The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. 99, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 31, 1913 Page: 4 of 4
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At this very hour the miners in
'at Virginia 'are on itrikt under
the ffMWtitioit tWe, lor Ijr*
nineiRl know
many of those taen personally. I
know under what condition* they
lave had to work. 1 hare been in
the (hacks In wfeJdt they Ihre and
ha ve aeen their unhappy wire* and
ill-fed children. I know whereof I
•peak. Only in the laat extremity
have thote men gone oat on atrike.
They bore aU these cruel wrongs
for year? and were finally forced
out on strike And then what hap*
penedf The very first thing the
dehtocrstfo governor did wu to
•end the soldiers to scab the mines.
It doesn't make any difference to
you, if workiogmen are starved
and shot down, which party is in
power. It occurs under both re-
publican and democratic adminis-
tration. There will be no change as
long; as you continue to support the
prevailing capitalist system, baled
upon the private owenrship of the
tools with which woridnfmen work
and without trfcioh they are doom-
ed to slavery and starvation.
No#, I repeat that we should de-
clare against this system of private
ownership and in favor of the col-
lective ownership by the workers
of the tools of production. This
will give you a clear aim and defin-
ite1 object. This will make a move-
ment revolutionary in its ultimate
voOfht to be, and as
or tmi iste concessions in the
S
way of aftfqpoafty: capitalist rep-
resentatives and more favorable
working condtiona you workings
men have only to poll two million
Socialist votes and yon will got
those concessions freely and you
ate
will
shall work
decides
yon shall live or die. And in thai;
humiliating portion any one who ^
to persuade yon that yon are playing the food
mania '
,.utelligencei You will never,
be tree, yon will nsver stand erest M d**" Mstowlf
in your own manly self-reliance] I fenew of cqju _
until you are master of the tools *kinf and have been SSy
yon work with and the land which! keeping op with every movement
is the source of all wealth, and h* made. What is as here tori
when you have these sodal neeessM On April 22nd I received a letter
tics ydn can freely work without] from my wife dated Creason, Tel.,
the consent of any master, and telling me the men I left
whan yon do work you will get all in charge of my section there found
your labor produces. | dynamite on the track. When I
As it is .now the lion's share goes this, I was dumfognded The
to the capitalist for which he docs picture of the MeJfamara Bros,
nothing, while you get a small came before my eyea. The under-
fraction to feed, clothe and shelter] banded methods of Burna' detec-
yourself in the form of labor pow-j tivea came in my mind. The strug-
er. That is all yon get out pi it fk« trials and persecution* that
and all you ever will get in the cap- bave been heaped upon Clarence
italist system. | Dsirow stand before me.
mam:
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IV TEXAS.
'ACTS
eourt
decision ro-
an awful crimp in
detective
here,
n E* who(M
Ob, mar! brothers, can you be sat-1 Knowing^ as I did that every-
isfied with your lot T Will you in- ] thing possible was being done to
up sad down tie
sad Oklahoma
that the Socialists did not
the marriage ceremony
waa a religious rite. The Democrat,
Chief/Justice Brown, smarts thai
the marriage ceremony is simply a
civil eontract and not a church
ordinance or rite and that mar-
riage may be contracted without
complying with the statute and
without a ceremony by an offift*
or miniater of the goepel. Wis glean
particulars from the Dallaa New*
aa follows: "y
Austin, Tex,— Common law ssar
riages a* legally only W publie
acknowledgment of relations assumed
aa man a d wife, was the decision rend,
•••d today by the Bipnu Court,
•platan by Chief Justice T. J. Brown,
in offering the eaee of Jeesie a
<¥«*y vs. Eliss J. Beib et aL from
DaHss. Tie appellant sought to reeoi
«f
sist that life shall continue a mere I discredit the little union I had ffP*0*8* ssai^te rwever
struggle for existence and one pro- started among, the track workers, the ma with whom she is i3eg2 to
iMgOd misery to which death! WT «P like light- Hvsd aa his eesnum law wife ip
comes as a blessed relief? uing flashes, something like this: *2? **• k**
How is it with the average work- Can I do anything to head off thia
ingman today I am not referring I nnjust plotf I called the jailer haasttve, th venersbfejsrirt carina
to the feWwho have been favored! wrote two meassges, one to The that "appreciating the importaaee of
and who have fared better than the Rebel and the other to "The Ap- 1"?w' ** ***• «■*,
great mass, but I am asking how it Peal to Reason," asking them ''
with the average workingman j to send a man to Cresson quick to kusbasd and wtfs," emttmn*the
in this system 1 Admit that he has I investigate these messagea dated
a job. What assurance has he that! these measages April 22nd, 4.00,
it is his in 24 hours? I have o'clock. The reason I wired The
a letter from an expert glass work-| Bebel and the Appeal wss I knew
er saying that the new glass ma* I there waa not a hnwPtR in the
shine which has recently been ^°rid who understood the situa-
teated, has proven conclusively tion but myself. There was no po-
that bottles can be made without a sible way to get the facte and keep
glass blower. Five or six boys with 100 to thia undermining plot, unless
Opiaiep, "fa a elvil contract; that Is, tt
witheat coaplianee with the statnto.
