Peck's Sun; Now that Decoration
Day is passed for this year. The Sun
would like to say a few words about
something that may not have occtired
to certain persons. In many places in
the stale Decoration Day has been
made the opportunity for some
persons, to give a dance It is
possible there is no law against
dancing on the 30th of May, any more
than any other day. but to get up a
bow-wow and call it a “Decoration Day
Dance” is an insult to every soldier’s
widow, or child of any soldier who
may be in his grave. The men who
get up these dances are not
soldiers, and soldiers do not at
tend them, but they are got up by
sharpers who would advertise a dance
on the anniversary of the death of
their own child, if they could make
ten dollars. Decoration Day is a day
devoted to keeping green the memory
of the dead, and you cannot do that
respectably by dancing the monoie
musk, or squeezing a biscuit-shooter
around the corset in a go-as-you-please
waltz. It is not a compliment to those
who fell in battle, to have a fiddle
strike up a cotillion, and have country
smart Aleck’s drag crushed-strawbef
rv-attired, empty-headed girls across a
ball room floor, or squeeze perspiring
hands in the grand-right-and-left. If
those who are dancing on Decoration
Day had mind enough to think of the
thousands of mourners all over the
land, and had mind enough to compre
hend that lit was a grand funeral day,
instead of a beer picnic, they would
go and soak their heads. A person
with a heart would as soon think of
going to the funeral of a dear relative
and have a carriage of mourners un
loaded at a circus or a nigger show, as
to hoe it down on the day that is set
apart for strewing flowers on the
graves of soldiers. The Sun hopes that
no Wisconsin town will ever again
have a “Decoration Day dance,” and if
any man advertises such a dance and
some soldier will kick his spine up un
der his hat we will pay the soldier’s
fine.
