The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-30
MAJOR GAlBRAlTH AND CAPT
GREANEY GUESTS OF HONOR
AT LUNCHEON.
DEPENDS ON CITIZENS
Whether Cairo Retains ComnanY Of
White Soldiers or Not--Capt.
Crcsnoy Says Company
About - Disband.

| The Merchants Luncheon yesteF-
day. at Alexander ~clnb grin room,
was devoted wholly to boosting Go.
TX. Fourth Regiment, l. N e., Of
Cairo There was a good attendance
lCf representative men. and Mr. Bond
Of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. presided at the board.
The guests of honor were Mai Gal
hraith, of Carbondale, and Capt
IGreaney C Cairo, both Of whom hal
lhcer invited to attend the luncheon.
The former was the principal
lspeaker He congratulated the peo,
pie Of Cairo upon the progress that
had been made by them in civic inn
lprovements during the last several
wears He had Nsited Cairo first
when he was six months old, remain
, ing here till he was about three years
old and he had visited the city at
! intervals since, so that he knew
something Ct the struggles the peo
| pie here had made to build a city
| He felt they deserved great credit
| for what they had accomplished, es
Ipecially for what had been dcne in
recent years during which great
lstrides had ben made
The Major said he had on a for
mer occasion expressed faith In Co
IK. and in the people of Cairo, that
| they would rot permit the company
to be taken away He still had faith
| IN Co. X and the presence of the Citi-
lens at this gathering indicated that
| his faith in the people seemed TO be
justified. He called attention to the
Tact taat young men who joined the
Icomrary and met the demands that
would be made upon ihgm had no
asy task Il called for hard WORK
a. drill, also for valuable time and
cash expense which each individual
member would have Ia bear lie had
been told that business men objected
to permitting young men in their EN-.
ploy to belong to the company, be
cause they might lose little time oc
|casionally This wa1 a wrong view.
rhc Illinois Guard was being main-
tanned as matter of business II
was considered as important to main
tain it from business point Of view,
to be prepared in case of an emerg
ency to prevent loss of life and prop
erty It was pursuant TO the idea
that an ounce of prevention was bet
ter than a pou1d of cure That the
national guard was being maintained
in every state; and the same view
would hold good locally with the
business men Of Cairo
Mai Galbraith paid very hign
tribute to Capt Greaney, saying the
Capt had asked to he relieved more
THAN crCe hut in each instance his
Resignation had been returned by
the adiutant Eonral, with the en-
dorsemeHt, Respectfully returned;
resignation not accepted. Much re
sporsihility rested upon the captain
Of a company. and much work had to
be done hy him. He was held re
sponaihlc for the property sent TO the
company, he had to provide his own
uniform. make out his own report
regularly, performing many duties
himself, which in the regular army
were performed by licutcnants. Tn"
Major said all this work had been
well done for Co. X and Capt Grea
ney was entitled to much credit for
Il, besides striving hard TO keep the
company together. While captains lr
the regular army got $4,000 a year
for their work capt Grcaucy got
nothing Tlc state departme
would like TO keep a company here "a
being a good point, and there hat
been much satisfaction IN the past
over the fact that the Cairo Co. had
been the crack company Of the 4'h
Rcgiment II was to- be- hoped th"
people of Cairo would not permit II
to po out Of eXistcrcc.
John S Aisthurpc being Calicd
upon responded by reading a letie'
| from Col Lang reErating his inabi!
lity 10 10 present ar ihe Bhnchfr7.
complimcniing Co X. ard express.n;
The hope that It would receive all
necessary encouragement from the
Iciiizeus of Cairo Nj Azthorpe said
! u was necessary 70 maintain a mill
l'ary company n white men in Cairo.
luot to protect the white MAJ against
| the black men. a. some had contend
| ed. but to protect all alike. the hlact
men as vel as the white lie knew
some Of the hariships that Capt
/ IGresuey has had to contend with ip
Iais efforts to maintain the nr-aniz7
Itio-. and knew that the Capt has
loot haf tho moral support he had a
fright 10 expect from the husinrs7
linen Of the city u fact not few
Ihad discouraged him Business men
lcught to support the crEanization a