Middletown transcript., 1911-06-24
H1DDLETOwN, DEL, JUNE "a, 1911
ANOTHER MILITARY SNOB

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Still another funkey in shoul-
der straps disgracing the SER
vice-the Army this this ttime-Col- ttime
Joseph Garrard, commandant OF
the post at Fort Myer, Va, who
saws a soldier in the ranks-no
matter how worthy his record
who has the misfortune to be q
tailor's son and a Jew at that, is
not fit to associate with such fine
gentlemen as the Kunnel himself
and his fellow cads
"Why, the vuIgah fellah has
mended me pawnts; and is he a
proper person to-ah-mess with
us ban gentlemen-a Jew tailor,
o nevah! nevah" protests this
laladalah Pinafore warrior, who,
we suspect, never smelt anything
like battle burned powder in all
his life and would faint if he did.
The four bars of his Colonel's
rank are sinister, every one OF
them, and his dishonored uniform
should be stripped from him and
he sent to the post guard house,
sentenced to do tailoring for say,
about five years.
What aggravates the shame OF
this official snobbery is the fact
that the ambitiuos young soldier
in question having failed to Sc
cure an appointment to West
Point, and seeking a chance on
his merits as man and soldier to
earn promotion, had enlisted and
served three years in the ranks,
making a good record in his hon.
orable attempt to deserve promo
tion-a worthy ambition, worth
lily exercised! But that doughty
Kernel Garrard, with bis nicely
manicured fingers in the air,
pipes out that
''The applicant is a son Of Joseph
Bloom of Jewish persuasion who is
now, and has for a number. of years
been TAILOR at this post p
Of course this toad-eating mar
tinet, as ignorant as narrow,
never heard of William Wilson,
who by just such self-made hero
ism rose from the lowly station
of a shoemaker to the dignity of
Vice President of the United
States; or of that ambitious tailor
who perhaps made clothes for
just such cads as the Colonel and
yet who left his lap-board and
needles to seat himself in the
chair of the chief magistry of this
Nation
Wonder if the conceited Colonel
ever heard of that President, be-
loved and immortal, who was a
rail.splitter ? Or of that soldier
President who held in his tanners
hand the commission to the high.
est Office in the United States
Army-General U. S. Grant? Of
course this uniformed Snob never
read of that heroic English Ad-
miral, Hobson, or of Napoleon's
great Marshal, Hcche-both tail
or's sons. Or of the brilliant
Murat, a hostler; or of Ney, |
Humbert, Pichegru and Soult,
all famous marshals of his, that
rose from the ranks?
This list of the great men who
In every land and in every age,
have arisen from the humblest
stations in life to adorn the an
nails of mankind with the fruits
Of her genius as statesmen,
warriors, artists, scientists and
poets, who though slaves, peas
ants, weavers, hostlers-what
not--have nevertheless proven
benefactors of the race-might
be indefinitely extended.
But these sentiments are es-
peeially foreign to America whose
greatness it is that she is the free
land of equal Opportunity.
This precious military donkey, !
Col. Garrard, and that fellow of
like ignoble kidney, Captain
Boyer, should be tied neck and
heels together, baptized in a
horsepond, and after being drum.
med out of camp to the tune of
"The World Upside Down" ship.
ped to England.
1t is some satisfaction to know
that the thoroughly disgusted
Secretary of War and the Presi.
dent himself in a personal letter,
boxed the Colonel's long ears
soundly, the President even GO
ing SO far as to express his regret
at not being at liberty TO address
the Colonel By his proper title
ASS +!