The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-29

spected and kept in condition and there should be a thousand rounds of ammunition per gun. The forts at Portland, Boston, New York, New Or leans, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, are indispensable but do not require in peace times more men than can take care of the equipment. Now no invading force would be so simple as to try to land within reach of the guns of any Fort. Now as a Government War measure, the U s. should have made 100 guns, inch cal1bre, 20 mile or more range, these should be mounted on steel railroad cars, designed and equipped so as to pass through all bridges and tunnels. each gun should have steel car with ammunition, these cars should be ap- portioned to the States, say one to each interior State and what might be necessary to each States coast line. In peace times, men enough to take care of these in suitable houses in war times, these guns could be run on short notice, singly or in batteries to any point assailed and used on the cars from ravines or be- hind earth-works. Now to put the complete and perfect finish to this, every township in all the States should have a man School-teacher, with the ability to teach rural or district school of 60 scholars and he should be legalized to receipt for two of these infantry rifles, set up his range of 1,76O yards and each State Government should make a yearly re- ward to any candidate 15 to 20 years old, $50 in gold, who could hit a tar get 12 inches in diameter, 100 con- secutive times. What I have here laid down would make a standing ar my of 20,0O0,000 men, that would SUD- port and take care of itself and nev- CT could be licked.
 Permit me to say that book-knowi- edge never made @ war-man and it never made a teacher Without books, the race would go to oblivion. Life is so short and the scramble for food so fierce. Permit me to swat the mob that have that Panama Ca- nal matter in hand. You can assume treaty or no treaty to fortify that canal, you can howl about the decline of American shipping. The cost of living to those who put three billion into that canal, you utterly ignore, you are ready to sell out to the Rail- roads and dear old England. The damnable dense ignorance of the T.. s. Government is shown when they would restrict any railroad of the U. s. from sailing all the. vessels they can own and buy, carrying the U.. S. flag through that canal.
 Did the Russians vacate Manchuria as they promied they would? They just snubbed you and told you to go to Hell and you let as you thought the insignificant Japs, do what you could not or did not dare do and these same Japs would never invade the U. s., but some day they will smash your Navy more completely than they did Russia's and be perfectly Justified in doing so to enlighten your stupid ignorance. And how did dear old England keep her treaty with the hni tained a gold bearing ledge five miles wide and fifty miles long and hum dred or two hundred feet deep, treaty breaking was in order and it took 450,000 sturdy Britons to take from 55,GoO 5 70 S Boers what t, by sacred treaty old England take the toll off from all shipping carrying the English flag through the Suez Canal? Now I have this to say: The U. $. Govern ment should be impeached, shown up to the people as a body incompetent and disqualified, when vessels under the U. S. flag pay toll to pass through the Panama Canal.
 Permit me to quote some history: The Republican party is the Father of the high cost of living, they gave the Railroads some hundreds of mil Spain with no Caucus Belli, after stealing the Philippines, they gave Spain $2o,00o,000 as an atonenent for their perfidy. Should the Repub- lican party take the duty off sugar, tea, lemons spice, beef, potatoes, wool, hides, lumber and timber, coffee, oranges. l answer for them, most emphatically NO.
 When the Japs licked China they should have been ceded Manchuria When they drove Russia, they should have been ceded Manchuria and held Russia up for a Billion dollars cash indemnity, same as Germany got from France. In consequence of such curs- ed injustice and ignorance, I am ready to furnish the Japs with War Vessel plans that will clean up all war vessels from the Pacific, except their own.
 When Theodore Roosevelt splits the Republican party, he is a Pirate and should be killed with a shot gun. His name put beside it, would disgrace Benedict Arnold.