The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 248, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 29, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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SATURDAY, APRIL . Mil
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from the republic
Tie Rebel is in receipt of the following from
Hamilton, who has just finWbed a series of debates
aviator in Oklahoma, particulars of which was given
issue. Comrade Hamfltesi writes:
George Gilbert
with a clerical
in our last
Muck
A Real Christian
Gone.
m
of Vm that his day ie done in
bo. Every foreign concese-
of land like that of *****
Otis is already confiscated
every landholder who has
with Diaz or Hoerta has
.je lost out,.
M fast as'the Carranza govern-
nt can get to it, use and occu-
ncy is being made the title to
*d and agricultural bankg back-
by the state are being organiz-
Thus the landhog and his
lOther, the usurer, two of the
orst parasites that ever afflict-
1 humanity are being put out of
in the land of Monte-
Arid still the chase goes on in
that tremendous domain bigger
turn moat of the nations of Eur-
ape combined, known as western
Canada. The farmers have en-
acted laws exempting from taxa-
tion all improvements and then
teacher*: THERE WAS NOT ONE SOLITARY PARMER,
MECHANIC, DAY LABORER OR WORKINOMAN WHO OP-
POSED THE SOCIALIST PHILOSOPHY AND IN NOT ONE
OP THESE DEBATES WAS THE QUESTION OP FREE LOVE
OR CLERICALISM RAISED BY EITHER SIDE.
Go into this "dirt." Let us Bee where it originate*. In the
spring of 1910 when the Socialist party began to grow strong in
Oklahoma some pulpitless preachers and some practieeless lawyers
who had run across some Socialist literature which they did not un-
derstand went in person and by letter before the stato executive
committee 0f the Democratic party in Oklahoma City and later
through them to the Donk campaign committee claiming that they
could whip the Socialists in debate because they could take passages ,— — --.. .".
from Socialists pamphlets and speeches, twist them out of their con-1 ing the lone socialist in
text and thereby persuade gullible farmers and tenants who were i tion of the country.
growing restive under Donk control, that the Socialists wove atheists, \ He was a true follower af the
infidels, free lovers and homo wreckers, with the result that they j Judean Carpenter. gave all
could be kept in line for the landlords and usurers who were ac- he had, and best of all HE JAVh
. , . , . . a r .1 i«nj ««r\t• Ifi_ ! II I vlviitm .u1 t.k thA nnnr Ma Pi',*
Word coraee to
Father Haire of .
Dakota kas died.
pioneer socialist in _ ——■—
and many a socialist whe twvekfi
in that direction was given feed
and shelter, a k«arty hand riasp
and a w0"' of sheer by An fatal
priest wko has javt Wen MM to
rest.
Almost twenty five jmm (|> I
first met Father Haiaa. 1 had
hoard of him even bsfeie imrt as
the priest who waa loved by
poor and unfortunate end M be-
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Snyder, Okla, April 15, 1916.
Doer Meitzen:
I only received your letter of the 6th on yesterday. Al-
ready having my slate full for four months, there is no reason
now why I should join the S. S. L. S.t though I have for years
advocated something along the line that Comrade Bell is now
inaugurating. Later on I may go into it. Anyway I thank you
for your kindly interest. , ,
Say! Get next to Witcher's chief backer, *- -•
I had it from a comrade at Lone Wolf, Okla., who knew this guy
years ago; that he seduced a girl some years ago m
Texas, and that he married in the court room at Hulsboro m
th^giri ^ou^rc^n^^p^osition^to^/at^he Vtujts il! this case, j could be kept in line for the landlords and usurers who were ac-! hehadand best or all H
the^Yo aren p ^ ^ ^ homes by means of usury and land specula-£
th^DflScil'0 rve a hundred Tr more debates within the j ' This sounded good to the Democratic campaign managers "Lea Miscrables. Ho sought
?°Jf ff«ir vpflTN all of which with only two exceptions, have with the result that a flock of busted preachers and lazy lawyers out the suffering and sorrowing,
** ,0nr. I"™' l.!.-V.;. IvLLtic means of mak- | «r„ iurned loo* to delate upon . object that they knew .^rojjjent .11 In. Urn. m >uMK
about than a hog knowa about mathematics . / \ , i Jo them, and loved thou, with all
. For the Socialist party this move wis a blessing mNlifltfuiHo. lus great heart.
