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Show The St. Louis Globe-Democrat hoa led off in the matter of dropping military titles, so common Bince the war, and proposes hereafter to prefix the simple "Mr." before ez soldier's namea. There are ten generals and twice that number ol colonels to day, fourteen years slier the war, for every one found on the army rostera from 18G1 to 1805. The bogus titles have become so mixed up with the genuine and the rank has been so universally raised, that it is impossible to tell who is who, hence we agree with tne Globe-Democrat that it is wise to abolish them all. In the west, especially, are we afflicted with these military titles. A corporal, or a sergeant major, is a colonel by the time he gets as far west as Utah. We know of one case where a fellow during tho wor was nothing moro than a traitor lo both sides, and a common horse thief, his highest tank at no time being greater than lieutenant, lieu-tenant, yet he was a colonel for years in Utah, and went away disgraced, but still bearing his title. And he is only a sample. Plain "Mr." is pretly good at this late day. |