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The times., 1898-09-10
The District Hasi Proof.

The tens of thousands of people who
lined the streets of Washington from
early in the morning until four o'clock
in the afternoon to welcome the Dis
trict soldiers home, yesterday, had a
comparatively small proof of what has
been charged against the war manage
ment. 1t is admitted that our boys
suffered less than most In getting from
Montauk to their destination. They
were notified that a train would be
ready for them at the station al GER
tain hour. Delighted with the pros
pect of coming speedily home, they
were prompt in reaching the depot.
only to find that the quartermaster'
department had not notified the rail-
road company, and. of course, no train
was ready. However. they were COM
PEELED to wait only six hours for train
to be made up, which is much less than
the delay in the case of the "Presi-
dents Own and Senator Mason's pro-
teges, the First Illinois or Chicagos
pride Then. too, the weather was not
So hot 1t would have been the same if
the mercury had raised the top of the
thermometer.
LIE utter anu
positive carelessness and brutal indif-
ference of the quartermasters depart
ment to the discomfort and dangerous
exposure of sick soldiers-no one can
deny or excuse. The railroad officials
have proved all-the lack of method
and the lack of ordinary humanity on
the part of that department. 1t was
agreed that the Long Island Railroad.
which had not expected TO carry SOL
diers, should have a days notice when
ever a train was required. In no sin
gle instance has the quartermaster'
Office given such a notice. Regiments
have received orders to take trains at
a particular hour and after breaking
camp and tottering to the shadeless
station, have found no train ready and
the railroad officials ignorant of the or
ders to move. They have kept the
wires hot asking for information from
that quartermasters Office, but have
received no replies. Whether the re-
sponsible army officials. are drunk or
simply crazy is not known-but If 1t
were drunkenness. surely there would
be sober intervals.
What we have noted about the trans
portation department is logical and
necessary consequence of the seeming
| Indifference of the War Department to
the needless sufferings of our soldiers.
If the Secretary had investigated the
first series of grave blunders and de-
fects in Cuba, dismissed the guilty Off
/ GERS iii disgrace, and sent them to the
! Dry Tortugas for life, none of these
/ later Affections would have tortured
the sick and the half-sick volunteers.
Finding that no penalty follows neglect
and buns ling the incompetents have
continued their cruel work
In the wasted forms that passed up
Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday, many
in carriages, the people of the District
saw a few of the victims. not only Of
General Incompetency. but also of Cen
eral Indifference. They came within
sight of the War Office.
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Miles and Publicity.

(From the Brooklyn Eaye.j
Gen Miles takes what is virtually and seusibly
stand for this very publicity that the bu-
reaucrats in Washington want to suppress There
has been much tamrering With reports this
Summer. Even the press has been In'.. al \
reporter who had worked ior IS week on one
of the Manhattan papers, and Who has never been
distinguished for either brilliancy Judgment
has been placed in authority abo"e the press that
is called the palladium of peoples Liberties
and has used his discretion and ioosld his
own fancy in monkeying with other peoples lit
erature. So far dispatch might app9ise an
enemy OF the movement of a fleet or an amy
its suppression is right. The undue publication
of such an incident might cost the nation mil
lions in money and many lives Some o; the
things suppressed by the censor did rot spprise
the enemy and the censor also failed 10 take into
account the fact that it Spanish enemy.
anyhow, who would not wake up to fact until 1t
was week too late. even though it were printed
in yelow-journal job type and held foot from
his face Where government repres uts, ard
does not rule, it is the right of the people to
know every act OF that government as soon rs
policy makes it feasible to do so, and it IS the
duty of that government to report the fact.
Gen Miles proposes to report some facts s.nca
he finds the authorities in Washington backward
about it.
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turer pointed out that the tubercuIar
kernels were found in almost every part
of the body of a tubercular animal
Wherever there was a gland affected
there might be a tubercular focus In
experiments, then with cooked meat. a
small proportion of animals fed with it
had contracted the disease. If only 1 per
cent were affected, they would represent
a vas, number of human beings who
might contract the disease The baciIH
however. were not in the meat itself. as
a rule. but in the glands and various
organs. and in the covering of those or
ganS as they lay in tie chest or abdo-
men. Inspection and cooking were un-
doubtedly safeguards when we'll carried
out.
Further on in your article you con-
denim the slaughter of tubercuIar cattle
stating: The scare period has passed.
and more sensible views are being adopt
ed. Sanitary stables. fresh air and sun-
light are found to be better than the
pole-ax."
You grant hygienic measures a power
10 stamp out tuberculosis. superior to
the removal of the cause which produces
that disease. Every one admits that tu-
berculosis is caused by germs called ba-
cilli tuberculosis. and DR.. Woodhead. in
common with all sanitarians, assents thai
all measures for the maintenance of
health in animals are inimicaI to these
bacilli. There should be plenty of light
ard ventilation in the stables. The ami
mails should have good food, and be kept
under favorable hygienic conditions.
There is no contest here between hygiene
and the pole-ax. The Dole-ax is re-
herds because hygiene has been neglect
ed
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Worse than a thirteen-inch shell IN the
War Office is the report of the army board
on Camp Thomas. Where now is the
Boynton sc-eed? If there is the possibility
of feeling in an office which has been sat
isfied with a thin coating of whitewash
over a fearful and significant death rec
ord. we may expect somebody to commit
suicide For the army boards report is
an indictment for murder. 1t is positive
affirmation that hundreds of the lives of
our sturdiest sons and most eager heroes
have been sacrificed to appalling incompe-
tency or criminal neglect. 1t is no sensa-
tional newspaper that damns the Boyn-
ton report and holds up to the execration
Of a justly indignant people the real mur-
derers 1t is board of regular army Off
GERS who refute the slander of the soldiers
and their regimental commanders.
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The Commission compIeted.