The innocent people were touched to their tenderest core. They ; But ho
.dfe. i .1 5 - Laa«« iUa ilionnoiitfirt tint!
all oj. wuwm, w iu ^ * ■ _
been preachers. We must have Bome systematic means of mak-
ing investigations, verifying everything, and putting the genu-
ine dope into the hands of all the men on the road Couldnt
this be arranged through Bell's Lecture System? 1[ wil^ con-
tribute $1.00 a mouth, more if nccssary, to support this part ol
the work. If these intellectual prostitutes want a dirty Iignt,
let's give it to W
Yours for the Restoration,
Geo. G. Hamilton.
To the last paragraph, which is the^eat of th<a letter^ The
tion all improvements ana men i Rebel will say we are not going into a ^*7 *®at. W«
thev struck the landhog between engaged jn the biggest and cleanesl fight m the world s
il <0P«-ta « «• XTofit if w.do prove by U written otfioM roeorfthat thm
aaut land. Stoughton Coolay. aa- &re more preacbera in tbe penitontianes of | nmika
aociateeditor of tbe Chicago Pub-1tb« 8outh in general than there are bartenderal The DonU
He in the laat iaaue write8 on the hftve aiready done thia. Hugh Pitigeraid, when ® -.fher
•anadiao iitnation oa followe: ^ Dallas Timea Herald, in June, 1909, P^b"b«J 'bi8 t*
Mention" ba,
M^'ind tCTfarSSjfe- m mpuUed bjr ^big
ing the land speculators work, daily. <« a.. «Bht" with this clerical carrion t Not in a
For not only do those fanners Go into a vnj W" prilosophy, platform, na-
exempt improvements from tax-1 million years. Did we e , . wives and children then.
SC? but they put a super tax tional, county or state or ^ bonor of our wwes and ^ eQ.
on vacant land, which makes Ls a matter of course we would ei^Y^ we wj ^ ^
using more profitable than land gage in a contest with those who f Qur very
speculating. Now public atten- L call to enough to save us to
tion has turned to the tariff existence, and while doi g , Donald Lowry, says of
that adds from 27 to 35 per cent point out what the expe on ''When the trusties see a
to the farm machinery bought Uan Quentin, (Cal.) penitentiary, with a bible under his
in the United States. The
man come in through the gates as a been convicted of
farmers over there have beeu arm he is always ^^^Ynd'when a similar hypocrite arose in
unable to persuade themselves a cnme against womanhood. Qod that he wa8 not a night
that the "foreigner pays the the^rison chapel on Sunday to ^ he wled ar0Und his
tax." And to show them how prowler it was found he wm in prison
much th« tax amounts to, and daughter's bed and ruined her. suffices iis that there
to keep them in mind.of it, the No, wo repeat th- JS. party since it.
Grain Growers' Association has ig not a national platform drafted oy ^ indirectly calls for
had little aluminum discs madeJ birth? nor a state, cityof the home, whether by pro-
stating the amount of tariff tbe abolition of marriage, the ^ AND THIS STATEMENT
that enters into the cost ofvar- raiscuity amongthesex^ STATES, BUT IN EV-
ious farm implements. Theee qqES FOR NOT WHjY THE ROME, AND FROM
discs are tacked on the farmer s jjRY PLATFORM FROM__ NmTpQT)jjg
machinery, where h« will ^ SAN FRANCISCO TO ™E 4 fight t" Let ua look at the
every time he uses the Shall we engage in this ™™y « ( The Rebel was
- ■ 1 situation from another ^Secretary W J.
niwitnimr under the managemen /iain-m durinK
The innocent people were touched to their tenderest core W . nu.no not only sympaUj^d
swarmed thousands aim*?, to hear tho discussion, and the Socialist, ; with the poor, he told them WH\
knowing his philosophy striped tho hide of the preacher and law-; tliey were poor and how they
y^To the amusement and delist of the innocent Donk with the re- ; might put an end to their pov«rty
suit that the Socialist movement steadily grew in Oklahoma and in , by uniting in their might agabst
Texas when the Oklahoma propagandists crossed tho state line. ; the capitalist ^etem
It is significant that the older capitalist, heads such as in Md- lishing in its stead tf* se«a.uit
w«,hee wherfwe elected a mayor this month, never bad one word | co-operative commonweal^.
