The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-31

lively we do not exhibit a true ma
tIonai expression. an accurate asgre.
gate In movement.
Not In the least degree is the de-
served pension resented. II is a pleas.
ure to know IL is paid Nor In this
use OF our proportion of the national
taxes paid into the reasury, deplored
But an integral part OF the Union OF
States has an intrinsic right to share
equally with the other part of the
Union in the expenditure and dement's
OF any appropriation, and the South is
an integral part. This thought is in
tensifed when II is realized that among
these pensioners are n large number
OF men who do not need IL, and un-
reasonable number OF men who do not
deserve IT, and any number of such is
unreasonable, like number OF women.
who were not even born when the Civil
War shook and shivered us. and that
a considerable amount OF this appro-
priation Is sent to foreign lands, es-
pecially TO Germans. who fought in the
/ Federal army only for the soldiers
wage or the price of substitution. who
had no knowledge. much less love. of
an American institution, and who
obeyed an order only after IL had been
translated into his own idiom of
speech. II costs no strain of the imag-
ination TO think 1t not impossible since
there are many pensioners now in Ger
many. that some of their sons may
have had part in that subma rine vio-
lation of the Law of Nations and of
the laws of humanity, which destroyed
the Lusitania. and murdered American
women and children. Surely when upon
such background this question pre-.
sents itself, the South. once required
to agree to unwise amendments to the
constitution of the United States to
be reconciled to what IL did not wish
and to sacrifice its own ideas In the
demonstration of patriotism of high
degree, doing these things once be,
cause compelled, but now OF It's own
will and desire. may reasonably ex-
press a consciousness of disappoint-
rnent IL not of dissatisfaction. The
demonstration of her identity with ma
tional issues. and her readiness for
national defense or In any national
movement has been had. II will he
a happy day for this republic when
the National Congress recognizes the
amity between the Northern and South
ern Camps. and the generous frater-
nalism. and notes in the exchange OF
/ the hospitality of now unbreakahle
friendship, the unity Of peace and the
undifferentiated patriotism This is a
nation Of, II YOU please. united PEG,
pies and not segregation of men
I receiving and men paying tribute, half
a century after an incident in her his
tory, which furnished the opportunit,
the conQueror and the conquered.
As to Pension Laws.
| But we have rarely. II ever and l
recall no instance--had in the National
Legislature representative. who
standing for the good had the cour-
age to openly represent us in denun
citation Of the defects of the pension
laws, and the maladministration and
frequently culpable distribution of such
funds under them appropriated. After
all the honoring of a gallant dead
should be the function of an unres-
trainable affection. with without place
or opportunity of place in politics.
politics too often saturated with
selfshness and partisanry and depress-
ing.
To all these unhappy. compulsory
illusions. unfortunately thrust into
view by unacceptable contradictions
PARSONS are odorous"-you ladies of
the Southern Memor.ll Societies have
no defence TO make. Thank God you
are not within the scope of their ac-
cusation.
Where the traveller goes through the
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VIII find your memorials 10 the dearly t
loved Lost Cause" its heroes of the |
rank and Ale, of the ragged, grey uni !
form spattered and blotched with the !
crimson of dear life, costly and cost !
less And ne shall know that in tbs I
heart of Southern women these things /
were projected and designed. and out |
of the sacrifice of love, which they ex- |
emplifed and melted, they came. |
The heart of the Southern woman is
tthe heart Of the Southern woman. One !
knew Il when she tore the curtain and
the skirt and made the little glorif1ed !
euidon when she took the wounded
soldier into her house and nursed him |
back to life, and with Godspeed badc |
him his return 70 the blood red battle
line again One knows II now. when |
he sees her tears, and feels her muir |
muir, like the sound OF many waters,
IN these places OF her emembrances. |
Saomis of the bitter-sweet, pround. en-
nobled and emotion defined in their