The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-02

have yet to pass through the same
stage of civilization that we are just
emerging from, and they must OF
necessity fight it out. Moreover we
have not yet finished; because we no
sooner reach a point where great ma
tons will not be prone to fight each
other than internal disorders arise"
DO you think that the improve
ments in ordnance really contribute
materially to lessen the prospect Of
WARP"
''WeI, yes, but still You must re
member that the most deadly instru-
ment as far as actual war is con-
cerned was the Roman shor5 two
edged sword. II was then necessary
for the armies to come very close to-
gether in order to ilJure each 1the" at
all. To be defeated meant TO be van
quished. But win modern warfare,
where we are able to ILL n man three
miles away, they Simply keep further
apart, that's all there is about it..
But if by any chance they should get
very near each other there would be
great slaughter. There mas been no
great war since the invention of tie
Maxim gun. Suppose now that the
Frenchmen had Maxim guns when
their country was being invaded by
Germany. We hear that occasiC naily
some brave old Frenchnan would Sc
crete himself in a, clump Of bushes
and kill twenty Germ ms before he
himself could be killed. Suppose that
they had the Maxim guns and smoke
less powder. The gun could have
been concealed in a ditch, house, be-
hind a hedge or boulder or almost
anywhere. and one man would have
been able to pour out such a deadly
fire that he could have completely an
initiated a battery of artillery or a
squadron of cavalry before his po-
sition would have been found out
That is, there would be no smoke,
they would not be able to see him,
and no man has yet been able to take
sight at a sound. Thus a man with a
Maxim gun would be able to kill a
great number, say at 900 or 500 yards
range, without his position being more
than suspected by the enemy, whereas
if the firing was at 1000 of 1900 yards,
they would not even hear the gun"
Where Improved Guns Are Most in
Demand.
1.-The English have used these guns
in Africa, have they not?"
quite extensively. In fact, it IS
due to their great success in that con-
tinent that they are so sought after
men conquered a territory in Africa,
about half the size of France, in a
short time, simply because they had
very much better arms than their
enemies. Their enemies, however
had breech-loading rifles"
do you refer to Lobengula? ?"
''Yes. he had $1,000 rifles, but he did
not have any Maxim gun. Several
African chiefs have tried to get the
Maxim guns, and we have also been
approached by people that want to
take them out to Madagascar. But
we won't sell them to Madagascar.
The French are a great nation and
very good customers of ours and we
are not going to sell any guns if we
can help it to shoot Frenchmen with"
'Have the Cubans ever come to you
for guns or have any Central or South
American people?"
Il suppose as a rule we sell four or
five hundred thousand dollars worth
of various kinds of guns q. year in
South America, sometimes more and
sometimes less"
Flying Machines in War.
what" I asked, would be the
defence against flying machines? sup
posing they were adopted for war pur-
poses"
''Oh, flying machines?" said Mr..
Maxim. 81 saw in a newspaper that
some one was praying that I might
never succeed in making a flying ma
chine, that a flying machine would
abolish the silver streak British
channeD, when Englishmen would
have to take their chances with the
rest of Europeans. They, therefore.
hoped that 1 should never succeed. If
I had replied to this 1 should have
said that the French and Germans
were attempting to make flying ma
chimes, that the defence against lying
machines would only be other flying
machines, and that I, living in Eng
land and being identified with the
English people, would naturally be
making mine not to enable them to
come here, but to keep them from
coming here. Therefore one ought 10
pray in the other direction
you will never be able to build a
flying machine big enough to take a
I3-inch gun"
Flying machines will be used very
mucn as torpedo boats when they
come. They are sure to come in time
because it is possible TO make them.
and what it is possible To make is
sure to come, especially If there is
great demand for it, For instance, if
the United States should go to war
with some great nation and have
long war there would certainly be