The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-10
Arp STUDIES HAzING
Developments at West Point Watched
by Barlow County Man.
..E SIZES NO REASON FOR II
Military Institute Should BE Abolish
c. # tIaz.ng Isn't Stopped, He
cyS.
A:O Studies HaZing.

A:D Studies Hazing.
ti!: haZing business at West Point
P;"D.cXeS me. I've been trying to
lii.oac Dhize upon it and md reason
l3r it. but cannot. 1t is the most bru-
'a and senseless thing that young
men calling themselves gentlemen were
c, er guilty of. The evidence already
submitted has shocked the nation, and
i it cannot be stopped the nation Is
ready right now to abolish the insti-
tuition. 1t is disgrace to humanity.
But what concerns me is to fisld
plausible reason for it-an excuse or
4 palliation. The haZers say that 1t is
TO try young mans metal, his cour-
age. That is false, Of course, for it re-
auireS no metal or courage to stand
guard over a. dead rat or march along
side a turtle or terrapin. The whole
course of treatment is one Of devilish
cruelty and insanity. We are told that
some Of those hazers were considered
Yery good, kindhearted boys at home
beSOre they went to that lunatic asy-
lum, and hence it must be that asso-
citation has deranged them like 1t dad
for awhile at Yale and Harvard and
other northern colleges. A crowd OF
boys away off 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 and kind
good watch dog and fond Of my
children. | owned flock OF sheep and
he protected them, but when other
dogs from the neighborhood came al
ter him in the dead hour Of night and
gave the sign he would 60 with then
two or three miles and help to kill
scroe Of sheep and be back at his post
on the piazza by daylight. / would not
believe it for a long time, but the
neighbors came and found wool in his
teeth and he had to be killed. reckon
that's what the matter with those
good boy hazers. They have got wool
in their teeth and 10 my opinion, they
ought to be treated like the French
man did his dog. He wanted to break
him of sucking eggs, so he hung him
by the hind legs to limb and let him
swing for a day or two. A neighoor
said: why don't you hang him by
the neck and let him choke to death?'
mo, sare," he said, me hangs heem
by de legs to geve heem time to tink
vat a tam rascal he vas" Those haz-
ers ought to be hung by their hind legs
until they had time to repent. The
catalogue OF cruel and ridiculous
things that those towards inflict upon
| q freshman is fearful. Some Of them
are unfit for publication. l say COW
ards" because it is a maxim that a
! cruel man IS coward. II they reSi.E
wished to test a young mans metal or
courage why don't they shut him in a
room and go in one at time and
fight him fist and skull. They are
towards, that's all. They wouldent
fight Philippine hand to hand. They
will graduate towards and smell the
battle from afar, 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's great speech
during the first revolution, in which
he scarifed a man for crying beef,
beef, while the patriots were fighting
for independence. l have but little
patience with the modern West Potter.
General Otis Is fair sample He
whipped the Filipinos every day before
the election. Pay and promotion Is
their sole ambition. They are stuck
, up swell st and would establish a
military monarch II they dared. see
that some fellow Is defending General
George c. Thomas and BLACK Jack
Logan in New York paper. Well, I
know all about them. / have now in
my possession letter written to me
: by Thomas in which he denounces US
all as traitors and guilty of treason
and says that treason embodies all the
crimes in the decalogue. A dozen OF
our Rome boys and girls had improved
tableau performance in the city hall
to raise little money to pay for re-
placing pulpits and pews in the city
churches. The sacrilegious vandals
had gutted the churches and used the
pews for horse troughs and the
churches for storage o. 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 arrested
and the play broken up. AS 1 was
then the mayor Of the poor little war
torn town l wrote respectful letter
to Thomas asking for heir release, and
asserting that no disrespect was in
tended. He condescended to please
them, but scarified us and all the
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