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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1895-06-14
PETITES N0UVELLES,

PETITES N0UVELLES.
WEST DULUTH, Mimi, 9 JUN '95
Depuis une couple de mo1s, ia:
recu deux lettres de l'ami T.. Be
mott lequel possede IN beau
"homestead' q McMurray, Ska.
git Co., Washington.
M. Benoit 6tait a%utrefois un ci.
toyen de Duluth CD il a laisse dc
trAs-bons souvenirs ct des amie
settlement. C'est pourquoi je pre-.
sumo que ces derniers seront en-
chant6s de recevoir de ses nouvel.
les. II est lie premier Canadien
qui a r6uni ses co~mpetriotes en-
assembl6e dams la "Zenith City"
on temps detection. C'6tait alors
une population fottante compo
see en- grande partie de "Lumber
Jacks" ct IL fallait volr CONNIE il
leur d1sait crnment des verit6s; &c
qui dependant n'empechsit pas la
foule de %vocif6rer ct de crier d
tue tete "Hourrs pour Benoitl'
On! le temps de ]adis!....
Poss6dant une bonnie ct solide
instruction relevee par une Tongue
experience des hommes ct des
chooses, M. Benoit s'occupe beau
coup de politique ct il suit de
pros les questions religieuses ct
nationales dams notre patrie d'a-
doption. Las lecteurs de l'FoHo
ont ca NANTES fois l'occasion de
lie juger par ses int6ressantes cor
responsiveness; ct CONNIE la Ian
que anglaise lui est auss1 familiere
que ga langue maternelle {. IL cor
respond solvent sur les %journaux
anglais de son Etst, entr'autres
sur le "Skagit News" ct le ere
cord" de Mount Vernon, Wash.
J'ai lu quelques uns de ses arti
Giles on r6ponse aux attaques de
certains membres de la A. P. A.
ct je puts assurer quill Mt leur
m6nage pas ses sentiments. Je ne
crois pas commettre d'indisor6tion
en- reproduisant quelques parties
int6ressantes de ses lettres qui fe-
ront mieux conns1tre ct appr6cler
notre ami Benoit:
"Comment sont les afaires dams
la "Zenith City,, sentez-voas la
psnique?
"J'almerais q revolr Duluth, Oh
me dit que j'aurais peine a mo-
renter. tant la Vile a cru.
"Je ccnstste aveo plaisir que
votre colonie est prospere ct que
son influence politique SO fait sen.
tir. lily a dix ans, il fallai'
courir les buvettes ct payer de CO.
pleuses consommations pour en-
thousiasmer un nombre su&sant
pour former IN quorum aux sean
ces de pUnion FRANCHISES (aujour.
d'hui pUnion st Jean Baptiste,
maintenant on me dit one c'est
bien different.
"Les populistes sont ills nom
breux a Duluth? Font-ils des pro
grAs? Nous sommes d6ja forts lei
nous avons 6lu plusieurs deputies
ct officers de Comte; cependan'
noue ne sommes organlses que de'
puts tfois ans.
"Donnes-moi done des nouvel
les du Dr.. Brunei, Rocheleau, Ar
douin, Forest, Tremblay, etc., df
tous les vieux. ST tn as le temps
ct la volont6 distribute leur de me'
antilles a plein panier.
"Je suis toujours sur mol
Homestead" lei. Les affaires on
6t6 bien trsnquilles depuis deu,
ans, mails nous avons espoir gu
Il s chooses won't reprendre leur &C
tivite d%'outrefois avant longtemps
"Je suis t%oujours garcon. ia
Temperance de pouvoir visiter Do
luth rhiver proclaim. Je m'ennaie
n'ayant pas w lhiver depuis oln'
ann6es. ii ny a que moi de Cana
dion doro MOS onvir0na at a0oiaIe
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THAT OLD FALSEHooD.

Gov. w. c. Oates, Of Alabama, could
not LET so harmonious an occasion as the
great Blue and Gray Reunion at Chatta-
nooga pass without marring it by re-
iteration of the stupid old falsehood
" The North had an army of over
100000 men, while the South had but
little over 100000"
This shows that Gov. Oates belongs
to that numerous class Of men who be-
lieve that a lie well stuck to is better
than the truth.
As man who has long been in pub
lie life, and familiar with the conditions
Of his section, there is no one fact with
which be is better acquainted than that
the South had hundreds of thousands
more than twice 100000 men in the
field. He knows as well as he knows
anything that there are more than Co.,
900 men alive to-day who served in the
rebel army. He knows that the census
shows that the III seeding States had
during the war nearly 100000 men
capable Of rendering military service,
and that substantially all of these were
compelled to enter the army in some
shape or another, except the $4,000
Tennesseeans and West Virginians who
enlisted in Union regiments Is he
going to try TO make us believe that
only one man in every three in South
took up arms2
Again, Col. Oates cannot have failed
to see the reports of the War Depart
ment Of the United States, which show
that there were only 2,859,132 enlist.
Daents in the army and navy during the
war, which includes soldiers, sailors, and
marines, and counts eUery time man,
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.CoMPUIsoRy PATRIOTISM. !"

