The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-21

their courageous spirit Of service and
sacrifice. The artists have given them
a place upon the heroics Of canvas
but the men of the south are yet to
give expression to their loving graft
tude.
Men of the SOS, comrades of the
first bride-veterans in or outside OF
our camp, no words of mine are needed
to tell you of those angels of mercy,
who ministered to us all through the
dark hours of our bloody service. They
were ever present from the hour that
mother, sister or wife kissed us good
bye, as we marched to the front, until
the scattered, SCARED, starved, rem
nant turned their faces homeward at
the close of the war, nor did their Ia
bors of love cease with our deefat.
They established Memorial Day, and
all over this southland they brought to
the last resting places of their heroic
dead garlands of floral treasures of our
south to spread an expression OF their
love and memory. They denied them
selves to contribute money to erect
monuments to our memory, and today
a thousand southern hills bear tribute
of their love, in marble and bronze, to
the men who wore the gray. Like the
numbers who marched away to war,
the ranks of these noble women are
thinned to a bare remnant of sur
vivorS. But their lives are reproduced
in our daughters. ] need not. remind
you that we have place in their love.
They are always ready at our places OF
reunion to greet us with their pres
ence and entertain us from their store.
/ shall be disappointed IL there is a
veteran who neglects this opportunity
to make free will offering to this call.
II every Confederate veteran who
draws a pension would pledge and pay
fifty cents out of each quarterly check
he would have $24.50 left him, and in
one years time we would have raised
Those veterans who are not on the
pension roll are not disqualified be-
cause they are better of in this worlds
goods than their less fortunate COM
rades. Therefore we naturally expect
them to do at least as much as the
men who draw the pension.
Have plan? Yes, and this is It.
If you are a pensioner, when this
reaches you Just drop me a card
pledging so cents out of each quarterly
check to be paid for the period of one
year. If you are not on the pension
roll please signify to me your willing
ness to pay just such sum, at such
time as you will pay 1t, within the next
year. Let us remember that this is a
| privilege we cannot extend to our dead
comrades, and that we musI exercise IL
| promptly, or we too shall cross over
the river" and leave a great labor Of
love undone.
Now, just a word to the sons OF vet
| Grams: Originally, the sons assumed
| this work of memorial. They have
failed, but no reelection rests upon you.
If the father, IN his old age, is under
taking to honor the memory Of your
mother, surely you win want a part in
this work. Do you? Then signify TO
me how much stock you wish in this
work. Give me your pledge If this in
terests you, and arrange TO pay your
offering.
To the friends Of the cause, who
may be neither veterans or sons, we
shall gladly have your manifestation of
interest in our labors by a free will
Offering to be paid to the trustee of
yuor district. +s
B. w. PARTRIDGE, g
Trustee Woman's Monument Fund