The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1911 Page: 4 of 4
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over in ficonoinict is "the
a machine that household affairs," accordiug to
P& snout from a flat ear Webster. We Socialists harp
down to the bottom of a river continually on economies, yet we
and scoops up gravel from be- are charged wHheeekiag to
'.'/nfcath the watfer. At that lick break op % household. But we
1 the tdw* vags are liable to lose are charged with everything else,
their jobs Wen on the rock pile. {for that matter.
The price of the Price cotton
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MMWit
picker is $6,000. Have you got
the prioe? If not, youcaafec
the prioe of cotton picking j
sorbed by pi monster corporation
or tie on your long sack and race
against the machine. But dont
kick. Thil isthe price of the
ticket you have been voting.
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If ike farmer kept A man half
his time wiih a rag and room)
kind of powder polishing his
f ront gate, he would hive to
•liHrge more for his ootton and
l\rm produce, wouldn't heT On
the farm .that would look like
wasted labor, but in town it 's the
"life of trade."
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Any machine that saves labor
is a curse to labog*, unless labor
,own the machine. Outside the
Socialist program, what provision
is there, or what chance or hope
or prospect is there, that labor
may ever own; the machinery
with which it produces wealth?
„ It took an old miner Uke Wil-
liam D. Haywood to conceive the
following: ' 'Deputies, detectives
and strikebreakers are the dregs
at•> the bottom. The working
elass—the 4 great pay streak-
is the center. And the parasites
ftre the scum at the top."
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Why did U| e high and haughty,
gorgeous and gaudy potentate of
Alwtiqp leave Mexico so sopn af-
ter inw'tmg ~ and frat&ntaflng
with Brother Taft t Becausethe
people of Mexico got tired of
him. Sooner than some of us
may imagine, the people of the
Benighted States may catch up
with the people of Mexico and get
tired, too.
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^^ropriet rchip, i s commonly
understood, is having other peo-
ple, to work for you. Theodore
v Price, a millionaire capitalist,
says that only proprietors may
suoceed in America | workers,
never. This changing of the old
song is a blessed relief. And the
truth contained in the statement,
coming from ihe, source it does,
is novel^and refreshing too.
How often, ohl how often, has
the bi f rentlord gone to town on
Saturday to get money out the
the bauk to pay off cotton pick-
ers f And what did those pickers
afterward do with the money!
Pretty soon he will, instead, make
a trip to the bank to pay Theo-
dorePrice ^Company for picking
his cottou. And what will Theo-
dore Price & Company do with
that iAoaeyt . Will the Southerh
Retail Dry Goods Company, at^d
the Texas Grocery Company,
and the other town companies,
please venture a prediction?
Archbishop Ireland is to re-
ceive a gift of $100,000. Tut
priests will doubtless twist it out
or* the wage workers for him.
aud if the priests fail Jim Hill al-
ways comes, across to the bishop.
Bishops are necessary to railroads.
Sabe? Blind leaders of the blind!
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Webster says that profit is "ac-
quisition beyond expenditure; ex-
cess of value received for keep-
fclgtOf selling, over cost." The
Socialists say that profit is that
part Of the workers' earnings
which the workers do not get.
Only different ways of saying it,
that's all/ *
Inside the fields there are mil-
lions of men, women and children
toiling and paying rent. Outside
the fields there are millions of
acres of good land being held for
profit. Is it right r Should it
continue this way? "YES," says
every voter at the ballot box who
votes agninst Socialism. There is
no organized protest against it,
aside from Socialism. -
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money, bright shiny
standing timber is to the
tenance 'of the sawmill business,
la
„ .v.ivwtKsmmism*, reserve, t||lemployed||?workert
out of the plains of Tcxas,thehills for the full product
MiltUppi. When th. of , „ , Ml Fort
tres is against us we sell
and put die debit on- the
side. When money 13$r
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Record; It says:
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on
Wall street, then Galveston or
New Orleans or Savannah sends a
cotton, and back comes gold
to loosen the financial
and start the money!
prepared fcff a fidht to death
with its machinists and shop
men, and oould fill their places
the line six to twelve hours after
a strike edict' i* issued, is. the
general belief in Fork Worth
railroad circles. It is claimed
that the company has shop men,
BiSM(MS , skilled and unskilled, now assem-
8ut just observe, if you please |bled T Louisiana and in
the manner in which the crovm b. , ^ it ^ ^
placed upon the brow of ftis131K1]
courses running. If cotton is not
King it is Master of the J5xci
quer,"—Dallas News.
