Show ABOUT OUR SOLDIERS I Some Facts that bare a Strong Local Significance I Everyone who ever enlisted in the military service of the United States aid Dr Krphn this morning is now called a soldier There were all sorts of soldiers as 1 happen to know for I was there myself There were good brave faithful soldiers who did their full duty because it was their duty but there were thousands who were technically soldiers on whom every pound of bread and meat issued by Uncle Sara was wasted There were men who were known by soldiers as dogrobberi There were soldiers who spent th6 tim ofc their enlistment in the guard house there were soldiers who never got to the front who never saw a battlf who never smelt gunpowder there were soldiers who lived by stealing from their comrades there were soldiers who embraced em-braced every opportunity to skulk to the rear ever get detailed as hospital nurses so as to be out of danger and away from hardships there were soldiers sold-iers who spent most of their time at home on reer img service there were soldiers who were tried and bung by i their fellow prisoners at Aadersonville for crimes against their comrades there were soldiers who never became soldiers uQ a month or so before the war closed and then jumped in for a bounty there were soldiers who made a business of jumping bounties there were soldiers who simply went into the service because they were compelled to do so by a draft there were soldiers who never saw the regiments for which they wererecruited there were soldiers wbo alwavs managed tp keep on thG sick list There were officers too who shirked every dutywho practiced every vice and who left the army to avoid being kicked opt All these in common com-mon with the deserving and the worthy are now called soldiers Justice demands de-mands that there be a little discxi t ina Ubn used especially when offices and honors are to be parceled out when Important trusts are to be confided There is an easy test that may be adopted adopt-ed in these matters Everyman who wasalraudin the army is clamorr Dps officious dictatorial and arrogant bog now And what the genuine soldier sol-dier should demand in these days is that the class of soldiers i nave described de-scribed shall not preempt all the of Cewearr all the honors occupy the I high aeata At YfnninntIIIId mptires and other grand army gatherings dc all the speaking and managing and bossing of things They should demand de-mand that this class shall stay where they choose to stay during the warin the rear with mules and g equipage equip-age and the salter and the commissary commis-sary They should tttat these fellows shall not assume tomB polllie I conventions dictate candidates and set themselve3np before i a gullible public pub-lic in the illfitting garb of old veterans whose valliant service entitle them to special consideration at the hands of their gratcf Countrymen These fellows fel-lows hare had enough They got pay and rations and clothing for service they never rendered and some of them are now drawing pensions for disabilities disabili-ties incurred by crawling their bellies over the rocks to escape the bullets that fell like rain in front Atchison Glob I |