The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [5], No. 210, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 31, 1915 Page: 4 of 4
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ENCAMPMENT TEAM NO. 1.
The encampment at Goree held
under the management of Com-
rade* Brooks, Higgins, Black and
Oilliand ws« an immense nuccess
both in point of numbers and ed-
ucational value. This in spite of
the fact that it was the first one
ever held in that community. It
was also a financial success, all
debts being paid and money left
in the treasury. There is a lesson
in the success of this encampment
in tlie eyca of many comrades who
fear to hold an encampment for
fear of financial loss. There were
but five Socialists at Goree. They
met and decided to call for bids
on the concessions, and received
from the highest bidder $122.50,
which waa ample to par all expen
ses and leave a good margin in the
local treasury. Qo thou and do
likewise for the next encampments.
* ess
The next encampment was at
Big Springs which Is a long jump
from Goree. The efficient mana-
ger, J. I. McCullouch, had secured
the fair grounds for the three days,
the audience was comfortably seat-
ed in the big grandstand, where
they were well protected from the
blistering rays of the sun. A large
number of shopmen from the T.
I*. attended the night lectures Hnd
fanners came in as far as fifty
miles to listen to the gospel of
industrial freedom. The roads in
Howard county were in splendid
shape with the result that many
Socialist fanners journeyed to the
grounds iu their autoes,
• • •
The next slop was as Stamford
where Arthur LeSueur addressed •*
good audience in the City Park.
This meeting was arranged by A.
R. Davis and Peter Fitapatrick.
Comrade Fitxpatrick is endeavor
ing to secure a carnival in which
event an encampment, will be ar-
ranged in September. «
• • •
The next encampment was at
Fort McKavett, way out on the
Western frontier on the head-
waters of the beautiful San Saba
in Menard county. A good crowd
for the opening day greeted the
s|>eakers, after the latter had made
a 22-mile auto trip The encamp
ment is held in a well-shaded park
on the banks of the San Saba river
Campers are here from five coun
ties, some of the prairie schooners
having voyaged a distance of 70
to 100 miles. The third day, July
22, will see an immense outpouring
of people. There will be one of
those old-time barbecues on the
encampment grounds for which
Fort McKavett is famous. Besides
Team No. 1, Stanley J. Clark will
speak that day. A rumor is cur-
rent that. Coal Oil Joe Bailey will
be present to debate with either
Hickey or Clark. There is, of
course, no tmth in this rumor,
though it has had the effect of
bringing a large number of Donks
to witness the fight. The Socialists
are telling the Donks that there
was never a steel cable made in
Pittsburgh strong enough to pull
Bailey, the keroeine gentleman of
Pittsburgh, onto the platform with
either Hickey or Clark. The man
agers who have made suecees of
this encampment are: Comrades
Fish and Fish and Warren. They
have worked zealously for weeks
to make it go.
• • •
Tonight we leave for Stark-
weather, via Menard and Wiuchell
The encampment at Starkweather
will Ih* on July 23, 24 and 25. It
will no doubt be a great success,
as its predecessors have been,
under management of J. H Allen.
TEAM TWO.
Comrade Nugent in writing of
the Encampments filled so far by
Team Two, says:
Hope, Bruce ville, Santo, Myrtle
Springs and Murchison all on time
and in tune with the Revolution-
ary Spirit.
The crowds are immense and
the entertainment splendid, con
sidering the pauperizing War
times.
The Oomradqp are enthusiastic
and tuned up for the campaign
of 1916.
Solidarity on the political and
industrial field is the cry of the
proletariat and — at last is be-
ginning to be — of the middle
Comrade* in all directions are
♦ . a«i.iirf. for <***<• by Teams One and
•r™ rtS Two' w date* for which they are
already set. Team Two is set
Wilbarger Gem***, on War.
of Wilbarger county, Texas, the
to ana including August 16th. and
i P°mtf" * p One is set up and including
; August 31st There i« no use ask-
ing for these dates, but we 4re
Hundreds of old time Populist,
Democrat and Republican follow-
era are attending our meetings
and many converts are made.
One for All and All for One,
C. Nugent
• • •
ENCAMPMENT DATES. <
Team No. One.—T. A. Hickey,
E. R. Mcitzen, Arthur LeSpeur:
Weinert — Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, July 29, 30 and 31.
Bomarton, Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 1,
2, 3 and 4.
