Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-07-07
in all its details, compared to that of
their political opponents.

in all its details, compared to that of
their political opponents.
While the STAR does not desire to
enter upon the discussion of the Home
management, so much has been said
in other papers concerning it, both
pro and con, that we are disposed to
give the veterans themselves an oppor-
tunity of being heard to a reasonable
and unpersonal degree. For this rea-
son the two following communications.
from members of the Home, are given
space:
Hot Springs, S. d., July 4, 1899.
EDITOR STAR:-The Herald endeav-
ors to vindicate the present manage
ment 10y abusing the past management.
He speaks of the past management
charging II profit of 81 on clothing.
Former management, as now, sold the
clothes at the same price as retail deal
ers of Hot Springs. II they made 50
profit then the present management
does the same. The Herald dwells on
having drunken men locked up before.
We think it far better to lock them up
than to discharge them and throw
them OH the town of Hot Springs with
out money and no place to sleep. We
think that two wrongs never made
IL right and if the w. II. C. and G. A.
II can revolutionize the management
of the Home they are doing a good
work, and there is no politics in it.
OLD SOLDIER.
Hot SPRINGS, July 9, 1893.
There has been considerable. COM
ment in regard to the committee that
was appointed by the G. A. r. and w.
r. G. to investigate the management
of the South Dakota Soldiers Home.
The old soldiers at the Home do not
endorse all their findings, but there is
n of their charges which is of great
Importance to him, which they do N
dorse, and that is, the bill of fare is
not what it ought to be, that it is not
what the legislators that made the lib
eral appropriation designed it should
be. and if the managers are not afraid
of the truth please give us a hearing,
an impartial hearing, regardless of all
politics. Give us a hearing. We charge
that the managers furnish a poor bill
of fare two meals out of three, supper
and breakfast, and we are willing to
meet the managers Oh that charge and
fight it out on that line if it takes all
and he Il little brotherly. If the cost
of this investigation falls on the G. y.
II. and w. II. G. and the old soldiers,
we will pay it. Ii we sustain
charge, take your medicine. We need
not now go into detail in regard to the
bill of fare. We will accommodate you
in that line at the proper time. All
that we ask is that the comrades are
guaranteed their home, even il they do
testify to the facts. Comrades, line up,
you do not now have to hide behind a
tree or a log. There is no battery
planted on the hill near by pointed mt
you. No well-formed line of gunner
ready to shoot. l know there was Il
day when you did stand up in defence
of your country for l saw you do it. BY
permission or without permission. l
will now review an article published
in the Hot Springs Times-H Herald of
June %, also Sergeant Harris state
ment. You have both lined up at the
signal from higher authority. Both of
you compare the bill of fare at the
South Dakota Home to a first class
hotel. 1 will now give Sergeant Harris
bill of fare for two meals each day,
breakfast and supper, and the the w.
II. c. and the people can say whether
it is equal to a first class hotel:
breakfast, coffee, oatmeal, bread, but
ter, and two or three times a week
meat. Supper, tea, warmed potatoes,
bread, butter, frequently cake, sauce"
Now l ask you, Mr.. Harris, if it is not
a fact that eggs are scarce here, if it is
or pie were not seen on our table for
more than six months at a time. The
Herald stated that no old soldier
will go on record criticising the a
agement of the South Dakota Soldiers
Home. Now l feel safe in denying this
statement and say that at least fifty
respectable, honorable men will back
up the findings of the w. r. G. in their
charge in regard to the bill of fare fur
nished at the South Dakota Soldiers
Home. 1t is not known that the gov
ernor or commissioners own this Sol
diers' Home. 1t is the South Dakota
Soldiers Home. 1t is not known that
the commissioners or the commander
are infallible beings. All that we ask
is All impartial hearing, and if we do
not sustain our charge we will retire
in good order. When it is necessary
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