•ad without a ceremony by aa offfeer
tu wen
Mttlsd la this State that a marriage
without a licence or eereSiony may be
lawfilly entered Into, when, by con
eeat of both parties, they profeeeedly
— - - * sad wife, cohabit
• -
m
tt,
these machines can make aa many I could get someone interested in "Mlatsia that relation."
bottles as ten expert blowers could 5t for I was locked up in jail and 1 . V*? .. °??ro1" 0
make. Machinery ia conquering cou'd do nothing.
Chief Jnatiee Brown farther aava is
> opis' - M
"The tern 'dvil eontract,
ss ap-
|SiM-
will not get them in any other way. department of activity. It is Now nay message to you ia this: j "The Ur
Ton wUl not frighten, yon will not I ""Placing more and more working- «the Rebel never got the message; pH*d to marriage, mean* nothing sew
at corporations bv di- men aking the lot of thosef" t«e Appeal to Reason never got SL?J?* not.•*'* the church's
votes between tils rr who baTe employment more and the message referred to April 22; *U V^*lwu Ht*' tt«wls
and Democrats* ptyftiea. raor* ™>ec«rt- Admit that a man both of you never got the letteis
It dsesn't ™«ir> any dlfferenoe has a job. What aasurance haa he I wrote aa tracers of the messages,
which of these two paiSrwina, that he to keep it? A ma- then the Burna thugs are trying
you lose! they are both capitalist I ch5n« he invented. He may another trick, they have eonfiscat-
parties and I don't aak you to take IoW<n<i the ho«C He may engage in those messages and are worki
my mere word for it. I simply aak | 8 Uttle «ritati°n in the interest of «>me triek to try to discredit
yon, my brothers, that you read hi' ola*' " marked as an agi- ebel and Appeal to Reason.
and study the platforms for your- tAtor' he is discharged, and then 1 want to say right here I never
self. I beg of you not to have an whj£ *• hj8 itotM f - I ttw Fred Warren in my life; nev-
isnokanl superstitious reverenceti, The minute he is discharged he | er wrote him a line in my life un-
itical ni
ignorant, auperstmoms reveren
for any political party. It is your
misfortune if you are the blind fol-
lower of any political leader, or
any other leader.' It ia your duty
a workingman, your duty to
" your family, to quit a
very instafet you find
has to hunt for a new buyer for his til I sent the message, the only
labor power. He owna no toola;| thing I ever wrote to Appeal to
Reason, waa when I sent them
many subs. . ~-
I never saw Hickey in my life
and the only reason he haa taken
an interest in me waa he Wanted
to see a fair fight and he knows
labor power. He owna no toola;
the tools are great machines. He
can't compete against them
his bare hands He hsa got to work.
There is only one condtion under
which he can work and ,, that is
when he sells his labor power, his
miI
it
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as
yourself,
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that that party no longer serves, .. ... - . . T
yon; and if you oontinue to adhere energy- hw veI7 llfe current, and then I would get 9 to 1 the worst of
to a party that antagonizes your in- ^hui ^P0** of himself in daily it.
terests. If you continue to support ,Mta"mento- He is not sold from Geo. Andrews,
a system in which you are degrad- „ block' " WM tho ch*^0 ^ve. Waurika Jail, Okla.