Speaking with reference to the action
of the National Encampment in regard
to raising the Flag on public school
houses, the Fall River (Mass.) GIOb'
says:
There has been far too much of this
powder-cracker patriotism of late among
the cheap stamp of politicians in the
United States, and the Stars and Stripes
have been prostituted to base and ignoble
uses to crafty the sentiments and bolster
up the feeble fortunes of good many dema-
gogues and ranters who have not depth OF
understanding enough to know the differ
ence between ridicule and reverence In their
periods of pinwheel oratOTy.
The man who would write this is un-
American at heart and thoroughly
rotten. He has not a sentiment OF
good-citizenship in bis composition.
Raising the Flag on a schoolhouse is an
act of the same nature as putting a
spelling-book in a child's hand. 1t
teaches him the rudiments of citizenship
as the other teaches him the rudiments
Of all useful knowledge.
When the child sees the Flag floating
from the place where he receives his
daily lessons bis mind absorbs the idea
of the supremacy Of the Nation of which
it is the symbol, and that patriotism, a
loyal obedience to its laws, and sup
port of its institutions are as much q
part of the true wisdom of life as a
knowledge of reading, writing, and
arithmetic"
What possible objection can there be
to the floating of the Flag over every
schoolhouse? Whose eyes does it
offend? What beliefs and principles
does it antagonize?
Is it not just as much the right and
duty of the community to prescribe this
as it is to prescribe what elementary
studies the child shall pursue2
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MUSTERED OUT.
Veterans OF the Country's Grandsss Arrng
Who Have An.xered the I.a.t Can

veterans OF the COuntry's Grandsss Ayyng
Who Have Answered the Last Call.
PoDTAsKY.-At Washington, d. c., Sept. TX,
Francis Podiasky. 2d n. J. Cav and Marine
Corps. aged 81. The comrade was a messen9er
at the Headquarters of the Marine Barraek.
He was appointed messenger at the Headquar-
tiers by Col. Charles T. MeCauly then Conn
mandant at the Barracks which position he
held under Col. Haywood until his death.
PRrEsT.-At Hudson. Mass. recently, Gil.
man Priest. Co. /, 5tb Mass. aged So. Comrads
Priest enlisted from Feltonville in 1862, for
nine months. and at that time was % years
old. Wherever aud whenever there was Re-
union of his company or regiment there he was
sure 20 be found and warmly greeted his last
pleasures of that kind being the regimentaI
Reunion at Waverly, and the company Reunion
at Gates's Pond n few weeks ago. At State and
National Encampments his was a familiar
figure. and he performed long marches on such
occasions apparently with as little WEAKNESS as
his comrades quarter of q century younger.
He was constant attendant at all the meetings
OF Reno Pest .. of which he was a member
BUEEELB.-At ROxbury, Mass. Sept. Is Isaac
>. Burrell, 42d Mass. aged IS. Comrade Bur-
reil became identified with local affairs in Rox-
bury, and held important positions there.
During President Pierce's Administration be
was appointed Postmaster, and served through
Buchanan's Administration. subsequently he
served with distinction in the civil war. and
Immediately after his return he was appointed
City Marshal Of ROxbury. In this position he
remained two years, then resigning. again to
take the place Of Postmaster 10 which ne was
reappointed by President Johnson. He con-
tinued az Postmaster until the annexation Of
Roxbury to Boston. when the Office was made
a station. He was three years Representa-
tive in the House (1S56. 1857 and 1860. and
served two years in the Common Council and
one IN the Board OF Aldermen 1561) Of Rox-
bury. Since 1871 he had been a member Of the
Board of Street Commissioners of Boston. Gen.
Burreil joined the Roxbury Artillery in 1910,
and he held all the different military Offices,
retiring as Brigadier- General of the First Bril-
gade of the militia. During the civil war he
commanded the 42d Mass. He was taken pris-
oner at the battle Of Galveston. Tex and held
in confinement IS months and % days. He
was member of Post 20, the Loyal Legion,
and other military organ izatiOns. lie was also
Mason. He was married Jan. %, IS4S, to
Miss Maria A. Newell. They had six children,
Maria l.. Emma A., Benjamin H., Sarah g.,
Gertrude A., and Isaac II. Burrell.
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PERSONAL.

