The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 9, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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fell into one another's arms for th«K
and protection. ■&
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had callonsses on their hancls and hailed from Indian- this reoorded fact that proves
, the other Ht wwe kid flovod and hailed from Sonth- dotwi:
and Wall street, New York. ■ < .
* * * Three years ago two sets of
handed om mid. th. d«Hor thrir lir ; th. otl>. ^W^yrl^lyttoth..
ttfr thrtr Wni Mi« Mffte moltlplKd million, of toot to wm.
w fon^iit baek and fonght with
was immensely weoewfnl; the Mo-
the big bis banditti has a new lease
them protection for past crimes and
InttjU^ft*™,
th« ttait mcmeni what the mwi of tt« KcH m i*t' Sj^^ 'WhyTti^B™
flashed through the nation that the labor movement * ^ Reoublican mayor Frad
and politiml h«d roooirod t itajgtrtn* Wow.
* * * used to shelter the dynamiters,
known we oan say with oertainty of *
that nothing better could have happened for - <||gg|| jgg&yg|f|g|gH|
the labor movement aa represented by the Socialist party and the
union movement; than the alliance of the McNamaras and the big
To show that this Is not an
heinoas crime with even bigger
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♦ * ♦ Wheifthe Colorado labor
snoceesful contradiction of this statement: that enoe depot^t Cripple Creek wa*
known there will be private detectives guarding it.
be balloted to three separate times went to t
who .will strip the banditti of Shortly aftar a rail was thrown
crimes. Jpl5
SUN OP NOON DAY AND
CLOSE OR OI4NO ON HIS
at is extravagant take heed of
ith without the shadow of a
Before answering this question let me ask one, • . .
Who is this plunderbund, this big bis, that framed up the al-
liance with the dynamiters to beat Harriman? They are the crowd
that has been allied with the Southern Pacific
and ably assisted that corporation to debauoh the
,
nia to such an extent that popular government
itinued assaults of the
for control of the
tor years
of Calif or.
— to Juur*ift£
tirely broken from the oontinned assaults of the corporationists.
Their politioal idol was the oonvict, Abe Ra«f, of Ban Traadsoo.
. They oorrupted the legislatnne at Sacramento; made the governors
'in control of poii- their puppets and besmirohed the ermine of the judiciary,
over to a gang^known as the— — - ♦ ♦ • '' —-—■1
ous sun. Th| other crowd In Paoifio Reporter No. 75, there is reoorded the ease of Amee
ynamite than the McNamaras vg, g. p. Railway. In this case the majority of tha Supreme oourt
in number were blown up at actually held that the rules and regulations of the 8. P. Railway
policemen on their beau were wert) 0f greater potency than the Uws of the landt Could infamy
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illing plaster. In spite of the
iUy paper in Chicago knew the
jfco hired them and every polioe
moment there was not one ar-
itocratie leader, Hinkey Dink,
Bvwere in on tip play and di-
Thus was political power
further go?
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known to
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end in view I propose to tarn on tha light so that the
Re*fe? Ike deal was made that saved one set of crimin-
other.
vly'Vi:
shall get down to the admitted faots in the ease:
For years there,has been a bitter and
the workers and employers in the ^—
organised a union—tfcj|
•r-'r «
in the moat
war on between
bttdness. . The
Iron
and
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CTeek. The engineer stopped
spot that would have meantj&e
the 1
train gone on. < ^ •
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Three unkm men were
deteotive, broke down pn cross
ha wialdred by the Mine Owni
His price he testified waa $1,000
he wished to go to. tta
tion that had on their books such
and Senator Jttmon
Hi
58er?R«*pt
indicted for the crime.
