The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1911 Page: 3 of 4
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E. R. Meitzed, State See.
pS. •
Mifc^fli No. 1120 is a
'£- 8, . Vendiver is sec-
-- , ., # ..:„T ,
£6unty comes to the bat
with a local near Grand-
view, T. U. Arnold, secretary.
Yet another local in Johnson
WM county at Venus wfth ye* another
Lawless (L ,.O.j as secretary.
Liberty S. H. is 'another new
in Kaufman county; with
. Ida v Connor, secretary.
the news to Osegr B.
P.. tyal organized a local
thirty members at Melvin,
HcCoIloch eomny, Mel*, ud
he will do it again several
J. B. Nichols is secretary,
•spite of bad health,
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rVORKIGNKBSt
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Of Jo«W|nd, has
t things by or
_ latest local is Co: .....
with Rev. Chas. J. Burch field, see-
"thry./
dge from the number $
i issued during the first
two, weeks in September, wKSo-
cialists of Texas are cooking up
surprise: for the"!'"
thii fall that
nation.1 Keep it up comrades:
lUUmvt.m UM Mission.
fe.> -i NB ••• ' • .. ,
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. That the capitalist system is
Atcomed to disappear at tl& stern
demand of a revolutionary work-
ing cfaas, who will offer no term*
to the H lotocnacy save that of un-
conditional surrender is as cer-
tain as the coming of the morn-
ing dawn. That the dissolution
o! the beast is not far off i*
known to careful\>bservers of the
events thai- are occunng in all
parts of the world. The latest
symptoms of the world-wide
change is the two great victories
that o:
edin
of the
this sh
cialist
d labor has a&iev-
id through the agency
fral strike. Writing Oh
t the International So-
a lady from New,
attacks Southern
Of our handlin
„ eoipes a man
ant province in Canada
through the New
trhy shte should not re
Spfr heart's content; comes
other gentleman who would "
pattern after Venei
coixtes a New Yorker to sing
glories^f Deutschland a great
cialist organization. Cornea
other who wants us to main'
an N. E. C. the- whole four _
a la Spain and; Honduras. To
and all we say: Will yon'
Sod's sake get into yeqr
that we are living in the
States of North America.
that til*
out the
The itri-
k« |iw no <tnarterand asked
mob. And what the gml Ship-
..nn,™. Wdtartfc^m tried to send out
hboa.^ &2d TSS.F*
twiU lUtpr Eh^Th, dock handlin went
rvH-.
We, musts have a strong organiza-
tion before we can fight, effective-'
y. *. \ . ;
Notes.
The motions of Hallettsville
local have received the required
number ^seconds and will be
submitted to State referendum
about the 18th. County secretar-
ies will please .not forget to send
: Kfllots -to local secretaries and
members-at-large within their
cotmty. Anyone failing to receive
ballots will notify this office in-
stantly.
Madison county has no, organ-
ization as yet, but there is a live
comrade named G. W. Sherman
who is going to start things. He
has already arranged for twenty
dates for Anttrews and will se-
cure ten more.
R^ddifi Andrews • will speak
'.aevein days at'Ferris, Ellis county,
18-24. After'this he will
bout two. Weeks in
/jim
out, andtfce fireman, and the en
gineen; thecal heavers refused
to load the great liners ; every
pan stood by his and not
a wheel revolved till'
what they demanded.
By standing together as. ' one
man, all crafts lined up instead
of being split into different regi
ftients the men were enabled to
win a glorious victory. It fo
men got
ss
":1;
Wm
ro county, a. week or.'more in
ine and Lean counties and
S&
Madison county for
is
v;sn;<
f . thirty days. Central Texas
f aroused as never before.
W. S. Noble will begin a twen-
ty days' campaign in Nacqg-
doches county on Sept. 23, under
direction-of the county chair-
man, D. P. Palmer Appleby.'
| ^After this he will likely stir CheK
J okee county for a month.
