The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-08

GENERAL NELSON A. MILES,
Who Retired from Active Service Today.
General Miles arrived in an undress
coat with no emblems showing his rank,
but the coat of arms on his shoulders
such as is now prescribed to be worn
by all officers. General Young appeared
with the three stars of the rank of
lieutenant general, although he did not
actually become lieutenant general until
noon. The officers. were presented to
General Miles by General Corbin and
also were presented to General Young.
General Miles will leave tomorrow
morning for San Francisco to attend the
annual encampment of the G. A. r. The
clerks IN the office of General Miles pre-
Sented him with handsome silver low
ing cup and a large vase of flowers. The
following order had been issued:
Washington, Aug. S.-The retirement
from active service by the president
August 8, 1903 of Lieutenant General
Nelson A Miles, L. S. A. by operation
of law, under the provisions of the act
of congress approved June 30 1882. is
announced. Lieutenant General Miles
will proceed to his home. The travel en-
Joined is necessary for the public SER
vice. BY order of the secretary of war
II. c. Corbin, Adjutant General, Major
General 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 as
sumo the duties of chief of STAFF: an
other assigning Major General Corbin
as president of the Soldiers Home
board; another Brigadier General Gill
lespie as president of the board on
ordnance and fertilization, and still an
other assigning Lieutenant General
Young as a member of the Sherman
statue commission.
General Miles has issued the following
address on the occasion of his retire.
ment from active service:
General Order No. lis: Headquarters
of the Army, Washington, Aug. 5. 1908.
In accordance with the provisions OF
the act of congress of June 30, 1882, the
undersigned will retire from the active
service August 8, 1903.
/ In relinquishing the command, of the
army of the United States. to which he
was assigned by the president october
2. 1896 he hereby acknowledges his ap-
probation of the fidelity manifested by
/ the officers and soldiers during the past
eVentful years
To 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 nave
lived through the trials and dangers of
long service to witness the results OF
tbeir fortitude. heroism and unselfish
devotion to the welfare of their country
ir-hav have also in a most commendabie
Grafton of soldiers those principles or
discipIine ard patriotism which mt q
the army the protector ana uefenq r
and never the menace, of the nation hu
it's liberties. ..-..,, ..,
onnort,lne for expressing to the army
a Few thoughts concerning its past,
and that which NAV affect its future
! welfare It is from the best impress
| sions and influences of the past that
the most desirable results may be re-
allied in the future.
| ITnswerving devotion to our govern
ment and the PRINCIPLES upon which it
was established and has been MAIN
tained is essential to the efficiency of
the national forces. and especially is
this so in a democratic government
where the individual. in order to be
nerfect soldier must first be true
citizen. The boast that every soldier
of a great nation carried marshal s
baton in his knaDsack is in higher
sense more than equalled in signih-
canoe by the fact that every American
soldier personifies sovereign citizenship
and may by his own conduct exem-
plify impartial justice to those who
have never experienced it, and the re-
suits of the highest liberty to those
who have been strangers to it, thereby
aiding to secure for his country
moral influence not otherwise attain
able.
During the darkest hour of our his
tory, the Arst commander of the Amer
lean forces demonstrated the grandeur
and nobility of his character by COM
batting the evil influences then perVad-
ing the army and By manifesting ths
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