The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 304, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 2, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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FARMERS BAOH WEEK.
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60c per year; clubs of four r
more (40 weeka) 25c. «,
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HAUJWT8VILLB, TEXAS, 8ATUTOAY, JUNE 2, 1917.
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"Well, Hickey," Mid tha big wife lawyer in Dallas; MI
•bout know what has happened to you. The federal official* bare
suffered from an attack of tho prevailing hysteria; they threw out
* drag not and they made water haul. They are tryin| to cover
H up and tk« t>*Uaa Nin ia working otar, time to suppress the
•usupprpssable and before the whole thing is over a number of
t big officiaT heads will drop in the basket, because Washington is
disgusted at this fool move of their Texas understrappers."
This abort boils down the situation at the moment. 1 am
writing this in Dallas on Sunday. I have just come from the
^federal jail where I sent up a oup of coffee tp G. T. Bryant, the
state organiser of the>Parmens and Laborers Protective Association^
incidentally I may say that I sent him two plugs of "mule" chjw
ing tobacco yesterday. All this means that I am out of 30 edhts
and I hope that the business office of this great religious weekly
will repay me for this vast expenditure. /
In the meantime 1 am going as always—lighting in the sun
light In .line with thia (the °nly policy that a white man
•an purine now) I came to Port Worth last Friday and, gave out
a signed statement to the Star Telegram that illustrates the
situation. Here it ia:
the la^t man in Taxes that should
have been arrested for conspiracy
against the government along or-
ganixation lines, for the reason
tbef the government already has
investigated me, as the records
will show, if that is the proper
term to use. To be exaet, C. W.
Holman, formerly associate edi-
tor of Farm ft Ranch, came to my
office under the direct instruc-
tions of Frank P. Walsh of Kan-
"To boil it all along, while the
dragnet was thrown out on the
ordere of United Statea District
Attojwcr Odell, or whoever waa
responsible, they made the mis-
take of not understanding the
situation, and of that I want to
aay that I have spoken to them,
or those who have spoken to
them, a uderstand anything about
the situation.
The stories already published
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CONSCRIPT TBI IDLE ACRB8
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DRAFT FHJHT,
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(Fort Worth Star-Telegram.)
Peelaring that his arrest ja
connection with an alleged con-
spiracy to resist conscription by
force of arms was absolutely un-
justified. T. A. Rickey, editor of
the Rebel and former Socialist
ididate for the United States
out a signed state-
ly upon his arrh-
that
at the rate of thirty-two tn
hour to Anson, county seat of
Jones couny. I was detained
there for one hour and a half and
was then taken by Sheriff Regis-
ter to Abilene. There I met the
Federal Commissioner, Mr. Ger-
and, who told me that I could not
get my eopy back and that I
would be held over for examina-
tion by the Federal authorities
I asked if J could telegraph my
wife and friends. Be e#U yea,
but that he would have to read
the documents first,
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newspa-
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fcyj^tnd that he was hd4- liwwuSBBwluaau*-4er two 3ejn£e'?ro-fcis
& Laborers Protect-1 mine. ^My nrrt telegrap?^^was to wjfe COuld locate him and secure a lawyer and obtain hie retfWft-
ive Association has no such pur-
pose as attributed to it, and that
furthermore he has no connection
with the organization.
In his statement Hickey de-
scribed his arrest and declared he
was held incommunicado for two
dtyya. In his statement he says:
"On Thursday, May 17, at the
unincorporated town of Branden-
burg, Stonewall county, West
Texas, I was surrounded by four
men and told to climb into an
automobile that was standing at
the depot. The leader of the four
men, a one-armed 'man nailed
Montgomery, who said that he
was a Texas ranger, said to me,
when I asked him for a warrant,
that no warrant waa necessary,
that I had to 'climb in.' He and
the other three men searched me
and fppk sixty pages of «opj
from ine that I wis about to mar:,
was m7 usual habit, to ir,y
iper, The Rebel, published at
^Bttsvfflte,'^Taxes. Under the
jraon of the (pins I got in
t ft automobile and Was conveyed
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my wife. I later learned that none
of the telegrams were delivered
and when I tried to get in touch
with some lawyers of my acquain-
tance I found that the incommun
icado system was on, 7 could not
write, telegraph or telephone,
and was placed in a cell six feet
wide, thirty feet long, with five
oth.er men, who were detained un-
der Federal, county, state and
city complaints. Fortunately, one
boy at Brandenburg witnessed
my arrest. He told his mother,
who in turn told my wife, and
then the telephones kept ringing,
spurred by the only woman in the
world, with the result that she
learned where I was. On Satur-
day' afternoon my wife had se-
cured a lawyer and I was taken
by a United States marshal for an
examination. The proceedings
were perfunctory and I waa re-
leased under $1,000 bail to appear
before the grand jury at Abilene
on October 1.
