The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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PRICES AND WORSE.
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HARRISON GRAY OTIS
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A few plutocrats own the
flour, meal, sugar, coffee and oth-
saries of life. They have
trusts in these staples of
ce and thus put their jew-
nger in the pocket of pov-
They have reduced the peo-
ple to a pitch of penury our teth-
ers never dreamed of; They main-
tain their robbery without fear of
putiishmeU because of their own-
ership of l^oth old, parties that
stand irrevocably committed to
this capitalist system based on the
"private ownership of land and
t theyi are despoiling the people
Worte than if a devastating amy
was in our midgt. The following
from the Richmond Times-Dia-
v patch proves the above state-
ment conclusively:
Trust Prices ts. War Prices.
Prom the index-Appeal, an au-
thority'on the war between the
states,wea learn that "trust prices
are worse than war priv*> ;" that
is |p ijay, the prices of articles in
daily use are higher now than
they were fifty years ago, when
the exodus of men from fallow
fields to the front left few pro-
ducers at home. A statistician has
gathered figures-showing the pri-
ces of various article^in war time
and now in trust time. These fig-
urea' show that in some caseB
trusts are more deleterious than
cafcnon and charging legions:
FloUr, war *15me, $4.10; now
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10
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Pork (pound), w^r time, 14
; now 18 to 20 cents.
lams (pound), war time, 3 34
cents; now, 20 to 28 cents.
Lard (pound), war time, 8 to
^12 cents; now, 12 cents.
- ■ Butter (pound), war time,
to20 cents; no>y, 35 cents.
Cheese (pound), war time,
Cents; now, 35 cents.
> Srigar (pound), war time,
* to 18 cents; now, 6 to 7 cents.
! - Molasses (gallon), war time,30
to 35 cents; now, 32 to 38,cents.
Beef (pound), war time, 6 1-2
cents; now, 15 cents, —
Shoulders (ptfund), war time, 5
cents ; now/20 cents.
~0the (pound), war time,
6 cents; now, 25 to 40 cents.
Flour, it will be seen, sold for
$3.65 a barrel leas than it sews for
now. Vet there are millions of
i acres producing wheat now tha
"were hot cleared m the sixties
The increase in the total number
of acres of eultivatable land in
the United States, due to the de
vel6ptfient of the West and to lr
g rigatien, has b^gn far greater
i>. rfhan our increase in population
Improved transportation;
■■ Index-Appeal points out,
V;%ave helped to lower the cost o
&" hi*adstnffs. '
aere is a good deal of truth in
^.e charge thst production in this
' cotintry is being limited purpose-
* The Rebel sees but one remedy
Let the men of America who do
the useful work join the Social
ist party, seise the polrtica
power and confiscate the conflsca
tors. We believe by the god
/ our fathers that these plu
Will be lucky if the are not
fentiared in the bargain. On wi'
the battle.
(As viewed by Drann and others)
What sort of man is this Otis of
the Los Angeles Times ! Is a
question fired daily at The Rebel
from all parts of the South. We
are glad to be able to give a thor-
ough answer as to who the msn
is that is responsible for the slug-
ging of Shoaf, the blowing up of
the Times building and the kid-
naping of MeNamara.
At the moment 1 write he is
lading, in the prisoners' doek
in Los Angeles in the midst of
burglars, footpads and prostitutes
charged with the foul crime of
sending obscene literature
through the maifl He was a sol-
dier in the civil war and unlike
the millions of brave men that
wore the blue and gray and have
long ago Shaken hands and forgot
he has always cherished a hat-
red for Southern men and women.
He must have chuckled with un-
holy glee when he saw to it that
the ga|lant Texas boy, Geo. Shoaf,
of San Antonio was put out of
the way after Shoaf had tracked
Otis to his lair and was ready to
expose his monstrous crime.' So
vou may know who H#mk Gra-
Bam is for Wifo, R. Hearfct shows
that even the rascal's name is an
alias. Governor Johnson of Cali-
ornia describes him in this style:
"He sits there in senile demen-
ia with gangrened heart and
rotting brain, grimacing at every
reform; chattering jmpotently at
all things that are decent, froth-
ing, fuming violently gibbering,
[oing down to his grave in snari-
ng-infamy. This man Otis is the
one blot on the banner of South-
ern California; he is the bar sin
ister upgng^our escutcheon My
friends, he is the one thing that
all California
ooking at Southern California,,
hey see anything that is disgrace-
ful, depraved, corrupt, crooked
and putrescent—that i* Harrison
Jray Otis."
