The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 210, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 31, 1915 Page: 3 of 4
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or Land.
NBARING "AND SUNDAY
CLASH.
that ewr brought the blush of
fame to th* cheeks of pare women
that sat in an assemblage of ci
ProfMHor SLvifrt V«ri« until viliwd P*0?1* 11 thi,
mtasor ^oott Nearing until, Th. r*v ThoraM Jefferson
colored preacher in
•nu U^Hli> 1U Vflc otuliters rrnnnmi'— In tk* TTntvAMilv A# "• ® wiumi pirftcnw in
it i. rigbt, jurt P(W1TM1 , k„ Mde . huming ]^5Z^'uon,b^ll,<i|.0°'
upon their ear*.
most serious L ^w.ino UP to Philadelphy .erse to taking a good square look respondent evidently wu in line
nf Kritioiam ^&r Br er Blll> Sunday preach'at just what manner of men the with vour nnli«v w> *m ivm™,. 1
y";n ', "ron? ^SStaTCS dieted «U Mr. .««• mUJriM: but Lhlirted nil
►ut it'■ coming as eoon as the a
ragev'fta^Sti en6(igh self re
government to net Relief - gandll ., ,„ival h« ''l ^ ^ ^ ™JfU"dC^°d. wh"'"!
" been written by . profw,or of mo- ** " Br " B,"-v S m,"v d « 1uote tb« firat teat1
in the Univeraity of Penn-
cord to all women «,d ohildm..* ^ £ ^7owZ$ for'
If the domination of the school Col., and nparly all the banker* ?! ",on« *" •
board, by the loafer* who Vm 1* W
t, interest, and profit, is ever
there will probably be
greater changes in the "histories"
than in other text book. If the
school boards'eoold be forced to
teach the truth as to even our
own country,'it would require less
than eight year* to completely
change the system of government
under' which we live/ As long as
TTTT"tf \. ,• r?„*r^7*cn "* w,,*.z*..,. 3" " .
tl£pr$£Kni^l&TWknh
bers, or their hirenngs,' &
ed to the offiees, just that
longer will it tain to reach tlie
people, the press that will not be
bridled (the Socialist Press), i*
gradually spreading the news,how
ever, and as the people learn the
truth, a constantly increasing
number join in the cry of "Land
for the Landlw "
The greatest, strongest, motive
fore* impelling Washington, Ham-
ilton, Madison, and the ruling
bunch of tfee early days, to "high-
bind" the Constitution on us, and
ignore the '' Articles of Confeder-
ation" under witch the govern-
ment was originally formulated
was the several rebellions that pre-
ceded and followed, fce Revolution
of 1775. The qverage school history
would not intimate such a thing,
but land looked as good to George
Washington as it is said to have
looked to the uncle of lieutgov.
Hobby — only your Uncle Wash-
ington didn't get caught
The historic* the present day
school boards furnish throw to you
a Jot of slop about "Miles Stand-
and Priscilla" and ask you to
ieve it a wondrous story, while
sixteen year old school boy or
can tell you that such a result
absolute.
present day school boards
the boys and girls histories
to study, that play down and
Five Minute
... Sermon.
AS TO OKLAHOMA.
Subject
Land J
David and _ The
Hallettsville, Tex., July 3, 1915.
