Show GENERAL MILES ANO AND ills HIS TITLE tile the renewal of the proposition to recreate the office of lieutenant general in order to bestow that rank upon gen con lilies jmiles lids has a disquieting effect upon thoughtful people tor for it la Is certain that either tho the movement cornea conics from the general himself or that he be could by a word stop the agitation of the matter in a moment find and that he would speak that word if as commander of 0 the armies lie he was thinking more of his country than of himself one would think that the example left by gen grant ought to be enough to mako inako a soldier see the swiftest way to promotion when arter after shiloh huoh there was an implied threat to relieve grant of ilia his command and lie he heard of it he quietly replied that there here Is plenty of room in the no one ever heard of his Bc homing for promotion and none was ever given to him until after he had earned it but at last there came a time ahery tho the nation was not led to limit his file rank to what had bee been n and I 1 what hat scott was axas bievet ted to and congress had to create a n now new lank for him then lie had to bend to accept it it if oen gen belless bil less mind aas evenly balanced these would mould be groat great days for or himlie be saying mayine to himself ily aly lends friends r amid the bankers cankers of a loll 1011 long pence tried a year or two ago to fit or me m the title of at lieutenant gnal they tailed failed and I 1 am glad of it for with the war opening before me ni all I 1 ask in my position is I 1 a little time and then I 1 will have the nation king why that gen miles all la is not riven given a hither higher rank and a title bestowed through the desire of ft a great nation will be b infinitely sweeter and dearer than to have it come through a few friends importuning Con congress greas but it r seems that the tha general Is I 1 willing to get bet it la in any form and the it I 1 Is raised again before one on achievement 0 of f the war directs attention to him it Is 18 the old effort to get something tor for nothing and to bask in honors that have never been earned and one cannot help but ask himself Is it pos bible for one ro EO selfish and so BO vain to give his hie best services to his country I 1 grant would not have done it neither would ld sherman nor sheridan nor I 1 thomas and that gen miles thinks I 1 the title it if bestowed now through the I 1 importunities of 0 friends would add to his standing before men then we would nish ih that some rome soldier entirely devoted to tho the service of his country might havi have his place |