The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

not owe TO the devotion of our glo-
raoas women. Though Our ro4,ie
women themselves bore the heaviest
Of the War and in their way
displayed a courage and a self-sacri-
nee surprising that Ct the men. but
Few monuments have been erected TO
them In Raleigh on 10 June there
Will be unveiled a noble to |
the Women Of the Cenfederacy. the |
glft Of a gala nj soldier who has hut
recently passed TO his reward-Col. |
Ashley Horne. While we owe this
TO the patriotism of your
m It is bat just to record that
the medallion upon ii rs b gift of
the son Of the gallant General Pen
der and that General ad il-
1ant general Capt. S. A. Ashe himself
a most gallant and nleritorious eff
Ger, contributed a handsome sum to
this memorial to his loved ci1ieffain.
Inc monuments which the fair
hands of our women have caused to
De raised Le the ENC OF the Cen
Ieoerafe soldiers are not the only ones.
Inc enemy IN a sad sincerity. have
erecIed a far more costly one. The
pension roli OF sect. 900 600 which
We have been paying annually is a
proof OF enormous hosts that were
sent against US and of the damage
thai you inflicted upon them.
Pitiful Confederate stipend.
But N connection with this. there
rs something that should be said and
said plainly, and it can be said b. no
one more appropriately than by a
Confederate soldier. Our State IS
paying 4 GOO a year IN aid of those
who are most disable among the men
who fought for this State, But at the
same time the taxpayers Of North
have been paying SIS, 000 090
per year as our share of the enor-
l m III non - ~ 40 . ID - - I-.l
era1 soldiers, twelve times as much to
those who fought against US as to
those who fought for us. That is the
Fedora soldiers, get $50 per month
Hp to several ndr dollars per
month, while the very highest that
We pay our own men is $50 per year,
and that only to the most disabled.
is it not time that We had men in Con
gress, and other high positions, that
will exert themselves t. stop this evil
1t can be dene. The SIS, D08 600 pei
year taken from our people i'll this
State which goes North. and does no1
come back, of itself impoverishes us
The animosities of the war are long
since dead. New York, Pennsylvania
and indeed all other Northern State.
paid all expenses OF the veterans who
went ito the semi-centennial at Gettys
: burg last July and they included Con
federate veterans living in those State
as well as Federal veterans. But W.
are SO busy down here paying IS, geo,
: o from North Carolina to the Fed
ersI veterans that your last LeSiSla
: ture had no money to Send oar Cen
, federate veterans to Gettysburg. TIL
q only Confederate veterans whose eN
penses to Gettysburg were paid IA
those who liVed in the NaIther
: States. | saw Confederates Aft4er
from the far off Pacific States VIII
i told me that they rs we'll as the Fed
eral veterans from those States re
t ceiyed $40 per day for their expense
d besides their railroad fare.
n ] have heard talk Of our veteran
. not wanting Yankee money Rt
n what we tio want and what the bus
q ness interests of this State want
. that the 5000, Geo which North Care
II lima annually pays fer Federal per
sionS shall be kept IN this State, b
q being sent back here to be disburse
by our State Treasurer Tor our ow
soldiers. Is it not time hat those VIII
represent you III Congress and in yol
d Legislature should not be Statistic
n with accepting horrors and efaol;
I meotS at your llaness, but shall re
,e that it is encnnlbeIt upon them,
return, 20 show themselves alive
II your interest. by rightins such evi
as this. They can &c il. II they wi
to But shall not weary you by Il lor
speech. l cannot adequately rsla
your services to your State and con.
tv. but may ] not suggest that befO1
it is TOO late some son or daughter
- your county shoEl write story
the soldiers from Pendcr in the gre
10 war where they went n what tn
re did. Such writer's could take the of
.cial report and from the lips of the
" veterans lake down the living detail
ir which will clothes the dry naTrati-
le with life, and color n conplexio
at AMI breathe into il the breath OF Iii
isl Wren the work is done. it will refie
r eternal honor on the county and II
people that could furnish such 81
ldicrs and on the loving hands III
ar shall thus record 'feat Deeas No"
ut Dene.