The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-06-05

This is Decoration Day, a legal
holiday over all this country. But
how differently situated are those
who died beneath the Stars and
Stripes. Congress has gathered the
bones of the Union soldiers and plac=
ed them in great national cemeteries,
and has appointed keepers, andplae-
ed headStones and monuments there
tocommemorate their deeds, and the
flag they died for floats proudly
above them
NEGLECT or CONFEDERATE DEAD.
But how different are placed the
Confederate dead. When the war
was over the South was ruined. i'm
poverished, stricken in battle with no
means of gathering the homes of our
beloved dead, and the bones of Con-
iederate soldiers lie in unknown and
unmarked graves upon every hillside
of the South. Who, so narrow. so
bigoted, so unwilling to forget and
forgive, as to deny to us the privilege
OF marking their last resting places.
Every history written since the
war and used in our schools is devot-
ed almost entirely to the triumphs Of
the Federal army. We insist that
the children from now on shall know
the heroic deeds OF the 100000
Southern men who for four Ion g
years kept the 100000 soldiers of
the Federal army busy"
Judge CAN'T said that Lee was
the greatest general OF the English
speaking race. He said he wished the
truth told in the histories so that
when the school child reads that
Grant said: an fight it out on this
line If it takes all summer" he W i'll
also read that it took Grant all that
summer, the next winter and far into
~" spring to fght it out, and that it
Was not on those lines either. Judge
CAN'T said that il any man in the
world had enough OF fighting twas
the old Confederate soldier. The war
had been fought out and its question
settled forever and it was time that
those who fought for the South
might erect monument to their
comrades without being accused of
trying to keep sectional strife and
feeling alive.
MAYOR REED TRIBUTE.
! Mayor James A. Reed spoke OF the
causes of the Civil war. He was
cheered when he declared that the
South was never conquered, but was
worn out by men in great numbers,
OF equal courage, aud the South
yielded only when exhausted, but as
brave men yield, never again to re-
surrect the old issues settled by that
war, He said the soldiers OF the
South did not die in vain, they left a
legacy of virtue and splendid ex-
ample to all generations. These
brave men were honored because they
deserved to be honored.
"The children of these men of he
North and OF the South. now united
forever, will stand shoulder to shout
der il ever again war darkens our
sky, he said. Never again can
there be war from within, but
| ii ever there comes a war from with.
ont the sons OF these soldiers OF the
blue and the gray will form such a
wall that the world, the flesh nor the
devil can prevail against it
1 At each side Of the MONUMENT war
a staff planted in the ground. From
one waved the Stars and Stripes
, and the other flew the Stars an(
Bars. Alter the speaking the ole
soldiers, most of them Confederat,
veterans, but goodly sprinkling o
veterans of the Union army among
, them, gathered beneath these flagl
around the monument and talked o
q war days. One was NJ. R W. Grebe
who wore upon his breast a media
given him by Congress TO
a capturing a Confederate flag a
q Jonesboro, Ark. He pointed up yes
terday to the Confederate flag fiyin!
overhead and said to group o
|, Daughters of the Confederacy:
$ NJ. ". R. GREBE's nIPRoMPTU TALK.
o Ladies, | captured Ole of thos
e flags once. | risked my life to do it.
VI Hetook off his hat and stood bare
e headed while II crowd pressed aroun
J. to hear his little impromptu speech
e Il came all the way from Gel