That prince OF California comrades Past
Senior Vice Commander-in-Chi Z. III. War
field, is now proprietor of the California Hotel,
San Francisco. a splendid hostelry, entirely
new fitted up with every modern convenience,
and absolutely fre-proof
The will of Charles Eggeling, who died on
the 5th inst, was fled for probate in San
Francisco the other day. His estate is valued
at $1,000. He bequeathed $4,000 to several
nieces in Germany, and the greater portion of
the residue to Mrs. Mary Cummings. One pro-
vision of the will is as follows: :" / give and be-
queath to Garfield Post, No. 81, Grand Army
of the Republic, Department. of California, the
sum of 5000; also the further sum of So,
said sum of SIS to be expended for refresh
ments for the members of said Garfield Post
at the time of my funeral.
The engagement is announced of Felicite
Oglesby, youngest daughter of Gen. Richard j.
Oglesby, ex- Governor of Illinois, to George NJ
Pullman, jr.. son of the sleeping-car maguate.
The young people have known each other for
years. but their romance began at Long Branch
last Summer.
Gov Mckinley and wife were the guests of
Hon. H. Clay Evans while in Chattanooga.
The survivors of the 1Ith Ind. carried the
precious fragments of seven of the eight regi-
mental flags which were presented to them
years ago and which saw such desperate fight
ing in Virginia, Mississippi and Louisiana.
One was gift from Mrs. Morton, wife of the
famous War Governor of Indiana, and in pre-
senting it to the boys after the battle of Pitts
burg Landing she said she had made it every
bit by hand for them. and that she hoped it
would never be lowered. II returned with the
regiment.
Another flag which gold could not buy is the
first regimental flag ever owned by the regi-
ment. 1t was presented by lady friends in
April, 1861, and saw four years of fighting.
These flags are in such a battered condition
that the silken shreds have been backed up
with muslin in order to preserve them. None
of these flags having been the property of the
State or General Government they still re-
main in the hands of those who mado them
objects of veneration.
Capt Alvah Mansur, who served in the 3oth
H., is President of the Mansur-Tebbetts I'm
plement Co., of st. Louis, Mo. He is a promi-
nent and public-s spirited citizen, and highly
esteemed by all classes.
Capt James L. Love, who served in the 9Th
Mo. and the 9th Kan. has been for years con-
nected with the Chemical National Bank, of
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OUR SPECIAL ARTICLES

Among those who will contribute
special articles to THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE are:
GEN. DANIEL E. SICKLES, the GAL
liant old commander OF the Third Corps,
exMinister to Spain, and at present Repre-
sentative in Congress from New York City.
GEN. JAMES S. NEGLEY, who COM
manded "Negley's Brigade and division
in the Army of the Cumberland, and was
Member of Congress from Pennsylvania in
the 4lst and 49th Congresses.
GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER, ex-Gov-
ernor of Michigan, and Past COMMANDMENTS
Chief, Grand Army of the Republic.
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VERY TIRESOME.