Editor American Socialist: ) —i-
On June 26 you publish 900
words from an Oklahoma preacher
under a heading that says no ar-
Text ; 1 Sam. 22; 1-2. Pa. 115:16. (tide shall contain mor* than 500
.words,
..... Vou have nad a contortion of' ** y0u retuni*1
addressed them one the Bible preached to you so long my articl® 1 crossed the
follows- — ' mtm « id: that your souls are, oftentimes, av ^00 word line. Tour Oklahoma cor-
murders the loafer, have had com-, ''Undoubtedly thr
iritM. TJe people km SJ ye4 ^ pme
ni.. - n . * - '■ ^ m' -- mm m mmmn m~m mm mm w m u rurrii luanar was ximii I-IIM mitin 1-u wnu *M> . i
ray manuarript; but published his
! As to his facts: The Oklahoma
given, describing what manner on *orra organisation was pattern-
to demand that his wife1 ^ Nearin®V who'"at-1 Tw° latt'r the, ,n(*ro lua" David when thp Lord et' after the Texas form of organ
child be as well treated a« any oth- gV the vivalUt neffwtin- 'umed and '<> a d behold you, the said, he was "after ffis own'uation which soells deeentralixa
er man's wife and child; as won ^ _> . M ■> -KJstiMitvr ,neKroe8 C4me f™m every portion heart.". V. 1. David therefore d« !tinri .
as a majority are willing to ac-, „B neffhSiiic this he ha5mis- of the C0Unty *nd the adj°inins parted thenc0> and eat'aped to the !" /' PXcep n>"
.1 r*a . counties until they filled the cave Adnllamo and when his brcth- tation-m-offiw for state secretary
Jthurch house, and the
half
an ,ren and all _
ERY MAN should be glad to ae- that 'thl ' ^tUT "eHme ot adj°inin^ 8<) thfv hwird il. they went down thither agreed upon by the state oonven-
. SS~.X £. TaLTZ^lkto ? T ^ . . , li > okw— ci.,
The Continental CongreM ient „ . , , . 5"i<h a prat deal of ceremony th | \. 2. And every one in diitrav, ,,H ^A~.K
don. Knox, then 8«r.tary _of war, ^,1 w,tem. Profe lr Nearing |^"r WM be and every one ta debt Md every ^ PM"mb''r
to investigate, and,^ceording to ^ thc „viva|i„ t„m hi^ to «id: il'Kontended, gathered them- F,n"'
Irvings "Lift' of
'^6|2p^BisJ[ p^^le^^';^^(^,hp1<po^n^i*^/^'d' I. ^o^.^Oone ob you. with hi,„ HW(n I0Ur nunured owned ^ (fMiVeral thousand
of the United State* has been pro- /\ *v~. . lZK * nd you is all tied up wid on- men. i , „ j L , - .
tected from the .confiscation of ^vel- Lfon thfearth wh^^n 8mcti,fie? ""<> -*• A d h« fo' if a modern David could gather ,do"ar* 'n debt) was a fraud and,
Britain by the joint exertion of whn! ™,! Z *ou ole out dere- ^ distress, in debt, and dis- "hou,d ^ discontinued. Third, the
• am 2ci ntttllv a f f>\nMinaliAn iv i Hiiftr iWintnntA/l * ' l.....i I. ! (*VOJ) tilt* (44nn
not shelter1
to our gov-'
nant." ernment reports; tnere are over . , • , kl •
A little innocent colored girl. 5,000,000 without employment.and any ™mlwr or Pollt,cal ,,ubd,v,
ior iree i ua, ram yuu nf mrtA>rn pnnHitinna "Ynn 8i*teen years of age, arow fille<l eveiy merchant in the iand is in 8'0n party on thtf theory,
ANY MAN TODAY, should lack 72^,^ ^ith indignatbi, to defend herself debt and worried half to death ♦hat thin is the business of the
manhood enough to VOTE for it! w;^An<, narajiej f* tu friphtfnl 'Bnd 9ex' *nd : °.V(>r '*• ^T, the stone-Hgc brain rank-and-file, and not a commit
, , . , .J , I " Pawson Jones, you all lies that presides over the country
TEXAS DEMOCRAT IN A ™ tJP '"r0*" a" about^me and my sistahs heah." would not permit such a gathering, " .
