The Topeka state journal., 1906-04-24
MEMORIAL ORDER.
Department Commander COney
Tells What to DO.
Should Not Forget the UnfOrtu-
nate in San Francisco.
He WANTS MORE Law.
Will Ask Legislature to Prohibit
Baseball May 30.
g. A. S. Lines Will Be Relaxed
for Memorial Day.

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P. H. Coney. department commander
of the Kansas G. A. R., has issued his
Memorial day orders. and devotes es-
pecial attention to the. San Francisco
disaster. He says:
The fervent sympathy and ardent
solicitude Of every member of our or
ganization. swells to the limit of our
being, for the devasted comrades and
people of the Pacific coast. whose re-
slstless calamity was the most destruc-
tive and helpless of all that has previ-
ously occurred on this continent. The
thousands of homeless who We're driven
from opulence to destitutiOn in an in
slant, nave suffered indescriba bly,. but
their exeruiation was responively felt
BY the divinely civilized heart of all
our people, whose instantaneous eontri-
buttons have excelIed anything of its
KIND IN all history, demonstrating be-
yond cavn that an injury to any part
OF our people, is the concern of all;
we are one people, a common brother
and sisterhood, who rally with every
available resource to alleviate suffering
and help the distressed at once Such
generous unselfish conduct exemplifies
the God-like mangifcence of our exalted
Christian civilization, that bears and
forbears for others
Let our meditations and prayers be
with and for our suffering comrades
and their families, of this 1nightiest
disaster and holocaust; most of them
from their age and frailty cannot now
we'll endure nor long survive such an
exposure and additional affliction. It
must hasten their march to eternity, ex-
tending our Memorial roll much longer
than in the past year, that was double
the number of previous years since the
close of that greatest Of all wars"
VIII Open Doors Wide
It is announced by Capt. Coney that
the Memorial day service this year viii
be open to all old soldiers, whether
members of the Grand Army Of tie Re
public or not It is to be made sort Of
revival service. at which converts 10 the
G. A. r. will be solicited. Capt. Corey
says in his orders:
"All soldiers and sailors, whether
members Of the Grand Army of the
Republic or not. are invited to ioin
with the comrades and posts of our or
der on Memorial day. in performing our
patriotic duty to our deceased com
rades. Post commanders will invite
them to fall in and join in the exercises,
and then obtain their application for
membership in our order. This should
be an inspiring occasion to bring our
derelict comrades into fraternal co
operation with US. within the exalting
ties of our matchless order, ere they,
too, have answered the final roll oali,
l44dl Sld4i muster LIlOIif WlIE our Depart
ed comrades, into the eternal bivouac
sof our Heavenly marshalled heroes who
await our answer to their celestial
reveille that follows the fading. echoes
of taps here
VIII Ask for Anti-Baseban Law.
Concerning the desecration of Memor-
iaI da, by baseball players. excursion
lists and others, Capt Coney serves
notice that at the next session of the
legislature, he will ask for the passage
of bill preventing people from indulg-
ing in any such pastimes on May 30
He asks that members of the G. y. r.
see to 1t that their home members are
instructed to vote right on this PROPOSE
ton. This part of the proclamation is
as follows
Repeated attention has been called
by your commander, to the abOmin-
able disregard of moral and patriotic
duty, by those who are so disloya1ly
/ indiscreet as to make of our solemn
and sacred Memorial Day, a day of
sport, hilarity and profit making. by
! excursions, baseball playing and horse
racing, etc, ETC.. thereby Transforming
/ a days Of serious meditation and com
memOration, into a day of sin and law
| less conduct. to crafty the depraved
/ inclination of the vile and sinful. Such
conduct is not only unlawful. but
atrociously reprehensible. and all who
| conduct or attend such, deserve public
/ criticism, and it is to be regretted that
they cannot be punished like other
| Iawless persons. But the attorney
/ general in an official opinion to Gov
ernor E. w. Hoch, called for by your
commander, regretfully decides they
can not be.
I'VE shall take the natter before
the legislature at its next session, with
a carefully prepared bill. making the
desecratfon of Memorial Day by such
conduct, a misdemeanor, and secure
| its passage. Comrades are asked tc
assist with their home member, to Sc
cure the passage of such law