The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-16
FOR THE WOMEN OF THE CON-
TFnERAEY

The resolution introduced by Captain b.
F. >weathers at the reunion. favoring
immediate action towards building
monument to the Confederate women Of
Alabama was timely and appropriate. II
IL a subject which has been discussed at
various times and on various occasions
but It Is always postponed to some time
too long. 1t ought to be erected and ded-
icated while veterans Of the war are here
to assist in building It and to welcome its
conservation. Captain weathers believes
that each Confederate soldier in Ala
bama would contribute at least 81. and
IL any Of them were too poor to pay It
their friends would do II for them. He
remarked in our presence that he would
himself pay the subscriptions Of one hum
bred OF them IL 1t becomes necessary.
We notice that the U. ID. C. Convention
in New Orleans expressed disapprobation
of this movement until the Jefferson Da-
Wis monument at Richmond is completed.
This act of self-abnegation is character
istic Of the women of the South. but 1t
should not be accepted by the Veterans
themselves. Monuments to Davis and
Lee and our other leaders are right and
proper and no Confederate survivor can
object, but We of Alabama should erect
q suitable memorial to our own women
1t should be erected by Alabamians and
for Aiabamians. We cannot build mon
ument as high As their virtues and pa
triotism deserves nor as enduring as their
fame, Cor, as we heard one Of the enthu-
siastic veterans say while here: "If their
heroic deeds were to be measured by
monumental shaft it would extend from
earth TO the dome OF the eternal heav-
ems and would require long-distance tel
ephone to communicate with the cap
stons!'
In the words of Edward Young:
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids:
Her monuments shall fall when Egypt's
fall.
and all the enduring patriotism. the
kindly acts. the cheering words and the
patient sufferings of the women of Ala
bama cannot be carved on any monument
erected by human hands and human eff
forts. but the people of Alabama. and
especially the surviving Confederates who
we're witnesses and beneficiaries Of what
the women Of the South could suffer and
-h.A A. nhn N What HFat-
Itude and love and veneration demand
Of them. The men who fought are falling
on every hand. The women who acted
and suffered are fast laying down the
burdens of life, but to those who remain
and to those who have gone before there
should be erected on Capitol Hill q mon
nment which will at least prove to fu-
ture generations that the soldiers OF the
were neither forgetful nor
1ngrateful.
The women Of Alabama have been fore
most in every movement designed to
honor ana perpetuate the deeds Of Ala
bama soldiers, and the latter and their
sons should be as ready to do honor to
the wives, mothers and sisters Of those
who fought and died for a righteous
cause. Our women themselves may dep
recate any effort to do them honor but
this is one case where even the good
women OF Alabama should not be allowed
to have their way. Let the Confederate
Veterans Camps all over the State go to
work and there can be no doubt of the re-
suit. The survivors themselves are able
to build this monument and they ought
to do it and let it be finished while they
live to see 1t. Such a monument will
honor those who build it and those in