The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 276, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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Deducting the $70 for explos-
ives leaves a net balance to each
miner of $52140. This Is not in-
eluding the. cost of the miner of
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^ 2^*12!?™ SSSjH ^ UrbHuertera furniahed
24,488 ton., which wu 27,8M,. L,, mi ramp(mr „e
annuaUy from th, prTu'c.r,' „f S^f^t^^h^T^h
—.hi. 4V,. .4.4-lchief,y of * two-room house with
a one or two-room lean-to, for
agricultural wealth in the state
of Oklahoma.
This repreeenta the exploit*. fc** ^
tion upon land values only. The r«~ ,~Z*' ^ . 4.
chattel mortgage boainoa of thia Loridng clJ, WIlfU££, th. larg-
state is enormous, and this is the body of workers in the state
mdit vicious and iniquitous of all land they are ^ p^,.^ paid of
(By L. D. Gillespie in Interna-
tional Socialist Review.
Oklahoma is wonderfully rich
in natural resources. With her ex-
ceptionally fertile soil and mild
but healthful and invigorating
climate, she is capable of support-
ing ten times her present popula-
tion in comfort and happiness.
But comfort and happiness are
not the portion of the masses of
her citizenship. Poverty and
wretchedness abound in the midst
0f plenty; and hunger haunts &e
mind of giant strength. ™w,Mi7lu miquiwu. v* "|and they are the poorest paid of
In June 1906, Congress passed ^ of exploitation. (all, their average wage being $1.-
an act to enable Oklahoma and uU 18 w\th BU,ch Mortgages that Uq to $175 ^ day.
Indian Territory to form a state , conscienceless bankers and These men are the victims of
government, and on November loan ®"&r , , P thf iten&Dt *ar" J that large board of real estate
16, 1907, Oklahoma, with bounda- rai|£f hopelessly in debt. grafters infesting the electric
ries as now fixed, became a state j . ^an o^f' the }0&n 8!1&rk light towns of the state, who ere
of the Union. an" the «i*edit merchant havel^w|ag, rjcj, from inflated prices
The total land area of the state PJ®?®" uP°n the tenant fanners Lp0n reai e9tate and high rents,
is 69,414 square miles and the po- °* * ^ sta*® 11114,1 the8® farm®W They are the residents of
pulation at the time of admission .are r®duc®d to a state of econom-1 industrial Beetions of the cities,
to the Union, in 1907, was 1,414,- 1C wretchedness that beggars des- an)j 0CCUpy the dingy shacks and
177, of which 19.3 per cent was cription. >, dilapidated houses that invaria-
urban, while 80.7 per cent lived The wretched and miserable ably surround the industrial
in rural territory. shacks in which they are housed, quarters of the cities.
As to color and nativity, 87.2 with their cheerless and dingy This class of workers constitu-
per cent were white; 8.3 per cent walls and barren floors, are in- ten the source from which the
negroes and 4.5 per cent were In- deed a sad commentary upon the great army of migratory workers
dians. The native whites consti- civilization of the twentieth cen- arc being recruited. Being with-
tutcd 79.1 per cent of the total tury, but the more heinous phase lout means of support during per-
poptilation of the state. of their economic condition is ma-nods of enforced idleness, he goes
Industrially, Okahoma is das- nifested in the disconsolate ex- from city to city in search of em-
Hified in order of importance, in- pression in the faccs of their ill- ployment until his scanty savings
to agriculture, mining (including dad and over-worked children, lure exhausted and he becomes
1 11
MEXICO Flam AGAINST
PBIYAT1 MM 0WKB8A
the production of oil and gas)
and manufacturing.
The principal agricultural pro-
ducts are: corn,cotton and wheat.
Jhe valuation of those three pro-
ducts for the year 1915 was as
follows: corn, $47,940,000; cotton,
*38,640,000; wheat, $32,707,500.
The amount of oil, gas and min-
eral production for the year of
1915 was: Oil, 107,429„208.26
barrels, the actual cash value of
which was $49,069,765.51; gas,
65,458,756 M. feet, the actual cash
value of which was $2,116,389.11;
lead and zinc, 26,963,76 tons, val-
ued at $1,732,808.14; asphalt,
417,931 tons, valued at $31,292,-
38.
