AN OLD SOLDIERS APPEAL.
Old Soldier's Home, Leavenworth, Kan., February 14, 1901.—Mrs.
Carrie Nation:—As I have read of your grand success in Topeka, and
elsewhere I wish to congratulate. For God's sake come to the Soldier's
Home and save the Old Veterans. Bring your hatchet along and clear out
the Canteen in the Home. Congress recently passed a law for all Canteens
to be closed on United States reservations, the officials of the Home
claim the law does not apply to the Old Soldiers' Home. Last year the
officials of the Home were very anxious to have the saloons closed in
the Klondike near the Home, for the protection of the Veterans; as it
did not bring the revenue into the Home, we are to be paid in one week.
Come at once and close the joint in the Home. Over 70 half-barrels of
beer are sold in on day at the Home after Pension day.
Respectfully,
OLD SOLDIER.
