The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-10-22

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camps, hundreds Of young men
are being murdered BY preyentabIe
diseases. Less than 500 killed in
war, more than 1900 killed In
camps What record of murder
for the Republican party to face I
No wonder that when mckinley
visited his home at Canton the
other day the crowd at the station
had No cheers for him.
As soon as peace was concluded
they should have been mustered out
and sent home at once.
They remained where they are,
not because the country needs
their service, but because the off,
GERS need their salaries, and the
contractors need their profits.
Many of the officers have been
receiving higher pay since the
war began than they ever re-
ceived before and they are de-
termined to make hay while the
sun shines.
The railroad companies are
piiing up millions through the
travel to and from the camps, and
they want to prolong it for few
unnecessary months.
And the poor private soldier re-
eeives less attention than the mules
that drag the baggage wagons.
He has no money, no influence,
no property, no pull, nothing but
his life.
He offered the government ali he
had, and the government takes it
and throws it away.
Typhoid, diarrhea, pneumonia,
and In some eases actual starvation
are moving down the ranks of the
volunteers Exc grapeshot, while
Alger the timber grabber, Alger
who had to resign during the civil
var to escape being court-martial-
ed as a coward, Alger the incom--
petent corporation tool, is talking
business with the agents of the
trusts.
While Alger has been riding in
his special palace car, hundreds of
sick volunteers have been jammed
ike cattle in the box cars and
jolted from station to station.
Shampoo Shafter must have his
slightest wish grstifed at once, but
the weak and emaciated volunteers
must sleep on foul blankets, and
dying men must gasp in vain for q
drop of water.
Comrade from San Francisco
tells me that Camp Merritt, near
that city, is located partly in an
old Chinese graveyard and partly
in a filled-in swamp.
The camp was placed here to
please the Market Street Railway
Company, In spite of the fact that
there is a government reservation
near by of / 500 acres of beautiful
located land.
The boys in Camp Merritt are
learning a few things. They will
be better listeners In future to the
socialist doctrine that officers shall
be chosen by the soldiers them
selves, that there shall De no con-
tractors to make profit by supply
ing poor food and clothing, and
that no private railway company
shall influence the government to
place them in a fever spreading
camp.
1t is to be hoped that the cyclone
of indignation which seems about
TO sweep over the country, will not
spend itself in merely blowing
Alger and two or three Others into
private life.
Others of little more ability will
take their places.
Let the cyclone burst upon the
ring of fnanciers, which has be-
come mightier than the govern
meat.
Hanna is their political agent, |
aud McKinleys their mortgaged |
vassal.
They care no more for the life,
liberty and happiness of common |
soldiers, or common people Of any
kind, than an elephant cares for
the ants beneath his feet.
Wendell Phillips once gave the
workingmen voters of America the
motto: eve never forget" Re-
menber the motto when 1900
Remember these tales Of horror
hat are sent from every camp, and
when Bourke Cochran delivers q
$50, 600 Grafton on 'The Glorious
War Record Of the Republican