The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 6, 1912 Page: 3 of 4
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IWth, Ark., April 2.-
first Socialist mayor in Ar
„ was elected today when
Stewart was elected to that
at Hartford, this county,
both a democrat and jn-
ient. • ; ••* ;
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county, Teiss. If you want
organised in your neigh-
please write the county
F. E. Younger at
Texas. Thanking you in
vancc, I am. yours till the bat-
F. B. Younger."
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i Rev. John,,:
Hardin Co.,
engaged to
in TexaiL
*nd Louisiana for the past
writes us saying that it
knowledge of the Golden
as recorded in Matthew
#8> tod a perusal
~ " caused him
tit party. Ahyl
Bible and the
walk the
the Rebel
the soeial-
the
to
narrow
rs over.
National Convention will
be held in the South. A re-
jit national referendum vote has
Rered the convention toHie held
Indianapolis, instead of OL.L-
aa City. The votes stood, for
lianapolis 4 22,501; for Okla-
na City, 11,521.
• • .•
he Public Ownership, a so-
ilist paper published at Balti-
jre, Md., correctly remarked
week:
'You cannot crush an idea by
shing the person who holds it \
must first catch the idea,and
py if it be untrue can it be
shed. ~T
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T. Echols, of Mullen Texas,
ites: "With some other wage-
Jves I built a store for a Dem-
itic hutcher in thia town. .He
lid us off in beef." That gen-
nan is in John H. Kirby's
He pays off his slaves in
cheap and poisoned food of bis
amissaries.
• • •
The Bennington Tribune asks if
orcraey is to blame for acts of
publicans'. The answer is, that
elephant and the donk is a hy-
beast that the plutocracy
; you couldn't find the dif-
ence between them with a mi-
cope.
• • •
F.* Stanton, Hamlin, Tex.,
up-the present situation'
fs way: The shephard asked the
eep to lead goats to Christ,
fey do so and he takes all this
ior to himself. He gives enough
[ the glory to the sheep to l^eep
em in good working order. The
eep do the work, the shepherd
t8 the glory. "This clearly it-
erates the profit system
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|G. G. Hamilton and Elder Wil-
debated at Comanche, Ok-
homa, last month, subject: " Re-
eved that Socialism is Funda-
fentally Wrong, is Atheistic and
bntrary to the Bible."
I Mr. Wilkinson overlooked the
ct that there is one verse in the
fble, Leviticus 25:23> that de-
3ys the whole-system of capital
' if its teaching is lived up to
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|Pat Nagte of Oklahoma City
rites the Rebel: "And where
|e working class are roped with
junctions; clubbed by police
en, slugged by detectives, jailed;
"" penned;"moVed down by the
chine guns; walkl the plank,
M ascend the scaffold. Why
we the industrial fcspots this
emendous power in Jhe political
vernmeUtt"
_ t". _
[ The Dallas News on$ in a while
itiiig edi-
election
protest-
le prac-
ter to a
this
lust be
suc-
with
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Nat Hardy, editor ef the Dal-
las Lahprer, a sends the Rebel
this:
"The tenant turner though is
in a class different from all the
pest of the proletariat. He is rob-
of about five-sixths of his
when he sell his labor
power and he must pay from one-
fourth to one half to the land-
lord for the privilege of produc-
ing stuff to sell to the Capitalist
The landlord is exploited just as
meWalessly by the : Capitalist as
is the renter but he takes part of
his loss out of the,hide of his poor
tenant.
• * i/'
Dan Hogan, National Commit-
teeman for Arkansas, has made
thefollowing motion to the Na-
tional Committee: "The the sum
of one thousand tMlars be appro-
priated out of the National treas
uhy of the Socialist party to re
lieves the distress of the sixty-five
widows and 250 orphans at Mc
Curtain, Oklahoma, whose hus-
bands and fathers were murdere l
in the coal mine explosion therf
Wednesday. March 20th. That the
money appropriated be transmit-
ted to Fred W. Holt, district sec-
retary of the Mine Worker*.
(Signed) Dan Hogan, National
Committeeman for Arkansas."
