Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26


States army for the last year and
scatter them broadcast as telling
campaign document. Gen. Schofield
stands aghast at tue condition of the
country, but, unlike some people who
do not wear epaulets, he is ready with
an immediate remedy for it. There
are men who think the nation needs
less tariff or more. the single tax upon
land values, or the collective owner
ship of all means of production and
distribution, free coinage of silver or
the abolition of national banks, but
Gen. Schotield seems to and very
much alone i'll his choice of Il lanacca,
We, the tanners of WassdOrff
scheim." read celebrated memorial
which has passed into proverb, re
specially suggest to the committee on
defense against the approaching enemy
that for building redoubts, coun err
scarps, and bastions there is nothing
like leather.
For assuaging the industrial unrest
which has seized upon the people the
chief soldier OF the nation thinks there
is nothing like more soldiers.
The railroad strike and boycott of
last summer Schoiield calls an insur-
rection, as indee it was, rs railroad
cor orations are recognized rs part OF
the national Government by the up
pointment of Richard Olney as At
torney-G any resistance to rail
road tyranny is rebellion and may yet
be cons rued rs treason. In the course
of his report on this instruction the
major general says:
More than once AN Infatuated mob in "A sin
gle city was twice as formidable in numbers
and capable of dong vastly greater INJURY to
life and property than the most formidable
combination of Indian warriors that ever con
fronted the army in this country. In other
words the army has recently been required To
deal with IN enemy far more numerous and
dangerous To the country than any savage
enemy which il has heretofore been called up
on to meet
The Times does not recall any in
stance of regular soldier having
been injured by this Infatuated mob,
nor even of any case in which shots
were fired at the t.oops by this enemy
more numerous and dangerous than
the savages who slaughtered Custer
and his followers. But doubtless
through the literary skill of major
general pleading for more soldiers the
holiday camp on the lake front will in
time be described as the Thermopoln
of band of heroes making desper-
ate and bloody resistance to the cruel
hosts of murder, raPine and anarchy.
1t is q sadly significant thing that
throughout this plea of the profession
al soldier for more murder machines,
human and mechanical, it is for the
fnf Il Il
alone-that is to say, for the coercion
or killing of American citizens that
he declares them necessary. Here Is
his general statement of the situation
1t is certainly manifest that the present
condition OF the country. with population OF
near 7OOOJ.OjD. under the danger of disorder
now known to exist. cannot be met by the
came fOicc that was deemed adequate twenty
tive years ago When the population OF the
country less than half its present amount
and domestic violence was not apprehended
Why is it that domestic violence is
more to be apprehended to-day than
twenty-five years ago? Are we not
richer? Have we not within that
quarter of a century opened to settle
ment and given over TO productive use
vast extents OF territory exceeding in
natural wealth many pOpulous en-
multiplied facilities for educat ing our
people? Do not the school hous es
and the churches keep pace with the
increase of population? Has not the
output of the printing press SO vastly
increased that the means for mental
culture is at the disposal of every man,
however poor, however far removed
from the great centers of thought and
learning? There can be but one an
swer to all these questions an I'M
qualified affirmative, and yet in the
face of it all the Times will agree with
Gen. Sheffield that there is more dan
ger of domestic violence than there
was twenty-five years ago.
But would it not be better to seek
out AMI eXtirpate the causes which
along with this unparalleled increase
in wealth, in facilities for education,
IN diffusion of useful knowledge, have
bred the discomfort of the people and
that sense of bitter oppression which
now and then breaks out in violent re-
sistance to the law than it would be to
leave those causes operative and over
awe with bayonets and Calling guns
those who voice the protest of the
masses?
Gen Schofeld asks for "two addi-
tional regiments of cavalry to pa rOl
the long lines of railroads under Gov
eminent protection" In what other
country of the world are railroads con-
Quoted under military protection? A
great number of railroads of America
are now under the protection of the
Government" having been bankrupted
by dishonest or incompetent managers
and turned over to the federal courts
TO conduct through receivers. To
many of these roads the people gave
layishly of public lands for subsidies,
to all they have paid at one time or
another exhorbtant freight rates, none
have ever paid their honest share of
the burden Of taxation. The people
are now taxed for the support of the
federal courts which are running these
roads in the interest of their owners.
Shall they be further taxed to provide
regiments of cavalry to patrol the
roads and help enforce the oppressive
edicts OF their dictators? We rather
think not.
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