The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 8, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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I—THE 19JNCB GVS.
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I want yv* all to drink in every
word of this.
For months we hove been sorely
hampered by « ever-inereating
circulation, with inadequate facili-
ties for handling it. We almost shed
tears of blood on New Year 's day,
when we were sis months old, and
had orders for 50,000 copies of the
- land edition and could only pnnt
40,000. .
Since then, each week has found
our list growing and we Have beeft
prevented on at least two occasions
from issuing large editions because
we did not have a press that could
handle them.
When you figure that we there-
by were unable to reach thousands
of people who fare struggling into
ike light you cm imagine our an-
guish of spirit. Now we think W
tee our way out. After sawjufev'.
try dollar we could g^yhold of
straining our credUAn every di-
rection, we itittsrfeed some money
to pay for./a new fast press,
to be delivered the first of July.
Jirfouruvee.ks from now we will
be one year old and we are deter-
mined to issue 100,000 copies con-
taining special arliclex from the
greatest men in the nation on thai
day, dealing largely with the
land question. It will be the mobt
terrific body blow ever dealt the
donk i the state. Jt will be the
first shot of the tremendous cam-
paign into which we are going. It
trill make Socialism talked of all
over the South and better than all,
it will only be the first shot in a
terrific bombardment that will con•
tinue hundred thousand after hun-
dred thousand until the ramparti
of cafiitalisrh are stormed by the
new fighting ,< reheU of the new
Sowthl
Now, men and women, you know
us by this time. We have earned
our spurs on the field of conflict.
We have, received, our baptism of
mpnited
stain
the South wRl be installed and the
first part of the great battle will be
w n. - Get these tubs and get them
now. |
II—ADVERTISING.
7 a. ' " .>5?"/ ' 'J*'' "<• * TO* * * j* ""
Therq is a democratic leader in
this tittle old souther* tew* whv
doesn't like The Rebel for a cent
and with some cronies he was hold-
ing a Mtie indignaium °-
Jhe courthouse square last weet
Said he, as he viciously whittled a
stick : "t tell you, that-Reb^is
the dum gasted, beotcnest paper
that 1 evejr saw in myjiff.. 1 don't
like the dad-blamed thing uM I
wish it were deem, but there is one
thing I must say about it. It ain't
out forihegraft; it ain't afeard of
anything that walks the earth and
what gets rfle is why the blamed
fool that's running it don't take ad-
vertising. One of the printers
working down there told me that
The Rebel desk is piled up with
whiskey, and patent medicine <fds
of all sorts that would bring in bar-
rels of money and I'm bltimed if
will publish* one of
that fellow
them."
Our friend, the enemy, fold the
truth. We won't publish them. W.t
are going to run this paper cleoii
or bust. Collier's Weekly and th"
Ladies' Home Journal and the Sat-
urday Evening Post makes, the
boast that their advertising pages
are clean. The Rebel has got ev-
erything in that line in America
backed off the map because WE
RUN PRACTICALLY NO ADS
AT ALL and while oiHy getting
25e ffir 40 weeks, we are compell-
ed to rely upon our devoted sub"
hustler to keep the paper coming
out.
We are in^a fight for a clean
principle; we are going to run a
clean paper anel as long as we have
no advertising muzzle on us we can
tell the God's truth and every time
k Hi© Grande, is the
isbei*iaskedthe
Relieve it should under certain con-
dition and I will go along earry-
inc the colors and keeping g&p with
the music of the massed hands i-
these condition* are lived up \p
They are—the «mditk>nsbeimjpr?r
sented briefly, and the/feasons
therefor:
All talk of^tftervfention in
Mexico comes from _ a bunch
of v iucktifrial pirates who
offices in WaU street, New
They have conspired in *fce
past with Diaz to secure the nsiur
al resources of . Mexico—lands,
mines, forests and Water power.
This wholesale gobbliag-up has
gone on until it is officially report-
ed that ^KLfainilies in Mexico and
this nation own all the land upon
which 18 million suffering people
live. And so to protect the interest
of these financial buecaneers, pa-
triotic Americans are fetpected to
grab guns and,for $15.00 a month,
and a bunch of embalmed beef t hey
are to go into Mexico to protect the
interests of Morgan, Rockefeller,
Guggenheim,' Hearst and Com-
pany.
