The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

short time when once reused to the mean
ing of the movements about them. We
read in history that in May, ITS, George
Washington on his way to congress met
the Rev. Jonathan Boucher in the mid
die of the Potomac. While their boats
paused the clergyman warned his friend
that the path on which he was entering
might lead to separation from England.
"1f you ever hear of my joiningin any
such measure" said Washington, "you
have my leave to put me down for every
thing wicked" AT the beginning of
l776 Thomas Paine published his pam
phlet Common Sense" A copy Of it
reached Washington soon after tidings
that Norfolk had been burned (Jan. y
by Lord Dunmore, as Falmouth (now
Portland) Me-, had been burned in Octo-
ber, 1775, by ships under Admiral
Graves. On Jan. 81 General Washing
ton wrote to Joseph Reed, "A few more
such flaming arguments as were exhib-
tied at Falmouth and Norfolk, added to
the sound doctrine and unanswerable
reasoning contained in the pamphlet
Common Sense will not leave numbers
Rt a loss to decide upon the propriety of
separation"
Mr.. Edward Bellamy, in commenting
on this historic fact, aptly says: There
were many men in the colonies who in
1775 saw far clearer than Washington
did what the outcome would be and de-
clared much earlier for the Revolution,
but when Washington at last came to
see as they saw he led them all. Let us
wait with patience for their accession to
our side, where the logic Of events and
the disclosure Of the scope and threat Of
the plutocratic movement will surely
bring them in the near future"
Will these men know the hour Of their
divine opportunity, or will they be num-
bered with those who have flung them
selves against the stars in their courses
and been destroyed in their folly?
This is the uncertain element in the
present hour.
AS yet they don't comprehend the
movement of the age.
In fact, the powerful classes Of the
present social regime seem bent upon
destroying themselves by q blind adher-
egA;e to traditions.
FIFTEEN MILLION SOLDIERS
We observe this:
First--In the ruling powers OF state
the people have shown that they are al
most ready to revolt against the army
system, and yet every monarch of Eu-
rope is engaged in the desperate under
taking Of increasing the army at all haz-
ards Samuel Laing declares that there
are in the five great military states Of
the old world not less than $1,000. 900
soldiers, drilled and disciplined, and to
o certain extent taken from civil life:
Russia. ".......,............'.... o'UUUUOO
dermanys 0,OVO'OVV
France. O,OOU,UOO
Austria. .........'.....'.'.'....'. S,UOO,UOO
Italy l'OOO'OUO
100000
With this fearful array Of soldiers,
still the ruling powers cry for more, for
larger armies, for larger nayies, for more
massive and costly Notifications, for new
guns and implements Of war, for new
bills of taxation to meet them.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
In England the people have decreed
that Ireland shall have a system of home
rule. The classes assembled in the ira
ditional house of lords bids the people
defiance and invites the destruction in
the coming conflict of all the fictions OF
their very existence. In the face of pop
ular suspicion and discomfort the profes-
sional noliticians everywhere continue