"In this caae the authorities
have made a had mistake. I was
sas City, Mo chhirman of the convoy the idea that this Ameri-1
Industrial Relations Commission, can Farmers & Laborers Protect-'
in 1915. He was a guest at my iv*
home for fivo daye and during the .
that time he examined the books tion."
of the Renters' U&on and made easily
an ample report to the Commis- izati
sioa of Industrial Relations as to | as in
what he found in the Renters' (then
Union ^office.- Further, my part- ther of these times was there, in
ne{, Mr. .Meitten, was subpoe^the nature of things, anything
noed before the hearing of the known about conscription or said
Industrial Relations Committee about it.
st Dallas, with Governor Fergu-
son and others, and his testimony
as to this organization is now a
part of the record of the United
States government.
tion was organized for
s of fighting conscrip-
a cold matter of fact,
certained, such an organ-
as formed in West Tex-
13, did not grow and was
ved in 1915, and at nei-
about it.
"It may be that in the next
ten weeks following June 5 (con-
scription date) that similar
aure's nests will be found in ev.
ery stele in the union."
I came to Dallas from Fort Worth and gave the story to the
local papers. The following from the Times Herald is in lihe with
the Dispatch and Journal storiea* * '
T. A Hickey Xi Now In Dallas.
T. A. Hickey, Socialist, and editor of the Rebel, who was
arrested some days ago in West Texas, in connection with alleged
activities of the* American Farmers' and Laborers' Protective
Association, is ip Dallas. In dieoussing his arrest Hickey says
that. ^ ^Brandenburg. Stonewall county, on May
He said he was arrested without a warrant and searched by fouv
men, who told him they were Texas Rangers. The men who
arrested him took sixty pages of cOpy from him that he was In
the act of mailing to Hailettsville, where his paper is published.
Hickey says that after a perfunctory examination before a United
States commissioner at Abilene, he was released on a perfunctory
bond.
"The government officials have made a mistake," said
Hickey. "The American Farmers' and Laborers' Association was
not organized to fight conscription or oppose the government in
any manner. The facts will come out at the proper time."
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I engaged the services of John Davis, who is probably the
cleanest and probably the ablest lawyer in Dallas, and went with
him to the federal authorities and secured a permit to interview
G. T. Bryant, which I will publish in next weeks' Rebel. (Bryant's
hearing occurs tomorrow, May 28.) -
Clarence Nugent of the firm of Chastin & Nugent, of Ham-
lin, came in yesterday and will represent Bryant tomorrow.^
There are two secret service men occupying adjoining rooms
to me. You can smell the cattle a block away. The proprietor of
this hotel is not responsible for them.
I am writing all this under a sort of censorship that mj
readers will understand; however, I- can definitely promise that
the real story will appear in the next Rebel unless I am kf.led or
kidnapped again.
, . . r { V r " T. A. Hickey.
The great adventure movement
of California that is organised to
make idle aere in the state subject
to use and eeeflpaney is now busy
on a move to conscript the idle
land of California at once. They
believe that if the government
can conscript busy human lives
they can far better conaeript idle
seres. We publish below a petition
sent to the mayor and commoh
council of Loe Angeles. We would
suggest thet similar petitions be
gotten up in your own commun-
ity and presented to the proper
officials. The petition reads:
ONLY A"FAD
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(By Scott Nearing.)
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Vegetarians have always been
rare in the United States. People
~^5jre taken it for. granted that in
India or in China a meat diet waa
out of the question—but in the
United States,—have not our an-
cestors eaten meat from a time
whereof the memory of man run-
neth not to the contrary! True
enough, but our descendants must
j stop it.
