Emery County Progress | 1906-12-15 | Page 3 | Taft Upholds Preside in Discharge of Sold

TAFT TO III OF r SOLD SOL D secretary of war think thinks roosevelt Rooi evelt did proper thing in dismissing from service battalion of negro soldiers washington an extract from the annual report ot of secretary of war tatt taft relating to the brownsville Browns ville tex outrage by negro soldiers was made public on wednesday secretary tatt taft recites the crimes 0 of the so ller a already described in newa news dispatches the failure 0 of the war department to obtain the names ot of the offenders and the discharge of the battalion secretary taft justifies the discharge saying it may be that in the battalion are a number ot of men wholly innocent who know neither who the guilty men are nor any circumstances which will aid in their detection though this cannot be true of many because there may be to innocent men in the bat must the government continue to use tise it to guard communities of 0 men women and children when nhen it contains so dangerous an element impossible ot of detection certainly not the only means ot of ridding the military service ot of a band ot of would be murderers murd of women and children and actual mur darers ot of one man Is the discharge of the entire battalion