The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-07-31
LaWleSSness i'm Logan.
The Order Of "Tlle Sons of
Veterans"
WHENCE, AND WHAT ART
THOU?

| IL Is HdEU lOT Ilo 10 say any
thing that NAV reflect on the fair
I fame of the community of which
l am a member, with which |
have been identified from child
hood. and in which my dearest
interests are concerned.
But we have reached a crisis
in Logal where silence on the
part of the law abiding, Sabbath
keeping citizens becomes assent
to the viciousness that SCOTS at
law and celebrates its shame in
open day; where the lack IF
some active movement to check
it makes the good citizen part;
ceps c7in,imis.
For months our community
has been scourged by the lowest
class of female characters; ar
bored in dens of infamy and pro-
tected from the operation of the
law by the men to whose vices
they pander. Emboldened by
impunity, they carry their out
rageous conduct to that extent.
and advertize their business so
openly that some portions of our
town has become almost unin-
habitable by respectable people,
and property, save for infamous
uses, unstable. It's almost i'm
possible for decent women to
pass through these neighborhoods
without being subjected to the
grossest insults Oh account of
their ribald talk and shameless
behavior.
| premise thus much, Mr. Edi
tor, not to connect it in anywise
with what l am about to say,
nor to compare the characters of
the participants, further than to
show by subsequent recital how
vice unrestrained will infect the
more decent portion of the COM
munity, until we forget that we
are a christian people and give
ourselves over entirely to lewd-
ness and Sabbath breaking.
On last Sunday the people of
this village were shocked by the
outrageous performances of an
order known as THE Sons of
Veterans. They have been in
Extensively obscure heretofore,
known only by reason of their
incessant drumming and muster
ing. But not content with this
tame excitement and pining for
the pomp and circumstance OF
glorious war, they gathered them
selves together, and to the gal
liant roll of the drum, repaired to
Rempel's Grove, where they put
in Sunday Staying imaginary ad-
versarles in sham battle. firing
blank cartridges, and after the
heat of the fight regaling them
selves with lager beer. They re
turned Sunday night, marching
through the streets preceded by
marshal music.
Now in the face of these facts
it behooves the authorities of the
municipality to ascertain by
what authority they fly into the
face of law and perpetrate this
wholesale desecration of the Sab
bath.
Is the rigor Of M. nicipal regu
lations ever relaxed in favor of
the old veteran who eversteps
them II not for him who was
willing to lay down his life for
the government that gives them
effectiveness, why for these So
called Sons of Veteranss'
But whence is this organiza-
ton and what is its object?
Within the last four or five
years there has been organized in
this country a society known as
the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, consisting IF the veterans of
the late war.
OF this order l can only speak
in terms of the highest respect.
I would dishonor my sire ii did
otherwise. 1t is made up OF men
who forsook all and without NAL
ice took up arms on a purely
constitutional question.
1t is no more than natural,
whatever may be said of it from
a political standpoint, that the
men whose hearts beat in unison
to the heroic music of the war,
should seek to continue their in
tercourse and renew their dearly
acquired experience by means of
someth ng of this kind.
From this society The Sons of
Veterans" claim to have sprung.
The order is in fact a nulius
tili~s, born without license of the
law or benefit of the clergy. Its
object in life, so far as ascer-
tained, and Judging from recent
developments, being to promote
the facilities for organized "bum
ming"
But the real trouble. l appre- ,
hend, is its total want of an OBJ
ject. It's an old adage that The
devil finds some mischief still for
idle hands to do" He will like.
wise furnish employment for the
diversion of an objectless organ
ization.