The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 7, 1911 Page: 3 of 4
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jJ^.jAdvises Texas
m Our Irish kfckffeend, Thomas
Ar Hickey, can't gfrf rid of that
^ttprenw ti uaUty^fronr Missouri
.®*' mtke—kicking. ^Wherever he may
— tin? go, i'tHj will, surety hear from
meet hinL.A&jila friend of his, speak*
ve P. JP. Hill in de- fog 0f Tom VJneXhauatible source
n and night, % , I ofrcsistance, rhade this remarka-
13J^, ,Naw J feiy remarkable remark: ' :/*. ■
Curne haaj, ,4L fear very juimSIv. that Tom
Hickey will yet cause trouble to
the administration in Paradise or
to the government of Inferno
/At present' "-Tom is raising
■m clouds of dust on the prair
_ ofl^axas, and if he will not
auspices naped by agents of some Te*4a
bureau, landlords and land <# an out-of-
gin a tour of the way island in the Gulf of
1 Mexico.
, of Taylor, Now he wants to organize a
in central I Renters Union.' Such a conspir-
acy! High treason to the beat in
terests of the Texas landlords !
The Port Worth Socialist gives
Tom'a plan in a nutshell, as fol-
lows ;-ir"- r--t' v-:'i
. some taH 4ampaign-
itral Texas, L^;'-
G. Martin is school
campaigning in Delta and
* .ties*'''-.}..., >i ■ ..fa ; f
he reason
Oklahoma
ap^are:'
raaint*
e'et.
tions in Texas showing a steady i
view. Hence the blindest eould reach
mething radically wrong with the 1
.! Texasln relation to land holding. ,
ow Mr. Doblfcy rs advice and ttgit a la?
Pahft of AuStia a number of qui
nerVa^t moiaum that might
plev who are ai'pMaent. gaang;with
'IMi^ that have been;
... ia 'li^Uairtui. Judj'
ardent Socialist and who, when court,
ed the fiwt successful anti trust east":
man I wrote to on the subject.
ment and while promising to go intt
gives os a pointer that shows what may
organise: Heshys:
My, Dear Hickey t
Under our present eonsti
taxing land held for speculative
ed by the courts, but X
Rockdale, i is
to* raid Hood county
Dem. strongholds.
~ Marshall, occa-
woods in east
.
"Comrade Thos.
A. Hickey,
chief rebel of Texas, sugi
short time ago in The Rebel that
do*^ of others who regularly of
occasionally preach thfe gospel
of lfc©; third.- revolution. Not
to theution the equally noble ar*
my pf a thouaand or more "
the landlords, and now the rebel-
lion is on, and the good Lord only
knows where>t>when it will stop.
ir'ting a prai
,of 4rouJh is dan-
papers tnat circulate m xms maw;, i wnat ljc this Uttle itobdle
Take it froni us straight com- winks hatched in the jmbelliotiifr
rade*,- Texas is on the brink of kraih of a Socialist should thrive,
revolt. Every one of you line up grow, spread out all over this big
for the fray. [ fat republic and set the thinking
■ *jm~ Hit First Mate,'' machine of ill renters to thinking
I [ about the land question, and why
a set of %ords on parchment
"This thing
Dringtown, Bell county;
Rev. 0. G. Hamilton had his first
opportunity on the night of Sep- Uould give to one man the pow-
tember 30 to defend* Socialism in er to starve another, **d~well,
debate.' Rev. Arthur Young was what do you think would happen
vl^neat an* from all ac I to the landlord's gristmill before
,t worthy gentleman [the ; Undless,. self-diWnherited
"MjssyfSftSsS*. v&k
should organize a Renters Union
fof self-protection."
Good luck, Tom! But be on
your guard! We should not like
to see,an old friend and comrade
ablest Christian ministers in the
State,' received the surprise of his
One instance of what
did for him was when
pulled a letter on him
t that he had only a
fore the debate ad-
it' he w^s not well post-
t p
'■A
m.
YMWhin
V
Snce remarks
|p a lawyer."
