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The National tribune., 1906-02-15
WHAT CONSTITUTES A FIGHTING
REGIMENT

Editor National Tribune. For the in
formation of myself and many others
of whom | have inquired, and who do
not Know. VIII YOU please. as soon a.
convenient. inform US what the tern
800 Fighting Regiments means or
signifies. and where a list of them may
/ be obtained All of this probably has
been published, but ! and many others
have never seen it. l had the honor of
serving with the 10Th Ind which. as |
remember. did some fighting and lost
some men.-Charles T. Clement Du-
I luth. Mimi.
The classification Of 800 fighting regi-
meDts was established by I.ieut-CoI.
William +. Fox in his noted work.
'Regimcntal Losses in the American
Civil War" Col. Fox displayed unusual
/ industry ana acumcn in the prepara-
ton OF this list. and it has received very
general and hearty commentator. In
explanation of the rule he adopted for
the classification he says:
1t * not claimed that these are the
@OV lighting regiments of the arsas:
but. that they are 300 regiments which
evidently did considerable fightirg
There We're. undoubtedly. others which
did equally good or. perhaps. better
fighting. and their gallant services will
be fully recognized by the writer's who
are convcrsant with their history. But,
for lack Of other information. this chap
ter deals only with those which sus-
tanned the heaviest losses in battle II
includes every regiment In the Union
armies which lost over I30 killed and
died Of wounds during the war to-
gether with few whose losses We're
somewhat smaller. but whose percent
age of killed entities them to a place
in the list. II may be suggested that
large casualty lists are not necessarily
indicative of the fighting qualities of a
regiment: that on many occasions regi-
meuts have rendered valuable service
and achieved a brilliant success with
but slight loss. Granted. as regards
some particular action or instance; but,
in the long run. active service brings its
many scars; where the musketry was
the hottest, the dead lay thickest; ard
there is no better way to find the fight
ing regiments than to follow up the
bloody trail which marked their brave
advance"
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Race suicide is just as conspicuous in
Europe as in this country. probably
more so. and it is nowhere more in evil
dence than among the upper classes.
The late King of Denmark brings this
to mind. The royal house of Denmark
had died out in the person of King
Frederick VII. who deceased Nov. Is,
1853. without any lawful heirs. The
peace of Europe demanded that an heir
be found and recognized. and. there
fore. one was discovered in the person
of the fourth son of one of the petty
German princelings, who had some re-
mote connection with the royal family.
He was as poor as only those German
princelings can be who have to support
ar immense amount of aristocracy on
the income of an American farmer. He
and his wife had been brought up to
make the utmost of every pfennig. and
the lessons they had learned in their
youth were followed throughout life.
They had a numerous family. and
brought them up in the strictest
economy. The present Queen of Eng
land was one of their daughters, and
during her girlhood she was kept busily
employed in helping provide for the
family by the cutting and making of all
the garments worn by her brothers and
sisters. The late King worked as hard
as any official in his Kingdom and lived
as frugally.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The Republican leaders of Maryland
have decided not to present bill tC
supersede the obnoxious law enacted by
the German ring, but to come into line
behind the Reform League. which aims
at return to the election law of 1896
Among other things, this viii be a re-
turn to the party emblems, to which
the Republicans and Democrats are
agreeable, but the Independents are
opposed. They will, however, favor
putting n box or square at the head of
each ticket and a cross in it, indicat-
ing that the voter votes the straight
ticket. On the other hand, the Repub-
licans and Democrats say that nearly
the whole of the people in the State
want to vote straight tickets, and that
they should not be embarrassed to aid
the few Independents who want to
scratch their tickets. 1t is likely also
that uniform ballot will be adopted
for the whole State in place of the pres
ent trick ballots, which were adopted
to defeat the will of the voters in the
Republican Counties. There is some
support of a provision in the law to
give an unsuccessful candidate the
right 10 secure Il recount OF the ballots
before the court by giving a bond to
pay the expenses.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15
THE STATEHOOD BILL.

