The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 289, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 17, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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HALLETT8VILLI, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1917.
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REASON
(By Covington Ami £
In January issue of
I predicted that the
plunge the United Stta* into
Snropean saturnalia of de-
station, murder and rapine was
about ready for the staging and
(that all indications pointed to
Jncle Sam soon being in the
''Sport of Kings." We are practi-
| sally there today —February 5th
all that remains to be done is
for the Plutocracy to artistically
arrange the stage settings and to
have a little time to, "We call on j
God to witness that this war is
not of our making or seeking."
I know this sounds "nasty",
but knowing the Democratic poli-
ticians as I do, I put no trust
whatsoever in their protestations
and, when they all begin to give
to utterance to the effect that
they are acting solely in the
©ause of Democracy and human-
ity, I'm looking to see thsm try
to drive a dirk so deep into the
back of labor the wound will be
all but mortal. That dirk is even
now being sharpened.
"NO!" YOU CRY!
Well, then, how and why is it
hat one of the very first di*-
jjatches out of Washington stai-
i that the army heads preparing
raise an army of 2,000,000
i, this tho no troops were to be
at to Erropet Why and for
bat do they need any sdch ar-
rt
t *
HONEST BILL TAFT.
[Let honest old "God Knows"
II Taft answer the question for
lu:
"Conscript them while they
[ are excited and enthusiasistic
FROM AUSTIN.
lover war.
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J Is practically the advice he giv-
■ according to press dispatches
■ February 5th. Then, he inno-
jently adds, you will have them
then the war ends.
This means YOU, YOU, THE
tORKERS.
)RD NORTHCLIFFE SPEAKS
"Lord" North cliff e, head of
le British newspaper trust, has
Iready, in a message to the Am-
rican people, outlined the rolo
ho U. S. is to play in the hell-
ame. It is this: The U. S. need
end no troops to the battle-lines,
Or do "we" need your munitions
all "we" want you to do is to
cist "Russia and Italy have all
tho money they want", that's all
—Russia and Italy that could not
today pay five per cent of their
debts are to be handed over to
the American people to finance;
that is, the American people are
to be taxed to the limit, their
country drained of resources, so
that Rockefeller, Morgan, Roth-
schild & Co., the GUEBERNA-
TIONAL PLUTOCRACY, the on-
ly class really profiting by this
infamous war, shall be protected
from LOSS by American bonds
and from DANGER by an Am-
ericaaBif4"ny.
brutsh British aristocracy.
Irwin says all the Plutocrats,
whether in England, Germany,
France, or the wiited States, all
think and talk alike.
Nor is he the only writer now j
pointing this out and indicaitng >
why American Big Business is so •
eager for conscription —THEIR
DREAM IS TO CRUSH LABOR
ORGANIZATION AND DEMO-j
CRATIC INSTITUTIONS thru,
out the world, to re-establish the J
Roman Oligarchy here in tho
20th century>
Colonel Pope, head of the Na-
tinal Manufacturers Association,
has recently outlined such ideas
in his own magazine "American
Industries." There is nothing
small about the imperial dreams
of the Plutocracy, I can *• assure
you, and their contempt for the
Workers and "Common People"
is supreme and undisguised. 4
THE HARLOT PRESS. !
That the press of the United
States is being handled from
some central bureau is clear to,
all who have eyes to see and ears ^
to hear. If this assertion be not
true, if the press is, as it asserts,
free, how does it happen that all
the capitalist papers bark so neat-
ly alike that not oven old "Leath-
er Stockings", mighty hunter
that he was, could distinguish
one's yelp from another's! How
does it happen, if the press is
"free", that not a word is ap-
pearing in the daily papers in
regard to the two labor "trials
now going on on the Pacific
coast, one at San Francisco and
the other at Everett, Washing-
ton! In whose interest and at
whose command does the press
suppress this news of the outrag-
ing of Labor?