/Rev. G. G. Hamilton is being
jrouted by. this qfflce for «sixty
i days or mote. He will be availa-
ble at first to Eastland, Erath,
Hamilton, Coryell, McLennan,
*nd counties south of the latter
bounty. We have several debates
--.../in pro&pcct for him, and we shall
"see some fur fly when they come
off.
M
t:
I-,
J. C. Watson has taken upon
himself the noble task of organiz-
ing Wood * county, which ^has
many Socialist voters but few
i^rty 'members. All that Jtpt will-
T:., ,W
he will conie and Organize,
address is Quitm*n, R. X.
J. C. Rhodes spoke throe days
at Mineola recently snd fV re-
'k ^u]t is ^ |/pe«|l noted r1' ,'ufre
mth a membership of 37 t begin
j. ■ < -
;'f! * A local may have ever so many
members, bdt when they fail to
pay their dues in advance they
"4rop off one by one. Moral: Get
them to pay six months or more
in advance now while they have
some cash. We are going to have
the ftght of our lives in 1M2 and
must not have any more locals
gping defunct than we can help.
-With what limited funds the
State and county offices now re
ceive they have done wonders;
What couldn't we do if onlv so
1- many as one-half the member
ship would stick, -•**
i The State, county and local or-
ganizations do the real work of
agitatio& and organization, espe-
- trially the last two. But they are
always pressed for funds. The
national officers on the Other hand
are far less important, but al-
ways have plenty of funds to pay
. high-priced stenographers, or-
ganisers, bookkeeper and the
like.Vote "yes" on referendum C
and thereby vote to more equally
divide the dues between the va-
Mine Workers and the Western
r ederation of . ^liners joining
hands in ONE ONION from
WttfcMh^ to Cape NOiheT TKe
lumber workers are also embrae^
mg industrialism ind are fighting JP
■ -their flrst ^jlttle; the renters wiU ^
last
; is/a
after
ofytravail
rious organizations.
sign of the times; at
the long weary night
and suffering, labor is awaken-
ing and the industrial democracy
is nigh.
Aftfr this victory, the "railroad
men of the stedm railway and dt
the street csfs went ouV all over
England and the teamsters fol-
lowed suit. Business was tied up
all over the Island Kin^lom. the
men who did the work of trans-
portation on land united together
and thus followed the example o I
the men who went down to the
sea in ships. The city of London
was turned into an armed camp
but the workers conscious of their
power stoif^d at peaceful atten
tion. Then' occurred a remark
able incident, one that will live in
history and will never be forgot-
ten. The government could no
move the mails that were piln
mountain high at the great post-
©ffrce. In despair the postmaster
general, one of the cabinet offi-
cers of the king's parliament, sen
an appeal to the strikeb execu
the committee for help and per-
mission ta move* the mails. The
executive committee of labor eon
side red the reqnest and signed an
official order giving to |he_gov
ernment permission and power to
move the mails. Thus at - one
stroke tlid labor actually become
the ptvernment in its gicatest de-
partment.. From ..\at position
the next sirp wil] logically be
the- taking over of all functions
of government by means of the
hallot and general strike. Thpn
the confiscation, of the propeaty
of the idlers will follow; thfir
land, railroads, mines, ships, luiii
tter, steel and so on until all the
means of life are owned by al"
and. democratically mariaged.
Tigris an- multiplying m this
eonnti-y that organized uihor Ayil
fmr*u*«the same victorious policy
here. Too long has la-
bo* been tied up in craft unions
that warred on one . another !i"
Stead of the common ene^iy.