ted
ting aa the
Ohas Ed. Russel, America's greatest magasine writer visited Los
Angeles recently. After sizing them up he thus describes them:
" 'On the side of the opposition are all the banks, all the trust
companies, all the breweries, all the reactionaries, all the smug re-
spectable people that believe in a strong, autocratic government by
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their own clau, all the influence of 'society' and the 'upper c
ail tiia ariitoflraqr, a8 tha ^better element,' all the gamblers, all tha
'good government' gang, all the people that are piously afraid of
'mobrocracy,' all the good, respeotable people that sit about tit
drawing rooms lamenting tha prevalence of the lower or/isrs, all
subtle, far-reaching influence of the interests, all the thugs and sa*
ond-story men that divide their plunder with the polio* all the dub
members, most of the dergymen, all the men that,make.profit from
child labor, most of tiuf ooQege graduate, all of the eminent businees
men, all the big advertisers, au the factory owners, aU tha smjMf
hypocrites that prate in public about the sanctity of electiona, mwt
people had of the newspaper, the Southern Padflc Railroad, the pubUo
corporations and Oeneral Otis.'"
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la ter tilt question I promised to answer above aa to why Otis
went to MoNamara's help:
The aniwar can be found on the next page'of this payor. We
publish there aa artiole from aa dd resident of Los Angdes; ono
who is a Democrat and is alive to the situation existing there, la
ote a mora
the independ-
loet With six
on the trail
.detectives.
Cripple
feet of the
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ohief witness, a
swore that
the orime.
part of tho world
AsMoia-
eller, Jr.,
TMs drtoolin. Mo- 'how. that th.jootjn right for th. Wall Bt^untta^n
the senate and tha other is
i are engaged in tne moai dangerous o^upation
They walk on tted beams at 10,20 and even 40
a false step or a puff of wind dashes them to a
singing: "Lead Kindly Light" !* the Jlfth Avenue Baptist ohuroh.
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Otis
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glittering gdd is
s to catch
has the gofarnment seal on it; it' was
Wright and submitted to the congress of the
signed by Attorney Oaneral Bonaparte ad Presi-
DORE ROOSEVELT. :
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has !t5 steal boama
who ha
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ed with the With such conclusive evidence at hand who will qnestion the ac-
*P^ th® nation's rivers curacy of my statement that when the dyuamiter goes V> dynamit)ng
, the blood of these gallant men. he must be armed with the political power or a sleuth bke nn will
* -% # • get him as sure as the day 4s long. Hence the mistake McNamara
is done these 'oowboys.of made of playing the capitalist's game without his political power.
,t look at the work of thdr :<$'$$■*">*>'* * ''
-r— en to the naxt joh,propertlyless - do- The seoond mistake McNamara mala grew naturally out of the
?hfie the idlor sits in his aasy chair in possession at the ^ He could see no other work in the labor movement than in-
Oreek with a estate—Otis—Earl-Hearst plunderbund is
mssm mm ,s -Among ^ " ^
sajrs.
Read of this giiintic sted and than you will know
saved McNamara so as to save the oncoming graft that the
of Harriman would immediately destroy.
Harriman was attorney for the MoNamafos. In oommon with
thousands of other Socialist* he believed them innocent. In the pri-
mary on October 31st he iron hands down over all opposition.
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A week before election day the plunderbund saw that HarrimML
was bound to win unless something desperate waa done. The
mien would vote for the first time,
.31
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it-
men should organize a union for "^ protection
ofoouiaa,4aevitrtle. ,
with ghoulish groed for gpldj
was likewise inevitable—hence tha
-in-
creasing wages and rodadng hours. That the union shpuld be mere- , Hence m plot was law to allow i.
ly an ambulance on the economic batttoield wa. hi. idea; he could from the fraltow. and W. bfothw J. J., to
to n(rt conceive.of it as an army with banners demanding entire eoono- in Oonsideration of them pleading guilty.
ters knew that 50,000 women
knew the sex was naturally timid; that they abhmr violenoe in every
form. If then the plunderbund could, on the eve of dection, spring
a tremendous sensation that would cause the women, who were most,
ly ignorant of politicalaffairs, to believe that Harriman waa an at-
torney for dynamiters they would turn from him and elect the can-
didate of the goody goody grttfters. • ■:'
Hence i&e plot was laid to allow J. B. McNamara to be saved
receive a reduced sentence
to
Hafodis^bette^witoGomi
titled to his share of the wealth
closed to him; he did not : The dynamiters agreed to the plan of the plunderbund, they
in was a struggle that in confessed, the judge set election day aa the time for sentence. The
taries eveif since the disso- women were stampeded, Harriman beaten, and the plunderbund Uea
fgfKM York Hem-
.. to"8 aad forood np their
from two to fiveddlan a day.
mic freedom. The pages o*
realise that the struggle he was
varying forms had lasted through the
Intion oif primitive tribal sodety holding land in oommon ownership.
was en-
•; that the
la aa^maa^eA •
io rwpcci.
y, voted
and even
i\ And this is the main
no attaok on the Socialists
this way
has
stampeded, Harriman beaten, and the pknde
back in hungry antidpation of the fields of graft that He green be-
fore them.