borne wrecking. The old part,ea Patter Haire «, u*
. ,ui. K„«t-nru nnil nduntml crooks tried to
them
implement,
hie
When he mounts
^ plow cultivator or
harvester, and reads on the lit-
tle disc that 65 per cent of the
price ie implement and 35 per
cent is tax, it seta him to think-
ing—and thinking ia the death
of Privilege.- i . f m
To make the chaao of the land- By holding the gJt of God to w
hog mMt^rofitable we should en- Through parchment, writ with
act as speedily as possible Mexi- pen. nrnhan and
oan and Canadian legislation in He b^s robbed the orp
the Southern states from which, widow, ,
without doubt, the chase would And left our youth ^ ^
move with irresistible. force uito He has run the nati
tfie middle west and the northern earth, ,
and eastern states. So now men | Kaiser, khan, king, czar a
now get busy in Dixie. We can't
situation from another ang . m t 0f Stete Secretary
state organiser under the ^ Meitzen (1910-11) during
Bell (1909) and State ^thout even ten days vacation
which years he trav^TlialiBt party of Texas he engaged m 41
as state organizer of the ^^ V jachers, 16 lawyers and two
debates. Our opponents were:
NCREASED LAND VALVES.
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afford to stay idle when on the
northwestern and southern bor-
ders of our nation the landhog is
being annihilated. While prepar-
ing for the fray let's clear our
threats and sing our battle song:..
Come gather in council, ye land-
less men. .
We must plan for a hunt today,
day,
Come load that Land Tax gun of
yours,
Tis the one that will surely slay,
For the beast that we stalk is big
and strong,
The landhog usurer clan.
The bloated landhog, the sun of a
gun.
The hog that walks like a man,
And this is the story: For ages
past,
He has grown fat in the blood of
men L
But now we are tracking him to
his lair.
Though it be in a palace grand.
We have gathered together a
mighty host .
To take back our own fair land,
S0 that he who toils in the sweat
of his face % ,
As the word of the^Lord demands
Shall forever be free on the land
and sea,
Is the cry of our valiant band.
We are chasing them west,
We are chasing them south
And as far as the young men go.
To Afric's sands and the Ama-
zon mouth
And up to the Arctic snow
Through valley and hill foreswore
to kill.
That is our one and only plan,
He must die like a dog, the mean
landhog.
Th« hog that walks like a man.
fET'United States Department
of Agriculture shows that farm
land values are increasing by
leaps and pounds. The Daily Ok-
lahoman. Gal-Dai News, St. Louis
Republic, The Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Herald, and various
chambers of commerce construc
this!las an indication of great pros-
perity.
In a measure the gentlemen are
correct. When land values in-
crease by leaps and bounds there
is undoubtedly great prrjperity
for the land speculator,'but how
about the city worker who has
skimped and toiled for years or
the widow with an insurance po-
licy wh0 wishes to "buy a nice
little home in the country with
increasing land values her ton
hopes diminish to the vanishing
point. |
How about the tenant who has
struggled under the most adverse
conditions for years and worked
his wife and children almost i0
death to secure a home. There is
no prosperity for him in this land
valne increase. The same is true
of the children of the small farm
owners.
to sav about free love, iree nisi or uume -■ r--
dominated by the landlord banker, and industrial crooks tried to
Se an issue of the American flag and had the everlasting juice bea<
°Ut Jhemwii meenSo°fC1Uie mt, meaning by that the big campaign
ooliticians of Chicago, where we doubled our vote at the last elec
ton and elected aldermanic candidates, have foUowed the lcad^f
Smithsonian Institute, which.ia Part and parcel of the national gov-
£, w "i ji «" • "S.gffSKSrt'K
"tt JTouS™. S IDEA of imfEDIATE STERNA-
"SsSkS
liitioo. . appear that it were a good tbiog to debate
with tlfc Dont plcbL and lawyer,, the acribe, and phar,«. of
t0d''T' u,„ because the question that is before the people of
tbe south''u0? biologic evolution of race or color,
but is thiB question: for speculative
Are you landlords grinding the faces of the poor
purposes, are you bankcr *' robbing farmers and wageworkers
through usury, are you ^^"^r's product and high prices on
bv fixing low prices on labor or labo p ^ destroy
finished products t If ym are, how rtwjl we fftr ag The Rebel is
youT This is the only q^,°n 1^hatcoun ^ ^ robbinK the poor
concerned no false issue s i,anks and industries! Only
by the private ownership of tand and Danw a ^
that, nothing more, is t e wsitt Dixie J>as not got as much
" then we^all meet the i-ue,
^r«h" r hSea but we shall not luri* th. i ue.
What wili happen 4«n. M >« ^ ^
what the Gal-Dai News pomted
out last year. The land hog will
so-
cialist to the end of his Isle. He
was to have addressed th# social-
ists ef Aberdeen a day er two af
;er death suddenly elakned hias.