Strong as is the above descrip-
tion of Otis by the governor
here is a better and more power-
'ul picture drawn of him by one
of Texas noblest characters, the
immortal William Cowper Brann
of the Iconoclast.
This attack of Brann on Otis
was caused by a villainous attack
on the virtue of the .pure white
women of the South. The incon-
ceivably dirty villain charged in
lis psper something that I feel
ashamed to publish in the Rebel,
charge so vile that nothing but
e "sense of duty that I feel to-
wards my brother, MeNamara—
whom the beast has had kidnap-
ed and seeks to judici^'ly lynch
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was alive
. mil
paper men state under their signal
ed while uneonccioua, on an auto:
e was placed on a row
on tbe ocean seems
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T. A. HX0KEY, Editor and Owaar
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THIS IS NO. 12
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S SHOAP SLUGGED AMD SHANGHAIED.
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k m « « « s m as # % iilMlnp # « # # « # s
eck that George Shoaf
arrect. The Appeal this
Three responsible news-
Shoaf was slugged, load-
ifcnd rushed to the ocean
itaken to k yacht that at
once set sail for a long voyage on tbc Pacitii- ocean, whenv he will
be subjected to the thud degree by iWVfte detective* in the vain
hope that he will give up some Socialistseerets. As-Shoaf has no So-
cialist secrets their work will be in vsp> The. Rebel believes that
Shoaf will be returned alive as there is,too much power and money
and influence behind him in the form of tli<- tremendous Socialist
movement to make it safe for the murdAt t'^ to kill him outright.
The Appeal and The Rebel are {mrsuing tlijh <«ily possible policy that
will win this tremendous Los Angeles flgl't ami tliat is a policy of
direct attaek and the sooner the other Socialist newspapers quit ed-
itorialising in a vague manner about tips, wr the better it will be
for all concerned. This policy goes futtt#r than Otis and the small
grafters in Los Angeles with their detectives and pimps and news-
papers. Itgo&Lexen further.than cah^M (,«lifornia for Socialism;
it goes to the fountain head of it all, to . J, Pierpont Morgan,
the
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THE PROSTITUTED PRES8.
le man behind the steel trust, and it foes back further than that
. ,-en, it goes to the laird of Skibo, Andrew Carnegie, to visit whom
Burns mad6 a 3,000 mile ocean trip immediately after the success-
ful kidnapping. Tell Carnegie we are Jj$t to hia game and we want
a word from him to Burns ordering th<j |eturii of Shoaf alive or he
will stand a big chande to Bwing on the ipllows before he dies. Tell,
hhn that we remember when he played the same trick on Frick the
last time he had trouble with steel workers. We refer to the Home-
stead strike of August 1892, when hejawppeared quietly to Scot-
land and left Frick behind, just as he'W disappears to Scotland
and leaves J. P. M. shivering behind the Hg bank vault. Let us tell
him that the American working class is tired of thi murdering, kid-
napping, judge bribing legislative purchasing hand of financial buc-
caneers and that we are going to expropriate the whole crowd of
them down to the last man and do it in a wild hurry if Andrew ot
Skibo does not come out with an order'to return Shoaf alive. This
tip as to Csrnegie is the right one; with $'KjO,000,000 gold bearing
7 per cent interest bonds in IL S. Steel, Carnegie is the big man be-
hind. Let us tell him we will get him soon at the ballot box and in-
dustrial* union and as he acts in the Shoaf matter so will mercy to
him/be shown.x Do this brother editors; it is the way and the truth
and the$ght. ' .?m: ' , . ..
