The National tribune., 1883-12-27
QUEEN CITY VETERANS
News Of the Posts and Fraternal
Gossip.
s.,eninl f,orres,,nnaenoe National Tribune.

Psrchance il may not have occurred TO the
thousands of readers OF the Organ of the G. A.
R"fhat there are a few comrades in the Queen
City Of the West and, also, a large fer among
the hills that surround the city So, while
the citizens are pazziing their brains about
the red sky visible AT times through the
smoke that cur smoke inspector distributes
over the city, lei us first scat the ladies and
proceed TO new business by dropping into the
several Posts.
The thirty-seven ladies. who, as the charter
members. compose the Commodore Foote w.
Z. c. No 10 Department of Ohio, sre met with
upon The highways, gathering recruits and do
ing COED in the interest OF the old soldiers.
The success Of this Curass thanks TO the execu-
tive ability Of the national officers, their val
nabie assistants and the earnest workers found
bereahouts, is aa established fact.
William ii. Lyle Geo. III. Thomas, VIM.
Nelson. No I3G, August Which, and Veteran
Posts occupy the city proper. A new Post, No.
40I, Department of Ohio, has been instituted
Oh X alaut iil:ls, sn extended suburb OF this
civ None OF lis members were comrades Of
tic @. A. j.; nevertheless, its organization
brings NJ again The one Pos; question.
FAIL X.
While most of-in fact, nearly sIl-the COM
raaes are IN favor Of adopting methods by
which every honorably discharged soldier and
sails- may become g comsade Of the @. A r..
there were fhose SO narrow minded as to think
lNt Was SUtEcleDt lOf CGcil CttE OF toNh.
That might work IN s1aall towns and villages;
but whon Il is undertaken in cites Ike Column
bus and Cincinnati, 1t bodies 20 good to the G.
A. r. We d0nft End the cid soldiers rushing
to orr ranks as they did about the Gag when
assailci. because the trials Of business compel
many 10 ferego the pleasures OF The Post-room-
Again. many do not join owing TO the dis
tafce from their homes 10 the Posts and the
brief time that they can devote IN the even
;nes TO the meetings. Hence, the one-Post cry
is fast losing ground and more especially so as
since the fight made against the granting of a
charter 10 Veteran Post. Post No. zol has
sust been instituted. with twenty-five charter
members, in addition 10 the sixty-odd men who
form Veteran Post which latter Post holds
its meetings IN the same hal that Lytie Post
docs yet none of the members would enter
Lyle Post, or any other Post, and there are
hundreds OF veterans here ike them. If for
the good OF The @. A T., Jet charters he granted
fcr Posts On every street corner where a num-
Der OF veterans sufficient to properly. man them
can be found There should be nothing exclu-
ssVe under the mantle OF Charity, that broad
principle under which the Grand Army Of the
Republic thriTes.
Oh the hills that surround this city, Prices
Hills has T. IL Moore Post. Neither Mount
Adams nor Mount Auburn have Posts. although
hundreds Of cid soldiers live in those suburbs.
Walnut Hills proper, with its 80 600 inhabit-
ants has only at this late day got Post Nc.
1el). And how? Why. by such interchangeable
workers as Comrade 4. E. Jones going into the
very homes Of those who remained outside Of
the q. A. T. Why not ioint Oh its 8
politicai orcanizatia,l.' well if we ask for
charter they VIII say: Join the Posts IN the
city and refuse Us as they did Veteran Post. :
They were told that G. A z. Posts are TO bs
found Ia the " Rockies" the tropics, and IN
Europe, and is it possible that the soldiers Of
Walnut Halls viii hesitate longerg Such and
horn
il is generally understood that prejGdice6
mind especially when owned by an old soldier
is fixture, ard cal be changed about as easily
as making mule walk plank by twisting hi.
tail BIT perseverance works wonders, and
now thirty-Tine comrades say, How could W.
have been SO imposed uPOn?"
Tenacity, such as carried YiclCsburg, Donel
son. Richmond, and hundreds Of other strong
holds i to be found in the rank and file o
The q. A. 2. Only give it scope and 6 mil
hon Rerc's,1 viii answer the roll-caIl of til
Grand Army instead of the coveted "thrc
hundred Thousand"
ALL MAY COME III.
Somewhere in the Ecriptures-ny COPY is OF
o. losn-p preachers are told 70 go forth o.
the Highways and gather in the erring,
that they might be Taught Christianity. II
the G. a. T. every conlrade is preacher, an
should do likewise, that our comrades-in-arm
who hesitate Eaay properly understand an
appreciate r, C., and l., which is true Christi
nnity.
Examine too closely into the social positio
OF the cBst OF more unfortunate conrade, an
you destroy the true meaning of the motto
LOOK back twenty years think Of the positio
he then held-st0uider 10 shoulder perhaps
with yourself; think Of the kind Of coat b
then wOre-cOmpare II 10 its glossy, thTeadbar
condition Of to-day; consider that his positio
then was voluntary, and to-day compulsory
through Charity, rs understood b. bus
people. The more piBcbed his features froI
sickness or from causes over which his mind
maybe weakened by the flowing bowl, tina
rrOWng sorrow has little or no coDtro
the greater his disosuragelnents, owing
the rush Of the rising generation, the il
fax Of eznigr1nts and their uncharitabl
and misunderstood comments shout "rot
bling the Treasury 10 pension soldiers" TIL
more firmly you stand MIN on his feet the be
Ter you carry out the principles Of the O. A. r
and teach 70 those who, like Paddy owl !" Kay
rps diFil Of E thinking" the true mission
the g. A. T., sHa its noble auxiliary, the Won
ans Relief Corps
During the rebellion there were q certsi
Glass CT saeD who climbed up 70 your ears an
whispered Co, give them HI God bic
yon, nay bOyi" how ricB they suddenly 90
How mention Of soldier Of the rebellic
reminds them Of rotten hnlks, sandy gun pos
der. sho5dy clothing. paper-soied shoes, plast'
paris quIniIes aDc 80 on, "a s1gd1litsm!
EIcH BY TIE BLOOD OF HUNDREDS.
These same men, made rich By the blood
hundreds Of thousands Of gallant men, g.
yet TO be found hunting up crippled soldiers
parade, as their work for political favorS- Cor
rnoes. il Is not part Of the q. A. R.-bru.
them Of as you would tho mosquito the tous
In poisonous. IN the language Of Comrade Gel
erai kosecrans nj the last Reunion Of the Arm
OF the Cumberland, :" We Sre growing less
numbers aud weaker for the want Of unity.
we want our rights, we must stick and pull {
gether."
There are In the city Of Cincinnati slol
hundreds OF veterans struggling Tor exiE
ence. The paltry sun which is dolec ont
them by the Government AZ intervals Of thr
months. while large enough In the aggrega
20 make the "bond-holdeTs" howl, Ia nothil
NO man with family. Four or even twel
dollars month is not princely income, but
n al thousands Of those gallant soldiers, brok'
IN health and spirits, and thereby unable
cope with their younger and more robust cor
petifors for livelihood, have on which 10 Iii
and support families. III you wish TO find the
no into the cherries tenennents, where Cox
sunlight comes through broken panes, and wal
and poverty, and sickness and sorrow NAL
their homes. Go, comrades, and seek them
There you viii find them surrounded
pennrv, pinched by hunger struggling for
bare existence. They live and die the yicti,
e. thai pride that carried them forth 10 hat;