The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 30, 1912 Page: 3 of 4
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B&NTER8 UNION
|. 0 M4&M*, 84C.,
% Tlai work "
be* well
Countyhaa
Another leeal
at B«aU, Tpx., by
HOW RENTER8ARE fiOBBED
■ ■ Ellis county nM^i & Rrotwi I n-1
ion. If you will only wad this
letter, written by * man in the
heart of the black land belt of
Ellis county, yon will see what is
staring the renters in the fp.ee.
"I u*ed to farm and would like
to do so agaiq, but w#a forced to
go to the city to seek employment.
[ After the crop Was laid by I sat
,{al & nround until gathering time and
munticft in the third district. He
<*af one o|
in Kaufman County, a
°«° : I liKhment,, wrwd my apireofc*-
| ship. I now have a smalt lepiii
wget t.^at „w" Lhop and consequently come: ir
eligible to 1contact ^ a great irfany farm
he said he would do all beeou o 1 ^ j. know a nnmber of them in
the outside for ^ . -j this community. that have Wn
Ra**> hw bew^iKPed the fol ^ f ftnd ke{J
iowri^fif additional temtory: Navar- Jfgjthful,"butnow tfiey are working
ro, Bibs, * reestone and j e for Wages and can't reft 6fie foot
wiap ,, ■■■. ■ ,■■■!
of land. One day a sttftat/robas
young man came intomy.ahop ant
our conversation drifted to this
fact: He told me. he was working
for wages and the map he was
for had four other hands
the overseer. These five
rt_._tv,p W«ul withal®^® receiv<*d in wages one dollar
^ .f W" tor
Counties. • -
The frictipn between the land-
ownew and tenants of this state
is lowing from bad to worse. At
y#0f |®4:' «n*
county "
lin,
hawk*
are
ly thro
thii proi
nant be
1
m
3$fPV'
i
•rfe-
naxd TBE
m.
tt
drink **4 $njoy th^ good of
all hit *«&*•:—Eccles. 3:13 —
Dear friend:
We know that as a sincere
Christian you believe in "Doing
unto other! as you would have oth-
ers do unto you." You believe in
he Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man. Millions of
your brothers and sisters need your
moral support — your mental and
spiritual aid- ;>
We feel that you are fair minded
and will read this sermon and re-
ceive it# message in the kindly
spirit in which it is written. We
are sure that no "sincere Christian
can willingly and knowingly a$ in
anyway in maintaining and per-
petuating anything that is Wrong,
s&^alv:'alDd 'criildfijy^^^f;^. . . ... ,
Can you as ar<3hristian or as boh-bein n worse condition four yeaste
est ritizen, aid in maintaining and J fr^ now than it ia today. The
perpetuating tha Liquor trafficrU§mf would be true if any other
the White Slave traffic, the mur- den <'iat, or republican, should
deri,ng of children in the mills and I l$?|l<Ttt>d to the presidency. ? 1
fiu>oriest timpB this prediction without giv-
Can you support a system that is* in *h,« reasons for making it. TW
_ *11 jjsiii. ...mi j •rattlu ua fi+<a
(By Riddin Andrews.)
irow Wilson ia the moat pro-
ve presidential possibility
the democratic party have in
Hut like all the other men
names have been exploited
e democratic papers and po-
ns, he is aoft and has
little backbone. His speeches
the presidency make
easy reading, for he is
*tt r of good English, but
are largely made up of mush,
[tudes and nostrums which of-
ineffeative remedies for
malignant ailments of the
politic. ; „ ;v. ^ "
* Woodrow WjlSon should re-
1 the nominatijem by his party,
be elected,'thin country will
ondifion
"Svqn LAXQWIQQE.
Three or four of our vteak sis
Rebe
OUR REBELS.
{and when one worked they all
irR.n^lwn wki ™rked 8Dd 'thU they made even
awM* ««•> •■ « "l,ke otker*'
nesSed in Ireland and in other rack
the direct cause of poverty and all
the crimes and diseases that can be
traced, to poveijy? Can anyone be
a Christian and lend their influ-
ence in maintaining a system thnt
breaks ev«ry Csmsiffiadment of Qod
and every law of tnan! Certainly
not.
