El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-11
UGH. HOW We ARE
SUFFERING YES?
Pennsylvanians Will SILVER
if They Read About
Themselves Here.


PENNSYLVANIA national guardsmen-if :
any of them read the Pottsville Re |
publfcau-wiI be surprised to learn
the terrible conditions they are endur-
ing here on the border. for the Repub- |
lican has arrived with a narrowing col
umn OF yelled hints. positive state
ments. inuendos and speculations about
the national guardsmen from the Key i
stone state and the things they are
suffering-or. worst Of all. may be SUI
fering-in camp on the border
Starting the story off with tele-
gram from II. c. Hoffman. one Of the
PENNSYLVANIA election commissioners.
who came here to take the vote of the
keystone troops on the border, telling
of a bullet being fired into the coach
ahead Of him in the Santa Fe train
bearing him into FL PasO. the paper, in
front page article launches at once
into the national guards imaginary
plight.
Prom information received from an
. other source, We understand that 4
very strict censorship has been tnaugu-
rated on all kilograms. letters and mes
/ saaes Of every kind out from Fort Bliss
/ eucampnent where all Of the soldiers
2 are located" is the first shot the wise
D editor gives his readers Letters ana
MESA Ees that are not inter1ered VITA
by the censor can only come from the
city four miles away. continues TINS
oracle This will all be real news 10
the guardsmen. of course
Then listen we have still further
learned from another source that there
is such great discomfort because OF lack
Of special equipment and of the dis-
courtesies shown the general run OF
officers by some higher up IN authorlty
and especially from the regular army
3 officers. and in many instances because
. OF the policy of the administration
/ that if they could do so with houot 70
themselves and without discreditns
their state. the officers would almost
resign in a body
~semi-OfneiaI News"
From a .semi-official source the Re-
publican has learned that soc oIflcers
of the Pennsylvania. as well as the IN
uois New York and other state ma
tional guardsmen are ready TO resign
the moment they know their resigns-
lions would be accepted Some OF these
base their reasons that their nome
business affairs must be looked after
There are hints about other matters
There is no question that the care and
+ the attention paid the Officers ana men
. alike OF the national guard on the Dor
+ der have been represented as 'eihs
very unsatisfactory.
THAT there is something radically
{ wrong is demonstrated by the fact that
I so many Of the Philadelphia regiment
. officers resigned from the guard me
. ruorneuf they had their accounts settled
and they could get away without dis-
T honor Their reasons were asked nut
thew declined to give them. merely an
g svTerfnC that the whole matter would
{ cone out later. In one OF the Phlla-
! deInhia regiments the story goes that
only one officer has not desired to re-
sign
No Equipment.
Another story from Philadelphia is
~ sgo1 TsTs e T Test Of d'e yo ouT
s Sa5 1T and o5eNf the officers re-
! Piled. we are carrying our equipmen
on our backs There is wealth OF
meaning in that expression Note whas
a sleuth this writer is-a wealth o.
meaning" Get it,
But here is the prize paragraph-the
suffering" Of the guardsmen -on me
cold ground"
are down on the Mexican border line
and who may be suffering, as far as
we know. untold hardships lying on the
cold ground without cots, and without
/ boards in many Of the tents. ana MIN
i an fnsufficiency Of covers to keep them
warm largely think il was done be-
cause the Wilson administration took
them down there for political purposes
: and didn't have the proper equipment
{ ready for them and haven't capable
officials 10 take care Of them now.
These faults are not the soldiers
faults. they are the administration
fault"
As Tad says That's all. thank you
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