanjm&a, strike and the San titheeie--one f ee in chooaing ta
Antonio boiler explosion that The direct his mina, feeling and ao-
Rebel has carried, when the Dal- tions.
las daily papers have said so lit- We believe man was tree in his
tie, and some have hinted at dy- first or created state. He being
namite, but .it was easy to ex- the highest in the' order of crea-
plain to then that it wiu only ; tion, no limits eould oppose hia
proof of the Socialist theory of natural liberties until he could be
economic determinism. {associated with other beings ef
The Dallas News, Dispatch and the same high order of creation.
Tunes-Herald
pers. Their purpose is to
Uwhip has beeirused on the
penitentiaries. Hundreds of
stripped, thrown onto the
ribbons by savage, ignorant
rules, or for no worse offense
«ss the prison guards required
beaten that death result-
veatigation keld in 1909—the
l.rutality in the convict camps
gang of black savages in dark-
i and captain^ told how they
daily routine; how they used
four inches wide and five to
d lay open the flesh at every
in three or four licks. Some
oot on a sanded floor to grind
flesh more keenly and deeply.
1 their backs before the inVes-
ridges of scars left by the lash
One man was found to have
in two yeartj guards got a
the whiskey distillery war in
Chicago in 1887) Did not the
private detectives employed by
the railroads burn the cars on
the rip track in Chicago in 1894
in the Debs A. R. U. strike did not
John D. Rockefeller Jr., and
Senator Simon Guggenheim ef
Colorado employ private detec-
tives to destroy life and proper-
ty in that state during the Coy-
orado labor wart (Read Chap-
ter 20 of Senate Document 122,
58th CongresB< 3rd Session) Read
Chas. Edward Russell's story in
in Hampton's Magazine on the
Millionaire Gambler's war in
Chicago where forty-three build-
ings were dynamited in eighteen
months and not an arrest was
made. In short the official rec-
ord reveals this fact that the Mc-
Namaras simply learned how to
dynamitj; from their capitalist
"brothers" who control, because
they own the courts, the congress,
the pulpit and the press <}f the
'•a. a . r •* AWTItl ja 4-W\a I ■%.' 1 lllift
mitiou. Knowing tWs, manlike, couldn't understand how pir;
we went to the assistance of our
erring brothers. We knew their
heart was right, they were not
degenerate or depraved, they
fought a brave battle by the
light as they saw it. while
grudge against him; they set out to 'break his pride"—make him
"crawl."l He was a man of wondtfp^ stubborn spirit—but they got
him at last—made a pitiful cringing Hp-etch of Mm, a horrible parody
on a.human being. And they handiwork with prid .
The investigating legislators were sickened by what they saw and
heard. They were determined, when ,tVy got near the finish, to ab-
olish the whip in the prisons; they rctfpyed, as the prison management
of Texas had never realized, that it was a ghastly crime fon^he state to
make vengeance the main aim in ps$sons, and not reformation. So
they went back to the next legislative session and started to draw up
a prison law that would make refbrmeition and not vengeance the main
aim of the prison system,
They endorsed the central idea of Socialism by ordering the prison
system to quit leasing convicts to private exploiters for private profit.
This private profit graft was respons$e for most of the slave-driving
brutality—not all of it; some of it wsi due to the eff«rts of politicians
to "make a good financial record" id'building and operating a state
railroad and state iron foundries, i"
the whip.
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Then the grafters got busy, Th*y fought to save their convict
leases, and fought to get authority for the new prison commission to
make new peases. Failing in this, tpey set their brutal mark upon
the law by fighting the bullwhip back into it. They got a majority of
the legislature to consent to a limited use of the bullwhip—a limit of
twenty licks when they well knew thai men had been cut to pieces with
less than ten and killed with less than#wenty. These grafting savages
d they drew the bill to abolish
This, in the destiny of man, has
hsppened. ———r-^v—
To balance the inevitable loea
of absolute freedom man Waa (by
chance?) created a social being
Philosophers are delighted to
think on these endowments of man.