Capitalism, or the system of buy-
ile will sec and' FEEL itl ful
lit:- L,y ' ■ :
<><lrow Wilson, income re-
its, is an insincere man.. He
to the galleries for applause
g the hypocritical siibservien
if Taft, Booaevelt, Sherman,
Roman
(Mrk and 6thdfii|to th*
[I n'cj i • j if j Capitalism, or the system ot tiuj -1 hWpart'liv and knowintf that no
pounds like others. inir nd sellinff evervthinir for uro- ^ i i!
wA fnU mo hia fnthpr was the ^ , J 5 * c A: desloriat er republican can be-
He told me his father was the i ^ if, the direct _eause_ of the Q., , V H
l? "hc -'ear 420.M
may think
overseer and received in wagesU^or TRAFFIC, FOR 8A
_ t I. I aske4 him IL00N KEEPERS AND BOOT-
**** HiTa NO.
- The Honston Daitf'Chronicle, 1 asked hlnl ra!lch th® a.nf * THING ELSE, and drunkeness is
v old nartv dailiw lord paid for chopping and pick-\m
f^the nation has two editorial J?£r8.aid' for choppmg I Millions of children are murder-
oarajrraphs this week supporting and ^<2d4 for Picklng 18 the e od in the mills and factories of-the
the' principle ofuth£^Renters Union >«t ^ & ^ ut I United States for the sole reason
-Meantime, the Renters' Union] >a^e
of America, Jf Sw2n made $200 each $ 1000
S;. , « m
S«o0Pie^^y: 1^254
back of its demand for a constitut- J
ionid amendment that will cbeck L worth l $7900.00
l)w>d speculation and encourage I P
small farm ownership.'''
:'Tke average smallI Aad divide by 6)6076(840
* h "' ^of
States, unless lie secures the Cath
felt, vote, he bends the pregnant
jp>8 of the knee, beliei his
own convictions of truth and dis-
irds his knowledge of the facts
ot ifcistory, in Order to win the
ir of that vote.
^ ^hiring the month of Jfuly, 191.1,
that more ovit I *«•'« «P««h i°"1,'oh h« « '«
of labor than ut of the lahor tl'd
Forprofits. men and women es- to Speak as a historian, but he
gage in the White Slave traffic* «#« as a demagogue Among
with what terrible and sinful re- other things he said: Thei Cath
, suits all are familiar. The PROFIT olic church has always been «
$2 S24 8V8tem ig the chief cause of pover-1 great democracy. He known that
ten complained about the
recently because the simple little
word "damn" happened to creeji
into ita columns. A few more of
the "sisters" complained because
of our radical treatment of the big
events that transpire daily on the
social stage. To these good sisters
of the masculine sex the Rebel
would sifaply say that eon} pa red
to other publication our language
is mild as a spring aephyr. For
instance, one of the most stftid,
sober and thoroughly conservative
papers of the South is the Contsi-
tutioii published daily at- Atlanta;
Georgia. They are sending
through Texas this month a prom
ium in the form of ft large ai* col-
umn page of Confederate Poetry
and sohp, from which I gleam the
following beautiful effusion. Af-.
ter you have read it you w U be
able to say with Sairy Glimp:
4,Sich LangvH^gg," Wheii our
waak sisters have read this
of the "Good Old Rebel," we
thy will have sense enough t& re-
aline that there are others beside
the young rebel that holds to
strong language : -19
O, I'M A OOOO OLD REBEL.
. (By Maj. iMla JtandoIpb,)
Oh, I'pi a good old r«b*l,
Now, last's just what I am
For tfc« "Tsdr Land of Freedom"
I do not care—at all;
I 'fln glad I fit «gain t it,
I.only wl h we'd won;
And,I don't want no pardon
Fuit Anything I done.
I bates the Constitution,
Thla Great RepubHct too;
I hates the Freedman's Bnro'
Tn uniforms of bine;
I hates the nasty eagle,
I hates the Tankse Nation
And everything they do,
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too; .
1 hate* the glorious Union—
Tis dripping with our blo9d—
I hate* their striped banner,
I fit all I could. ^
Ho, ye Rebels, all you U|at rea&
the Rebel and realise . the great
work that it has done and will dor
if properly supported, listen:
Dnring the piwft eight mouths the
average gain in subecripttens has
been five hundred per week. This
lias been fine considering that dur-
ing that time the Rebel office force
has been fighting desperately to
get the mechanical, editorial, cler-
ical, and financial details i shape
and did not have time to properly
pu«h-t.he- circulation.
