The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-10-26

But | warn you, old friend, there's n
bond like this
We drank from the same canteen.
1t was sometimes water and som'
times milk,
Sometimes apple jock. fine as silk
But whatever Il might have been,
We drank it together in pain or ii
bliss,
But warn you old friend, there's nc
bond like this,
We drank from the same cAnteen.
We shared our blankets and tents
together.
And marched ia all kinds OF
weather,
And hungry aid dry we've been
But this memory cling to and love
the best.
We drank from the same canteen.
The same caEteen, my soldier friend.
the same canteen,
Iwarn you old friend, there's 90
tie like this,
We drank from the same canteen.
There are no ties on earth since
Christ gave his life on Calvary that
surpass the ties Of our old comrades.
They were welded in the fiercest fire
that ever men on earth witnessed.
Ny comrades are the living breathing
flag OF this Republic, without their
services and their sacriti fees old Glory
would not be il)atlug DER the laud vi
the lee aud lie home OF the brave.
Therefore, disregard, my comrades,
and you violate the constitution and
the laws of the Republic, and the act
is treason to the flag, because my
comrades are the living evidence 9th
nag, My comrades are the eXempll t.
cation In life Of the Constitution and
the laws Of Kansas. Why? They
wrought Kansas, and gave it birth,
Up to 1890, no convention, political or
fraterual IN this state in which lie
majority were not men OF the Grand
Army of the Republic. SO per cent Of
the laws Oh the statute books were
placed there by The Drawn and brain
Of my comrades. And it was all mac
possible by the devotion and loyalty
If my comrades. Those VINO hold
position in official life in Kansas
the fundamentally IF tie
Grand Army Of the Republic, cannot
disregard the lawful, equitable aud
oval obligations OF my comrades. v t
fought for the Constitution, and We
nave maintained it by our ballots sill &c
jhe close of The mighty struggle. We
every man IN the United
states.
At the age of 20, In Leavenworth, |
began the championship of the 18th
Amendment, not because he was tlack
tut because he was formerly slave
further l came from the land ,|ano ~,
S my fathers land, where the severe
prosecution and oppression am
granny, have driven ps from our
Iative land, to seek home In tue
and of the free. (ApDlause.) AND
With that inherent in me. l champ
Oned the cause of the black man
nd by the Eternal Gods, that ballot
hall never been taken away from him
s long as haYe the breath Of life in
ny body. 1t is the true principle VI
fe my friends that every man is 10
e loyal to his country and also TO his
reaLor, should bear the burdens OF
theirs, every day make some he
etter by having been in contact WITH
!. This is the true duty of man. n"
ne has right to be false. God
dominates liar, and the devil trem
les at The approach of one to the in
srnal regions.
The highest ime in this Republic
violation Of the laws of our Stale
nd Government. The constitution
our State is sacred, and the laws ia
Jnformity with it are more sacred,
nd the laws Lave been passed for my
They have very libe&l
rovisons in Soldiers Homes, and
rphans Homes. They are not COM