The naming of Senator Gray of Del
aware as member of the bi-national
Peace Commission completes the
American half of that body. The best
friends of President Mckinley viii
hardly be able to say more for h.s last
appointment than TO express hope that
the instructions of our representatives
may be so completely in the line of
what the American people demand as
to render the personnel of the Commits
sion a matter of Indifference.
Otherwise, there is reason to fear
that the change from Judge White to
Senator Gray viii not be regarded in
the light of a decided Improvement.
If the American members of the Peace
Commission are not placed in that po-
sition with view to carrying out the
national policy of expansion, and TO
register the popular determination to
hold and develop all territory captured
from Spain, it would be rather difficult
to understand what good purpose they
are expected to subserve. Yet, from
that point of view. it is hard to recon-
ciIe Mr. McKinley's promise to obey
the will of the people in the matter of
the Philippines with the appointment
of such a Commissioner as Mr. Gray.
We are always chary about critics.
ing the President. His desire to do
what is right is something almost al
ways to be assumed. Sometimes, how
ever, it appears to be subordinated to
a good -natured wish to please infiu-
ences which, no matter how obnoxious
they may be to the country, certainly
deserve well of him. in view of what
/ they did to promote his candidacy and
election in 1896. Senator Gray is gen.
| orally regarded as representative in
politics, and occasionally in a private
capacity of some of these influences.
BY sort of fiction which Mr.. McKin-
| ley may regard as allowable, his latest
| Peace Commissioner is described as a
/ Democrat, and his selection referred to
a desire to give that party representa- :
| ton. We like the President so we'll
| that we are sorry to think he should
| have been influenced to gratuitously
affront the Democratic organization of
the country. Considered as a Demo-
| crat," John G.. Carlisle or Grover Cleve-
land. on the Peace Commission, would
have been quite as acceptable to the
party they tried to destroy as George
Gray.
That phase of the case might be over
looked if the appointee were a man
otherwise in line with the country on
questions of patriotism and national
policy. On the contrary, few persons
in public life during the past year or
two have made themselves more OBJ
noxious in opposing everything tend
ing to American interests and honor
in connection with our foreign rela-
tions. Mr.. Gray will long be remem-
| bered as the ablest member of the
small but venomous Spanish party in
the Senate which would have main
tanned active alliance with Spain in the
war of Cuban butchery and extermina
ton, and which has been a consist
ent enemy of Hawaiian annexation and
everything else in the direction of oul
commercial and territorial expansion
If Mr.. Gray's appointment to the
Peace Commission were intended as 9
The times., 1898-09-10
TUBERCULOUS CATTLE.
Dangers From Using MIX From the
Diseased Animals.
Qetter to the Toronto

