| Show SOLDIERS SOLDIERS' El S' S HOMES ES NOT POOR lOll HOUSES Globe Democrat When hen the he countey is III in danger dang and amid the drumbeat Is heard calling American volunteers to lo rally to 0 Its Is defense e. e no mm voice hitS has ever been lifted to lo tell lell the stalwart manhood offering their lives to vindicate the national national national na na- authority and anti honor tl tat lint al a part of or their reward varl should the they live to tobe tobe be ue old uld an and helpless ples would be ue It I is the lie l Idea C of or citizenship citizen ship h by la tie the lie Hag fag that ha bias hns Inspired and anel thrilled cl the thc sol sol diers who maill mainly f fought all the te wars of the United States to a successful Is Issue Is- Is sue Their till full ful rights of citizenship hll are ne peculiarly precious to lo old soldiers soldiers who have shown a willingness to lo suffer suffer suf suf- fer el the thc greatest and amid to elc die that these rights on which the nation naton Is based ma mo may be preserved for fOI themselves themselves themselves them them- selves and others others No decision of or the supreme court of or Missouri has ever e given gl greater satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- faction facton to its Is patriotic inhabitants than that lint reversing reversinG the act of Circuit Judge Evans Evansho who ho is also chairman chatman of the state committee In de deciding deciding de- de c- c that the Inmates of th the state home for federal soldiers were not entitled cn- cn titled to vote vote because in Judge I Evans Evans' opinion thc they were on the lie same footIng foot- foot lug Ing as mendicants In the poorhouse Tho The decision of Judge Lamm of the tate state supreme court COUlt reversing the tho de decision decision do- do of Evans is a most timely and anti welcome state document and amid expressed cx- cx pressed In terms worthy terms worth of or an arm American American Amer Amer- ican patriot as well vell wel as ns of a jurist who cnn can see seo tho thu difference between a beggar beggar beg beg- gar gr in an almshouse and a n soi soldier hier In lii Ina liia a homo bionic gratefully provided IHo for him hint h by state or 01 nation naton The humiliation placed upon ulOn the lie American volunteer and on American citizenship b by Ju Judge e Evans E chairman of the Democratic state committee has been Judicially redressed within the states stales own boundaries boun boun- daries daries anti and this is one of the lie best things that lint ever evol happened for Missouri's I ris ri's |
