Show A volunteers APPEAL PEAL some time ago attention was called through the press to the disorderly conduct in washington of some of the soldiers from camp alger this has led one of the boys in camp to point t out in a letter appearing in the washington times that the temptations held out by people in the nations capital are numerous and often hard to resist he says he has been in the mining towns of kansas missouri and colorado but nowhere has he seen the temptations to drunkenness and immorality so openly and a aggressively kres forced upon men as in washington the volunteers he says are mostly boys who have never been away from home before if brazen allurements allure ments to vice were kept out of the windows and off the streets as in the west the inexperienced perien ced lads lade would generally escape the and disgrace they have suffered in the lawmaking law making center of the united states the writer makes the following strong appeal in behalf of the volunteer boys boya if you people of washington think you have just cause of complaint against these noisy erring soldiers what Is in to be said for the mothers and sisters who have devotedly and with tears and prayers In trusted these boys boy to the care of the government they enlisted to lay down their lives for if necessary surely the bood women at home whose hearts are breaking over the reports that reach them about the evil courses of their sons and brothers are entitled to ask the civil and military authorities for a better system of control over evils which however unavoidable they may be to some extent have no excuse for existing in the public and law defying manner they do under the shadow of the washington monument the writer in these sentences nees goes to the very core of the matter mattar men and women who give their bays to the service of the country hive have a right ato w expect the government to counteract as much as possible the evil influences that greed puts an in their w way avs should be aimed at those who 0 stoa cne snares and traps fa bof the ua unwary far as well as an at the hiL hapless pless victims that iw are caught divine justice pronounces i a solemn iwo wo upon these th through ro ih whom the offenses come and hu human perfect UM made to work on that principle the 6 of the volunteer boy from C camp alger war ought to be heard throughout 6 0 he e length and breadth of the e land lab and the suggestion acted u upon but will U it yi be heard or will it he be lost as a voice of one that creeth in the wilder wilderness |