That is the situation. Now here
is the condition upon which 1 will
co over the silvery waters of the
Rio Grande: ■
First, every crooked Wall street
schemer must be placed in the fore-
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mSmmmSL
Our
c.Vj himself an
been aching
W. Va.,
t; the picnic
< ncerl-,^Mven
across
. the.
railroader, ha*
; into the fetfl
erated shop fight We fear
this mayibeimpossifelc beeause of
laas demand that is
upon
the n«n
the followi*%,letter
1 Terre Haute, lad., June 1,-1912
^My Dear Tws,—HaWyours of
24th, and eopy of marked Rebel.
Note particularly all you say «*d
J* -w a *% « -a.'*',. 1# .s ....... -.i, n i . wnn)<l
it 1 nail outy umi. n i-uouva; - ——-
join you gladly m extending the
splendid fight you are making in
• h.lf of the rtrike™ i toiw of
with demands of all kinds. I caa
fire and you know we will never \we see a corrupt head we can hit
falter. ! it with the c(uh of truth. We want
FlVft THOUSAND SUBS BE- u> *ta,J that «'«V- We want to
TWEEN, NOW-AND THE FIRST Jeep free of fake advertising and
OF JULY WILL IIAVE OUR u'c u'nnt every Rebel who readv
PRESS INSTALLED WITH A lhi* tn voic on thi* Questions
1 CARLOAD OF PAPER ALONG ! SHALL WE KEEP THE COL-
SIDE IT SO THAT WE CAN UMNS OF THE REBEL AS
ADEQUATELY FIGHT THIS CLEAN IN THE FUTURE AS
BA TTLE. WE HAVE IN THE PAST?
WE WANT TO MAKE THIS IF YOU VOTE NO, YOU CAN
AN INDIVIDUAL MATTER DO SO BY SITTING QUIET
WITH YOU. We feel sure you
will not fail us now that we are
absolutely dependent upon you.
Use the enclosed blank, fill it full.
This is the time. The people are
aroused; a quarter is easy to get.
Bombard your neighbors and they
will thank you for doing it and
AND DOING NOTHING; IF
YOU VOTE YES, SIGNIFY SO
BY SENDING US A CLUB OF
FOUR, TEN OR 50 SUBS WITH
THE WORD "YES" MARKET)
ON THEM IN LARGE LETTERS
Get right up, grab a pencil. Any-
then you will have the satisfaction body trill give you a quarter—fire
of knowing that our new press, the them in here and do it now.
DEAR REBEL:-
I VOTE "YES"
and I want you to get that press.. Herwith enclosed $ fat
robs to back up my vot§:
Name
fotoffice ' Street or R. F. P. \ AmouoT
front of the battleline, in the very
van of the army 6f invasion.
Second, they must be given t o uri
deretand that they must bear the
brunt of the attack, lead each ad
vpnee and guard the rear in every
retreat.
If the American plutocracy will
agree to these conditions, The
Rebel will gijab a gun nnd>mar 4i to
the land of Montezuma.
However, dear people, there
isn't much danger of me vacating
this desk for a while. Whoever
heard of these cattle' fighting for.
honor, for flag, for country orM)\
God ? The"chief of their <h *ooke<
army, -I. P. Morgan, was the bank-
er in 1861 who helped.put through
the deal to sell discarded rifles to
lis own government when the flncf
was in daneer and-the war drums
>eat the call to conflict.
Go*down along the roster of Am-
erican millionaires and show me
evea one of them that on the
firing line. They all dodged the
red line, of battle. Look at
hem—Morgan, Rockefeller, Gar-
negie* J. Gould, Russell Sage. Aug-
ust R^lmont, Sr., Vanderbilt, Aa-
tor, Rhinelander, etc., etc., et.; etc..
every one of them kept their yel-
ow hides in safety; they sold rot-
ten beef, paper shoes, old rifles and
made a big stnrt towards their mil-
ions by robbing their own govern-
ment in its hour of peril through
crooked army contracts. The lifi
of one American soldier, or plain
citizen, is worth all the dirty hides
of the Amejrican plutocracy who
sqiiat in their golden dens on the
banks of the Hudson in little old
New York.
I f intervention should take place
they will be seated in safety far
from the danger zone, seeing a dol-
lar of future profit in every drop
of American blood dripping from
soldier's wounds.