mighty'king. If that girl of sev-
enteen summers out yonder in
the big Cotton field could be in-
duced to talk on the subject, the
story she could tell would be one
that hasn't been printed and
won't be printed in,the old-party
press. In order to croyqi King
Cotton and make him Masted-of
the Exchequer she and her yovtng
ger sister and brothers, constitut-
ing over half t£e labor that Makes
and -gathers cotton, must ^ first j ^ wooj^ ^ not have to
SolZr^rinJth. b. k «r"rt U-e of th« wk.
tensive shops, ready to jump in
to harness immediately aftef the
present shop men decide to strike
if that should be the case. It is
said that for si week these meir
have been at some, point nearby,
from where they could be im-
mediately dispatehed to New Or-
leans, Houston, San Antonio, Den-
of oth<
SllifB
of real success in America.
^ the busine*
portation are succ
i who draw the) salaries eke out
gn sufferance
during their days of vigor,
to ih old age "
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Now, you ij^ary wage workers,
when you have the truth thug
tauntingly , flung into
by Millionaire Price, vis :
ownership alone brings success to
the owner, but that work alone
cannot bring sucoess to the vtork-
er,how can you stultify yourselves
by voting to continue a syj^M
which divides society ihto these
classes—owners and woi,kera~-a
few rich andv"successful?T/6wn
ers, and great mass of poor
wage workers and tenants? Po-
litically you are a great and ov-
, erwhelmingly - majority, and just
times bring
the BoeWist*
are located.
l!hl Wis I wrong? If the
southern" Pacific could uror find
/
Even the nickel pencil tablets
our children use in school are em-
bellished—some of them—with
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colored picture and a page of
reading on the top co^er about
"Famous Battle by Land and
Sea." Why should all this gory
stuff be. spread out before—the
eyes of tender children whose
Christian parents, let. us hope, are
trying to teach and lead them in
the ways of peace? Wonder if
■our War Department is offering
Mark 8:2, 3:^"I have compas- suggestions to the manufac-
sion on the multitude, because turers of school stationary?
they have now been with mo [• —T
three days, and have nothing to' Sometimes a skilled workman
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eat: and if I send them away
fasting to their own houses thiy
wi^ll faint by .the wayr for divers
of them came from far." The
economic situation of that multi-
tude was far from being favora-
ble to the ready imbibition of
moral truths, and Jesus recog-
nized that fact The multitudes
similarly situated today number
into the millions. Who is doing
the recognizing act?
f Under the caption, "Socialism
and Human Nature," the Fort
Worth Record has an editorial
article which need not be repro-
duced, as everybody will
receiving eighteen a week gets it
\nto his swelled head that he is of
a higher order of creation , and
scarcely related at all to the un-
skilled workman getting nine a
week. About the only unionism
there is to craft unionism is
within the craft. There is no rec-
ognition of the universal brother-
hood of the wealth makers, as a
class sepa^pte and distinct from
wealth takers. But perhaps it
was of the evolutionary plan that
craft-consciousness should pre-
cede class-consciousness.
Postage stamps are not made to
know j sell; they are made to use. Sell-
from the heading just about what j ing thenl is no part of the object
the article contains. Now let's , in making them. That's why we
have an article on "Democracy' get them so cheap. We, the peo-
and Human
publicanism
Nature/' or
and Human
'Re- j pie of the United States, look af-
Na- ter the making of them ourselves,
ture," or "Equal Rights to All for our mutual use. and we don't
and Human Nature,vI to be half- j try to make a profit off ourselves.
Way logical, the ' Record must, Farmers, it may sound radical,
m
m
drive straight to the
conclusion: "Human
selfish and greedy; therefore,
down with *11 propositions that
jeeJc to ourb selfishness and
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following but the workers in all o\ir neces-
nature> is , sary industries will some I day
have gotten entirely out of the
habit of thinking about making
things to SELL. The "market"
idea is the devil's idea.
account of the landlord. (At
least three-fojirths of the cotton
producers do not own the land
upon which they produce it.) Then
this country girl and the smaller
members of the family? whose
hearts long for new thing* "ItW
the stores, must deny themselves
even, if such denial keeps them
away from church, until they
contribute their share toward
men who own the Railroads over
which the
and from the factories, the men
who own those factories, and ihe
monsters who manipulate the
ison and other places where shops wgy you keep voting to be allow-
ed to do-all the work and let a
few rich people own the machin-
ery and means T>y which you
work, when .they can have no pos
sible use for such machinery and
ers or else close its ahops-and de- means except to rob you Of four-
pots, stop its trains and let the fifths of the fruits of your work
people suffer until they would
rise np and "take over." the
property and operate it, and in-
cidentally play a few bars of the
new song called "SOCIALISM!"
