The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-06-06


one would propose a Governor-General
for the United States as there is a Gov
ernor-General for Canada We have had
splendid queens in our American capital
but we could hardly be brought to sup
port a 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
part of English possessionsi The
trouble the mother country has to-day
with Ireland would be a paradisaic con-
dition compared with the trouble she
would have with us England and the
United States makes excellent neighbors
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 US 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 go. Any 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 grandfather's 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
population 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 IL
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
/ L. H. A \
satisfaction. When they get that stuff
in them and the blue vitriol 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 1s63-64, 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 despoliation. In 1s49 a
hiss at theater would have resulted
in New York City being demolished had
it not been for the citizen soldiery. Be
| cause OF I'm 1uSu1b WHICH inc 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 Missed and mobbed, the walls of the
city having been placarded with the an
nouncement: ''Shan Americans or En-
glish rule in this city?" Streets were
filed with a crowd insane with passion.
The riot act was read, but il only evoked
. louder yells and heavier yolleys OF
stones, and the whole city was threat
ened with violence and assassination
But the Seventh regiment, under Gen
eral Duryea, marched through Broad
, way, preceded by mounted troops and al
the command: ''Fire, GuardsI Firei'' the
mob scattered, and New York was
saved. What would have become o.
Chicago two or three years ago, wher
, 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 ole
as the Ephesian mob that howle6
for two hours in Paul's time about the
theater, amid the ruins of which stood
: last January. They were witnessed il
1875 in London, when the weavers pa
raded the streets and entered the build
ings to destroy the machinery of those
l who, because OF their new inventions
could underseil the rest. They were
T witnessed in 1881 at the trial of Lore
George Gordon, when there was a relig
ious riot. Again, in 1719 when the rabblt
cried: Down with the Presbyterians
Down with the meeting housesp' There
always have been. and always will be
5 in great communities, a class of people
who can not govern themselves anC
which ordinary means can not govern
? and there are exigencies which nothing
! but the sword can meet Aye. thu
militia are the very last regiments i
, will be safe to disband.
Arbitrament will take the place O
war between Nation and Nation anC
, national armies will disband as conse
I quence, and the time will come-Got
hasten it-when there will be no neeC
OF an American army or navy, or a Rus
sian army or navy. But some time aftel
5 that cities will have to keep their ar
7 mories and arsenals and well drilled
3 militia, because until the millennia
5 day there will be populations with whom
e arbitrament will be as impossible a,
treaty with cavern OF hyenas or jungle
: of snakes The sooner the sword car
, go back to the scabbard to stay there
3 the better, but until the hilt clang.
against the case in that final Judgment
5 let the sword be kept free from rust
sharp all along the edge, and its point
1 like a needle, and the handle polished
not only by the channels of the regi