The Administration Senators are con-
fdent that the Statehood bill will be
promptly passed. They claim that the
speeches upon it will not last more than
a week, when a vote will be taken. and
the measure gotten out of the way of
the Railroad bill. The Democrats are
trying. it is believed with success, to
make it n party matter. and line up
the Democratic Senators solidly against
it, Whether they will have better sue
cess than with the Santo Domingo
Treaty remains to be seen.
Not much favor is shown to Senator
Foraker's amendment to provide for
separate elections in New Mexico and
Arizona to determine whether they Will
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

! bill has been introduced in the
House Of Representatives to create a
special roll to be known as the VOlun-
teer Retired List. The Secretary of War
is authorized and directed to enter upon
this the name of every surviving Vol
unteer General and every Colonel of
the Union Volunteer Army during the
war who received a brevet as Brigadier
or Major-G General. To be eligible the
man must have served not less than
two and a half years in the Volunteer
army and shall have reached the age of
10 when he shall be entitled to three
fourths pay nt his actual rank. The
bill is accompanied by petition signed
by 81 Brigadier-G Generals and 80 brevet
Brigadier-G Generals. The petition sets
forth that of the 131 Major-G Generals of
Volunteers not transferred TO the Reg
ular Army only three survive and that
of the 549 Brigadier-G Generals only Sc
are still alive. These have an average
age of "A years and range from 65 to
93
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

John Brisben Walker. whose ten
denotes have always been sOcialistic,
comes out strongly in favor of Govern
mental insurance, which has already
been tried to limited extent in Ger
many. Belgium, France, Switzerland
and New Zealand. He bases his argu-
ment upon the declaration that The
proper function of the Government is
to perform all those things which it
can do better than the Individual" and
sounds the note of alarm as to what we
may fear from the recent disclosures
as to five leading insurance companies
when the insurance business shall grow
to still more enormous proportions and
place the money power indisputably
into the hands of the few men who may
succeed in getting control of those COM
panies.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The experiment of substituting ItaI-
very successful on the Sunny Side PLAN
tation in Arkansas. where formerly only
negroes were employed. In 1898 Ital-
ians began to be brought in. and at the
end of 1905 there were 107 squads of
Italians with 500 working hands who
were cultivating 1900 acres. while the
negroes had decreased to 80 squads with
175 working hands and cultivating but
900 acres The Italians were raising
f03 pounds of cotton to the acre. or at
while the negroes averaged 233 pounds
and LIZA pounds to the hand. After
the first year the Italians became prac-
tically Independent, while very few of
the negroes ever succeed in making
both ends meet and becoming free from
debt. The Italians show much capacity
for acquiring property, and of the 107
squads 104 now own 123 head of stock
aggregating s23.i00. while of the SO
negro squads II owned no stock at all.
to the value of $3.50. Every Italian
who goes into the South becomes an
enthusiastic immigration agent, and
usually succeeds in bringing some of his
relatives and friends to join him in the
new land of promise. 1t is hoped that
the presence of the Italians will be a
useful stimulus to the negroes.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Whoever visits st. Louis hereafter
must be seemly in his walk and con-
versation The Board of Police Com
missioners has issued an order punish-
ing policemen who swear while on
duty, and the Chief of Police has sup
pIemented this with an order to the
force to arrest every man heard using
profane language in the streets and
public places. To make the thing seem
real one unlucky patrolman was yanked
up before the Board and fined see Just
what a man is to do when he fails to
catch a car or the telephone girl is duh
and irresponsible has not been decided
Probably meeting will be had of the
swearers and some course of action be
adopted to meet the new stringency.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

