The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-04-27
APPEAL FROM 4 VETERAN
Plea ier Reorganization Of Sons
of Confederate Veterans.

hachie:
1t would be refreshing to us old
soldiers of Camp Winnie Davis, as
we'll as to the Sims Watson chap
ter Daughters of the Confederacy,
if some officer of the n. b. Forest
camp sons of Veterans would issue
a call for a meeting and reorganiza
tion of that camp. There are at
lowest five hundred sons of Veter-
ans who should belong to it. Ennis
has just organized Gen. l.. NJ
Lewis camp with about fifty men,
bers. The want of interest here
seems strange and one naturally
asks for a cause.
Among our bankers, merchants,
lawyers, doctors and farmers are
many sons of Confederate Neter-
ans, yet they seem dead in patriotic
sentiment toward that cause which
was sacred in the life of their faith
ers and mothers. Their inaction
here cannot be attributed TO senti-
mentalism in their souls, because
as members of every club or social
order these sons are prominent
members. They indulge at home
and often travel distances yielding
themselves to pleasurable functions,
they contribute generously of money
and personal service to further and
accomplish every community amuse-
ment and of whatever kind; yes,
that which appeals elsewhere from
a Confederate standpoint falls upon
sterile ground here. No appeal
awakens interest, and but for the
L. d. {. and old WORKOUT Veterans
there would be no memories kept
alive, no decoration day. No son
to look after the care and helping
of the destitute and suffering old
heroes, their widows and orphans.
This condition makes the old man
sometimes stop and reflect. J
naturally turns backward as he
grows old and loves to live in the
past. If he is an eX-Confederate,
and most all old men of the South
are, he compares now and then. He
accords to his son every right of
manhood and citizenship, he ac-
cords to him intelligence and con.
Germ IN public and private affairs.
He knows him to be the par of his
father in every ability, energy, en-
terprise and interest that pertains
10 the social and political econimies
OF life. He comedies that in the
rush now there Is more cold bust
ness than there was then, but when
he sees manifest indulgence and
time taken for recreation in matters
social, political and pleasurable,
yet no time for Confederate scuti-
ment, he cannot help rejecting and
asking himself if bis lite during the
sixties has the approval of his son.
Was the old man wrong then, or
has the son forgotten his history.
There have been old disabled Con-
federate soldiers in our poor house.
There are many others taxing the
substance of their friends and rela-
tives for scant living who would
rather die than 20 to poor house.
Poverty and helpless infirmity taxes
the pride of these old fellows and TO
the genuine old Confederate the hui
initiation imposed Is awful. His
doom is not what he expected in the
sixties and he is not responsible for
his age. His misfortunes may be
of his own bringing, but sweet char
ity should not stop here. Do not
consider him for what ,he is, but re-
member him for what he was He
was manly man just as you are
now.
Now, sons of Veterans it's up to
you. VIII you do your duty, or
will you shift the burden on the old
ex-Coufederates and the Daughters
OF the Confederacv, not raising
helping hand. If the first or sec
oud lieutenant of y. b. Forest
camp L. :. {. Y. are here let them
issue "a call fer a meeting and il.
they do not attend 20 il let the adj
Iutaut issue call Get yourselves
i'm position % do something and TO
be- something. Many Of You may
wish 90 20 10 New Orleans i'm Nav