Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-02

! grateful regard for our ex-soldiers too broad |
| and too sacred to be InonopolZed by any |
special advocates, are not only willing but
anxious that equal and exact justice should
| be done TO all honest claimants for pensions.
| In their sight the friendless and destitute
| soldier, derendent on public charity, II other
wise entitled has precisely the same right to
share IN the provision made for those who
! fought their country's battles as those better
| able through friends and influence, TO push
! their claims. Every pension that Is granted
| under our present plan upon any other
| grounds than actual service injury, or disease
increased in such service and every instance
of the many in which pensions are increased
| on other grounds than the merits OF the
| claim work an injustice to the brave ana
crippled, but TOR and iriendless soldier who
| is entirely neglected or who must be content
| with the smallc { sum allowed under the
| general laws. There are far too many neigh
borhOOds in which are found glazing cases OF
| ineQualitT of treatment in the matter OF pen
| siOns, and thcv are largely due to yielding in
the pension bureau to importantly on the
part Of those other than the penSiOncr who
are sIecaly interested, or they arise from
special acts passed for the benefit Of indIYi-
duals.
The meu who fought side by side should
stand side bv 81 lie when they partake in
grateful Nations Kind remembrance. Every
COnsidCrau II Of lairnG and Jusu e 10 our
CX-sOldiers and the protection OF the patriotic
violence point to the q lOpt on OF pension
system broad and comprehensive enough o.
cover every COntin ,cncy, and which snail
make unnecessary an Objectionable volume
| Of special legislation. As long as we adhere
the principle of granting pensions for service
and disability as the result OF the service, the
allowance Of peusi ms should be restricted to
cases presenting these feature. Every pat
rOtic heart responds to a tender considera-
ton for those who, having served this coun-
try long and well, are reduced to restitution
and dependen"e, not as an incile [ OF their
service, but with advancing age or through
sickness or misfortune. We are all tempted
BY the contemplation of su n a condition TO
supply relief. and are often imuaticnt OF the
limitations Of public duty. Eieldn { to no
one in the desire to indulge this feeling of
cOusd ration, | cannot rid myS II OF the con
yirtiOn that if III S CX-sOldi rs are 10 b.
rel ived, tn v and tn ir cause are entitled to
the benefit of cnaC m mt uAd T which relivt
nav b claim d as a right and hat such r.
lief should be granted und the sanction OF
= ] of law, o in evasion. nor shoIld Woriuy
objects Of car all equally cntin be RENTED
10 The unequal "p ration Of the sympathy OF
III ter der mrrcus Of social and poll ical IN
, hurnc' Win their II just discriInina ions.
: The discharged soldiers aud IN sailor OF
I this country ar our fellow citlZ rs
I a d interested wi h US in III passage OF
2 and faithful erection of wholesome law
9 They cannot be swerVcd from Their duty OF
citizenship by artful appeals to their spirit Of
brotherhood born Of common peril and SUI
L. fering, nor until they exact as test OF deVo-
Y ton to their welfare willingness to neglect
/ public duty in their behalf
THE PATENT OFFICE.
+ On the 4th of March, 1855, the current bus.
: mess of the patent Office was on an average
q five and one-haIf months behind. At the
- close Of the last fiscal year such current work
- was ut three months in arrears, and 1t Is as
u serted and believed that In the next few
\ months the delay in obtaining an examination
i of an application for atent Will be Dut
! nominal The number OF applications lor
= vatcuts durin the last fiscal year, involving
~ reissue designs, trade marks and Labels,
= equals 40,67S, which is considerably in excess
- of the number received during the preceding
- wear. The receipts of the latent Office dur
- ing the wear aggre rate 81 80 $50, enabling
"a the Office to turn into the treasury over ard
= above all EXPENDITURES about $l63O lib
: The number of patents gra ted during the
- last fiscal year, including reissues trade
~ marks, designs and laNClS, was %, Nv, mum
u Der also Qui largely in excess of that Of any
~ preceding year The rcHOrt OF the Commis
a siOner shows the office to be in a prosperOu
"a condition and constantly increasing in it:
- business. No increase Of force is asked for
~ The amount estimated for the fiscal year end
= ing June 80, 1856, was $50, 100. The amount
70 estimated for the year ending June 30, 1887
= was $S539G0. he amount estimated for tn
~ fiscal year endin June 3D. 1883, is ST7S,GO.
u The Secretary Of the Interior suggests
n change in the plan for the payment OF tn
- indebtedness of the Pacific subsidized road
TO the government. His suggestion has tn
. unanimous endorsement Of the persons sc
- lected by the government to acc as director
y. of these roads and -otect the interes S o
~ ~ the United Sta es n !, board Of direction
u, matter which should bc taken into account
= in nv OPT ion, are the situation Of the gov
@ ernment as a crcdto- and the surest way t
% % secure the payment of the PRINCIPAL and +
tCrest Of its debt.
- TRkNSPoRTATIQN:
al Q By a recent decision Of the Supreme cour
Il. of the United st ties, it has heel adjudge
b. that the laws of the sCve al states are lnoI
eratiVe to re .uate rates Of ira spOrtatiO
u on railroads, if such regulation terfere
ne with the rate of carriage from one State
- a other. This mporta field of co troll an
n regulation having been thus left c tirely VI
- ocCur led, the exoedie"c' Of federal actto
~ upon the subject is worthy of consideration
N LABOR QUESTION:
US The relations Of labor to camtG
OF and OF the laborng men
IN to their employees are Of the utmost concern t
SC every patriotic citizen when these are straine
d, and distorted iniustidablc claims arr apt to b
in insisted uDOn by both interests and in the cor
sc trOvcrsy which results in the weltar of all an
he the prOsperitr Of the country are icopardized
al any intervention Of the general governme
', within tie lin Is OF lis Institutional aul hOr
MS ~ to avert such a COndiI on shOul be will Il
Is, accorded. In a So, c a. Ill sage tranSmitte t
I'd Congress at its last session ! suggested tina
Of enlargement of our present Labor Bureau al
" add ng to its present functions the power o
II arbitration in cases where differences arise be
ed tween emDiO;cS and employers when these diff
ct creme touch such a stage as to result in tn
s. interruption Of commerce between the States
6, the application Of this re nedy by the gen IA
ID gov, ramcnt might be regarded as entirel
be within its c0nstitut' Onal powers, and, / thinl
lie we might reasonably hope that such arbtra
x ton, If carefully selected an If entitled to tn
r. CredcnCe of the parties to be selected would b
,h voluntarily called TO the settlement Of the con
" trOversy of less extent and not necessari
Mt | within the domain Of federal relation. | an
t. Of the opinion that this suggestion
II Is worthy the attention Of Congress, but afte
is all that has been done by the rassage Of law
Of either Federal or State. to relieve situation
&c full Of sDCitudC, much more remains to he &C
ID ( cOmplshcd bv the reinsta'en cnt and Cultiva
h | ton ola true American sentiment which rGcog
rr Mics the equality Of American citizenship
h This, in the light Of traditions and in lOyalt
10 the sp'ritOf our institutions, would teaCl
10 that hearty cooperation on the part of al
TT interests Is the surcst path to national great
r ness and the happiness OF all of our people
N That capital, should, in recognition Of tn,
E. brotherhood OF our citizenship and a s, irit o
K American fairness generally, accord to labO
ln its just compensation and consideration, an,
&c that COntcn'Cd labor Is capitals best protec
rs lion and faithful ally. II would teach, to-
We | that the Divers situations Of our people ar
n | inseparahlc from our CvilZat on, that ever
id citizen in hi sphere b, contributor to TN