Show MILES AND ALGER There is eonsderable discussion in the eastern press over the contemplated courtnattial of General Miles His exposure of putrid supplies furnished fur-nished the army and incidentally the still more putrid condition of the war department has > brought upon the head of this veteran officer the indignation of a whole lock of cultures who prey upon the government and roost upon official limbs on the tiee of the administration admin-istration General Miles declared that embalmed I beef was being furnished his men with the result of suffering and death The whitewash committee had no chance to pigeonhole his charges For he gave full permission to their publication He wanted a real investigation He wanted want-ed the people to know the truth They had a right to know it General Miles was not talking at random ran-dom He had seen the beef had smell pd i had scn men grow deathly sick from eating i had been Informed by I the army phjstcim that it was the I beef that caused the sickness had caused some of the stuff to be analyzed I and had filed the report of the chemist with the commission I His charges were all plainly made and supported by quotations themselves them-selves most horrifying from a mass of testimony which he has collected in the form of official reports from com f marding officers and of letters and affidavits I I affi-davits from others It was utterly impossible to read his i I testimony and the corroborative evidence evi-dence he red wit out a growing feeling feel-ing of indignation against the department depart-ment chiefs and the administration I I chiefs who not only permitted the gov ernm nt to be swindled by contractors the soldiers poisoned by chemicals and the officers assailed who demanded better I bet-ter treatment for their men but actu ally tried to cover up the infamy Some sycophants took up the cowardly coward-ly cry that a great industry was being threatened by the suspicions created I agaliist it I ought to be threatened into keeping its contracts whether at home or abroad General Miles is not to be censured for protecting his army from the ravages of the meat conces sionaries no matter how many Eagans the exposure sets to cursing or how many Algers it starts upon errands of revenge The attempts of Alger to threaten General Miles with courtmartial or hu I mliation makes the danger of an increased In-creased army under the present head I of the war department all the more apparent ap-parent I |