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OBSERVATIONS.
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The shyness of the men invited by
"the president to serve on the commit
tee of investigation is accounted for
by the tiresome and perfunctory na
ture of the duties they will be called
upon to perform. And no friend of
the president cares to accept a posi.
lion which may develope into an an
tagonism of the administration.
Qualities which make a successful
general are very handy for a president
or a king. That the American people
consider success in war indicates good
presidential nbility, .Washington,
Jackson, Taylor, Grant, Hayes Gar
field, Arthur, Harrison and McKtnley
are sufficient proof.
Some of these gave up their com-
mands on being nominated for presi
dent. Others were in civil life when
nominated by one party or the other.
Militar3 success is sometimes acci
dental but a pre-eminence like that of
Washington's, Napo'eon s, Welling
ton's or Grant's, is earned by the pa
tience of a genius, inspiration, indus
try and an unaccountable predisposi
tion for action as well as an aversion
for chatter. All these the successful
soldier must have and the country
whicrh accepts such a soldier for presi
dent on his record is safe.
Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers
and all the more or less distantly re
lated series of uncles, aunts and cou
sins, will not accept Secretary Alger's
reply to the criticism of his conduct
of the war that the death of the young
relative by typhoid fever, occasioned
by bad water, unsuitable food for an
invalid and unsanitary camp arrange
ments, was necessary. The morning
paper when it insists that the lamen.
tations of the bereaved for the boy
who was starved to death or who dieil
for lack of hospital care are unreason
able, if they censure the secretary of
war, is following a policy inaugurated
when the presses were first set up on
these prairies. Never to criticise a re
publican institution or official, how
ever venal incompetent, and fatally
ignorant has been tJie policy of the
paper in question. But the clamor of
those who said good bye in the spring
to the picked athletes, examined and
pronounced perfect bj- government
surgeons, is not to be silenced by ex
cuses that a new commissary did not
know how to distribute the plentiful
supplies and that the volunteer offi
cers did not know how to order a, san
itary camp. The lives of hundreds of
younj; men were sacrificed in order
that this man. and that one might
have a place, when there were plenty
of West Toint men educated by the
government for officers and anxious to
put their trained faculties at the ser.
vice of their countrymen. The sj-s-tem
of political appointments is to
blame more than the secrc .ry of war
for the supplies and nurses which
never reached the sick soldiers. But
the secretary of war is to blame for
the selection of a miasmatic, isolated,
poisonously watered camp like Chick-
amauga. The victims of Algensm
buried in the National park, the fe
vered water-famished soldiers on the
transports who died for lack of water
and of proper food before they reached
Montauk Point, are so many indict
ments of a system and a secretary,
which insist on a hearing. Officers,
eager for active service and thorough
ly competent, have been suffered to re.
main idle, while the raw men with a
pull have been put in n position where
their ignorance was fatal to the men
of their command. I can never forget
the thoroughbred look of the young
fellows who went from Lincoln. Clean
limbed, high-spirited, entirely devoted
to their country, they inarched into
disease instead of on to the battle
field, condemned by a system un
worthy of an intelligent people, to
a fate worse than that of the felon
sent by the Russian government to Si-
beria. These youths are not only a loss
to their relatives btit to the generation
whose turn has just come. They were
the best blood and culture of the na.
tion, the most adventurous, the "men
who would have made the world bet
ter, inventors, scholars, financiers,
and all idealists or they Avould not
hae enlisted. There are many left
but America cannot afford to so wan
tonly deprive herself of new blood.
The boys who fell on the battlefield
died gloriously. Those who lingered
and died in, camps from fevers in.
duced by the location, posoinous wa
ter and lack of palatable food, were
martyrs to an imbecile system which
only an imbecile people will suffer to
exist any longer.
The Prince of Wales is said to be
very much annoyed by the flirtation
of Trince George, the Duke of York,
with the beautiful rrineess Pless. Her
father.in-law is very fond of the Duch
ess of York and has told the Duke
that his attentions to the Princess
must cease. The Prince of Wales has
been confined to an invalid chair for
several months by his lame knee and
has had time to reflect upon the van
ity and foolishness of flirtations and
he is really quite indignant that his
son should venture to cause his faith
ful Duchess any jealous pangs. From
a sickman's chair or bed the foibles,
of his children, even though suggested
by a father's example, are inexcusable.
It appears Mr. Zangwill, the Eng
lish critic and novelist, now visiting
in this country. 1,as come to bless,
rather than to go home and write im
pressions and curses about us, as Ar.
nold and Dickens and Mrs. Trollope,
and scores of other Englishmen have
done. When he arrived in New York
he immediately visited the Jewish
quarter, where the poor Jews live.
There he found the same WTetehedness
and squalor which exists in the Lon
don Ghetto, his realistic description
of which made Mr. Zangwill's reputa
tion. He spent several days in the
New York Ghetto, and was then In
vited to a dinner by the rich Jews. He
accepted, and at the dinner, when
called upon to make a speech, he told
them about the quarter, of the chil
dren, the old and the sick and starv
ing. Like other rich men they were
moved and proposed to endow n hos.
pital bed. build a monument or do
some other trifling and ornamental
deed which would satisfy their sym
pathies and not cost much. Mr. Zang
will showed them how inadequate
such propositions were for hlie needs
of the people he had visited. He pro
posed a tenement house, with liath
rooms and nil the modern neces
sities (not conveniences.) Such is the
power of an earnest soul with a mis
sion that Mr. Zangwill secured a
promise of $500,000 and the tenement
house is to be built immediately for
the poor Jewish people. The rent of
the rooms in the comfortable house
will be no greater than what they
have been paying. It will be sanitary
and its clean floors and walls will en.
courage cleanliness in the poor women
whose surroundings nave mocked
efforts at neatness. Mr. Zangwill's
efforts to restore nlie native American
quarter to decency might be fruitless,
but his powers of description are so
graphic and his heart throbs with
such angelic pity that he would be suc
cessful where another might fail. Al
though the Jews take care of memlers
of their faith with a brotherliness that
should be emulated by the rest of the
world, there are many rich men who
are ready to help the poor, especially
in a large way, if they are shown how.
Lodging houses, well ventilated and
lighted, with bath rooms, built in the
slums, where the poor ean afford to
lie, will not pauperise but help them
to greater comfort, better health and
more cleanly habits. Like the cheap
hotels which have been built to help
man and not to prey on his necessities,
such charities are pointing the nay to
a twentieth century altruism that en
courages us to hope for the days when
competition shall have been diluted
to a friendly rivalry which stimulates
but does not crush. At the Tolstoi
banquet given on the great socialist's
birthday, it was agreed by the guests
to send a cablegram to Mr. Tolstoi stat
ing that a hundred men of New York
gave themselves a dinner in his honor
that day of the anniversary of his
birth. After the message had been
sent a speaker said he thought Tolstoi
would have appreciated the memorial
more if the message sent had been.
"Today a hundred men of New- York
give a dinner to a hundred beggars in
your name." The suggestion was re
ceived in silence. But it sounds like
ZangTvill. Mr. Zangwill's mission to
this country, if it extends no further
than New York, has already been
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