From I860 to 1917 the popula-
tion of the United States increas-
ed a little more than three-fold,
and from 1880 to 1917 it doubled
almost exactly. Contrast with this
increase in population the in-
crease in the production of meat,
for which the workingman spends
one-third of his food budget. The
meat supply is absolutely limited
by the number of meat animals
in a community. The figures
showing the number of live meat
j- . animals in the United States , in-
dicate an alarming failure of the
meat aupplies to keep pace with
animals in the United States in-
the increasing population. Be
tween 1860 and 1917 the number
of cattle in the United States
more than doubled. In 1860 there
were 25 million cattle and - .in
1917 there wefe 63 million. Frqih
1880 to 1917 there was an in-
crease of ninety per cent in the1
number of cattle in the United
States. The increase in the num-
ber of people in the United States
is therefore more rspid than the
increase in the potential supply
of beef. Bearing in mind the fact
that dairying has increased very
rapidly during the period under
consideration, it becomes evident
that beef demand has increased
entirely out of proportion to the
beef supply. During the fifty
years from 1860 to 1917 while the
population more than trebled the
supply of cattle merely doubled.
Practically the same thing is true
of sheep and swine, the two ot i it
principal sources of meat suoply.
There were twenty-two million
sheep in the United States in
1860, forty-two million in 1880,
and 48 million in 1917 The
swine in 1860 numbered thirty-
three million, in 1880 forty-nine
million, and in 1917 sixty-seven
million, showing a slight progres-
sive increase. In no one of these
cases, however, hss the increase
in the number of animals corres-
ponded with the increase in tho
population.
As for meat prices, of course
they are high, and unless the r«
tio between the number of meat
animals and the number of peo
pie in the country can be radical-
ly changed, of course meat prices
will be higher. The increase in
the land values; the disappear-
ance of great unclaimed stretches
of free grazing, land, and the
growing conviction that money
can be made in farms of agricult-
ure other than stock-farmihg are
all playing a part, and the Amer-
ican meat supply is diminishing.
Two-thirds of the people of the
world are vegetarians. The pro-
portional decrease in the number
of available meat animals, with
the consequent increase in the
price of meat products means ve-
getarianism for the low-paid Am-
erican wage earners. The rich and
well-to-do will continue to be
meat eaters, but those who do the
bulk of the work in the United
Statef must abandon a meat diet.
The next; generation will see a
growing line of distinction be-
tween those who eat meat and
those who do not eat it. \
"Blood flows swiftly through
iy veins when I think of how we
hall plant the stars snd stripes
n Prussisn soil" so said a poli-
ician well above the age limit of
ighting men. Well we shonld like
o see some of the blood flow
from his fat frame in planting the
lag where he wants to see it
laced.' Don't tell others what to
o, do it yourself.^
WHEREAS, at a tin* wkon tb« food
rwervn ot tho world u« txhaoaUd,
tho Uaittd BUtoo government baa da-
barked OB a war which will taka many
mill ion* of men from productive labor;
and
WHEHEAB, tha United Btatea while
feeing erop ahortaga and an already
exaggerated high coat ot living moat
continue to feed her all!*; and
WHERE AH, the Prudent of the
United Statae haa aaid:
"At the preeent moment it ia our
plain duty to take adequate atape
that not only oar owa people be fad,
but that we nay, if poeaible, anawei
the call for food of other nationa at
war"; and U:
WHEREAS, there an in the city
and county of Loa Angelee many hun-
dreds of thouaanda of idle lota and
awraa held out of uaa by epeealatora;
and
WHERKAS, there are ia this city
and county maaj thouaandi of peraons,
many of whom are diaemployed, who
woald gladly help to iaemae this
wmntey'a at«K*^y >tenrfT
At opportunity offered j and
WHEREAS, there can bo no eueh
thing as property in land which la the
common gift of nature to men but only
right of posaeeaion during uae and oc-
cupancy; and
WHEREAS, the United States gov-
ernment, founded upon the recognition
of the right* of men aa superior to all
real or suppressed rights of property,
haa declared it neceeaary for the na-
tional need to conaeript the live of its
citizens; therefore, be it
RE80LVED, by The Great Adven-
ture movement repreeenting a voting
citizenship of 61,000 in the eounty of
Loa Angelee, and of 262,000 in the
state of California, which demands not
only free acceaa to the aaaa for Ameri-
can citizens but also free aceaea to the
land of theae states that it is the tin-
madite patriotic duty of tha City
Council to call upon all owners of ldla
city lota or acres to volunteer the uae
of them for the term of the war or the
national need, and to declare the aame
open without feo or charge to any per-
•on who will immediately begin and
thereafter continue to uae the aame
productively; and, be it further
RESOLVED, that not later than
May 1,1917, the CItyy Council apply for
federal authority to conscript them
f r the term of war or national need
all sueh Idle lota or acres not volun-
teered to the eommnnity, and to de-
dare theae open to aay person who
will make immediate prodaetive use of
them; and be it further
RESOLVED, that a eopy of these
Resolution* be sent to the City Coun-
cil, the Governor of the State, and the
President of the United States.
