Arizona citizen., 1871-06-10
W ork of the Commissioned savages.


 clouts, nor are all of them without
 commissions in the U. s. Army. Last
 week we spoke of assertions and their
 causes, and here @ few more remarks
 under the latter head will appropriate
 ly introduce the facts which follow.
 If regular army officers have decided
 to make war on the private soldiers,
 and the citizens who pay for the food
 they eat, the clothes they wear, and the peculations they commit and
 which enable so many of them to
 spend several times their known in come, we'll try hand at defense and offense, and let ''the longest pole
 knock the persimmons. The punish
 ment we infict may amount to noth- ing but public disgrace, but as the men we are after manage to pass for decent gentlemen, public knowledge Of their true character will worry them much.
 In the Revised Negotiations for the Army" we find these paragraphs:
 Military authority is to be exercised with trmness, but with kindness and jus tice to interiors.
 Superiors of every grade are forbidden to injure those under them by tyrannical or capricious conduct, or by abusive lan guage.
 A majority of assertions are impell- ed by positive violations of these regulations. We have often heard of
 icers vehemently curse privates for not fully comprehending their drunken orders. We shall probably follow this statement with names and affidavits. "Tyrannical or capricious conduct" and "abusive language are often supplemented by a system of punishment and degradation of in- feriors which officers know full we'll how to deal out. The mass of the people are so far removed from any association with or knowledge of the inner workings of the Army, that they never suspect the truth, and pri- yates take tremendous risks in expos ing it 10 them. The spirit and letter of the Army Regulations are so gen. erally violated so far as relates to treatment of interiors by superiorS in position, and the modes of punishment are so one-sided, and almost exclu- sively administered by those who are the aggressors, that the character of the rank and file Is growing lower every day and without wonder, be- cause men of any pride will incur any risks rather than be so maltreated by deeds and words. We believe it true that one half the army officers have over and over violated the ArnY Re- gulations quoted above, yet will any point to conviction or even trial for such cffenses? :? AS privates are subject to the control, trial, and sentence by those who have outraged them, they neglect to incur their full vengeance, unless in trying tc escape from it, they are caught and returned for the inquisition. They have learn ed that laws and rules for their pro- lection are ignored, and all trials against themselves one-sided, and conducted with view to conviction, rather than to search out the truth and mete due punishment to the abettors of offenses. A few official facts will here be in place.
 A court-martial composed of It. Col. Frank Wheaton for President, ! and other officers whose names are not at our present service in other convened at Prescott, June l5, 1870. Thirteen privates and non officers were then tried and all were found guilty. Private Herman Rommerskerhen, Ill addition ,o years of imprisonment, forfeiture of pay and dishonorable discharge, was sentenced to he indalibly mark