Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-05-20
HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA.

Paragraphs From the Soldiers
Home by a Home Member.
OF the two hundred soldiers at thu
State Home, less than twenty hearc
Elrod speak. A similar per cent will
probably vote for him at the June
primaries.
The man who insists that the great
state of South Dakota can be run fol
the same price it was run seven tt
ten years ago is not only a pin hole
statesman and not big enough to fl
the Governors chair at this date.
The Hot Springs correspondent o.
the Argus-eyed Leader makes ElroC
say that Col. Goddard while com
mandant of the Soldiers Home sough,
him on Bonded knees for two Ions
hours at Pierre for the purpose Of
inducing the said Elrod to allow him
to discharge soldiers for disorderly
conduct, drunkenness, etc. Six tC
one Col. Goddard never did any such
a thing. He is not built that way
Elrod may be a needless eye states
man but we do not believe that. he
would arrogate to himself all the
functions of his self appointed Home
Board for the sake Of giving the
brave Colonel a close lecture of two
hours length. The Hot Springs
letter and affidavit writer's have lied
so often that the people take them
as a joke.
1t may not be generally known, but
it is true all the same, that the same
bunch of kickers today were the
kickers under Goddard and under
Dudley. They have the kicking
habit down so pat that they can
kich themselves out Of the Home in
less time than is required to corkscrew
down through our fire escape but it
takes a trife longer for them to
corkscrew themselves up and in again.
They like it, though, and only seem
to be happy when kicking is good.
What would it profit the great
State of South Dakota to build and
equip a fine Soldiers Home and fill it
with orderly occupants, male and
female, and then have half a dozen
boozers come along and join the
Home, get full and raise hell with
the orderly members. A comman-
dant who would 60 to Pierre to ask
permission to turn such dubs out,
ought to be cashiered from the SER
vice and have his hair cut.
You may not think so. but 1 think
that a Soldier has more cause to be
decent and orderly than any other
class of men. He has been trained in
army discipline and must know that
others have rights and that their
comfort and happiness depend or the
good behavior of all. Then, a man, a
soldier, a member of the State Home,
having a splendid living free and
without price and a good pension
besides, who can not and will not
respect his fellow soldiers and their
wives by being decent and obeying
the few wholesome rules of the Home,
ought to be mustered out and made
to go where rules and regulations are
enforced and where sickly, sentiment
tai drivel cease to nauseate.
1t is not the sick and weak that
give the home trouble, but the robust
cunning, red faced, smart set, and
their unemployed counterparts out
side that do the offending. These are
the unfortunates that write letters
to the governor and atlidavits for the
newspaper.
The Soldiers Home is a home in
deed and in truth for all soldiers and
their wives, but it can not be made a
rendezvous or an asylum for men who
would there assemble to practice and
crafty their animal propensities.
Law breakers and home disturbers
we're better somewhere else.
Again the AfGus-eyed Leader eased
itself by publishing another dose from
Hot Springs. This time the sc. A.
r. committee something that does
not exist, Is made the pack boss for
the lying correspondent. Too bad
that the Hot Springs correspondents
name is no longer effective and that