The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-05-03
CAN'T ADDRESSES
VETERANS OF SOUTH.
Missouri Supreme Justice
Speaks Before Audience OF
10000 in New Orleans.
Justice

New Orleans, La, April.-New Or
leans is packed with the Confederate
hosts tonight, the Army OF the Con-
federacy having again csmped with
In the gates Of this historic city,
where the Coniederscy Was born.
The railroads estimate that they
have brought more than $4,000
strangers into the city.
Ideal weather prevails. 1t is CON-
Portable cool, and tonight ladies In
evening dress are wearing light
wraps.
From the moment OF the opening
of the Sixteenth Annual Reunion in
the great auditorium, erected for the
special purpose in the heart OF the
city, until after midnight, there was
never q break in the continuous pro-
gramme,
Governor Blanchard welcomed the
hosts on behalf OF the State. Mayor
Behrmsn performed the same mis-
sion on behalf OF the city.
General Stephen D. Lee delivered
his annual ADDRESS and Adiutant
Gen eral Hickle read his report on
the condition OF the organization.
Judge James B. CAN'T, Associate
Justice OF the Supreme Bench OF Mis-
souri,, OF Jefferson City, was the ora
tor Of the day. He spoke for three
quarters OF an hour under adverse
conditions, the hasty construction
OF the auditorium having made i'm
pc ssible any particular attention to
the acoustic properties.
1t was almost impossible to haer
at a short distance from the speak
, ere stand, but Judge CAN'T stemmed
the tide OF obstruction and held TO-
600 persons In the Auditorium dur
ing his address. he was often ap.
plauded and cheered TO the echo.
Justice CAN'T spoke, In part, as
follows:
The ex. Confederate and the South
areglad that peace once more broods
over our entire land, and that out
OF the ruins OF the sectional wall
that once divided us, have sprung
the flowers Of peace and iraternal
feeling exhaling the perfume OF good
will and genuine union all over our
reunited country.
But We hear every day from some
well-meaning people that no good
can come from these reunions and
the perpetuation OF our organiza-
sion; that we but delay the coming
of that day of universal fraternity
that is essential to the welfare OF our
common country. We deny it. We
submitted our differences with our
Northern brethren to the arbitra-
ment OF arms, the only court to
which sovereign States can go when
all argument and peaceful overtures
fall, and we lost, and have In perfect
faith accepted the consequences; but
1t can never be a matter OF indiffsr.
ence to any sell respecting, honorable
people, that history shall record
that they are traitors. We are un'
willing that our children shall rest
under the stigma that their fathers
were guilty OF treason.
After the surrender the RESPONSE
bility developed upon the men OF the
South to rehsbilitate their States,
rebuild and restore their ruined
homes, preserve the right OF the
Anglo-saxon race to govern their
institutions and resume their consti-
tutional relations to the United
States Government and to their sis.
ter States Of the Union and preserve
untarnished the name and fame Of
the comrades who died for our cause
and maintained the purity OF the
motives which sctuated US in that
great struggle, and transmit the
truth to our children.
How we'll we have accomplished
most OF these things, in the lace oil
the most adverse conditions, the
whole world knows to-day. We have
religiously kept the paroles we gave
at Appomatox, Greensboro and
Shreveport. We returned to our
ruined and deserted homes. and,
with firm reliance in God, We re-
stored the waste places, rebuilt our
cities and towns, and began life anew