The roal production of the
state lias not been officially re-
ported since 1912. The production
for that year was 8,183,457 to-
representing a cash value of $6,-
€17,645.54.
During the few brief years since
the beginning of statehood var-
ious groups of pharisaical para-
sites have sprung up in this state
who are waxing fat through the
conscienceless and merciless ex-
ploitation of the working class.
They are the gentry constitut-
ing the eminently respectable ci-
tizens of the cities and county
seat towns of the state; the di*
rectors and officers of the cham-
bers of commerce; the deacons
and pillars of the aristocratic
churches.
They are the bankers, the cre-
dit store merchants and the heads
of enterprises operating under
municipal franchises; the land-
lord and the corporation lawyers.
One of the most oppressive and
the most hated of these groups
is the bankers, who through their
organized associations have ob-
tained control • of the political
machinery of the Democratic par-
ty, through which they control
legislation and exert a most pow-
erful influence upon the court de-
cisions of the state.
They are thus enabled to evade
or ignore the laws of the state
governing interests rates. Evid-
ence gathered by John Skelton
Williams, the comptroller of tho
currency, establishes the fact
that some of the banks of this
state have been charging from
forty to one thousand per cent in-
terest on.some of their short time
loans.
Landlordism is another form of
exploitation, equally as oppressive
and no less conscienceless than
the banking system.
According to the census of 1910
there were 190,192 farms in the
state of Oklahoma". Of this num-
ber 104,137 are operated exelus-
The children of these tenant the victim of the vagrancy ordin-
farmers are kept out of school to ances, so common and so rigor-
work in the cotton patch during oualy enforced in the cities of
the growing and picking season this state.
of the cotton crop. The upkeep of the streets in
The return from his crop is in- such cities as Tulsa, Muskogee,
mifficinet to enable the farmer Oklahoma City and Ardmore and
to employ adult help, so the wife the construction of the country
and children are compelled li |roads in the counties where such
(By Chester M. Wright in New
Tork Call.)
New York, Nov. 7.—-The capi-
talist press has not forgotten any
of its tricks, so far as Mexico is
concerned, according to Modest*)
C. Holland one of the best in
formed revolutionary Mexicans
in New Tork.
Holland yesterday gave to the
Call a summary of the situation
that exists today in his country.
One of the great troubles re-
sults from the same source that
has given rise to Mexico's trou-
bles for generations—the private
ownership of mines by small
'groups of powerful American cap-
italists.
Mexico demands that these
mines be operated and that wages
be paid in silver coin. The mine
owners refuse to pay in silver,
but pay in depreciated paper mo-
ney. As a result, the actual
wages are lower than before.
The face value of the paper that
is paid is not lower, but,according
o Rolland,the actual value, which
is the buying power, is less than
half the wages paid before the re-
volution.
Against thia condition the Con-
stitutionalists are bringing all of
their power. They demand pay-
ment in silver and they demand,
first of all, that the mines be op-
erated. Rolland sees in the re-
fusal of the American owners to
comply to a sinister and powerful
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00ERE8P0NDEN0E.
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Bine Bulge, Tex^ Oct. *, 1916.
Editor Kebel.—We had Ooa-
rade W. J. Lennon,
with us on the 3rd inst.
made us a fine speech
people gave him good attention.
Be told them that Socialism is
their gospel of economic freedom
and social salvation. In the name
of its commanding genius they
cities are located, are maintaincl 'threat against the republic. As a
assessed
final remedy the Mexican govern-
ment may go so far as to tax the
mines heavily enough to force
work in the field.
All day little children may bo [principally by fines
seen drudging the cotton toavh. against this class.
in the broiling hot sun, coining Oklahoma is a concrete ex-
their sweat and lives into gold to ample of tho baneful influence
appease the rapacious avarice of of unrestrained commercial, them into government ownership,
a conscienceless landlord. greed, supported and augmented The government, Rolland de-
Tenant farming in Oklahoma is by the political power of a sor-
rapidly approaching a state of did machine. y^>->
peonage, unsurpassed by any The class struggle inlfiis state,
country in the western hemisph- hs vividly portrayed in the mark-
ere, an ever-increasing number of ed contrast between the luxurios
tenants, who are unable to pro- lives of the master class in its ar-
duce enough to clear their teams
and personal effects from mort-
gage find themselves as firmly
tied to their masters' land as the
most helpless serf in the days of
feudalism.
