Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-06-10 | Page 6 | The Unlucky Twenty-Fifth

THE UNLUCKY TWENTY-FIFTH, The Twenty-fifth United States Infantry In-fantry appears to bo playing in hard luck, especially sinco Iho sensational episode at Brownsvillo, whero President Presi-dent Roosevelt dismissed a wholo battalion, bat-talion, apparent' because ho could not find any of its members guilty of t-I.o chargo alleged. The regiment is now al Seattle. Thero has boon complaint about '.lie insulting of women by tho members of that regiment, and ono of the. so'dicrs stationed thero has confessed ti his misdeed of intruding into tho house of u Mrs. Redding ami insulting her. Ho urges, however, apparently as a palliation, pallia-tion, that ho was drunk when he did if; which, of course, is 110 palliation at all, but, on tho contrary, an aggravation. aggrava-tion. The effort by the citizens )f Seatti-j to have President Taft order regi.-mervt regi.-mervt away was met with rofiis.il. Pof. sibly, however, the second effort that is making in tho same direction mav sue-ccod, sue-ccod, especially as a petition fwiii Port Logan. Colorado, asks to have the ro"i-mcnt ro"i-mcnt transferred to that post. It would seem as though thoro ought not to bo any difficulty in making tluH transfer, when tho pebplo whoro tho regiment now is want, to get rid of it and the people in another pluco want to havo it. That would bo an exchange agrccablo to bolh parties, and it ought not lo bc against tho grain of our goo;l-natured goo;l-natured Preaidont lo grant tho ro-quc3t ro-quc3t that would gralify two far-separated communities. And if the regiment regi-ment cannot, get along peaceably at Fort Logan, porhapa it might .bo best to sond it to the Philippines and keep it thoro, or disband it altogether.