The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-07-26
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY

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| Post, Montana, will at an early date be re-en-
| forced by large Post at Butte City. Comrades,
we have truly occupied the land.'
UTAH.
| In company with the Surgeon General WIS.,
| tied the Provisional Department of Uteh, on
| April 21st and 22d. We were cordially received
| by as gallant band of comrades as ever wore
| our badge The Posts at Ogden and Salt Lake
are lively and enthusiastic. l have added
| Idaho and Montana to the Department. which
gives them sufficient Posts to form permanent
| Department. The organization in Utah have
had many difficulties to contend with. They
are unfolding the banner of the Grand Army
in what is practically foreign and hostile
| community. They are in the front of an
| enemy, treacherous and defiant, who are
trampling daily under foot the laws of the
| land with perfect impunity. The Grand Army
| in Utah are the natural protectors of the glory
and honor of the flag. There in the presence of
crime as hideous as treason and as damn
| able as slavery, they grandly illustrate the
shining glories of our Order. They witness
this reasonable organization extending into
| Idado, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming New Mex
| ico and Colorado, and grasping with greedy
hands the balance of power in the very center
of the continent. They are entitled to our
| sympathy and solid support. 1t is right we
| should send greeting to them, for the evil they
are massed in solid lines against, is one that
! will cause the next great struggle for republic
| can government unless it is speedily checked
Thequestion there is not in any sense political;
all true men drop party lines there and are
| simply Anti-Alormon There Jews are Gen
| tiles by name, and all stand in solid column,
| though vastly outnumbered by the wicked
| host. This question is a moral one, and we
| have a right to add our testimony in favor of
| honor and purity The slums of Europe with
| matted hair, blood-sh0t eyes, unholy thoughts,
and beastly, idiotic ignorance and fanaticsm
| impelling them, are being massed behind the
! solid walls of the gigantic mountains; the flag
! is hated, the laws which we willingly obey and
the authority of the Nation we saved are
| spurned and spit upon. The school taxes paid
| by our comrades and those in league with
! them are used in sustaining Mormon schools,
and in every way the spirit of disloyaty and
| hate is exhibited We crushed slavery and
purified the flag, we made one country and one
/ flag living reality, and it is our duty to say
| to the Polygamous wretches who have erected
! a structure as unholy and damning as slavery,
! that the men who wore the blue demand that
these wicked, unhOly efforts to establish on our
soil the superstition, crime, and hideousness
| of the dark ages must cease before we are mus
] tered out.
Let us demand, through strong committee,
/ that a band OF earnest, true men who know
! and have faced the evil and sin day and night
! shall be designated to codify the laws hereto
OF this unholy church. That it shall be writ
| ten and declared that no Mormon shall vote or
| hold any Office whatever. That all holding
/ Government Offices shall be removed; that
this commission shall ask Congress to approve
the codifcation of the laws and that all officers
/ of every grade shall he appointed by the Gov
ernor and confirmed by the Council and that
the emigration of recruits to build up this
damning crime shall be stopped at once and
| forever.
GRAND ARMY HOMES.
I am delighted at the progress made in the
| work of establishing soldiers homes under the
auspices of the Grand Army Many of the
Departments are doing wonderful work in this
direction, and all of them should at once take
active steps towards providing home for the
poor members of our Order. / had the pleas
ure of visiting the home established By the
Department of Massachusetts, at Chelsea. My
eyes grow dim when | think of that visit.
That alone would have paid me for all my
labors in behalf of the Grand Army
1t is the graudest monument of the splendid
Department. which so nobly represents the
principles OF our Order 1t is q home presided
over by veteran and veterans wife. The
war-worn veterans only fear is that they can
not be grateful enough for it.
4 The national homes are or will be inadequate
soon. We want eur comrades near us SO that
we can visit and cheer them and show them that
they are precious to the comrades OF the Grand
Army, and besides these homes can be used for
memorial halls in which to preserve cur rec
Ords also passed by the site of the Home 10
be provided by the Department of California.
1t will soon be ready, and is located in beau
tiful valley close by the mountain Almost
perpetual summer reigns there, and it will be
q delightful spot for the weary veterans to pass
away the remnant of their lives.
/ have heard many complaints in regard to
trf of Sold
Home at Dayton, O., aud would recommend
that committee be appointed to investigate
the statements made.
MEMORIAL HALLS.
The question of what will become of the
records and history of the Grand Army after
the final muster-out has taken strong hold
upon my heart.
/ believe our record in peace will eclipse
our glores in the war.
If the records of all the Departments and
National Encampments are gathered up and
forever preserved it will add greatly to the
material for the future historian to write the
true history Of the war. ] believe that when
the necessity ceases for the use of the national
homes that they can be donated for this pur-
pose, and in the Departments where they do
not exist permanent ire-proof memorial halls
should be erected where the records of the
Grand Army can be filed and preserved.
we nave HOW All the FGCUfIS anu HISTORY Oh In(
service off, 100000 men and their tattered battle
flags, carried proudly in all the conflicts of the
war. We can have garneFed our banners ba,
zoned with Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty
and thus show by the preservation of the story
of the Grand Army in peace what will be the
, proudest monument of the Union soldier, anG
one that will perpetuate the memory of oul
Order longer than any organization of the past
THE WORK OF WOMEN.
The organization Of Women's Relief Corps
: Ladies' Loyal League, and Auxiliary societies
have kept even pace with the rapid growth o
5 the Grand Army. In every Department the
; noble women have banded together in one
/ form or another to assist us in caring for oul
, sick and destitute comrades and those depend
Q ent ON them. Many of the members helped
: suffered, and sacrificed during the war; and
? many have grown up since and here find al
enlarged field for the development of their
charitable hearts They have accomplished
great and lasting good / am a firm believer
q IN the work OF women. | anu glad that these so
d cletIes do not confine their membership to the
), wives and daughters OF soldiers, but admit al
S who are worthy to engage in the work.
/ The love Of women for the soldier was the
, | crowning glory of the war for the Union. Since
5 the war their affection for and appreciation o.
/ the men who Wore tho blue has not WayereC
3 nor been extinguished by Time
!; Their watches by day and vigils by night
, during the dark days of the war; their work
IN the hospital, on the battlefield, in the SAM
r tary and Christian Commission field of duty
, | form the hriohtast ra in tha bietorv of tt,