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Occasionally a candidate for of-
fice on the donk ticket almost dis-
plays human intelligence. John
McLendon, candidate for the leg
islature on the democratic ticket
from Hardin County says:
"I am in favor o1"' ab-
olishing the state senate entire-
ly. If there is any good on earth
in that body, I ahve never been
able to detect it." He also a
with the Renters Union th^Ttie
state should levy a tax On idle
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BOW TEE
OR TEXAS EA8
TIONS.
The Rebel has
SPOIL
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corporate and other land sharks.
ed by the followfiog wttremely in
it ow The Rebel believes that our
thorough investigation of the land
dewjable.
many of these 35,000,000
* lived
over
GIVEN
the fact that the grfctt
recklessly given Way to
, table. After reading
tgree with tils that a
fs office is extremely
! have been honestly ae-
,/■
Watt-
Colorado,
Columbw .....
San Antonio,
• * •«•••«
Aatonio
8*a Amtomio aad Mudeu Qolf, Port Lavaea
0«1£, W«ot«rn Texaa aad Pacific Victoria to C
Waeo and NorUnw«wt«rm, Waco to Bramond.
lid be
Alloytoa
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to Saa
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■n.
Waxahaehie Tap, Waxakaehio to Qarrett...
Autia Aad tforthw«t«rn, Autia to Bara«t.....«.
Toxaa Afct HoW Orleans, Houston to Orangn
Eart Tana BaUroad, Sabine to Boanmont......
ToxaaIfMklin, Dailaa to Kauftnan...
Houston East and Woat Toias, Houston to N
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TtotaJ
. Texas aad Paclfie—
Southern Pacific, State line to Marskall ......
Texaa and Pacific, Marshall to Texarkana . ;!#* .
Texaa and Pacific, Texarkana to Sherman ....,,,..
Texas and Pacific, Sbeman to Fort Worth
Texaa and Pacific, Longriew to Sierra Blanoo .....
Texas and Pacific, Jefferson to five miles eaet
Total ....*
Internation and Great Northern—
Jnfernationa] and Great Northern, Houston to
International and Great Northern, Hearne to .
International and Great Northern, Troupe to
Houston Tap and Brazoria, Houston to Columbia .
Houston and Great Northern, Hearn to Longview .
Henderson and Overton, Henderson to Overton ...
-Georgetown Railroad, Georgetown to Bound Boek
Acres Kiles
4t,t 0 S
1,432^40 184
17
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,,160 387
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411,480 48
118,980 18
*88,720 60
1,226,880 111
891,849. 88
107 #10 . 58
787,840 188
erveiy day brings hundreds ol recruits te
middle class, s^-called. Professional assail
business men,, farmers, farm laborers, ete.
Socialism should cast 2,000,000 votes In the fall of 1912, and it
should elect a president and a vice president in 1916.
It is up ti> t&e workers, 1a city and eountry, to say whether op
not they want a government that will put an end to invshSstavy pov-
erty, With Ha products—diaeaee, crime, prostitution, drunkenness, ig-
norant and class-hatred. ^ *
It ift not any longer a Question of
but of how soon it is arising.
is earning,
FBDBKATXOXf OP SHOP
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HABRIMANK LINES.
Systems
a p.
u.p.
O.RL
O. W. B. B. * N.
8. p. L. A. S 8. L
G. H. * 8. A.
H. A T. C.
And ^llied Lines
Mr. T. A. Hicke., Editor Bebel,
EMPLOYEES |
Pres.
Avo
Cal
Of Later
J. K. fl^TWPm
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Houiton, AftlX I, t*t&
11,826.190 1061
Dear Sir: We wish to thank you for tho able maan4r Si which jou
showed «p tho Mai cause of tkfe boiler explosion in Saa
issue of March 80th. With the railroad eowpanj importing
"T
V-
562,500
5,167,860
258 899
27
69 j
154
93
634
5
5,988.319 982
'V
3,831,200
500,480
2,807,800
148,800
98.560
151
61'
441
50
141
15
10
6,380,800 472
Total -J®.-.
