The National tribune., 1895-05-02

MRS. EMILY o. DILwoRTH.
homestead; true types of the sterling fiber that
made the great loyal State of Nebraska a
| bright and particular star in the galaxy of the
Union.
In the Spring of 1894 they removed to Lin
coin to become part of the family of an only
son.
Department President Dilworth Joined the
Woman's Relief Corps when the Department of
Nebraska was first organized. She was first
President of Silas A. Strickland Corps, No. g.,
and was elected Department President at Hast
ings Feb ID, 1895. She has been q stauch
friend of The NATIONAL TRIBUNE, to whose
influence she attributes much of the success of
the great work the Woman's Relief Corps has
accomplished for the Grand Army CT the Re-
public and for the cause of the Union soldier
every where and the principles he holds dear.
THE ONLY AUXILIARY IS THE w.R.c.
DEAR TRIBUNE: see by the last issue of
the Campfire that Circle of the Ladies of the
GAR was organized at North Platte, and in
the article describing the meeting is this state
ment, to which take exceptions: This Order
is part of the GAR"
Now, the only official part of woman's work in
the Grand Army of the Republic and auxiliary
thereto is the Woman's Relief Corps, organized
at Denver. Colo. July, 1888 All woman re-
lations of the soldiers, sailors and marines of
the late war and all loyal women are eligible
to membership in the Woman's Relief Corps,
and their aid and help is needed in caring for
our helpless comrades who get no pension, or .
mere pittance, from the Government which
promised to care for him and his if he would
shoulder his rifle and stand between his country
and its foes.
All our soldier relatives and sympathizers
should rally under the standard Of our only
he paliaf
doors swing outward ever and always to well
como the mothers, wives, sisters. daughters,
sweethearts, and true loyal women; all who
would freely work under the Rules and Regu-
lations of an Order that was born when Treason
first raised its fratricidal hand to destroy this
Nation, and loyal woman took up the duty and
privilege of sharing the labors of the hour.
At home they cared for the business and the
farm, reared the children, formed societies to
furnish supplies for the hospitals and delicacies
for the sick and wounded. They worked In
the Christian Commission and Sanitary Com
mission, as Army Nurses went to the front in
the hospitals, and on the battlefield they were
the mnistering angels to the wounded, sick,
and dying.
When the war closed, and the mighty host
Of citizen soldiery returned to the vacations of
peace many were wholly untitled to resume
the wonted occupations of former years. Grip
pied, wounded, disabled by disease, without
means to provide for their families, they found
loyal woman still faithful to their interests.
They nobly worked and waited for years, till
the 18th National Encampment, Grand Army
of the Republic, approved officially the woman's
National association formed in conformance
with permit given two years before, in the
following unmistakable language:
Resolved. That we cordially hail the organization
of the National Woman's Relief Corps. and extend
our greetings to them. We return our warmest
thanks to the loyal women of the land for their
earnest support and encouragement, and bid them
Godspeed in their patriotic work.
The status of the Woman's Relief Corps,
Auxiliary TO the GAR, was thus at once
established and it has been recognized in
every National Encampment from that time to
this.
Side by side with the comrades work the
Woman's Relief Corps; visiting the sick, caring
for the widow and orphan. intoxicating lessons
of patriotism in the hearts and minds of the
young. assisting in Memorial Day exercises,
and in all things striving to prove worthy of
the trust conferred.
Comrades, our time is growing short, and
our wives growing old by our hearthstones.
The Loyal Ladies, Ladies of the GAR, La
dies Leagues. and Daughters of Veterans should
all unite with OUR AUXILIARY, the Woman's
Relief Corps. and save the expense of halls,
fuel, lights, stationery, State and National Con-
ventions nearly all Of which comes from the
pockets OF husbands and fathers, and devote
their sole energies to our veteran comrades
who will soon be no more, and whose condition
demands their fostering care on the downward
slope to the lowiy mound soon to be their last
resting-place.
l know that Past Department Commander
Church Howe, by his hasty action at the En-
campment at Hastings, may have led these
worthy women to believe that they were made
a part of the G.A.R but no Department Off
Ger can do anything of this sort. Only the
National Encampment, Grand Army of tho
Republic can legislate on a question of this
kind. Any recognition given at Hastings does
not carry weight beyond the personal prefer
euces OF Comrade Howe an individual men,
Der of the GAR.
Yours, in F., G. and L. BRAD P. Cook,
Honorary Member of the Department of Ne
brasks, W.R.C., Lincoln, Neb.
PATRIOTIC NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The following practical and united effort on
the part of the Grand Army and the Relief
Corps of New Hampshire, rs taken from Gen.
eral Orders of Department President A. Lizzie
Foster cannot be too strongly commended to
like organizations in all the Departments. In
unity is strength, now as ever.
"The State Superintendent of Instruction
gladly gives his sanction and aid to the W.R.C.
in their efforts to introduce the flag salute in
the morning exercises of the schools of this