While the Plutocracy is doing
its utmost to hang or imprison
your best and bravest, the 'free'
press gives you in news thereof
but blatantly and loudly calls on
us, the Workers, to go and DIE
TO SAVE THE PLUTOCRA-
CY'S MUNITION MARKETS.
True, they call those markets
"your country" and you a
"traitor" if you object to being
eonscripted into Plutocracy's
service. And here I am reminded
that "Lord" Northcliffe is re-
ported to "Control and influence
18 American (!) newspapers
and that this British bandit's
press will be sure to lead the
pack in howling "Treason! at
all Americans who take issue
with the infamous class that has
plunged the whole into a seeth-
ing hell of wholesale murder.
The follQwing proas dispatch
has been received from the man-
aging editor:
Austin, Tex., February 12, 1917.
The McNealus land resolution
(endorsed by the State Federa
tion of Labr and the Socialist
party) hub been reported unani-
mously out of the senate commit-
tee on constitutional amendments.
The resolution—otherwise known
as the Land Amendment—will
have the floor Thursday. Dallas
senator says he will go the limit
for the amendment and will fight
all graduated land tax and simi-
lar skin-deep measures.
Senator McNealus announced
to The, Rebel first, then to the
Austin Daily American that lie
will run for governor on the land
issue, advocating the Land Am-
endment, before the Democratic
primaries in 1918, as this, he say*
is the paramount issue in Texai.
Big story of the land fight in
next issue. Landlord interests
badly worried. Present leglisla
' ture most reactionary in 20 years.
This is shown by the fact that
Woman'8 Suffrage was voted out
and Waters Pierce Oil Co. in.
I T. A. Hickey.
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NEITHER FAMINE NOR
DEARTH.
LISTEN, YE JINGOS
When Wilson obeyed the be-
hest of the House of Morgan and
broke off diplomatic negotiations
with Germany, he had the nervo
to Announce that all other neu-
tral nations would likely follow
suit. Now it develops that the
United States is the only neutral
nation that is willing to sacrifice
the lives of perhaps millions over
a technical question of "national
honor and dignity."
The hosts of the anti-war
league are beginning to move
FACT THAT TODAY AUSTRA-
LIA IS PRACTICALLY IN OP-
EN REBELLION against the
"Mother Country", her people
having turned down ^conscription
by overwhelming majority and
resisted in every way left them
the attempt of the Plutocracy to
submerge all democratic institu-
tions, for which purpose the Plu-
tocracy used there, as it is plan-
ning to use here, and for the
same purposes, the excuse of
"military necessity". There is no
crime you cannot commit against
human freedom in the name of
"military necessity."
Again, the Australians are
saying thsy have nothing to do
with Europe's wars and wont bo
dragged into them by England.
Again they have raised the cry:
"Conscript Dollars along
with lives or no conscription!"
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PLUTES ALIKE.
If you do not believe this, read
the very illuminating article in
a January issue of 'The Saturday
Evening Post' by Will Grevin
and what H. G. Wells has to say
in the same journal about the
THE CANNONFODDER.
The South and West are evid-
ently billed to furnish the "Can-
nonfodder", for the East will be
"unable to spare any of its work-
ers" from its death-mills. Fine
prospect for the South, to be first
robbed of over $1,000,000,000 in
less than two years by the Plu-
tocracy of New and Old England
and then to b£ conscripted to save
their loot!!!
AUSTRALIA" IN REBELLION.
Another thing the "free"
press is suppressing along with
the Irish revolt and the steal of
the cotton crop of 1914, is the
REVOLT OF DEMOCRACY.
Everywhere, even on the bat-
tlelines, according to many late
writers, the struggle between the
Plutocracy and the Democracy is
growing bitterer and bitterer ev-
ery day. Connolly and Pearse and
the Irish Rebels did not die in
vain, nor Karl Liebknecht lose
his liberty without effect ia
freedom's just and holy cause. ...