Mieiourii Kansas and Texas—
Dallas and Wichita, Dallas to Denton yv,.,.,. , 411,580
Ka t Line and Red River, Jefferson to Greenville 1,164,160
Denison and Southwestern, Denison to Greenville .;. 214,400
Denison and Pacific, Denison to Gainesville .... fei 426,240
Misouri, Kansas and Texas Extension, Greenville to M (-.Kinney 272,000
the majority of the newspaper insinuating tkat the |lius<
strikers. It is very encouraging to tts to find at least oai
afraid to tell the truth aad place the blame where it
to thank you tor calling the attention of tke public to the
road commissioners are aot doing their duty Is public'
state further you voice our sentiments. Perhaps a repitition
tonio disaster will be aeceeeary to wake them top er at least sham4
to doing their duty and that is almost ran to eoms aaless there is a
change in the class of mea employed in the (hops. HoptnjJ yeto %
tlnue to staad by us in our efforts to get a square deal We remain with heat
wishes four your succoss. Yours truly, —
' JOE BEBB,
Sec. Lotal Federation of Shop Employees of the Harrimaa lines.
Next Week.
Will be a sensational special Shopmen's Strike Bditlon. It will esa-
taln more inside matter regarding the situation, inclndlng a cat si the «-
plosion that no other paper in Texas wil publish. This Issue will WIS tte
strike is properly circulated. Order yood bandies now of No. 41, te a
sore that you get them.
Wi
40
124
52
40
30
REBEL MABGBING SONG.
i Write this ^office for instruc-
tion and ORGANNIZE.
Total 2,488,320
Santa Fe— y
Gulf, Colorado and 8anta Pe, Galveston to Beltoa ......... 3,259,520
Longview and Sabine Valley, Longview to Watterson 108,800
Central and Montgomery, Navasota to Montgomery 263,040
Chicago, Tekas and Mexican Central, Cleburne to Dallas ..... 225,280
W. E. McWhorton of Cisco, j The Socialists party is united and
Texas, fires in a stirring march-! working together as one in Tex- '
226
70
28
53
Cotton Belt—
Texas and St. Louis, Tyler to Waco
Total
Texas Mexican—
3,856,040
377
942,080
200
4ff8,240
07
. 1,400,320
207
J
856,680|
102
. 1,412,480
102
. 010,580
|
30
170
- 1,471,300
72
Galveston, Houston and Henderson, Houston to Galvrston
Texas Central, Waco to Albany
land. If the gentleman will pro-1 Texas Central (now Texas Midland, Ennis to Greenville) .
ceed to read The Rebel for 40 m M ,
Total ...., 3,494,400 248
Roads now extinct: J 1
Indianola Railroad 171,520
alveston, Brazos and Colorado 157,440
;usk> Transportation Company .. 76,800
Western Narrow Gauge .T........t........ '.-,J 428,160
286|ing song for Rebs, composed on
the spur of tjhe moment after
reading his first copy of The
Rebel:
Come all ye husky Rebels
Get pen and paper down(
And every mother's son of ye
Make haste into your town.
Boon there's goin' to be something
doin'
And you ought to take a part.
Take your neighbor by the hand
Plead with him hear to heart.
Rah I Raht Rah ! get subs I say.
For this young Texas giant
B«fore election day.
weeks, he will , kick that democrat-
ic donTt around until the poor
beast drops dead in Hardin coun-
ty: " :
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Summer W. Roste, the Rebel
general of Biloxi, Miss., spnds a
list of seven and a most cheering
message: "Dear Fellow Rebel:
I have just returned from making
a speech or two at Mobile, Ala.,
and while there showed the com-
rades copies of our
Total 833 920
Grand Total 35,768,918
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3,905
It's a young, but lusty giant,
Sprang out the Southern west,
Ang growed so ftot he's busted
All the buttons off his vest.
He's called a host around him
Twenty thousand men and more
And they hustle and they rustle
Bringing subs in by the score.
Rab! Rah! Rah! .get subs I say
[ For this young Texas giant
Before election day.
