The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-12-09
OHIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, !

vice and disability as the result Of service,
the allowance of pensions should be restricted
to cases presenting these features.
"Every patriotic heart" he says, "responds
to tender consideration for those who, hav-
ing served their country long and we'll, are
reduced TO destitution and dependence not
as an incident Of their service but with adj
vancng age and misfortune. We are all
tempted by the contemplation Of such a con-
dition to supply relief, and are often impa-
tient Of the limitations Of public duty.
Yielding to no one in the desire to indulge
this feeling Of consideration, | cannot rid
myself Of the conviction that IL these eI-
soldiers are to be relieved, they and their
cause are entitled to the benefit of an enact
ment under which reliOf 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 objects of care,
all equally entitled, be remitted to the un-
equal operation Of sympathy, or the tender
mercies of social and political influence with
their unjust discrimination"
On the 4ta of March, 1885, the current bu-
siness of the patent office was, on an average,
five and half months behind. At the close
of the last fiscal year such current work was
but three months in arrears, and it is as
serted and believed that in the next few
months the delay in obtaining an examina.
tion Of an application for a patent will be
but nominal The number. of applications
| for patents during the last fiscal year. nclud-
| ing reissues, designs, trademarks and labels,
| equals ~, GIS, which is considerably in excess
| Of the number received during any preceding
| year. The receipts of the patent Office during
the year aggregated $l,2l5, 1870, enabling
the Office to turn into the treasury a surplus
revenue, over and above all expenditures, OF
about S163, 1890
The numbtr of patents granted during the
last fiscal year, including renewals, trade
marks, designs aud labels was q, ,619-a mum.
Der also quite largely in excess Of that Of any
preceding year. The report of the commits
sioner shows the Office to be in prosperous
| condition and constantly increasing in its
business. No increase of force is asked for.
The amount estimated for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1855, was $500, 760. The amount
estimated for the year ending June 30, 1887,
was SS23, 9h0. The amount estimated for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, is S77S, 40.
| Of the Pacific railroad debt extension
| proposition, he says, that congress in con-
sidering the plan suggested by the secretary
| of the interior, and endorsed by the board of
| government directors, the sole matters which
| should bs taken into account are "the situa-
| tion Of the government as a creditor and the
| surest way to secure the payment Of the
| principal and interest Of its debt"
| OF interstate commerce he says that by
| a recent decision of the supreme court Of the
United States, it has been adjudged that the
| laws Of the several states are imperative to
| regulate rates of transportation upon rail.
| roads, if such regulation interferes with tho
| rate Of carriage from one state into another.
This important field of control and regula-
tion having been thus left entirely unoccu
| pied, the expadiency of Federal action upon
the subject is unworthy Of consideration.
OF the relations of labor to capital, the
| president thinks that when these differences
between employer and employed reach such
| a stage as to result in the interruption of
| commerce between the states, the application
of arbitration by tbs general government
might be regarded as entirely within its con-
stitGUional powers, and he thinks we might
reasonably hope that such arbitratOrs, il
| carefully selected and entitled to the conf
dsnce Of the parties affected, would be vol.
| mtarily called to the settlement of contro.
versies of less extent and not necessarily
within the domain of Federel regulation.
The president recommends as plain duty
IN the part Of the government, the payment
| Of million and quarter dollars still due to
Freedman's Savings bank depositors.
Civil service reform is the last important
topic discussed in the message. The contin.
ued operation Of the civil service law, he as.
serts, has added the most convincing proofs
of its necessity and usefulness. Every public
officer who has a just idea of his duty to the
! people teStites to the value Of this reform.
Its staunchest friends are found among those
| who understand it best, and its warmest sup.
porters are those who are restrained and pro-
| tected by It's requirements The meaning OF
such restraint and protection is not appre.
cated by those who want places under the
| government regardless of merit or ineffi.
cheney nor by those who insist that the seec-
tion for such places should rest upon proper
| oredential showing active partisan work.
They mean to public officers, If not their
lives, the only opportunity afforded them to
attend to public business, and they mean to
the good people Of the country the better
| performance of the work of their govern.
ment.
1t is exceedingly strange, the president
thinks, that the scope and nature of his re.
! form are so little understood and that SO
many things not included within its plan are
called by its name. When cavil yields more
fully to examination, the system will have
large additions to the number Of its friends
Our civil service reform, the president
says, may be imperfect in some of its de.
tails; it may be misunderstood and opposed;
it may not always be faithfully applied; its
designs may sometimes miscarry through
mistake or willful intent; it may sometimes
| trembs under assaults of its enemies or Ian
! guish under the misguided zeal of impractic.
ticable friends, but if the people of this coun.
! try ever submit to the banishment Of its un'
derlying principle from the operation Of this
! government, they will abandon the surest
guarantee of the safety and success of Ameri.
can institutions.
In conclusion he invokes for this reform
the cheerful and ungrudging support of con-
gress; urges an increase Of the salaries of the
commissioners and expresses the hope thai
such reasonable appropriations may be
made as will enable them to increase the use
fulness OF the cause they have in charge
I
Terrible Case of Cruelty.
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec 6.-This community
! is all stirred up over the alleged tendish
treatment by Joseph Blake and wife, of Mol