The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 9, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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of the
of old
;ly members
g who-could
tie : principle
_ /EM^r noticed
>#ijl:-dee|piy ^pertufbed
about something and guessed that
news that had just arrived
the McNariidrap was tn
m
pII
Wise On^" said the
county attorney, "what do you
think «o? yout-friend McNsiuara
now $ guilty of a heinous crime;
I always thought that the Social-
ist business would lead the coun-
try Into trouble and now 1 see 1
<a$a right." •— '. ■
The "Wise One flushed with an:
ger and made a determined at-
V tempt to control himself before
answering. Succeding after a
moment he looked the pompous
official square in the eye and in a
quiet tone said
rf- -
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"Is it not surprising that an
official of the county who has had
a college training and some ex-
perience in public office should
be so poorly informed of a case
of nation wide interest, Such as
this MNamara ease lias beenf
•Don't you know'that the McNa-
maras are not Socialists now,
have never been Socialists, but
on the contrary they fought the
Socialist# in the union, on the
Nvstump and even went so far that
> th$y joined on anti-Socialist
Cathode Society in their hatred
of th^ truths that Socialism told!
■ No sir the McNamaras belong by
birth Wd training to you and
yours and the record shows that
fact." X
"Why did you suppo*^ them
then!" asked the district attor-
ney angrily. • ( , X
"Because they were kidnap-
ped, because the affidavit on
which they were extradited was
1 a perjured one; because we hat-
ed such dirty work; and finally
because we were broadminded
enough to forgive their dirty
politics and their attaoks on wf
as king as they were Union
men."
their
i
mr-::
"Wliy- did. Otis go to.
assistance!"
"Oh it was simply a ease of
getting the mun," chuckled the
wise one. "listen: Otis of the
Los Angeles Times and Earl of
the Los Angeles Tribune, with
some other millionaires own tens
of thousands ,of acres of desert
land that they secured years ago
for from 10 cents to $10 an acre.
Without water the land would be
pretty nearly worthless. With
water it would be worth from
$300 to $1000 an acre. In their
papers they raised a howl for
bonds to bring the Owens river
to Los Angeles. They proposed
T that the city of Los Angeles
should vote $23,000,000 of bonds
for this purpose, claiming that
the city had a water famine.
When the water famine came Los
Angeles had only 160,000 popu-
lation and now she has 320,000
population and no added water
supply, still the city has plenty
~ of water. The aqueduct is even
now twenty-three miles away.
"The year of the scant water,
1904, the lakes in the parks went
nearly dry, the fish died and the
air was polluted by the stench.
The death rate in the city went
to an abnormal-figure. No streets
, were sprinkled Ixcept around the
fashionable residence districts,
while half the water pumped by
the Los Angeles water plant was
run off through the offal sew-
1 er to the sea.
"E. H. Harriman, president of
the Southern Pacific company
H. G. Otis, the infamous editor
of the Times, and about a dozen
planiled and executed all this.
How do the Socialists know
this is true! Because the same
^engineers who predicted famine
— now an no on oe that the whole
I Owens river water supply is
practically surplus water and
should be sold to irrigate agri-
cultural land, They have stop-
ped the aqueduct twenty-three
miles from Los Angeles, at the
- head of San Fernando valley. All
if. of the land in this valley haa t*&n
/ bought up by this gang 4fid an
enormous dam-built to hold the
lake of water, with five ditch
end safety sluices to care for the
: Owens river when it }a turned
oyer to them after the people of
•4;Los Angeles have been fooled in-
to voting twenty-three millions
of bonds to bring the river to
#oir land.
"Now1 then,*1 concluded the
";,i^r^,':''i'th«e -grafters kne^-J
'■ •?*.$tj^r$ :" 45®' p\ f\
yfjPkl*
H
M
I'll
mm
be mailed on Januajy 4. „ It
will be the?, greatest issue, of a So-v
paper that ever appe,
in th<sr South. Today WC ftee
a letter from Theodore Debs, our
'Gene's devoted brother and pri-
vate ^feretory, in which ho in-
forms us that Comrade Debs, will
contribute one of his great atftic*
les. Frank Putnam, who is gen-
erally recognized as one of the
greatest authorities on the land
question in America and is "a most
fascinating writer, will also con-
tribute. The office of the Ren
ters Union will contribute stories
of the prospects of the union for
1912. We will have a fine cut-ex-
planatory bt the lands that the
railroads hve secured in Texas a#
a j?ift. The editor will contribute
a broadside and one of Spencer's
unanswerable arguments will be
given space side by side with one
of Hicks' great pages in which the
old war horse Will strip the hide
with a stunner fro
Hamil-
ton on his view* onLeviticut} 25:23
We would like to print 100,000
copies. It is up to yon comrades.