John O'Neill, the brilliant ed
itor of the Miners Magazine has
shown the folly of that position
when he said
IThe failure of the strike in
Philadelphia^ was due to the fact
that labor, baring been organized
along craft and trade lines, has
not yet recognized the power of
class solidarity. Labor having
been fighting i'or yesfl-s by craft
and trade regiments, has not yet
confidence in its powjer to fight as
on army. - -*
"There will come a time when
the labor movement will lie no
longer fightjiig capitalism with
resimeuts. but with an army that
will grow more powerftil as the
vision of the laboring people fK-
comes focused on the irrepressi-
ble conflict that can never end
until the gates of equal oppor-
tunity are opened wide to every
man, woman and child .that live
upon the face of this plajifll.^ ^
That the time 0 'Neill.speaks of
is near at hand in America can be
seen when we witness the l-nited
five BUNtrra sermon.
SSBSBBSXS
Pll
. . • •' ' V-
qWSTIOH.
m
,; it to fattee my
Sit. thotfSfht i! ®y land|
with a good home, and
force, can't raise enough
to fatten his hogs, how can I ex*
pect to raise enough
mine and his both—
I am for limited ownership
land ' :"-w' - ^ ''iiiii
for
V-UBp
t lontht MigfaMr U thy-
zr." The Mriatie of Apostle
Paul to the QalaUaios, 6 :H 16.
raul in the Galatian letter gives
^s the only law that can „yer
:pri;ig happiness w rnirikind.
rilai'h year since these words were
uttered has found fresh confirma-
tion of its truth. The world has
been filled with Woe becausKof
pan's inhumanity ta man. 7
long as we do not live up*t6 the
^ords of Paul so u.ag will hu-
inanity mourn. Tlie dogs of war
will roam the nations and the
dove of sweet peace will never
fly her white wings over the
Jarth... Consider for * moment
^he cost in one item alone for fail-
ing to live up to the law. Consid-
er if you please the cost of the
"aruied peacf" that is now^main-
ined betwieen the nations.
hear.
msnt . es-
timated that the increased cost of
e AmeHWfia^sjbavy to
e past eight years—not the tot-
cost,, but the cost over and
above the cost during "the eight
years'preceding the Spanish-Am-
e^ican war—has been $1,072,00Q,-
T. B. Holliday,
Abilei '
r-igj
xas
x . UNION of all men in an<
arotind the farms with a potentli.
pbwer ofxtwo million men in the
South alone. To cap it all the rail-
road workers who have been split
into 20 different drafts are com-
•« g together into one federation.
The Denver Union Bulletin says :
"One ^of the g atert st^pf
m America's history is threatdn^
ed at the time of going to press,
The strike concerns the entire
Harriraan system of np|
and the federated trades of that
KXSS!
***** — ^n**
MILAM MQVQIO MAJESTI-
CALLY.
fye is
we grasp what these fig-
11
Can
ires meant 11,072,000,000 more
looney squandered on aarmed
eace in eight yea re than we
squandered before the war with
Spain turned our heads. At
this rate, if we continue to forget
tir heed not the law as laid down
$y Paul, in twenty years the ad-
ded expenditure will absorb the
rice ofJhe'Panama Canal,; the
riec of a complete system of
waterways throughout the Unit-
ed Ntatgs, the price of proposed
Rational forests, of proposed irri-
gation of arid lands and in ad-
dition at) amount that would pay
our national-debt. And that is the
pt-ice we pay for not loving our
neighbors as ourselves.
Let us thinS for a moment
what could be done if we obeyed
•the law as stated by Paul. Fancy
'what could be done by putting
his teachings into practice! In
fancy I can see this great nation,
system, comprising the machtnistsl ^ftshed by tM\o oceans, kissed by
and embraced by the
and blacksmiths and helpers, the
boilermakers and helpers, the oar
men, the sheet metal work®
and the pipemen, all affiliati
with the Ameiican Federation
of Labor.
The federation of these several
organizations has been recognized
by the Canadian Pacific, both
East and West; the .Rock Island
lines, the. Gould lines, the Cbesa-
peakej; Ohio anff' the Wabash,
!^ew ^ ork, New Haven & JjLart-
lord. Instead of.dealing with the
several organizations, a commit.
tee from the Federation sifna a
contract for the several organiza-
tions, which mil go iutb opera-
tion and terminate at the Bame
time." ;
Next vre read an associated
press dispatch that shows the
fear in the heart of the masters
of bread, Wepread: ~-H:
San Fraucisc^ Cal., August 31.