ed, then you have no right to com- ^ hours of himself every (The Rebel received our com-
plain. You must submit to what day ^ "change for just enough rade's telegram and we published
Comes, for you yourself are re-1 himself in that same slavish I the private detectives, "planting
'Sponsible. condtion. - of dynamite" story on our front
tiet me impress this fact upon The machine he works with has P ge recently. We sincerely hope
" 'to be oiled, and he haa to be fed, that our comrade will be out of
and the oil sustains the same rela- his trouble soon and that the track*
tion to the machine that food does men everywhere will get in line
to him. If be could work without and organize locals of the Track-
It will never be solved for y«>n > I food his l***® wouW h® reduced men Union. Of all the men in the
the capitalists. It will never be r° the vani'hing point. That is the railroad service the trackmen need
solved for you by the politicians 8ta^ of the working man today. organization. They can cut their
It will remain unsolved until you ™.at ^ th® present economic hours to eight and increase their
yourselves solve it. As long as you I ^ganization do to improve the con-1 wages to $3 just as hod. carriers
can stand and are wilfing to stand Jr.,011 ° workingman? Very have done, if they will only organ-
theae conditions, these conditions I anything. If you have a lze. The address of the secretary
will remain; but when you quite all J , ^ or three children, treasurer is J. W. Maxwell, Cres-
over tiie land, when you present ai ,\ou take the possibilities into son, Texas.—Editor The Rebel.)
- - - 1 consideration, thia question ought
to give you grave concern. You
know that it is the sons of working-
men who become vagabonda and
tramps, and who are sent to jail,
asthlag to be differoatiatod by the
language, it ia obeolete. Marriage is
sot a contract, but s atatna created by
the matnal content of one man sad one
woman. The method by which it ia aol.
emniced, or estered into, may be by
pr^SMdlaga prescribed by statute, or
by matnal agreement, with co-habita-
tion, bat, however contracted, baring
the same elements sad prodaeiag the
etatas of hoebaad and wife.
If there ia any logic in the
up of the antisocialist preacl.
who are howling free lov« at the
socialist party, they will now train
their guns on the party of the
Donk, now that the highest court
in its control has handed down a
sweeping decision on the marriage
question.
your minds; the labor question,
wjilch is really tho question of all
humanity, will never be solved un
til it Unsolved *y the working class
solid class conscious phalanx, eco
nomically and politically, there is
no power on this earth that can
stand between you and complete
emancipation.
ORE AT LAND EDITION.
1
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IWi
As individuals >-ou are helpless, and Ui8 the ^n hters of working
but united you represent an irre-1 n™r\ w"° are rorced into the houses
sistiMt power: " of shame.
Is there any. doubt in the mind • Yo" *nr ft workJ«gman, you live
of any thinking workingman that • c^ m; and you have noth-
we ar^ in the midst of a class strug-1 ..u. ^our . .r P°wer. and you
The Rebel will be just two years
old on July 1, 1913, and will iasue
a LAND EDITION on that date,
chockful of high class propaganda
matter especially suited to Texaa,
Oklahoma and'the South in gener-
al.
The famous writers, who have
II
wo* x . - rsMrrr r£ kS"
precent .yrtcm. Thi. whole N K u.7 Eugene Deb, wiU h ve „„e „f Shop
■" ^ UP°" th« PrivatcL'.n I Z1 V°J* i l"« masterpieces and onr other con- ■<*■
w
irfy-
T6r,f
.1.rSSZM <3oubt that Z ,-MMr yon ar, going
workingman onght to own the tool £ JT' w " the land ,.«tk,b
is JS I K.r^r.hz I ^ V. -Shf^i
the
System u Daaeu upon ine private i on , "T"""*' ;* I nis masterpieces and our other crm
ownership by the capitalist of the """ n'^. 'r«, T>>«« tribotors will try to ooMo them-
tools and the wage slavery of tbe . . ® a^°u m®o^?od- selves for this big occasion The
working cl„a, and as long a. the - second anniverjy Tne BeW
tools are privately owned by the nmo,e r^ finds the Renter's Union growtag
capitalists the great mass of the —T-r greater and bigger each week and
workers will be wage slaves. > ■ | lr._ unless all signs fail, the Union wili
were red oontinue to grow and flourish until
,^.7 - • v."or t ■ — - ——m w i v vin*a. uura xui 11111 nan I w AW \TflvirtA I * * a .
better
tain limitations, but you will still
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This new book by Mark Fisher is
a bright, clear, scientific sketch
of human development from the
cave-man to the revolntionry wage'
worker of the twentieth century.
This bird's eye view of the growth
of the human animal showa how at
every step this growth haa been
closely related to' the development
of TOOLS, from rude stones and
clubs to the modern automatic ma-
chine that turns out its finshed
product with little expenditure of
HUMAN labor power. This little
book is the clearest and simplest
exposition of the SOCIALIST
MOVEMENT we have ever read.
