The evening times., 1896-10-30
DR.. WALKER
l.n Penn. Ave. Adj. wilIard's Hotel
Has Stood the Test of
Time! Every Patient Is
Given the Most Earnest Care
and Skillful Attention!
MR.. CHARLES A. CAMPBELL, the luni-
per merchant OF 1911 11th st. Sc, states
pation, nervousness, and general debility
Tor years. Since going under DR.. Walkers
care N has steadily improved, and ne takes
pleasure in recommending SO skilliul q
pin ysician.
Dr Walker cures safely and permanently
an disorders of the brain and nervous sys-
tetn, diseases of the skin and blood, catarrh,
as'niGa, bronchitis, dyspepsia, rheumatism,
rectal diseases, neuralgia, diseases oi
women, loss OF vitality, sexual weakness,
ana all affections of the heart, liver,
stomach, kidneys, bladder, bowels, and
other organs.
TIE LARGEST FEE
charged by DIR. Walker, whether you have
one or more diseases, is


ss-ho sames ublished without Consent. -sa
in relation to society at large by reason OF
the degradation army conditions Impose
upon him.
aforementioned the evil tendency created
by the regulation against marriage. TINS
III itself is not necessarily 80 fatal To charac-
ter, but for the conditions with which IL is
allied-conditons resulting from the fact
that the soldiers life is "A perfectly idlo
one. | mean that IL is idlc in positively the
most dangerous form idleness can assume
idle in purpose.
Before learning the truth about it, 1
think 1 hau the touiiSn notion tnaI every
soldier is or should be Il patriot, and
fanc!ed that men enlist, II not prompted
by some special love Of country, at least
with the same uotiZc man might carry
into any other occupation. l have found,
however, that the army Is purely
business organization which men enter
on business terms-with this difference:
IL is a business III SuIcn tHcre Is nothing
To do but get ready for business which
nobody expects to have.
War, the business OF the army, has
become such purely theoretical occu-
patton as To no longer furnish any actual
purpose To the soiuieI's life. Thus the
organization and conditions OF army life
ad iusted TO IL distinctly theoretical end
produce in practice the same thing as IL
the government at a cost OF SGT 600 900
a year engaged 20 600 men to keep II shop
in which the goods We're preserved in
immaculate order, the officials and EN-
pioyes wonderfully trained to do their
work, but wherein goods were measured
Off and never sold, but having preserved
perfectly the system OF "A sale. the WORK
was deemed successful. Ecunom ically
this means that The producing power OF
the country to the extent OF SGT 900, GOO
and the value OF the labor of 20 900
men is annually Impoverished for the
preservation OF an idea hot an idea that
we must be ready as people to defend
ourselves against all enemies. but All idea
OF defense true and reasonable in other
times and among other people. but which
in our times and among our people is, to
say the least, incongruous.
THE DESERTIONs
! have said The army is idle in purpose
Men who command the army bear me out
i'll This by what they tell me. Its general
boast III the army that the character OF the
enlisted man has greatly yimpruvedin in the past
several years. have asked on what the
evidence of This improvement is based and
in every instance have been told that ii is
on the diminished number of desertiOns.
II may be nothing but coincidence, the
Significance OF which is apparent only To the
Vi btsSiIlllSllC WOiil Dul
IL is at least true that this diininutiUnin in the
number of descrtions has developed syn-
enormously with the diiniuutiOn OF the actual
chance of soldierhaving 10 do any fighting.
The practical cessation OF Indian troubles in
the West perfects the army as the greatest
thing iii the way of an easy job to be had
in all our glorious free country.
| ventured to speak of patriotism and
military spirit as operating, according to ira
dition, to prompt soldiers choice, and l
asked an officer at Fort Myer:
What evidence of patriotism do you no
tice among your mem"
"Oh. they are all really very patriotic
don't you know. | notice IL particularly in
the pleasure they manifest in the music and
ceremony we have when the nag is lowered
every evening. Then recently | noticed
what genuine pride the men had in polish
ing their brass and steel to take part in the
unveiling of the Hancock statue, and they
are never less earnest i'll presenting a fine
appearance Oil such occasions"
That the esprit de corps of the army is
nothing different from a gamblers devotion
to n dead sure thing and is not at all
military only in So far as the environment
OF military organization enforces GER
tain military habits, | learned most from
the experience Of the youngster i have
mentioned. When he enlisted he sought
the opportunity the army affords, at lea st
hition a man might take into another
profession.
A CASE IN POINT.
He meant TO succeed in a military ca
reer, and applied himself accordingly to
study and practiced every science and art
that Would advance him in military per-
lection. AT the outset he expressed fine
scorn and indignation that the men at his
post We're not fired by similar Zeal, and
with the sublime enthu usiasm of inexpcrience
be tried various means of rousing them to
Join him in spirit. He talked To me freely of
all this, and when he was disappointed,
disbeartcned, and finally yielded 10 the
tide of life about him, he still talked freely:
but from nothing he said did I learn So
much OF the degrading influences of Il sol
dier's life as unconsciously, by degrees
he came to express to himself.
In the course of two years he made per-
fectly plain to me what West Point phiIoso-
ply concerning the essential discipline had
utterly failed to present clearly to my
mind-the reasonableness of soldiers so.
cial ostracism. His IN amer coarsened, his
mind grew dull, and of what his morals suf-
fered his manner and his mind clearly indi-
Gated, independence of information forthcon,-
ing from other sources.
He wassaved from absolute ruin, and with
desperate effort pulled through to receive n
commission by the sheerluck of good girls
love. When doors of others were closed
to his face, and the skirts of proper w wonen
carefully drawn aside in passing i'm on the
street, she braved everything to take him
by the hand and lead him to the achievement
of his lost ambition. But when by her ef-
forts he had Come up from the ranks he still
bore marks OF permanent deterioration of
character, negative rather than positive
in expression-thati is 10 say, he was not
the fine, free, frank manly fellow he was be-
fore engaging in the Three years assault
upon his self-respect, to which his ex.
perience as common soldier amounted.
He led me to perceive that the W ell known
prejudice existing among West Point grad
yates against officers who come up from
the ranks is not all snobbishness but has
reasonable foundationin the facts of the lat
ter's experience.
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