Show TIlE THE CANTEEN Arizona Republican The surgeon general of the United States army recently alluded to the tho abolition of the army canteen as a crime reiterating in stronger language language the views of every army officer of prominence except General Miles who has hns expressed himself on the subject Th The latest statistics prove that there thero Is now more drunkenness in the United Stat States s army than in any other army In the world world that that Is Is more moro cases In proportion to the number of men employed are reported This condition it is further shown by the statistics has grown up since the abolition of the tho canteen The soldiers unable to obtain beer or wino wine within the military reservations naturally seek more potent beverages at the nearest where they drink without restraint Jt It may be ho said that if there had been a canteen at Fort Reno there would have M been no riot at Brownsville exciting the entire state of Texas ending In the loss 1055 of ot ofa ofa a battalion of the United States army and and a scandal which I has become national |