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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 43.

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TO ARMS!

ALMOST simultaneously with the repeal of the Sherman law comes a recommendation from the Adjutant General that military tactics be taught in the graded schools.
What does all this mean? Why is this eagerness on the part of the government officials to familiarize even the children with methods of war? Churches, too, contrary to the teachings of Him whom they profess to worship, are falling in with these instructions.
Detroit has 27 church military organizations, containing 651 men and 43 officers. The largest is the Baptist cadets, with 66 men and 3 officers. Then come the Maybury cadets, an Episcopal organization, with 60 men, the First Congregational cadets, with 53, the first and last being armed with rifles. The Episcopalians have 6 companies, the Catholics 8, the Presbyterians 7, Baptists 3, Congregationalists 2, and Lutherans 1.
Thirteen of the companies are armed with rifles and one with swords. These, it must be remembered, are all church military companies, and have no connection with the civil societies of the State militia.
The administration through federal patronage and the system of "pinching business" has succeeded in subjugating congress. Is it now the plan to force the people into submission? Are even the children to be armed and taught that allegiance to despots is patriotism?
God forbid! The American people are not yet so prostrate at the feet of tyranny.
—Corner Stone, Lansing, Michigan.