The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-17

To the Editor Of The Gate City:
When a woman is bad she is worse
than bad man. When a woman is
"a fool she can make more of an ex
hibition of her nonsense than ten
men could.
These observations are occasioned
by the action Of the fool Daughters OF
the Confederacy in the South. They
are the silliest kinds Of fools. They
ought to have General Benjamin F..
Butler to deal with them. He was
the only man who could handle such
idiocy as they exhibit from time to
n time.
General Butler in New Orleans was
confronted by the fool southern women
who would spit at the soldiers of the
federal army and empty Stops on them
as they passed along the street. It
became unbearable and Butler put an
end to it.
He had as city attorney at Lowell
been directed to revise the city ordi-
nances of the city To do this he ex-
amined ordinances Of other cities,
among them the ordinances of the
city of London, England, and noted in
doing so as. curiosity an ordinance
passed shortly after the Norman con-
quest when the Norman soldiers were
treated in contemptuous manner by
the women of the city.
The ordinance provided that any
female conducting herself in con-
temptuous manner toward a Norman
soldier should be considered and treat.
ed as a common woman Of the town,
as If she was an abandoned woman,
and it had the effect to end the trou-
BILE. When Butler had to deal Will
the question in New Orleans he made
like order there. It had the effect
to end the annoyance. When one sees
the fool Daughters Of the Confed.
eracy conducting themselves as they
are doing now it makes one feel like
getting up subscription for mon.
ument to General Butler to be placed
in the most conspicuous place In
Washington upon which should be en-
graved as the most glorious act Of his
If, the order he made dealing with
the women OF New Orleans.
The people of the South should
know and remember that carpetbag
ism and the terrible oppression Of thu
people OF the South thereby was made
possible only by the treatment which
had been accorded by the Southern
army OF the military prisoners at An
Jacksonville, Libby prison and Fort
| Tyler, Texas, the object of which was
to render the Union soldier SO i'm
prisoned useless as an able-bodied sol
der by abuse Of them and by starva
ton. To accomplish these ends it wa!
necessary to have cowardly brute
and demon like Wirz who was In com
mand at Andersonyille.s Had it no
been for the maltreatment OF fedora
soldiers in rebel prisons public senti
ment In the north would not have per
mitted the horrors of carpetbagism. I
was but just retribution the eleva
ton Of the negro to be masters o
such brutes.
| The fool Daughters OF the Confed
eracy have lately caused monumen
to be erected for Wirz. Shame OF
them! They cover themselves with in
4 fanny greater than that of an abandon
ed woman by so doing. They extol |
cruel. premeditated, cowardly attemp
to murder the defenseless prisone
and show themselves to be fiends n
stead of women. The monumsa
lately erected at Nashville to Davis
who was executed by the fedora
authorities at Nashville by the Daugn
tiers OF the Confederacy, was in poo
taste as their action implied a cen
sure to the authority of the Unitet
States officer who ordered the execu
ton by hanging. Davis was offere'
clemency if he would disclose tn
source OF his information inside thu
federal lines. He declined to div:,,g