Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1916 — Chicago Chapter Resents Insults To Ancestors Under Washington. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Chapter Resents Insults To Ancestors Under Washington.

“Resolved, that the Chicago chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, express its amazement, and condemnation, and deep indignation that Secretary of War Baker should in a public address have stated that soldiers ait Valley Forge* were ‘just as bad characters’ as the Mexican revolutionists,” reads a resolution adopted by the chapter at a meeting in the Fine Arts build j ing recently. “The enormity of this insult to the devoted men who won independence for this republic is beyond discussion, when we remember that the secretary of state has in an official state paper admitted ‘outrage after outrage, atrocity after atrocity’ by these ‘Mexican bandits,’ and that ‘not only were these murders characterizedby ruthless brutality, but uncivilized acts of mutilation were perpetrated.’ . * “We also denounce the impropriety and lack of patriotism of such a comparison as the more indefensible because made by a secretary of war who is a salaried servant of the government w’hich Washington and his patriotic army alone made possible.”