He's a buster, this young giant,
CONGRESS IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE. .
a By Pendxiaoni
The New York World, one of the richest capitalist daily papers, I Ye*t he never bee„ busted
SouthenTso-1 a num^)er leading Americans whether in their opinion the You can pin your faith onto him
dalist paper "amTianded the fol-1congress of the United States represents the American people as well as And you'll not mistake your trust
lowintr for a trial of the new "Re- the British parliament represents the people of Grat Britian. he ^ant8 t0 ge* yo" sub
Rah! Bah! Rah! get subs
For this young Texas giant
Before eleetion day .
Texas comrades."
• • • •
RENTERS .UNION.
Rasco, that livest of live work-
ers, organizes another local at I
macedonia, Henderson county.
■.(s&fat -a; J
Four locals chartered this week.
Soon we shall be swamped with
applications; at least that is the
way things are going,
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The question is asked if 'a, mem-
ber of the Renters Union is allow-
ed to continue to rent under the
terms of contracts entered into
this year. We answer: Yes.
however, the contracts for 1913
everything "else in history, and now they jure building an economic and
political movement that in the near future will sweep away the Con-
cress of the industrial plutocracy and establish the Congress of tho poo-
fre. ' ' S>''" -
'EUGENE V. DEBS.'
THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM.
Socialism iB coming into power gradually, by winning control ef
will have to be in line with the our governments. Cities first, then states, then the nation. The work-
^ yt _• lUniiAw _ i a' £ !A XI 1^11 .LJ iL. 1 M. « a11 V^itwn
Renters Union constitution.
• • •
Poteet, (Atascosa) Tex., kar.2$
E. O, Meitren, Sec. ft. U., Hal-
lettsville, Texas.
Dear Sir: We are a landlord
ridden lot down here. The land
around Poteet belonging to a very
few landlords. We pay 1-3 or<>P
on truck land and orir rent last
era of America furnish the skill and the brains, as well as the brawn,
that runs all our industries fbr the private owners, the pro!
bers. The same men can run them, and run them better, under pub-
lic ownership. That wing of the party—a small Wing, fortunately,—
which advocates "direct action," that is, violence, and which scoffs at
political action" majority, is either secretly in the pay of the
masterclass, trying to discredit the whole worfdng ctaas political move-
ment, or is too savage-minded to understand that progress must be
made along orderly, peaceful lines.
* • / /*., ,, , As Socialism steadily and surely converts a majority in each and
paid landlord * per ^ of the tmion8( that majority will see the necessity of indt -
while we went $4 in e I triAl unionism—of federating the separate unions for united indus-
send us an organizer or instruc-
tions how to organize. We can
er of an unmuzled newspaper.
Respt. /oursi
John Scarborough.
trial and'political action. Presently—it won't be lbng—the solid mem-
bership of all the labor unions wiU be a Socialist phalanx. The separ-
ate unions will then quit scabbing on each oth^, industrially and po-
lineally. They will movie forward solidly.
AWFUL TO BE POOR.
bel yell" for forty weeks each. This reminds me of one night \tfhen, we two sitting on a moonlit 'jh^a°nu"warmer'circle
I think these comrades,. after I ganery jn Hallcttsville, Tom Hiekey remarked (quoting some German | Ag the iover doeg hig bride.
reading one or two' ues, wi ISocialist whose name I do not now recall,) that in all countries "the
yet further extend your circula- '
tion where it ought to go. With government is the executive committee of the ruling class.
the coming of good weather, Uo-j That was one of those extraordinary sentences which like a flash
cialist work, will begin in earn- 0f sheet lightning on a dark night, illuminate a whole field hitherto
est, and there will be many op- obscure
portunities to put your bright, But what I wished here to do was to quote, for The Rebel's read-'
dcTthe1 mostPgood. Vwt Whealers> the ^ which Comrade Eugene V. Del made to the World's
for you, your force, andt all the inquiry. He wrote:
"To the Editor of The World:
"Congress represents the ruling ciass and jot the people: the Sen-
ate especially represents'industrial and finan ial corpora'.ici.s and not
political cnoti'tdenciee. The very existei'CO^of that body is I.Uo denial
of fundamental democracy. i
"From the viewpoint of the interests that control Congress the
people are the mob, to which they refer with iU-concealed contempt.