O'Brien—Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, Aug. 5, 6 and 7.
Electra—Sunday, Monday ant
Tuesday, Aug. 8, 9 and 10.
W el li ngton—W cdnesday, Th u rs
day and Friday, Aug. 11, 12 and
13.
Vernon—Saturday, Sunday ant
Monday, Aug. 14, 15 and 16.
Crowell, Tuesday, August 17.
Ballinger, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, August 18, 1
and 20.
Burkfctt—Saturday,Sunday and
Monday, Aug. 21, 22 and 23.
Brownwood—Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday, Aug. 24, 25
and 26.
Sweetwater, Friday and Satur
day. Aug. 27 and 28.
Eastland, August 30, 31.
A. Hughes, If. E
Southal and Crabtree;
"* t° «* «■« d t~ tor Tei,
B«averf G. W. Broclt .lohau £cott, ^ jn (Vntml iVxu and tor
Finance and Concession Commit
for
The
Two in Central Texas and
. . Team One, towards Dalhart
cTL.: ^ DaJhart Comrades should be reach
Schmidt. ed by all means, but unless some
After a business was transact- >of £ ^ jQ tbat ^
Jtion come
td, the following resolutions were -n fQr gome gjn^|e or d00ble dates,
adopted and approved, and th« jt wilI be hartl bedding for them
Secretary was instructed to ^"^to make it and have enough mon-
to his Exellency the President of t ^ ^ ^
the U. 8. the Appeal to Reason,
« t a i « i —Points on Ft. W. & D.
Rebel and the two local papers a and A T A s p ^ btwv and
copyeacn. let the Office hear from you ax
Whereas; Our President declar ^ ^ numj)er 0f days you can
ed that we must be neutral m fact ^ on roate named
a« well as in name; and,
• • •
The Comrades at one point are
RED, without a doubt. Being
' unable to get one of the State Of-
fice Teams for the dates they
wished, they cancelled the encamp-
ment. rather than having the
speakers "that are willing to
come, but have no Red Cards, to
PROVE they believe what they
preach."
THE LAND LEAGUEf
Whereas; He further states, as
late as 1915, that an Embargo on
munitions follows the best practice
of nations in the matter of neutral-
ity; and,
Whereas; The former Presidents
not only discouraged the ship-
ments of munitions of War. but
also forbid them as late as 1912,
and,
Whereas; On the 20th day of
April, 1819, nearly a century ago,
a law was passed by Congress of
the U. S. placing it within the pow } The article below, written by a
er of the President of the U. S. to San Antonio man. shows the ur-
Encampmenta for the next week
for Team No.l. will be: Stark
weather S. II., July 23, 24, 25.
From there they go to North Roby.
2G, 27 and 28. The latter will be
the greatest encampment so far
held in West Texas, among the
extra speakers are Stanley Clark
and Kate O'Hare. Thence to an
equally large one at Weinert, Has
hell county, with the same speakers
as at North Roby. Every indica-
tion points to the latter two en-
campments as being the greatest
thus far held in West Texas for
July. The Comrades who have
August Encampments in West
Texas, such as Joe Hudspeth, who
has charge of tlie second O'Brien
encampment on August 5, 6 and 7,
with Ben Wilson, Stanley Clark
and Team 1 as speakers, and Bo-
marton on Aug| 1, 2, 3, Dr. W. L.
Gaiiies, manager, are working
night and day in friendly emula-
tion to heat their brother managers
at the other West Texas points. •-
Team No. Two.—Dora Merts,
W. S. Noble, Clarence Nugent:
Miller Grove—Thursday. Fri-
day and Saturday, July 29 30 am
31
Point—Sunday, Monday an!
Tuesday. Aug. 1, 2 and 3."
Tool—Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. Aug. 4, 5 and 6.
Ben Wheeler, August 7, 8, 9.
Palestine. Aug. 10, 11 and 12
Burke. August 14.15. 16.
• • •
FINANCIAL REPORT,
Socialist Party of Ttxu, Quarter end
lnf Xoim SO, 1915.
APRIL RECETPT8 1915
Dim 123.87
8uppl>e 12.80
Literature 8.99
Deficit to date 97.75
1243.41
APRIL EXPENSES 1915.
Deficit April 1st 36.30
Due# (National Secretary) 100.00
Supplies 2.00
Office Rent . 5 00
Pontag* and telegrams is!ll
Printing account 10.00
State Secretary Salary 75.00
\
$243.41
MAY RECEIPTS 1915.