But peonage, indefensible and
abhorent as it is, is overshadowed
by the dramatic climax to Okla-
1
now, also,, he has three pamphlets
inn single tax translated into
Spanish and 10,000 of each are on
the way to Mexieo. Rolland is
confident that the taxing system
to be adopted in Mexico will be
the single tax. "Give us single tax
and Socialism will not be far off,"
he said with enthusiaam.
Holland was asked if the labor
movement and the government
continued to work in clooe har-
mony. He said that the two were would unite in greater and great-
in accord, except where the work- er numbers, thousands and t*M
em happened to be conservative of thousands of them would be
or reactionary. keeping step to the same proW-
The general trend in the whole tarian heart-beat, the heart-beat
country, according to Holland, is of the international revolution,
toward the ideals that brought animated by the same social spirit
on the revolution and carried it held steadfast by the same social
to victory. conscience, their radiant faoes
And ss to the manner in which turned forever toward the swa-
the Mexicans view the political rise. He said he saw the love if
conflict in the United States, this comrades in their hearts, the pas-
comment is highly interesting and sion for freedom in their souls
illuminating: "We do not care and the light of victory in their
for Democrats or Republicans, eyes. The trials that beset their
We understand that to tie up struggle but fit them for their
with either one is to tie up with eoming freedom and for the infi-
capitalism." nitely higher life that lies beyond
Rolland believes that there is our civilization. We are living
no cause for American friends of in the golden and glorious days
the Mexican revolution to be al- when we are passing out of the
armed about anything. The re- old thought into the new; out of
volutionary movement is contina- false thought into the true; out
ing in' its work of reconstruction, of the dim dawn where we see
he said, it is holding to its ideals, the truth as it is in the "Carpen-
it is working hard to bring edu- ter" not through a glass darkly
cation to the people, and it is put- but we are beholding him mors
ting tremendous effort into the clearly, face to face.
great work of revaluing the land As it is always darkest just be-
and fitting to it a new tax sys- fore dawn, so it is in the coming
tem. of thia new day and true day of
Rolland looks upon the situa- the Carpenter when we are to
tion in Mexico this way: Until the realize that all the triumphs of la-
agrarian problem is settled in bor is the Carpenter's triumph*,
Mexico, nothing will be settled, then as we shall have triumphed
"Government!" he asks quizzi- over death, hell and the grave,
cally. "Government does not then the Carpenter will have
Clare., is determined that Mei- """J1"1"1! 10 .th* radic"1" likc triamphed 0T" Ungdome, princi-
ieo'e own natural reeourccj Hh H |myself- d° politics and powers, end gnre the
'mean much. It is the industrial rule of the world to the people.
\
not be used as a weapon against
her.
When asked as to the meaning
rogant possession of wealth and'of th<f resent decree abolishing
the melancholy condition of the -cjvjj ^al in certain cases, Rol-
working class, whose mcessent i
hungry in the ,and waa emphatic In his
toil leaves them
midst of plenty.
But the day of
reckoning is
state-
ment of Cie reasons. "There are
many bandits in Mexico," he said.
tionary organization, known as
the Working Class Union, is be-
homa tenantry in the evictions'^ formed among the tenant
near at hand. A new and revolu- "There is Felix Diaz in the south
and Villa in the north. There are
others also. This fight must be a
exploited his tenant to the point
of physical depletion, he takes by
process of foreclosure the last
dollar of his tenant's wordly pos-
sessions and turns hira and his
family out into the highway to
swell the vast army of homeless
and wandering outcasts of so-
ciety.
Turning to the miners, the
largest group of the organized
forces of the working class in the
state, we find a condition prevail-
ing little, if any less oppressive,
than that affecting the tenant
farmers.
The report of the Department
of Interior for 1915 shows that
there were 6,850 underground
and 1,128 surface men, or a total
of 8,078, employed in the mines
of this state during that year.