—Julius KrutUfchnitt, vice presi-
dfnt and director of maintenance
and operation of the Harriman
lines, arrived < here from Chicago
tonight. He announced that he
had come for femily reasons and
gave' what Mine 'considered a
two-edged answer to a question
as to whether he wfculd receive
representatives of the federation
of shop *mptoye«« union. Mr!
Kruttacbnitt was accompanied by
p. E. Calvin, geiwral manager of
the Harrittkn lfthw, and Mrs.
Kruttschnftt. . - —
That the juiecees of the federa-
tion of shop employes pf the ITar
riman roirtos wwld place the u«i-
ions in .tbsolute control of tiie
railorad busmess o) the eomp-jiny
was .the assertion of Mr. Krutt-
sehnitt.
"The proposed federation of
these roiid craftsmen if consunv-
nated would place tht in abw-
lute eoatrc*!." 4 "'
« • ■ •
Correct, Mr. Kruttschnitt. ab-
solutely correct, Ther. workers
would and will be in absolute
control. And bo the battle lines
are being formed throughout the
world. All workers of an indus-
try in one union. AU ndustries
running their own affairs auto-
nomously and democratically. All
worker! voting as they strike and
march, work and suffer. With
the Socialist party ballot and the
Industrial organization the work-
er has the two weapons that will
bring victory for labor that has
crucified thro' the centuries. A
new civilization is in the birth
throe^and when born Pface and
plenty will encircle tm earth
like the beams of the
On with the battle.
the lakes
gulf. Within its Iwders I see
100,000,000 healthy men, women
and children, care free and hap-
py with the wolf of want forever
banished from their midf.t. I se^
the ships from the furthest- point
bt the seven seas loaded down in
her docks with the freshest fruit
of commerce from all the earth,
pteci<jftf| perfumes, silks and lace
ta adnrh'our wives and daugh-
ters and the wealth of Indes
and of OR would\be ours to com-
mand ; I see a vast system of wat-
epvayr throughout the . nation,
the rivers, deoponed a ud the com
uM
rising sun.
erce of the country flowing as
easily as the blood through the
hitinan body; 1 see the sparkling
waters of other rivers dammed
up, eonse.ryed, and then poured
out On hundreds of millions of
acres of ari^lands that graceful
ly ^accept the precious drink and
payjback 10,000 fold in fruit arid
waving grain; I see our forest*
protected and growing under thi
skilful care of trained foresters;
I see not two but a hundred
blades of grass growing where
one grew before; I see the state-
ly piles of stone rise in solemn
splghdor where the youth of oui
nation is trained in the sciences
and arts; I ^ee the red lighl
quenched, the saloon closed, the
factories swept clean of its^child
.slaves, honor enthroned, dipsipc -
tion ended, old age protoctcd.
and laughter and mu^.jMibj;
the( nation with their Moan
sounds. All this and more, we
•can do and' do now becaitoe the
tools and land and resources, the
people and genius of achieve
memt ere all here and are here
NOW to be used vhen w. ioopcr
atively work in the Socialist spir
it of love as taught by Paul.
Loccl Rockdale met yesterday
with good attendance and lots of
enthusiasm. Old Milam is grow-
ing in grace wonderfully in a So-
cialistic way of late. Picnics, sing-
ings, speakings and gatherings of
different kinds are of weekb' oc-
ecurrence. I claim we are "going
some" around here and there is
a great surprise awaiting the op-
position here at the next election,
keep yonri eyes on us. Comrade
Zimmerman is having a series of
very successful meetings in his
campaign of organization
making in this county.
We are determined to put 500
members in the party in, this
county before the 1912 election.
