The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-10
A new VIEW OF
BUNKER hill.
BY MAX ADELER


stry of Bunker Hill, Bangs asked
scudder IL he was familiar with the
history of that battle, and Scudder |
said he was. SO Bangs told Scudder |
he would like him to write up little |
sketch of 1t for the anniversary day |
and Scudder said he would try. The |
next morning the sketch appeared In
the Argus. and attracted a good deal
of attention. When Bangs saw 1t he
called Scudder in and said
mir. Scudder. didn't you tell me you
thought you were familiar with the
battle OF Bunker HIP"
Yes, sir"
We'll, If that Is the case | will be
obliged to you II you will mention
to me what you mean when you say:
"'By four O'Clock the Confederate
troops were ready TO make the attack
General Washington had the catapults
put in line to await their coming, and,
when Napoleon saw them. he drew
his sword. and exclaimed: Soldiers!
Twenty centuries look down upon
you
Now. Mr.. Scudder, II you had pos
sessed the most ordinary acquaintance
been aware that Napoleon was not
present, and that the idea of George
Washington fighting the Confederate
army with oatapults is calculated to
excite the derision of educated per.
sons. sAnd I wish to direct your at.
tention. Mr.. Scudder. to another his
torical inaccuracy. At the bottom OF
the second column there you say:
mo sooner were the battering rams
leveled against the walls Of the castle
than the Duke OF Wellington sent
word to his mother by General Butler
that he would either win or be brought
home upon his shield. Then order
ing his men TO fire at the whites OF
the enemy's eyes, he awaited the on.
set with that majestic calmness which
ever distinguished the hero of Buena
Vista
Now, don't want to hurt your
feelings. Mr.. Scudder. but really, for
journalist, this kind of thing won't do.
You certainly must realize that the
battle of Bunker Hill was not fought
| In "a castle with battering rams; and,
at any rate, when you allude to the
Duke Of Wellington communing with
| General Butler, and connect him with
Buena Vista, there is actually no hope
of your holding public opinion on
those topics. The public mind Is
made up. And then a little farther
on, in the next column, you say:
This was the very crisis of the
battle. Joan of Arc, spying General
Jackson behind the cotton bales,
dashed at him upon her snow white
charger swinging her ponderous bata'
tle.ax above her head: her fair hair
streamed behind her in the wind. As
her steed pressed forward. her hair
caught in the bough OF tree, and as
she hung there, Sergeant Bates shot
an arquebuss. Her last words We're
Don't give up the ship
Now, you see, Mr. Scudder, this
kind of thing sets people to talking
II hurts the paper You've got Absa
ION mixed up somehow In your mint
| WIFI Juan vi aIC, WIN uitu
10000 years before General Jackson
who wasn't at Bunker Hill and whit
never knew Sergeant Bates any more
than Sergeant Bates knows how Il
fire an arquebuss. Arquebuss. Ora
cious Heaven No doubt you mean
well, but you've about done the bust
ness for us, especially here, where yo,
say:
1.-THE duke could stand II no longer
The Mamelukes had slain all OF hi
vanguard; General Sickles had los
his leg and retired on a pension; an'
the enemys skirmishers, lodged Ii
the top OF the monument, were pour
ing boiling oil on those who attempt
ed to scale 1t. Leaping upon hi
horse, he shouted, up guards, and a
them!" and the next moment, will
the glorious flag of truce In one hand
and his sword in the other. he hurle,
his legions upon the Lava-beds, an,
crushed the savage foe to the earth
killing, among others, the well.know
General Harrison, afterward Pres
dent of the United States
THE duke. Mamelukes! Flag q
truce Lava.beds Awful, sir, aw
full! The Argus is s-goner! Gone III
Mr.. Scudder! Slain! But how coul
you have scared up that idea abou
man fighting with flag of true
In his hand? And how, oh, how coul
you have killed man who you adm
was afterward President of the Unite
States? No comic paper ever su
passed this. II is terrible! thin
we shall have to part, Mr. Scudder.
seems to me that your career as
journalist ought TO come to an en-
right here. will accept your resi-
nation.
And II any one asks you why yo
left the Argus, point to this last pa
agraph and say that II was becaus
the proprietor was afraid he'd mu
der you when he read your statemeI
, that AT the battle of Bunker Hill II
Confederates lost 10000 and the Ca
: thagenians only $780, and that 'thel
y Is no spot In Virginia that the Poop
! | hold mora eacred than that hlnn,