The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-29
on RESURRECT|OnISTS.
BuRKYs MEMORIAL DAY AppREs

NSANA4AAAOAAN1
Grand Army Of the Republic all over
our common country gather to scatter
garlands of flowers over the graves of
those who fell in defense of the perpe-
tuity of this nation it is fitting age
necessary-that they should calmly
weigh the acts of the living as well as
commemorate the services and virtues
of the dead
However misguided may have been
the motives which actuated the partici-
pants in the struggle which for three
years came near .disrupting our coun-
try-the members of the Grand Army
have-as a rule-had far warmer feel
ing for the men who had the courage Of
their convictions sacrificing alike their
liberty and property in defense thereof
than they have entertained for the
traitors within the lines, who have al
ways been willing to barter everything
for gain to advance the interests of self,
regardless Of who or what might suffer
so long as their own worthless necks
were saved from the halter or their pu
crescent carcass kept from rotting in
felon's CELL
A retrospect Of thirty years among
the ashes of the past recalls to mind the
names and memory of many traitor
some of whom are now sojourning in
the realms Of everlasting torment, while
others have been with your aid elevated
to positions of trust, honor and emolu
ments,-only to use their position to
carry out their villainous designs of
theft, fraud and larceny-aye, and at
times murder, in case the traitor were
in any wise thwarted in their nefarious
efforts to plumber and destroy the state
and nation.
You have not forgotten the shoddy
clothing, paper soled shoes, worm eaten
hard tack and worthless grub parceled
out to you by more than one dishonest
commissary, and those of you who still
remember tossing on your back in your
fever delirium, brought on by reason of
impure food and insufficient clothing,
can also bear in mind that your recov-
cry was retarded by the administering
of impure or diluted drugs. So, too,
your ammunition was tempered with by
the same band of traitors, who by reason
of their loud mouthed and jaw bone pa
triotism-succeeded in securing con-
tracts from the United States, and surely
but effectively aided the cause of the
enemy against whom you were man
fully combating. They robbed the gov
eminent, thereby depicting the treasury,
furnished impure food and improper
clothing to the army, thereby weaken
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cartridges with saw dust and other
worthless stuff instead of powder, there
by lessening its efficiency, and placing
you at the mercy of the enemy, and
finally your backs were turned, some
robbed you and yours of that heritage
which belong to and yours, home.
Would you know their names? Then
search the records of Lake, ST. Louis,
Itasca, Aitken, Carlton, Grow Wing,
Beltrami, Mile Laos and many other
counties in this state, not forgetting
Lassen, Sewer, Mendoceno, Sonoma,
Tehama and Humboldt county in Cali
fornia, the timber counties of Washing
ton, the great farms Of Dakota, the
counties of Missouri and Kansas, the
records of the general land Office at
Washington, and the files of the SUI
preme court of this state, and perchance
you will find the names of lsundry gov
errors, members of congress-, judges and
others of greater or less respectability-
some of whom by the aid of almost every
crime known in the decalogue have
added to their illgotten horde by rob-
bling you, your comrades and the help
less widow and children, only to be by
you rewarded with further place, addi-
tiOnal power and a greater chance to
rob and commit crime. Would YOU
know how some of the stay-at-h home
jaw bone patriots have achieved their
fortunes out of your miseries, search
for the paper soldier steal of Maine and
Rhode Island, and while you are at it,
just see how Gov. Smith, of Rhode
Island, issued orders on the paymaster
of the state in favor of certain parties
who thereby secured thousands, aye,
almost hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, that legally belonged to the SOL
diers. Soldiers entitled to $500 would
get from SO to 500, and the ring would
pocket the balance, not always being
certain that the man for whom they
drew bounty had actually enlisted.
And this was in New England, from
whose classic shades Minnesota has &C
quired large part of her criminal pop
ulation, some of whom have been by
your aid elevated to political position
and afluence. Understand that these
are facts, not fiction, and you can find
the proof in any state library
1t would be no difficult task to re-
count the names of some since our mem
DRY has been frightened by peering over
some of the documents in the state IL
brary, but space will not admit; still If
you really have desire to see who has
been profiting at the expense of you and
your comrades just take a peep at the
records of the register of deeds of the
counties above named, together with
Becker, Isanti, Pine and Hubbard, and
you will find that certain valuable pine
lands have passed out of the possession
of you and your comrades into the pos
session or by the aid of John S., George
A. and Charles A. Pillsbury, T. B.
Walker, Henry G. Hicks, ]. B. Fraker,
w. A. Newton and any quantity more
whose names can if need be given.
We have no desire to Bear unjustly
on any, but we know from an examine
ton of county records that a part if
not all of said parties have enjoyed the
benefits of certain lands which we be-
lieve should have gone to the soldier
and sailor.
Indeed, John S. Pillsbury, when be-
fore the pine land committee of the late
senate, was asked whether he acquired
a large amount of land through papers
signed by soldiers, and in reply he ad-
mitted that he had-also that all of said
papers and powers were in blank when
they came into his, Pillsbury's possess
sion, hence we would ask said Pillsbury
whether he did not so testify, also what
is the legal term used when any ma
terial change is made in a document of