The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18

West Point, from the superintendent
down to the lowest corporal, by con-
trfbutory negligence, IL not by positive
sympathy. assist h hazers in lii
tanning the reign Of terror they have
established"
There are seventy officers connected
with the school, and yet such infamias
and diabolism were allowed and de-
I~berately winked at. The Sun says
that every day they see in classrooms
boys with black Eyes and cuts and
bruises that need explanation, but the
officers do not report these clues. At
the hospitals the surgeons often have
the victims TO treat. but they, too. omit
TO report such clues"
Writing OF West Point ethics the
Philadelphia Times points out h
great disadvantage Of the boys hazed,
and adds:
This 1t is that makes such fights,
from h cadets own point OF view. un-
fair. cruel and inexcusable. And they
illustrate, in a particularly brutal
form, the essential cruelty of the who's
attitude of the elder men TO the young
| er, a relation OF IMPLYING tyranny OF
the SITOnR over line WAX l1dl 10 lIlCoh-
sistent with the standard OF an officer
and a gentleman"
Hazing must be ended forever at
West Point or that school should be
ended by act of congress n soon.
We desire to give a sample of the evil
dence taken by the congressional COM
mittee. Cadet o. NJ. Tyler, of Mary
land, was under the test We quote
from h special report in the Phiia-
delphia Times:
cadet Carpenter was so severely
hazed that he had to go to bed The
witness said.
Looking over a list of the corps the
witness mentioned the names of Cadets
Sheridan, Macarthur. Carpenter, Albert,
Alvord, zimmerman, j. b. A. Barry and
C.. B.. Clark. The last three are not
now in theacademy.
"'Who hazed McArthur?'
There were two men, of whom Ca
det Dockery was one
Tyler told of the hazing of Carpen-
ter, one of his classmates. Cadet
Meyer. of the present first class, inter-
rupted the haZers and made them de-
sfst. Carpenter was put to bed suffer-
ing from muscular COMMISSIONS. He was
also hysterical. and delirious, but was
all right i'm the morning. He was not
attended by 3 physician.
do the cadets not call for a ply
sician when q man is hazed into con-
vulsions?' Mr.. briggs asked.
II never knew of a doctor being
called in any case
"'What about McArthur?'
His was the worst case, sir. He
had commissions and it took quite a
while to bring him around. I saw him
in bed whimpering Historically
The witness mentioned other cases
but could not remember the names of
the haZers."
That is enough. What sort of civil
liked soldiers can come of such a be-
ginning? The Richmond (Va.) Central
Presbyterian has an excellent discus
sion. We copy a paragraph:
The whole thing appears to be a
systematic persecution of modesty and
refinement by preponderant coarseness
and vulgarity. A helpless individual,
fresh from the society of mother and
sister, is liable to be seized by a bois-
ferrous throng of roughs, overwhelmed
or endure a repulsive variety of per-
formanceS in AFFECT SubmiSSivenesS to
rs mob, and be petted or disgraced,
according to his ann of responding
to it The very place, above all others,
calls for a high standard of ~chivalrous
courage"