Not Enough Rank by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 8, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 10.

Not Enough Rank

By Editor

Not Enough Rank.—There is evidently not rank enough in the United States to satisfy the ambition of officers and their influential friends. So it is now a mooted question in Congress whether to create higher grades with more officers with nothing to do, or to build more ships just to furnish commanding positions for the supernumeraries. Not only in the navy, but in the army and in civil life, there is a great burden of souls to create more public functions at the expense of the common toilers and producers.