* * *
And*yet in spite of all thdr schemes 1 have the belief within me
iptte of thdr vtimf win lose in the
loaf run. much agitation aad educ^km has taken place for
thdr good. Fifty-three thousand determined intelligent wn and
n voted the Socialist ticket on Dec. and witUn their ra&s
. «ar^ m
waa
t Democratic
a ia-
As tida out into the prtdoas dividends of thesteeltrusttiie u, U>
art of rteel itartad reprtnllj they «e > ^ totowill be a wanlif-to other enft tudglrlBjior Jeadeffl.
y Mrad thng. to beat Op onion m™^ ^^nf0T!^t thrir jj^y moet vote ae they etrik# and picket and march. For-
i •Ttilmrimis nulled off from time to time to help along utiiAn on feudalist lines backimr uo *
tics aad econom-
His fate
are the educators of the people who will leaven the mass and expose
the traflwe aad thdr nefaitoas deeds.
To sum it an up the Bada&t party will gain through this whole
affair. It I
them that they oan not fight the capitalist daaa
it will show
ataiikoaad
mistake.
with violenoe
TOSS D
boycott alone; that they need the.shidd and buckler of Ike class
conadooa ballot to the end thatthey may ooaduot their battles under
off from ■■ ■
of the structural iron
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* * re^ 'V^'v
amara made his tremendous
omibat the masters with thdr lywn
fight terrorism with ;
ction with destruction.
NONE CANjI^ttYUSE
HE IS IN 001
wage slavery.
political aotioa on Socialist linasbaoking up thdr economic
the workers oan alone addeve thdr eniandpation from
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THE LENGTH OF THE CITY
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Let us torn now to the Silk hatted kid gloved banditti who
came to the McNamaras' rescue when tie trap door of the gallows
far them. Who are they and Whtt was thdr object in fijing
to the asststanM of Ihe other set of dyjteniter* whom tiiey^hMed so
UttaM Why did Otis whose buUdinfwas blown up by the McNa-
maras, agree to havp thdr lives saved aft«f he had sworn to be
avenged.
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On then to the oonquest of the political power. Down with all
miters whether of the kid gloved or calloua hand type. Up
the taxes on land speculators to the limit until use aad oocu-
pancy alone rivaa title. On with the battle for the collective owner-
thlpof all t£l(l eoHeottvaly need and the prirate owMrehlp of all
thinge privately need. For We elone i. the way of eafety. By tide
meaas done can peaoe be declared; it is this—Socialism—<nr the de-
struction of civilisation.
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Gentlemen—choose the way.
TttK LOS ANGELES ELECTION.
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write no in the Ohioaao Pubtle* W? '■ titadar on the ahores of the seaef Galilee, said my oempaaioa. ttea
u?rdiaious enthusiasm ot the Socialist movement we listened to an outpouring of Christian dhlea, mord and social
is the moet remarkable phenomenon here.. 'Not in thirty years,* said philosophy, such as I had not heard on the Paciflo in 30 years. It
a proataeat district attorney from aaadjdning ^V'have I wtt- wa
h ftmfy rdUiMtevnr in ftstiitimleomndcn asia hero, of
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ism
mn hytte'S^wS oao bqiMI
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I can rapeal Wa
of the Jews to
PaTk msec
mssssdl
6,000 to
oftheCka^
but tha early meetings of the
oan. Mayor of Botl : ud
It ia saok "mord aad religious eathndasin" that
movement invindUe and H is speedy v*ele*yiaevetaWe.
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 9, 1911, newspaper, December 9, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394641/m1/1/?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.