The record-union., 1895-02-14
not as President. but as Commander in

not as President, but as Commander-in-
Chief of the army.
Frederick Remington, who is a high
authority on military matters and has
seen, as newspaper correspondent
most OF the street riots of the last year,
mas very suggestive paper in the last
HdTpe1'S Weekly, written in the style of
the Battle of Dorking" in which he de-
scrlpes an imaginary strike riot in Chi
cago, which went a step farther than that
OF last summer and exacted application
OF the stern but effective cure whose mere
threat by General Miles suf1iced to rouse
the CIVIL authorities to q sense of their
duty. 1t purports to be written by a
military aid attached to headquarters and
describes as many of the events of one
night of martial law as a single active
participant may be reasonably supposed
to have seen.
The mob had reached a point where
the civil authorities were wholly para
lyZed, the police beaten back at every
point, and the militia either held back by
Pennoyer or too weak to cope with the
situation. The city was wholly at the
mercy OF the mob. which was wholly
under control of the anarchiat element,
and night of riot and arson and plumber
was coming on. The General at head
quarters declared martial law and threw
troops into the city, infantry, cavalry
and field artillery. a proclamation COM
manded all peaceable persons to keep off
the streets, close doors and windows and
remain i'll their houses after o'clock.
The night opened with SIX FINISHING be-
tween outpOStS of troops and the rioters,
sometimes on the streets, sometimes FIR
/ ing from windows of buildings, as in
Brooklyn: eliminated in the clearing of
a depot building. filled with rioters and
defended with dynamite bombs, by a
charge as desperate as any into the
bloody angle Of the Wilderness; and
with a merciless sweeping Of the resi-
dence streets Of brigands who were loot
ing private houses.
1t is only important to recite a few cpl
sodeS, narrated with military eXactness,
to discover what is involved in proceed
ing like this. There was no parleying,
no notice to dispense, none of the familiar
Enjoyment between civil authority and
rioters. Notice had been given by procla-
nation, and every person on the street
was treated as public enemy. Shrapnel
cleared the streets ahead of the troops as
they made their way from point to point,
and survivors were gathered up for the
umheadkcourt- martial in the morning.
Rit1e volleys rake6 every building from
which shot was fired. When a dyua-
mite bomb dropped from the window of
a high building annihilated an advance
guard, the main body coming up rained
bullets IN all the windows, while they
made breach with artillery, filled the ele-
vator shaft with intlammables taken from
nearby drug store, AMI burned building
and Inmates. In the residence district,
looters, taken red-handed, were marched
out with a file Of ritlemen and shot on
the sidewalk. Cavalry ranged the boule-
wards after midnight, with the order mo
prisoners and left the asphalt dotted
with good anarchists. and sharp-shooIing
infantry potted running hooters like hares
IN the gray of dawn. In the morning
prisoners were rounded up before drum
head court shot by hundreds,
corded up on tiatcars and wheeled away
to the suburbs for burial. From sunset
to sunrise the job was done, and order
restored. One night of martial law was
enough for Chicago.
This narrative Of imaginery events,
singularly vivid and scientifically accu-
rate in a military sense, enIorces two in
structive lessons: the Irresistible potency
and straightforward action OF military
force when unleashed from civil tram
mels, and the tremendous effectiveness of
modern weapons, which makes mob of
thousands as chaff before a single COM
pany Of troops. 1t is a mighty illustra-
ton Of the reserve force OF organized So
ciety.-Portland OregOnian.