Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26

I'll IN or, if he really ever
~ ~ clapped eyes upon
any T mes he
must have been peculiarly deficient in
the capacity to properly judge them. The
sea soldier is neither guileless nor gullible.
The spear-dghting marines who manned the
poops of ancient Carthaginian or Phoeni-
clan war galleys may have been blandiy
Innocent, and therefore subject to the de-
oeptive chiseling of the oarsmen who an
swered 10 the biuejackets of modern times
or to :he p-ofit-seeking wiles of beach bar
terers- But any lands,nan who picks I'D a
marine of today-an American marine par
1iculaIly-for good thing" Is in for
sudden awakening The typical American
t Si OF the new navy of the United
States can be told few things that he
doesn't already know. One of the things
that the purveyor of gold bricks of all sorts
ought 10 know is that his wisest course is
10 Sneer off down the street when he es-
him.
Without considerably more than average
intelligence. no man enlist in the ma
rine guard of the American navy 1t stands
10 reason that such a man, who is likely
moreover. to have been around the world
several times on men-of-war within the
space OF Il couple of enlistments cannot
safely De regarded yokel or a simple
ZOE guiieless man is not ordinarily pos
sessed OF sang froid. Yet the newspapers
1rsouclance of Private Anthony's report as
commanding officers orderly to CAPTAIN
Slssoee Immediately after the Maine ex-
PtoSlon- Sir, have to report that the shin
has been blown up and is sinking" An
lhony was only marine but in the
nerve he exhibited at that crucial moment
ne was type of the whole American ma
line corps.
Are Fine Soldiers.
Military men of all branches know that
soldiers They undergo more rigid die
clpllne and perform at least twice the duty
OF the soldiers of the United States army
rive years Of service in the marine guard
give certain dignity to the man who. if
he had remained shore, would PERTAINS
ne n've learned the meaning of tbs
WORD Although marines are paid consid-
erdbiy less than rated bluejackets and do
soou ItSl more work (when their broken
!ioIIs Oh uutE are consideredD for their pay
they are nevertheless expected to SET a
soou example of faithfulness and sobrietv
IoF the men with the bell-bottom trousers
anu wheh they fail to do this they are pun
1shed a great deal more severely than are
hlueJackets for precisely similar offenses
oluej5cket petty officer standing at the
mast SIDE by side with a private marine
Eoth men being charged with some trivial
iiiiSHS iAitttor OF exactly the same sort
ABOARD ship. does not get half the dose
ii0nn me commanding officer that the sea
SoI'IeI toes. because not so much straight
lor"drtheSs Is expected of him despi,e the
tact that he carries the American eapie
atpp Oh the rating badge on his watch arm
mas beea discovered whenever l,n-
Usual occasions have demanded the serv-
Ices of American marines ashore that 49,,
knoW how to soldier up to the ton notch
Nhch the blg railroad strike was in pro-
SItSS IN California. in the summer of Iso1
and heavy trouble brooded over raiIroa5
cehters along the entire length of the
IodSt' the marine guard stationed
AT tie Mare Island navy ward was turneS
he
troops al Sacramento. Stockton, TrlIckee
anu other California towns The marines
showed themselves quite the equals of the
army troops in alertneSs, activity and
general soidierliEess. and the coIone, Of
artiHery, a fair man, in command of the
eItre brlgade-ne is now Gen. William
-lontrose Graham. commanding the nau
department of the south-did not fail 10
dwel upon this fact in his daily reDorts
10 the War Department from the scenes
~ me Fouoie- one of the marines at
iruckee bent the stock of his rifle i'm chm
pihS particularly violent rioter who was
atttrNafd convicted as an accessory in
oIIChlhss a train and causing the death of
-FOUR soldiers The marine was reproved b,,
MS company commander and came 49,
eettlhS court-n atrial on the charge of
c..IrTyihs government property.
Bullets, said the marine compsnv co,,-
Hdhutr. are cheaper than rifles
Never show the Yellow.
American m2rires have never vet been
>
got Eito tight places in performing land
ing-party duty in foreign ports. To films
ra's; A Few years ago. when Antonio
h~e'a the Gel raj American agftator was
peih@ chased by the government authorities
OF tle republic of Salvador he found asv-
IA IN ti4e iySlde1ce of the American con-
SHI a' La lLbertad, on the west coast II
was not long before the populace of Ia
Deitad o'gah TO rage around the Amer
.cdh consulate The populace wanted Eze-
garrison On the outskirts of La IibertaJ
that Ezeta was cornered in the Consulate
me american gunboat Benninston-now
Gown IN Horolulu harbor-was then in
the hdrbor OF La Liberiad and the Re-
nAGton marine guard. consisting of TWEEN
~ men. under comnaEd of a sergeant was
e zen, ashore by me captain at the request
OF the American consul. to protect his
residence and the refugee within il from
lhe iufl OF the moo-for Ezeta was citi-
zen OF the United States. albeit a profess
sional Central American peace-,iisturber
and adFenturer. The handful OF a marine
suaru arrived ashore at the consulate at
me same moment that battalion of $50
SaiVadorean soldiers, led by an ornateIy-
tedecked general got there The ma
r'nes surrounded the consulate and stood
of the swarthy. barefooted. extravagantly
uniformed SGlvsdorean outfit for eight
hours Then, by trick Ezeta In disguise
was smGSgled to the beach and taken of
70 the Bennington. which carried him TO
San Francisco to stand trial in the United
States courts for violation of the neutraI-
lily laws Ezeta would unquestionably
have been torn limb from limb by the SOL
ciers and citizens of La Libertad had IT
not been for the score OF American ma
rires- An officer of one of the motley Sal
vadorean companies was an American
free-lance from Cleveland Ohio who had
served in both the United States army and
navy the American ragged over the pu-
sillanimity of .he dark-skinned soldiers he
commanded, and shouted:
I'D undertake to lick the whole damned
Saivadorean army IL / had half dozen
marines of the United States navyi'
IL was fortunate for him that his men
didn't understand English.
Marines and Sailors.
Since the Maine disaster brought the two
American military services within the
strong light of public attention, there has
been good deal of entirely misleading
stuff published with reference to the al
legged cat-and-dog life led by marines and
sailors on board American men-of-war As
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