The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-12-21

ceuutenanee of one another rs never
before. and the organization reeds the
greater force arising from the power
OF numbers.
With such a great field for recruiting
open to us, we should do much better
than we have been doing. and we
should go far beyond off-setting our
losses by death. To the comrades ac-
tive in Post affairs. l make special
appeal to go far and use every effort
possible, to keep the comrades from
dropping out Of the ranks through in
disposition or inability financially to re-
main among US
In the old days when your comrade
was unable to keep up on the march.
how often you carried his gun or KNAPP
sack or his blanket roll, all to help him
keep up. Now that he needs encour-
agement of another kind. let us do
what can to help him keep up till
the end, and to the end that when he
passes to the rest of the grave, he may
go with the badge. of right. on his
breast
/ am. it will be observed. dealing lib
orally with the matter of Aids on the
National staff, but relating thereto
wish to say distinctly that I do not
mean it as a mere mpliment--by no
means. Upon every one accepting such
commission l put the single injunc-
ton, recruit, recruit.
If we cannot by recruiting at least
offset the losses unavoidable through
death and other causes. / shall feel bit
terly disappointed, ii not Inundated,
when take the gavel at Minneapolis.
While the Grand Army. in the very
nature of things. can have no success
sion as such, and must march on to an
inevitable but glorious extinction
through death, just as inevitably, to a
very large degree, the Sons OF Veterans
will be our successors. They will bear
our achievements in loving memory,
and carry them along the generations.
All too soon will come the time when
the paralyzing hand of age will enforce
quiet and inaction on our part, while it
Will be 1.-The Boys" who will go out to
those silent cities where
Mountain grasses. low and sweet
Grow In the middle of every street.
and theirs will be the loving task OF
laurelling the graves of our dead.
Sons of Veterans.
The organization of 1.-The Sons of
Veterans" as 1 know 1t, is an honor to
all the land. It's membership is earn
est, Intelligent, and enthusiastic; its
chosen representatives men of high
character and patriotic purpose. They
ask very little Of us: simply our en-
oGrsement and announcement. With
all my heart, l give it to them, for you
and for myself, and to you. / say, stand
by the boys! Some of us lean on them
now, and many of US must do SO soon.
heavily
Officially, the Grand Army has but
one Auxiliary, The Woman's Relief
Corps" but i'll the largest and best
sense. not only the Woman's Relief
Corps, but the Ladies' of the Grand
Army, and the Daughters of Veterans
and every other organization which has
for its cornerstone Patriotism are our
auxiliaries.
We shall be better men the closer we
are privileged to associate with any or
ali OF them. The members of the two
elder organizations bring to their bene-
ilcent iabors in our behalf, the wisdom
born of experience and maturity, and
as to the Daughters of Veterans, why,
from their pure lips the babes of the
future will hear whispered the story of
the grandsires' valor and sacrifice.
JAMR TANNER, COMMANDMENTS
JOHN TWEEDALE, Adjutant- General.