Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-10-06
Grumb1ers Are Few.

NrumDIerS Are Few.
1t is gradually developing that most
OF the complaints Of army shortcom-
lngs have emanated from few soldiers
IN each camp or command-every regi-
ment will have some Northumberland
that the majority of the men are Se-
having like men and not whining over
unavoidable discomforts. When they
ENLISTED they accepted the fortunes Of
war, and war. even at best, does not
provide a bed Of roses for it's follow
ers. They endured some privations,
and found camp routine irksome and
the life in Southern camps during
hot summer far from agreeable, but
many of them were soldiers sons and
had no thought of grumbliDg, remem-
bering what hardships their fathers en-
cOuntered on the same ground. It is
unfortunate that these young men, the
bulk, indeed, of the volunteer army.
should have been so misrepresented by
the discontinued element that for
time they all seemed to the public to be
almost in state of INSTRUMENTATION.
The false reports circulated concerning
the condition of camps, treatment by
officers, insufficient rations, etc., and
the childish grumbling over inevitable
the men in the ranks, by appearing to
include them all in the list Of "kick-
ers." Now that the truth is made clear
by the return of regiments in good
physical condition and the denial by
the trustworthy majority Of the wild
tales of suffering and starvation that
had preceded them, the public is like
ly to be less ready to accept such re-
ports in future until after investigation.
A returned Missouri soldier is reported
as saying that great indignation was
aroused in his regiment at Camp
Thomas when New York papers arrived
containing complaints about the treat
ment OF soldiers there. AS he put it,
they were ''red hot" and would have
"blanketed" the fellows who gave out
the stuff if they could have been 10
Gated. If blanketing were judicious1y
applied by his comrades to every chron-
ic wilmer in camp the fashion of max
ing petty complaints are magni-
fed as they pass on until they do in
jury to the country itself-the habit
would soon be abandoned. It is really
the necessary discipline and restrictions
Of the army of which these grumblers
complain, but little more discipline
would be wholesome - indianapolis
Journal.
The Foreigner Gets the Freight,
Satisfaction for the magnificent
showing of the "balance of trade" for
consideration that our tremendous ex-
port business was SO largely done in
foreign ships.
AS has been recently shown, Ameri-
can products sent to foreign markets
pay $3OO,OOO,OOO year to foreign ship
owners.
We abandoned the protective policy,
so far as it applies to shipping in for
eign waters, in 1915. The result Is
that, with the greatest export business
in the world, American commerce,
meaning carrying trade to foreign
ports, is nothing like as large as it was
when we began doing business as an
independent nation. Seventy years
ago the PERCENTAGE of American car
riage in foreign trade was 92.5; when
the civil war began, 65.2; when it end
ed, 275 and last year 0.
If one Of the big stores on Westmin-
ster street should hire the delivery
wagons of it's competing neighbors to
deliver it's goods to customers the i'm
preston that that concern was doing
business in very foolish way would
evidently be justified. And that the
American nation, with it's growing
trade, pays foreign ship owners for
hadling it, is, quite as plainly, bound
less folly.-Providenc Or. II News.