Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-09

1tude, and the road is so we'll trodden
to their long home and there and only
there, they escape the anti Sympat hetic
presence of the army doctor. AS rule.
there may be some honorable excep-
tlons, the army doctor stands alone and
his sympathy for his helpless and dy-
ing patient is not very unlike that of
hawk for wounded dove"
Again in the columns OF the same
paper on Jan. 90 evidently written
by the same author as the other article,
is the following: IF the bill should be-
come law these battle SCARED men
Will leave these so -called homes like
rats from sinking ship. leaving the
principal beneiciaries who live in
modest cottages and prey on the public
treasurer to the tune OF about $4,000
year to become out Of the elbow
peers as soon as their salaries cease.
They will die hard, for few of them
could dress in purple in the absence
of the public crib
This article from which it was taken,
was evidently meant as a reply to a
former article, made by a member of
this home, and published in the same
paper. The writer states that Com
rade Q. E. Stout tiutters like a wounded
bird" From certain unmistakable
earmarks, the real author is the chival-
rous and beloved colonel 1T seems
strange that a man like Comrade Stout,
with good character and general good
impulses. should thus become the tool
ard amanuensis OF a crafty, sinister
and mercenary CRATER thereby mean
ing the commandant of this home.
In speaking further of this article,
and attributing the letters of Comrade
Stout to another. says: 1T was the
voice of Jacob. but the hand of Esau."
Further on in that article the writer
of the articles states or calls the COM
a CRATER, and adds in ex-
PLANTATION thereof lit has a meaning
that I hold myself ready to explain at
the proper time
Be II resolved by the veterans of the
Iowa Soldiers Home, in meeting as
sembled, that in either of the two ar
tic}es read, we una nimously declare
that by years being a member of this
home, that the Iowa Soldiers Home
IS second only TO the real home in the
state OF Iowa. That We denounce the
expression An Ill digeSted manifesto
ton Of public gratitude" We acknowl-
edge with great gratitude to the public
o. the state of Iowa which has built
this magnificent home and has so well
furnished it for the old veterans and
their wives in their declining years.
We resent the casting of slurs on the
public generosity of the great state of
Iowa. We deny that the life at the
soldiers home IS debasing or produces
disgust or dissipation We assert that
here is less dissipation in this home
han in the same number of inhabi-
ants in any state in the union.
Be it further resolved that We have
he utmost confidence in the character
md conduct of our commandant,
Charles c. Horton. and denounce the
attack upon him as untrue and I'M
Be ii further resolved that
he reference 20 the anti sympathetic
army doctor who presides over the
hospital and attends to our sick, is
of a comrade. especially one.
IS he claims TO De, who is acquainted
With the condition of the hospital.
Be il further resolved that we desire
he people of the state OF Iowa to un-
ierstand distinctly that we, as mem
)ers of this home, are rateful to them
or the great care and the great honor
that they have conferred on the veter-
ans of the civil war. without regard
to where they enlisted. And we de-
nounce that the slurs and ISLANDERS in
hat article are unworthy of a comrade
or member OF that great army which
5 entitled 10 the name.
Be it resolved that a copy Of these
resolutions be sent TO the Times-Re
Webster City Herald, the
register and Leader, and the Des
Ioines Capital, for publication.
T. j. PARROT, D. E. BUCK,
Secretary. Chairman.