National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-12-31
MILITARY METEoRoLonY.
shall We Lose Our LIscrtIcs on Account
of Scientific weather.


IL Is possible that many OF our fellow.oitizens
perhaps most OF Them are unaware of the fact that
the American people are in imminent danger of
were intima;ions 10 this effect when a few scat.
tered troops fingered in the Southern States after
reconstruction had been Accomplished and the
Aud there were later on, symptoms Of the over
ihtoW OF our liberties when n Congressman,
hhving, been repulsed at the doors Of the Capitol
~ Washington on Inauguration day by mi.
| litla sentry who did not know him, rushed into
.nH House OF Representatives and denounced the
military tyranny that wRa East usurping the ninc.
uons OF civil government But these were remote
nnd nlmost9hn0tced incidents aud the main body
OF tPo people took no alarm from the significant
events. They went mcrflly on with their BUSINESS
Buying aud selling, marrying and giving in mar.
tri,age Just as though the Republic were not trem-
ping on the verge oityranny worse than any which
nourlshed IN Rome under the Tarquins
DANIEL WEBSTER fs SAID
to have remarked to the citizens of Rochester that
no people ever lost their liberties who had fall of
water 100 feet high IL may be the proud boast of
our later American people that VIC cannot lose our
Iloerucs 50 long as we conilde the management of
our national weather to civilian observers II
cannot have escaped the notice of our intelligent
readers that the So called Weather Bureau Is nor.
Ton OF the military establishment Of the country.
Ihht military dcspot, General sherman, has
lately called attention to this fact in his grmbing
protest against the army being any longer bothered
with the responsibility of tho bureau. General
sherman, with that grasping for power which ever
distinguishes the incpient military tyrant rudely
debates that he would be glad u somebody would
ment aud carry II odaud seti up In another place
Perhaps this arbitrary foe 70 civil liberty would adj
wise me sale OF the bureau TO secondhand furn-
ture dealer.
NEVERTHELESS, THE COUNTRY Is IN DANGER
of having It's liberties subverted by the military
rule that now governs the meteorological Ob3erva-
lions OF this Republic. This alarming fact Is set
forth IN pamphlet addressed to those who view
with alarm the stealthy and insidious encroach.
mrnt upon the prerogayes of The civilian by the
military aristocraoy that Is becoming so dominant
In the United States" The author of this doCu-
ment informs the friends sof "ciyil weather
81 that IL is high time for them
nrgy" and learn how rapidly they are
becoming the mere tools and slaves OF military
usurpers aud dictators IL must be apparent 20
any rejecting aud thoughtful patriot las tho mi.
oui'e would say) that no country can long be safe
when fair weather, northwest yeering to north.
pressure for the South Atlantic States arc pro.
Viued by one or moro OF the myrmldons of mill.
tary power. Ia II not true as The author of the
pamphlet before us cio1ucntly obseryes that
calm endurance TO additional wrongs becomes
crime" whena D
CRUSHED NATION Is COMPELLED
to take from an orderly sergeant It's daily supply
of increased pressure in the West Gulf States and
us warmer, lair weather, nothcrly winds, shit
lug TO sontherly,. rising, followed by falling ba.
how rapidly civil rights may be subvcried when
atmospheric electricity, nnCmometry, Actmomc-
Try, ana hygromelric observations are under the
control OF military dcspoisml What chance,
we may well ask. has popular liberty when the
management of the weather supplies from the
we'll known mandatory In Manitoba are wholly
~ the hands ola force composed of $50 scrgeants,
hlfty corpOrals, and 800 prvates?
WE HAVE SAID ENOUGH 70 INDICATE
the meaning OF the danger-signnls now hung out
by these friends OF u civil weather bureau. II is
wei thnt we are warned In time. IL is not "the
man on horseback" whom we should dread but
t,e officers and enlisted men of the Weather
Bureau. We must have no more "indlcutions"
or probabilities" from the military dcspotism
that now thTealens the liberty Of the country. To
he sure the Weather Bureau originated in the War
Department, ana Its growth hus been partly due
10 Inc ambition OF the cpnuletcd arlstocIats who
now control the mVleOrUlngy of the continent
But THIS Is no reason why the bureau sh Juld
not DC taken away irom nm on.handed dcspot-
Ism that has provided us with September weather
~ the Christmas holidays, and that sent Eastern
New York drought IN October last, while the
upper lake region was inundated with rain. Are
we drihtng toward state of McxiCanzpd chnos
that we should permit The letters to be riyetcd to
our limbs while Il brutal snldiory "pcrperlate the
hybrid fraud that the Weather Bureau under mill.
tary control" is the palladium of our liberties?
Let us. rather crush In the bud this new con.
spiracy to enslave Nation while pretending to
furnish really scientific weather Let us have
civilian meteorology or none.