It will help you to answer the ques-
tions your nighbors and shop-mates
are asking you, and it will shed
light on some things abont which
your own mind may be a trifle
hazy. The book is certainly an
eye-opener^ Sixty-four pages, with
a striking red cover. Price 10c;
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These prices will also apply to
assorted copies of the following
books, all excellent propaganda:
The Rights of the Masses; Brew-
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Marxism and Darwinism, Panne
You may, at times, temporarily I letter days for Norton New MexicoI it nwlds Md'sh,"^'tCTr""'
yonr conditio* within cer-| Comrade P. O. Zimmerman Sf ofX1o"h ££££& and Bagels.
Talks on Economics, Mar-
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Industrial
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The Social Evil. J. H. Greer, M.
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Socialism Mad« Easy, Connolly.
The New Socialism. LaMonte.
Crime and Criming Darrow.
The Communist Manifesto, Marx
kmm
remain wage slaves, and why wage
staves! For just one reason and
no other—you have got to work.
To work you have got to have tools,
;Wa8 ^ an^ his lectures Question for generations to comen - 1,1 U|w«ni y man or ex-
Lr man" We want to Print multiplied thous-, P1^88- eharfres prepaid, promptly
ner were to us veritable feasts of | ands of copies, the time is right for. on receiPt of price. Address Charles
Socialism. He is a broad-minded I such an issue for the "Land"issue iH- Kerr«Co.. 118 W. Kinzie, St.,
jt t u 11 u I ,ear th,nlcinf? man- with a message grows daily larger and the crons Chicago, III
and if yon have no toota yon have for the people and the certainly de- will be laid by Send in yonr or '
to teg for work, and .f yon have 1,vers the goods. Althoogh this is der. now so that we «.,
got to beg for work the man who
owna tfie tools you use will deter
mine- tiie conditions under which
you naU work As long as he owns
yottr tools he owns your job, and
if he owns your gob he is the mas-
ter of your fcfc, You are in no
th<s busy season with our farmers
and t^ik.'a very sparsely settled
community, both meetings were
fairly well, attended and we feel
that our comrade did much good
while here. V ~
Mrs. De Roy 'Welsh.
that wo may know how:
many copies to publish. You should'
>0 —
J. A. Freeland, Socialist nominee
sew your county down with th«m ' 'or Con^re8s agaiaat Martin Oiee last
^rr!hhat 'T, Th0
win^Dei the greatest piece of propa*; t"1* fooler montha and agitatee for 80c-
, ... Jjiynn m0Bth#( ia on
sdvise the
ganda work of the year. 50 cents
a hundred, $5.00 a thousand. Or-
der now.
ialism daring
the (tamp again and we
to W <te * *
comrade?
Texas for dates.
him st Jacksonville,
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It is the combination Of abomin
It is the power of heU clothed in
the livery of heaven.
It ia the industrial damnation in
full bloom.
It is the whip of the devil laah-
ing the toUers to their dally tasks'
It is the monster msster of .man's
destiny.
It is the stupenduos granary of
greed and the seething cesspool of
crime. -;Vv'
It ia the thief of opportunity and
th« destroyer of hope.
It resps where it does not sow
and inhabit where it does not
build.
It grinds into golden dollars the
brawn of -manhood and the blood
of childhood.
It robs future generationa of the
virtue and vitality of womanhood.
It haa forced labor on the auc-
tion block and installed hatred into
the hearts Of
It bows before the church for
protection and crucifies the teach-
mp of the Nazarene on the cross
of goUL,
It engenders strife, preciptates
war and plunders the people.
It paya princely prices for pews
from the proceeds of its piratical
plunder. It is the father of sin
and the fruitful source of crime.
Its victims crowd the cemeteries,
the alms-houses, the hospitals and
the jails.
It has its apologists among the
preachers, the philosophers, the
politicians the pirates and the po-
lice.
It is destitute of love and its
heart is black with lust.
It is made up chiefly of corpor
ations snd corporations have no
souls.
Having no soul, no love, no sym
Pftthy it recognizes no law, human
or divine, cxeept the law of spec-
ial privilege.
Its creed is the instinct of the
brute.
In its operations it is arrogant,
extotionate, merciless.
It affects morality that it may
hide its immorality^
- It clothes injustice "With charity
sanctuary, shouts amen with a loud
voice, but keeps the wheels of ma-
chinery that rob the toilers of their
just reward well greased with de-
ception.
It is the despoiler of homes and
the destroyer of human happi-
ness.
Read the above indictment to
your neighbors and then see if
they will not organize a local of
the Renter's Union. If every state-
ment contained above is true then
the man at the grass roots must
carry a card. The man who sits
on the fence in this day and gener-
ation ia liable to sit on a spike.
