Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-01-18
SPOILED BEEF AND SPOIL
ED LANGU Ale.

SEOAAED BEEF AND SFOlk-
ED LANGUAGE.
The late war with Spain develop
ed two things outside of defeat of
the Spaniards, namely, spoiled
beef and spoiled language. A
great deal of the dressed beef sent
to the army spoiled, and how could
it be otherwise. A summer sun in
the tropics is sufficient to quickly
spoil fresh meet of any kind, and
particularly when handled as the
beef in the army was handled
Well the fresh beef spoiled, it did
not matter how it was prepared,
and then the commisSary depart
ment was blamed. General Miles,
commanding the armies of the
United States, On the witness
stand before an investigating com
mittee charged ''that the canned
and refrigerated meats sent to the
army in Cuba and Porto Rico were
unfit tor use ; that they were pre-
served by the use of chemicals, and
that they had been bought and
sent TO the army under pretense OF
an experiment" That startling
declaration has been hOtly denied
by Brigadier General Chas. p
Eagan of the COmmissary Depart
ment.
The testimony of the commander
of the armies of the United States
spoiled Eagan's language worse
than the Cuban sun spoiled the
beef, and caused Eagan to let him
self loose on General Miles, in the
following curb stone language
II answer that it was not fur
nished under the pretence of ex-
pertinent, nor even as an expert
ment, and when General Miles
charges that it was furnished as a
'pretense of experiment he lies in
his throat, he lies in his heart. he
lies in every hair of his head and
every pore of his body; he lies
wllfully, deliberately, Intentionally
and maliciously. If his statement
is true that this was furnished un
der 'pretense of an experiment. ;
then | should be drummed out of
the army and incarcerated in States
prison.
III MS ssEvvs1ent 3 jsiisa.s w
assert it to be, then he should be
drummed out of the service and
incarcerated in prison with other
libellers. His statement is a scan
daious libel rejecting upon the
honor of every officer in the de-
partment who has contracted for
"r purchased this meat, and espe-
cialiy and particularly on the COM
missary general = myself.
''ln denouncing General Miles
as ii liar when he makes this state
ment | wish 10 make it as emphatic
and as coarse as the statement il
self. | wish to force the lie back
into his throat covered with the
contents of camp latrine. 1 wish
To brand it as a falsehOOd of the
whole cloth without a particle of
truth to sustain it, and unless he
can prove his statement he should
he denounced by every honest man.
barred from the clubs, barred from
the society of decent people and so
Ostracised that the street bootblack
would not copdescend to speak to |
him, for he has fOuled his own
nest, he has aspersed the honor of
a brother officer without a particle
of evidence of fact to sustain in
any degree his scandalOus. libelous.
malicious falsehOOd, viz: That
this beef or anything whatever was
furnished the army under 'pretense
of experiment.
What the Commanding General
Miles will do with General Eagan
and his spoiled temper, and spoil
cd language remains to be develop
ed. The probability is Egan will
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