Dues 108.19
Supplies 8.65
Literature e 5.60
Overpay jo
Deficit, to date 102.60
MAY EXPENSES
Deficit May 1st
Dues (National Secretary)
Supplier
Postage and telegrams ...
Office Rent
Printing account
State Secrctarv Snlnrv . .
$285.20
97 75
75i00
6.00
16.5,>
5 00
io!oo
To. 00
$285.20
JUNE RECEIPTS 1015.
Dues 110.31
Supplies s.70
Literature 7.00
Deficit to date 110.69
$245.70
JUNE EXPENSES
Deficit, June 1st
Dues (National Secretary)
Supplies
Literature
Postage and telegrams ...
Office Rent
State Secretary Salary
1915
102 66
50!00
.. .50
3.35
9.25
5 00
7 5.00
$245.70
(Signed) T. A. HICKEY,
State Secretary Socialist Party of Tex.
Hallettsville, Tex., July 1st, 1915.
• • •
Comrade E. M. Gleason. Jr.,
Organizer for Local El Paso, re-
ports three lectures by Ben Wilson
of California, on July 17th and
18th.. "to large and intensely in-
terested audiences." The El Po«n
Comrades are hoping for an en-
tire week of agitation soon.
.1
forbid the exportation of muni
tions of War to warring nations;
and, i.f
Whereas; The Prudent has or
will call Congress in.session imme-
diately. We respectfully pray him
that he embody in his Mewwge to
Congress a measure. v to give the
People an opportunity to vote for
r against war, and to have the
Voters sign the Ticket so that all
those who vote for war may be
called in Service, regardless of
age, sex, or color; and.
Whereas; If the horrors of War
are to be averted, you cannot on-
ly avert it. but largely assist, by
acting at once and instructing your
Secretary of State to take.- n«
steps that will involve the U. S.
in conflict, and add to the slaugh-
ter now drenching Europe and
Mexico in human blood; ami,
Whereas; We do not expect pre-
datory Wealth to cease the Butch •
cry of human beings; and.
Whereas: General Sherman said
War i,H Hell; and,
Whereas; We recognize the
Creator of the Universe as our
Father and His command, Thou
shall not kill, irreater than Man
made law. an,} the advice of the
Redeemer of the World command-
ed us to love one another and not
kill,
Therefore: In the event of an
aggressive War, without first ae
cording us a vote on such meas-
ure, we will positively refuse to
go or lend our support either phy-
sical. moral or financial: and
Therefore: We have pledged our
Heavenly Father that we refuse to
slay our fathers, your mother's
son, or plunge a bavonet in your
sister's brother. We refuse to
slaughter your sweetheart's lover
or murder your wife's husband or
your children's father.
Committee on Resolutions:
G. W. Brock.
M. E. Carter,
Joseph Schmidt, Sec'y.
• • •
The Comrades of Somerville
ountv have fully organized with
Comrade J. A. Wood, as County
Secretary, J. W. Eddy Co. Chm.
and S. G. Layne, organizer.
They are starting off with a
Clark lecture on Aug. 5th, 2 p. m.
at an "old time picnic," as
radc J. A. Wood puts it. These
Comrades are starting off after
success in li'lfi by making a suc-
essfnl start.
• • •
Local Temple writes in its dis-
pproval of the motion of Loeal
Benton. In writing of the action
of the loeal. Comrade M. C. Rich-
ardson. Secretary reports. "If
men want to get their votes count-
d, they should get their dues paid
up to date, and g*>t in on time. We
think tbat all Comrades tbat had
a vote coming, and wanted to vote,
lad plenty of time on the State
icket."
• • •
Cass. County met on the 9th and
decided to have an encampment)
Aug. 31st to September 3rd. The
Committee meets at Linden July
1 to select tho grounds, etc, etc.
Comrade John S. Gholson report-
ing. says; "We feel certain that
with "the projwr effort we will
carry this County in 1916."
• • •
Comrade D. C. Lanier, who is
n charge of the Wellington En-
campment. Aug. 11, 12 and 13,
writes that he ftias organized a
jocal at Rollie and everything
is looking bright for his dates.
gent need for the immediate ex-
tension of the Land League move-
ment. A prominent Single Taxer
sends the copy to the Rebel and we
wonder if he noticed that his pan-
acea needed assistance? This P.