OF course, that arch-demagog, John P.
Altgeld, by mysterious affliction of
Providence Governor of Illinois, could
not resist the temptation to make a SEN
sation at Chattanooga. In his speech
he said:
"Instead of an armed foe that we can
meet on the field there is to-day an enemy
/ that is invisible but everywhere at work
| destroying our institutions; that enemy is
corruption.
at seeks to control the press, it seeks TO
direct official action, it dictates legislation,
and endeavors 10 control the construction Of
| laws.
at seeks to set the fashions and to shape
public sentiment 1t has emasculated Amer
lean politics and placed it on the low plane
of jugglery. The tendency now is for
political parties to shirk principle and fol-
| low expediency. and their platforms are
often drawn TO evade or straddle every
| live issue.
"The idea now is to caiole rather than
convince; ignore great wrongs and wink at
| abuses; TO court the support of conflicting
interests, though it involves the deception
of one or both. We are substituting Office
seeking and office-holdiDg in place of real
achievement, and instead of great caterers in
public life, are facing harvest of slip
perry, blear-eyed, and empty mediOcrity,
which glides into oblivion without the assist
ance of death"
This is blathering, pure and simple.
Of course, there is great room for i'm
provement in our social system and our
forms of Government-General, State,
and municipal. But there always will
be so long as we remain a progressive
people We shall always see plenty of
ways in which our society and our Gov
eminent may be made better, just as we
shall always see way in which we can
improve our reapers, thrashing- machines,
railroads, and methods of raising wheat.
But it is not for an instant true that
our Government or our society is worse
or more corrupt. 1t is not for an In
slant true that capital is more active
and dangerous than ever. The exact
reverse is true. Society has become a
great deal purer in the last so years.
Things that were regarded as not repre-
hensible so years ago will not be toll
Grated by any decent man now. The
world is going ahead morally at pace
never before known in its history. Our
Governments are purer, more equitable
and more effective. There is less cor
ruption in council, legislature and mu.
niciple halls than ever. Selfish capital
has less influence upon legislation, the
press and society than ever, and oul
parties are more devoted to principle
and held to a stricter account by The
people than ever in the history of the
country.
Gov. Altgeld seeks cheap notoriety
by defaming the good sense of the
people and the institutions they have
created.
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enlisted, whether for three months, 1OC
DAYS, six months, nine months, one year
or longer. The War Department says
that reduced to uniform three years
standard the number was 1920, 272.'
This means that about 100000 men
actually served in the army and navy
If Gov. Oates wants any true frater-
nization between the North and South,
his first step should be to stop pervert-
ing history and begin to tell the truth.
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AFTER all, September has treated
the National Encampments very fairly.
1t was hot, dry, and dusty at Indian
apolis, rained the whole week at st.
Louis, and hot to prostration Mt Louis
vile, but generally the weather has been
all that we could ask. 1t was ideal at
Portland, Washington, Milwaukee, Co
lumbus, Detroit, and other places.
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MILITARY men all over the world are
feeling very uneasy over the possibility
that there has been great mistake made
in adopting such small caliber for rifles.
The new bullet, which is about the diam
eter of lead pencil, has great range
and penetrating power, butthere isa grow
ing belief that it will not accomplish the
work on the field of battle as well as
the old-fashioned large, smashing bullets
did. When one of these hit man
almost anywhere it knocked him out, at
least as far as that fight was concerned.
On the other hand the little bullets (.23
to 80 caliber) flying with enormous
velocity, drill small, clean hole, which,
if it does not perforate the bowels, heart,
or brain, does not kill, and unless they
strike joint do not Immediately dis
able. The English in Africa have taken
prisoners with two or three bullet-h holes
in them who yet marched right along,
and seemed to suffer little inconvenience.
In attempting to execute spy in Hin
dostan he was shot six times in different
places, but being unbound he ran nearly
half mile before he was overtaken
and killed with a saber. The Germans
had similar experience in executing a
soldier who received eight wounds before
the Sergeant finally killed him by put
ting the muzzle Of gun to his ear. In
the Chile.Peruvian war the Surgeons
reported that the small bullets did not
kill or disable more than 10 per cent. of
those they hit.
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PETER TURNER'S ourBuRsT.


Peter Turney, who was defeated fol
Governor of Tennessee last Fall by q
strong majority, but was nevertheless
counted in by the corrupt State rings
| which could not afford to have their
doings exposed, is one of the distinctly
| Objectionable class Of politicians which
have been the bane Of the South. He
was one of the tools with which Isham
G. Harris dragged the unwilling Union
loving people of Tennessee into the
vortext of secession, and then visited un.
told horrors upon the loyal people of the
eastern portion of the State.
Turney continues to this day bitter
blatant rebel, and repeatedly has said
in public speeches that he wants the one
word "Secession carved upon his
tombstone. 1t is matter of deepest
injury to his State that this tombstone
was not placed over him many years
ago.
The general outpouring of Loyalty
and Fraternity at Chattanooga, where
he appeared in the stolen robes of the
Governor of Tennessee, seem to have
grated upon Tuney's nerves. The
grandly loyal speeches of Longstreet,
Herbert, Gordon, and other rebel lead
ers were as smoke to his eyes, and he
took the first opportunity to make an
outbreak.
Very inopportunely he rose to remark
that he thought he was right when he
went into the war; that he still thinks
he was right, and that he is teaching his
children that he was entirely right.
1t is impossible to understand how a
sane man can make such statement.
We may be able to understand that he
may have thought himself right when
he began his rebellion, though this i'm
plies faulty not readily comprehen-
sible to-day. The light of events since
the war has been so conclusive as to the
monstrous error of rebellion that it seems
incredible that any man in his proper
senses can rise up to-day and justify its
overwhelming folly. Say what they
will. the war was fought to preserve
slavery and disrupt the Union. Every
thinking man in the South must be glad
that slavery was destroyed and the
Union preserved. Everyone must see
that the greatest calamities, not only to
the Nation but to the people of the
South, were only prevented by the entire
success of the Union arms.
What possible reason, therefore, can
Turney allege for asserting to-day that
he was right, and what justification can
he make for the crime of teaching his
children that the rebellion was in any
sense right?
Turney recalls forcibly the stern old
Methodist hymn:
And are yet nlive7
Aud do we yet rebel?
'Tis wondrous, tits amazing grace
That out OF hell.