A Michigan Soldiers' Home

Adrián Times. The movement looking to building a 'soldiers' home" in this state is one that every loyal-hearted man and woman will heartily approve. Tho spectaclo oí a man who íought íor the preservation ot the governnient spending bis last days in a poor hou.so with paupers is a disgraco to the good people oí Michigan. It has occurred in the state - can be seen to-day. Many oí those who íought in tho Union urmy have been unablo to acquire a competenot, their business adventures have turned out disastrously, and age, with all its ills and burdens, mado heayier no doubt by the exposures and privations oí a soldiers' life, has come upon them, and they can no longer earn the food and clothing necessary to keep them alive and covered. Through no fault of theirs these oíd héroes havo come to this soro strail . The question is what shall be done íor them? As matters are, the best, indeed the pnly thing possiblo, is to puf them in the poor houses. The soldiers' homes sustainod by the government are so iull that it is simply impossible to find lodgment and care for tho wornout veterans there. Jtj doesn't seem right, it isn't rigbt to treat theao old héroes simply as common paupers are treated. They havo a claim to the consideration that the pauper has not; they have been called to discharge the highest duty that can be exacted'of tho citizen; they tendored themselves, their lives, all that men hold most dearin this )iie. that the nation might bo preserved against tho assaults of those who essayed to destroy it by violenco. Shall it be said that these men are not entitled to special consideration 'i Much ia said of the grandeur and nobility of patriotism, and special praiso is claimed to be due to those who show thomsolves patrio ts when thoir country calis for men to stand between it and its enemies. We try to impress our children with the belief that the very highest duty of the American citijjon, after that he owes to bis God, ís iliö duty ho owes to his country, and that the man who is true to that duty, when that moans sacrifico ol homo and friends, exposure to danger and deatb, is a man worthy of honor at the hands of his countrymen. What idea of the valuo of patriotic dischargo of duty is an intelligent boy likely to recoivo from the spoctacle of a survivor of tho grand armies that savod tho nation, cast into tho poorhouse, the recipiënt of public chanty? Justico demands that the aid given to old soldiers should not be doled out a3 a charity, but given as somethinsr duo, inpayment for service that can't be estimated in dollars and conts. The stato of Michigan is abundantly able to tako proper care of the old volerans in hor bounds, such caro that the youug man contemplating their condi tionmay say, '"I thank God I belong to a state that doe3 iu duty by the héroes to whose valor tho nation osvesitsexistence."