"lers advice and this is
■was aroused in Texas and
iters Union it was soon
§ bonus By stem and the
fwas involved in the pro- ,
Jt on agricultural condi- ,
(in tenantry confirmed this
Miclusion that there was
lent a 1 laws of tho, State
[ The Rebel decided to fol- >
m 1 wrote Judjfe Henry
ing in a tentative man-
ted by on awakened peo-
sguisi'd contempt on the
ding down the boards in
i«lk who by tne way is an
aey at Austin, prosecut-
tas was the first gentle-
* was very busy at the mo-
^subject at length later on
done by the renters when
i§ law may be enacted
>ses, but this could
think sush a law
wad women and children have not 0111 carries a ,column devoted to
unconstitutiomuu w
alone will never give title.
Our AHm Land Laws are not tery much. . So many
provisions aiMhexeeptions to it. Nn alien can hold land in
Texas, but this nu se many wi
following that the liw^is inefft
With my. kindest regards, I si
From the above it can be seen
that a law can be passed, taxing land
That snd^ % law :wou!4 be of
bo readily understood. 'As. I w,rite I hi
turfe sent out by th© Texas Comm
in the past week. These fcfe the gent
ed the''criminal secretaries.'"There
fa thiif fttatctoent of theirs, at least
u "Our broad ,virgin prairies—
never known the carresting toucl
The above, be it remembered is
evasion in the Arts.
source in Texas, they are
> . ■; i: - *? 'HT'Cir-t*
islative rest.'
truly,
Henry Faulk,
learned comrade believes
for Hj>eculative purposes.
tfue to the renters can
on my desk some liters-
etaries Aflwociation with-
GovertoinCJampbell call^
%e something^riminal"
Hsw^W^'- -
5,000 acres in extent have
idry,"
>m the^ moBt conservative
|^7e crying "peace and leg*
OdRKXSFOKDXKOX.
astern
HOME,
Home, sweet home, but alas so
few have any home of their own.
Thus life is robbed of its Sweetest
aud most cherished ideal and in
the voice of Him manv can join
and/say that: "The "birds have
iests, foxes have holes, but men
sate
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m
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sas
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m-
IRK
If brains were dynamite the av-
erage democrat could not blow
the hind leg off a cockroach.
,.. ,• •• n<\ ' . -■ ■ --iJi '
The Houston Laborious Jour-
news items among the printers of
that city. The writer of this col-
umn is a profound student of eco-
nomics, as is shown in the fol-
lowing paragraph: "Work is
somewhat slack now, but on the
newspapers this fall the workers -
Will be FULLY REIMBURSED
for the tknei they are losing now."
Fully reimbursed, do you notice.
Well, thst is the best news we
have heard in all our, lives. For
what can he mean but that the
Socialist Republic will be ushered
in and will be in full working or-
wherc to lay their heads."
The lowing of cows and bleat-
ing of calves is more sacred in
Texas than the tears of women
and the cries of children. ?
n —Farmer Jones.
WAHTS UNION BAD.
Pontotoy, Tex., Sept. 25,
T. A Hickey, Editor of The Rebel.
Dear Comrade i 1 write you to
let you know how some of the
renters are treated in .this part of
the country. I live in a land of
plenty and where there are gqod
people, and where they treat tho
renters right apd where we have
equal rights to 'all and special.