WHERE STAND YOU AM-
ERICANS IN THE STRUGGLE
BETWEEN THE PLUTOCRACY
AND DEMOCRACY OF TIT*:
WORLD! IN FREEDOM'S
NAME, UNITE! AND "IF THTS
BE TREASON, LET THEM
MAKE THE MOST OF IT."
The increasing cost of necessi-
ties in the United States might
lead to the belief that sinister in-
fluences had paralyzed the na-
tion'} productive forces.
Nothing of the sort is true.
There is no dearth of necessities.
There is no shortage of any
kind of food or goods if one has
the money to pay the increased
prices demanded.
No automobile has been stalled
because of lack of gasoline.
Nobody has to go without shoes
for lack of shoes offered for sale.
But some persons will soon have
to go barefoot for lack of money
to buy shoes at the extortionate
prices asked for them.
Nobody has yet gone hungry
because of general scarcity of
food.
Can any one be found anywhere
in the country who has been un-
able to buy food or other neces-
sities provided he had sufficient
money in his pocket to pay tha
boosted prices!
It is not scarcity of commodi-
ties ' ut scarcity of the money de-
manded in ever-increasing am-
ounts to pay for them that is
causing people to cry out against
the cost of living.
We are told that the tremen-
dous influx of gold into this coun-
try ntust have an inevitable effect
uponiprices. What comfort is that
to the millions of persons who arc
the last to feel the effect of ac-
cumulating gold deposits or of the
currency and credit therefrom
created!
If prices are boosted faster thnn
the influence of incoming gold
can possibly make itself felt iu
the modest budget of the average
citizen, how is the latter to pro-
tect his savings, and what is 1«j
become of the poor who live from
day to day!
It is utterly unjust that, in the
midst of plenty, millions of peo-
ple should be forced to buy the
things they need for life itself ac
exorbitant prices which greed
makes higher and higher the
strength of gold piling up in ban-
kers' vaults.
Sell-American products to Am-
ericans on fair terms, including
fair profits to producer and deal-
er; keep the movtment of prices
at least within sight of the move-
ment of prosperity; draw a line
somewhere between profit and
loot—and the cost of living will
be found to have fewer world
cmplications than has been
thought. The most serviceable key
to the problem in the United Sta-
tes is the enforcement of simple
justice, an^ simple justice means
in the ultimate the collective
ownership of the marktts and
banking sytem and industries^
A nation-wide referendum on
the war, covering returns from
one hundred thousand men and
women voters from all the states,
was launched in Washington, D.C.
on February 7, by the American
Union Against Militarism in a
strenuous effort to demonstrate to
Congress that the people are in
favor of a pacific settlement of
the controversy with Germany.
This referendum takes the form
of a postal card, with the return
postcard attached. Tho latter, nf
ter being marked by the voter ac-
cording to his or her convictions,
is to be addressed and mailed to
tho voter's representative in Con-
gress. The American Union will
have no means of knowing the re-
sults which could only be ascer
tained by checking up the cards
received by the members of Con-
gross. The Union professes, how-
ever, not to be daunted by any
uncertainty as to the probable re-
sult, taking the position that tho
spread of the referendum idea is
in itself a useful service at this
time.
Two questions, each accompan-
ied by a colorless explanatory
note, are to be voted upon, "yes"
or "no". They are as follows:
"Note: In establishing her
war zone Germany has offered
safe passage for all American
passenger ships which keep to
a prescribed course and which
our government guarantees free
from contraband.
"Question No. 1: Do you
think we should enter this war
to uphold our legal right to (jo
into the war zone regardless of
these conditions!
"Note: A national advisory re-
ferendum is constitutional and
could be secured through the
census bureau and the post-
masters in twenty-five days.
"Question No. 2: Do you
think that the people should be
consulted by referendum before
Congress declares , war,— ex-
cept in case of threatened in-
vasion!"
