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Show ILL TREATMENT OFSICK'SOLDIERS Stirred by ovldenco which has como to .him of neglectful neglect-ful treatment of disabled and sick soldiors in army hospitals" in this country. Representative Martin H. Madden of Illinois, has announced an-nounced in Congress his intention in-tention to mako a personal investigation of tho chargos with a view to domandlng that tho officers Involved be brought before a court-martial. First, however, ho will endeavor to interest Secretary Secre-tary of War Daker in tho wolfaro of the mon under treatment In tho hospitals, and urge him to compel a remedy of existing conditions. condi-tions. According, to H. J. Mar- !golls, of Chicago, who has personally Interviewed 15,-000 15,-000 returned sorvlco men, thero aro hundreds of casos V of "mon ho linvo boon dls- u(kiifni charged from government SrJTJ hospitals as 'cured,' but who woro unnblo to work. Mon who woro homolcss, penniless penni-less and in somo cases crippled, wero turned out of these hospitals to shift for themselves," "Every man In .every department de-partment of the public service,", ser-vice,", doclared Representative Representa-tive Madden, "who Is charged with responsibility In the treatment of theso men should bo called to account, and if thy have failed in any particular to give the men tho treatment they aro entitled to as the heroes of ! tho nation during tho Great War, if they are In tho military mili-tary sorvioo they should be at onco court-martialed and placod bohind tho -bars." " aoamoMmnaaaauaDHmanuuB I .. A I hupo that tho United M States will bo able to keep "rl disengaged from the laby- H rlnth of European politic H and wars OSORQB I M WASHINGTON. gM ,vvH Determined as we aro to M avoid, if posslblo, wasting M tho enorglo3 ot our people In H war and destruction, wo B shall avoid Implicating our- M selves with tho powers of , Europo, OYon in tho support 'M of principles wo moan to "l pursue They have so many H other interests different . H from ours that wo must H avoid bolng entauglod In ' H them. THOMAS JEFFER- rH SON. m Tho moral character of ,. M the Unltod States Is of more ""H linportanco than any nlll- H anco. JOHN ADAMS. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm rell- H anco on Him who has never H Vet forsaken this favored land aro still competent to adjust In tho best way all H our presont difficulties. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Don't , trust tho Interna- TB tionalists; thoy aro tho one- mlos of Nationalism and Americanism. THEODORE ! ROOSEVELT ! Nothing contained In this &H convention shall bo so con- ifl atrued ,ns to require the H United States ot America to ' depart from its traditional ' policy of not intruding upon. '' intorforlng with, or en- tangling Itself in tho polltl- Tfl ' cal questions of policy or in- jH ternal administration ot any IS foreign state. SECOND IN- fl TERNATIQNAL P B A O S JM CONFERENCE, THE mH HAGUE,. 1907. jM I nil mi mm w 1 1 i Ti mJ ijfl |