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About Pensions

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
August
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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No doubt the republicana will howl during the coming congressional catnaign about Cleveland's veto of pension ills, and deceive thereby as many of the gnorant na possible. On this account we repeat some indisputable facts which lemocrats and all intelligent old veterans should and will keep in remèmbranoe. 1. That Commissioner Black has alowed 7000 mure claims during the past year than Dudley did in the same length of time during his administraron. 2. He paid out $8,500,000 more for ensions in the! last fiscal year than Dudey or any other commissionor did in the same length of time. 3. The democratie committee of the jresent house has reported favorably on over 600 pension claims, that being 200 more than any republican house ever reported favorably. 4. The house passed 665 private pension billa, and of these the President has signed all but 90, and nearly all of these 166 were applicants that had been refused jy Dudley and former commissioners. 5. The last republioan congress passed 75 less in number of private pension ulls in both sessions than this democratie congress has in its first session. 6. General Grant vetoed a general pension bilí that at the time was considered extravagant by the Money Bags that conrolled during his administration; President Cleveland has signed all general )ensión bilis and has only vetoed a few lotoriously improper private bilis. That he made one or more mistaken in he 90 is probable, but all the veto messages that have been published except, we believe, one, were so palpably correct and just that everybody except the directly interested parties say they were ust. and republicans papers that condemn them have not published them, and Jaro not. Comradea cut this out and paste it in i mr hats so that wheu the politicians come around talking about the pension vetoes you will have a ready answer. - Ft. tf adisou Democrat. A young woman of Pottstown the other day found a cent of the date of 1881 in he volk of a hen's egg that she had jroken for oooking purposes. The date of the egg not given. ' 11' nu politionl partios ahould ■ ■ to i that first-olass men are sent to the legis lature from this county this fall. No oounty in the state is more interested in having able and intelligent representativos in the legislatura, than Washtenaw We have two graat institutions, the normal school and the university, whioh rely upon the legislatura for aid. Our representativos should be familiar with the history, the workings and the wants of these two institutions. No mere matter of party or local politics should be alloweJ to interiore with our support of the best men to advanoe and secure the highest mterests of the county. The whole people of Washtenaw ought to be proud that they have in their midst - accessible to their boys and girls - two of the greatest educational iiintitutions of their kind in the country. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press (Rep.) is eflectivcly preaching tariff reform in the Northwest. Itsays: "While proteotion is taking the bread out of the mouths of the workingmon on tho oue side, by enforcing idlenoss through a great portion of the year, and by forcing purchasers to Ko abroad for a rehable article of manufacture, it lays lts grasping hand upon them yet again in countless other directions and raises the cost of every commodity which they oonsume. Not an article in the little cottage withits royalties to the thousands of industries which stand only by making common cause against the resources of the poor. It wil] be one of the wondere of history that an intelligent people, with all political power in their hands, stood out for years in defense of a system which never increased their earnings by a penny, while it otttablished a siíent tax-gathorcr in every home in the land." As the republican state convention npproaches the fact becomes apparent that the great family is not as happy as it ought to be. Disintregation has setjin.and "killing ofT' is in progress. The embers pf old feuds are being fanned into flame. There are too many "horny handed sous of toil" in the gubnatorial ring to suit bhe minor rs, bankers, and lumbermen. There is too much of a certamty that the man who receives the party's nomination thiB fall is to be elected. There are too many state and congressioual candidates with their polls erected for political lightning. The Michigan club is too active and its friends ar3 too indisoreet. Too many five dollar bilis have been changed for political supper where only crow was ierved. The political scalping knives iiavo been ground and arein the hands of too many country editora. Too many statesmen in retirement are loading their shot guns. In fact there is too mnch of everything in the party but honor and Belfdenial. They are all by the ears and are likely to stay so until after election. - Monroe Democrat.

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Ann Arbor Democrat