Clip this blank and fire in your
orders at once so we-ean-know
ahead of time where we are at.
Here is the blank:
Land Edition.
The Rebel, Hallettsville, Texas.
Find enclosed $ ...... for —
copies of the land edition.
Name ......
Address. ...
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THE
LATEST HEWS FROM
8HBOL.. "
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m fort
all
-^world'f^
Wl
the; land question is cc
far ifcore radical than tb
erganizatipn. "He did not
that one individual o~
tihould own one foot of
held that the land was the ^
Almighty God to ALL his people
and ' that no one Jndividual^dr
set of individuals had the. right
to say this is mine and feiwrfc
some of God's gift. Spencer con-
tended that if you Can take one
aore of land you can take the
whole planet and that whoever
owns that ground is the
Class. In hU, Social Stati^
the ninth chapter, writing^ on
these points he says.:. <.
"It does indeed at first eeem
possible for the earth to
the exclusive possession o
in our
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m.
work
in atnight
S pile
insult of
of the news
al in
as far
gtori
and Connecticut. Most inquiries
. ,¥iW l t H
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Jffl^^d^r'it^iU s^lyb^j^riduals
one grand eye opener winding up able distribution. V^by, it may
iwbrought -around-by
Si&iM bft* #'##&
to acuttie the stotit Socialist tfraft
that has bjavely ridden the
outside Texasjiave come from Ok- storms of the Class struggle, He
lnhouna, although every state in declared our' craft unsound^
fiie South has had men who- write 1' economically unsound,'' our
for information either to Mr. Max- [chart* were wrong .and our steer*
cv oi The Rebel. Of the Eastern ing course Impossible "indus-
statea Ohio and Illinois l^ad in itrially impossible''-was his exact
men who are intertssted in our language; our whole philosophy
fight'on landlCjcdiSm.. The land- of navigation on the waters of
lords fart}, ptfpers have had such life and our methods to steer clear
a lambasting from their renter | of the rocks and shoals of eapi-
'
he Bilked, 'should not we agree to
(Capt. W. E. P, French, inOife.)-
The devil'is in a deuce of a fix—
Doesn't know what in aitch to
\x do-
Last Winter, of course, he waa out
of*qal, r
And in summer oil's up too.
He has changed his heaters from
coal to oil,
From oil to bituminous coal,
He tried to bum gas, but the Gas
Trust's bills \
Were a shock to the poor lost
soul.v
He piped hotlir from the G. O. P.
And some mrfh the Democrats;
But the stuff turned Hades upside
down—
Imp-belfries were full of bats.
a fair aubdivision ? If all are co-
heirs, why may not the estate be
equally apportioned, and each can
be afterwards perfect master of
his own share!'
"To this question it may, in the
first place, be replied that such a
division is vetoed by the difficulty
of fixing the values of respective
tracts of land. Variations in pro-
ductiveness, different degrees -of
accessibility, advantages of cli-
mate, proximity to the centers of
civilization-ithese and other con-
siderations remove the problem
out of the sphere of mere mensur-
ation into the region- of impossi-
bility. v )
"But, waiving this, let ns nr-
wbo are to be the allotteesjf
adult mfles, %rad afi
who f were born ui
enable Mr. Maxey to obtain, a I and threaten to put him in irons I ber of our wopld be party leaders
much needed rest. Mr. E. O. Meit- at least if they do not take his would give _the time to building
zen ws appointed as secretary by I life.
EHHI
The brimstone lake is a skating
pond;
The boarders are kicking for
fair}
And Jael and Judas have hatched
a plot
For a coal trust a la Bapr.
>* \ , • • . '.
He wanted to try electric heat;
But Edison wired, "Wait
A thousand years till my bat-
tery's done, \1
Then I'll make you the lowest
rate."