But we have got- to do better
than that. We hkve got t^wCeivo
on an average ot 200(1 (members
per week, in order to take Care of
the "offs" and to rocff^Ta proper
Nn-' ^ v<:' '• f,
' We aw now in shape, .i<£§Q& ihlo
the game pretty big, t^Al, as
soon as a new press is seeded, get
into it right. • ' "
i.( Two thousands tubs per jre«jk is
no pipe dream. A newspapiw«t the
the quality and PjestJig^djf'^h®
Rebel, with its poiiaibUHies and its
connections, once it .get#
right is going straight for* the
five hundred thousand mark.
rl--
_ you have, eacn oi you _
middlemen m tla Met, M l^u ^ todlord $840.00 wehlmooV (prefiti) I. the reot of all
too moeh like the tick-in eated £ f living on the earth. evil,'' and Chriat condemned the
eteeff fhr hi. own profit or comfort. | ^ ,ooked fte figurM in Lror,tWrt.m h«,h.-«.t into the
mazement and said: "Well 111 temple and "Cast out them that
mm*-** ***** w
SwShronntry. prodo«rana Aty Bnt he aflted nu to % It fto | ho > Aall he 1mm* of aH
conttmw."* A for he would low hia }6b
We have, an interesting letter landlord knew he had told it. —
mm. fisher of Tivoli, Re-j Oh, what liberty there is in this
,; "Please inform me as to J free land. A man must not tell
ty, for through It Labor is robbed (the Catholic church has always
of four-fifths of the product of it* been a great and most powerful
toil, and want, destitution, disease pofitico-ecclesiaatical despotism,
and death results. , He knows that there never has
The Bible says that "The love of been the shadow of the sem
* ce of democracy in any ad-
istrations of ita governmental
irs. Every sincere, intelligent
in the country can readily see
y he juggled with the facta o
^ ^ _ . iory; Be want* to bepreaident
if th# as a houae of prayer, but y# have]The glamor of the Office attracts
.. " I made it a den of thievea^L L him and his over-weening ambi;
If it waa Stealing to buy and sell j tion to fill it seems to lead him to
the renters down here, j any one else how valuable he is
fa literature as trftl help |or he iik apt to lo«e his job.
. We hnve • «ry good • • • !
in the work. ,w.„, mPH.. .
field with the renters on one side
PRINCIPLE OF THEFT: taking depriving justices of the peace of
Now since you have read thia I l ^^bing without returning an I their former legal authority to
... . x - - marriage y eeremones.
so the presa informs
prepared by the Newark
Federation, of the Holy
... --—p.. - , . . Society, and toe rejpresenta
tractor with 8 latge plow* hehtedr tt^fet'taee: |earth as it to In Heavan." Now,j|tiVM 0{ that county were active
it, and I decided that we had best ^ the figures nothing is said surely God Would not permit this I in pPOBe(mtin||r its passage. The in-
get ready for these ma- much cons, oata grain yicious and cripaina| profit system I trodnotioii of the bill was sug&ev
ch^nca, Jf we were organized ;we . . be| asd <««tle, etc., was to exist in Heayen, so whyjdwnl^] ,iv(f by th- Rt. R«V. Mgr. John
could Idopt tbein to our OWii t^ , „ you mainUili it on efcrtht The Re A Sheppard, V. (J., of Jersey
O&cnrise, woatt will lead the MiP|: tte BcmbcraV |ttd the City M
ing machbe next and then ^|^ ViAl^wite*T elott ^ ^to^pHalism - for you
«V eed aiiy rtnten or Mexica*e « ■««« <*m *** *hlk help to mainUin and porpeturto it I whjle ® priitta
to cultivate and pick the cotton,] «*Ae > ***• , W> «^aHit?p«rtf to get from to |80 for the same
and poor ditrrito will h y« to We made it and rf Jo Uor Ae <ft r#a pnrpoa^ otabohah Lerriec/Thbre i«,(lioWever, a deep-
17^ «TI mrh' " plot inrolred in that bill, and
fe 'yd therefore a eo-operattre ayatem in „ wen aa oth«
then yb« aced never iear fouif 101. with ^ teachings Of the P havc on ita
mhot piw.BM. dinh #twhN*jy Z2-
I followed old Mats' Robert
For four-years, near about,
Oot wounded in three places
And starved at Poist Lookout
I cotcfc the roonatism
A cam pin' in the snow.