No data have been gathered by
the state since 1912. The coal pro-
duction for that year was $6,617,-
645.54. To produce the above
named tonnage, it required the
services of 5,167 miners, 2,395
inside or day men, 1,382 outside
or top men, making a total of 8,-
743 in all. They worker 13,953
days, using 149,194 kegs of black
powder, 48,795 pounds of earbon-
ite, 121,005 pounds of masurite,
26,094 pounds of monobel, 3,536
eases of dynamite. Nineteen and
one-third tons produced to each
keg of powder used. There were
103 fatal accidents, {making 72
widows and 169 orphans. There
ively by tenants; 20,520 farmers |were 30,610tons of coal produced
operate partly owned and partly for every fatal accident, or for
of the tenant. After the cold- farmers and wage workers of the jfinish fight, and the people of
blooded and bestial landlord has stRte. This organization is grow-
ing with the marvelous rapility
that characterized the formation
of the revolutionary clubs that
battered down the Bastile in Pa-
ris and overthrew the feudal
lords of France.
BALKING PROSPERITY.
rented land: 651 farms were op
erated by managers.
This makes a total of 125,30^
farm operatives out of a total of
190,192 who must pay tribute to
the landlord for the privilege of
working the land.
In addition to this there arc
36.036 of the 64,884 farms oper-
ated excusivelly by owners that
are under mortgage, which raises
the number of exploited farm
operators to 161,337. In other
words, only 28,855 out of a total
of 190,192 farm operatives were
free from exploitation by cither
every man killed.
The report sows that the 5.167
miners taken to produce the ab-
ove named tonnage show an aver-
age of 616 tons each, for the yeir
ending June 30, 1912.
Placing this tonnage at the av-
erage rate of 90 cents per ton, in- ^ _
bying and the august body be-
came panicstricken.
As an evidence of "prosperi-
ty" we ae cited to the fact that
the 30,000 banking corporations
of the United States increased
their resources (profits) to the
tunc of $6,500,000,000 in the three
years ending July 1, 191'6. This
increase, in itself, is greater than
were the total resources of all
banks only a few years ago.
However, you might as well
say that the inmates of a board-
ing house are rich in blood, be-
cause the bedbugs all look sleek
and fat.
Banking corporations thrive
not in tho prosperity but in the
poverty of the toiler; because the
fool workers have permitted the
public credit based on their work
to be handed over to 30,000 bank-
ing institutions that are private-
ly owned though publicly char-
tered.
Let the people own the bank-
ing and currency system.
JUDGES, THROUGH UNION,
DEMAND MORE PAY.
Lansing, Mich., Nov. 7. — The
Circuit Judges' union, officially
known as the Michigan Associa-
tion of Circuit Judges, has de-
manded a living wage. The pres-
ent rate is $3,500 a year. At a
meeting of the union, held in this
city, it was resolved to ask the
Legislature to raise these figures
to $5,000. In discussing methods
Mexico understand the necessity
for this decree. We do not be-
lieve in wearing a mask. We be-
lieve in being frank. The right
of civil trial has never been real
in Mexico. Always you could be
taken out and shot, no matter
what law said. We arc frank ab-
out it. We must carry this war
to the finish. That is all there ii
to it.
"But conditions in Merico to-
day are nearly normal. Elections
have been held and municipalities
have their own elected civil gov-
ernment. Everything is not as
it should be, but may be sure
that the ideal is there, the move-
ment is there and we are making
progress."
Rolland described some of the
handicaps. "They say we have a
population of 15,000,000," he said.
"That is not true. We have a
population of five or six millions.
The others cannot read or write.
They have no knowledge. The
is among them no public opinion,
no understanding. Thousands of
them Indians—do not even know
our language. We have to teach
them. But you will see. Wait
and see what our schools do. In
Yucatan there are 2,000 schools.
You will see the effect of these in
two or three years."
