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Show WOJSKINGMEN, BEWARE! The Cheyenne Leader wants a federal fed-eral standing army of never less than 100,000 men. We object for one. The general government should be allowed a sufficient military force to perform its legitimate federal functions, func-tions, which Bhould bo clearly defined, and each elate should be obligtd to maintain an efficient militia system for local defence. Tbe peril to the Uuion'.of large federal standing army controlled by a political party is too great to be repeated. The history of the southern states during th0 laet! ten years is illustrative of this danger, 1 which happily tho country b.ia escaped. es-caped. It is evident, the republican party Loving lost ita hold upon Ihu government, Unit wo are to have another conical upon the old question ques-tion of the necessity of a tlron" centralized government to quell tho diso.-derly people to prevent the producers, the laboring community, com-munity, from averting ihcir political rights in any emergency. This U what the cry for an army of one huLdred thousand men nieuns the totel eclipse of free government, tbe alliance of capital with the central cen-tral power, and the gradual reduction of poor Americans to a state of European Euro-pean servitude. There should be bravo men enough among the labor reform landers to prove to the work-! ingmou that a few repetitions of the violent scenes attending the strikes of July will inevitably lead to tho result the monopolists most desire a cen tralized government and a great standing army. Let tho workinc peoplo go to tbe ballot box and asert their rights, and frown down every attempt at tho assertion of mob rule as they value their liberties, elao the constitutioual government is gone and with it tbeir citizenship and great franchises of freedom. |