No, Sir, T am not going to Mexico.
REfX TERfTuNION.
PVPSiP
WORKERS PLATFORM, j 21st. All judges shall be eleot
(Continued from Page 1.) . ed,- not appointed, and for shor
15th. Humane and scientific only.
treatments the inmates of tffe1 . 22nd. A stringent employers
state pejiitentiaries; all the value liability law.
of their labor above an economical j
cost of maintenance to go to their' BonhamSkoaal No. 1363 issues a
families or dependents. j call signed by J. E. Strinsher, or
16th. The erection by the state ganizer inviting all the locals in
of as many as three sanitariums to I Fannin County to meet in the
be located equiangularly or as near- J courthouse in Bonham on July 6,
ly as may be; boaid and treatment' . v . ., '
of inmates to be furnished by the purpose of effecting a coun
state.
17th. An increased state inheri-
tance tax graded in porportion to
the amoijnt of the beauest, and to
the nearness of kin.
18th. Graduated income tax.
' 19th. The abolition of the state
senate and the gubernatorial veto.
20. The Abolition of the fee sys-
tem as to fill public officials.
ty organization. - I
# * # V'
The railroad companies in Kana
wha Co., W. Va., have received per
mission from the governor to com-
mission their railway detectives
and sheriff the Railroad deputies
Truly government under capital
ism is nothing but the executive
committee Qjf the ruling class.
«jcareely take hold of anything Out-
side of what is already pressing
upon me apd if you were here you
could readily understand the rea-
son why. I have been away frtmi
lere for over three months and am
far behind with my work at this
end while every mail that comes in
is loaded wity letters many of
which contain requests more or
less in the interest of the party'
which I am doing my best to com-
ply with.
It is certainly a matter of the
grtatest significance th^at the gov
eminent experts have not only ocn-
firmed you in the matter, of the ex-
plosion but that they have almost
literally copied you in their report.
Aa L-reacL this
n connection with it and catch
vour eager and insistent spirit T
burn to jump into thd fray, but I
am fettered since the nomination
by so many demands that it is
physically impossible fojvme to un-
dertake the work of>e?Uenditfg that
fight and makimrlt hot enough all
along the lipe^to win for the men.
I ean clearly see, what you point
I can also see the chance to
great victory but unfortun
ately for me J am already tied up
in a way to occupy every minute of
my time and to demand every
ounce of my energy
"Were I free or only partially
so, you would not have to call on
me a second time. I would be with*
you and like Job's war 'horse.
'snorting eagerly for the fray."
"Wishing you the hundred
housand subs you are so energeti-
cally working for and so well de-
serve and assuring you of my un-
wavering loyalty and esteem, I am,
Yours always,
"E. V. Debs."
BIG FACTS BOILED DOWN.
On the 4th day of November, jn
the city of Waco, Texas, 11") prac-
l n al working tenant farme-s from
24 Texas counties launched The
Renters Union of North America.
They have drafted a constitution
with preamble and by laws, and es-
L:.«Ked state headquarters at H;il-
•ettfp ille, Texas. The Sec.-Trots.
is Mr. E .0. Meitzen of Hahf-rs-
ville; organizers have been ap-
pointed, locals established, litora
t'-irejvritten and from Texas this
ir.ov<ment is spreading int-) o'her
Southern states. The next conven-
tion ifrill be held at Waco on the 8th
of next November, when it is ex-
pected that at least 200 delega
will be present, with fraternal dc
gates from adojoining states. The
Renters IJnion is determined tha
landlordism must go and is working
effectively towards that end. A lo
of organization matter will be pub-
lished about the union in next
week's issue of The Rebel. Anyone
desiring information can receive
same by , writing the Secretary
Treasurer at Hallettsville.
Tom Mannvthe great industrial-un
ion leader of England, was sent to
jail for 6 months recently for deliv
ering a speech in which he advise<
the soldiers not to shoot their kin-
folks.
The Socialists are going to win
the free speech fight in San Diego.
Kier Hardie the great English
'ree speech Sooialist leader, is ex-
acted to come over to the United
States and help in the presidential
campaign.