Yea, skeptics approach them
(with lighted candle) to view tha
plan. The argument becomes too
etherial for purposes and
so we must now move to a mora
common ground
are capitalist pa-
sup-
port the capitalist system and
they have no other reason for
existence and no matter how hon-
est and sincero their editors are
and how hard they try to truth-
fully chronicle the day's happen-
ings it is inevitable that they pub?
lish the news and interpret it for
the ben-ifit of the capitalist class
As they seek they find and so
it is with Socialist -papers. They
are published for the benefit of; We know that man, at the last,
the working clas and draw their jg ie£t t0 ^rk out his own salva-
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yr ■
support from them and they,
very naturally seek and publish
news that is of value to the work-
ing class. That is why the editor
of The Rebel, traveling all the
time, making seven or eight
tion. Even with the light from
Heaven to snide him in the path
to happiness here, and his hope
for eternity revived in a resur-
rected Christ, he is yet living ha
the midst of despair, disorder and
speeches per week and working. hatred where there should be joy
under all sorts of difficulties has. an<j harmony and love. Of all
been able to scoop evpry daily, animals he lives in greatest dread
paper in Texas on the biggest of c0,ning to want for his daily
bread.
Christian, in this fair land of
lours with its productive soil, and
news story of the year.
Hero is the situation as I w it
in Texas: There is a strike of
lied about this McNamara case these cowardly, whining lickspit-
from the beginning. As editors they tie Cranfills, Rankins, Toomeys,
should know the written record i- Ousleys and Baileys continue to
not questioned. And that record hurl" their poison shafts at the
is: First, that neither Qf the Mc- men who are down and out be-
Namara brothers have ever held a cause they believed in their
card in the Socialist party, never wretched lies.
owed any allegiance to our move- j am writing this at the gateway
ment in any shape, form or man- Lf Worth and by the honor
ner, bnt on the contrary they were 0f ajj j hold dear I would rather
Democrats, voted tha.. Democratic wajj{ into the T. & P. railroad
ticket and for years in Cincinnati yar(j8 an<j strike that 614 miles
and Indianapolis they walked 0f track that leadfc to El Paso and
shoulder to shoulder, side by side wai)j eVery foot with blistered
and cheek by jowl with the Cran- feet an(j then go through Mexico
fills, Rankins, Toomeys, Ousleys and Arizona under their glorious
and Baileys of these cities, further macfcerei 8kies and on into Cal-
they went so far as to join Cathe- j£ornja where the sun dies down
lie anti-Socialist organizations,paid into a blaze of giory into the
out their good money to the same pac^jc an(j then cross the bay
and took an oath to use every mewis tQ ^t lowly penal fortress in
in their power to destroy the So- Quentin and1 lean over the
cialist movement. In the face °- [bedside of poor J. J. McNamara,
these acknowledged facts, these w^Q Btrieten with consumption,
journalistic jackals have the ef- an(J -k ^ wagted form in
frontery to charge as Cranfill has arms and gay t0 him; "Boy
done that the McNamaras were So- ^ beast got you, you tried to
cialists. >" . - , tread the ways of the jungle but
Thp question springs to the lips y0U) BOn, they got you."
of the uninformed pfeople ot the ,, d that and then
aid b " handled" without the
gun and the lash and the bloodhounds and other instruments of fear
and of torture. And the legislature let them have their way, and gov-
ernor Tom Campbell signed the bill to make it law, with the bullwhip
still in it. • ^ i
The result was a great disappointment to decent people all over
Texas who felt that the state was shamed before the world by the use of
the bullwhip. 1
Governor Colquitt came into office and appointed three prison
commissioners—Cabell, Brahan and Tittle. . The use of the whip was
permitted, as before, or order signed by one or more of the commis-
sioners. It has been used often, but less frequently than when guards,
sergeants and captains laid it on bare backs every time they got mad
at a prisonr. .