Father IIaire waa a true folio*
er of Jesua Christ, a real sssiaMat
and lover of his fellow-men, ami
as noble a eool as ever iweH in
tenement ef slay.
Peace to his dust and Iwe to
his memory 1 — B. V. Defce k The
National Rip-Saw.
e • •
If all priests and preachers
were like Father Haire there
would not be so much hostility
toward the ehurehes. .. The half
empty churches would be filled
and the thousands of elosetl
churches would be reopened. Tbe
church is making a losing fight
by siding with tho capitalist clean.
Let it follow the example of
Father Haire, and it will be <o
its spiritual if not financial better-
ment.
FROM A DEMOCRATS MEN-
ATOR.
Winfield, La., April 17, MM.
Mr. T. A. Hiekey,
Hallettsville, Tex.
Dear Sir:— I notioe yen
tion in The Rebel ef 16th
I am going to learn
about Socialism, (after __
the RebeVPearaon-Reriew —-
bination). 1 desire to state Ant *
am a seeker after knowledge,
want to know something about ev-
erything. The person whe ateps
up his ears cannot hear. I swy not
agree with the Socialist p*ty
r . a T .3 - lmasi YfcA
amw w«u ' -
all its measures, but I do know no
nrmtinue 'in increasing numbers j Writing in the New York Call ^arm can come from reading >
to run bis place with field hands one of tbe newspapermen who ac- Q-&hsl literature. .
«t a wage of $19 a month letting c0nipanied the Ford expedition. ^on s« you get them rea
them feed and clothe themselves thrCw a 8tr0ng light on the meth- j w0Uid be glad to have yen send
who as they go to work in the odfJ 0f the muzzled press of Am- me the 100 copies of the Taeatan
Hrwii of the morning, can calmly erica* IIe pointed out that of the Land Story". There meat be
nn the marvelous prosper!- newspaper correspondents on gomething done to brea
awn of the morning, can calmly erica> He pointed out that of the Ijftnd Story". There mast be
^flent on the marvelous prospen- l6 n0WHpaper correspondents on something done to break tbe taa
' for the other fellow. I the boat a majority of them had monopoly of this eountiy.
f ! instruction from their editors to Am enclosing herewith seme ar
# # * j belittle the move in every possible tideg 0f mine which as soosi as
rm.. tt^u^i Hpnate has wav. Not only that, but when j^ve time look t em .
refl
ty
instruction from their editors to enclosing herewith seme ar
belittle tlie move in every possible tielc(1 0f mine which as soosi as
The United States senate has way. Not only that but when you haVe time look t ess .
voted down Congressman Bailey's tho copy was received it was re- pleagc retuni stamps en •
(of Pennsylvania) amendment to written in the home offices. Facts thcir return. Your^truly,
(01 ruiiaji it O, -.-Mwl and twisted and lws
the Alaskan railroad bill. This
amendment provided for the taxa-
tion of the lands benefited by the
road to pay for the cost of con-
struction. The congressman con-
tended that this could be easily
done but he found it couldn t be
done at all because the landhog
senators were blocking the way.
It appears that Congressman Bai-
ley is too good a man to stay m
the Democratic party. He should
join the Socialist party and smash
from without.
A man without an ideal of a
better social system is a clod al-
ready dead though he knowi it
not.
Yf ilLldl ia* ^ w— -
were garbled and twisted and li^s
manufactured out of whole cloth
so that some of the correspond-
ents did not know their own stuff
when they saw it. Stories of al-
toted dissensions were all fate, '^"Bonrlx.n b™thren
Thia ia the wav the public well of type tn n al** ivt#
taCaton potooned by pin- It is letter, snob ft-T
♦ rt/inxr 'c mininnfl RoVCOtt
S. J. Harper.
(Mr. Harper is a member ef
the state senate of Louisiana, bat,
as his letter and article* weald in-
dicate, is of a m°re progressive
tocracy's minions. Boycott the
muzzled press. Don't allow the
foul sheets in your homes. «
Next thing we hear is thit
President Yuan Shi Kai is leaving
China for "our" hospitable
shores, for Doctor Sun is sure
making it hot for him and hisn.
"My Country, 'tis of thee!"
sage the gathering stona against
landlordism that will boob sweep
the Sunny South, thanks to The
Rebel's agitation.
Poverty is the crime of srimes,
the sin q{ sins, the enemy of all
.is good ancf grand and nehle and
lovely. Help us to banish the hid-
eous thing from this beautiful
world.
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 248, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 29, 1916, newspaper, April 29, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth395084/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.