Show UNITED VETERANS S NS OP OF TILL TIlE CIVIL CI WAIL WAK I I. il Down In Missouri lis tho the veterans of oC the Union and confederate armies havo hayo organized a united compan company cornI com corn I- I pang pan Including veterans of or both the Uie Union anI and the thc f confederate armies s an and they are arc trying to prove pro I that the they can be bo patriots In 1907 no matter on ont t the fought in line which m side of the thc they j. j at There o Is something rather Impressive In that i spectacle of men of years eals forgetting the asperities i of ot the war time and getting tos together ther with the com com- common r mon impulse of or love lo for a n common country countr As a rr matter of fact tact tho the um union could well havo have been formed man many years ago If it had not been for the l I politicians who mado made capital b by keeping the time acel sections sec ace r l angry angry- at each other the men who fought in f opposing armies might have ha been brothers from the day a of Lees Lee's surrender it i At the time of 01 that surrender er there was no strife between the two opposing generals Both Doth Grant I an and Lee have o left the tho record of their high regard E t for the tho other The Tune men in The fhe ranks shared the thc sentiment of their commanders They built fires tor together to- to r gather gether ether and together sat around and chatted with i 0 all the fraternity of courage They knew each other 1 and Ind each knew Jenow the other for a bravo brave man man for for a ak k unit In a brave bra and effective o army The They were brothers brothers then It Is to be regretted that they have ha havee felt fm impelled q b by the tho influence c e ot o of f fellows el ws w who o never ne never got sot in danger to keep the hatred alive e through half hair halfa t I I a a. century No No 0 matter mattei what may have ha been the case at one Un lime hue the South IS a part of our common countr country The people of that region arc are as loyal oral to the flag fias and amI to io the thc n nation as are tho the people of tho the North orth Even If the they do tIo cherish the memories of their former former fornier for for- I mer nier leaders they do not seek to dismember the Union They are far tar too good Americans J for tor that rv It Its is because both were Americans that tho war was was as so blood bloody and aud so stubborn No o other race or ort I t t t n. n on earth carth could have ha stood against either I u army They were vero Americans then and anI they the arc are Americans now And AnI every ery patriot patriot- no matter I where re ho ma may live i will ill rejoice that in the sunset Vi 1 of life of-life Ute life these old oIl soldiers of ot two armies arc are standing 4 side by side in the same ranks I |