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Convict leases were terminated as fast as they expired, and Col.
quitt's prison commission refused, by his orders, to make any new
leases. Some improvements were made in the treatment of the pris-
oners, but most of them were and still are being deprived of the major
portion of the humane betterments ordered by the new prison law. The
new prison commission seems to be lacking in business ability. It has
spent a million dollars without getting anything like what it should
have got to show for so much money. It has evaded the spirit of the
law forbidding convict leases by leasing privately owned plantations
on which it will employ convict labor. The state owns 30*000 acres of
rich farm lands. This is more than'enough, if properly worked, to oc-
cupy the time of all the prisoners the state will ever he able to send
out of tbie penitentiary walls for farm work. But the friends of the
new prison commissioners had lands which they wanted to lease. They
wanted an income without working for it. So the commissioners leas-
ed this land, and will try to inake the convicts earn not only the cost
of their own support on it, but the cash rental for the private owner
besides. The private grafters die hard They hate to let go. They
regard the convicts as fair prey for anybody that can by hook or crook
get a chance to sweat them for private profit.
.. m >■ j j . government, you have a largo
er 5000 m.le. of ra.lro.ds and the * j{ „ h w be.V
traffic on these lu.es is congesst- '' , ,.
ed the pasea^ur serviec is' , You know you do not^live the
badly crippled and trains are in- [ Christian life . We have sla-
variably from tw> to six hours ver>'m this land! and, too, in the
behind time, and what is moro ,nost vicious, soulless and perm-
important one takes his own life C10U8 fortn thftt ever blotted the
in his hand when he travels over Pa8es history. Where there
the affected lins. There aro hun- formerly existed kindly feelings
drde of men who have families to between "master" and slave"
| support that are compelled to (^10 property interest, both of
I travel over these roads when they these are now eliminated by tha
.know that it is a toss up as to thin* - Corporation;
whether they will reach their "W*
destination alive or not. Thous-1 All power over labor is in their
ands of mothers and children hands, v The wrath of the Al-
must ride these trains behind mighty abideth on any govern-
scab repaired engine that are lia-1 ment so long as, and to the ex-
ble to blow off the track at any tent it is shapened to slavery,
moment and the anxiety and men-, Don't think now Socialism
i tal strain caused the public by seeks to destroy your government,
j these conditions is enough to jus- Don't let a false patriotic zeal
>tify the state to take control of hide these conditions from you.
them to say nothing of the actual, Don't say it would destroy a
loss of life and limb that has tak- heaven-born religion. Read tho
en place. And with these eondi-1 old prophets. Isaiah 58:6: "la
tions 'the Texas Railroad Com-' not this the fast I have chosen!
missioners give the company ten to loose the bands of wickedness,
days warning when they go on an to undo the heavy burden, and
inspection tour* ride in a private to let the oppressed go free, and
car the guest of the railroad of- that ye break every yoket"
ficials and stop only fifteen min- j Christian, do not fret your
utes in a division town and then min(j yy\th the fear that graco
issue a statement to the public from earth will go and leave you
that alh is safe on the Harriman' here. I know there are higher
lines and there is not & daily pa- planes Of peace and joy than man-
per in the state bnt what prints made laws can reach—and, snre-
their statement as the result of iy( Socialism is of man.
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South, whom these editorial ™c a K . hig gi(j6 until the shadow
have fooled. Whv did the 0f death encompassed us both,
ist party spring to the defense of go(mer than be a Cranfill, a
the McNamaras? The Rankin, <a Toomey, an Ousley or
a flMh,, this- a Bailey, the kept ladies ot the
oaophy teaches us ftat there, italist class against whom
KStbo^aras bliodly fooght
their union to defend their eeo- and suffered and died.
nomic interest in that struggle, they ^ow you know why the So-
-lists fought for the McNamar-
women and children suffer, burn- as.
ed into their very soul is the im-t —■ •
preqs of this conflict, the leaders Rcv j C.; Vansickle, former
they elect are honest—the record I coimty secretary- of Tarrant couU-
shows that at le^ ninety _mne pc-- ; ,<For years ^ ig.
cent are honest but unfortunately, y . ,
work at an early norance I protested strongly
Frank Putnam of the Houston Chronicle, a Socialist and a mem-
ber of Houston local, was with the 1909 legislative investigating com-
mittee as a staff correspondent. He wrote articles which made his
name generally known throughout the prison system. Thus, when con-
victs had served out their terms, many of them went to Putnam in
Houston to tell him how the new law was not being obeyed.' Some or
them showed him their scarred backs and told him the scars thait had
been put there since the new administration came in—although the
new law expressly forbids a prison officer, whipping a prisoner, to
break the skin or draw blood.
