The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-16

petus and its force among the women of
the south. I first learned of the move
ment early in the year and quietly and
earnestly canyassed the matter with quite
la number of prominent -confederates,
for / recognized on the =, first mention
thereof that such matter carried out
would do more to interrupt the flow of
good feeling between the north and the
south, and would roll back more effect
lively the waves of reconciliation than
any other one matter Of which the mind
Of man could conceive
At first number Of confederates whom
talked with about the matter secuted
the idea Of there being any proba bility Of
any: such thing being done. My answer
to that was that | considered it a serious
movement because their women were in
teresting themselves in it, and had no.
ticed that men generally danced to the
music set by the women. -. ~,
! good many of them had no hesitation,
in privately telling me that they agreed
with me that the erection of the rnemo-2
rial to such a character could have no
practical result except to smirch to a
greater or less degree every memorial
erected turnout the south to the real rep
resentatlves of valor in the confederate
army. -
Encampment Should Protest.
AS one who welcomes with joy every
movement calculated to assuage the lin
gering pains Of that mighty conflict, I
| deprecate to the last degree any move
ment OF the kind proposed, and I think
that it Is due to ourseles, to our great or
that 1t Is due to ourselves, to our great
ganization, and to the truth of history,
that this encampment should place on
record before the public at large a most
hSyt- 94crs,Sf
such 1mpious shaft being permitted to
raise it's head toward high heaven
Some Of my correspondents Of the gen.
tier sex In the South have undertaken to
justify the movement: on the asserted
ground that more southern prisoners of
war died in northern prisons than there
were Of our eomra des who died in south
ern prisons.F I am not prepared to dis
pute the truth of that statement but if it
be true statement, the natural inquiry
arises ''Why?" And the intelligent, com
plete and truthful answer is found In the
fact that the men of the south whom we
took prisoners were, to a large extent,
in an emaciated condition when cap
tured; they were poorly clad and shod
1t is a fact most fully proclaimed in everv
article written from the southern stand
point regarding the cost of that war, that
their men frequently suffered from great
ood1c1Iy Or ,lOtal absence OF rat1OnS. AL
most every southern writer has dealt
more or less with the story of meal
made from a$;roasted ear of corn. .
Exposure of South.
These prisoners of war coming to- us
thus poorly; nourished, came from the
sunny climate of the south to be of.ne-
cesslty exposed to the greater riger Of the
severer climate Of, the NORTH and, they
sunk, many Of them. into death, under
physical conditions which nothing could
prevent Our men. on the contrary, who
went to their death in southern prisons
entered them in splendid physical condi-
tlon. Ihere Is no excuse before God or
man FOR the fate that befell them.
The subject is one which deprecate
the necessity of calling to public atten-
tlon 1t is matter which I would much
nave preferred that, the hallowing effects
OF time might have wiped from the mem,
DRY OF man, but under the circumstances,
standing where do, 7 have felt it would
, be cowardly not to make mention Of this
} tier as I have. :,. -.
Some Shots at Tawney. 49,.
The successful efforts of. himself ane
his associates before the committees OF
congress to secure needed pension legis
lat1on for union veterans were detailed
r at length, ME-. Tanner s.; remarks OF
: this subject being followed by a his
, tory OF the effort made at the last ses
sion OF congress to forcibly retire from
pubic service ex-uni0n soldiers wh<