Word: flintlocks
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...from this war is great prosperity? Who is there who conceives of Europe and her agony as the woes of another planet, to be scientifically investigated and discussed, but never to be partaken? Who is there who trusts to the Monroe doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over the fireplace, to keep us from the ambitions and intrigues of martial peoples? Who is there who thinks as he thought before, and as previous generations have thought before during all our national life? Who indeed, save a Senator from Wisconsin, and an anarchistic leader, and a well-known newspaper...
...various home guards being established through the country by locally patriotic citizens who still cherish the traditions of the Revolution, are admirable. These men remember the time, well sung by poets, when a man's house was his castle, a flintlock over the mantelpiece his artillery, and his neighbors and himself the defending army. At the call of the tocsin from every home would emerge the embattled citizens, and foreign soldiers would melt before their aroused wrath like the milky way before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally...
Humbly we beg to submit that the times have somewhat changed. The sturdy farmer so longer defends his one man castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well...