WHAT GEN. PHIL. SHERIDAN SAYS IN HIS ANNUAL REPORT UPON THE SUBJECT OF CAPITAL AND LABOR.

On the 10th of November, Lieut. Gen. Sheridan, commander in chief of the United States Army, submitted his annual reports. He says:

With liberal allowances of ammunition and better facilities for target practice than hitherto, much thought and attention has been given to rifle-firing. The establishment of a higher grade of sharp-shooter has developed many marksmen of wonderful skill in the use of the rifle for distance up to a thousand yards, and it would now be impossible for a close line of battle to stand up before a skirmish line composed of our qualified marksmen. The lieutenant general expresses great interest in the National Guard of the states, and thinks congress should designate the number of men each state should have, and provide for them arms and camp and garrison equipage, under some wise method of accountability for this property, whenever state governments themselves appropriate substantial sums of money for the support of their respective military systems, in such manner that these sums cannot be affected by party legislation. Excepting for our ocean commerce and for our seaboard cities he

does not think we should be much alarmed about the probability of war with foreign powers, since it would require more than a million and a half of men to make a campaign on land against us. To transport from beyond the ocean that number of soldiers, with all their munitions of war, their cavalry, artillery, and infantry, even if not molested by us whilst in transit, would demand a large part of the shipping of all Europe. He earnestly invites immediate attention to the defenseless condition of seaboard cities and urgently recommends the early beginning of a general system of seacoast fortifications, to be constructed in accordance with requirements involved by the latest improvements in heavy artillery. "This nation," he says, "is growing so rapidly that there are signs of other troubles which I hope will not occur, and which will probably not come upon us if both capital and labor will only be conservative. Still, it should be remembered destructive explosives are easily made, and that banks, United States Sub-treasuries, public buildings and large mercantile houses can be readily demolished, and the commerce of entire cities destroyed by an infuriated people with means carried with perfect safety to themselves in the pockets of their clothing.

All militarism is but the expression of capitalism embodied in force. The army, navy and police are the instruments of tyrants to enslave their fellow men. Gen. Sheridan

in common parlance is a brave man and a skilled general. He stands, however, as the chief of that power which maintains by force the existing order of things. There is and can be no reason for his occupation save to protect the sacred (?) rights of property. What those rights are let enslaved labor answer. It is the "right of property" which enslaves and plunders and destroys the propertyless class. Gen. Sheridan "reads the signs of the times," and says that while there is no probability of war with foreign powers, "there are signs of other troubles," which he hopes will not occur, "and which will not come upon us if both capital and labor will only be conservative." He says that "it should be remembered, however, that destructive explosives are easily made, and entire cities can be destroyed by an infuriated people with means carried with perfect safety to themselves in the pockets of their clothing." What, then, is the use of an army. What is to prevent its destruction in the same manner? Dynamite is the emancipator! In the hand of the enslaved it cries aloud: "Justice or--annihilation." But best of all, the workingmen are not only learning its use, they are going to use it. They will use it, and effectually, until personal ownership--property rights--are destroyed, and a free society and justice becomes the rule of action among men. There will then be, no need for government since there will be none who will submit to be governed.

Hail to the social revolution! Hail to the deliverer--- Dynamite!