The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-05-29
CARE OF UNION VETERANS
THE REPORT OF GENERAL FAULK-
NER'S COlLlIITTEE

To the National Conference of Charities and
Corrections The Care of Disabled Union
Soldiers and Sailors-"They Cast the
Jewel of Life Into the whirlpool of Battle
and Carnage"-The Death Roll of the
Veterans Fast Increasing Important
Statistical InformatIon-State Homes
Letters From General w. IL. Franklin
and j. G. breckenridge.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON HOMES FOR
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
Your committee have made prelimi-
nary survey of the lines which inclose
its field of inquiry and report progress.
We present no plan to scare the senti-
ment and disturb the pride of the pres
ent, or to mar the memories of the past.
Many of our comrades have fallen
into the ROUTE step of Disability and mis-
fortune, and are compelled to seek the
shelter and care afforded under state or
national authority. The degree of COM
fort which will attend their closing
days will be measured by the wisdom
of plans and policies devised and enact
ed in their behalf. The invitation of
this conference to make use of its or
ganiZa ton as a convenient school for
the study and comparison of methods
affords an opportunity to all legislative
bodies, and directing management,
which If improved cannot fail to raise
the standard of efficiency and economy
The alignment of interests Is estab-
lished by unbroken precedent. Upon
the nation preserved from dissolution is
LOT ha 1ttt NP lnr tY him
who took the hazard of life, health and
opportunity, that "a government Of the
people, for the people, and by the peo-
pie, should not perish"
Upon the states which strove to dis
solve the federal compact and establish
an Independent confederacy, is imposed
the duty of caring for him who wore the
gray, that the shame of neglect may
not embitter the memory of sacrifices
made.
These men cast the jewels of life into
the whirlpool of battle, and met with
unflinching courage every obligation
imposed by the environments of their
citizenship. In pain and silence they
are closing the last great march to their
eternal camping ground. Waving
nothing of consistency, and with plain
purpose to serve a common need, we,
their comrades meet upon the picket
line of a humane civilization in this
thirtieth anniversary year Of peace, I'M
der the folds of one flag, to share the
benefits of mutual study of methods
and needs.
The first duty of your committee is to
urge attention to the need of expediting
measures for relief The curtain will
soon be drawn over the last scene in the
drama of our civil war The ratios of
disability and dependency in the ranks
of our soldier population are rising
with a rapidity which overtaxes every
present resource. What is done must
be done quickly. Discussion must be
brief and action prompt. Government
al policy should be concluded by the
of such National Homes as
are susceptible of enlargement within
the requirements of approved condi-
tons, without delay, and new Homes
should be established at salient points
under the management Of the govern
ment. with especial features of equip
ment to meet the needs Of changing
States, committees and individuals,
cooperating for the care of the Union
in the north, or the Confederate
in the south, must heed the
to Double Quick" in move
nents on their several lines of action to
preserve our citizenship from the stain
If ingratitude.
The recurring annual sessions of this |
conference should be open to the pres
,nce of officials and citizens who are i'm
pressed by the apparent need of using |
ihe opportunities which 1t affords to aid |
hose in authority to educate public |
and to draw from common |
experience the lessons needed to guide |
uture action.
Your committee invited an expression |
# views from interested officials
through a circular which outlined the
haracter of this report, and Of which
he following is a copy:
oMMITTEE ON HOMES FOR SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS.
Office of Chairman.
Atchison, Kas., March l. 1895.
Dear Sir-At the twenty-first session
f the National Conference of Charities
nd Correction, convened at Nashville,
'enn., in May, 1894, a committee on
ZONES for Soldiers and Sailors was Gre
ted, of which the undersigned have
cen designated as members.
The committee was created to aid an
lquiry concerning the present and pro-
pective needs of the dependent soldiers
nd sailors of our country, both north
nd south, and to invite an exchange Of
plnion upon questions Of policy, with
lie view of encouraging such action as
ill result in the correction Of existing
'rors and neglect and the promotion of
Use effort for the future, within the
mes herein defined.
The following outline indicates the
of the discussion desired, and
lie committee will feel obliged for an