The Press., 1910-06-01

uMU BUILD uA0 bd6 s0pE1uSH61U b6puOIlt : can. You've heard of General Mose- by, haven't you? We'll, he came up there and stopped
 l Are you safety guard ? he asked. He had about two hundred men with him,
 Yes r Then came down off the fence an saluted He came up to look at my badge You're a six corps boy. are you? Thty're lyin' down by the river
 Yes Want 8 paper tn read, General?' apked him. It's ,ld news. but maybe you'll like to geo it. f Thanks, What Is it?'
 couldn't help grinnin' A Massa. ohusetts paper said The Re- publican.
 Then how he laughed, for they hated Massachusetts worse'n any of the states But he took it all the same an rode away. They cslled themselves Gorillas. an2~ they went round raisin' Gain: burnin' bridges before our supply team, stealth our supplies if they could, an if they couldn't. they d bunch the wagons all up together an set fire to 'em. Then they'd chop down big trees all along our way so we'd have to get our axes we carried wagon load If em- an just get to work an clear the road A man will fight like the Old Harry for his bread The supply train for one regiment alone was about ten wagons long -four mules to wagon The wagons were high an covered with canopy. You must have seen pictures of 'em. :"
 Was it easy to get men to enlist?"
 Not at the last. They wouldn't volunteer, so they had to draft lem. The men didn't want u go-rather fight an die at home. So they started a riot in New York. They burned the Tribune Building an for mile around They hung nigger babies to lamp posts an all such things When we marched up Broad way to Twenty sixth street there was no more fghtin' there I tell you, we were as fierce & lookin' lot O sol diers as you ever saw had on an old coat all ragged an dirty, an old flannel shirt an a pair of army trousers We had been maI chin for months in that red clay of the south an it would get all over the legs of our pants So instead of wipin' it off that would have chaffed our skin we'd tear of an keep tearin' off till our trousers wa'n't any longer than the tops of our stockiu's. I hadn't had chance to get shaved for six weeks or more. an my hair was long an my skin was most as dark as the niggers we'd been fghtin' to free, I tell you, we were a sight when we landed There wasn't any more riot. though. "Think what it meant to the women and children. when the men were ordered to go to war;" I ven- tured.
 "Young lady, I've stood in an alley-you know how the streets are in New York-I've stood in an alley an another soldier in another alley, while the policemen went in after the men, an Eve been into the houses with the policemen when they put handcuffs on the men; an I've seen the women cry an yell an fight the officers like everythin'. But 1t didn't do any good they had to let lem go. ''
 Have you heard of the family in the south sin the war;" asked.
 Yes, I took 8 trip south just be- fore I came up here-I had been en- gineer on the Central Vermont for twenty eight years. We'll, I made up my mind I'd To k up that family So got if at Fredericksburg an got a guide an told him what I wanted to do. The place was so changed I most thought I couldn't find lem. But I spoke to a good many people bout the family an finally did run across 'em The woman was there an she remem bered me. She cried an told me that he never came back was shot soon after saw him. The little girls were teaohin school-o one of 'em, anyway-guess the other was married. She said she sent 'em to Baltimore to school. No, he never came back again
 1T wish President Roosevelt would discover a way to make war impos- 10 fu oTnah hal ought to be able to do 1t, declared.
 President Roosevelt? Why, he's the biggest rascal tfat ever sat in the Presidential chair Believes in trusts -the biggest enemy the labor. man has to fight: Look at the beef trust. Think how it's affected the price of meat. Last night came in to SUD- per. We had some steak on the table. said, hope this is tough enough An my wife told how she used to go down an ask for 8 pot-r roast that would last us for two or three meals. Bat If ask for a pot roast now, says she. it would make a five dollar bill look sick enough So the poor man has to eat tough meat or go with. out.
 We'll, I've got enough money to last me an to keep the old woman as long as we live, but I'll speak up for the laborin' class an run down the trusts all can said to Ed, Smith here one day, 'Ain't you fraid of these trusts, an ain't you 'fraid they I'll come along an freeze you out?
 Law, no, say he. You see he had good business there maxim baby carriages an toys an such things. We'll, they came long one day an wanted to buy him out. He wouldn't aall Than after had ahinnad his