Show WHEELER TO THE PUBLIC Vigorous ReplytoAnlnquiry About Cap Wikof Camp Wikoff ontauk Point L I Sept 2Major General Joseph Wheeler Wheel-er ave the following to the Associated Press today Headquarters United States force Camp Wlkot L I Sept I 1898Te following is l a sample of the letters we are constantly receiving regarding the soldiers in the camp In regard to my stepson we eel very uneasy about him on account of the newspaper reports of the privation priva-tion and suffering inlcted upon the privates Although he has never uttered ut-tered a complaint since hc has been in the army we hear from other sources of the cruel and horrible treatment in liicted upon our soldiers under the pretense pre-tense of humanity for out neighbors and the whole country is in a state or terrible excitement I should not be surprised if the feeling should lead to a revolution of some kind for I assure you I hear on all sides the most violent and biter denunciations of the war department and the administration I is indeed a get pity that the glory of our triumphs should be dimmed by such a shameful thing a the itret ment and starvation of our own brave soldIers while the Spanish prisoners have the best treatment that the country coun-try can afford I will be seen that this letter says that not a word of complaint has ben received from this soldier and so far as my investigation goes no complaint has been made by any of the brave soldiers sol-diers that have added glory to our arms in the Cuban campaign A great many anxious father mothers brothers or sisters arrive here from all pars ot the United States to look after their relatives whom they say the paper tel them are sterng and many of them have heard that their relatives I are in a condition of starvation Most ot these people are little able to expend the money for such a journey and they are surprised when they come her to find their relatives surrounded with everything to cat which can be produced by money and i sic in the hespital they arc gratified and surprised sur-prised to find that they are given every I posible care I have just finished my daily insDec ton of the hospitals With rare ex clDUons the sick are cheerful I have nurses and doctors to care for them nnt and in alt my many tour I have not found a single patient who made the slightest complaint I is true there has been great suffering The climate of Cuba was very severe upon all our sldlers but instead of complaining the hearts of these brave men are fled with gratitude to the people for the bounteous generosity which ha been extended to them |