Comrade Putnam wrote dtfwn the story told him by one man that
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life's story through the pages of a L j l openly admit that
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their youth by Harmon's Demo-1 ual side of the word of God While
cratic organ, the Cincinnati En- j realize that Socialism' does not
, the official organ of the red M be a religion ite printf.
. boo. fid. Bid haieuj ,( thiBk ,fter h,T#
to a«ure the public that every. tho ht m ■ h ;nbjeoti_
thing is all right. Then when I '
these conditions cofcainate iij the' , ff ^ /
terrific eiplosion at Sau Anton-i er t ,5 ?me "gl"eou8
,, M lyou should do all you can to
'° th« D^lff ?e71. | ra,ke yourself and others aa
bought sheeU hint at dynam. e Md mUersble „
but go no fnrUier m try.ng to iM h righteoumess fill too
put the farts before the people., earth (1), bu't mM1 1 think
The railroad managers and the . COMislent with /ourM,t. P'tni
enemies of organized labor gen- t>u^t the „pr,„,itc, "if thou
erally are stumped by the System mayest be free, use it rather";
Federation atnke. The railroad! ^ h ,lfa, 4
ic ujou wiob , employees hitherto struck one at •
went under the lash. He didn't know whether the man was telling 1 a time and it wa8 like a man goingDan Gand7-
him the exact truth'in all details, but he knew from a look at the man's imto a pugilistic encounter with, ~ —- ~~
! one finger instead of his clenched gether. He added that this was
| fist. But the men have learned
to clench their fists and the five
back that somebody had beaten him most brutally, whether it was un-
der the old or the new administration. Putnam resolved to let the peo-
ple know just how a sensi^ve white man feels under the bullwhip, with
a negro convict holding down each arm, others h°Ming down his legs
and a fifth man Sitting on his head, face down in the dirt of a cotton
patch. The story he wrota sent a thrill of horror across the continent.
It was republished verbatim, with flaring headlines in daily papers in
having to go to work at an early norance j. It wa8 republishea verbatim, witn nanng neaonnes in aaiiy paperw m
age; living in miserable surround-1 against the material side of -Waahington, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago And other cities,
ings in the great cities they read I Christianity, although a minister It stirred Governor Colquitt and bis prison-commission to prompt ac-
life's storv through the pages of a " . T onflnlv admit that tion. Governor Colquitt had an investigation made and learned the
making Socialists and that very
soon the railroad crafts would
Governor Colquitt had an investigation made and learned the
records show the man in Question was Whipped before Cplquitt took
office. But the governor wasn't satisfied with this. The more he
ftotight about it the worse he felt. He first ordered his prison com-
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all three commissioners. Then, ten days later he made public an order
to thefc to abolish the whip entirely, and^make a uf fetting along
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crafts have struck together and
Mr. Julius Kruttschmitt and his
class have felt a terrible blow and
the end is not yet. The secretary
of the Machinists union in Dallas
told me the other day that plans
were on footfeto pull every rail-
road man west of the .Mississippi
Off the works or win this strug-
gls. r'The railroad men—have
learned a lesson, he said: "They
have learned that Debs was right
when he told them twenty years
ago that they must all strike to-
not only know that they must
strike together but that they must
also vote together.
Are you going to stand for the
railroad corporations murdering
the men, women and children of
Texas with the aid of the state
administration through rotten
politics. Where do you stand f
With the Rebel and the people or
with Kmttsohmitt and his Texas
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