San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-28

Meantime of course The Palladium was
= firing hot shot by the ton, and new SC
1 called scandals at Ryan, fresh outrages
> ON the helpless and downtrodden sol.
, diery were the subjects of Mr.. Abrams
lurid delineations, until it was to be
wondered at that in their wrath the Of
Tended public did not wipe the foul blot
on their civilization from the face of the
earth.
twas ON Friday evening that in an
swer to certain dispatches he had been
firing at department headquarters, Col.
Morris received message that at least
put him oat of uncertainty. That day
The Palladium had outdone itself, and
no one not conversant with the illimit-
able faculties of the paid correspondent
can begin to imagine the heroic size at
tanned in its columns by the incident
briefly sketched in the last chapter:
Continued Persecution of Trooper
Welsh! Reaped Up Humiliations on
His Head! Forced to Show Slavish
Homage to His Insulter! Helpless
Wrath of Comrades!' etc. The details
of the incident, as told by the special
correspondent, lost nothing of sensation
alism, and Lieut.. Lewis came in now for
his share of obloquy. Poor Welsh was
represented as having been marched out,
and with brutal curses compelled to
salute Lieut.. Hearn, despite the fact
that he, as member of the guard, was by
law and regulations exempted from the
requirement. "In vain did the young
soldier plead that paragraph S91 of the
| regulations fully excused him. His re-
lentless prosecutors defied- the laws of
congress, and compelled him to stand
and deliver for the purpose of adding to
the indignities already heaped upon him.
Could the readers of The Palladium have
heard the low, deep mutterings of the
men in the garrison this night no mu-
tiny on their part need have surprised
them"
The editor, too, backed up his CORE
spondent in three-quarter column as
sault on the ridiculous etiquette of the
army. 1T may be-" he said, "all well
enough in the conscripted camps of
Europe, where whole nations are forced
to service under arms, to exact of the
rank and file this slavish exhibition to
superiors, but it is an insult to the high
intelligence of the soldiers of free Amer
lea that because beardless boy happens
to have strap upon his shoulder thou
sands of SCARED veterans should be COM
PEELED to do him homage. The whole
idea of the salute is repugnant to the re-
publican mind and should be abolished;
and for that matter, as we have no fur
ther use for an army, why stop at the
salute?'
No doubt the ninety-and- of The
Palladium's readers thought their editor
was sound, and were as opposed to the
idea of that courtesy which is officially
declared to be- indispensable among
military men," as to any exhibition
thereof in the streets of their own peace
full and remarkably well regulated me-
tropolis.
But Col Morris was himself wofully
perturbed about this time. After immo-
lating Cross and other officers by name,
as was TO be expected, The Palladium
man had taken to poking ugly little in
situations at the post commander, and
this, thought Morris, was the height of
ingratitude. He was in no pleasant
mood when the men came marching up
from stables, and it stung him to see
how cordial everybody was to Hearn,
who, confound it! was the cause of the
whole row. The telegram he had just
received settled that matter once and
for all; yet he was glad he had an adju-
tant on whom to devolve the coming
duty.
Ever since Hearn's trouble began Cap
tain and Mrs. Lane had lost no opportu-
nifty to make him understand that they
were devotedly his friends, and that if
he would but come to them in his sense
of utter wrong the shelter of their home,
the welcome of their ireside, would be
some compensation at least for the harsh
treatment accorded to him by the world
at large. Thanks to the efforts of the
western newspaper a million or more of
free people had learned to look upon his
name as the synonym for all that was
staggering, brutal, drunken and bully
ing; and it was easy to see that the young
soldier was cut to the heart.
Butan unexpected ally had been discov-
cred. Hearn, who had at first held aloOf
in solitude, brooding over his troubles,
began to show decided readiness to
come. And though at all times CRATE
full and most attentive to Mrs. Lane,
that clear sighted young matron speed
lily noted how his handsome blue eyes
would wander about in search of her
quietly observant friend, and that ever
| since the night OF her tilt with LAWYER