1t does not seem likely that as ably
managed a corporation as the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad is going to make its
reported campaign in Ohio against the
two-cent rate. To test the constitution
ality of the law in the courts is ali
right. and none will entertain any hard
feelings against the corporation on that
account. 1t is what we expect of every
man or corporation that feels aggrieved.
But to begin persecution of travellers.
by dscontinuing the sale of through
tickets. causing passengers TO lose train
connections. etc, would he supremelX
foolish. The people are not feeling at
all kindly to railroads at the best. and
managers who aggravate them still fur
ther are simply laying up wrath against
the day of wrath. The two-cent rate is
ali right, and the Pennsylvania had
better gracefully accept it.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The Ohio people are stirring up the
Pennsylvania Railroad in very lively
way over its mileage-book policy. The
road requires a deposit of SO in addi-
tidn to the payment of $40 for 1000
mile book. Last year the road sold
100, 600 mileage tickets. mostly in the
State, and received S1,000,000 as loan
to this SO deposit, in addition to the
$2.000.OG0, which it received for the
tickets. The pretense is that the $40
is taken as guaranty that the mileage
ticket will only be used by the pur-
chaser. If the agitation shall result in
general compulsory rate of two cents
a mile all oyer the interior of the coun-
try it will do much good.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

It has been known that Henry NJ.
been building railroad along the east
coast of Florida and over the chain OF
keys clear to Key West 1t is now an
nounced that he has instructed his en-
sineers to determine the feasibility OF
building great ferry ships to carry his
trains from Key West to Havana in all
sorts of weather, so that passengers may
enter the cars in New York City and not
leave them until they reach Havana.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Now let us wait in speechless silence
for the outcome. Thomas w. Lawson
has been in conference at Des Moines
with Gov Cummins: F.. s Monnett ex-
Attorney General of Ohio; n. B. Bro
ward. Governor of Florida, and num-
Der of newspaper men of the reform
stamp. 1t is supposed that insurance
was the subject of the important coun-
ell. for which several of them had gone
half way across the continent. and we
shall be disappointed If there is not
an utterance that will shake things
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
made an important ruling on the ques-
tion of newspaper libel. 1t holds that
newspapers may publish trial proceed
ings, but these must be absolute re-
ports and not intermingled with COM
ment. The place for comment is in the
editorial columns and nowhere else.
Il the reports are fair and accurate.
there can be no libel. This is in the
direction of common sense.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Joe Wheeler Camp has been decided
ly disturbed. as it should be. by the
severe structures upon its action in re-
jccting President Roosevelt as an hon
orary member Col John s Prather.
Commander of the Camp. denies the
story that the resolution met with
spirited opposition and was voted
down. He says that all that there was
of the matter was that when the reso-
luton was offered he called attention
To the fact that honorary members
were prohibited by the laws of the or
ganization. and consequently ii was out
of order 1t was never debated or voted
upon nor was any opposition voiced
against ii. If the statement of Col.
PFather be entirely true there ought to
be sharp settlement with the ynan who
sent the misleading dispatch from At
ia
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Senator Teller has the natural pess-
imism of a man of advanced years who
has broken with his lifelong political
associates and not yet acquired the
confidence and attachment of his new
friends. He is sure that the japanese
are going to take all the trade of
China away from US. This shows a
lack Of confidence in American enter
prise and ability which is surprising in
a man of Senator TeIler's experience.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The British army may lack whole
lot of little friils, according to the Jap
aBese critics. If, unfortunately the
japanese regiments should run up
against those under the meteor flag of
Old England" they would find them a
whole heap more terrible proposition
than anything they encountered in
Manchuria. An attempt to rush Brit
ish force off hill in the light and
graceful way in which the Russians
were pushed back would fill Japan with
military funerals.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The Germans claim that within Is
hours they could concentrate 100000
men on the French frontier, and within
two and a half days have their whole
army in motion, while it would take
France five days to put her army under
marching orders.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

denounce Anna Gould as bourgeois. -
Probably, but not a whit more than her
husband. Her father was a peddler in
his youth, while Count Bonfs grand
father kept a very ordinary wayside
toy
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The talk about selling the Philip
plies to Japan has produced decided
ly good effect in waking the Filipinos
to realization of how much better off
they are under our Government than
they would be under any other.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