Congress is at heart aristocratic, not democratic; it represents capital,
not labor, property interests and not the people, and this is the basic
reason for the widespread agitation and unrest.
4'The people are getting their eyes open to the fact that Congress
and the whole machinery of government is in control of predatory
wealth. From my point of view the working class are the people,
Without them the whole social fibrifl would collapse. They have built
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George D. Putnam, of Gordon,
Texas, a young Rebel, who is in-
teligently helping to abolish the
system that grinds him doWn,
this wise :
I have always been a poor boy
And worked on the farm,
And every morning at four o'clock
Was wakened by the alarm.
8o I'd start out td'the field
With old Mike and Mandy
I would look for the sun
And all I could say:
It's h—1 to be poor and awful un-
handy.' (*
But now I've grown to be a man.
And must work for wages,
When.I can't reut^land. , •_ ,
Bvery morning when the clock strikes
four . u ..
Ill stretek and say:
"111 work for wages no more;
"It's h—1 and unhandy to be poor.
REBEL ACHIEVEMENTS.
as. The results in March show *
what united effort will do.
This office is BwampM with
correspondence. ^|e are work-
ing day and night trying te keep
our head above the flood which
at times threatens to overwhelm
us, and causes a feeling of de-
spair, but an occasional bouquet
floats our way laden with the
perfume of brotherhood from
some comrade who understands,
which crystalizes our despair in-
to determination to fight on and
on. Thanks comrades for the
bouquets. We dearly love flow-
ers.
John B. Yarbrough ordered
two hundred and fifty-six dues
stamps in March for Angelina
county. He says the piney woods
are turning red mighty fast
Foard county orgnaized, Mar.
23, R. H. Davis, Thalia, Se«. they
will hold another mass meeting at
Crowell April 13.
Socialists Of Knox county are
earnestly requested to meet at
Benjamin, April 20th at 10 a. m.
Important business. J.M . Shaw.
The Aspenriont Star printed a
half column notice of the Stone-
wall county mass meeting T'd
boys up there are dtoing things.
Comrade J. B. Triplett, county
secretary of Bowie county* re-
reports that in spite of a heavy
downpour of rain an enthusiastic
and well attended mass meeting
was held in that county on Mar.
23rd. , - ^
Another meeting is called for
April 27 at the counrtheuse in
that county.
Comrade J. L. Hicks is making
heroic efforts to get a square deal
from the old jSarty press in Texas.
He writes: "I have just mail-
ed a copy of the Appeal to the
Ft. Worth Record, with articles
denying suspension marked, and
a short letter pointing out their
duty. Am doing the Abilene
Daily Reporter the same way.
Ain't it a shame!"
San Saba county organised and
will employ a speaker to school-
house MU'r.paign the coujty
On account of $ wounded eye
W. E. Webb has been forced to
resign as secretary of Cherekee
county and W. M. Johaaen of
Reese has been eleeted in his
stead. 1
Comrade Dreyer's monthly re-
port shows an increase df'Aoteen
members for March, wfctth he
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One Rebel editor smashed the
Sweatbox in Waco ; the other de-
stroyed the bull whip in tl\e State
penitentiaries. Accomplishing
deeds for humanity like that
inakea life worth living.
STATE LOCALS. $
(E. A. Green, State See.)
Ninety new charters issued in
the month of March, as
many as were ever issued in any
one ndfcth in the history of the
movement in the state. list's April
Fool the plutes by making it
hundred this month,
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says are the
work while in r
Currie's speech
half column in
News.
County Secretary
Hunt county caUa a:
to assemble Apr* ~
vile o/er tho '
All Socialists are
there.
Reddia Ardrews in So^qaerviDe
county, direction ef county secre-
tary TO dsys April 8 to 30.
20. .
Organize.
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 6, 1912, newspaper, April 6, 1912; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth395070/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.