Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-09-24
UNCLE MS NAV Y.
THREE MILLION DOLLARS SPENT
BY THE REPUBLICAN PAl3TY
For a Navy the People Have Never
Seen-The Exposure of a Notorious


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Special Correspondence Of he Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2i.-Our dear
little United States Navy is greater
ughfng-stock. if not burden, than
our great, big United States Army.
Like those Of the latter, the officers,
pertly and over-paid, set the marines
and sailors examples that are only too
closely followed Out of thirty mill
ions expended annually on the Army,
thousands are concentrated to support
the officers in idleness, elegance, and
dissipation So with the Navy. An
Admiral, whose salary is S13, 700, pro-
tests against paying s400, for ban
quet ut New Orleans, OF the ground
that custom requires the United States
to bear the expense. The honest old
taxpayer who cheerfully gives his
mite towards supporting the govern
rnent, scarcely centempiates helping
to wine and dine equity foreigners.
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY,
with his 25altry $4,000 per year, - re-
garded only as clerk He is utterly
powerless to uproot the customs of the
Navy. He can not say word regard
ing pay. The Second Comptroller set
ties such matters, unless the proud Of
fcer takes his case entirely out of
the juli ,diction cf the Navy, and
lets the Courts decide. The Secre-
tary of the Navy knows the Unit
ed States is aping Great Britain,
and in a most unsuccessful manner.
There is at least some motive for its
and his existence. Yet France, and
Russia outdo us, and we can scarcely
compare with Great Britain. Where
gilded buttons and cooked hats have
been secondary in consideration, the
United States merchant shipping, free
from the anchors of aristocracy, stands
next to Great Britain, the largest in
the world. What mass of over-fed
and over-paid drones have failed to do
American manhood, -boned and
unpublished, has done. No wonder
John Daniel cried out few days ago,
that the Republican party had forced
three hundred millions OK dollars out
OF The Treasury tor a navy the people
have never seen. With nine Navy
! ards, and 5000 men, the chief feat
ure OF the Navy Is
THE MARINE BAND.
! Germany mas eighty thousand more
regular soldiers than Spain, and Spain
has six thousand more regular seamen
than Germany, but no country on the
face of the globe his band like ours
In fact, no other country would have.
| The Marine Band is study for any
! American. We can rot attack its
music, because it sets the standard,
but we have heard it perpetrate some
most objectionable discords. This
may be attributed to evil associations.
The Marine Band, collectively and in
diyidually, will hire out. It is repre-
sented at every theatre in Washing
ton, from the highest to the lowest,
and often at places of less respectable
ity. 1t is only question of money.
The Marine Band, like the Navy, is
bought. The United States can have
a Navy just like Great Britain's, il
she will pay for it, but it is a blessing
that some restraint exists against the
luxury. Still, how she can import
foreigners, and put them in her own
Marine Band, is beyond American
comprehension. From the Italian
who lost feature IL a street fight at
home down to the 6panlard who was
banished from Spain for a nameless
crime, q long list of foreign musicians
adorns the payroll, while American
talent knocks on the door in vain and
goes begging. No wonder 100000
emigrants annually climb our shores
DIR. T. j. BARNARDo,
of Stepney Causeway. London, Eng
land, has attacked the American Cap
ital with his Autographed letters and
stereotyped works. American citizen:
are abruptly asked to assist the
Homes for Destitute Children" acros:
the water. The Doctor seems to pro
eeed on the assumption ttat there ar,
few little ones at home. He claims te
have recently rescued 6,829 English
children, and beseeches individual
American assistance that he may res
cue more. To say nothing of the city
of Washington, there are to-day no
less than five hundred thousand Amer
ican children homeless, friendless
many starving, and hundreds going t,
ruin. DIR. Barnardo may not hav,
thought of this. 1t does seem unrea
sonable that he should call for Amer
ican assistance, and especially SO whel
We consider the wealth of his officers
chief of whom is no less person thar
the Marquis of Lorne, z. c., X. 7
We have no reason to believe DIR
Bernardo, with his pathetic story
kidnapped, is humbug, but doubt
must arise wherever doctors adopt il
legitimate methods. American expe
rienee is bitter ia this respect. T
come home,
DIR. WILLIAM Fl. HALE,
editor of Health and Home. has pur
suee methods SO unprofessional, an,
received so much attention from Lun
Smith and others, that doubts of th
gravest character have arisen. As
natural result, not only all associates
with him, but the innocent advertiser
/ in his paper, have suffered suspicion
On the strength of bare statements
suspicion has arisen against Gen
G lin .man and his Tobacco Cure, pro
fuseiy advertised in the slDctor's month
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