privileges to none. If a man don't democratic and republican poli
care what he says. Now pick ticians and labor lieutenants is
your ears with a fence rail, get past so far as the working class is
a long breath and get some water concerned. The workers are be-
close by to eool your head, for I ginning to find out their true po-
expect it will get hot when you action on the economic field and
read what I have had to do this [to know why they work faithfully
year to get shelter for my wife [all their lives and have nothing
and six little children. nor can save nothing. They know
Now listen: I have had to pay they are being robbed of four-
house rent,. $2-00 a month, buy fifths of all the wealth they pro-
wood $1.50 a cord, keep my team diiee; they know they shttild have
in the lot or pay $1.00 k month I all th,ese things in abunottfte and
puturage for them, work land
and give third and fourth and
promise to work for $1.00 a day
every idle day I had to spare out
of the crop. The wor^t of all
I
,f
"■'•I
der next fall t
• • «
The time for cajolery, intimi-
dation and threats on the part ef
-i
■!#
would have were not • call-
ed upou to support capitalism
that compells them to be
robbed of the fruits of their la-
bor. They know now that they
NoW let ns figure on tWs mattetfdfer a moment. Sid© by side
with the above statement I have, two otfcer statements one is* also
from the" criminal" secretaries and it-informs us that .the railroads
of Texas has had some 36,000,000 acre? given them by the Texas log-
islature. We may for the present pasa that up arid inquire into the
ent that reveals the number of tenants In Texas. This
docxtmefitssthe Bulletin of Texas Agricultural products supplied on
request by the oensus department, Waa||ngton, D. In that docu-
ment I find than ace 219^ tenants afttl the "criminal" gentlemen
show 130,000,000 virgin acres. Let us divide up and see what results
we get:' ■ " . >
219) 130,000,00^(622. ^ v J t
From this we see that therfr-isiow held out of cultivation
enough land in Texas to give every ten*$sM22 acres or 18 acres short
of a full section. Ia it any woder we have coqmetition for places t
is it any wonder we have bonua systems and a third of cotton de-
ediisit any wonder that tenantry is increasing and land is go-
raandi
ing otrt of sight in price f Talk about holding your cottonihese 1
speculators are holding your land, fa it afiy winder that homes
in battle **JtcNamarized''' or
Shoafed " out of busing. Queer
ksd "studied this question
twenty years." • From all ac-
counts Rev. Young is not a 4>ad
irftWn by any means-—only a lit-
tle twisted. We hope and believe
that he will com© straight som*
bone that wOl aall me yonder.
I realize beforflh thia fight, ends
there will be over JLOO^ C.OO acres
placed 'n r-ultivatior. ii'iid 400,00J
happy femes' builde^ tb-reran-'
inhabited by strong brave 'men,
handsome viiftfaoua wometi and
mm ** m
cdw* ] ~;
voices ^
Notes.
2«S? aa Smm mm I *£*
"now there are many
r
• , Um I time to th';nk of danger and if JI
m4bo lonp>r * L,„„W corat there at. hundre,!^
Welch of Whitney, « renter, not ^ ^ ^
0 nmverwty grodnote hy ^ must go on regardleM of how
means but a . • .-.[many soldiers may drop by the
locfcl in_tbe county. The member-
having scattered, the local
died, but he continues as member-
st-laige and, later, as scoutln the
latter capacity he has lately
"turned eight vdters.'' It ia the
quiet worker that countaf&r more
y than "leaders," "high-brows"
• wd the Hke. v
John W. Connor, county, sec-
retary of Harris, is attill on the
THE DIFFERENCE.
■" .. jl ?.
W. 8. Noble went to tho stew-
| ard of the M. jB. church in Ran-
to secure the hotise for G. G.
_ " id^
steward. ' 'He is now a Socialist
land
-are
broken and the black pall of illMieracy is hanging over us. Is it aiiij^
bonder, that the future is as blaek as moonless night t
To make matters wprse these land sharks, knowing that the im-
migration Texas ward is bound to increase and the natural uicrease
of population will cause the demand for land to continually risethey
have adtually slopped cultivation on millions ef acres so that in the
decade from 1900 to 1910 there has been an /.actual reduction in
farm area.- The figures from the census are: >
Texas laud in cultivation in 1900—
125,807,000 acres, In 1910 109,226,000. A loss in farm area of
16,581,00 acres in face of a continuously increasing population.
"Now, Rebels, you understand what a tremendous argument yen
have in these facts. Figures, don't li'.* l>'d lim will figure, so tell
your friends tliat these figures are from th© other side, the commer-
cial secretaries of Texas and the census department of the U. S.
government.
Then we would suggest as a remedy that you look i« another
column for instruction for organizing a Renters Union. Organize
loc;.i, send delt^gates to Waco. Thort will be reduced fares ir
all railroads Sleet.roe face to face in Waco on October 31. I want
to lool; you straight in the eye and tell you some things about this
land speculation and landlordism. :And the aiun and substarce of it
will be the ways and means to adopt Judge Faulks advice to tax
land hold ftir speculative purpows. You can by thorough organiza-
tion put through a a law inaidc two years thajt will throw over 100,-
060,000 million apres on the market, break the price and thus nil
Texas ^with- happy home! from the Red riverf to the gulf and from
El Paso to Tcxarkana. .