- NUTSHELL. among the poor, yet you have dir-1 ^ down ftit down!-. bawled and, unfortunately - those "inl Your w>rr^lwndpnt intimates
• iVeCurh -aRaln |the fat-paune.hed parson. "If you distress, in debt, and discontent ,hat county autonomy is dead m
u „ IT1 J •* ^ !!«un't, den you am guilty ob sexual ed", seemed tickled to death to re- Oklahoma. This is absolute!/ un
Man sentenced in Houston to churches the „chief culprits! Is not "-J,-;*., a a \
penitentiary for stealing two milk the worl{} beginning to realize that ^ ^ teachinir that such r condition is1 County, autononyr exwt4 m
- - - a • / teaching that such a condition is Oklahoma and differs from T.-xus
Need we wonder that at a re Un-Qodly. m •
resentative meeting of New York Note the absolute likeness to our,in t°l#: 118 count,t'" P Pa'
itixens last month, the church was modern rulers and old Saul. When e- 'be dues; Oklahoma count"*
v* a+nriv that niAv flown una -x. i(-- ^ 1 . . , , .. . . poundly hissed and the audience Goliath stood out and demanded receive instead of the ready cash
B^fn sSdSSi? r"W>er .rn.,0r wn"nf ^ S" y *"" «*0d for throe minnte, and cheer- that old Soul take hi. medicine,„,„ntity „f liteeatur
tpedal the Bacon weDemou truth was without notice being of modern life! You have declared , fV ^ rhri t, th« kin® rSiiiih vm nrnmntiJ 1 •
efore) and the Shay and^ other given ^ the public or anyone else your interest in the salvation of i v j . ^ P ^ K fiom the Htate office
bellions (after), the Revolution/wa^]ce<] j^to court, allowed to Philadelphia. Ix>ok around you
his father's house W8,, b'ft out. Fundamentally it wa*
First, a state
28 and ' 29
convention
1912.
should
irvmgs Ljue oi ♦ 4„, hHlli nov a^in-t in« •««, L 4<Now >'ou low down he-bastids ae Ives to him; and he became a ot legislate but merely had an
Vol. IV, p. 451, he reported that, H* S"1"* <" P™"* . «'<- word captain „( the,,,;
about
and there were advisory >tower. Second, a party
four hundred owm,d pLper
Britain by the joint exertion of ^ '^1 y°u ole hpn« out dere- e^ryone of these "in distress, in d
all, and therefore ought to be the . , hi|. jou is guilty of fornication ninety- contented" about him, even the state executive committee should
COMMON ' PROPERTY OF ^ to^ice a~d >ine timw A" f°' youK pul Mam,nwth ^^e could
ALL." . . "ta, cbery Im one oh yon i« pre- them for, «oonlin„
If Mrforef.thmh.dmanhood ^t''«TO<«?ed that Dr. Snnday
for "f^e land ^ yo\ i -by « — «•
have no power to expel or sus-
pend, "investigate" or discipline
bottle*. today the most sinister crimes
The gunman Ransom who was against the ideals of Christ's rell-
imported into Houston by its gion are committed by the system
Leading Citizen*" and beat up of industry for profit. Interpret
,iey teach that "the people
what they fought for, but
was only "in the neck."
The Continental army was paid
play UP sentimental slush; ( piea(j guilty au<j was finetl some on<j ask yourself (What salvation
play DOWN, the very vital*, thing like $200.00. means here. The city is filled with
t««i h that, "the neoDle" got gg per ^ Ferguson then ap- unemployment and poverty; mul
^ pointed Ransom to a position in titudes are literally starving;
the Ranger service and started him thousands of little children toil in
— ■ —[toward the Rio Grande, where we the city'e factories and stores; its
off in "script". When the soldiers -ji doubtless hear more of him. workers, a third of a million strong
wanted to spend it, the bankers| did Fcrgusbn have to fol-have no workmen's compensation
and merchants would give them as jow the example of Houston's law for their protection. Mean-
little as possible and finally ^?,|44leading citizens." Could it have while, the railroad interests which
the price'to ten cents on the do " j l>een because gunman Ransome had control the hard coal fields are
lar. They "discounted jt^just^as ^ gQppf^ a pn'ss, in reaping exorbitant profits; the
violation of the Constitution? traction company exacts the high-
est fares paid by the people of any
[American city; the manufacturers,
intrenched at Harrisburg, are
fighting, tooth and claw, to pre-
Call for Nomination of a National Tent pamage 0( up-to-date lab-
„ . : Secretary. or iawg. an(j the vested interests
Owing to an mheritence from a are piacing property rights above
the merchant* and bankers "dis
count" the State's vouchers to
school teacher*, jurymen, court
witnesses, etc. today. Whenever so
ciety's organization gave these op-
enings, the bankers and merchants
then, as now, took advantage of it.