On the other side of the card
is the following proclamation:
"Peace or war: let the people
decide which it shall b«.
"For two and a half years
President Wilson has given the
country an inspiring example
of patience and thoughtful de-
liberation. We must now share
his burden and his responsibil-
ity. It is necessary in this crisis
that members of Congress —in
whom alone is invested the
riprht to declare war— should
know what the people want
them to do. We ask you to ans-
wer 'yes' or 'no' to the two
essential questions on the at-
tached postal card and mail it
at once to your Congressman
in Wmhington.
"Signed, for the American
Union Against Militarism,
"Crystal Eastman, Secretary
"Charles T. Hallinan, Edit-
orial Director."
At the headquarters of the Am-
erican Union Against Militarism
fifty volunteer workers were bu"iy
addressing thousands of the post-
cards out over the oountry. The
lists secured by the Union, it was
announced, include 19,000 mem-
bers of the National Grange;
24,000 members of various labor
organizations; members of wo-
men's clubs totalling 10,000; 12,-
000 professional men; and mis-
cellaneous lists, including edscat-
or*, amounting to 35,000.
The executive committee of tht
American Union Against Militar-
ism includes a number of men and
women who during the campaign
were among the President's most
ardent supporters. The sommittee
is as follows:
Lillian D. Wald, Amos Pinchot,
L. Ilollingsworth Wood, Crystal
Eastman, Charles T. Hallinan,
Jane Addama, A. A. Berle, Her-
bert S. Bigelow, Sophonisba P.
Breckinridge, FranciaKing Carey,
William F. Cochran, Max East-
man, John Lovejoy Elliot, Mrs.
Glendower Kvans, Zona Gale,
John Haynes Holmes, David
Starr Jordan, Paul U. Kellogg,
Alice Lewisohn, Owen R. Lovs-
joy, Frederick Lynch, John A.
McSparran, James H. MaurerJIy.
R. Messey, Oswald Garrison Vil-
lard, James P. War basse and
Stephen 8. Wise.
William Jennings Bryan is one
of the few leading Democrats
who is stacking up like a red-
wood among his shrub-like asso-
ciates. He takes a bold. Jefinite
stand against Wilson's murder-
ous policy. For thy past sins, we
forgive thee, William Jennings'
Real life success that will keep
your soul at peace regardless of
material trials, does not cotre
from wading through slaughter
to a throne, or from selling your
soul for the emptiness and vanity
of place, and pomp and power.
That is a sermon in nutshell,
worth a thousand Billy Sunday
rants.
In this crisis we are beginning
to love MEN more than ever. We
find them in all political parties.
Some early day they will all
crystallize in one ffre.it people's
power league,and we dont much
care how that league is labeled,
just so the spirit is in it.
Nicholas Schwarts, traveling
organizer for the I. W. W., visit-
ed The Rebel office Tuesdsy. He
says the work of organizing One
Big Union is progressing fsstsr
than ever in these dsys when the
plutes are intent on plunging tho
workers into the European hell.
He ssl^s: "When we have organ
ized tha workers at the produc-
tion point in One Big Union, all
the war-lords this side of hell
can't force us into war."
The best thing you can do to
edumte the masses to do things
IMMEDIATELY for themselves
is to take subs for The Rebel.
If Wilson seeks to enforce hi*
conscription joker in case of wa/ -
watch hell pop.
Morgan is the pay-triot back of
this attempt to send American
workers into the European
slaughter pens, nc neerls the
"glue."
In wars the rich divide the gold,
The poor fools divide the lead.
Avnd the fools shoot the fools.
Until all the fools are dead.
If America were owned by the
people instead of by the trusts
we would not mind fighting to
the last drop of blood in any war
it might wage, bnt to fight for
Morgan and Rockefeller and Ho-
bart Chatfield Taylor et al, —
Garrh!
Flood your congressman with
resolutions adopted at protest
meetings, demanding that he vote
against any attempt to inovlve
this country in war.
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