The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1870-02-11
TAX ON SOLDIER ORGAN.
GRINDERS.
Radical Gratitude for the Boys In
Blue.
(From the Detroit Free Press.l


| a day or two since, memorial was
,'rcccived and read IN the Senate from the
Grand Army Of the Republic, asking Con
Igress il something could be done toward
l"removing the Onerous tax which those
crippled soldiers have to pay for privi-
llegc of grinding hand organs" Perhaps
not, Being the first and only one rcceiv-
ed on the subject, perhaps Congress will
not feel it incumbent to take any steps
toward removing the tax, until the feel
ijcct can he ascertained. But if the faco
of n Congressman can display the shame
,,of the heart, the degradation Of the soul,
such a petition before his brother Sena-
tors, would have been study. A peti-
Iticn 10 reduce the tax paid by maimcd
soldiers of the republic for the privilege
of grinding hand-organs for living =
The Senator who read the petition was
one Of those who helped to enact the law
that every onc-armed or one-legged SOL
der OF the Union who turned the crank
of . hand-organ OH the streets Of the
country he had helped to save should
pay ten dollars year to the great and
magianiinous government Of tho United
Estates!
"Braye Boys in Blue!"
| "Our hero patriots"
| sour noble rank and filc!"
| Think of this, yc soldiers you who
charged up to masked batteries at Ma
nassas -who shouted victory at Fair
Oaks who held the raging columns in
gray in check at Savage Station. Peach
lOrchard, Malvern Hill! Ten dollars
years for the privilege of begging for
pennies!
NO compromise with rebels"
| michigan, my Michigan!"
i "Forty rounds of caitridge!" rN
| Think Of this, you who rendered by
doah, the turbid RappahanuOck. who
witnessed the scene under apple-tree at
! lAppomattox! A petition to remove q
ldier may beg with more p-ofit!' "No
mise with the cx-soldicrs who grind
lhand-organs lien dollars year, or leavs
the organ for the poor house, and the
|poor-liouse fora pai,per's grave! .Mich-
Iigun my Michigan noble State strong
,Ily radical. true blue and she has twenty
tlretilrncd soldiers grinding hand organs,
ASu tuC tNVuts NiC Nv WV
hundred dollars license money going
from this State to the Government!
i ''lially once again,
i Shouting the battle cry Of freedom"
;. Freedom TO grind hand organs at ten
dollars year.
H And there is Grand Army Of tho
Republic. numbering thousands, with
lljudgcs. congressman, and presidents for
life onl Ste f,,.iV.citNlnc n
stated i'm Detroit ednesday night. are
1.-The care Of MANNED soldiers and their
families. One Of its leaders made that
statement right here. where four.or fivA
lcriplcu soldiers grind hand-organs every
fair day. " here one had to sell his hand
lorgan and take to begging from house TO
house! Grand army grand and noble
patriots, banded together 10 care tor
lmaimcd soldiers--noblc organization that
has the daring to appeal to Senator Pom
eroy to have the tax reduced! Who says
that this is not caring for distressed sol.
rdiers. that great point will not be gained
liif they can grind their organs without
,igovernmcnt charge! nN
And this IS radicalism--thesc the PROM
r,iscs Of rldicalism this the result OF all
the cxultant bombast indulgcd in ut
'lSulCd&Os ut cNttv lVSbutthS uVVsANSs
every town and hamlet in the North. =
Tho cmolumcnts promised tho brave
soldiers are a petition from a soldier Or
I Iganization. asking u leading radical Sen
ator, in modest way, ii he will not sec
if the tax now paid by soldier boys for
street begging cannot be reduced or re-
moved! And il is these MANNED soldiers
that were told. only few years ago, that
the "coppcrheads" were their bitterest
Iencmics. were rebels in disguise. that it
was a glorious thing TO mob copper
head" printing offices, to shoot Demo-
Icratic writers and Democrats, that the
radical party would reward them with
Office and pay as soon as the Government
was saved. And it has come to this, that
the men who were loudcst in their praise
must be peiitioncd TO allow those SOL
oilers better profit OH their penny
begging!
fTA lady meeting a Young woman
who had formerly been in her service.
asked. where do you live now. MaryI
ma am. I don't live now; I'm married.
was the reply.
| MIR. Jones" said Mrs. Jones. with
an air Of triumph. don't yon think mar