The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-08
MARTIAL LIFE FOR
MILES ENDS TODAY
Lieutenant General Young in
Temporary Command.
AN ADDRESS OF FAREWELL
General Miles Speaks 10 The Army Of IFS High
and Glorious Record and Of His
Hopes for its
Future.
AN ADDRESS OF FAREWELL
(By the Associated Press.)


Washington, August Lieutenant Gen
eral Nielsen A. Miles. commanding the
army, will retire from active service at
noon tomorrow, having reached the age
limit of ca years.
The following order was prepared today
and viii be issued tomorrow:
Washington, August Sth, 1903.
'The retirement from active service by
the President, August 8. 1903, of Lleuten-
ant General Nelson A. Miles, United States
Army, by operation of law, under the pro
visions of the act of Congress, approved
June 80, 1882, is announced Lieutenant
General Miles will proceed to his home.
The travel enjoined is necessary for the
public service.
by order of Secretary Of War.
"H. C. CORBIN,
"Adjutant General, Major Gen, u. S. A..
Several other orders resulting from the
retirement of General Miles have been
issued, one assigning Lieutenant General
Young to the command Of the army until
August Is, when he will assume the duties
of chief of staff, another assigning Major
General Corbin president of the Soldiers
Home Board, another Brigadier General
Gillespie as president of the Board of
Ordnance and Fertilization and still an
other assigning Lieutenant General Young
as a member of the Sherman Statue Com
mission. General Miles has issued an ad-
dress upon the occasion of his retirement
fIom active service, in which he says:
THE time and occasion are considered
cpportune for expressing to the army a
few thoughts concerning its past and that
which may affect its future welfare. 1t Is
from the best impressions and Influences
OF the past that the most desirable re-
suits may be realized in the future.
'Unswerving devotion to our govern
ment and the principles upon which it was
established and has been maintained. Is
essential to the efficiency of the national
forces. and especially is this so in Dem
ocratic government where the individual,
in order to be Il perfect soldier, must first
be true citizen. The boast that every
soldier of a great nation carried a mar
shaPs baton In his knapsack Is in higher
sense more than equalled in significance
by the fact that every American soldier
personifies impartial justice to those who
have never experienced it, and the results
of the highest liberty to those who have
been strangers to it, thereby aiding to Sc
cure IOf MS country al HlOTdI lHHueliSe
not otherwise attainable.
''The events of recent years have placed
upon the army new obligation and an
opportunity for a broader exemplification
of its country's principles The United
States army is now brought into daily
communication with millions of people to
whom its individual members of every
grade are the exponents of American civil
ization serious duty and great honor
are now presented to. every officer and
soldier namely, to exemplify to these
with whom he comes in contact our coun
try's principles of equal and exact justice.
immunity from violence. equality before
the law and the peaceful use and posses
sion of his own.
1.-The Lieutenant General has faith that
under all circumstances the army will
maintain its high character and that ITS
future will be as honorable and giorious
as has been its history in the past HIS
earnest solicitude and best wishes will
ever follow the fortunes of the army"