Is not this standing army of idle
a "
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persecute
these things on the sabbath Ayr
And
fering, starving humanity on
sabbath day.)
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—this is a mystery to any man
from whose eyes the scales have
fallen. At one election you could,
if you^Would, transfer Ownership
of this machinery / and meai|s
from the -lew private owners to
workingmen absolutely neefcs-' public. Then there would be
ury to keep off Socialism? If (n0 gUCh thing as two classes-
no strikebreakers could be had, ' owners and workers. Everybody
_ _ the wockers could and eventual, j ^uid be an owner of the wealth
ittoT hTT'hauled' to^^ would' demafld that every pwducing meaUa and machinery,
dollar now going to idle others ^ \n order to get benefits out
in the shape of' profits should of 8Uch ownership, everybody
come to themselves in the shape able to work would have to be a
p of full recompensation for their WOrker. All alike would be pwn-
'0f work, and this would drive out erg 0f these means of work, and
thrprcsent owners, who own the no one could say to another, "Use
industries only for "the sake of my ian^> my factorjr,v my xnjneA
profits,and the government would my iimber, my railroad, and pay-
be bound to take over the prop- j ^ jor the tue of it while 1 eu-
erty and assume controls • , j0y luxury and seek pleasure.
If every unemployed manj^g it is now, and/as Millionaire
could and would get some sort of prjce truthfully tells you, success
produce exchanges. Besid
they must create their share
the values that are expressed in
desirable homes in their local
towns, street cars, electric lights,
cement walks, paved streets,
swell hotels for sporty drum-
mers, extensive advertising^ in
the old-party home papers—all
this and more must the Maud
Muller of the cotton field set,
aside for others befOre she can
get to the new and later style of
dress for herself, the coveted h«
with an imitation plume, the
shoes with the high and jaunty
heel, and other articles of appa-
el which she craves and deems
necessary to conceal from the
world the fact, that she is a ren*;
ter's daughter,^ • f
And this is the way King Cot-
ton gets his crown. Only the
Socialist papers, however, will
tell you so; only the Socialist pa-
pers protest against this flagrant
injustice, this barbaric and god*,
less system. But up to the last
election a majority qf the father^
of the Maud Mullefs of the cot-
ton fields were -{prejudiced
against Socialist papers.
pefore we ever see the ideal Co-
operative Commonwealth, all the
useful branches of industry must'
be socialized. If all branches
were socialized except, agricul- talist system and
a job, at some sort of a price,' ^ limited to.thevfew private ewu-
and stick to it, as the old-party en 0f the" means of work, and is
editors advise and urge him to, conditioned not on their WORK,
every strike in every branch of but on their OWNERSMIP. Un-
industry would eon^letely tie up der Socialism the ownership of
that industry, for want of unem-. ^ MEANS of industry (not the
ployed men to act as strikebreak- \ fruitg of ^^try) would be pub-
<?rs, and the people at large, suf- ^ ^ k opd<sr to .ueeeed, each
fering and sore, yrould, in Order' pe^om constituting the public
to save themselves, have to turnhave to mix some, work
Socialist and take charge of ^ along with his ownership. Such
thiogs. I a thing as enjoying the FRUITS
Yes^I'Say it again: it were as 0f industry tprivate wealth)
logical to argue that a sawmill
business can be perpetuated
without a timber reserve, as that
the present capitalist system can in telling the young Men that
be perpetusted without an army
of men without money, without
property, without jobs.
When a capitalist finds it to his
interest to state an economic fact,
he can do the job better than two
Socialists. When Theodore Price
said, "Proprietorship is the only
means of real success in Ameri-
ca," he put together nearly all
the facts pertaining to the capi-
simmered the
would not be on the program at
W
ill.
all. Theodore Price, under the
present old-party system, is right
they most not depend on their
own work, but on other people's
work, if they expect anything
more iuthnrlife than "aiworex'-
istenee on sufferance," and aq
old age of "dependent on the
charity of others." O, workers
of the world, will you never take
the hint?
priests and the Pharisees a coun-
cil, and said,- f hat do we? for this
man doeth many miracles. If we
let him thus jlone, all men will
believe on him: and the Bomans
shall come and take tway both
our place and nation.":—John
1147, 48. The scoundrels
were afraid of losing their graft,
and that, after all, is what nailed
Jesus to the cross, *Nqt because
he did things on the sabbath, nor j
yet because he called them hypo- y
critei, ..liars, thieves, vipers and
whited sepulchres, but because
they foresaw in his system an ov-
erturning of the established or-
der of things, but of whioh estab-
lished order they drew profit.