Get in tbe fight >
{The above letter is the first of a series of fetters from well
known and reputable lawyers qn different phases of the land ques-
tion. They will come from the highest mmds in Texas and will be
of great value to our readers. Jndge Greer j f Robert Lee, Coke
will have something to lay next week, , <
Judge Davenport of Midland, Simpson of Dallas ,and the
Hogai
i,'-.
Hamilton. "Delighted," said the
steward. "He ia now a Socialist
iS^e' w^Sed TioSi^t and his
tkmrcnor rr>< pntlv and is also lav- ism, said Noble. Oh, nothing
ST 1200 Mki"
Swavs shop workers that are ou Christian church andsweet peace
strike in Houston, with-the prop- hovered over the scene.
IpX
er message. ,
VA- E. Pellerin, seoreUry Dew
rill© by County
an dothefs.: . J,
striking railway workers there. [ Kev. Chas J. Burchfield is do
IVotiiing- like, ringing in speakers ing good work to l «t Tswis.
slid, literature at the right time. Spoke to a- crowded house at Po-
thirty { Angelina, Folk and Trinity ®oma
■ \ J?
Secretary
of the county
Spring by
jMt oae f 1 finally soeuTed the ueyiwary sipi-
nu
use
Andrews
m
fm * ■<*¥$
Wi'rf'-
iiB
• -•
there is no hotf law here, but 11 must organize on the industrial
hsd to promise to keep my pigs" field; that their interests are iden-
in, the pen. Now what think ye? j tical—the interests of all those
Liste^ Here is what I think, if who toil are identical—not the in-
every mauin the Lone Star State terests of capital and labor. There
was of the Sam6 mind as I aiu, one is about as much interest between
of these days, blood of 1776 capital and labor as there is be-
would run in myXveins and I tween two clogs fighting over the
would .have a place vfoy ray wife | same bone.
and babies to stay and k would
be_free, - ' T«. N^. I Before the Missouri State Press
i$S homf throu^ Association William Marion
JJe.^e°JerB. 80 boys oome Heedy said-that the average uews-
to the front throw up your MPs f , go botmd up in Mrv.
and yelUoud and long for the ^ and the intereita of
Sr^ ^rthlvw^nT T | capitalism that, it was compelled
told me that they would k— the t fl ht th interests of the people
renters if they didn't do ss they1 " ^ . r. r__
isay, l>ut I think they would get
out of that notion when they see
the wool is going to fly. So boys,
.k
ests of
at large in order to iiiaiMain itself
He. said the average newspaper-
man was a Socialist because, h©
j . - _ - - > saw all th© rottenness, going on
organise and come together and yhind tkf 8ceQea and knew that
wheu we get together
glther like a string of fish; be ajfajngt capitalism is the truth,
lipked together like the Imkg^of j |^e forwaW the time when iff or-
~ Ibg. chain, stick to one \nother d for public opinion to save it-
rouRh thick and thin, and if we I gel( it ^uld have t0 renott to the
distribution of pamphlets.
wake up. You have been peep-
ing on the highway of Socialism
all these years. Look at the Rebel
i4
through thick and thin, and if we
will do that it wont be long till the
proud eagle can look down on a
free country and a prosperous
Peop1®-' . ., v, n„ ™ .
So hoping ^ meet yon at WiteoJ 8Qd the Appeal. They arc more
October 31, if the Lord s willing. (than paraphlet« and there are
other Rebels and-Appeals being
started all the time. The Social-
ist press will, steadily grow and
will educate the masses
. • • '*
Yours for a free country.
Jtm Windham.
A RENTER'S LETTER.