I killed a chance o' Yankees,
I'd like to kill some mo.'
Three hundred thousand Yankees
I« atiff il flMOin dastf ,
We get three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us;
They died of Southern fever
And Southern ateel and shot;
I wish they was three million
Instead of what we gei
I can *t take up my maaket
And fight 'em now any more,
Bat I ain't going to lore 'em,
> $Tow that ia certain ears;
And I don't want no pardon
For what 1 waa and am,
T Won't be reconstructed,
- And don't care a dam;
It and ita Rcbs are laying the
foundation now, broad and deep
to set the South aflame with1 the
Socialist gospel, and as the. South-
ern movement grows it will .grow.
It and its faithful workers aro
going to sidetrack old pairt^' falta
issues and make the land question
paramount and as that^isaue be-
comes predominant the'BebeVand
the Socialist sovement wiU become
predominant. .'
THAT IS TBB WAY TTflNOS
ARB GOING. AWi THAT JS
NEEDED TO MARK THIS
COME TRUE AT ONCB, IS FOR
EVERY MAN WHO BELIEVES
IN AND UNDERSTANDS THE
GREAT MISSION OF THE KEB-
EL. TO GO TO WORK TODAY.
USE THE SUB BLANK ENCLOS-
ED IN THIS EDITION ANP GO
AFTER EVERY PERSON
WHOSE SUBSCRIPTION WILL
SOON EXPIRE AND AfTEK
EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO'
DOES NOT READ THE BHBEL.
If you hnveo't ever pent in
club, try your hand at it. The
new sub-getters are the opes that
are needed to take the ptoec of
those that drop out. IWtosWnber
you are doing thie for' ytflMlvee*
wour wives, your children, and
for all of humanity. P* it p w be-
fore it is forever tpolatetyfr hoy-
thing.
The fo1« .wing secured few er mere
this weeks ' , ,v .. ..
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■/?:
ii
aI
lv
f-S
4-
[Austin, 7; W. L. Dentin, DnhH^jii 8.
| A. Moore, Comanche, «; W.'*>
<«
t m
LAW IN WINSOME
WACO " f
mtefidNK.
There is nothing to beat the
printed page for waking up the
"dwikM devotees. Here is a let-
ter from one who has reed The
Rebel, * few months and is now
hoowt and de$«qit' enough te
ccife acrom all the way:
Salado, Tex^ Mar. 25,1912.
Bitter Sebel:
In eto^lsg yoe tWa Hft of anbe I
am aertiag notifte on the Democrttio
party that t here and now aerer all
connection with it.
I hate teen Totteg the donkey tlek-
et eret since Bill Bryan awaBewed the
PopuJfst par^, in Jaet I fmeerrii^i a
juatiee it the pease now, having
nominsted by the Democratic pexty.
"But from now en they will have te
eleet
The
box lairt
poll between
Yowl
wealth,
fhtt' M
can pase throng tfco ip^rly j
safely on yowr ignorance.
I hands the same trouble
which Otoiida hai' reflet
the good Of all hut labor (Ecclet. 3. . nArformed bv its Drieats.
black land counties and develop ^ ^
the Renters Union. ^ ^ JiS;) The Whdnmental^principle on
w^fch BodaUini toih^edito<trt give
Texas. Ito the Worker 41 of th* product of,
hi$4oU. The ethics or mowl# prin-
ciples of Socialism and Christian-
that osfTsons did not . Atow a
are those performed by Ui prieats
^ ^ ^— -- tora will
U1CKEVS TOUR.
Oakwood, March 26.
Flint, March ft, 8 p. *-
Jacksonville, March 28.
Tona, March 29.
Cooper, Maieh 80.
Gaineeville, April L—...
St. Jo April 8.
Henrietta, April 4.
Vernon, April 5.
