The National tribune., 1908-01-16
SOMETHING AS TO FLAGS.
The SOntb Needs u Good Deal More Re-
construction.

Editor National Tribune: Your in
cident of the destruction of the Stars
and Stripes at the jamestown EXPOSE
ton by mjscreant traitor to his coun-
try was timely, but does no; surprise
me. With all these yum-yum demon
stratiOns between the blue and the gray,
the reconstruction of the South with
the old rebel-yell Confederate has never
materialized. They are reconstructed
only on the grandstand of the G.. A. r..
The Boston Encampment set the exam
pie, when certain high National officers
of the G.. A. r. wned and dined them,
while old loyal mothers to the Stars
and Stripes, who gave up the beloved
sons and fathers, were insulted by such
palavering over these arch traitors to
the Stars and Stripes.
Another incident, in which the De-
partment Commander of Alabama G.
A. r. was an honored guest of the Con-
federate Reunion at Montgomery, Ala,
when these disloyal Southrons raised
the rebel rag to the crown of the flag
pole and placed the Stars and Stripes
under it.
While in Washington last September
on business l had to go to Norfolk to
get my ticket validated. Having to re-
main in Norfolk nearly one day, 1 went
over scenes of 1863, and found many
things to satisfy me that the same old
rebel rag still waved in defiance of the
loyal citizens of the North visiting the
jamestown Toy Worlds Exposition. One
store I entered 1 found rebel Confeder-
ate battle flags on sale. 1 was inquisi-
tive, and asked the saleswoman if she
sold many of the flags. She stared at
me and said, Yes" I asked, More
than the Stars and Stripes?" Yes"
she said; "many more" I said no
more, but left in disgust. and took the
first boat for the sO-called great real
estate push jamestown Island enter
prise, and here I met the enemy of the
Stars and Stripes, and it did not take
me long to keep moving to get clear
out of sight OF the Confederate rag.
President Roosevelt wants to go
South again. He helps to make the
Southern people feel that their cause
was right and the restoration of the
Union all wrong.
To demonstrate to your readers how
dearly the white citizens of the South
love the Stars and Stripes 1 will ask the
question: Why do the loyal people have
to give the patriotic co-workers flags to
display on school buildings in the South
land? New Orleans. Memphis, Nash
vile, Chattanooga, Charleston, Allan
tain fact, about all the States south
of Mason and Dixon's line-have but
little interest in the Stars and Stripes.
The man who destroyed the Stars and
Stripes at jamestown Exposition should
have been punished instead of given his
liberty. Another sop from Washington.
No wonder the jamestown enterprise
was failure. Had the management
demonstrated more love for the Stars
and Stripes things might have been diff
ferent. So long as this rebel rag is un-
furled to insult the Union veterans, so
long will there be an estrangement; but
when they are ready to bury their flag
of treason, of lost cause, then will we
take them by the hand and call them
loyal citizens. To the citizens of the
North, East and West there is but one
flag that we honor, and if it does not
head the procession We won't march
Wallace Foster, Captain, 18th Ind, In
dianapolis, Ind.