Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-09-01

The brave boys who went to war q few
months ago are coming home now, not
SCARED by enemies bullets, but with ranks
depleted from starvation and disease. 1t
seems almost incredible that the soldiers
of the nation that feeds the world should
be allowed to die in camp for want of
bread.
Here are few lines written home by
Frank Warren, of Ashland, Pa, from
Chickamauga, and published in Tuesday 3
Inquirer -
Mother don't think am joking when
l ask you to send me a loaf of bread,
really mead 1t, Pm almost staryed.n
He was among those moved to Philadel-
phia last week, and he died in the Episco-
pal hospital on Monday
The effects of soldier who died in Cuba
were sent to his family in Ohio. Among
them was his diary, and the last entry,
made two days before his death was.
" It's horrible to die of starvation"
These are not isolated cases they are re-
peated in every camp except that at Tampa
Florida, where Fitzhugh Lee is in com
mand, and the people and press of the
cou. try demand to know where the re
sponsibility for this condition of our troops
rests.
Secretary of War Alger says there is
nothing to investigate. No reason to fix
the responsibility, because it is the natural
results of war.
The fear is we'll nigh grown to convic
ton that the men who held the public
purse and were charged with the duty of
providing for the men in the field, are the
enemies the country has most to guard
against, and that the battle 10 ferret them
out and prove their guilt, will be the
fiercest of the peaceful battles in our
history.
The Editor-Justice at Glassboro, Sea-
brook, is evidently at sea in the justices
business. It is really pitiful TO see a
mariner OF placid brooks exploiting his
craft in deep water, whether it be by sea
or by law.
dis explanation of his disposition of the
complaint against HibIer is one that don't
SQUARE his action with his plain duty.
Hibler's crime was in agreeing to transfer
properly over which he had no control, and
then decamping with the money advanced
BY Wrigley as an evidence of good faith in
a real estate transaction. Justice Seabrook
issued criminal warrant on which he was
a rested and returned to GIassboro
The Justices duty was not to recover the
$50; he had nothing to do with that, but,
after satisfying himself OF Hiblers guilt as
charged, to commit him to Jail or admit
him to bail to appear before the Grand
Jury.
None of these features, however, seem to
have entered into the case. The Editor
Justice saw $50, and fee. His duty to
the State and society were over-shadowed
b o figure 5 and an 0.
Justice Seabrook invoked the law TO
hiring HELLER to Glassboro, and when the
allegation of the complainant was acknowl-
edged, Seabrook stifled justice and trampled
law in the dust.
Time was when such INSTRUMENTATION
would have aroused the people to indig-
uant protest then Justice was enthroned
and law was administered with an even
hand but the new dispensation seeks only
after money and justice laDguishes in
sack-cloth and ashes. The Glassboro
Editor-Justice evidently aimed to follow
the path of others, but he oyer-sterped
the mark.
Mr.. Seabrook would eviuce an ability TO
grow into usefulness in the office Of Justice
e The Peace If be would manfully acknowi-
edge bis wrong in this bis first case, and
resolve hereafter to be guided BY the law,
not By certain presidents.