— In the meantime we must carry Los Angeles and then carry Cali-
fornia for Socialism; recsll the plutocracy's judges; then we will get
Af; ' -mkJ im bring our gallant George
back to his mother, wire ana babies. vHl l i'«c UV«uV.. <• — «-
now. .
causes me to print it; I would ask
my lady readers as Brann did not
to read the following paragraph.
This is the paragra*H from the
Los Angeles Times^^
"The negro/ Is tempted
more no^r than then, {be-
fore th<r wsr) and led on by
white women in tha ma-
of cases, and every-
thing goes well until they
are caught. The Southern
negro is no more lustful
than the Southern white man.
When the white nupi wants
to commit his crime he seeks
a black woman and of course
you never hear it, or should
he seek a white woman he
simply blacks his face, com-
mits the deed, some poor
negro is lynched, many
times he help to do it,and that
ends it. We know of many
instances of this kind. Nine-
ty-nine per cen|t of the negro
men of the Soiith are afraid
to insult a white woman if
they were so inclined, and
the white women, knowing
this they make the first ad-
vances."
This indescribably vicious attack
on Southern womanhood shOckec
Brann to the depths of his lofty
soul. Whereon he sharpened his
pencil and wrote the great vi-
tuperatitfe classic—" wanted
word." I quote two passages
from it in whichV tries to-do
justice to Otis1 villiany:
I want a real nice word with
which to signify something awful
Ijr nasty; butr:wottld for this occa-
sion only, dispense with euphe-
mism were it sufficiently expres-
!n number eight of the Rebel
published on August 18, on the
second column front page 1 ran a
column article under the head
The Prostituted Press." In this
article I quoted a dispatch from
the El Paso Times and the Hous-
ton Post and pointed out the
chain of daily papers, nation wide
that would take up the story, ed-
itorialize on it and thus pre-
pare the people's mind for armed
intervention in Mexico. I point-
ed out that these papers were
subsidised, muzzled rags owned
or controlled body and soul by
the Morgan, Guggenheim, Rocke-
feller group of grafters that are
the silent potept power behind
Taft. I closed the article by ad-
vising Rebel readers to keep their
eyes on the date line and watch
I predicted that inside
of- sixty days the President
would, in obedience to Morgan's
order, send the troops back to
Texas and start another Mexican
war in the interest ot' Morgan
and Guggenheim. That I flit
the nuil squarely on the head can
be seen from the following item
clipped last week from the San
Antonio Republican, the semi-of-
fieial organ of the Texas Repub-
lican—Cecil Lyon—Washington
machine:
"The Republic hazards tfttTpre-
diction that within the next thir-
ty or sixty days a second order
will be issued by President Taft
for the mobilization of a corps
d'armee on the Texas borders,
with headquarters at either Fort
Sam Houston or Fort Bliss.
"American intervention, in the
interest of humanity and civiliza-
tion, is imperative; American in-
tervention, in the iuterest of life
and property, is incyitable. Red
♦an« and official, cicumlocution-
BAILEY LEADER STARVES
WORKERS.
John H. Kirby, Bailey's bosom
friend and Colquitt's appointee as
regent of the University of Texas
has set out to starve into submis-
sion the lumber workers who are
striking against the unbearable
conditions that this democratic
chieftain maintaius in his lumber
mills. Kirby is a smooth gentle*
man who has acquired a fortune
by a successful bankruptcy, stink-
ing commissaries, scrip for
money, bad boote in bum Kirby
saloons and other devious ways.
The lumber operators' sisoeiation
of which Kirby i| president, met
in Chicago on the 14th for the
purpose of declaring whether
they shall shut every mill m the
South in which efforts are being
made to unionize the workers. The
following dispatch to the Dallas
News shows to what lengths this
labor hating democrat and hia
crooked friends will go in their
mad effort to peonize labor.
"Thirty-one mills, having a
minimum capacity of approxi-
mately 4,800,000 feet of pine lum-
ber per day, and employing be-
tween 5,000 ami 7,000 men, have
already been closed and it is ex-
pected that as a result of the Chi-
cago meeting tomorrow orders
will go out to a number of the
other mills that they suspend op-
erations.
