The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13

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OF this holocaust the women who had
accompanied him in his devastating
march, ordering that the torch be put to
the pile. What power broke that Sword,
and stayed that red scourge of cruelty
that was rolling over Europe? The
sword of Theodore and Actius.
To come down to later ages, all in
| telligent Englishmen unite with all in
telligent Americans in saying that 1t
was the best thing that the American
colonies swung off from the Government
of Great Britain. Itwould be the worst
absurdity of 1000 years If this continent
should have continued in loyalty to a
throne on the other side of the sea. No
one would propose Governor General
for the United States as there is Gov
ernor-General for Canada. We have had
splendid queens in our American capital
but we could hardly be brought to sup
port queen on the other side of the
Atlantic, lovely and good as Victoria is.
The only use we have for Earls and
Lords and Dukes in this country is to
treat them well when they pass through
to their hunting grounds in the far
West or when their fortunes have
failed, reinforce them by matrimonial
alliance. Imagine this Nation yet a
part of English possessions! The
trouble the mother country has to-day
with Ireland would be paraaisaio SON
dition compared with the trouble she
would have with us England and the
United States makes excellent neigh bors
but the two families are too large to
live in the same house. What God
send that we. should have parted, and
parted long ago! But can think of no
other way in which we could have pos
sible achieved American independence.
George the Third, the half crazy King,
would not let us go. Lord North, his
Prime Minister, would not have let us go.
General Lord CORVALLIS would not have
let as go, although after Yorktown he
was glad enough to have US let him go.
Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and Mon
mouth, and Trenton, and Valley Forge,
were proofs positive that they were not
willing to let US amy committee of
Americans going across the ocean to see
what could have been done would have
found no better accommodations than
London tower. The only way it could
have been done was by the sword, your
great grandfatheris sword. Jefferson's
pen could write the Declaration of In
dependence, but only Washington's
sword could have achieved it, and the
other swords bathed in Heaven.
So now the sword has it's uses, al
though it is a sheathed sword. There
is not an armory in Brooklyn. or New
York or Philadelphia, or Chicago, or
Charleston, or New Orleans, or any
American city that could be spared. We
have in all our American cities ruffian
pOpulat on who, though they are small
in number, compared with the good pop
ulation, would again and again make
rough and stormy times if, back of our
mayors and Common Councils and police,
there were not in the armories and
'arsenals some keen steel which if
brought into play would make quick
work with the mobocracy. There are
in every great community unprincipled
men who like row on large scale and
they heat themselves with sour mash
and old rye and other decoctions, en-
riched with blue vitriol, potash, turpen-
tine, sugar of lead, sulphuric acid, log
wood strychnine, night shade and other
precious ingredients, and take down a
whole glass with a resounding ''Ah!" OF
satisfaction. When they get that stuff
in them and the blue v.triol collides
with the potash and the turpentine with
the sulphuric acid the, victims are ready
for any thing but order and decency and
good government. Again and again in
our American cities has the necessity of
Home Guards been demonstrated.
You remember how, when the soldiers
were all away to the war in 1S63-G4, what
confiagrationS were kindled in the
streets of New York, and what negroes
were hung. Some of you remember the
great riots in Philadelphia at fires, some
times kindled just for the opportunity
of uproar and despohation. In 1s49 a
hiss at a theater would have resulted
in New York City being demolished had
it not been for the citizen soldiery. Be-
cause Of an Insult which The American
actor, Edwin Forrest, had received in
England from the friends of Mr.. Ma
cready, the English, actor, when the
latter appeared in New York, in "Mac-
BETH" the distinguished Englishman
was Kissed and mobbed, the walls of the
city having been placarded with the an
''Shall Americans or En-
glish rule in this city," Streets were
filled with crowd insane with passion.
The riot act was read, but it only evoked
louder yells and heavier volleys of
stones, and the whole city was threat
ened with violence and assassination.
But the Seventh regiment under Gem
eral Duryea, marched through Broad
way, preceded by mounted troops and at
the command: Fire, Guards! Firer the
mob scattered, and New York was
saved. What would have become of
Chicago two or three years ago, when |
the police lay dead in the streets, had
not the sharp command of military Off |
GERS been given?
Do not charge such scenes upon Amer |
lean institutions They are as old !
as the Ephesian mob that howled |
for two hours in Pau1's time about the
thester, amid the ruins of which stood |,
last January. They were witnessed IN
1875 in London, when the weavers pa
raded the streets and entered the build |
Ings to destroy the machinery of those |
who, because OF their new inventions, |
could undersell the rest. They were
witnessed in 1871 at the trial of Lord |
George Gordon, when there was a relig-
ions riot. Again, in l719 when the rabble
cried: Down with the Presbyterians! |
Down with the meeting housesr' There |
always hare been. and always viii be,
n great communities, class of people !
who. can not govern themselves and |