President Elliott, of Harvard, says
that the game of football, as now
played, is wholly unfit for schools and
colleges" But President Elliott has
been denouncing so many sane and
heaithful things that his opinions are
not very weighty with the american
people.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Representative Washington Gardner,
of Michigan, is this week in that State
attending a series of Lincoln Club ban
quets. Comrade Gardner is one of the
most entertaining of orators, and is in
request at all patriotic gatherings.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Indeterminate sentence is the latest
idea in penology. c. w. Collins, the
New York Superintendent of Prisons,
recommends that life-prisoners, which
included those convicted of murder in
the second degree, be given an inde-
terminate sentence and be eligible to
parole at the end of 10 years and il
months. which is found equivalent to a
life sentence in IS cases out of 100.
He believes that fewer prisoners par
dcned. fewer will die or go insane. and
each will have the same opportunity
II earn release by good behavior.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Senator Tillman's breaking down and
sobbing while discussing the Morris in
cident raises the question as to whether
he can ever become as successful a
weeper in the Senate as Senator Teller
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

OF course, all the railway officials are
proclaiming that the two-cent rate in
Ohio spells ruin, and that they are los
ing money even at three cents. No one
expected anything else. The street rail-
road managers shrieked about bank
ruptcy when they were required to come
down to Eve cents and give transfers.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Senator Patterson thinks American
negroes cannot be gotten to work on
the Panama Canal. Let somebody get
up an article on the size and quality of
the watermelons raised in the Canal
Zone.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Talk about your expert renovators of
ancient and damaged goods. No man
can take an old and husky chestnut,
and liven it up so as to do effective
work in a debate like John Sharp Will
liams, of Mississippi.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Senator Allison's great work now-a-
days is to convince discontented Sena-
tors that they must go slowly in Canal
legislation, and take little at time,
as experience and development of the
situation suggest
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Western farmers are asking why, if
Luther Burbank is such a wizard. he
cannot inoculate the morning glory
with a spinning jenny, and grow bind
er-twine?
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Before being so lavish in wedding
gifts to Miss Roosevelt the Cuban Gov
ernment should make an exhibition of
greater progress toward solvency.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

1t is too bad that Servia. Bulgaria,
Eucador, Colombia and Paraguay could
not be grouped together somewhere, and
not spoil three continents with them.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

For very many years The National
Tribune has been insisting that two
cents mile was "A fair rate for pas
senger tickets, at least in all the coun-
try east of the Mississippi. The
State of Ohio has at last come 10 that
conclusion and the Frener two-cent
fare bill has been signed by the Gov
ernor and will go into effect in 80 days
from the date of approval 1t provides
that two cents shall be the maximum
rate charged in Ohio for transporting
passengers for all distances in excess
of five miles. In the Senate there was
but one vote against it.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

1t speaks volumes for the wonderful
cheapness of everything in the Far East
that Japan's great war only cost her
S400. 900, 900. It must be kept in mind.
however. that every Japanese was
bound to serve when the Government
called him, without any considerations
as to pay. bounty or other emOluments.
and that his food and clothing were
supplied at the very lowest figures.
Guns and ammunition were expensive,
as they had to be bought abroad, but
everything into which human labor goes
is on the lowest scale upon which it
can be produced.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

t.New Arizona" Monroe" and "Arm-
mia" are suggested as names for the
new State. Why not call it kicker
vania'' or "Recalcitrania ?''
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The revelations in the Town Topics
case make the New Workers wish FOR
a little more of the spirit of the Wild
and Woody West. Out there black
mailer is liable to gather more bullets
than dollars.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