That is why the Socialist objects
to our present system; as long as
the merchants and bankers get
their henchmen into the offices,
these '' opportunities'' (t) will oc-
cur- . *i.
But when the war is over, the
same banker* and merchants want-
ed a dollar for what they had paid
ten cents. They would not risk
THEIR selfish hides them, any
more than they will now. They
would go to the edge of town and
"see the boys off", — iu«t *6^
go down to the depot to see the
boys off4 now. After the boys
were "off. they would give their
fathers and mothers, or wives and
children, ten cents on the dollar
for the scripLthc.yoor dupeB sent
home, BUT it was pay me one
hundred oente I**1 dollar",
when the war was over.
The veterans had returned home
irerty ftricken, and crippled by
tAjosure and starvation, and ob
jected to paying a poll tax-to fur
nish the dollar where only ten
cents had been received. They
ected some legislators PLEDGED
to prevent it ..After the electiw
the bankers and merchants callett
on the legislators, ;7 and they
"changed .their minds —and
V0t68. ^ &
The farmers of those days, hoi*
ever, did not take kindly to suA
"business". They picked up the
same rifles Ihey had TWP^d
British wjth, . and. pwlceedpd
against the capital ..Wider (m
Massachusetts) the leadership of
■ Daniel Shay. The *ate,fw bank-
rupt, «, the bankers and mer-
chants /{to* ,*#ei> from • ^ghting
, themselves) furnished money fdr
i a new army to "protect the coun-
try" (t). In these days these fal-
lows have their own P^va^. r
ties as we have seen in Pa.,Mien,.
. # Va., Cal., La., Texas and Colo-
rado. Nowadays, when the work-
er* get tired of robbery and strike
in the hope a of getting sufficient
to care for their families, these
nrivate armieii ihoot even the wo-
PrL and children, ap at Ludlow,
THE LAND LEAGUE.
recency deceased relative I am men-H wuU The8e moMtrous of-
now inelligibic as a member and a fengeg against humanity — this de-
new secretary must be chosen. Be fiance of the Irit of Chri9t-8
careful that you nominate only , _ exist|, today in the citv
*uch a* are able andjnUing, true which hftarg your meMage>M
and tried. I am heart and soul | courfie t^e distinguished pro-
with you and will do all I can to f(m)r q{ politiral is cor-
aid m the work. Also ^^d your jn ^ crjticism of the literary
vote, yes or no, on a resolution tj an(j theological blatherskite,
hold a convention of the Land cau attention to Dr. Nearing's
League at Rockdale on August 4, crjtjcj8m because there are a nuin
1915. Ucals to pay the expenses of ^ of liule BiUy Sundayg in the
delegate*. , South. Nine-tenths of them are
o x ' s* Nob ' without pulpits, just ordinary pel-
d i j i t Sooretary-Traunror. lik(. individual, who have
Rockdale, Tex. July 15, 1915.
