The Advocate and news., 1898-09-28
Medicine Lodge Index:
IN
GENERAL.

farious business will get chance to
make living honOrably.
Spring Hill New Era: The plan for a
strict medical examination Of every man
mustered ont of the army is an excellent
one, and will be a good safeguard against
the granting Of fraudulent pensions thir-
ty or forty years from now.
WestmOreland Signal: The people
have noticed how earnest Republican pa
pers have endeavOred to set forth the
idea that the Republican administration
has been the cause Of a great wave OF
prosperity and good prices; and as soon
as the prices go down they at once cry
OverprOduCtiOn.
Arkansas City Democrat: It is some
times asked what If Bryan had been
elected President, how would the nation
have Jared in this late war? We are not
exactly informed just what Mr.. Bryan
would have done, but we do know that
II he had been President Alger would
never have been appointed Secretary Of
War.
Chanute Blade: President Mckinley
owes 1t to his country to order a strict
investigation Of the many scandalous
rumOrs relating to the condition and
care of the American soldiers after bat
tie and in camp. II the rumOrs be un-
true, 1t will benefit none so much as the
officials who now stand accused, and II
they be true, everybody has a perfect
right to the full details.
Detroit Free Press: There is a strik-
ing resemblance between the old-time
exclusiveness of the Mongolian people
and the Chinese wall theory of our own
prOteCtionists, and it may have been in
this particular that Senator Davis lik-
ened this country to China, for there Is
absolutely no further feature In which
the two countries have been alike. II
this is what he means by asserting that
the United States has ceased to be the
China Of the Western continent he Is
announcing the downfall of Dingleyism.
Great Bend Beacon: When Peoples
party officer does not do to suit his con-
stituents he hears from home in no un-
certain tones. He is plainly told Of his
failures to do his duty. But when Re-
publican officer goes wrong he is defend
ed by nearly all the leading men of his
party, and by many Of the common vot-
ers over the land If you want to see
positive proof Of this assertion look at
the case Of Secretary Alger. II he were
q Populist or Democrat the Republicans
of Kansas with one voice would condemn
him for his criminal negligence. Why
should the best pretending people in our
country support and sustain, even by
their silence, such disgraceful official
performances as he has been guilty of
in the last war?
Seneca News: Republican managers
are becoming scared over what is likely
to develop They fear the effect Of as
founding revelations daily coming out
showing how many men were killed
without a chance to face the enemy by
being improperly fed when well, and
either starved to death or killed by the
lncOmpetency of medical officers when
i'll. They are also frightened at the pros
peCt Of 100000 emaClated soldiers drag
glng their exhausted frames through the
Congressional districts Of the Union at
ter their muster out from national SER
vice. These fearful human object les
NOho AOlAOWAhb ~ 1LOnSAy upOu luS hA~
founding revelations of how the war was
run by Alger and his men as a private
enterprise for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
personal and political friends, they fear,
will lose them the lower house Of Con-
gress.
National Intelligencer (WashingtOn):
Secretary Alger Is too busy playing pol
itfrG with Tom Platt md Nthar crnnioo
to issue any orders about the troops
returning from the South, or to inquire
whether they are receiving proper treat
ment at the hands of the government.
AS q matter Of fact, they are dying by
dozens for the lack of the common ne
cessities of life. They are shipped from
Southern camps like Texas cattle, but
with far less provision for their welfare.
Train loads of troops have passed
through this city without q single sur