4,200 cooks, waiters and other
lotel help are striking in the city
of New York. Bill Haywood re-
ceived a tremendous ovation when-
le addressed these hotel slaves last
week.
t « •
Read and re-read the state plat-
form'of the Socialist party on the
front page of this week's Rebel. It
will be sent out to the locals for en
dorsement or rejection immediate-
ely. .
Chas. H. Kerr & Co. have just is-
sued a new and revised edition of
the popular "What to Read on So
cialism." A fopy may be secured
free by addressing the publishers
at 118 K. Kinzie st, Chicago.
• • •
The Milwaukee Leader has in-
creased its price from 6 to 10c per
week. The Leader comrades rea-
lize that a Socialist paper to be free
must be free of advertisers' domi
nation.
Railroad workers on 35 lines are
taking a referendum vote on the ad-
visability of cpming out on strike in
support of the 35,000 federated
shop men who have been striking
for the past six months.
• • • '
Ettor and Giovanitti are s^ill in
jail in Lawrence, Mass. Their only
crime was to organize the workers
ahd whip the woolen trust. Their
victory has cost the wool magnates
15 million dollars a year increased
wages, hence the wolves are howl-
ing for their blood.
./• • • '
. Several thousand miners have
befen striking at Kaylor, Pa., for
several rhontha. The company is
starting into evict them wholesale.
Much misery is resulting.
, •4farylaK<i~-State i
calling for the raising
beon qaJrwheTmingly earn
j j The longshoremen afe sinking
itf Baltimore.' The Bu*ej of sta-
tistics and information «: the siai*
of Maryland investigated and
held that the demands of the strik-
wages and
wasreas-
with the
demands of the 20th century. The
capitalists declare they have noth-
ing to arbitrate and a condition
of anarchy in its worst form is oxi
In the interest of society, these ras-
sals will find that to protect, them
selves society must confiscate their
property the American revolu-
tionists confiscated the property of
King Geot-ge. "' ..
: ; • • •
Tennessee.—The national com
mitteeman from Tennessee gets
off this:
|"He would vote for* yellow dog if
I it were on an old party ticket.1'
"He is in no danger. Yellow dogs
have some self-respect."
• #' •
Louisiana-^The Socialist party
„ 7 La., has obtained a
contract with the Caddo Publish-
ing Co. to give them not less than
'3 columns weekly in the paper dur-
ing .the year. Comrades think the
paper, Co8grove's Weekly, will soon
fly the Socialist colors at thje m&st
head
'Since Haywood's visit at Alexan-
dria, La., the work of organization
among the timber workers has gone
steadily on. They are appr9aching
the 20,000 mark.
Robt. J.Martin and J. R. Jones are
making a tour of the state. The
Weekly Record, published at New-
Orleans, La., the official organ of
the I^miBiana State Federation of
jabor and endorsed bylhe Central
Trades and Labor Councilof New
Orleans is supporting the Socialist
Party. It is ably edited by'Com-
rade J. KL Breen. In the last issue
Comrade Breen says:
"When the Golden Ride of
Christ gets a rair chance to operate
the parasite on labor's back must
go p. d. q." Do you see any hatred
of religion in that rule 1 That rule
is what guides the Socialist to vote
the parasite off the worker's back.
The 'religious' guide who can see
harfn in that, you may be sure, ha*
an ax to grind and is looking for
some dupe to do the grinding."^
June 3, 1912.
lie, Texas:
. . d find fiv*
subscription cards to "The
' " which explain theuiselv*.
Barnes on your
H«t ait «aee.
greatest pa. j
per published in Texas, it should
. be read by dvery voter in r, xas. Its
'able staff of editors are turning on
the proper flash-lights, and Texas
ppocracy, or more properlv
speaking, Texas Hum-bug2,.rs, arft
getting exposed through ht, eoJ.
nmna
I am Willing to enlist oue of
the comrades who will spend some
time and money to make the sub-
scription list of "The ReM ioo.
000. •
Fraternally yours, '
Henry Faulk. '
(Coming as it does from that
gritty ex-county attorney of Travis
c6unty, who whipped the brewery
The New Century published at
Sulphur. Okla., has now nearly
3,000 subscribers and this week
prints a splendid land edition. In-
cidentally it is taking running
trust some years ag, the above is
indeed encouraging—Ed. i
• ••
w. c. Phillips, Arthur, Okla.,
writes: "Your paper is read with
much interest here; we lik( you?
policy and think it is the K.*st pa-
per We have seen yet. Siht. ss to
The Rebel."