what they want.. If they would pftOM A SAFE DISTANCFj. If j'n the Westminster eonfeanon
pdt the Spcak#nr on a regular pay-tiiey" get close to it, they some-'detnils two great state orgnn ui
roll, with their "Jileage als0 Paid- times go "crazy" as the Kais<T's[tions will here and there differ
it would be no trouble to use a ^ and of the newspaper L, • ltlnM1 Toxhh is less decen-
Team in tho extreme East one day correspondents have done in thc j . , , , ; al -
and the Extreme West the next. European war. ,tralized than Oklahoma ir. tins
Until that is done the Office is Again, note the lik#nes„ to our that the great encampments are
compelled to vary from requested modern "rulers", at home. When not guided by the state office at
dates, willing or unwilling. the Wall street pirates could not aj] while in Texas practically ev-
Ufa < y encampmont
Comrade J. L. Scoggin, ofDemocrat convention, l>ecause |of BPea'teri1 ^ *
den, writes asking that The Rebel Upyau'g opposition, they put up Again, the Texas state office
announce the Wood County En- ytone-age man from among routes a few organizer* and Okla-
campment hag been changed from the m0(jern (.aVe-dwcllers (Prin- homa none Rut all this is, as I
Golden to Wmnsboro, with dates anj by declaring for "one . •, mAtt*r nf dpfcaH It in
Anijmt 2, 3 and 4 Ordering 200 torm 'only„ ('or a pre"(lent. ,„r bave .d. . matter oMetoll. It in
card8 for a Rebel-Clark Encamp- tnM Bryan ^ throw h,„ no way effecU the fundamental
ment date (August 2.), he asks to the silly prater of princicle* of organization m Tex-
that we also announce the change platitudes. NOW, that the masters'as and Oklahoma, which are: First
of Comrade *Kate O'Hare's date ^ they wil| for an- the membership shall run its own
p-m-,rora ^ ^—
— I there in no qnction that Wileon,""11 l10"" over the meraberahtp
The sale of Sub. card* for any will be renominated. Just so itt4 y , ^ ^
naner is eood • the sale of the Re-1 W H w th David. When one was and congressional autonomous or
-' - ... -—■ *-• 1 • ~ 1 destruction
mistaken a doze of laziness for a
call to preach. They will not go up
Aritil Wat- ParHc against a Socialist in debate unless
XXULl*" YV Ctl V/til UOi fkp nrino nf- th^ir tiirlp ih truar-
the price of- their hide is guar-
anteed and when the Socialist peels
A steady demand from many it, they go on to the next town,
qrarterg continue to come into our grow a new hide and have that
office for ANTI-WAR CARDS i hide removed again. We have in
The Socialist movement has mind particularly a few of these
been, historically and philosophic- cheap skates, notably Ben Bogard.
ally opposed to war. None better 0f the Baptists, Wilkerson and
than the Socialist, knows that the Witchcr of the Campbellites. Thc
working class always loses by war. pulpitless preachers of the -Metho '
Wars are made by the rich and dists have turned their energies el-
fought by the poor. It is true that gewhere since Rev. G. G. Hamilton
the European Socialists were was kicked, pounded, cuffed and
caught in the frightful European clubbed into the Socialist party,
war! simply and solely because aftor he had organized three dif-
they had not yet reached the point ferent riots against M. A. Smith,
where their organization was [W. L. Thurman and Phil Callery.
strong enough to prevent the war. | The state office of the Socialist
Here in the United States we party of Texas has now put down
must set our faces like flint not |the bars against these clerical
only against a war of invasion in 'cattle by advising thc membership
Mexico, but against all appropria-'0f our party to refuse to debate
tions either for army or navy, with any of them unless they re-
knowing full well that the more we jeeive the endorsement of the De-
prepare for war, the more certain 'moeratic party of the county in
we are to have it. .which the debate is held. Thus we
These Anti-War cards act as a cut off a bunch of clerical graft of
splendid means for anti-war pro jthe little Billy Sunday type,
paganda and show to the people Our comrades are warned
who are unacquainted with our against paring these rascals one
philosophy, what our attitude is cent for the price of their hide,
on thi*i vital subject. • • • ^
But back again to Billy Sunday,
the "big"-little* fellow that gets
the mun from the ammunition ma-
nufacturer*, the steel trust and the
bankers, the fellow who is known
as the most profane blaek guard
The prices of these cards are
FinitJ'10, one cent each.