He's mortgaged Gehenna to Gee
Eff Bee,
For a ton of anthracite;
And Jay Dee Are holds his horns
and tail
As collateral for right.
Poor Satan himself has a chronic
chill,
When heJs notin a fearful stew^
And Cain's killed a humorist who
asked, .
"Is it cold enough, Cain, for
you!"
Nick'a read of the camel and
needle's eye
And the rich at the narrow
gate;
He hopes th? auto may help him
some v rv
But fears it has come too late.
His credit is gone, he is deep in
debt,
He hardly knows where to turn
But if Dives and Sons are coming
his way
He'll soon have money to burn
that if Harriman. was elected
mayor their fat was in the fire
and they would lose their millions
of graft, they would not get the
mun. So they wept to the Mc-
Namaras, had them confess and
scared the women into voting
their ticket. Now it looks as if
the big grafters are going to get
the mmou"
"Good God," said an old farm
er, "what is the world coming
to!"
"Why to Socialism, of course
said the wise one, "then we wil
all-get the isun." ~ - -
_ Gon|lSk the'idj^f of and perfecting a .pureftgdemo-
Presfclent Moore this week. Here- friendship when he clinked I orotic movement instead of hunt-
after address all correspondence glasses with them when the indus-1 ing out some defects nr individual
in relation to the Renters Union to trial waters were seemingly quiet members we would be a stronger
E. O. Meitzftn, secretary, Halletts- and the stin Was sinking peace- and more aggressive organisation,
ville, Texas, or Hugh Moore, pres- fully in the West. Gone is the As a delegate to the Oklahoma
dent, Chilton, Texas. civic federation life buoy, gone state convention, I am going to
.' . j ig the anchor of begging Iepsla-1 insist that Oklahoma take the lead
Col. Robert M. Thompson, the tion from the pirates, swept away in demanding that our national
Nfpr York banker whom'Editor |int^estorm and pattered to | standard ^i^Se dem-
no medium. We must choose one mand gain renewed strength from
And the existencei of the two positions. There can the fearless poise of the com-
be no half and half opinion. In mander. Too Well does he know
he nature of things the fact must the dangerous pirates that he has
)e either one way or the other. J to face and fight until they are
"If men HAVE NOT such a1 exterminated. Well does . he
right, we are at once delivered | know the false lights of
specified day, be the fortunate
dividnals! if so, what is to be
done with those who come of
on the morrow! Is it pi
that each man, woman and
shall have a section! If so,
becomes of all who are to be
next year! And what wl
the fate of those whose father^
sell - their estates and squander
he proceeds! These portionless
ones must constitute a class al-
ready described, as having no
right to a resting place on ear^M
-^as living by the sufferan<^i$
their fellow-men—as being prac-
tically s^rfs. And the existence1
of such a class is wholly at ar-
iance with the law of equal free-'
dom.
"Until, therefore, we can prflif
duce a valid comimsaion authorr
ising us to make this distribution
until it can be proved that Godf
has given ,one charter of privil-
eges to one generation and an-'1
other to the next—until we can
demonstrate that men born afteif
a certain date, are doomed to sla-
very, we must consider' that' no
such allotment is permissible.
