Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-12-10
NO. 10

I "AeS"S AAAH ASIalNNSSr HSNt oSS2 or
! are now III receipt of pensions. The
American people with patriotic and
/ grateful regard for our ex-soldiers
/ too broad sn6 too sacred to be monopo-
/ hzed by any special advocates are not
only willing but anxious that
/ equal and exact justice should be
/ done 10 all honest claimants
| for pensions. Destitute soldiers
/ dependent on public charity, if
| otherwise entitled, have precisely the same
right TO share in the provision made 70
| those who fought their countries battles
| as those better able through friends and
influence, to push their claims. Every
1 pension that Is granted under our pres
I ent plan upon any other
| grounds than actual service injury
/ or disease incurred in such service. and
every instance of the many in which
| pensions are increased on other grounds
/ than the merits of q claim, work an in
! Justice TO the brave and crippled. but
| poor and friendless soldier, who is en-
| tlrely neglected, or who must be content
with the smallest sum allowed under the
! general laws. sThere are far too many
| nelghborhoods in which are found glar-
/ ing cases of inequality of treatment in
the matter of pensions, and they are
largely due TO yielding in the pension
bureau to importantly ON the part of
/ those other than the pensioners, who are
especially interested, or they arise from
/ special acts passed for the benefit of in
/ dividuals.
The men who fought side 10y side,
| should stand side by side when they par
! tlclpate IN grateful nations kind re
membrance; every consideration of fair
/ and InstIrA ~ old SAI1inrS
| thr protection of the patriotic instincts
of our citizens from perversion and vio-
lence, points to the adoption of a pension
| system, broad and comprehensive enough
! to cover every contingency, and which
shall make unnecessary an objection vol
ume of special legislation. As long
| as we adhere to the principle
| OF granting pensions for service
and disability as the result of the service,
the allowance of pensions should be re
| strlcted to cases presenting these feat
ures. Every patriotic heart responds to
a tender consideration for those who,
having served their country long and
well, are reduced to destitution and de
! pendency, not as an incident of their
! service, but with advancing age or
| through sickness or misfortune. We are
all tempted by the contemplation of such
condition to supply relief, and are often
| impatient of the limitations of public
duty. Yielding to no one in the de
sire to indulge this feeling of
consideration, can not rid
myself of the conviction that if these
! ex-soldlers are to be relieved, they and
their cause are entitled to the benefit of
an enactment under which relief may be
! claimed as right, and that such relief
should be granted under the sanction of
law, not in evasion of it, nor should such
worthy ob, ects of care, all equally emit
! tied, be remitted to the unequal operation
| of sympathy or the tender mercies of
social and political influence with their
unjust determinations. The discharged
| soldiers and sailors of the country are our
| fellow citizens and interested with us i'll
the passage and faithful execution of
wholesome laws. They cannot be severed
| from their duty of citizenship by artful
| appeals to their spirit of brotherhood,
borne of common peril and suffering,
nor will they exact as a test of devotion
to their welfare Willingness to neglect
public DUTY in their behalf.
LABOR TO CAPITAL,
| and of laboring men to their employers,
| are of the utmost concern to every patri-
Otic citizen. When these are strained and
! distorted ur justifGbly, they are apt to
be insisted upon by both interested, and
in the controversy which results, the vel
| fare of all, and the prosperity of the
country, are jeopardized, and intervention
| of the general government within the
limits of its constitutional authority, to
avert such a condition, should be willing
| ly accorded. In special message, trans
| mJttpi last session |
suggested the enlargement of our
| present labor bureau, and adding
| to its present functions the power
| of arbitration in cases where differences
arise between employees and employers,
! when these differences reach such stage
| as to result in the interruption of com
| merce between the states. The applica-
ton of this remedy by the general gov
| ernment might be regarded as entirely
| within its constitutional powers, and |
| think we might reasonably hope that such
| arbitration, if carefully selected, and if
| entitled to the confidence of the parties
to be affected, would voluntarily be called
| TO the settlement of the controversies of
| less extent, and not necessarily within
! the domain of federal regulation. | am
| of the opinion that this suggestion
| is worthy the attention of this congress,
| but after all has been done by the pas
! sage of laws either federal or state, to
relieve a situation full of solicitude,
much more remains to be accomplished
! by the reinstatement and cultivation of
| true American sentiment which recog
nizes the equality of American citizen
ship. This, in the light of our traditions
and in loyalty to the spirit of our institu-
! tions, would teach that a party co-opera-
] tinn thn art ~ all nj IL
| the suresU path to national greatness
and the happiness of all our people. That
capital should, in recognition of
the brotherhood of our citizenship and
in a spirit of American fairness, gener-
ously accord to labor its just compensa-
| tion and consideration, and that content
| ed labor is capitals best protection and
! faithful ally. 1t would teach, too, that
/ the diverse situations of our people are
! inseperable from our civilization; that
every citizen should, in his sphere, be
! a contributor TO the general good; that
capital does not necessarily tend to the
| oppression of labor, and that violent dis
| turbances and disorders ALLEVIATE from
! their promoters true American sympathy
and kindly feeling.
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
| representing the oldest and largest of
| our national industries, is subserving well
the purposes OF its organization by the
| introduction of new subjects of farming
! enterprises and by opening new sources
/ of agricultural wealth and dissemination
! of early information concerning produc-
| ton and prices. 1t has contributed large
\ ly TO the country's prosperity through
this agency of advanced thought and in
vestigation, and touching the subjects 1t
/ has in charge, should among other things
| be practically applied to the home pro-
/ duction at low cost, of articles OF food
which are now imported from abroad.
| Such an Innovation will necessarily,
/ of course, in the beginning be
| within the dominion of intelligent
| experiments, and the subject, in every
/ stage, should receive all possible encoHr-
! agement from the government The in
/ terests of millions of our citizens engaged
/ in agriculture are involved in an enlarge
ment and improvement of the results of
! their labor; and Jealous regard for
! their welfare should be willing tribute
/ TO those whose productive returns are
main source of our progress and power.
| The existence of pleuro pneumonia among
| the cattle of various states has led TO
! burdensome, and in some cases, disas-
/ trous restriction in an important