We were greatly elated' a few
days ago over the prospect of
getting the "hairless wonder" of
Denton ^county here on the 30thk
for a joint debate with "tyanley J.
Clark. But the local Dems, sud-
denly became feather-legged, re*
fusing absolutely to even try to
get Hill to come here for a debate;
They are ihdeed wise in refusing
to try to defend their thread-bar^
theories against the onslaught of
our speakers.
The Reuters Uuiorf' idea is
spreading rapidly here *nd espe
cially in the rich black land sec-
ion in the northern part of the
county. The poorer sandy post
oak land sections in the Southern
>art of the county have not been
monopolized to such a great ex-
ent by the land batons as yet.
lowever they are gradually gath-
ering it in and the home owners
are becoming fewer yearly. The
more intelligent class of. them
see their finish looming like a
dark cloud on their economic Eof*
mm and they are determined to
organize and fight like men
against the proposed increase of
rents and other demands of the
landlords that would tend to fur-
ther exploit and reduce them to
the plane of the Mexica peon. Yes,
Ilickey I know there is still man-
hood enought left am t,M ren-
ters and other working men of
old Milam county to demand that
the God given right to till the
soil and secure a living for them-
selves and those dependent upon
them SHALL HE NO FURTHER
ABRIDGED. I also think you
can depend on them continuing
the fight until there will not be a
grasping landlord left in the uni-
verse, yes wewill go on and on
demanding and securing more
of the rights of which we have
been deprived under the capital-
istic regime until that glad time
of which the old prophfit spoke
long ago, when c.ery one shall
sit tinder his own vine ami fig
tree surrounded by his loved
Ones, and, "there shall be none to
molest or make afraid."
There will b another picnic at
Weinew Lake on Sunday Oct. l;
Stanley j, Clark will be with ua
and the editor of The Rebel is
hereby invited. There will proba-
bly be other prominent speakers
present. Th"re will be free ice we*
ter, lemonade and swings for the
little folks* Come, bring your
basket and enjoy youmelf ajl
day, ^This is intended as\a comi-
ty meeting and we insist that ev-
ery Socialist m the ^county be
present. - -•
On with the revolution.
fi. A. Greeh.
Joe Kailey announces that he
will not Ih> a candidate for re-el-
ection. It. is 3 dear caiA of Mene-
mene tekel upharsin!
<r -•*
One "orator" advised the "un-
ion" men to relegate the agita-
tors. Sure! Don't let them wake
you up. If they do you are liable
to raise "some" hell.
"sortie'
... .....^4 t - *
Hill Hay wood is telling the So-
cialists of ('alifornia some things.
Among others* that the organiza-
tion on the industrial field had
better be looked Into; 1
;*| • 4*
Now watch the
iitical grafters and f
po-
ot,all
r
ng
their un<iyibl| love !8f fte farmer
and the worker. And of course
#iU he believe^. JJhe pity of
fir'x e*^
* (lt' - jj«nrflar Kb* thosr old-ti-
Mtsri had Hi coining pHraSes and
thali.hn/awlicabie to
.fl|y. |!or iiptanee; gee how this
fita the {career of Joo Bailey
*s
"Cito maturum, cito nutridum."
—which is Latin for soon rfpe,
soon rotten.''
* • •
SSI
rw*-'"!
ISM
l|. I,,,. - , a — ilk*
naywopa ana rrsiM
>4— Hitiia mi >mi i|i.i> >«>>«<
INDUSTRIAL SOCIAUS
U iiiMIm tfc« kwl U<1 mrat iA tk* <M lii'uhiMin I
Ufm —<■> in nrttWlt. It Kill m
H«M m< ■> wra'i turn k> r««l «|| ikraafk
thu HM4U In k M out what w> *ul. TW
nttoaa "> hrMlna. M* i
ggLft sag
Farmers!—Doctor your own
stock. 30 prescriptions by a re-
tired gradate veterinary sur-
geon. Special price 25 cts. to the
readers of The Rebel. Dr. P. S.