■ • • •
Megargel, local 1335 resolvi-d r^
cently: "That each memluT of this
local send The Rebel or some other
good Socialist paper \o some non-
Socialist at the Same time taking
care to send to those who will real
and investigate." They further re.
solved "that we send a copy of this
resolution to The Rebel asking all
locals throughout the state to pas]
the same resolution. " Ten nanus
were secured at once and money to
have The Rebel visit them for 40
weefe was raised; other names will
be sent in later. Two votes in thii
box in 1910. We now have 4<i. We
will have a full ticket in An he'
Co."
. M. B. Eaves. S*,
• • •
G. W. Pruitt, writes: ' Toujiip,
cannot express the love that I have
for that five minute sermon ly II.
G. Richards."
• • t
Frank E. Simmons, Pauls Valley,
Okla., sends us a poem on childrei
cotton hoers from which we eloas
the following:
On plains where cotton fields
Spread in long even rows
Their little arms are made
wield
Tlje heavy weeding hoes.
J. R. McMillan, Woodson, Tex,
breaks, forth in verse about The
Rebel as follows:
You are fighting, nobly fightinf
And yon stand both true anJ
brave
You will skin sweet capitalism
And you'll send it to the grave.
ANNIVERSARY EDITION.
On July 6 The Rebel will issue
its first anniversary edition; w«
jumps on the busted bureaucracy 1 expect to print 100,000 copies. If
in Oklahoma City. Decentralize things move right and our hustled
boys, and stop quarreling. We-did hustle in the subs fast enough.
it in Texas and Oklahoma can fol- cxpecti to print it on a new fas^f
Speed press.This issue will contain
low suit. .
The Century publishes the fol-
lowing resolution:
"Be it resolved by the member-
ship of Local Mangum; that we
believe the state executive com-
mittee of the Socialist party of
Oklahoma, to be un-American in
spirit and un-democratic in prin-
ciple ancl practice, and their work
tends to a centralization of an au-
tocratic power that is un-warranted
in a true democracy, and,
"Be it Resolved; that Local
Mangum move that the state execu-
tive committee of the Socialist
party of the State of O^khoma be
abolished and the power be restored
to the membership of the party,
where it rightfullw belong; and
that there be elected by a referen-
dum vote of the membership of the
party, a campaign/ committee,
whose, duty it shall be to conduct
the campaign in the best interest of
the party, and whose duty it shall
be to close up all business connect-
ed with the party campaign and
render a tru^ statement of all busi
ness transacted and connected with
the campaign td| the membership of
the party within 30 days after an
election, at which time their term
of office shall expire. " .
"Be it further resolved, that
a copy of these resolutions shall
be furnished the Oklahoma^ Pio-
neer for publication, with the re-
quest that all other Socialist pa
pers copy same."
J. M. Irwin, Chairman.
J TflCstehum, Sets-
Send 5 cents for
tob eco.
and respect
£
if."''."km
nple of tea#
6m25
I. Wesson. Wingo Ky
th
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articles from s©ig£ of the great^tSo
cialist writers in the United States
We are in correspondence wit
' iene Debs, Emil Seidel. Gustavfl
dyers, A: M. Simons, Allen Rickey
)an Hogan and other men whoi
pens have aroused the nation. Ed
ions like this will arouse the statt
as never before. We are full
fight and tsripped for the fray.!
his short year of our life, we ha
shown one gigantic fact, an
that is: that The Rebel is
only newspaper in the South,
the alleged newspapers are hop«
essly muzzled and thank God
have^amply demonstrated that
be true. We want to literally a?
down the,state with this grea
number. Send in your orders no
so that we may know how many
print. '•*'
r' .
S THE SHEPPAhD AND
Si i THE SHEEP.
S
# No. 50" of The Xebel will
Hi contain signed letters written
S by Sovereign Banker Shep-
S pard and Sovereign Comma*-
X der Root. Every Woodma*
SB and all the widows and or-
HS plans in T&xas who rea$ this
X issue wiU deceive some valva-
Hi lie information.
SKKKBKBKSBSiS*
f irylaByg
di
Comrade Z. P. Johnson, one
the stalwarts of Haskell Co
last month. The oounty orgam
taon passed a set of eloquent
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