The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-30

| tnOuSanu OF tnem, OF all ranks, Win
their wives and belongings, for long
days sail, and treated them right roy
ally. This is the fourth annual ex-
cursion Of the kind given by Mr..
Starin, who evidently doesn't share in
the too prevalent notion that the vet
erans are "swindlers" because they
accept pensions for their wounds.
Where does the "swindle" come in?
Every nation gives pensions to wound
ed soldiers. If we were as accus-
toned to war as England, for instance
we should have had no trouble. Ev-
cry wounded man there, disabled or
not, gets "blood money" for each
wound, and is mighty proud of it.
Lots of the officers get twice as much
in this way as their pay comes to.
Of course, if people let their debts
run on for eighteen years or more,
the sum total is apt to be startling,
but is that a reason for cheating?
There's howl about the burden to
posterity. Has any one yet struck
on the idea that we are $4,000, 900
strong according to the last census,
and immigrants are pouring in liter
ally by the million? WHY should
they not help to pay pensions to
those whose blood saved this country
for them to come to-
BY the way, it might be well to in
sist on all new occupiers of the pub
lie lands planting tree for each one
cut down. We shall be in bad box
some day, if something of the kind
isn't done. Lumber is already up,
and in the development of the country
immense quantities of wood must be
used, and we all know there is great
waste beyond legitimate use.
Strikes are again the foremost topic
of the hour. Trade is paralyzed now
by the resolve of the frieght-handlers
not to work for less than 20 cents
an hour. AT this rate, they wouldn't
average more than $40 week. which
is little enough in such an expensive
city, where the rent eats up SO much
of mans earnings. The depots are
getting blocked up with goods which
have arrived and cannot be dis
tributed, and with goods which the
railroad people can't send, while mer-
chants generally have had to stop
filling orders till the difficulty is got
over. 1t has been a great card for
the Anti-monopoly people, an illustra-
ton of the effects of the rapacity of
the railroads which is brought home
to the pockets and thus to the brains
of everybody. Provisions are already
at famine rates, and if We can't do
business with folks outside and
sell our goods, why we sha'n't have
any money to buy provisions with
after awhile. The great grocery
house with which Mr.. f. B. Thurber,
the anti-monopolist chief is connected,
must be literally losing thousands of
dollars an hour by the unconscionable
delay.
Pugilism is enjoying great season
!. ofrevival, and there have been several
mills at Coney Island, which has been
officially declared to be out of the ju.
risdiction of the Brooklyn authorities,
and it has none of its own that any
body shows any respect for. Its race
course, too, is daily scene of gaiety,
and events coming off there divide the
attention of the gallant sports of
Wall and the adjacent streets with the
price of stocks or pork or potatoes.
Yachting, too, has been carried on
with spirit, and June calms have for
once given place to WHOLESALE breezes
of the liveliest kind. Nearly half oi
the N. Y. Yacht Club were disabled
at their regatta, and the famons old
Julia was wrenched almost to pieces
The modern cracks all seemed able tc
sail round her.
Unfortunate New York and Brook
lyn are paying s., 900 day yinterest on
account of the Great Bridge, because
the Edgemoor Iron Company, the
only one in the world which has ia
cilities for furnishing the steel re