The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-06
HEARD IN GOTHAM.

New York, n. Y, September 3.-(Edl-
torial Correspondence)Ou Outside of the DIS
cussion of the hot spell----the hottest
Sentember known here since 1SS1----little
else is talked except the roasting every
hodv administers to the War De
partment for its starving and ill treat
ment of the men who volunteered to hght
Spain. The hot wave isn't half so not
as the Indignation felt on account of the
troops. You hear it eyerywhere-in the
cars. in the shops, in the brokers ofh-
ces. in the banks. You cannot buy a Toy
in department store without hearing the
shop girls blaze out their INDICATION
at the administration which has MUIR
dered and manned the young men who
went out to fight for their country
when the call was made.
There are three reasons why you see
and feel the rising tide of wrath
against Alger here more than elsewhere
/. New York always moves quickly.
One week will suffice to get campaign
red hot here while it will take three
months in North Carolina. Here a
population larger than i'll all North Car
DINA is huddled close together, they all
read the papers, they know every after
noon the minutest details of what hap
pened in the day, and they talk togeth-
er about it until their ideas make them
selves felt. Yon cannot ride from Cen
trail Park to the Bowery without feeling
the dominant sentiment.
9. New York troops composed large
share of the men who fought at San
tiago and who have been in the service
elsewhere. The people here know
them and feel a personal interest il
their treatment. They gather by the
thousands to see the troops leave the
trains. They watch them march up tn
streets. They see them lifted into ambu
lances. They see their bent and emacla
ted forms. their sunken eyes, their pal
faces and they contrast their appearance
to-day with the April days when the.
of health and the glow Of consclou
strength. More than that: the pest holes
called camps. where the soldiers suffer
are so near New York that many 0
the people have seen the suffering witt
their own eyes and others have bee
besieged by the appeals of the charitabl
to give to relieve the hardships of tn
troops in the camps.
3. The New York papers-all except
few thick and thin administration organ
print pictures of the camps, of the me
returning from the front and give tn
details of the horrors which the ineff
cheney Of Ayers favorites have brcugll
about The papers are full Of account
from the soldiers, the nurses, and eye
witnesses; they print the opinion of e2
pert physicians and others showing tina
those in authority located camps
places where they were warned it woul
be unsafe to locate them; and they 70
low up all the expert testimony an
pictures from life with vigorous an
ringing editorials that give expression
the sentiments of the people. 1T is q
WAYS difficult to tell whether Il pap'
reflects or makes public opinion. In Il
denunciation of Alger and others 81
are responsible for the inhumanity, Il
press and the people are in accord. II
press merely adding facts THAR are
much fuel to the fame that already rage
In staid old North Carolina, where '
are "slow to wrath we can have lit
conception of the oyerpowerins wrath