Some deluded Socialist np
north possesses the absurd notion
that the farming life is the ideal
one under this system and that
the land workers are conserva-
Speaking of the railway conflict
now raging the HoustO Postjtiys:
"Without attempting to discuss
the character of the demands put
tive ignoramuses who own. their I forth by the men or to review the
land and can never be approach- attitude assumed by the officials
ed by Socialists. The following of the railway, it is only sought
letters may abuse theirs minds. It here to show the growth of the
is typicsl of hundreds thst" coin© realization by all classes of busi-
to my desk: .. ness men that they are linked in-
Oakwood, Texas, Sept. 12,19Xl separably. That what is good for
Mr. T. A. Hickey, •:,, •- I the laboring man is good for the
Dear Comrade: I see that yon capitalist and that which aids th©
want the renters to organize, The | Capitalist in the end must aid the
Other eminent law-
yers Jite Judge wavenpori oi nuoisuu, ^impuu of Dallas ,and the
Erudite Judge Daniel Hogan of Huntington, Ark., and Judge Nagle,
of Oklahoma will be invited tojsontribute to The Rebel on this sub-
ject of law and land-l - ^
PUNCTURE-GRAPHS.
■Ifr,
hVh=|l;--
■■ .
• •
- would make me an infidel and to
[ manufacture things for use would
By Nat L. Hardy. , .end m all to hell-nit.
Many a Texas venter has to i . ^
nay for the privilege t© divide up: j What has Joe Bailey or Con©
• • • J Johnson or ahy of that crowd ever
The thouwmda of
«h.efa in Tei« Owt onld Hfejajif*
be a fit habitation for a respects- jbackT
ble dog are good enough Cor the
man that owns them as long as ^
it is the other fellow that hps;lo Whe*
liw ttao# . t
It nta^M no (iifferenoa
capitalists whet*# you
white turn- or a blaek mmpr
Catholic or a^ piwtestsa^ a prohi-. .
hhionkt, mtofm-mfr How
P~« f*. • J° W., .(tw
i iXAXIA<«-w.KI'«,xiW\vpyusu,oijja- -JfFfogu■
the
democrats an isstte
f wanted
TTfo teethe people from realizing
© nH, am nrnnf rtM* AVI A MnfnMll ((■>(
and captured that
prohibition.
' m-
Te tfr* sh
comrades are speaking of sending | man whom he einployes."
ainly the Post will not at-
land lords here have gotten hard [tempt to discuss the character of
on us. They sre going to have the demands. To do so would be
us haul their rent cotton to mar- fatal to its position, provided it
ket. I have got to do that next eould discuss these demands in-
year, free of charge. Wei have got l telligently. The business men re-
to work so mneh ground slize they are linked inseparably,
and pay rent on it the first year I They do, eh t yon poor, misera-
and if we refuse to do that they
won't rent to us. The negro is
ruining our country here. They
tell us if we dou' t do like they
say that they will rent to negroes.
I live six miles from market and
.ye got to haulJhe bosses' eot-
to market, free of
year. Times are hard
tired tonight that I can't hardly
write, so excuse bad handwriting.
I WiU write again if I lire, be-
cause I feve you for yonr great
yettlare miking for ua.
Stave* may God fckm yon, ii my
ton to market, free of charge next
I here. ' I
don't know what we will dn. No
corn was made here and very lit-
tle cotton; I do.believe that we
will have to rise up in ' arms
The union may do good, I don't
know, but'I believe that the land
lords will get negroes to work
the land and tell us to go to W.
for what they earn. Well, I am ao jilted by the increased activity of
ble literary panderer, and well-
you know it. That which is good
for the capitalist is not good for
the laboring man in the sense
meant by the Post. It is a ghaatly
lie, false, false as hell. Whst aids
the capitalist in the end will be
the utter destruction of any sem-
blance of organization among the
workers. And yet this vicious,
painted old harridan of journal-
ism saya plainly to th© business
men to unite, consolidate against
labor and advises labor to disinte-
grate, to stand idly, resistless and
permit this industrial rape. How
is it possible for a dog to be bene-
I
I
the flea! en him? When capital-
ists must get their all from labor,
snything that will benefit eap-
ialism will be death to labor.
Yon may prone and euhivale a
tree, and sense it to produce snare
fruit, fcuV th*; very set ,
ties tea the germ ef *
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