El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-02

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VILLA atnefaiof9 osnlea 2 q
: pVt'uni'y 70 " 70 francs ana iisn
AS time vent on, the treatment (
thesN slackers became q nations
scandal. The press did not publis
the FEATHER pillow and sofa cushio
treatment which these slackers r.
ceived because 1t would have bee
unpatriotic to have revealed so car
cer0us a condition in the army itsel
fQstered and wetrnursed by the high
est military official Of the admins
tration. But the facts were know
in the offices Of every iihportan
newspaper IN the country.
The dismissal Of Majors Ta,.ssi
and White, however, opcns 70 tn
whole situation to public contempl
especially as 1t comes after the sign
Ing Of the armistice.
The president and the secretary )
war are now shown as having Re
verified to pronounced sympathy viii
the too proud to fight" mushiness
sympathy 50 pronounced that II LEI
them to do all that public opinion
will stand" in the aid Of the slackers
Mr.. Bakers heart bled At the
thought or these fine Young anarch
lists, Socialists. Bolshevfld and slack
ers, compelled to- enter the Ameri
can army. He would not have these
eloquent and p~estiferous theorists
shot. MI. Baker, realizing that pub
lie opinion unfortunately, was war
like and patriotic, protected them
coddled them, humored them as far
as public opinion would stand, mean
ing d~oubtlessly as far as public opin-
ion would stand it without driving
him from office. Mr.. Sinclair, holder
than Wilson and Baker, and holding
no office, openly protests TO his fei-
low sympathizers with the consciep-
tious objectors. that the latter are
being oppressed.
What a shameful picture the
Observation-Disclosures probe Of condi-
tions at Camp Funston disclosed
when they took up the kick of their
intellectual comrade in arms, Citizen
Sinclair.
Behold A husky, Iong-haired Social.
list weighing anywhere from IT'S to-
200 pounds. actually forced to wear
the same khaki as an active soldier
In the trenches, forced every thirty
days to draw down $50 a month paid
for perhaps by some washwoman
who bought a Liberty Bond out OF
her daily %scrubbings' revenue, con-
demned on occasion to eat extra din
ner provided by the generosity OF his
government. smirehed by occasional
contact with a broom for sweeping
out his quarters, required to actually
perform the degrading manual labor
OF lifting his right hand in salute To-
a flag which he had no intention to-
fight for and which he openly con-
demned; forced TO rise at an uil-
godly, ~unearthly hour Inc conduct
himself IN an orderly fashion ana
perhaps denied the right TO hold soap
box meetings on some corner or tpe
cantonment grounds and harangu9
MS fellow soldiers tGod forgive the
comparison) : on the beauties OF BOZ
shevism and the glory Of rebellion
against the government OF the Unit7
ed States by hampering its war ac-
t~iyities.
A chain Of horrors such as these,
perpetrated under the command Of
Leonard Wood, who after ALL is moth
Ing but a good soldier and a patriot
and not at all eligible to the class OF
high brow theorists who now run
he United States, must have
wrenched the subj1nctive soul Of the
president, must have made Newt
Bakers pipe more neurasthenic than
sver before, must have stirred all
he passionate Indignation OF Sinclair
md Berger and made Joe Tumulty
eel that life is not worth the living
when such things can be.
sn while the brothers and sons and
husbands Of decent American women.
val fo the country were fighting
nd diving IN the Wood Of the Amerf-
Marbles and the corpses If the
Jsitahia sank lower and lower into
~ denths, ~ the unknown world.
IA administration naused in its
of war news. paused n It's
oniarcine about airplanes we never
Iad and rims we never sent abroad.
aused long enoueh On me calm o.
be- white House, to hold a confer
nee Al which we have no doubt
Iaker and Wilson were present in
eraon and Sinclair and Bertmann !
nd that Tx were present in spirit TO
Ike IN the case Of The down-frodden.
bnsed bersecuted conscientto,ia d..
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