Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-19
c. A. R. ENCAM PMENT
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year were by muster S1S3, transfer S60S. reinstatement 11673, the losses by death s366. honorable discharge 7S0. transfer 2sso. supervision 1853, dishonorable discharge 76, delinquent | reports 5022. net loss 7245.
 The observance of Memorial day was of a character to assure us that the heart of the people of the land IS still in sympathy with the beau tiful and impressive service. There have been, as there always will he scme who will disregard the obi. gations that rest upon all the people, to pay tribute to these whose valor secured them the blessings and the security which this and future gen eIations will enjoy and share. We cannot but hail with delight the par ticipation in the ceremonies of the school children of the land I believe that in this direction is one of the ways, if not the surest way. to per petuate the day. We must invoke aid in the work. Our numbers
  crease in number with each passing year In many localities appropri- ate services are held in the public schools, and the children told the sto- ry of the days of the war. and the meaning of the service of Memorial day. What more impressive sight than to see the children of the land gathering from fields and garden, hill and valley, the sweet flowers of springtime, to lay them lovingly up- on soldier and sailor graves, or with song cast them upon the waters in tribute to our brave ones who sleep in the gardens of the sea Let them in childhood strew the flowers and sing the songs. and they in turn will teach their children to do the same, ana thus truly will our dead be re- membered by our children, and our childrens children through the gen. erations yet to be.
 The women's Relief corps con inues with unabated zeal the splea-
 lid work to which it is devoted and for which it Is organized. The La lies of the Grand Army is none the | less earnest and active in the work in which they are s9- lovingly and | Loyalty engaged. The names sons oi | Veterans, is full of meaning. They i feel that there's is a heritage of glo- | ry-that they stand apart in meas ure from the young men of their time. | Bring the boys up nearer the Post room. nearer the Grand Army, and they will form the new line of union | loving. patriotic men, whose flag and | purpose and altar will be that of | their fathers.
 The responses to the general order 1 requesting contributions to aid the | comTads in the sorthern department | in the work of celebrating Memorial day, have been liberal. L. The noble and laudible efforts cf the Grand Army of the Republic to 1 place. love of country and flag pre- eminently before the youth of the land has been eminentIy successful, l and has reached all parts of the Re public arE its dependencies. The tendency toward the enactment q laws directing patriotic education and reverence for the flag is encour- aging and commendable.
 Contributions to limited extent for the home at Mountain Springs, Alabama. have been received from ev- cry part of the country.
 Major Falkner, the chairman of the committee on ways and means. said to the commander in chief, the fra ternal feeling and the kind sentiments expressed by the different G. A. R. posts and the individual members thereof throughout the north has touched and softened the hearts of every confederate soldier in the south
 The administration by the board of l 7ensions of the pension laws, that for | So many years had proven so vexa- Jious and unsatisfactory, seems to | have been adjusted to a degree of sat :sfaction. believe the present commission is earnestly endeayoring to discharge the duties of his high and important office honestly, liber- ally and justly, and yet he is not able to satisfy the many who feel and assert that the government has not dealt and is not dealing justly with them The complaints are not 50 numerous or so vigorous as in the -ecent past, and yet they are suff- "ient to warrant our earnest and care lul attention and consideration. Complaint will never entirely cease, nor will cases tof injustice be. entirely r liminated from the adniuisrra.iDn of such great trust, bU. hy an hon r. est, fair and liberal administration of the laws, we may. reach the minimum of complaint and of injustice. Is not the lime at hand when wisdom and justice both warrant such an adjust ment of the pension laws. as will meet the condition B that. exists Dy providing for pension of not less than SIP per month TOT all honorably soldiers, sailors or ma rinesy who may choose to apply.