Telegram-herald., 1890-06-02


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gSrough - S-r-r hgnglzs, gro-2&s H. tAs
far wess. or. "As1 IAelT fortanss have
i-l.e3 re-entolps tssu - wealthy Iastrl-
Iaonisl alliance. IIaa-Eine tsis nation
va part q EAslsh POSSESSIONS
Ths trouble ths mother country LIS
t9dzy With Ireland would Re
par4&isa-c ooncttloa compared with the
trouble she woalc have VIII Is El.. land
and the Cnitsd States make excellent
ueixhbors. but the Two families are too
lzrge 70 I've n tae same h0ase. What a
godsea9 that Ne should have parted. and
parted logg ago but / can thiok ~ po
other way IA which we could have possibly
achieved American Independents Georgs
III. gbe halt crazy kiAg, would DO, have let
as 20 Lord North, his prime minister,
would not have lei Is g Gen. Lord Corn
wallis would not have let - 70, although
sf,er Yorktown be was glad enough %
have rs le, him go. Lexington. ana Ban
ksr Hll, and Monmouth. aud Trenton, and
Valley Forge were proofs positive that
they were not willing q let Us SO. Any
committee of Americans going across the
ocean 10 SIS what could have been done
would have fouaa no better GccomInoda-
tions than London Tower The only way
IL could have been done was by the sword
your great-grandfathor's sword Jetfer-
sons pen could write the Declaration q
Independence, but only Wsshingtons
sword could have achieved *, and the other
swords bathed II heaven
IT Is A sHRATHSD swoRp.
So now the sword has its uses, although
il Is a sheathed sword. There IS not al
armory IN Brooklyn, or New York, or
Philadelphia, OF Chicago. or Charleston, or
New Orleans, or any American city. that
could De spared We have in all our Ameri
can cities a ru1lan population. who
though they are small in number, com
pared with the good population, would
again and again make rough aud stormy
times II, back Of our mayors aud common
councils and police, there were not Ia tie
arnnories and arsenals some Keen steel
which, il brought into play, would make
quick work with nobocrscy. There are in
every great community unprincipled men,
who like q row on a large scale, and they
heat themselves with sour mash and Old
rye and other decoctions, enriched with
blue vitriol. potash, turpeptine, sugar OF
Iced, sulphuric acid, logwood, strycLnine.
night shade and other precious ingredients,
and take down a whole glass with re-
sounding "Ahw Of satisfaction. When
they get that stuff in them and the blue
vitriol collides with the potash, and the
turpentine with the sulphuric acid, the vic
Tins are ready for anything but order and
decency and good government. Again and
again, in our American cities, has the ne
cessity Of home guards been demonstrated.
You remember how, when the soldiers
were all away TO the war il 1861. what
coni29rations were kindled in the streets
OF New York, and what negroes were hung.
Some Of you remember the great riots IN
Philadelphia &C fires sometimes Endled
just for the opportunity Of urroar and de-
spoliation In 1919 q hiss al theatre would
have resulted IL New York city being de-
molshed had Il not been for tho citizen
soldicry. Because Of an insult which tie
American actor, Edwin Forrest, had re-
ceived in England from tne friends Of Mr..
Macready, the English actor, when the lat
ter appeared in New York, in Macbeth, the
distinguished EnGlishmen was hissed and
mobbed. the walls OF the city having been
placarded with the announcement: "Shall
Americans or English rule in this cityi'
Streets were filed with n crowd insane
with passion. The riot act was read, but
1t only evoked louder yells and heavier vol
leys of stones and the whole city was
threatened with violence and asssSsinG-
ton.
But the Seventh regiment, under Gen.
Duryea, marched through Broadway. pre-
ceded by mounted troops, and az the com
mand: "Firel Guards Fire. the mob scat
tered. and New York was saved What
would have become OF Chicago, two OF
three years ago. whsn the police lay daa1
IN the streets, had not the sharp command
OF military officers been given' Do not
charge such scenes upon American institu-
tons They are as old as the Ephcsian mob
that bowled for two hours in Paul's time
about the theatre, amid the ruins Of which
stood last January. They were witnessed
in 1915 In London, when the we2vcTs pa
raded the streets and entered buildings 10
destroy the machinery Of those who, be
cause Of their new inventions. could under
sell the rest. They were witnessed IN l7sl
at sbe trial OF Lord George Gordon, when
there was 4 religious riot. Arain, IN 1919,
when the rahble cried. Down with tho
Presbyterians' Down with the meeting
! houses There always have been. and a.
ways viii b,, IN great communities, a class
of people that cennot govern themselves
and which ordinary means cannot govern.
aud there are e1igencies which nothing but
the swsrd can meet Aye tho militia arc
the very last regiments that Il VII be safe
to disband.
ARBTTEANEET VII TAFr ITS TLACE.
Arbitrar1ept will take the place of war
between nation and nation. and national
armies wiz disbaud ss a coase4 neDce. and
the tine will Come--Crod hasten iti-when n
there will be no need of AZ American arm y
or navy. or Russian army or navy. But
some tine after tAst cIties viii have 20 keep
their armories. and srscnals. end vel
drilled militia, because autil tie u1iilennial
day there vill Re populations with whom
arbitTamcnt VII be as impossible - treaty
with q cavern of hycnas OF a jungs II
snakes These men who rob stores ard
give gsrrofer's hug, aod pyowl about the
whsrves ~ midnight, ard rattle the dice IN
earblias hsUs. and 70 armed with pistol
1T dirk, vii refrain from disturbance Il
tbo public peace just IN proportion "a they
reaf1e thar the militia q a city instead 4
icing an "A award squsd. aad IN asnger -
,hooting each other b. mistake, or losing
tAsir ON life ~ looking down into tie
gut barrel - So II f. is los1es, or getting
thersmrod fsst u their bot lcE. sre prompt
A. fbe sunTse. kssn ~ ths no-Th vind, Pc
fsut - a thur ieTbolt. and sccurate. And