The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-08-11

4gendA, ~ bccAgatiofsto thbs
s''sas 10 ssss Eess5ths
sickly season is over
! To the strictly military mind, the
protests signed by generals OF Shat
lter,a armx. against keeping them at
ttSaptiago, to Die OF reach q state OF
IdlbilitatA ReIple4ucss from fever
-wI.ieh,the 4aiser-ferwarded:t to Wash
ington, presented case OF insubor,
bhstibnI flat in any well-regulated
Eufopeiah army would have resulted
! III the eourtAmartial of every signer
of the "reund robin" But to the
relatives and friends OF the men who
fwere dying by inches from the effects
of the climatic conditions around
Santiago, whose removal was un-
questionably hurried by the publica-
ton, charged to Col. Theodore Rose
Welt. Of the ground robin" although
the War Department officials presist
in denying it, the protest was a good
thing. The people OF this country
care more for the welfare of the men
who compose the army than they do
for strict military rule. War De-
partment officials know this; that is
why they started to bring Skaters
men home so quickly. 1t is,perhaps,
fortunate for the men whose names
were attached to the Santiago Ground
robin" that the war is about over.
The public reprimand given to Col.
Roosevelt, by Secretary AIger, for
sentiments expressed in private let
ter. is an indication of what they may |
expect while they remain in the SER
vice.
The President of the Cuban Pro-
visional government has written
President Mckinley long letter, ex-
pressing thanks to and confidence in
the U. S, but the most important
in the letter is that which
outlines the intentions of the insur-
gents. 1t says: "Our first step,
with the approval of the U. 5. Gov
eminent, will be to call a new as
sembly, which will represent, as far as
possible, every section of territory
and condition of people. This as
sembly will elect new provisional
government that will possess more
powers than the present one, which {
s, of necessity, a government Of the l
evolution. But the result of the new
assembly will be to form a govern !
nent which will still be limited in
power and whose important work will
re the establishment of a permanent
md complete government, founded
N the lines of that of the u. s., and c
me which, we hope, and have every
eaSon to believe, will be satisfactory, |
10Th to the U. 5. and Cuba" The a
he prevailing impression in Wash
ngton is that Cuba will remain under
J. ;. Military Government for some "
ime before the Cubans are allowed
D make any experiment in governing c
ne. CT
That there are good things in II
aternal system of government must T!
admitted by every man who will ~
IKE the trouble to investigate. The m
I. 5. Consul at Chemnitz, Germany, &C
oseS a report TO the Department of
tate on the value of the German pl
Orking mems insurance system, W
hich provides not only for the pay in
ent of death indemnity, but for the on
ire of the sick and their families for in
:cidents, old age, and incapacity to to to
ork from any cause, by saying: ali
Whether a system which makes so
UGH for paternaism is one to com
end, | cannot say. Its effects here
we been anything but bad.
'verty, in spite of poor wages, is g.,
actically unknown" The fund =.
I'm which this insurance is paid 80
mes from both employers and> en-
'yeS, the former paying one-third 81,
d the later two-thirds. The in ala
rance is compulsory.