Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-09-08
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q position he has filed so accept
ably and satisfactorily for ten years
past, But there may be some who
do not know that for years he has
been the editor and proprietor of
the Galena Republican,, which, as
it's name would indicate, is a red.
hot, every -day-in.the-week Republi-
can newspaper. What Col. Weldy
says In his paper before the re-
union az to soldiers reunions, Is
indicative of his personal senti-
ments during the reunion now on.
In the issue of his paper last week
there appears an editorial that we
believe meets the approval of
ninety-nine out of every hundred
that attend soldiers reunions.
Comrade s. y. Mcdowell read this
article from the platform at the in
formal camp fire Monday evening.
and we copy II here in full in order
that from this on, while Col. Weldy
commands mt Baxter, the soldier,
and those speaking for him, will
not "hold in" his true sentiments
for the qualification of any one.
Sol. Neidy says:
"In another column is an article
clipped from the Soldier Column of
the Columbus Republican which
about expresses our idea OF the
matter. For number of years we
have felt that the old soldier was
making serious mistake in per-
hitting his enemies to dictate his
course in all things; in tanely sub
hitting to the insults and jeers and
ridicuie of men who were towards
and traitors while they were loyal,
and of little whipper-snappers who
are too young to appreciate the fact
that the hearts blood of just such
men as they ridicule was spilled
that they might enjoy the blessings
of free land. We recall the time
when these gray haired. broken
down old men-then in the prime of
noble manhood-marched in grand
review at Washington. A whole
Nation blessed ana honored them,
they could have asked for nothing
that a grateful country would not
grant. The results of the march,
of exposure. sickness and wounds
was not felt then and they asked
nothing. They
were willing to take up the burden
of life, where they left off five years
before. content with the conscious
ness of having performed their duty
as loyal citizens and firm in the be-
lief that the government, whose life
they had saved, would never forget
the sacrifices they had made in it's
behalf. or ever be unmindfiil of the
service rendered. Little did they
dream that in less than thirty years
the affairs of the Nation would be
administered by the very men who
confronted them then in that great
struggle and that il would be left
for those men to determine what
action should be taken when the eff
fects of hardships, sickness and
wounds, had made il impossible for
them to provide for themselves and
families. Little did they dream, as
n Nation sung their praise and
showered blessings upon them,
that in less than thirty years they
would be tainted with the cry of
pauper, beggar. coffee cooler. dead
beat, ETC., by men who would have
licked their feet on the day of that
grand review. If the bowed and
broken veterans could assume their
condition of thirty years
ago, not one of the cowardly
who now heap insults up
on them, would dare open his cur
IRISH chops. The young smart Alex
who was in his mothers womb or
at her breast when these
brave men were facing death in de-
Tense of the flag and the yet
younger puppets who did not see
the light for years after, would not
dare face the men they now bully
over. Comrades, we have made il
possible for these things to be.
We have permitted the soldier
hater to dictate what we should say
and do at our gatherings; we have
let them jam their damnable in
suits down our throats, through
the mistaken idea that II was the
part of good citizenship to bear it:
we have been too considerate of
their feelings-too careful of in
flicting wounds, while they, I'M
of the motive which
prompted us, were plunging the
dagger into our breasts without
We have listened to
traitorous utterances from stump
and rostrum; we have witnessed
acts of disloyalty and
treason throughout the entire
length and breadth of the land, yet
for fear of wounding the feelings of
some soldier hating hellion, we
must not talk loyalty, patriotism
or love of flag and country, be-
cause there might be a tinge of
politics in our utterAnces. Ii is
this mistaken idea of right and
wrong, that has put our enemy i'm
the saddle. 1t is this laundering
course that has placed us where
we are to-day; that has robbed
the worthy old hero of the
little pittance necessary to sustain
life. II Is this suicidal course that
has given us lloke Smith aud his ilk.
II Is not because we are weak; no
sane man will say we are cOwardly.
we are strong enough To |
remedy the evil with the ballot phys.
ically-wiih the assistance Ut our
loyal sons-we are strong enough Ia
resent these personal insults aud there
Is no good reason why this condition
NJ affairs should exist another day.
We are IN favor OF commencing right
sway aud we say with the Columbus
Republican: lei us talk as we please
II our reunions aud II there Is any one
present 10 whom the expression OF
loyalty is dlstasteful, let him 20 home
DR. hunt some Confederate reunion
where the opposite sentiment has full
sway. For ten years we have been IN
of the Interstate reunions
held at Camp Logan. The Ass"cia-
ion instructed US 10 permit nothing
)f political nature 10 be uttered
rom the platform during our daily
lamp fires, aud rs far as II was In our
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