The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
Confederate Soldiers lIon,e.

Confederate Soldiers lIon,e.
MIR. EDIToR: We scarcely see the
theme Soldiers Home launched upon
the ocean of minds of our State before
the small minnOws-thc cheap llema-
goguery politicians have begun to nib
bic at the large bait that has been cast
upon the waters for big fish. 1t is too
large for them to swallow; this subject
is one for broad, patriotic minds and
big honest hearts.
One of these small minded men
would build tho Soldiers Home by
cutting Oft some of the appropriations
to our colleges, while another would
have our public officers contribute one
fourth of their salaries, and so on.
Now we think We speak the senti-
ments of every brave and true soldier
and noble citizen of our State when we
say we do not want Soldiers Home
built out of the carcass of any other
Institution of our State, or the salaries
that we have promised our servants or
any shoddy stuff whatsoever.
We want it made out of solid good
material, just such as our Confederate
Soldiers were made of and they were
of good clay, for they stood the crucial
test of seven times through the fire
yen, many Of them stood the fire of
seven times and they are with US yet,
some of them decorated in tattered
rags before they will undergo the
humiliation and disgrace OF dwelling
in poor houses.
1t will be remembered that the ma
jority of our indigentsoldiers were men
of small means when they joined the
army.-they owned no negroes, bank
stocks, cotton mills or farms; they
fought for their sentiments, principles,
honor and duty to their eircountry-while
very many men Of means and influence
found bomb-proof positions under q
enbterfuge Of thousand forms. The
sentiments and principles that prompt
ed these brave men to leave their happy
homes and face the terrors Of one of
the greatest wars the wcrld has ever
known now makos these grand Old
Heroes shudder at the thought of
spending their last days in a poor
house.
Taxes-Oh, that great bugbear- how
the cheap politicians do try to dodge
the straight issue and attempt to polute
the minds of honest and noble people
with their prejudice.
We need no apologies to offer CRATE
full and patriotic people when we ask
them for good sound money for good
sound obligation.
We have taxed these veterans to
| stand up against powerful invading
enemy of our common country for four
long years-half fed, ragged, and at
times could be trailed through the
snow by the blood from their bare feet,
and they paid it.
We have taxed them to stand guard
on picket when they could hear the
freezing trees burst and crack like the
sound of rifle, or lay sweltering in the
trenches for days under the boiling
midsummer sun, and they paid it.
We have taxed some of them to pay
out finger, toe, foot, hand, an
arm or leg, or from one to dozen bull
let holes through their bodies, and
they have paid it.
We have taxed some of them with
broken constitution of disease and
they have been paying these taxes of
suffering every day for nearly forty
long years
We have taxed the poor wife the life
of her husband, of the daughter the
life of her father, OF the mother the
life Of her beloved son, and they paid it.
1t behoOves every we'll to do old SOL
dier (or his sony who has been blessed
with means above want to look after
their INDECENT heroes-for a country
without heroism will surely die the
death it deserves and lose it's prestige
and honor as well as its treasure of
dollars if left exposed to thieves with
ont lockers.
AS we need great iron safes to lock
in and protect our dollars 80 dove need
heroism-the iron minds &C brave and
noble men to throw around and protect
our people from the robbery of other
people, countries and nations, who may
fortunes and fame. for run until iS the days eof of
the millennium. the british nature
that is still left in man may assert |
itself and rise up out of Its hibernating |
retreats under q favorable season like
the sleeping seven headed ...cnsttars,
and destroy tho progress os ouT now |
prosperous, patriotic and chivalrous |
people. j. c. STRIBBLING,
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