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the trust-owned industries what
he produces/and buys back from
them (through middlemen) rtrhtft
he uses. The trust sets the price
on each movement of the goods,.
and catches him coming and go-
ing." 1 get that from "Wilbur C.
Benton, of Chicago, in his "So-
cialism, the Main Points?' A man
ought to see the truth of it, even
though he tried, to go to mill "
when* a boy but couldn 't quite
learn how. If he )>eliev<«; either
of the old parties will ever make
the trusts, quit catching him ei-
ther coming or going, then it's a
wonder the old mare' e**r go^,j
back home from the mill With,
him. ' . . " . " ^ •
You Democrats snd Republic-
ans, if you propose to pursue a
Political course in which you will
Italf-way ^arri your salt ih this
low vale of sorrow, why don't
y ou start something that will ac-
tually and ' forever, cut "but the
(f.tton roillioniure. the.wJiest i :il-
houaire, the «?->al and cont s"il,
ron-and ste^l, shoe and leather;
teef, sugyr, toMcco liq io \ rail-
load and i.h^iaph all the
c.l.t-r mili'.ci.i ires too imi: orous
t? mention ^ A^'iiat is beinij gained
by all these millionaires is being
lctt by the ii 'iwes of the people.
If you doii'i know thai, you
should learn right quick.* A lit-
tle more "f .v(-ur making war on
t;u Sociaiwts while they arc hon-
estly see*' *t v;y to ri<ht these
vi< nstrous wongs wUl surily re-
sult in the Socialists ^enjoying
the supr-im) delight of watching ,
the elods fall into your political
graves.
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ture, the farmers would be iiti-J whole thing down to ten words,
measurably better off than now,
still it would make of them a spe-
cial class, with interests not iden-
tical with the interests \)f all the
other groups of workers. To
make the system perfect all
around, the Texas cotton raiser
must own a citizen's interest in
the Commonwealth jphoe factory
in Massachusetts, and the Massa-
chusetts shoemaker must own o
citizen's iptferest in the Common-
wealth farm in Texas, each get-
ting the full value of his product
snd spending it ss he pleases.
Julius Kruttschnitt {and that's
not a Socialist naJfe, either), of
the Southern pacific' won't grant
the demands of the Federated
Why^ould you have ,to pay Shop Employes "becau8e., aar he
more than eost for any article? says, it would "hampering coin-
all who have had anything to do _ pany in performing its duty to
with making and transporting, the public." Duty to the public 1
the article, and even wear and The cwrypt thing4-for the public
tear of machinery. Why should to do would be to say to Mr.
you have to pay any more? When j Kruttschnitt, "Never mind about
you pay more than cost you are *your squabbles with the work
giving somebody some^iing for j me6; if your company can't per-
L a! • CI _t ^ ^ 1 IfrvMVM tin 4a ikn v\uK1ia olrtn
nothing. Somebody is getting a
PROFIT off of you, and that is
ALWAYS something for nothing.
But most people like to pay ft,
j judging from the way they vote.
form its duty to the public, skin
out from hew and we'll perform
it for ourselves. Company or no
company, the goods must and
shall be delivered to the public."
Capitalist—A man who has a
capital or stock in trade; usually
a man of 1 vge property, which is
or may be employed in business.
—Webster. Notice that it is the
man's PROPERTY, and not the
man himself, which is or may be
employed in business. The man
himself, as a CAPITALIST, is of
no use whatever. Under Social-
ism the public, and not the min,
will be the capitalist, and as the
public won't..feel*duty-bound to
stall-feed the man, it looks as if
the man will have to wojrk and
be useful, as alT men should.
Those who work with this public
capital will have everything com-
ing to them that results, from
such ^work, with no private
italists te hold out four-fifths of
it. SocdsHsm gives every man
who is able to work an opportun-
ity to work without having to di-
vide up, and then says to him,
"It's up to you."
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