The Daily bulletin., 1893-10-05
THE MILITARY INQUIRY.

THE MILITARY INQUIRY. .
Our evening contemporary has
obtained an advance report of the
doings of the Councils committee
to investigate the military expend-
itures. 1t appea ars that the commit
tee and officers of the National
Guards are agreed that the pay of
privates is e1travagant, being $27
month higher than United States
soldiers receive. When, few months
ago, the BULLETIN called attention
to the military extravaganza, the p.
G.. organs gave the sneering reply
that what bothered the opposition
was the existence Of forces to sus-
tain the Provisional Government,
citing the ancient chestnut about no
criminal feeling the chatter draw
with good opinion of the law" The
bald fact is-and there is proof for
it to the world now in this military
investigation-that the revolution
ary junta knew that they could not
count on the support of the people
at large on the merits of either their
personality or their cause, therefore
to maintain their unlawful position
they took advantage of their posses
sion of the peoples treasury to bid
most extravagantly for an adequate
defensive force. Now when they
find that the resources of the treas
ury are not equal to maintaining their
military extravaganza and making
even show of conducting the ordi-
nary services of the country with a
semblance of respectability, they vir-
tually confess the criminality OF
their method of self-maintenance.
They knew as we'll at the beginning
as they do now what fair wages for
soldering were, but they desperately
resisted the protests of few indie
pendent spirits in their Councils as
we'll as the indignant popular re-
monstrances against their wastefu]
course. President Dole was always
the first to defend the military ex-
travagances, which have been as
notorious in the matter of officers
salaries as in that of the privates
pay, and on the most reckless scale
in regard to tawdry uniforms fol
officers and men, and equipment:
for the supporters of the Govern
ment outside of the regular forces
The outside world in general anc
the American public in particular
have now, out of the P. G.'s owl
mouth, the testimony whereby it,
blatant boasting of strength scat
tered broadcast may be discounted
1t is made patent to all Christendon
that the Provisional Government il
using the substance of the people
over whom they by foul means OBJ
tanned control, and without the peo
ple's consent, to domineer over tn
people and exclude them both from
their rights of self-government-
which it has never been pretended
the people have forfeited-and thei
privilege of choosing their own pc
litical destiny. The beginning O
the collapse of military rule indi
Gates the hollowness of the boastin,
persistently indulged in since tn
first rebuff the P. G. received fror
the United States Government, tina
the present rulers would hold on a
they began, for years if necessary
until an administration favorable t
annexation came into power wit
the United States. The bald fact j
already staring the P. G. in the face
that it is utterly impossible to main
tain purely military dominion owe
the country, and at the same tim
afford the means for carrying on
decent civil administration.