Show uniform of the United States army and that this dignity should carry with it the instincts of a gentleman Some one should Alger will hardly dare But if Eagan is permitted to go unpunished for this worse than serious breach of discipline the army prison doors should be opened and every ignorant ig-norant private who is held for insubordination insubor-dination and every inexperienced volunteer vol-unteer who was sent up for writing to his home paper an insignificant criticism criti-cism of a petty officer Should go scot free And every widow whose husband was shot for mutiny and every mother whose sen was executed for neglect of duty ought to be pensioned Eagan is allowed to hold his commission and wear his uniform Nothing could be more demoralizing to the army than the continuance of Eagans connection with it He is not only a fool whose folly will bring sneers upon the army he is connected with rtit an incomplent whose asinine ignorance ig-norance and stupidity have already u caused more aoawis tnan were cau = a by tho armies of Spain and he is a I teacher of blackguardism and insubordination insubor-dination in the army as long as he remains I re-mains unpunished I |