"Mill owners here this after-
noon said that the labor move-
ment has spread to parts of Lou-
isiana and Mississippi not hereto-
fore affected. They declare that
the policy of the association is to
erush the movement even though
by doing so it is necessary to close
every pine mill in the South.
"Four mills were closed down
last week, making a total of thir-
ty-oqe to Suspend operations since
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sive. 1 must have, a word woven
men of the South Ban how
of a warp of shame and woof of commence to understand the type
infanmy by some foul duesss ply- of man that is behind the kid-
ing her loom among the damned naping of MeNamara.
a word that will signify a feath- [The complete works of Brann
erless two-legged animal who is containing this article and 170
neither mfcn nor ape; whose soul ohers Handsomely bound in two
is but the superation of a «ok volumes of 460 pages each can be
>uzzard and his cerebral convul- secured from Herz Brothers, Wa-
sions, the writhing of malodorous co. Price #1.00 for the set.—Ed.
maggots; who is a criminal and The Rebel.]
not confined, a lazar and- not com-
pelled to cry "uncleari"; who is
a suppurating sore on the body
social, the guide, philosopher and
friend of nigger rape fiends—a
creature so foul that were Doll
Tearsheet his mother, Falstaff his
father and perdition his birth
place, he would shame his shame-
less dam* disgrace his graceless
sire amF dishonor bit) honorless
country. • • •
AWFUL
ACCIDENT
ED.
AVERT
. It is with feelings of profound
joy that The Rebel learns that
that remarkable publicist, educa
tor and statesman, the Honorable
Clarence Ousley, escaped .from a
"I will not exprett my opinion fngMful.do.th m a mort imr.0-
of the Times*1 man, not now-it
would not look well in print. It !h"< ">«
it should ever be convenient to.J " the State unjvemty,
tell him peraonally what I think f "> * Mr. Oualey la preaulent
of him, and there are no ladies °f t'lp b°ard of regents. He waa
present, perhaps I can find a
word that will answer my pur-
pose. If it be possible for a good
tree to bring forth foul fruit—if
apples of Sodom will grow on a
Ben Davis stem-'-then pcrchance
his father was a gentleman. His
mother was probably a respec-
table woman, who, becoming
frightened by some hideous night-
mare, brought forth a monster.
Hamlet might "unpack his heart
with curses" levelled at the cow-
walking across the campus on the
arm of Governor Colquitt when a
careless student in passing light-
ed a match to touch off a cigar
ette within one foot of the distin-
guished educator. The horrified
bystanders fled in terror fearing
the awful explosion, bound to en-
sue. Governor Colquitt realized
the danger and with remarkablfe
presence of mind the governor
seized regent Onsley and threw
him twenty* feet away from the
may ueiay wtervruciuu «/m
cannot prevent it." i
And thus is the Rebel s posi-1
ion fqund.to be correct.
We would warn our readers to
watch these journalistic jackals
carefully. Already they are get-
ing their wires twisted. The Sau
Antonio Excuse carried a double
column front page story about
American war ships off Vera
>uz in its Thursday edition.
No other muzzled sheet had the
story. Friday the Excuse said
nothing about the war ships.
There's ar reason. It got away
oo soon, and before its muz-
zled mates were ready; somebody
plundered that's sure.
The whole war rumor game
is simply a try out of the people.
If they show that they can be
inmboOzled the Morgenheims
will have another M^ue blown
up or some other deviltry will be
attempted to inflame the popular
mind. Show Morgan Heim, Taft
and Co. yoif are wise. Tell them
you're next to their tricks.
Tell these money mad mur-
derers by proxy , that you
won't fight their battles. Stop
war and then move on to the
legal expropriation of their prop-
erty and then you will be acting
like wise white women and men.
