| Show A BARREN VICTORY an unenviable rosl roni position flon with a caution IT must seem to the thinking portion of the community that the commandant at camp douglas is placed in a strikingly unenviable position when nhen the troop of cavalry yesterday went hooting and yelling back to ca camp gnp with their drunken and criminal comrade what were they rejoicing ovel were they not rejoicing that an aged citizen had been brutally outraged were they not triumphing that tilo tile civil authorities had q 1 been for the time lime overborne n e jb and aud I 1 successfully denied defied by the military it aar authorities were they not rejoicing 0 over the timy of brute to force aco over good law were they not sympathizing with succoring and delivering a drunken brutal criminal whose azose liberty had been forfeited by ills his glading abuso abubo of it to the law and properly restrained by the omm off meers mecis thereof the troop had conquered where there was no antagonist had prevailed v where there was no opposition had overcome where there was no resistance not the sligh slightest te shadow of it had hind succeeded where w her they were allowed to have everything their own way had rescued a criminal from the just penalty of the law had released from the quiescent passive civil authorities a drunken lawless comrade and therefore they could well to yell like savage at their empty victory as avi they tiley galloped triumphantly back to camp thee theio was no cause for any force or violence so far as persons were concerned because there was wab wa no resistance to the demand of the boffl officer the civil authorities had in view simply the legitimate and commendable purpose to have the question of militar military Y vs civil authority take tako such a shape that it could be properly brought before and up upon on and determined by the proper judicial tribunals and any passionate or lawless v violence jolene e or indecent glorification on the part of the troops was entirely gratuitous and in excessively excessive ay bad taste las te anu rid the glorification p part art was also aho decidedly premature suppo suppose e tile the citizen so outrageously assaulted and injured by the drinken dr inken soldier had been a present instead of a former federal officer suppose lie he had bad happened to bo be the present chief justice instead or of a former associate justice what would the drunken and lawless soldier have cared drunken and belligerent li Il and lawless soldiers are apt to be no re specters of persons no ders of nice distinctions of age gray hairs or general venerable appearance in their befuddled and quarrelsome and violent condition they hey can hardly bo be expected to recognize and respect the critical physical cal cai mental political part izan or difference between a past federal boffl official acial and a present federal official so 90 that it would not surprise the public at all to hear some fine morning of his honor tilo tho chief justice or any other present federal civil official having been knocked down in the open streets tumbled into the ditch and alid left to soak there by somo some drunken and reckless soldier con as a mere matter of friendly caution it might not be amiss to advise the present chief and associate justices and other civil officials federal or lo local calas as well as the citizens generally especially those thom of a decidedly peaceable disposition to have a sharp eye open when drunken blue coats are around or said officials or citizens may suddenly bo be served as poor judge mccurdy wasp was vas if they dont find themselves in even a worse predicament it will be good to remember too that as it appears at and lawless soldiers have theoretical and practical immunity in from punishment for crime so far as the civil law is concerned and that according to current indications cat ions the tile military authorities have for more sympathy for drunken and lawless soldiers than for tho the inoffensive and peaceable citizens whom those drunken alid and lawless military criminals may as sault and half or wholly murder |
