The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-08
RETIREMENT OF GEN, MILES
HEAD OF ARMY QUITS ACTIVE SERVICE AT NOON TO-DAY.
Issues an Address-Aclnowiedges Fi- deiity of omcers and Soldiers During Past Eventfui Years-The New Obii- gation Placed Upon the Army by the Ivents of Recent Years.

gation Placed Upon the Army by the Events of Recent Years.
 Washington, Aug. 7.-Lieutenant Gen. eral Nelson A. Miles, commanding the army, will retire from active service at noon tomorrow, having reached the age limit of sixty-four years.
 The following order was prepared to- day and will be issued tomorrow:
 washington, Aug. 8, 1903. ''The retirement from active service by the president, August 8, 1903, of Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A.. by operation of law, under the provisions of the act of congress ap- proved June 3, 1882, is announced, Lieu tenant General Miles will proceed to his home. The travel enjoined is necessary for the public service. # By order of secretary of war.
 "Corbin,
 "Adjutant General U. S. A." Several other orders resulting from the retirement Of General Miles has been issued, one assigning Lieutenant General Young to the command of the army until August 15, when he will as- sume the duties of chief of staff; anoth-i CT assigning Major General Corbin as president of the Soldiers home board, another assigning Brigadier General Gillespie as president of the board of ordnance and Notifications, and still another assigning Lieutenant General Young as member of the sherman statue commission.
 General Miles has issued the following address on the occasion of his retire. ment from active service:
 General orders No. 116.
 Headquarters of the Army, x
 Washington, Aug. 5, 1903.
 fin accordance with the provisions of the act of congress of June 30. 1882, the undersigned will retire from the active service August 8, 1908.
 in relinquishing the command of the army of the United States, to which he was assigned by the president, October 2, 1885, he hereby acknowledges his ap- preciation of the fidelity manifested by the officers and soldiers during the past eventful years.
 ITO those who were his companions and associates during one of the great est of all wars he takes pleasure in ex- pressing his qualification that they have lived through the trials and dan gers of long service to witness the re- suits of their fortitude. heroism and unselfish devotion to the welfare of their country. They have also ill a most cornmendable manner exemplified to the younger generation of soldiers those principles of discipline and pat riotism which make the army the pro- tector and defender, and never the men, ace of the nation and its liberties.
 'sThe time and occasion are consider ed opportune for expressing to the army few thoughts concerning it's past and that which may effect it's flu ture welfare It is from the best inn pressions and influences of the past that the most desirable results may be real ized in the future.
 aUnswerving devotion to our govern ment and the principles upon which it was established and has been maintain ed has been essential to the efficiency of the national forces, and especially is this so in democratic government. where the individual, in order to be a perfect soldier, must first be true citi- gen. The boast that every soldier of a great nation carried marshals baton in his knapsack is, in a higher sinse, more than equalled in significance by the fact that every American soldier personifies sovereign citizenship, and may by his own conduct exemplify im- partial justice to those who have never experienced it, and the results of the highest liberty to those who have beer strangers to it. thereby aiding to secure for his country moral influence not otherwise attainable.
 During the darkest hour of our his. tory the first commander of the Ameri- can forces demonstrated the grandeur and nobility of his character by com. batting the evil influences then pervad. ing the army and by manifesting the strongest confidence and faith in the ultimate justice and integrity of his government. His words of wisdom ut tered at Newburg one hundred ant twenty years ago had the effect of in spring .unexampled patriotism and pa tient virtue, rising superior to the pres sure of the most complicated suffer ings.' It is one of the glorious of ou country that the army has maintained those principles for more than a cen tury.
 ssThe commanders of the army sue ceeding Washington have by their ex ample, influence and orders engenderet and maintained the higheset degree o efficiency, discipline and patriotism.
 Since it's organization the army ha been charged with great variety o responsibilities, all subordinate to de lending the country and maintaining the rights of its citizens.
 Tn the discharge of it's manifold du ties the army has confronted enemie representing every stage of human de yelopment from the highest civilizatio vet obtained to savagery and barbar ism. It has ever been it's duty to ob serve in war those chivalric and hu mane principles by which inevitabl horrors are so greatly mitigated, whil by unyielding prosecution of warfar against armed forces its valor has bee demonstrated.
 '.All honorable activity and life fo the army must exist within the we defined lines of patriotism, untarnishe honor, sterling integrity, impartial jus tice, obedience to rightful authority an incessant warfare against armed enc mics. Always to maintain truth, hone and justice requires the highest mora courage, and is equally as important g