Uetter TO the Toronto Globe
In leading article published on Au-
gust 16 you quote with approval an ex-
tract from the British Royal Commission.
1896, which states that mo really accu-
rate and trustworthy statistical data are
available as to the influence of the meat
and milk of tuberculous animals when
used as food for adults us for infants
and young children. respectively DR..
c. Sims Woodhead, director of the Ia
boratories of the Royal Colleges of Ply
sicians and Surgeons London, in a re-
cent address before the Cheshire Cham
Der of Agriculture, gave some details on
this subject which may prove interesting
to your readers.
He stated that it was recognized that
milk from tuberculous animals had the
power of setting up most active tubercu-
lar processes He could not help attri-
buting the affections of the glands in the
neck which occurred in many weakly
children. to the consumption of milk from
cows with tubercular udders. He also at
tributed to the same cause large num-
ber of cases of Inflammation of the bow
els among children. In regard to milch
cows, there were many dangerous cases
where the disease was not dangerous
where the disease was not suspected and
where the udder might be affected with
out there being any definite sign in the
earlier process of the disease. Milk was a
diet which in ordinary circumstances was
not submitted to processes of cooking. 1t
was because so much unboiled milk was
drunk that the danger arose. Dairy cat
tie should be kept under rigorous obser-
vation. In Edinburgh, in 1880. where 300
mich cows had to be slaughtered owing
to pleuro-pneumonia 1t was found that
12O. or 40 per cent, were tuberculous.
In one case the cows affected were IL
the proportion of SO out of 100. With re
gard to the liability of meat TO convey
! tuberculosis to human beings. the lee
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Chamberlain on Imperialism.


The British secretary of state for the colonies
is not seeking distinction huInorist. He
was serious when lie said in reply to question
about the Philippines: .1CwevCr much | would
like TO talk upon this matter. ! must net do
so'' Then he hastened to explain tfat anything
he might say the subject would seem like
advice to America from foreign statesman,
which, beside being invidious, would also be inn
pertinent. Having thus, 10 speak, placed
upon his lips the seal of propriety, he proceeded
to declare that ii took the Philippines we
would make it manifest to the world that do
not propose TO be left cut of the Pacific and
China trade. With scrupulous regard for the
seal OF p:opriety, he also intimated that the
tendency OF recent events had been to close the
ports of China to England and the United States.
Then, lest it should for moment be supposed
that he could possibly be sufficiently inyidious
impertinent to give advice, he brought the
case to a climax by asserting that the one thing
the continental powers are afraid OF Is that an
understanding shall be come to between the
United States and England. Thus is it made
clearly apparent that advice can be given and
withheld in the same breath, that the British
secretary of state for the colonies is not a
humorst. and that our distinguished visitor has
come here solely for the purpose of securing re-
lief from the strain Of a pethorc portfolio.
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enlist in the war. and not their love Of
battles and camp.
These. then, are among our richest
Jewels. Ragged. soiled. with sunken
cheeks and unsteady feet, they return
as conquerors. but without the spoils of
captured cities. They return, many of
them poorer in purse as we'll as In
health, from the service of humanity,
to take up the quiet pursuits of civil
not much that we of more common clay
can do for them in the way of honors.
They have glorified their lives by their
service, and our poor praises can only
honor ourselves. 1t is something in our
favor that we have a sense of their
value and of the fact that they alone
have done anything TO make the gen
Grafton live in history. We should
count il privilege that we can help
some of them in a material way. Three
hundred. at least, have lost their
chance at bread winning by their hero
may try to pay some little part of our
debt to them by enlarging the fund
already established. and by opening
ways for their employmtnt when they
are restored TO health and normal
strength.
The times., 1898-09-10
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
Some Figures From the Treasur
UureaH of Statistics.

The fact that British imports into the
United States have fallen off greatly in
the past year, while American exports
to Great Britain have greatly increased,
has been announced from time to time,
but the full years figures, just presented
by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics,
bring to the surface some interesting de-
tails not heretofore published
These show that while the exports from
the United States TO the United Kingdom
have increased u per cent, the imports
from the United Kingdom have fallen off
S5 per cent. The exports from the United
States to the United Kingdom during the
past year were, in round numbers, five
times as much as the imports from the
United Kingdom. the figures OF the Bu-
reau of Statistics being:
Imports from the United Kingdom, SIO9-
1896; exports to the United Kingdom.
$40 500, 152. The following table gives the
values in pounds sterling,
Exports OF principal articles from the United
Kingdom to the United States in the year end
ing ,Iuup 1888.
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Must Have an investigation.