After ten, one-half cent each,
and if you are willing to distribute
and haven't the money gay so, and
well send them free.
howled for some one else to go out.
"Princeton. Lott and Stephen and tj0 thc fighrting~ Today" the' Yonr <'orpeBPondeut 1H befudd
ville are applicants for Teams this newspaper stock holders hire the ,^d over the extent and scope o!
week, probably used,in this or- street-walker brains to howl and the Texas program. It wa„ never
bel sub. card* i* better, for the needed to slay Goliath, David was sanitations. Second, dei
reason that it carries the news of IT! But when "the people "saw "party-owned" press,
the Stat, and, to edition, fight, that David had their intern*, at, ^ ghown t|m, d, .>r
our battles in Texaa all the time. >;art a„,l cheered him, Baul . art- ^ or)ftiw,. ^ w| in lhc ^.j.
as ex<
ii,
ed his army after him, regardless
WANTED —• Correspondence of his being a son-in-law. Saul
with boardB of trustees desiring wanted the POWER, just as
Socialist teachers, and teachers Woodenhead Wilson does, and he
wonting such schools. knew, just as Woodenhead does,
W. 0. Brannen, that the POWER was an the gov
Commerce, Tex.
Texas
of a clique. Third, rotation in of-
fice, so that fresh blood eontin-
nourly flows through the execut-
ive departments. Fourth, nation-
ernment. Saul wanted the powerJal conventions be eliminated: state
' ■ 1 ■ ,for himsefl: Wilson want* it as a conventions limited to advisory
BROTHER — ACCIDENTAL stoolpigeon for John D. Rocke functions.
ly discovered root cures tobacco feller. The street-walker brains of, ^ ^ ^ en(j that the and
habit and indigestion. Gladly send the daily press, sell out as their I , -liones be abolished
particulars. T. S. Stokes, Mohawk, prototype did, to the higher bid-We rule and cliques be abolished
Florida. ;der, and prevents the race from |This and this only is the Texa.
. , 'seeing what is being done to it. 'Program. Please count the word*.
| David, whom the preachers and j T. A. Hickey,
priests, portray to you as an inno gtete ^^tary Socialist Party of
(cent song-writer, was a fiery re-
^olutionist. He gathered all who
suffered from the tyranny of
.Saul, and the other loafers, in the
Cave of Adullam. Saul chased Da ^ b/ ^efM°-
rid all over the country, just like "lc land laWS free land. Lev,
Rockefeller's private army chased a a. , , . 1
the mine workers around the Colo-|LordV' displeasure, should they
rado mountains. Finally David got vary the least bit from that law.
Saul in a cave at Engcdi. Instead That there may be no question of
•of murdering him, as John D.'s,this being David's earnest belief
army murdered the women and ®nd ®rd®n f11^- at c
children at Ludlow, he cut off bin kst Text. -
skirts and turned him loose. "5:16. The heaven, even he
workers are always for the better- heavens, are the Lords; but c
ment of the race, not for murder earth hath he given to the children
ing even the most depraved old re- °f raen-
probates to be found. Ask your preacher or priest to
But David was made King and yOU jn pitting in a govern
it was not until after he had fat- ment that ^ prove he BE-
tened his sOuls with idleness and LIEVES that "Scriptures" Jas
the exploitation of the people that <2:i and 2:17, demand i* of him.
"The Lord" ever showed any dia/j
Kate Richards O'Hare.
Denton, Tex., Saturday, July 31
Cleburne, Tex., Sunday, Aug 1.
Athens, Tex., Monday, Aug. 2d.
Winnsboro, Tex., Tuesday, Aug
3rd.
Then she goes to Arkansas.
mm
pleasure. As to the land, the teach-J
The Religious Editor.
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