The age-herald., 1897-11-07
MATT MINORS
 SUNDAY SERMON

I supposs the biggest fool in this coun-
 try is Gen. Nelson A. Miles, the head
 of the army. Nobody aas ever disputed
 the world. Vanity and ignorance march
 hand in hand. Upon this question there
 is ID further argument. Miles is a
 fool. He has less war talent than any
 man who ever occupied the position now
 held by him. Talent seldom promotes a
 man in the army in the, time of peace.
 It Is the length of service. It doss not
 take a very smart man to be a soldier.
 do not suppose there are ten men in
 the Unltsd States army today who could
 n1alOe an honest living for themselves
 were they placed upon their own re-
 sources. They are like paupers, support
 ed by the government. Fool Miles has
 conceived the idea that every falboring
 man in this country is highwayman.
 He has submitted his idietic qseas to 1 the supervising architect at Washing- 1 ton pending the construction of the
 Chicago pubic building. Miles wants | tlhc Ouifditi6 olUOh-u WltiA SuAASt NNAAAct.S,
 Gattllrg guns and all the death-dealing | implements that are known to modern
 warfare. He believes thers is destined to bs an uprising of the people of Chlca-
 go, and every 1abcring man, q1e thinks, will make dash for the sub-treasury I for the purpose of footing it. He wants 1 the building made a kind of an arsenal, | with a man at every gun to touch them l off at minutes notice Daboring p@o-
 pie never become desperate unless they
 are, imposed upon by idiots of the Miles
 stripe. Nils seems to take especial de- light in wanting to shoot down labofing | people. He ts a snob, an alleged arfsto- 1 crat, a dress parade soldier, a self-ap- l pointed friend of the rich, a fool, an egotist and a so-called gentleman. H. was shoemaker early in life, and when | he vert Into the army from Massachu- l setts thene was @ good shoemaker l population of the Bay state. Strange 1 how men of the Miles kind want to be | aiistocratc when they get a little powsr That is always the best evidence of mans m :ntal weakness. No man of good sense ever gets the big head, no | matter how high he may ascend in the | world of progress Miles suggestion | about the Chicago public building is | making him the laughing stock of ev=ry- | body in that town Not much in Miles. l It is amusing to see him walk the streets ,oe eN, AIxxaax Ixfc l clothes. Cages into every shop window | to gut the reflection of tIlmsalf. Dos
 not seem to think about anything but his vanity and his personal attire. No | body has ever accused him of knowing l anything about war. One good thing, Miles is getting old, and it won't be long until lle will ibs, on the retired list. He thought at one time he would be presi- dent When the republican party is in search of an ass it will take up Miles at once.
 have read in a great many papers recently of another attempt being made to secure the release of Mrs. Florence Maybrick. a Mobile woman, who is serving life sentence in England for poisoning her husband. About every six months sentimentality breaks out in favor of the Maybrick woman. There has been too much fuss made about this red-handed murdersss. If she were a prisoner in this country, nothing would be said about her case, but she happens to have killed her husband in England, and the laws of that country are such | that she has been committed to life inn prisonment. A lot of foolish Americans think that if incu1t n thic 1tiOn that she should be punished. Mrs. May brick had as fair trial as ever did any | prisoner at the bar. In England, jus l tice is justice. Tt is not a farce nor a | fraud It is justice-what it claims to | be. There is no more reason why Mrs. 1 Maybrick should not suffer the punish | m=nt imposed upon her than any other l person. who has committed like of- | fense. She was always known as | schemng, intriguing woman. She never | had a moral character. Her whole ca reer in London stamped her as a woman l of the "other half" She played fast and loose with men of all classes. She | married her husband for his money. | Long before he died she confessed she did not love him. She killed her hus-
 band that she might wed a furtive lover Gail Hamilton some years ago made a strong appeal for this woman's pardon | and enlisted the sympathies of some of the most prominent women of this coun- try, including the wife of President Har- rison. It did no good It caused the | secretary in the London home office to review the testimony, but he said after having reviewed it that he believed her
 more guilty than before. It is not a | pleasant thing to know that a woman Is
 placed in prison for life, but when a woman murders her husband to marry
 another man as Mrs. MaybrlclS did, she is getting no more than she deserves. l Her moral character must count great | deal in this case. Mrs. Maybrick's char | acter was bad. Part of her career in London was of such a character that no reputable paper could print it.
 I
 About the smallest man, politically speaking In this country todta " iS Rou,.lra