Grand Army Reveille from Topeka, Kansas • 7

THE LATEST G. A. R. SONG, ENTITLED PATRICK H. CONEY Of Grand Army Fame" It is jast uahat yoa rnant.

Governor Hoch Waking Up. The Reveille is pleased to announce that Governor Hoch has concluded to enforce the prohibitory law. He has caused Attorney General to bring ouster proceedings against county attorney Gibson and mayor Rose, of Kansas City, for violation of their oaths of office in conniving with the criminal class to violate law. This work should have been begun long ago, not only in Kansas City, but in every city in Kansas where officials have proven to be perjurers and partners of criminals and the thug element of the state. Now that the work has gun it should be carried forward with all possible vigor.

There should be no monkey business about it. If it develops into a farce then the officials who permit it should be made to feel the heavy hand of outraged justice. The official who connives with criminals for the violation of law is the meanest kind of a criminal, lowest and the most dangerous, it matters not the office he holds. In fact, he is the very foundation of crime. There is no use of talking about the greatness and goodness of the people of our state so long as pimps, thugs and prostitutes shape our legislation, control public officials, or successfully defy law, debauch our courts of justice.

And the fact that this has been, and is being, done speaks volumes for influence of our moral and religious institutions. Governor Hoch, stand pat. The G. A. R.

will stand by you in all matters pertaining to the enforcement of law. AFRAID OF DEMOCRACY. When the insurance investigating committee examined George W. Perkins, of J. P.

Morgan regarding a contribution made by the New York Life Company to the Republican campaign fund he said: This payment was made after very unusual deliberations. It must not be considered an ordinary contribution to the campaign fund. It was paid because we felt that the assets of the New York Life Insurance Company would be jeopardized by a Democratic success. Think of a great business like the New York Life Insurance Company being afraid of the Democratis party. This was not the fear of a lot of half-informed sentimentalists who jump at conclusions without reason, but the conclusion of a lot of hard-headed, close-fisted business men who knew every man concerned with the conduct of both parties, understood the conditions as well as the politicians themselves, and were in position to judge what would be the fate of the country if Tom Taggart, Sheehan and their crowd got into power.

It was worth a big figure to these men to have the Democratic party kept out of power and where it could not tamper with the business conditions of the country and precipitate a panic. And it was worth a proportional amount to every other citizen in this country who depends for a living upon the maintenance of normal business conditions. Topeka Herald. The above is a mighty lame defense of collossal thievery by a corrupt and swindling corporation. Think of the officers of a great corporation like.

tte Iy.ygrk..Life. Insurance Company' putting their hands deep down into a trust fund a fund contributed by the policy holders of the company and belonging to them and intended for their beneficiaries when they themselves shall have passed to the Silent Beyond and taking out by stealth $140,000 and giving it to swell the slush fund of an political party campaign. It was theft pure and simple. It was done for individual gain and not for the benefit of the policy holders of the company. It was bribe, nothing less, and intended to buy political favors.

Perkins excuse for this illegal action of the officers of the New York Life is a trumped up affair and is intended to put behind him and his criminal associates the political demagogues and hangers-on of the party in power in the expectation of lessening the magnitude, of the offense in the public estimation. It is a species of fraud and corruption for which the G. A. R. does not -stand.

The tendency of such misconduct, if left unpunished, has a most powerful tendency to weaken the spirit of loyalty, destroy patriotism, foster anarchy and breed discord. Men who, under the cover of secrecy, and by stealth, will betray the trust reposed in them, and appropriate to their own use, and for their own purposes, funds with which they are entrusted, will also, when caught, lie about the reasons which impelled them to commit the offense. These men were getting enormous salaries; Why did not they use their own money to back up their political convictions? It Was easier to put their hands in the other fellows pockets their unsuspectihg victims and their money wbuld buy them as many political favors as would their own. It is a fitting Tribute in song to the man who has devoted his life to bettering condition of Comrades who stood with him in the Defense of Liberty and the Preservation of the Union from 1861 to 1865, and who has been honored by his Kansas Comrades by being made Department Commander of the Kansas G. A.

R. Comrades, say we cant do any thing, cant get this, that or the other legislation, either state or national, and especially state. We can if we will. If we enroll ourselves in the A. then go to work with a purpose and with harmony in our ranks we can make the legislature and control its action.

No one has a right to say "we cant except the lazy man, the coward and the traitor. Away with bickerings and jealousies; Get into line, quit living wholly in the past, glorious as it is, and face the rising sun. Grapple with present duties; be the active citizens of a lorious country and strive to make it more glorious, then we shall win. Yes, comrades, we can do something if we once get upon the firing line and go to work. This Song has been sung at Reunions and at the great National Encampment at Denver and everywhere it was hailed with delight, GET I T.

SING it. It will be a Souvenir of the most prosperous year in the history of the G. A. R. It is the policy of Congress to delay in all matters pertaining to the war veterans of 1861; It is far easier to make and control a state legislature than it is to make and control Let us waste no time nor slumber upon political promises.

A delay of a few years and we shall all have passed over. The politician is playing at the game wait The more money in circulation among the soldiers, by means of pensions and other well-earned privileges, the more independent he is, the more prosperous the people and the less barbarous the power that fixes the debt and interest rate and determines the conditioh of the toiling class, which includes ninety-five per cent of the old soldiers. Stand for yourselves and get some-, thing. tis.it Sit down in silence and depnd upon, the other fellow and get nothing. Priee, 3ii)9le G0Py 35ets, IN CLUBS OF SIX OR MORE, 15 CENTS EACH.

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