In submitting his annual report, Nov. 10, 1884, Gen. Phil. Sheridan, commander of the United States Army, says:

"This Nation 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."

A Hint to the wise is sufficient. Of course Gen. Sheridan is too modest to tell us himself that an army will be powerless in the coming revolution between the properties and propertyless classes. Only in foreign wars can the usual weapons of warfare be used to any advantage. One dynamite bomd properly placed, will destroy a regiment of soldiers a weapon easily made and carried with perfect safety in the pockets of ones clothing. The First Regiment may as well disband for if it should ever level its guns upon the working

men of Chicago it can be totally annihilated.