Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-15

Potter and several prominent army and
navy officers Of the civil war and their
guests In it he prophesied the greatest
war this planet has ever seen.
this" said DR.. Dix, "can have no sym
pathy with people who waste time and
breath in decrying the soldier and mis-
representing the value of his work; with
such as would disband, had they the
power, the armies of the United States
and run our navy on the rocks, there to
break up and go to pieces.
Art of War Necessary.
First let me speak of the art of war;
the ancient honorable, necessary art Of
war Approaching the motives of peace
societies, and giving them credit for the
good which they have done, we warn them,
however not to be oversanguine, nor to be-
come excited in the expectation of imme-
date or even early success. The day Is
not in sight when their ideas can find uni
versal, or anything near to universal, ac-
ceptance. Not one of us will live to see
the entrance into the thousand years Of
peace.
ness are guaranteed by law; the law is
menaced by classes impatient Of authority
and restless under restraint. Take this
great city for instance. We have little or
no fear of seeing foreign fleets in our
waters bent on hostile invasion. nor of
foreign troops landing ON Long Island or
the shores of the bay. but we can and do
presage a danger worse than that.
Modern society Is in ferment today. This
CITY contains-one breads to think how
large-a number who are deluded by visions
never to be realized and seething with pas
sions which no calm voice or sound speech
can allay. This city, thank God. has a
standing army keeping watch on the tur-
bulent and seditious. A police force num-
berng, horse and foot. 5000 men, well dis
cIplined, trained to the manner of control
djonorqtnR RIOTERS. a
tional Guard numbering some $500 infan-
try. cavalry and artillery, and beyond and
below, where the waters Of the bay reflect
the sun, are military reservations, where
the flag of freedom flies above the barracks
and batteries Of the government of the
United States. Dismiss the police, disband
the National Guard and secure noninterfer-
ence by the general government, and what
would happen
Speaks Of Former Riots.
IT know what am talking about, for I
saw with these eyes the Aston place riot
in 1S49, and the draft riots in 1885, and the
Orange riots in 1901, and I venture to
predict as possible that within month we
shall see worse things yet-mobs parading
the streets houses burning, shops looted
and citizens flying for their lives. Such
revolutionary outrage would, OF course,
provoke resistance.
II speak to you as minister OF the COS
pei Of peace, but also as a freeborn citizen
Of the United States. and If the revolu-
tionary schemes with which the world Is
drenched under the cloak Of social reform
are not by some means checked or stayed
we venture the prophecy that there is
ahead a trouble exceeding anything known
thus far on this little planet. 1t is far
cry to the day when liberty can keep her
footing without the defense and protec-
ton of arms and Of men trained to that
profession.
Appeals for Loyalty.
1--WE are in tideway; the flood is hard
to stem. Sanguine theorists. fed chiefly
on viands provided by foreign caterers to
discomfort: romantic and hysterical men
and women, who listen with creduiity to the