Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-01
SOUIBRON% STILL
LOYAL 70 CAUSE
CONFEDERATE vETERANs' COM.
MANpER CONTINUES TO UP.
HOLD REBELLION.
ADDRESS At GETTYSBURG
PLEA FOR LOST CAUSE
Declares That confsdsrates Attend
Reunion DistinetiveIy 40 sueh-Dis.
eussss Question Of Pensions For All
Soldiers Of South ana Thinks Finan
ciai Recognition is Due.

Gettysburg. July 1.--Gen. Bennett H
Young. commander In chief Of the
United Confederate Veterans. in an ad
dress today at the Gettysburg reunion
discussed the question OF government
pensions for the soldiers still alive who
fought under the stars and bars.
1t may be-" he said, that the sug-
gestion lately put into form to give
confederate soldiers the same privi-
leges In national soldiers homes as
federal soldiers may lead to establish
Ing this right: or that peace in it's de-
mand for the obliteration OF all the
bitterness Of the past may demand
that the nation shall pension surviving
contederates.
u do not even suggest nor in the
name OF my people say that 1t would
be suggested, but th;s republic is q
great destroyer of the cherished
ideals OF the past wnen they stand III
tae way OF complete Justice. For near
~ lity years tine peop.e y: 'he south
~..hout complaint have contributed
millions for the pensions of federal
soldiers. A nations gratitude has been
mered out thru enormous grants to
provide for federal soldiers, their wives
ana children.
Confsderates Uncompiaining.
No murmur has ever come from the
men Of the confederate army at this
vast outlay and there are some who
predict that the hour may arrive in ma.
tional life when the few and inflrn re-
naming men who fought under the
confederate standard with admittedly
unsurpassed courage should have In
the evening time the comforts and the
conveniences that their intrepidity de-
serves.
William Mckinley reached thu
suhlimest heights OF statesmanshiI
when he,allowed q little daughter Of the
south to pin confederate badge on his
breast, and when gifted as few mer
with the power Of forecasting future
events. he urged that the graves OF
confederate dead who died in northern
prisons should have a stone at national
expense to tell their names. whence
they came and where they died.
csIsbration Significant.
1.-THE splendor Of this occasion Is I'M
measurably enhanced by the fact that
no explanations are sought or expected.
Tho men who come from the south
come as confederates; true. In a
broader sense they are Americans. but
for this occasion they are distinctive
confederates.
1.-THE scenes at Gettysburg today are
the complete evidence Of the greatness
as well a. Of the perpetuity Of the
American republic. No man who loves
his country can fail to read in the cir
cumstances surrounding this celebra-
ton the stimulating and uplifting pow
er Of a peoples government.
Still Loyal 20 Cause.
1T is the breadth Of thought. action
and speech at this celebration that
makes 1t so supremely great. II any
southern man who comes here clad in
tho gray uniform so dear to him and
those OF his blood. believed he would
be expected even in thought to question
the memories connected with the heroic
past he would go out from these tents
and quickly march away. When the
confederate comes here he comes with
his heart still loyal to the south and
those who made the four years OF the
confederate nations life resplendent
with heroism and glory ani noble sacri-