S. T. says that when "Clop Hop-
per" offered the communication
to the two San Antonio Dailies,'
the street-walker brains were af-
fected differently, fine editor ( V.
"laughed and said it was good but
that the bankers would jump him-
the other frowned, looked wise,
and declined, saying there was no
point to it." You can see the fear
the street-walker brains have of
the banker, who rides the race
merely because these street-walker
brains haven't manhood enough in
their composition to tell what the
bankers an-. But here is the ar-
ticle :
During the first week of Aug-
ust, 1914, I tr ade the following
propsal to four San Antonio
Banks:
"Lend #30 per bale oil 10 bale
lots of cotton for ninety days.
Each of the four replied—"There
lis no obligation m the bank to
help the farmer." In each cast' I
said: "You will not help the farm-
er, you will help yourselves."
Only one of the four had brains
enough to ask: "How So?" I
replied; "The fanner will i ay
the merchant and the merchant
will pay the Ban*. The money
short e rcuoted in*o the bank. car.
be loaned again.'
The banker raised objections
''Lack of warehouses," "Insur-
anee" etc. } cut l:im short: Cot-
ton on the farm is safer than cot-
tie on the lange, yet you take
range cattle as security. Cotton
in the bale, is safer than an un-
planted crop, yet you lend on ur.
planted crops — you run no risk
whatsoever on ten bale lots because
they are scattered The banks did
not have sense enough to protect
themselves and today — "The
banker holds the Bag."
The bankers are now busilj en-
gaged <fn turning good notes into
loss by trying to collect from peo-
ple who can't pay until the 1915
crop is sold. It is the duty of
the teant farmer to save the south
from the folly of the banker.
The way for the tenant farmer
to "save the south" is to put his
corn in the crib, haul his cotton
home from the gin. protect it
from the weather, tell the landlord
the merchant and everybody else
to go to the Hades. Unless the
teant has signed a contract provid
ing otherwise, he has rented for
the entire year 1915. His rent is
not due until Janarv 1. 1916 If
his teams and tools are mortgaged,
he can demand an extension and
get it, otherwise he can refuse to
gather his crops. He has some
hogs and chickens be can make n
ftdl garden. He can live untiil
January 1, 1916, without assist-
ance. Why not do it? If the far-j
mer will hold his cotton until Jan-
uary 1. 1916, the price will go to
twelve cents a pound. The mer-
chant will collect his bad accounts.
The bankers' bad notes will be
good. The tenant farmer will be
able to make a cash payment on
a farm of his own. y
If the tenant farmer will "stand
pat" the banker will advance
money to pay his rent and store
account. He will be forced to—
and the U. S. Government has al-
ready provided the money. Has
the tenant the nerve to ''stand
pat*"' Clod Hopper.
following from the pen of
our "<oid WarriorComrade, Gene
Deb«, is reproduced foa its beauty
and tenderneas, as well as because
it is from His pen and was given
apace in a capitalist pape^. Whan
you have read it pass it along to
others and especially, if you have
enough money to be welcome, aak
some good ''man of God" to read
it a d think over it and act on it.
Also, aak your local paper to j?rint
it In as much as it is from the
columns of a capitalist daily, they
ny^y have bravery enough to "co-
py5* it '
: • • •
(Terre Haute Post, July 20.)
Editor Poat:— The warnings
which have recently issued from
both the pulpit and the press in
thi* eity against the ."unworthy
poor" prompt me to aak these
Christian gentlemen if the great
Teacher they profess to follow ev-
er made any discrimination be-
tween the "worthy" poor and the
" unworthyN poor. The poor were
the poor to him, because he was
of their number. Bora in direst
poverty, he knew their suffering
and heartache, and when he min-
istered to their wanti it did not
occur to him to smpll their breath,
to see if they, or possibly their
grandsisters, had not in some evil
hour taken a drink of liquor as
an excuse for branding them as
"unworthy" poor, and turning
them away to starve. Indeed, so
completely and consisted}' did he
love the poor, from whom he
sprang and among whom he spent
all the days of his sad and tragic
life, that when he made any dis-
tinction between them it was
wholly in favor of the 'unworthy'
poor, by forgiving them much be-
cause they had suffered much.