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DONT BUT BONDS.
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Seven and one half billions for
war already and more billions
coming up. Thank Qod when this
insanity is over every dollar will
be repudiated. Don't buy any
kind of war bonds in this dollar
war.
BAN JUAN HILL.
Any soldier who participated in
the battle of San Juan Hill and is
willing to swear that Roosevelt
was in that battle will please
write the Rebel at once. There is
a reason for the request of prime
importance. Send the Rebel 10c
for a pamphlet exposing Roose
velt the Political Dr. Cook.
The Houston Proas gets off the
following pieee ef editorial wis-
dom • t
'' A Washington departmental
announcement is to this effect t
" "Bacon products hava in-
creased 12 cento a pound rfneo
the first of January. Beef pro-
ducts are selling on a basis of 21
cents a pound slaughtered, which
means 30 and 40 cents for ehoiec
cots and 28 and 30 cento for the
cheap cuts. These are typical of
a market which is rioting in spe-
culation and is rspidly spproaeh-
ing a panic.'
Bacon, beef and alls other
meats sre surely going to climb
still higher, but there's at least
one sure cure for the climbing,
the gambling and the panic, and
that is the eating of less meat,
our present consumption of meat
being positively a fad.
"We're no ultra-vegetarian.
The song of bacon in the skillet is
#s pleasant to us as to anybody,
and the sight of a just-right,
juiey, two-inch steak sure does
make us feel beautiful gsstronom-
ically. But aren't we a fool to
stand being openly gouged for
the sake of a mere fadf That's all
there is to it."
Can you beat it I This sdviso is
for YOU — I ace this bunch of
SLACKERS ever going without a
beefstesk if they can possibly
help themselTce.
WBHk
listing and loud for YOU doing
the denying, and there THHR
"sscrifices" and "services" to
THEIR country end. | ^
CONSCRIPT DOLLARS!
.CONSCRIPT RENT8!
UP WITH LAND AND LI-
BERTY!
LONG LIVE INDUSTRIAL
DEMOCRACY!!
ORGANIZE! ORGANIC!!
ORGANIZE!!!
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We were told thst the entrance
of America into the lunatic asyl-
um-slaughter house would hasten
the end of the war in Europe. Of
course that was a lis. Now Sec-
retary of War Baker and the ad-
vising committees of national de-
fense are planning for a three
year war according to preaa dis-
patches, We w91.be 80 billions in
debt by that time. Edward Bel-
lamy in Equality paints a beauti-
ful word picture of the day that
will be declared a national holi-
day when the American people
burn all the bonds of tho nation
in Wall Street. After the bonds
are properly sosked with Holy
John D.'s kerosene, Tho Rebel
would like to have the honor of
lighting the match.
"SEVEN MILLION DEAD
MEN. That ie the British esti-
mste of the wsr's toll shtee the
beginning nesriy three years ago
now. In the meantime the means
of faking life have multiplied."
—Galveston Tribune. Another
writer states that SEVEN DAYS
is the average life of a soldier aft-
f
ed he reaches the battle-line. Yet
things who shriek out in horror
at the alleged use of "Bowie
knives" by the F. L. P. A. glorify
this wholesale slaughter by every
horrible weapon known to science
as an "uplifting life"! They who
plunged the WORLD into ''An-
archy" shriek "Anarchyat
those they taught "Anardiy"!
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 304, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 2, 1917, newspaper, June 2, 1917; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394758/m1/1/?q=%22Tom+Hickey%22: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.