People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — The Maxim Gan. [ARTICLE]

The Maxim Gan.

It is suggested that the machine gun, if certain economical considerations could be adjusted, would find a valuable place among, the useful arts of peace. As a feller of trees there is no agency in the world like it. Admiral Sir Edmund Commerell, in alluding recently to the superiority In workmanship and effectiveness of the Maxim gun said that a .303 Maxim was capable of cutting down a tree seventeen inches in diameter in a quarter of a -minute. He would not only defy any other gun to do this, he would give any battalion in hei majesty’s service five hours* firing as much as they liked, at whatever range they pleased, and they wc. lc not co l’.-c same thing.

Since Kansas has been "redeemed” the Santa Fe Railway company seems to be again, carrying that state around by the tail. In a late published interview the general passenger agent of that company says he distributed 5,000 free passes to the members of the late legislature of that state, their families, and their friends. How is that for “redeemers?" Kansas was never cursed with a more rotten and corrupt administration than the present one—republican—who boasted of redeeming the state. The republican house of representatives was so worthless, so faithless to promises, so completely under the power of the corporations and rule of the unscrupulous party bosses as to bring down upon that body the anathemas and condemnation of even staiwan republicans. Republican papers and politicians denounce that body in unmeasured terms as being treacherous to the people and unfaithful to the pledges made by the party. And this is the way Kansas was “redeemed from Populist rule!”

“The wicked flee when no man pur* sueth” is a proverb of the good book that well applies to our eastern mil* lionaires, who are evidently trembling and looking ahead* for trouble. The New York legislature has appropriated 12,000,000 for the construction of armories. It is said that American capitalists have more than >300,000,000 on deposit in European banks as a matter of safety for fear of trouble here at home. Last winter and the winter before great uneasiness was felt among the dwellers on upper Fifth avenue and Madison street, New York, on account of the great number of destitute and unemployed people in the city and for fear the hungry fellows might break loose many families closed their residences in those fashionable quarters and spent the winter in Europe. Those who remained in the city “received” and “entertained” sparingly for fear of exciting the unemployed. Extra police to the -number of 500 at times were employed on Fifth avenue. Several years ago Collis P? Huntington, when asked why he did not erect a palace, replied: “I do not want to be so conspicuous as some of you people when, the hungry fellows break loose.” Conscience makes cowards of us all. Millionair ism is. a growth foreign to the soil of free America, as will be proven in a few years more, and a consciousness of this fact is beginning to dawn upon the minds of some of these shoddy aristocrats and cause them to have the Belshazzer shakes. S. S. Hale, champion of Missouri, defeated Tom Marshall of Keithsburg, 111., at Burlington, lowa, 70 to 68 in a 75 Uva| bird match for SIOO Thursday. Hale will shoot a 100 bird match against Dr. Carver. Arthur Clarkson has signed to pitch for St. Louis.