He did not condemn them to star-
vation and suicide upon the hypo-
critical pretext that they were
"unworthy", but he did apply the
lash of scorpions without mercy
to those self-righteous and "emi-
nently respectable'' gentlemen
who robbed the poor and then de-
spised them for their poverty;
who made long prayers, where
they could be seen of men. while
they devoured widows' houses and
bound burdens upon the backs of
their victims that crushed them to
the earth.
Who and where are the "un-
worthy '' poor and who dare in the
name of Christ to judge them ? 1
have seen the innumerable poor
from those ln whose sweat ami
agony it ia produced and/(hat i,
the reason they are poor and tired /
and discouraged and get drunk/
and recruit the ranks of the "uu
worthy" poor. If I had to exist as
many of those pow wretches do
and we have them at our even
doors — I, too, would probably u, -
drank as often as I had tin
chance.
There is a cause for povert \
and that cauae can be remov.ni
and when it ia removed, there u ill
be few, if any, poor, "worthy"
"unworthy." The very fact that
a poor wretch ia "unworthy
pleads most accusingly and in
sistibly in bis behalf. The causi
of his "unworthneas" may I*
found in his heredity or environ
ment, and in any event outside <>i
and beyond himself, and he shout,i
no more be punished for it thai
if he were the victim of eancer m
epilepsy.
A vast amount of flraud, hypo.
risy and false pretense parades a-
"charity" for the purpose of di
verting attention from the caus.
of the poverty it affects to re
lieve.
It is not "charity" that tin-
poor want, or that Will change
their unfortunate condition. It is
justice and to obtain that thr
whole modern world is in a st«t<
of increasingly intelligent ami
portentous agitation.
As long as the-few (own tin
sourceg of wealth, tjie machinery
of production and the means
life the many will be confined t<>
work for them as the miners of Co-
lorado and Montana work for l\
ckeMIer. with the result that th\
few pile up millions and billions
and riot and rot in luxury and
self-indulgence, while the millions
that are robbed riot and rot in
poverty and filth. The exploitation
of the many by the few is now on
trial lie fore the world and when
that trial is ended and the exploit-
ation of man by man ceases and
society is Organ ized upon the basis
of the enlightened mutual inter
ests of all. democracy will da ^
men will be brothers, war will
cease, poverty wil be a hideous
nightmare of the past, and the sun
of it new civilization will light the
world.
Eugene V. Debs.
and
A
ter^l
ENCAMPMENT CIRCULARS.
Hallettsville, Texas, June 23, 1915
To Encampment Managers'
in all their agonizing poverty and | Encampment Circulars, 15 x 22
hopeless despair, but I have yet,:—u *—u —
to see any "unworthy" poor. They
are all God's creatures and they
are all human beings, and how any
one professing to be a Christian
can warn the community not to
give them a mouthful of food,but
to turn them awa^ to starve and
die can only be reconciled with
that whited aepulcher, which so of-
ten passes for "Christian chan
ty." A human being with a heart
in him, unless it be of stone, would
feed a hungry dog, to say nothing
of a famishing fellow-being.
Do not tell me as an excuse that
all these men could have work if
they but wanted it That is not
true. On the contrary, it is pal
pably false. In the city of New
York alone, according to the ab-
stract recently issued by the na-
tional bureau of labor, there are
nearly four hundred thousand
workingmen and women in en-
forced idleness and in the coun
try at large there are literally mil-
lions for whom there is no em-
ployment. Here is where to plaee
the blame instead of upon the
helplesg victims, the "unworthy"
poor; and here, too, is where to
apply the remedy.
But [ do not blame even those
who become hoboes and tramps,
rather than spend their lives in
slavish tasks for the benefit of
others, who look down upon them
with scorn as beasts of burden, I
would rather be branded as be-
longing to the " unworthy' poor
than to be insulted by being clas-
sed with the '' worthy' • poor.
The "worthy" poor! Think of
that! It is society's inadvertent
confession of its own crime. It. is
precisely as if we innocent
convicts." and yet made no pre-
tension to setting the innocent
victims free.
Bernard Shaw is right. Poverty
is civilization's greatest crime. —
And this crime cannot be atoned
for by "charity". Rockefeller's
Sundav school will count for no
more than a brothel when the ba-
bies murdered at LuJWi Confront
him in the day of judgment.
Rockefeller's income is a hun-
dred million dollars a year. It is
pure robbery. Not a dollar of it
does he produee. It is all taken
inches, with picture of each speak-
er, your address; name date, and
place, to suit YOUR Encampment
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