Show confederate the confederate monument at Chi cagos cemetery will be dedicated on memorial day notwithstanding the furor the matter hag created in grand army circles farther east n massachusetts the union veterans have declared the monument will bo a desecration of their holy day if dedicated on memorial day it will be a great event however even though antagonized huoh a monument erected and dedicated on northern soil and adorned with carloads carlo add of flowers sent from aenny southern homes will do much toward teaching the nation that the war is mt only ended but the bitterness forgotten it is a little more than thirty years ago since the great civil war ended aud there can be no good reason why social asperities asperi ties should continue bath sections are loyal to the government and m case of foreign war the sons of both sides would freely and voluntarily step to the front in defense of the stars and stripes then why should the fraternal feeling not be fostered between the north and south T A boston tells ua it is hard to distinguish between the rebel and rebellion the government cannot make any distinction but the of our country can it would bo one of place for tho government to erect a confederate monument and grover cleveland found it much out of place to mention returning the rebel flags to the south that would be the government saying there was no treason what chicago is doing is being done by her citizens and is purely fraternal the soldiers of both the union and confederate forces bad certain fra incidents even on the field of battle tace pickets often biag songs together and traded jack knives there was continual barter between the soldiers and they recognized not only honesty but bravery on each other but back of all this of course was tho great principle which one aide thought right and the other side called treason it is the treason part we are trying to forget and the valiant features that will be commemorated mem orated by the confederate monument at chicago |