The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-09-01
IT'S A JUST RECOGNITION.

IT'S A JUST RECOGNITION.
The Review has used up couple of
columns of its valuable space in an at
tempt to show its opposition to the
proposition to bring the Thirteenth
home at state expense, and the nub
of all it's protestation can be found in
the following extract:
The scheme Of bringing the
Thirteenth regiment home at state
expense is an after thought of the at
tempt to induce the boys to remain in
the service until they get back to
Minnesota to be mustered out. Their
presence here is considered necessary
to give special elat to the expected
visit of President Mckinley, this fall,
and to the men engineering the scheme
il matters little what means are neces-
sary to that end. But for this neces-
sity, for so it is considered at the twin
cities, the bringing back OF the regi-
ment would never have been thought
of, and it would have been permitted
to disband anywhere on American
soil with the same Indifference that
followed the mastering out OF the
Twelfth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Minnesota regiments.
In the first place permit us to say
that the matter of state aid is thing
of the past, having been entirely over
Swallowed by the success of the dollar
subscription scheme. But the Free
Press believes it would have been the
most just plan. as it would have placed
the expense evenly upon all through
out the state. 1t will be nouiced that
the Review is greatly troubled be-
cause more attention is being tender
ed the Thirteenth than was the other
regiments when they were mustered
out. 1t is simply human nature that
there should be a little more at
tention paid to it. 1t is the
only one of the four regiments
that saw actual service, and that ser
vice was half way around the world.
And we do not believe that there is a
member of the regiments that have
been mustered out but what will 60
wild with enthusiasm In welcoming
home the boys who have seen hard
service in the Philippines, nor envy
them one bit of the attention paid
them. As to it being deemed neces-
sary to have the boys here "to give
special eclat to the expected visit of
President Mckinley this fall" and
would never have been thought OF
had it not been for that, will the Re.
view explain just what benefits
Mayor Gray, who is engineering the
present scheme, expects to reap by
bringing the regiment to Minneapo-
lis to give special eclat" to the visit
of the president who belongs to an op-
position party? Mayor Gray has
shown himself broad-minded gen.
tleman and patriot in his endeavors to
help the members of the Thirteenth
and his efforts have been so nobly
seconded by men Of all political
shades of belief and from all parts of
the state as to rob it of all political
or sectional tinge, and it has remain
ed only for our neighbor to ascribe it
such in connection with the presi-
dents visit. The boys deserve, after
the hardships incident to campaign,
all the attention and aid that the
peoplewill give them. and the Free
Press rejoices that the people Of Min.
nesota are so liberal, so broadminded,
so patriotic that they can rise up and
give to the Thirteenth regiment that
recognition, which is concededly due
them, and just what every other state
rs doing for their boys.