Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-10-21
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Discipline at Fort Sheridan.

And yet Weyler is called brute.-Ce-
dar Rapids Gazette.
Captain Lowering would make a star
coach for a professional football team
Omaha WOrld-Herald.
The military post of Fort Sheridan
seems to be in urgent need Of civic fed
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
Dragging a man by rope tied to his
heels does not seem to be the best method
Of enforcing army discipline.-Dubuqu
Herald.
The organization Of Society for the
Civilization of United States Army OFF,
GERS seems a need Of the hour.-Des
Moines Leader.
The only remarkable thing in connec-
ton with the latest sensation at Fort
Sheridan is that nobody was killed.
Washington Post.
right to point the finger of scorn at the
American people and call them hypo-
critics if they permit such outrages.-Alin-
neapolis Tribune.
Perhaps that private soldier who was
dragged by the heels at Fort Sheridan
was merely being put in training for q
military football team at that post
Springfield, ILL.,, Journal.
We hope the story of the maltrea tment
of the private soldier in the regular army
at Chicago has been exaggerated. If it is
literally true, we have no reason to cry
out against the brutality of German off,
cers.-Buffalo Express.
The cruelties practiced upon Private
Hammond will heal, but from the 'roast-
ings" the british captain and his friend,
the colonel, will get, there will be no re-
covery. And they deserve all they will
get.-Grand Rapids Herald.
The rack and the thumbscrew should
be made part Of the equipment Of Fort
Sheridan. Dragging a man by the heels
ward method of enforcing discipline and
intoxicating sentiments of loyalty.-Min-
neapols Times.
The officer who approves this outrage
expresses himself as perfectly satisfied.
The victim was insubordinate. He refus-
ed to perform some allotted labor, there
fore he was treated with q savagery that
would not be dreamed Of for day in
! Turkey.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
There can be no state of affairs 'hat
justities such cruelty. Other pt.v:i'ies
can be provided for insubordinate SOL
diers. To persist in such practices is to
reduce soldiers to the level of brutes and
to make their officers bloodthirsty tyrants
| Of the Weyler type.-Buffalo Courier Rec
ord.
Col. Hall is quoted as saying that there
| is nothing improper or inhuman in pun
ishing contumacious privates by drag
! ging them by the heels for GOO yards or SO.
! The colonel has not volunteered to demon
| strate the harmlessness Of the practice in
| his own person, hOwever.-San Francisco
| Bulletin.
| The report Of that outrage to Private
F! Hammond at Fort Sheridan reads as if it
/ might have happened in military Ger
] many or barbarous Turkey. But that an
American citizen should be subjected to
such humiliation and that an American
! officer could stoop so low as to enforce
such edicts, passes all understanding
Peoria Journal.
The old idea that a commander must be
| terror to inspire obedience and secure
good discipline has largely disappeared,
and it is demonstrated at every post in the
| country to-day that the more considerable
and self-controlled method Of handling
the regulars counts immeasurably for the
good Of the service.-Detroit Free Press.
Gen. Miles found the soldiers OF the
European armies well drilled machines,
but he did not find among them the bright
ness and alertness to "catch on" that
! characterizes the American soldier. And
yet some Of Gen. Miles officers act as il
they regarded the American private SOL
! dir as no better than q beast.-Minneapo
/ lis Tribune.