Isaacson, 24i% First street, Port-
land, Oft. • '! ' • Adv5€-tf
cf
Best Liver Piljs, mailed 10c,
thirteen boxes, 11.00. William
Brownfield, Brentwood, Ark. al
The man who has studied the
literature of Socialism finds it
|^rd to deal with those mortals
who profess to look w$h f wl^ly
Wlsdbm upon the sufferings bit
hufhanity and see in it all the
work of a divine providence or'a
problem whieh baffles solution by
man. These people are either
grossly ignorant of economics or
are willfully misleading them-
selves for dollars and cents. Of
course we know that hundreds of
men are so situated they can not
give utterance to the thoughts
that arise within them. A great
many are writers who must ladle
out this class of stuff for pay,
just the same as the grocery clerk
hands you foodstuffs which he
knows is adulterated, or the dry
goods clerks sells you shoddy
and knows it. But their meal
tickets are at Aake and they, are
helpless. Yet to this class of men
there at least remains the solace
of the ballot. And if they fail to
avail themselves of this means of
protest they are simply traitors
to themselves and those depetodi
ent upon them. If you can not
get on the firing line yourselves
d^n'f withhold ammunition firom
those who are doing the fighting.
Capitalist society hus victimiz-
ed, brutalized and outraged the
poor little Bhi ford girl and now
that same society will coin into
money the blasted, bruised aii4
bleeding character of the girl.
Hhe is to pose tVr a moving pic-
ture concern. >•,
The earth belongs to the pre-
sent. Those Who are UeaJ and
those who are unborn hayf no
hand iu the game. Shake offxthc
traditions Of the past and quit
yearning for the future. Du it
now! You Rebels, do it now,
durn you, do it now; ycu hear it,
NOW! •
• * • ■
Read all the speeches by all the
"labor" orators on "Lalyir" day
and see if you can find one vfer-
ence to the pending strike of up-
wanl of n hundred thousand men
on the S. P. Ditti) twice and see
If .von can find a reference to the
McNamara outrage. "Labor day!
Nope, Politicians' day; Cheap
"ftwvsters't Day. Nothing ' doing
for labor; ',!: . _ ^
For years the Red Cress, the
behemoth of Charity fakes, has
utilized the idea of Belling stamps
to raise funds for its ghoulish
purpose* during the holidays.
Now a movement is ou foot to
raise funds in thia manuner for
the McNamara defense and ia-
stantly Without delay domes a
ruling froth the postoftoe de-
liartment^that none other but re-
gulation government jwstage
stamps shall I e placed on mail
matter. A government of the'
rich,1 by the rich and for the rich
must and shall perish from <the
earth!
• • ' - ' ■■ ;
The United States underwent
a general strike September 4. Net -
wheel turned. Production
ceased. But there was no cry for
the militia. No bloodcurdling
calls for the policc. Why? Be-
cause^jcapitalism, ati^es <this day *
tp, rabuikl and rsklorofonu the
ijUpor. It aJmlhiBierK Mrs.
low by the hogshead. And
the Bext day R IUMb labor
op again securely Mbwd and
,*l0B*
^nted (TJ a/ud. happy for an-
r year. Greai game. But
e of these dayii^ftWf is going
to fall to4fcs ilh^*n4 then-
well, we 'rei fbing to' Ibshe a seat
on top of the l|Vs|i|tll4ten monu-
ment and watch the ifun.
• a ■ "
There should be a concerted
move in the rank and'file of the %
slaves exploited by the railways
to drive from their tnidsts simh
fakers and laclcevs as Murpny
who is organizing branches of the
American Railway Employes* and
Investors assoeiatiun. The-plan is
simply to persuade these ilaves
to subscribers to stock in a fake
organization and thus bind them
more closely to their chains. Not
that they are in any danger of
quitting but to keep them tracts:
ble against the time when Social-
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1911, newspaper, September 16, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394503/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.