ARMY SCANDALS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9603, 18 December 1896, Page 3

ARMY SCANDALS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THK PRKSS. Sir, —How "Common Sense" can even" suggest another side to the very proper view which you representedan your leader of the 16th is to mc as surprising as the disgraceful revelations themselves. In the name of common sense what does he mean ? Does he really defend the abominable nepotism which you so justly satirised as snobbery, and as being a scandal to our great nation ! If it has really come tcf this, that only the sons of millionaire brewers, or successful grocers, are to get positions in theArmy, we had better sell out the Army to traders and speculators! In the interests of our genuine aristocracy, very few of whom can afford to purchase, admittance into the Army for their sons at such high rates, I ask has personal merit, intellectual attainment, and social standing, to say nothing of patriotism, no place for consideration when seeking admittance into_ the ranks of officers in the Army ? The contemptible cads who ; could treat a officer in the manner described, have no doubt sprung from the close known as "-the. vgjgar wealthy," and no doubt their antics- more to incitej; socialistic outbursts of such writers as,thfe author of " Merrie England."—Yours, &Q,#, i , Janus.