Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14

ments are unit to cope with city riots.
| This is often true, but not because young
| men composing these regiments are in-
| competent, either physically, morally
! or intellectually. This arises form per-
| eonal relationship with those who make
the trouble. Sometimes in these riots,
the men in the ranks are constantly
called upon to fire upon fathers'
brothers and members OF their own
households. Ofcourse such state or
thiDgs can always be remedied more or
/ less i'll an emergency by calling Tor us
! tuut regiments, or better still by asking
| the president for regular troops, which
| in our country, recruited as they are
| have never faItered n their duty upon
any field OF action.
| Indeed, IL would be better, es our
cities are growing in population, for the
| purpose CT keeping in check the criminal
c.ess and the terrible anarchists. VINO
would break all law and destroy all
human social organizations. TO Increase
! the regular forces of the United States
and have u reasonable body of men III or
near every lurge concentrated populu-
ton. The very presence OF two or three
companies or batteries Ia perfect con-
tons and strong preventive of difficult
ties. which all good men drp!ore. Such
! ounce of prevention is worth good
many pounds OF cure. in point OF fact,
before riots are suffered to go too far.
All city riots, however circumscrioeh,
beget difficulties which are irreucdinhle,
losses which are irrevocable, broken
hearts which cannot be repaired, ana
lives lost which cannot in this world De
resurrected.
In regard to the second point, to wit:
the assertion that young men chiefly join
regiments for social enioyments. the tas-
cination for camp life, aud tor city par
AIDES.
We answer there Is no harm whatever
in such motive, even il that motive be
the chief one. From inquiry and per-
sonal knowledge, however, the ENJOY
;nent Is not the bottom motive. There Is
patriotic feeling in the hearts Of most
young men; they read the history OF
their fathers with pride, and they wish,
as fur as they can, TO lit themselves to
take their places. Many wish TO be pro-
NOTED TO nn-romnissioned officers, or
officers of different grades. They see in
This present Advancement OF present es-
TEEN and n fitness for useful work III
case of difficulty within or without our
ports. Many believe the eS, rcise Of drill
and discipline hrulthful and invigornt-
ing, not too vinlept like that OF football,
nor too exciting, like that OF buSehnll,
nor too absorbing OF time, like that OF
Douting. 1t appears to them the least
expensive. and at the same time most
useful of any social combinations found
within their reach.
Again, rs 10 the fascination attached
to camp life. TO learn guard
duty, TO be willing to he drilled hours
every day uud to accomplish all that an
army camp demands, n i'll produce weari-
Ness, sometimes depression, but in the
eud develops strength and fortituie, and
fits those subjected To it tor the actual
camp life of a hard campaign.
With reference TO city parudes, l be-
lieve they are never coveted by soldiers.
The arms aud the shoulders often ache
and the limbs become weary. /, is no
iulinR operation, aud there appears even
20 The young men hardly quid pro quo
for the long exposure and the extreme
fatigue. The faciuation is for the look
ers-on, the crowds who cheer them md
the ladies who compliment them. but it
extended city parade. These parades
are endured, because it is part of the OBJ
legation into which the city regiments
enter; il Is duty-often a thankless but u
putriotic duty.
Surely it is u beautiful object lesson
to younger men who behold them, to
see these fine regiments swiDgin. the
glorious old flag and trumping on to the
sound of national Hirs; and many
veteran shed tears as he beholds
the new boys doing the work and makimg
the snow that he did aud made but O few
years before.
Let not foreigners or pess!mists dis
courage us in our work of developing
good strong, patriotic, devoted national
guard. The cities having more facilities
to come together without detrimeut to
business, Will always lead in the race of
national defense.
am asked further question by my
friend, who proposed that should write
in answer to to the foregoing objections.
1t is this: In case of war, who would be
the leader should Geu. Sherman be no
longer eligible?
Gen Sherman ia past seventy-one,
and already upon the retired list of the
army. There was upon him during the
war strain both mental and physical
that was extraordinary, and to which
few men have been subjected, yet, with
his vi2or of intellect a. vet apparently
undimiulshed. aud his strength quite
equal tn an active campaign, he might
be called agair TO the head of the armies
of the United States in cnse Of war with
a nrst-rlnss foreign power.
Next to him would naturally, among
the living generals. come Gen. J. NJ.
Scofield, who is the present commander
n-chief of the army. Gen. Grant loved
him, first, because he so cheerfuliy CO.
operated with Grants own field oper-
atoms. even TO .he stripping himself OF
needed forces. Gen. Sherman trusted
him, because he not only had the heart
to help, but as Sherman always said,
IAN ability never disputed to make
large combinations.
One more question: What are the
real qualifications for military life?
They do not differ from the qualitica-
lions essential to any sort of outdoor
work. We have over 600. 900 meu on
our railroads; they are under the best
possible discipline; never did an army