Show MARTINETISM TRIUMPHANT I It is a common saying that professional I profes-sional honor bids a physician permit I a patient to die if he can only be saved out of the rgular method of treatment And this appears to e the pOlicy adopted in the army to a large tie I gree W E Curtis the Washington come I spondtnt of the Chicago Record has something to say about affairs at Mon tank Point and the way they areman aged that is somewhat of a revelation After telling how the regular ration of the army is issued to regulars and volunteers alike at Camp Wikoffsalt meat one day and fresh mejLt the next with potatoes onions cotr i ugar and I so many pounds or soft and hard bread that while this does very well for the regulars who are accustomed to such diet thloIunteers and particularly par-tIcularly iosc who have been sick cannot eat salt meat Then he tells of a volunle WhQ related how his mouth would no longer open to salt meat how he could not digest it how pork nauseated him and salt horse as corn beef is called was even worse General Wheeler he says haying hay-ing discovered this state of affairs to exist Issued 3n order to the commls sarles the other day to serve more I vegetables ll quartermaster general gen-eral to whonijhe matter was referred declined to obey on the ground that the army ration was fixed by an act of congress and could not be varied I without a vIolation of law This was a beautiful example of regard re-gard for the letter of the law and an utter disregltrd for suffeling humanity I It was not niHitaris it was nuirtin eUsm VheJ the secretary of war arrived ar-rived at Camp YikofI he gave an order or-der practically the same ac that issued by de ra1i1ieeIei and it vascom Ji 4i J fL J lot h < < il r r I plied with If the quartermaster gen Ieral could disregard the letter of the law when Alger issued an order hc could have done the same when Wheeler issued an order DId the i quartermaster general think the one had a political pull and the other did not Evidently he did I If there are such scandals and shortcomings i short-comings in the management of a yol i unteer army called out for a short I time what pray would they be with I a permanent big military establishment establish-ment |