Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-09-14

GAneTak AOIbln AS ihAi c1 "e
 the sensational press of the United . States. He says: "The demoraliz'ug influences of these sensational news papers is beginning to bear fruits The attempt of a Mississippi regi- ment to assassinate its colonel IS an illustration of the demoralizing ln- auences of this unreasoning elamor. Not long since a certain eastern paper headed tirade on the War Department with Shoot the Oh- cers.' The sensational newspapers seem to think that the liberty ae- corded to the press means license to say anything without regard to truth and without regard to common decencv. Journals of this class are in part responsible for the hysterla that at present prevails throughout the country over camp life and the condition of the soldiers It is ad- mitted that there is much suffering in the army. but why lay all the blame on the War Department. If this tirade of abuse and defamation of regulations continues, 1t IS a question in my mind whether 1t will not end in disorganizing the mili- tary forces ot the country, and, per haps, prove an obstacle in raising a volunteer army fl one should sud denly be needed. We are already placed in an unenviable light before other nations by what has been sad ard written of the army and its management. Our soldiers are liable to be rated as babies and our execu- tive officers either as imbeciies or corruptionlsts." S."
 Miss Clara Barton IS sixty eight years old, but writes from Santiago as follows: Tt is over a month that I have been lying on the ground out of doors, having passed through a seige of yellow fever. Meanwhile, l am spleudidly we'll" Miss Barton has devoted nearly her entire life for the benefit of others. She re- signed a government clerkship early in the civil war to become an army nurse. and in 1864 was placed iu charge of the hospitals of the Army of the James. Iu the Franco-Ger- man war she assisted in organizing the military hospitals. She labored among the poor at Strasburg in 1871 and of Paris in 1872. The American Red Cross Society was organized by
 her in 1881, and she became its
 president. The year 1883 found heI
 superintendent of a reformstory
 prison for women in Massachusetts Her lsbors in 1884 were devoted tc
 the Mississippi flood sufferers, and
 in 1893 to relieving the victims o
 the cyclones on the South Atlantic
 coast.
 A Spanish periodical prints aI
 article on the destruction of tho
 Cervera fleet, which was evidently
 written by an officer on one O. tho ! Spanish ships. It seems that Ger
 vera's orders were to reach Havans
 or. at least Cienfuegos, with as nam
 of his vessels as possible, an | tC
 beach the others. The fleet could
 not leave at night without bouyint the narrow, winding channel by dal
 and that would have revealed th'
 plan. It is claimed that the bes
 course was pursued by Cervers, anC that he destroyed every one of ii
 ships effectually, which he could no
 have done in the harbor of Santiago
 Who eve, wrote the above story jus
 omitted one important detail, an' that was that American shells wer used by Cervera in the destruction of every one of his vessels.
 When the soldiers were leaving San Francisco for the war, Genera Miles gave orders prohibiting then from marching through the streets 9 General Miles was in Washington a s the time and could not appear i - the procession. When the troop l were about to leave Porto Rico 10 1 the United States, General Mile ', telegraphed a request to permi g them to march through the street e of New York on their arrival there
 General Miles expected, of course
 to be in New York at the time, an f would naturally head the proce: sion. These two circumstances take together are sufficient to demon f strate the pompous, vaingloriou
 character of the man who IS at tn head of the American army. Whs
 a contrast between Soldier Gran and the Man Miles.