Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15
TIMES or TODAY ;. j.
LIKENED> TO THOSE OF 1882
Gaillard Hunt Draws Striking Parallel in
Address to District Society Of
Sons of Revolution.

That disordered conditions of so
ciety following war are not peculiar
| to the present generation was fore
IDLY brought out in an address by
| GaIliard Hunt at recent meeting of
| the District of Columbia Society of
the Sons of the Revolution. He drew
| a striking parallel between the trou-
bles today, here and abroad, and the
troublous times following the Amer
| lean revolution.
In Measure a Repetition.
"In 1882. 1856 years ago. says Mr..
Hunt, 'the United States appeared i'll
the family of nations, and in a few
another treaty of peace will be signed
which is in a measure a repetition
| of the treaty of peace Of 1852. The
| treaty OF peace of 1882 proclaimed
a free nation. The treaty OF peace of
1918 will proclaim free world, and
! following naturally the bold procla-
nation and the bold experiment of
our forefathers in 1882, comes. the
contamination in our days. when what
| they fought for and what they ac-
compliShed in one small nation has
been fought for and accomplished in
| the civilized world.
Now when that nation of ours
started it tottered from very. weak
ness; we were very. very feeble; we
| had fought a long war. There never
was a time. from the battle of Lex
| ington until the surrender at York
| town, in all those seven years of
| dreadful warfare. fighting against
| tremendous odds-there never, was q
time, even in the darkest days of the
American revolution, when the ma
ton, the country, the cause, was in
as grave danger as it was in the
years of peace which came after 1882.
When everything is said and done.
war brings the people together. There
| enemy before you, and If all of 20
stand together-you must stand to
gether for your: own protection t.
| conquer that enemy-but in peace tn,
elements of society, go back. ther
comes the internal conflict and thu
| next door to you. ~. -
Disorganized Society.
"Now I am not going to go througg
all the danger than confronted thi
country In 1872 until 1887. Probab
they are geographical. but the great
est danger of all arose from; the dis
contented elements in the United
States at that time. Seven or eigh!.
|
| society. When men came back from
the army they were not anxious. to
engage in humdrum life; they found
| their jobs had been taken from them;
they found themselves unequal in
many cases to the jobs that they had
! was a republic, a democracy, a peo-
pies government; they got. the idea
that the evil which surrounded them
and their personal misfortunes were
| due to the actions of government.
and that as the government derived
could SO fix the powers of government
as to relieve themselves of their mis-
fortunes. They were hungry and
they thought the government could
| feed them; they were in debt and
they thought the government could
issue money with which to, pay their
debts.
"sThey had splendid idea-if there
was the will. then let it become op
erativs at once; therefore. the. thing
was law-was the courts. It was not
confined to one of the states. but
from South Carolina right up to
Massachusetts, came these disorgan-
lied men. came this social disorgani-
cation; and so they formed themselves
in this part, that part and the O her,
of this country; voluntary associa-
tons of men came together and aired
! their grievances. Then they would
appoint a committee. and the commit.
j tee would go to the legislature, de-
! handing means by which they could
quickly pay their debts, by which they
would all their stomachs with good
food. They were poor and they gath
cred together because they were poor
and they had an luminosity toward
those that were not poor. and pro-
| ceeded to. find and claim that they
could be made happier
Never Had: Able Leaders.
'You ask, How? I say. It was the
courts up in MASSACHUSETTS,, in New
Hampshire, in Virgtnia-all over the
country; they surrounded courts-the'
demanded that a court should not
alone administer the law, but so ad-
minister it as to relieve the poor and
the unfortunate. There never was
time but that they. could find so
able men to lead them, and thus it
WAS that while the men of America
were looking around to f1nd relief for
| their evil, they found even such a man
| as Patrick Henry-they found JOIN
Hancock in Massachusetts to give
lion which broke out among these peo-
! pie was led by an officer Of the revo-
luton, one Shay.
Remember and mark how they did
ltt-brought together by their misfor-
! tunes; meeting together because they
had empty stomachs-a1led with ami
| mostly toward those who were we'll
well fed. am not speaking of Rus
sia, am speaktngof the United States
in 1882, and every symptom that we,
now see among our unfortunate
friends across the water existed In our
United States from 17sa to 1882.
How Conditions Remedied,
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