Washington sentinel., 1899-05-13

should have shrunk from not sc
very long ago."
Or what shall we do with a
soldier boy who comes home from
the Philippines and talks as one
did whose language is quoted in
the Salt Lake City Herald and
copied into the New York EVening
Posi-? We give the extract from
the Salt Lake City paper entire:
"'The boys are enduring hell and
damnatiOn, and no other language will
describe it, So said Alexander Don.
aldson Utah boy, who enlisted in the
Fourteenth Infantry at the beginning of
the war with Spain, and who yesterday
returned from Manila, the pest stricken
hell-hoe OF the Philippines. Donald
son, with his regiment, has fought
beside Batteries A and b, and has un-
stinteC praise 10 offer Tor the bravery
and the courage oi the Utah men-above
all. OF their noble leader and commander
Richard w. Young. 1t was awful, said
Donaldson. when we got into the fir
ing line. We had to lie on our bellies,
the order to advance. The + surtenth
Regiment was supporting Batteries
A and b, of Utah, aud when the
order to advance was given there was
not man but quiYered. We said good
bye to wives and children, and with
Major Young, his sword drawn, and in
front OF everybody, Utah batteries,
Fourteenth Infantry and all, went ahead
and did not stop until the town was
taken. The Fihpinos scattered before
the onslaught. Their dead bodies lay
in heaps. The sight was dreadful and it
seemed to me shame that such ignorant
men should be shot downi IN such fashion.
They have no idea of warfare; don't
know the first principle about il, and
vet IN these trenches the volunteers were
compelled to advance upon them War
is truly HE'LL"
Mr.. Atkinson's pamphlet, en-
titled "The He'll OF War;" is pro
hibited free circulation through
the mails; at least it must not be
sent to Manila. and the sapient
Griggs, by the grace OF Mckinley
Att, rney General Of the United
States, talks OF Mr.. Atkinson's
liability 10 criminal prosecution
"for seditious and reasonable ut
terances" in publishing such a
pamphlet. General Sherman once
said: "War is hell" What would
Griggs do to him if he were alive
and should say the same thing
again1 Or what would he have
done to the brave Colonel Stotzen-
berg, who fell fighting a few days
ago at the head OF the Nebraska
regiment, and who shortly before
he was killed was indiscreet enough
to say to the Correspondent OF the
Chicago Record, and whose words
have since been published
throughout the United States: 81
am tired OF fighting and l am tired
OF seeing my men killed. More OF
the men in my regiment have been
killed than in any other regiment
in the Philippines. Since March
as fifteen Of my brave boys have
been killed and Iao wounded, and
there are but $50 men in the regi-
ment."
All this is doubtless terribly
dIscouraging. But what are Griggs
and Mr.. Mckinley and the rest oil
the Administration going to do
about it7 Abolish the mails and
abolish the press, and prohibit as
"seditious" all reference 70 the "hell
Of war" and ITS horrors1 Really
the Attorney General should con-
suit the Revised Statutes again and
see if he cannot find something else
besides section 1884 with which to
reduce the utterers OF "sedition"
to ilence.-BalttMore SNN.