Col. Jack Chinn, Kertucky's mint
julep specialist and triggerless-p pistol
maestro. has introduced a bill in the
to make statues of VIM.
GoebeI and Henry Clay Kentucky's con-
tributions to the National Hall of Stat
uary. The selection has advantages in
Kentucky's rapid descent in
public men from the Henry Clay stand
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The riot of the Ohio railroad manag-
ers makes us doubt the great accession
of revenues that was to follow the abo-
lition of free passes.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

It seems certain that a fight to the
death is OH between Mayor Mcclellan
ard Tammany, with no one able to
make a good prediction as to the end.
Tammany is compact and resourcefuI,
while McClellan's following. though
possibly more numerous, does not
probably have the experience or the
leaders for the deadly grip of a de-
cisiye campaign
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The Partisan gjlded dens of vice are
in ferment over the less of revenue
from Anna Gould's strike for freedom
and control of her own money.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

a new comet has been discovered,
but said TO be a very small one-in
fact, not much bigger than our Secre-
tary of War
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

John Wesley said in defense Of his
adopting popular tunes for his hymns
that he did not propose that the devil
should have all the good music. His
disciples in the First Methodist Episco-
pal Church Of Columbus. Ind. do not
propose that the ungodly should have
all OF the fun of this world and they
have. therefore adopted the college
yell. Rev. Alfred II. Pitbin the Rector.
has taught the children OF the Sunday
School to shout in chorus rhymed texts
from the Bible, such as:
Say. my chum. have you seen
Second Timothy, two, fifteen. three, ff-
teen;
First John. ore. seven. nine;
Romans. eight and sixteen2
First ThessalOniaus five. twenty-five.
Tells you exactly what to do.
Mr.. Pitkin says that this method has
been found very useful in rousing the
interest of the children and fixing parts
of the Scriptures in their minds.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The Missouri editors are outspoken
in their opposition to the new rule of
continuing Postmasters in office during
good conduct.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

The country is very tired of speech
making on the Statehood question. A
vote is demanded.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15
GRAVE OUTDOOR ron CHINA.

Suddenly the darkest clouds have
lowered over China. For some time
there have been portentous whisper
Ess as to outbreaks. and these have
been of sufficient force to cause all tine
nations having dealings with China to
make some preparation. 1t is under
stood that our troops in the Philippines
are in condition of readiness. II IS
reported that the Viceroy of Canton is
stirring up the feeling against foreign
ers and that an outbreak is imminent,
which viii Ear surpass the Boxer trou-
bles. Wong Fong. ex-Secretary Of the
Six Companies at San Francisco. has
told his friends in Cincinnati. where he
is visiting, that the greatest massacre
of modern times was at hand. and has
telegraphed 90 all his American ard
European friends in China to get out
of the country before Feb "a.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

WASHINGTON, ID. C'' FEB. 10, l9VO
Office: ss9 Pennsylvania Avenue N. W.
The National tribune., 1906-02-15

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The National tribune., 1906-02-15

This is precisely the argument that
The National Tribune has constantly
employed in discussing this question.
Preference of men who have rendered
certain duties to the Government C n
never be considered class legislation
or the establishment of a privileged
class. It is part of ii contract or un-
derstanding entered into by the State
with certain of its citizens that if they
will render a desired public service
they will be given consideration In be-
slowing public favors. II is in prin-
ciple what every public organization
and every private corporation does in
the conduct of its affairs. There is no
class provision, because all classes, If
there are such things. were equally in
vited to enter the military service No
man was excluded for any reason ex-
cept lack of fitness to render that SER
vice and If a man was physically fit
there was no distinction made. Moth
ing can be broader or more democratic.
The State wanted men for service in
the field, and such a want is liable to
occur at any time in the future. There
FORE it is right and polite for the State
to offer as inducements for men to
serve it a prospect of future benefits.
No man can be said to have the slight
est right to a public office, and, there
fore, there was no wrong done any
who had served the country in the field.