The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-17
FOR THE CHICAGO PLATTORM
Tho Horrors of NlontauIs.

MOntauk Point is as near the jumping
on place as IL Is possible 10 get ln the
Eastern country. There is a 1.-the wooden
railroad station and am implanted eating
house. where they sell sandwiches and
pie and milk that is sour or on the turn
some OF the time there Is also a water
tank and TWO piers. Then comes sandy
road that winds mp over q hill, and then,
scattered over the hills and hollows,
are white tents ia ciumps, with sentinels
20 turn YOU back. There is "a road wind
ing about. that once ln awhile upsets a
wagon. and there are the finest and sleek
est mules iu the United States driven oy
the most accomplished swearers in the
same United States. III these teamsters
were not cOl0red cavalrymen, used 10 the
angles of the army, they would al lose
their minds. for the order of One minute
is cOuntermanded the next and this iu
turn is re-cOuntermaudcdi but d. - AN
in the days work with the teaius,eia,
and they have reached the point where
they don't worry. But AN This pals on
the civilian and especially The trained
nurse who is accustomed TO having
things run smoothly WAY it is hard TO-
get such is perhaps now little palmer.
Also the nurse has 90 sleep on the
ground.
or course. the sick soldier grumb.es.
He does that naturally. Whether he IS
justified in grumbiing when Dee has To peg
Tor hours for a glass of milk before iHe
attendant brings it, is for The d-passlon-
ate Judge t0 say. When MS breakfast
ls brought 20 his bedside one morning al
o'clock and the next morning az III, ana
when the staple medicine is quiniue for
everything perhaps me IS grumoing
merely 20 make conversation. Perhaps
these stories are untrue. and yet one may
hear worse than that if he Will but listen.
But he need not merely listen. Let
him get down 10 camp from the Ihlrd
House some morning az o'clock. There
are such hours and they turn out TIE
sick folk at them. Let him see me
camp ghosts come mp TO sick call
yellow. dead-and-alive things u-ey are.
with lips that are Che color of pare
feh-worm. They t0ttcr along 20 the doc
tor's tent and wait an hour or so tih
their names are called, not resting 10
some cosy armchair but sitting on the
Grass wet with tho heavy dews that fall
ar that point OF land surrounded by the
.ea. They get their dose Of quinine-it
there are other drugs in the pharma-
conoetia OF the surgeon he doesn seem
20 know it-and then they tOtter back
and wait an their fever goes down a bit'
else the drug does little good Iheir tenn
nerature is at the danger point or one
brnd~ed and three and one hundred and
four degrees. For days some men are
,inable to turn out for their medicine, and
their "bunkies" fetch II Tor them. This
SORT Of thing. when seen. tends 90 make "a
man think that perhaps the soldier does
MOT gruluble much more than he has
richt 10. or course. II the camp were tar
from home In some country where u Is
hard 10 get supplies and the little dam
lies that tempt the appetite when man
Is under the weather, the heart would not
bleed so much But with New YORK only
four hours away it docs seem haro.
IL Will Dee found difficult 20 convince
most people that physicians can let snch
things go on as are reported from mere.
They know the profession % Doe brave
ard generous and seif-sacrlfcing, ana
they can't think that army surgeons are
not. They are brave. There ISM sur
econ I'm the whole army that would thlnk
twice about the danger 10 himself or OPP
Grating on the firing line. with outlets
singing all around him. There IS not
man in the whole medical service trat
could be tempted with any money 10 90
dishonorable or unprofesslonal thing Men
who come out 10 camp 10 see q loVea BOY
or brother. and rave with passion wheh
,hsv see TIE poor fellow DYING from lack
OF care. vow they'd Ike ~ s'flnS M VII
lains up They are not viGelns. lheV are
slaves of a system. Physicians are TO-
erably touchy people at their best out
an army surgeon Is little the most OF