| Show THAT DREARY TAUS TAM the war department recently recently betit seja ou out t a statement which it less de designed sighed and hoped hav a quieting effect upon the i lating aiming to the losses of life alf ach kev sources by reason of thi the danish american conflict it sh q that pj ut of off officers leeis and meo men who tye w aa engaged in the war only hofve haiie perished this being but it would be much more satisfying a no doubt if it were only possible to kv keey the statement from bf being aig seg and the pro proportions otherwise a N talked leos lees than of the slain 6 au lo 10 their lives in baittle one in it ejk more than 01 thousand HOW alje others die isi Is in the light of 0 ahe ing presented a more profound abes tion than ever c 4 pt referring ef erring to the gf the new york which shoeb ephe DUO ter of bf the statement i buit there were only baw att all told sent to the war this includes all the mien men sent to cuba porto rico and the philippines the rest of the aut outnumbering numbering the entire british army all over the world were senselessly called into service either under an absurd seare scare or for political purposes they were sentenced to long terms in pestilential camps and to all the sufferings that the incompetence competence in of the sons of somebody in staff positions could inflict upon them As a consequence while only men were killed in battle and died of wounds 2485 or nearly nine times as many died from disease it if only the army actually used men had been called into service a derath death rate of 1059 per cent would have burled buried only onay men instead of the 2910 for whom coffins were actually provided A goodly proportion of the press of the country republican as well as democratic agree 9 with ith the world when it says that favoritism rather than competency has been the standard of appointments and that the investigating vesti gating commission has not met any too soon |
