St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
SAINT PAUL.
Additional City News OH Page !.
CURRENT COMMENT.

That recently notorious individual,
the "enlisted man. has broken out
once more. Since the days Of Private
Wild and Lieut. Steele the only refer
encc 10 cur noble standing army has
been the occasional and monotonous re-
port OF 'aEother descrtion:" but the al
fusion 10 latolers' work at Fort SMELL
ing has set the machine going again. a
soldier from the fort writes as follows:
Being a constant reader of your valu-
able newspaper. | noticed III the issue
IF the 18th November a reference TO the
much-abuSed private soldier OF the reg
uIar army, and. through your valuable
organ OF public sentiment, would like
20 Ventilate not only an opinion. but
facts. Ii would not be justice to speak
In general terms OF the army and call 1t
81 labor bureau. or a Sapper aud miner
corps. but ut Fort Smelling, Minnesota,
the hard labor undergone by the soldier
Is outrageous. Could you visit our post
ut what is termed fatigue call. being
80 Il. H.. YOU would hear the shrlll
and sOui-stirring notes of the bugie, and
one not being acquainted with military
life ut the fort would intuitiVely believe
that the soldiers were aroused To arms,
or other honorable military duty, but III
this thought how well the soldier knows
''Some enc has blundercd."
On to the Stouc crusher rushed
Moving old buildings, for contractors work
Noble Two Hundred
Ana, after hard days work.
There they come hack covered with dust
lands all eat up, tired and weary
Growing and grimblinS,
Noble Two Hundred.
Passing from the sublime. or rather.
the truth. To the ridiculous, let us see
whether the soldier rests after his hard
DAYS toll. No, no, Another martial
sound is heard. First call for parade,
and, burriedly changing his typical uni
form Drown canvass for the Warlike
dress. suit, he is required to fall III, left
face, and rot around Il In miiitaire TO
he the admired of all admirers. Alas
cor the rarity OF Christian charity under
the sun. Soldering is all honorable
profession, and a profession TO be sought
If properly understood aud regulated.
one must not think soldier is like
side OF bacon, TO be thrown in to fire up
when there Is Il lack OF coal. True.
there Is large amount 10 be said pro
and con. but TO make labOrer out of
Il soldier tine labor not being military is
an outrage 10 4 country like free Amer
ica. patriotism" should be the SOL
dier,S watchword, not pick and
shovel How can you get military
bearing out of man whose back is ali
the time bent at the stone quarry or
saw mill. wheeling mortar and carrying
brick for contractors, and depriving the
Iaboring classes of their just rights?
But thus it is, and has been for some
time already registered by Father Time
throughout eur noble little army. 1t
makes one feel dead to his own country
when he has TO fully corroborate the
statement made by the private soldier
already referred TO. Why not have Il
pioneer corps, or quartcruastcr corps,
and men especially enlisted rs laborers,
and let the Intelligent and proud Amer
lean soldier soldier?
-
Oscar OlsOn.a young man over twenty
one years OF age. has applet TO the dis
trict court for all order to change his
name. He says there are over $50 per-
sons within the county bearing the same
name and over sixty of them bear the
name @. Olson, causing him great in
convenience by loss of letters, and by
having his letters opened and read by
Others. This has caused delay III deliv-
ering them to him. lie desires to be
hereafter known by the name of Oscar
Alling.