The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-08-01
JACKSON, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1873.

WnlCn virtually wipes OUT Ine uOlue InuS
provided for your children.
lst. This law provides that none but
the children of men who died while in
the service, or who have since died Of
wounds or of disease contracted while in
the line of duty of such service, shall be
admitted to said Home, while the old
law provided that the children of all de-
ceased, INDECENT and permanently disabled sol
diers and sailors should be received
2nd. That no child can be received,
while the mother is alive, under the age
of twelve years. Or, in other words, after
the mother has struggled along and sup
ported her child until it is capable of as
sisting her in providing a living for her
self, this law kindly proposes to take it
off of her hands.
Sd. If man is so unfortunate as not
to be on the pension rolls of the Govern
ment his children, no matter how poor
and destitute they may be, are excluded
from the Home by this cruel and outra-
geous law.
4tA. No child will be admitted unless
the guardian or mother agrees to pay to
the Trustees the money received as a
pension on account of the death of its
father. That is, the State of Ohio will
meanly rob the poor widow of the little
mite she so much needs to buy bread for
herself under the pretense of charity to
her child after that child is old enough
to earn its own living.
Now remember, comrades, that this
outrage was conceived by the notorious
John O'Connor, who was not only de-
serter and a bountyjumper, but an ex-
penitentiary convict, and that it was
passed by the unanimous vote of the
Democratic members of the present Leg
islature at its last session. In it you see
cropping out the same old Copperhead
spirit with which you had to contend at
every step during the war
But we will give you the old law and
the new, so that you can estimate this
outrage for yourself, and determine
whether you can trust your interests and
the interests of your children in such
UNANIMOUSLY treacherous hands. We quote
as much of the two laws as bears upon
the important points alluded to above:
THE OLD LAw-REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE.
SEC 13 That there shall be received
into said home the children residing in
Ohio of deceased, INDECENT and perma-
nently disabled soldiers and sailors who
served in the land and naval service of
the United States during the late rebel
lion, that are by said board ascertained
and education; and they shall be fur
nished a support and education at said
home until they arrive at the age of six
teen years, unless for good reasons sooner
discharged: Provided, however, that
said board may permit of such said chill
dren and youth as they deem proper to
remain as inmates of said home, and re-
ceive all the benefits thereof until they
are eighteen years of age.
SEC IA That the trustees of the Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
shall afford to all the pupils under their
charge such agricultural, horticultural,
technical, industrial and art education
as can be made accessible to them.
SEC. Is. That they shall establish, in
the grounds of the Home, shops wherein
suitable trades may be taught and prac-
ticed, and the trustees and under their
regulations the uperntendent, shall
have power to employ the proper persons
to teach such trades to the pupils under
their charge, and to dismiss such instruc
tors for cause.
THE NEW LAw-DEMocRATIC LEGISLATURE.
Sec. g. Said board Of trustees are au-
thorized to receive into said home the
INDECENT children of deceased soldiers
and sailors who lost their lives in the
or naval service OF In6 O0lCeQ
States during the late rebellion, or have
since died by reason of wounds received,
or disease contracted, while in said ser
vice, and in the line of duty as such SOL
der: Provided, however, that no child
of such deceased soldier shall be received
into the said home under the age of
twelve years during the lifetime of the
mother Of said child and provided also,
that no child shall be received into said !
home except the child of a deceased sol
dier, on account of whose death the |
United States has paid or is paying a
pension.
Sec. f. That after the passage of this
act the said board of trustees shall admit |
and continue in said home no child or
children unless the mother or guardian
Of such child or children shall pay over
TO said board of trustees, for the purpose
Of clothing said child or children, the
money paid by the United States as pen
sion on account of the death of said SOL
lier.