Christ waa right "He that is not
with me is against me"
LINE THEM UP FOR THE
FIfHT.
GERMAN GENERAL STRIKE.
The German working clan is
seriously considering the advisabil-
ity of inaugurating a great gen-
eral strike, on the same lines as
Belgium, for the purpose of secur-
ing reforms in the electoral laws.
It ia to be a "strike for the right of
the poor man; a atrike for the demand
that the workingman's hallot shall
count for aa mneh st the polla aa that
of the capitalist. As yet the queetion
of a general strike is in a formative or
contemplative stage. That it has been
under consideration for weeks is ad-
mitted by some of the socialist lead,
era. But they are close-mouthed.
"With 600,000 votes cast in the
Prussian election five years ago, the
socialists could elect only six members
of the Prussian parliament; the con-
servatives, with 350,000 votes elected
153 members and the free conservativ
es, with 80,000 votes, «0 -member*
From that it is seen that 223 conservat-
ives can Meet a representative to par-
liament, 1000 free conservatives may
be represented, but it 'takes 100,000
socialist or workingman votes to send
a man of their choice to parliament. Is
it any wonder that we demand a re1-
form of the electoral system by which
such injustice is perpetrated f"
In the event of the strike it is be-
lieved that the emperor will geek
to defeat the strikers by cannon
and bayonet methods. This will
hasten the oncoming social revolu-
tion., The Rebel sincerely hopes
that the German working cla^s wil}
follow tbe example of their Bel-
gian brothers.
to. him who h«
izes. 0
turneth
. Of farm ten,.-,
worse than the crime. ^
Entertain no desire that doe.
**>« «° Wto*landk,rdi.r'
KfP Wth with the swj
<U^I'?W"1 ^ Wft WthTo?1"1
"xtortiy «r, t„l
«®tala ih sueee«fnl bnild
Renter's Unions. ^
A good roads bond election u .
busineas deal baaed on the i, !
get the mun for the banker
Personal contact with God's«
is among the fim steps toward!?
taming the life sublime. perln .
contsct wi ththe landlords' soii^
hell with the lid off. *
The modern Renter reads an^
does his oirn thinking. and
The band that receives the ben*,
fit should stand the burden.
The Sosialist is the book bam.
meter of progress. '
A Renter may be broken in ev
erything but spirit and poor in ev
ehything but faith and courage and
then come out on top if he join,
the Renter's Union.
Prosperity refuses to travel
er the old roads. Impro
highways of organization.
Effords will turn into results, if
one only keeps on earnestly, honest-
ly and sincerely trying.
Practice makes perfect. The
The more Unions a man builds the
more expert he becomes at it.|
The man who wins is always pop.
ular. A loser hss a hard row to
hoe. Be a winner. Join the Rent-
er's Union.
The development of any com
munity depends largely upon the
productiveness of the soil and the
energy of the people and the size of
the Renter's'Unio.n
UOLMTioab.
Green Lake, Texaa, May 2, 1913.
Comradee:—
Piad enclosed $850 which I thiak
will settle to date. I hit it hard laat-si
yeu hsd bought a borne a« I thought
but lost what we had paid on it and
the growing crop the 7th of June. I
neVer heard of s farmer being robbed
and turned out st that time of the year
before. Did not believe it could b*
done anywhere ia this benighted state,
but they did it just the uae.
Will give full particulars if vou
want them with certified copies' of
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« telegram to Colquitt and his reply.
There is s big last deal bein? pulled
here in Calhoua County by the
Traylort and Welders vsriouely estl.
mated by an ex-surveyor .rem # to 20
or 30 thousand acres of unsurveyed
laad. It waa once Green l^ake, p.
body of freeh water near the mouth of
the Gnadalue river. It ia now dry.
Thev just made each other a deed and
had them put on record at Port Lava-
ca independent of the state of Texas.
Of course the big landholders and mon.
ey power is above the laws of states or
nations, tbe people have so rights that
moasy has to respect If you want
the faeta I will get them ia fuH
^HSB||
, J. 8. Jones.
(Send them on .Tones. We want
such facts.—Editor 1
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v I wi" not assist a teache? unleM
he curies a red card, paid up to date in
the Socialist Party. I have reason to
believe that others not Socialista are
trying to get information Therefore
to save much correspondence X wish
to announce tha* The Agency is sew
ready for business and all teachers
who want informavon are asked to
send their "rhd card" to ae so that 1
may identify them as Socialists. Of
conrse their red card will be returned
et once.
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. 99, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 31, 1913, newspaper, May 31, 1913; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394712/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.