"Probably some williegard th§
difficulties inseparable from in-
dividual ownership the soil as
caused by pushing to excess a
doctrine applicable only within
rational limits. This is a very fa-
vorite style of thinking with
some. There are people who hate
anything in the shape of exact
conclusions; and thesl are of
them. According to fsnch, the
right is never in either extreme,
but always half way between this1
extremes. They are continual
trying to reconcile YES and Ni
Ifs and buts and exceptrare their
delight. They have *b great
Governors Colquitt, O Neal, et al., ■ . jjer water tight com-1characters as Roger Sullivan, Tom
got hitched on to their cotton partments are stove in; She will Taggart and Ed Murphy wrote the
scheme, says that "society rests goon be a derelict on the labor [platform and nominated the ticket
upon the men who produce things oce*n when the steam has Ipenttl had to vote. Of courseIknow a
from the around " It sure does itself and the clouds disappear Socialist convention would not be
rom tfte ground. it sure does, #Un of Socialism, composed of such #characters as
Mr, Banker. It is resting upon ^ Commodore the above named,bnt the prince
hem mighty heavy these days, Debg> vigilant and alert, is at the I bf delegated authority is the same,
and some of them are findjng it wheel of the staunch ship, Social- All power in the hands of the red
out; and when enough of them ism. He heads the gallant barque card membership ia the only hope
ttni it out, you 11 have t get off. t« fj *«*)> o! with tb. of «UhlUhto . just eeonomlu
" 1 sea of hate laahinghia face. Tlie jsyrteiiu , ,
old sailor stands on the bridge Yours for a pure untrsauneled
or ytor«afr
they would scarcely believe an
oracle, if it uttered a full length
principle. Were you to inquire of
them whether the earth turns on"
its axis fronp East to West, or
from West to East, you might al
most expect the reply—'a little of
.both,' or 4fiot exactly either.' It
is doubtful whethe# they would
assent to the axiom that the whplt
ies greater than ita part without
making some qualification. They
have a passion for compromises.*
To meet their taste, Truth must
Error. They canno
a pure,
definite,, entire and
subscribers that they have pulled talism while tm our way to
in their horns and promised to be haven of the Socialist Republic
good. Charter application blanks he sneered at, and used all the
are being sent out in each mail, powers of his office as captain to
A report covering the work al- condemn. He sailed in company
ready done, amount of literature with the buccaneers of commerce
sent out and unions organized will and told his trusting passengers,
be published on January 1. In- officers and crew that there was
asmnch Ap the Union is not in a| an identity of interests between
position to pay salaries for cleri- those rakish crafts that sailed un-
pay sa
cal help and office equipment and I der the Jolly Roger of piracy, and. w
Imi * - -gM1* ■ ^ n 'SpSnyde*, OklsJ Dec. 1,1911.
Dear Hiokey : Send m copy
| . ,of the Texas constitution. I like
sm, has Irindly consented to aet'as stands at the wheel dazed and your idea of decentralization. I
secretary of the national union knows not how to steer his Course, think it a burning shame we do
pro tem. He has the needed time The pirates whom he has so long not nominate our national candi-
and material for the work and will! befriended have fallen on him dates by ifeferendum. if a ntim-
m <
arms when/I think of
the fiulure to put throi
al referendum s4or a;i, t
primary> As sure m shooting our
comrades slept at the sWk^. I
feel sure that <99 per cent of thjb
membership desires such a ref-
erendum to go through. It must
have been believed by the mem-
bership that it was not wortk
while pushing as every body
would push for it and as usual,
what is everybody's business is
no body 'a business. It may not
be too late to reintroduce the ref-
erendum nationally but in any
event Texas should instruct their
nation*f convention delegates as
to who. their choice is*for thie
presidency in 1912.
Yours for Social Democracy
Kd Green.
"
"V
H. H. Stall tard.
The reverend Edward EHis Carr
ia a true Christian and is conse-
_ ^ _ t^lij^whtly opposed to^igpiln thej
rom the several predicaments al-1 wrechers on shore who signal the I last issue of hit paper he corn-
ready pointed out. If they HAVE ship on to the rocks with the oil ments on the Itahan-Turk h war,
such a right, then is that right ab- of the golden rule. On -the ship saying: v
solute, sacred, not on any pre- the passengers, crew and officers! ''What do the pope of the Ro-
tenae to be violated! If thef are full of the fighting spirit that man Church and the king of Italy
HAVE such a right, then is his goes with the knowledge that the hope to gain by denying tne spe-
Jrace of Leeds justified in warn-[battle to be fought is a just one. Icial atrocities charged against the
ing off tourists from Ben MaejAl lhands feel an uplift o^ the Italian troops in Tripoli!
