The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-06


 The inhabitants of conquered terri torys answered the council, AaeO c1tt zens of 10 country They are under the jurisdictaon of the occupying army. But they arc not even entitled to the privileges of citizens of the country which controas that arrny's
 But mere conquest does not entitAe you to treat them as rebels, 9 urged the couznittee. They are within their rights to preserve their allegiance so long as they do not violate the rules of war by opposing you with arms
 One of the officers smiled. He open ed book ttOnce more must respect fully refer you to your own court de c1s1ons. he said, and read from a Unit cd States supreme court verdict, F Conquest is a valid title while the victor maintains exclusive territory of the conquered country.
 here s nothing that we can do, 2 3he comm tttBB ported to the people. It wAe the refrain that sounded In all The United States just then To the wild projects for desperate defense that were being preached every day In. The eIty of New York to the menzied demands that the volunteers in the western camps be rushed into the field, b0 afke curses directed at the American army because 1t refused to fight, the same answer f0r1nu1 ated itsesf because there was no other. Always from all quarters, to all demands and iupreca- tions. 1he only answer that was pessf ble was There is nothing that we can dol
 The city rnultitudes surrendered Wearfly fo the situatlon But there were men whom the he1pless reply drove frantic
 There were hundreds Of these men an New York BrookIyn, Jesey City. Newark and all the towns eastward from there into Connectic1t They were nil5tiamen who had not been able to join their oEga anIzas19n when they went to the front or whose or ganizatdons had been merely paper ones. There were members of sports mems clubs. accustomed to the use of heavy caIiber firearms and fe the raM, ana there were many men who were moved simply by the reckless ness of courage
 During the days wai4e there df1kted through the United States tie broken, incompIete but ever growing story of New Englandss uprising and it's fearful suppression, these men had begun to assemble in Connecticut's eoui1t1y be tween New Haven and Hartford, urged by no settled psan,. but moving to that district simply because it was the last American front between New York and the invading army.
 The enemy was moving westward had 10 hold out a mighty
 reea north N est ward against the fican army tfla { now lay beyond
 Berk hills holding the land betssen western GonneEticnt and AL lany That army. intact and out of lis 4reaeh, was a constant. acute dan ger It esadangered his commqnica- sfpnS H endangered his base, it 5endan- aered his divisions that occupied Bos- ion forced him to advance only in e0 ntfnu uaI readiness for battle on danks as1d rear lines Its sf gnal service and iatofs kept constant watch of the
 adfng Iegions: It's range finders 4eeated the exact positions Of their
 
 During the slow approach the men ATao had gathered between New Ha- ven and Hartford began to form some sort of an organization Almost it evolved itself
 From New Haven and Hartford to the factory cities of Waliingford and A1eriden, diddetown and New Britain, ySs tllere passed word that gathered sVdtlzers from shops and idle men from streets. All one long day and all one evening they moved toward the two cities. They seemed afnless enough. but there were leaders who put them selves at their head secre1y in the night.
 Suddenly they were angry. determin- ed, united bodies of men. Suddenly, like suddenly avakenea wind, they stormed the great arms factories of the two towns.
 They came with guns and pistols. They came with erowbars and picks. They came with stones and with noth- ing except their bare hands They hauled their dead aside and withered under the fire of the euards and burst through and took the works.
 Tn Hartford they se1zed whole train load of rapid hrers and machine guns that had been loaded for the American army Tn New Haven they took al- most 5000 sporting riHes
 The riot fever spread to BrfdeeDort The mob arose and seized the cart ridge factories.
 It was a mad thing spr5nRfag less from purpose than from the insanity that invasions had laid Oh mems mirds. It could have but one mad end Yet fhls army of madmen wAs moved and nodded by touch of the American abtifty to "de th4ne e''that very abiI- 0n which the p6ple might, indeed, have depended wIfh perfect assurance
 only they had not depended on it l1oi1
 America did truly have men who would fl gh They were here, and they Hsre te Aghe such fight as would be renaesai1eEed many long day. They took hald of men armed with magnff- can't FffAebs but of scpre sf dlfEerent paktxde 1oe different kinds of sport and de1 ending score oe different Ellai and ealibers of cartridges.