J
The moreothe people see and hear of the whole
miserable business the convinced they are
of the necessity for thorough investigation Of
the misconduct of the from start to finish
an investigation which viii reach from the bet
tom to the very top, and fix the responsibility
for the incompetency and criminal blunderins
which have Brought needless suffering and death
to so many brave fellows To every American
citizen occurs the thought, What would have
happened if we had been at war with frst-cla IS
power? and in the answer to that thought LES
the resolution that must have such in
vestigation as will not only reveal individual ig-
norance indifference, and incapacity, but make
clear the defects in our military system itself as
a preliminary to its radical reorganization.
The times., 1898-09-10

Never in the history of Washington, not
even when the veterans of the sixties
marched over the same route our return
ed soldiers followed, has there been pop
ular demonstration with the same amount
of heart in it as that of yesterday. 1t
was plain that the Districts sons had
suffered much for the hottest cause that
ever inspired hero and every intelli-
gent observer felt ennobled by their pres
ence
The times., 1898-09-10
The siaran af 1saS.

(From the Mount Holly, n j., Democrat.)
The Washington Times says that the Democrat
ic candidate for governor of New York must be
"a Democrat of 1885,
That's the slogan! and good enough war cry
to carry victory where victory is possibility.
The echo of the sentiment has reached New
Jersey and is being taken up and carried along
with much enthusiasm and earnestness. 1t sounds
right, and is right.
''Tbe Democratic candidate for governor of
New Jersey must be Democrat OF 1906" Pass
it along!
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compliment to the Sagasta govern
ment. and a covert promise to surren-
der the Philippines and force the Gu
bans to pay the Spanish bonds. we
could understand the Presidents ac-
ton. AS 1t is, he leaves us so much in
the dark that we shall really have to
ask Mr.. Mckinley what he means by
The times., 1898-09-10

Until the responsibility for the bungling
and neglect that has slain so many of
our soldiers and wrecked the strength OF
nearly all has been placed on other
shoulders, the occupants of the War Of
fee must have strange feelings as the
victims come in sight on their homeward
march
The times., 1898-09-10

We have welcomed back our loyal sons
with cheers Now let us prove the graft
tude and pride we expressed by practical
aid to all the soldiers who need it. The
fund should be many times larger than
it is. and the person who does not eonsid-
err it a rare privilege to add what he
can to it is unit to enjoy the blessings
Of liberty. to promote which these heroic
men offered their lives.
The times., 1898-09-10

There could be no doubt of the hearth
ness of the welcome home-or of the in
tense feeling inspired by the pitiable
wrecks that followed the marching he
roes in carriages. If there was a lack of
cheers now and then, it was because of
the tears that choked the utterance of the
spectators. God bless our brave boys
was the sentiment of the day.
The times., 1898-09-10

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Reats Their RecOrd.

(From the New Orleans Times Democrat.)
visitor from the North stood in a machine
shop near the river front and watched the big
fy-wheel Of an engine whiring on its tireless
round. ..Wbat i the speed of that wheel?' he
asked mechanic at neighborirg bench. "0h,
it makes about ninety revolutions a minute.
said the workman. Ninety revolutions a mir
ute, mused the stranger. what a great thing
that would be for the Central American trade"
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In Vermont.
(From the New York Evening

From the New York Evening Pcst)
The result of tho State election in Vermont
Yesterday is most significant. 1t shows that the
people of the country are Disputed with Alger-
ism. and that they propose to administer a
stingirg rebuke to the Administration at the
congressional elections in November. unless it
shall in the meantime unload Algerism.
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Gen. Miles.

(From the Boston Journal)
History will award Gen. Miles very large
sfare OF the credit OF the vcto. ious Santiago
campaign as well as of the marveiously-swift
and decisive work in Porto Rico.
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A. Redeerning Trait.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune)
Now Zola is coming to America He is not
man to admire, but his courage in the face of
the opposition to Dreyius and later Developments
IS much to his credit. Pluck is something the
American people admire.
The times., 1898-09-10
Passing 1t Along.

(From the Chicago Dispatoh.)
The surgeons give the commissary department
all the blame, the commissary department. gives
il to the generals. and the generals give it to
the War Department. It's general ''giye
away all round.
The times., 1898-09-10
Play or Leave the Game.
fFrom the Richmond Times.l

Alger said 'Aliles is no fool" and again.
"Ailes is too good a soldier to have talked 50. :"
Miles, however, says his interview was correctly
reported Now let Alger push in his stack OF
reds OF get out OF the game.
The times., 1898-09-10
1t VIII Not Here.
-NOt
From the Rochester Herald.

tFrom the Rochester Hcrald.)
The sitting of investigation of army cor
ruption and mismanagement ought not to sue
ceed either in France or the United States.
The times., 1898-09-10

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