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Show ; r- r n THE MILD MUTINEERS From Washington comes tHe1 inspired information that the authorities there are inclined to regard the mutinous sol-diers-at Archangle with a lenient eye. Until Un-til all the facts are ascertained we should be careful not to pass judgment, but we are not debarred from considering the case of the authorities at Washington. These are the same authorities that haye been upholding the tyrannical court-martial system. While the authorities are looking with lenity on the Archangel mutineers they are defending a system which sentenced a half witted youth to ninety-nine years at hard labor for absence without leave, desertion and escape. While our courts were passing mild sentences on German spies and'agitators the court martials were passing sentences ten times more severe on soldiers who made an injudicious injudi-cious choice between their duty to the army and to starving families at home. Undoubtedly the worst offense committed commit-ted by American soldiers since the "war began was, to all appearances, the mutiny at Archarigel. And yet the authorities are inclined to be indulgent toward the mutineers wh'ile defending the pitlessly cruel punishment meted out to boys who committed slight infractions of discipline. Goodwin's. Weekly H. pi |