H. C. Fnlcher, Cnseetf,' f; i- A. Jaeh-
leon, MeOrefer, 7; % * BiiyagsJey,
t ?fvn*
I ton, 0; J. G. Solan W%
L. Delk, MeMjuite, M * '■IsMer,
I Madge, Okie.,«; h f. pm*m en^
\i; T. B. Head, WtHirtf**, 4M-, $} V-
rille, 4; 8. H, Ke e< A.
Fright, Fet*etbWg<ry^<fc _ ''
ing man in Waco waa empl#ed lBe<—on> 4; W>
by the eity ho work in the pnhlleJ? tw.to * f */
par|k. After three d*y of faithful I *■ ' .
service he was laid off. Aaked fori^fton, 4; Oscar ltloe, J
his wage he was told that the city J- *■ Hifhtower,
would not pay him the M.50 that I MeMiUan, Weodaon, 4ft^ «J^«few
was coming to hint until eight I Boeton, 4r|tl. iT. Headensw^lwWaa
dnyv later He htul no friends and .## % 0
had spent his laat 15 cetata lor anp- W. Orny, Waylaed,
per. The night was .bitterly cold, !fc n®7> ^P"' 4i °* r
-TV
On the first of March a work-
eston, 4;^. P. Hwnncr,
QBJTUARX.
be demanded of legislatures that
will give'their cowardly votes for
theni, until only Catholic priests
win be allowed to join people in
^r^^eSlhe^ Weiren^ffip^iay^^t
S Zt «& vou «etl in touch this, but their laughtel* mw some
with the message of ^cialism and day be turned into
understand ita teachings, you will I wish to add, by the way, that
work for it as you noW work for I belihfre m the doctrine, not of
your Church, for Socialism is toleration, but of absolute relig
Christianity applied. lious liberty. If the Catholic
Wo Ww von are intelligent church could be aatisfied with
ao he took, shelter in t^ie union de-
pot, while sitting peacefully in g
seat, he was approached by a po-
liceman and asked why he did not
go to bed; He informed the po-
liceman that the* city would not
pay him and that he had no
money. The policeman promptly J The home of Com
arrested him fbr vagrancy. He {was desolated on
The Grim Reaper has +wn ip
the Socialist ranks this winter
e W. J. Bell
ayllireh 22,
was tried the next morning and]when his beautifdl Karl Marx
fined $1,00 And costs, because he Bell died of eaagesttaaf Iterfew
was broke. | hours of ilbaegs. waa
A farmer who waa iq the court the light of the hn^ie, the ">HPira"
md heard the pilous talk, ! tion of his father, the delight of
took hivuut on his farm and gave his fond mother, the pet ft"
mands. We think you are brave I thrnsts ita hands into Wietreatary
ent and draws out
He will be routed home soon, j enpugh and hroad bainjad enough
Porter.
ollars to
seven
after
weeks
Is the
needed
TheB
t the demoeHtic party, | limited time
you should 'not boos£
^bilistf %Xfa<^the
Ra
secures
ze winnw
r*".. "
em&
pw.' f maawe*
PPIMP
,
room and heard the piteous talk, 1 tion of his father, the
— " ~ ,ve his fond mother, the p* * all
him employment, otherwise he that knew Mm. To our bereaved
would have been arrested igain. comrades w«r tender a wealth of
In the meantime the Democratic sympathy that words aro too fee-
officials swiped the rest of his ble^to express.
money and the poor devil never — <
rceived a cent of his wagesj_and Comrades Joseph Cilk of Dublin
thus they conduct affairs in Win- Erath county, brother of W. H.
somC Waco? Silk, died of pneumonia last
i1 , i -ii ■ ' month. Comrade Silk ;wss,one of
it plots to destroy our public the pioneer •fiocialista of Texas,
school system, and when it com-INearly eight years ago he arrimg-
among state and national holi-[sorrowing wife, children
days, then, in the name of justice brothers have r^qpiyed ^h ,econw^
good citizenship; in the name lence of their host of fnends,
oi humanity and humanity'! God which The Rebel joins and;P*o®-
I protest now and forever against ises to work with re-doubled vigor
*uch siniater and iniquitous ef-'l to change the system nMinst
- - ^(wHii^J^sCk fought.
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