Don't fight. Watch the date
line. «—
A RENTERS UNION.
ardly assasins of his sire; but it light thus saving his precious
were useless to waste adjectives' life The Rebel cannot too strong
upon an editor who suffers a'ly condemn such carelessness as
louse)' nigger to puke through this student displayed. It is re
his columns into the fair faces of prehensible to the last degree to
millions of noble women. I can but allow lighted matches where ker
wonder what will'become of thfe oscne oil abounds. We hope the
Times editor when the hreath lea- university authorities take the
ves his feculent body and death matter up So that the next tune
stops the rattling of his abortive our revered regent visits the uni
brain, for he is unfit for heaven versity his life will not be en
and too foul for hell. He can not dangered." The Rebel would sug-
be buried in the earth lest he pro- gest that signs be placed around
voke a pestilence, nor in the sea the campus reading: "Keep lights
lest, he poison the fish, nor swing away," "No Smoking Allowed,'
inspace like Mahomet's coffin lest "Danger," — "Oil," — "Look
the circling worlds in trying to Out." k ^
avoid contamination crash togeth- By taking such simple precau
her, wreck the universe and tion our righteous regent will be
ng again "the noisome reign of safe from oil explosions and may
enao8 and old night. The dam goon take the volatile senator's
rascal seemes to be a white ele- seat in the senate where proper
phant on the hands of Deity, and precautions have lonf been main
I have some curiosity to 1 • • -
what he will do with it."
know
have louj
tained to safeguard statesmen
from inflsmmable accidents.
ganize. The last mills to close
were the two belonging to the
Lutchsr-Moore Company and lo-
cated at Orange; one belonging to
the Bsll Lumber Company st Pol-
lok snd another belonging to the
same company at Ball.J-—
When things have reached hueh
a pass that peaceable men can not
quietly organize without being
locked out and starved then it is
the bounden duty of the States Of
Texas, Mississippi and_ Arkansas
to assert their sovereignty and
step in and run the mills.
l^et 9us hasten condemnation
proceedings. Mr. Kirby and his
bosom friends will be firing don-
key engines instead of men in the
skid woods of the South before
this battle ends. _ •
Gentlemen, watch that predic-
tion. 'i ::.f ■ ■1 "
Comrade Thos. .A. Hickey,'
chief rebel of Texas, suggested a
short time ago in .the Rebel that
the tenant farmers of Texas or-
ganize a Renters Union and kick
against the increased demands of
the landlords and now the rebel-
lion is on, and the good IiOrd only
knows where or when it will stop.
This thing of starting a prairie
fire in time of drouth is danger-
ous business.
What if this little toodle-winks
hatched in the rebellious braiu of
a Socialist, should thrive, grow,
spread out all over this big fat
republic and set the thinking ma
chine of all renters tq thinking
about the land question, and why
a set of words on parchment
should give to one man the power
to starve another, and—well,
what do you think .would happen
to the landlord's Gristmill be-
fore the landless, self-disinherit
ed class quit thinking f
By sll means the renters should
organize a Renters Union for self
protection.——Port Worth So-
cialist.
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HERBERT SPENCER ON LAND
AND LAND 1«0RD.
"Meanwhile, we shall do well to
recollect that there are others be-
sides the landed class to be consid-
ered. In our tender regard for
he vested interests of the few, let
us not forget thst the rights of
the msny are in abeyance, and
gnust remain so as long as ths
eartfi is monopolized by individu-
sls. Let us remember, too, that
the injustice thus inflicted on tii*
mass of mankind is an injustice Of
the gravest nature. The fact that
it is not so regsrded proves noth-
ing. In early phases of civilisa-
tion even homicides were thought
lightly of." ^ ; ' , v
TEXAS LAND TROUBLES
Night riding has brokeKt out at
last and just as the Rebel expect-
ed fiul predicted. A few miles
fron%Blossom in Lamar county a
reritfc* agreed to work a place for
half the crop, he to supply tools f
and .teams as well: He was ta- -
ken out in the night and whipped, j
In Johnson county the negro eot- j
ton pickers have been run out by
the whites. The Renters ll^ion is |
a tremendous necessity. Fall in j
line, Waco, October 31. j
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REDUCED RAILROAD FARES
Steps are being taken to secure
a reduced railroad rate for the
big convention to be held in Wa-
co on October 31, We shall prob-
ably get a one and one-third rate
for the round trip. Those desir-
ing to go will please notify W. E.
Mitchell, Grace street, Wsco.
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