The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-01-27

but cannot. 1t is the most brutal and
senseless thing that young men calling
themselves gentlemen were ever guilty
Of The evidence already submitted has
shocked the nationy and if it cannot be
stopped the nation is ready right now
10 abolish the institution. 1t is dis
grace to humanity. But what concerns
me is TO find plausible reason for it
an excuse or palliation. The haZers
say that ii is to try young mans metal,
his courage That is false, of course, for
it requires no metal or courage 10 stand
guard over a dead rat or march along
side turtle or terrapin. The whole
course of treatment is one OF devlllsh
cruelty and insanity We are told that
some of those hazers were considered
very good, kindhearted boys at home pc
fore they went 10 that lunatlc asylum,
and hence il must be that association has
deranged them like it did for awhile at
Yale and Harvard and other Northern
colleges. A crowd of boys away of from
home influence will do what no one boy
will wish or dare to do at home or abroad.
had a dog once who was faithful ana
kinda good watch dog and fond of nay
children. | owned a flock of sheep and
he protected them, but when other dogs
in the dead hour of night and gave the
sign he would go with them two or three
miles and help to kill a score OF sheep
and be back at his post on the piazza by
daylight / would not believe it for
long time. but the neighbors came and
found wool in his teeth and he had to be
killed. i reckon that's what the matter
with those good-boy hazers. They have
got wool in their teeth and in nav opin-
ion, they ought to be treated like the
Frenehman did his dog. He wanted 10
break him of sucking eggs so he hung
him by the hind legs to a limb and bet
him swing for a day or two. A neigh
Dor said: "Why don't you hang him by
the neck and let him choke to death
NO. sare," he said me hangs heem by
de legs to geve heem time to tink vat
tam rascal he vas" Those haZers ought
to be hung by their hind legs until they
have time 20 repent. The catalogue OF
cruel and ririculous things that those
towards inflct upon freshman is fear
full. Some of them are unfit for publlca-
tion. / say towards because it is
maxim that a cruel man is coward. If
they really wish TO test young mans
metal or courage why don't they shut
him in a room and go in one al a time
and fight him fist and skull. They are
towards that's all. They wouldn't fight
a Filipino hand to hand. They will
graduate towards and smell the Battle
from affair, and let the privates do the
fighting They are of the same breed as
General Miles. who put the manacles on
Jefferson Davis and tried to lie out OF
it. He won his spurs in Cuba by getting
on top of a hill and crying, Beef, beef,
beef" He reminds me Of Patrick Henry
great speech during the first revolution,
in which he scariiied man for crying
beef beef, beef, while the patriots were
fighting for independence. | have but
little patience with the modern West
Pointer General Otis is fair sample.
He whipped the Filir.los every day be-
fore the election. Pay and promotion is
their sole ambition. They are a stuck
up swell set and would establish mill
tary monarch if they dared.
see that some follow is
defending General George G. Thomas
and BLACK Jack Logan in a
New York paper. Well, | know all
z letter written to me by Thomas IN
which he denounces us all as traitors
and guilty of treason and says that trea-
son embodies all the crimes in the deca-
a
girls had improvised a tableau perform
ance in the city hall to raise a little
money to pay for replacing pulpits and
pews in the city churches. The sacri-
legious vandals had Quilted the churches
and used the pews for horse troughs
and the churches for storage of corn and
oats. One of the scenes in the tableau
was battlefield after the battle and
an old Confederate flag was lying down
on the floor. For this they were all ar
rested and the play broken up. AS | was
then the mayor of the poor little war
torn town / wrote a respectful letter to
Thomas asking for their release, and
asserting that no disrespect was intended.
He condescended to release them, but
scarified us and all the South in con-
temptuous and contemplate language and
warned us that rebel flag was the most
odious emblem of treason and must not
be exhibited in public nor harbored in
private. Well. the Light Guards have
got the old banner yet and show it when
they please. / have not forgotten that in
1851 two cavalry regiments were organ
lied and added 20 the United States army
by Jefferson Davis, the Secretary of War,
and that Thomas was major in one OF
them and of the fifty-one commissioned
officers thirty-one were from the South,
and of these there were twenty-four who
joined the Confederacy. Among these
were Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney john
ston, Joe E. Johnston, Hardee, Vandorn,
Kirby Smith, Hood and Fitzhugh Lee
What galaxy of traitors was there. But
Thomas was not among them If there
was any treason he was a traitor TO his
State. AS for Logan, let the old veterans
Of Cincennes tell. | saw recent letter
from one of them narrating how he tried
10 raise regiment in Kentucky to fight
on our side, but could not get but three
sickly companies and gave it up. Bur
| forbear. Let me stop a while and give
my indignation rest. If it was not rain
ing j would go out and dig some or chop
some wood. Dog-on-'e m. Confound en-
But l was considering this hazing bus
iness-this drinking tabasco and pepper
sauce and going through contortions un-
I'll the poor victim faints or has convul-
sons The dictionary calls it physical
persecution, and George W. Curtis. the
editor of Harpers Weekly, denounces the
whole system as a brutal and contempti-
BILE denial of fair play. And yet it is al
lowed and winl1ed at by The officers in
charge and no doubt the investigation