Duhl; Duke of Atholl, in closing spirit, to exultation that is almost "Their presence there is the su-
Glen Tilt; the Duke of Bucdeuch, .divine now that they realize that Ipreme atrocity. They were sent
in denying aites to the Free they will soon be away from J by king and pope with the certain
Church, and the Duke of Suther- the derelict and have the grap- knowledge that they were to corn-
land in baniahihg the Highlanders I pling irons out to join their jhip aait wholesale murder and robbery
to make room for sheep walks! [to the pirates and fight until the in the gigantic brigandage of var
If they HAVE such a right, thenJla«t of the wretched robbers on for natkmal_and commercial loot,
it would be proper for.the sole jthe seas of commerce are com-lis it worse to murder women and
iroprietor of any kingdom— a pelled to pull down their skull I Children than to kill their hus-
ersey or Guernsey, for example and wm bMes and raise the bands and fathers, tjhejr only de-
- —to impose just what regulations flag of surrender. | fenee against want
he might choose on its inhabitants I And so
—to tell them that they should into the
S0t live on his property unless take a 1
"ley professed a certain relifrl Samnel
n, spoke a particular language,]that we
^kid him a specified reverence, [from,
adopted an authorized diess, and
go aailing, sailing I "The most damnable thing
as we do we about modern wm fov eonqnest
look at sorry tod loot is their transparent, in-
on to the roeks J sufferable hypocrisy. The'Chrii-
to steer him jtito/
faith in 'the judicious mean,' that conformed to all other conditions
be might see. fit to make. If they |
-
who pretends to bless a robber war
_ _ in the nninie of God or SSa (^iriat
BEATITUDI8 Of KXJULISM. 1 is an ignoraniua or -4 hypocrite,
, —— I and in either case utterly unfit to
Bleaeed are the unemployed, fori represent or speak for the Chris-
they shall be fed on soup and I tian religion.
clothed with cast-off raiment . | "The atheist Socialists of Italy
__ w Blessed are they that groan in I who risk their jobs and their lives
rulers of a country—that the peo-1 distress of poverty, for they shall I condemning the robber war in
pie at large remain in it only by be visited by the recipient of their Tripoli are a million times more
the land owners' permission, and labor and consoled with, maxima worthy to qpeak for Chirst than
ought consequently submit to the and gratuitous advice. any 'Christian,' high or low, who
land owners' rule, tod respect Blessed are they who hunger approves the unholy. murderous
Whatever institutions the land and thirst, for they are subjects 1 robbery.
owners set up. There'is no es- for visitation and shall receive "Is it any wonder that there
HAVE such a right, then is
there truth in that tenet of $he
ultra Tory school, that the land
owners are tiie only legitimate
t«P. , , . ,
cape from these inferences. They free tickets to
are necessary corollaries to the water banquet.
a bone and hot
always be spiced with with a littlt theory that the earth can become Blessed are they who are piece
Tl fill. a. _ M wM/w\AiU«t fl Aif I mnlrAM i# VlfK ft TlPP^l P fftP
tx conceive of
itire and un-
limited law. And hence, in dis-J
cussions like the present, they are
constantly petitioning for limits
tions—always wishing to abate,
and modify, and moderate—ever
protesting against doctrines be-
ing pursued to their ultimate con-
sequences.
"But it behooves such to rec<
lect tha ethical truth is exae
and as peremptory • sa /physics
truth, and that in this matter of
land tenure, the verdict of -mori
ality must be distinctly YEA or. this tremendous attack on land
NAY. Either men HAVE a right Wdi*m should send a dime to
-mater tk« soU private p^^rty; >TI*- eppy.l
individual property. And they makers if handy with a needle, for
xan only be repudiated by deny- out of old clothes they csn make
ing that theory. themselves new garments.
• *, • I Blessed are they who ask for
Truly there is no escaping that nothing; for they shsll toun.wise with unutterable disgust ana with
theory so the Renters Union says J>e turned away disappointed. overwhelming destruction.
are hundreds of thouasnda of
atheists in Italy and that the Bo-
man church ia steadily losing out
there! • . -
v "An atheist is far better than a
rite. God will spew these
1 churches put of His mouth
landlordism must go. M
[The Rebel has been in com-
munication with C. H. Kerr^ pf
Chicago relative to the pubHca-
qf this entire ninth chapter
pamphlet form. Mr. Kerr in
-T. C. Kennedy. American chuorhes take
Let
warn-
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held a meeting at Waco to con-
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forms me that he win publish it relations withitheir Centers, would (your poU tax you win W®
- - -■ - vote for your choice fo
or state Vttmn In
* _ii • t. l X'TO can not takltF a ballot ■■wtp
renters, to sttend snd participate at i^n^lordiam- Pay ^tt rotten
in the meeting 4Look out, now! tax and do it now.
in the near fnture at 10c per copy the organs of the «fi>l«te« hive [to vote
*nry one who desires to read cewrared them for not inviting the Sjj
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