Rolland here told "of something
hitherto unknown in this coun-
try. "
or economic system of the coun- This tacit creed of all Christen-
try that counts. The system un- dom today in a word should be *
der which the wealth of a nation "God so loved his people that he
is owned and controlled deter- gave them his world and all its
mines the conditions under which subtil powers that they should be
the people must live. In Mexico happy and in perfect peace and
we are working on that problem, felicity." And no disappointment,
We must solve that before any however bitter, no defeat, how-
kind of government can satisfy ever crushing, can (thwart hit
us. will) the ardor of their spirit, or
"Of course, our enemies are quench the fire of their enthusi-
busy. They are powerful, too. asm. All the forces of evil must
They spread much untruth about yield to their unconquerable will;
us. We must be on guard against all the governments and all tho
that always. But Mexico is go- armed forces of the world must
ing forward, working out her recede and finally disappear be-
problems, rapidly reaching a nor- fore the march of these silent
mal condition and educating her battalions—these intrepid isolcK-
P®0Pl®- iers of international peace.
Your comrade and brother,
Benj. F. Pamplin, Rec. Bee.
Collis local No. 2428.
"We could get money here eas-
ily. It has been offered to us.
But to take that money would be
to sell our country. We prefer
the slow and painful way of re-'
building and healing over our' , ^A^pTAGE is the most up-to-
_ , a m.- m m - «ate °f all modern implements of
wonnds. Pint Chief Carranea la Had g>Un
a patriot. He is standing against use he could have driven Jehovah
the nation's enemies. And the from his throne. With it the work-
ers can "get the goat" of any
capitalist or landlord that ever
lorded it over them, and do it im
the very midst of his uninformed
thugs.
\
workig people are with him."
DONE LOGIC.
Comrade G. W. Lyons, an old
Confederate veteran, aged 81
years, writes that he was not per-
mitted to vote last Tuesday. He
Generous Offer To Tubercul
capacity of each miner $594.40.
The grand total cost if all explo-
sives to produce the above named
tonnage was $361,771.48, making
it cost each miner the sum of
$70.
ORGANIZE I One Big Revolu-
ionaiy Union, served by One Big
Red Party, will get the goodal
was told that since he was draw- Sufferers of Trial of Europe'! Be-
ing a pension of $7.50 per month I markable Remedy, 3AN0SHT
he was considered a pauper and World's noted modi.eie.ti**-
therefore should have no voice in Docton Dan alius, Somnerfeld, Wolff,
the management of the Affairs of Eswrs —— docltro 8AN06IK
management oi tne anairs or th8 most effective treatment for Pol-
the country that he 80 unselfishly monary ailment* yet discovered. Felix
served throughout four years of Ph7«cian, Director of tke
... , \ _ Sanitarium for Consumptives in Bei-
bloody war and a half century of boldsgmu, Germany, says be baa Da-
pioneer development. c*rQ*& all other remedies. 8ANOSIH
o , • .v i j i • a xv "®en recommended to tbe
Such is the law and logic of the Berlin Medical Association. Dr. O. W.
Donk party that has ruled and A* Essers, Amsterdam, Holland, d*
ruined the south within the past SAN08EN
generation. If you unselfishly race." American sufferers, rieb or
Yucatan," he said, his fame giVe the vears of your youth and L°°r' t°vM. *hi
v ... j i. a. m. , ,, B * J J treatment that has met with such nhe-
beaming with delight, has he id manhood for your country and nomenal success in Europe. 8AN08IN
elections and elected a Socialist' then in your declining days you d<*« ita work by absortion of germ -
administration. The officials of receive from the country you thus ful sleep Trithout Mor^hluni^r^rimUaur
Yucatan are Socialsts. What oth- served a mere pittance you are d**dening drags. Brings almost in-
er state on this continent can say
thatt"-
, . . mediate relief from coughing, blood -
classed as a pauper and disfran- spitting and night sweats. BAN08IN
chised. Yes, tho rights that should j" proving a blessfag to all suffering
Rolland likes^to talk about the accrue to you by birth are taken
X>KLET (wit)
single tax and Socialism. Rolland f^ you and such is the law and *°r FREE B00
has translated many Socialist
pamphlets and sent thousands
copies of them into Mexico. Just .thin*
«tc. Send
(witb testimon-
i«t logio of tie Donk party of th. uiadTfTi £
o*. South. To hell with the putrid bo*e at ««r risk. Address aawnanr
r "$iM
putrid hove at Mr risk. AddreM SAKOtDT.
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