The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-03-23

! weapons. Next comes the sword
things used for weapons 4 good
way to study the meaning and des-
| trnction Eof war now would be to
! study the equipment for butchery.
Take the rifle. There is type of
| the modern rifle which can be fired
! twenty-five times a minute, and will
fire bullet five miles. Five miles
Twenty-Five times minute! The
latest modern rife will drive bull
let through sixty pine boards one
inch thick.
man in the second and third
rank in the Civil War felt compar-
atively safe. the bullets would get
the first. but would not hurt the sec
ond, one man would stop it. They
don't do that, now ah, no. A mod
ern rifle would drive a bullet through
the carcass of three horses at two
hundred and eleven yards, and
through one horse fifteen hundred
yards away.
You know in the Civil War they
used the musket that If they wanted
to shoot 4 mile away, the bullet went
over up in the air and came down,
but the modern rifles will drive Il
bullet straight ACROSS @the field. And
they have a scheme now they use fo.'
otficers.--a special sight and b.. the
scientific estimate OF the explosive
they know just how much to range
to hit 4 man. The boys in the blue
and gray used to fire, and then watch
where the bullets were hitting. ana
in that way get the range. VITA the
scientific range they can fairly get
the range in two utes.-they
can draw a man right UP to thcla,
draw the trigger.-'pump'- it
is all off. They can pick man ol't
4 mile away and kill him with :"
rifle. l have seen men in MINES
sofa who killed the moose with a
modern rife four or five miles away.
There is rifle which can shoot
two hundred times a minute. l
could take that kind of 4 rifle and
! kill YOU all in a minute.
But hcll's masterpiece is the CnL-
ling gun-thc devils superintendent
| is the gatling gun. The satling gun
can fire eight hundred times a min
| ute Then by an electrical attach
ment it can be fired three tn hOusand
| times n minute. You could put a
battery of gatlirg guns on a hillside
| in the BRUSH with the electrical 81
Lachment. and then march ten tho;.s-
| and men down the valley where they
were and those guns turned loose
iwould destroy them all. ana they
wont know whore the enemy is. Just
| guess by the dread breath of the
lead coming from the hillside. !
don't blame the bankers for not go
ling to the war. ! don't blame the
leading citizens they are too sha'p.
What is the use? There are lot
! of working people who are willing to
go. and just let them go. Cap
plaus.)
When they began to talk to you
about gun. ask them about tn:
gun they exhibited at The world 5
fair in St. Louis a gun with barrel
sixty feet long. They nave il gun
lnow that will fire n ton of steel twGn-
ty miles 1t will go throu=l, any
( thing. Iaughter)-
| stood around that gun, and sa"
n mother bring her little boy to ad'
miro .he gan. l could sec the itt'
)+ia i,oy's pride as Il" wi&A.d he VIZ
z nan to use tat gan. L. WAS o''
:rerc to catch that bo:: g eye, SO n
", uld want 70 nse i w-''an Il ss''t !.
man. To work "a the boys inaSina
Ition That hypnotiZed the poES
This masterpiece of he'll that hit'
been baptized for christian war!
But the best way to study moa"ti
armies is to see how Dig the mrs
has become. to see how Dig TINS iloi
Jaw is.--the best way IL seems 10 III
would be to make study OF TN
modern machines in operation
Remem Der. the big officers IN tn
army stay away back mile ana
half away. They look through tn
, te1oscoDe,-men come back rldln:
horses. and then back 10 the front
| thev stay away back out OF rahs'
e The little officers go up to thc ilo'i
!, and wave their pieces OF steel Hke