Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-03-16
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AnEU.lCAN SOLDIERS.


who Is willing 10 accept years salary
for days service is unworthy Of home
in republic, etc.-JoURNAL 2d inst.
The effort to equalize the soldiers pay is
fruilless. Some soldiers did more to benefit
the State in one hour than Others did in
five years. IA soldier TO get down on his
knecs." No pension bill ever passed can
get soldier down on his knees. Shoot
him down, disable him and get him down
by main force, PROSTATE him, let mother
e,rlh measure hin length and breadth; in
spirit he is n soldier still, erect, nncon-
auerable. The American soldier has
descended in right line from sucli men rf
George Washington, Stark and Sumpter.
The men who fought our battles were not
hirelings. They trained IN school whose
motto was "Give me liberty or give me
death" The echoes of the shout that
reverberuled from the granite mountains
to Fort Sumpter awoke no mcnial spirit.
"The soldier on his knees?" Never. lie
may s,oop 10 conquer; To beg, never. Send
him TO the poor house, cloth him in rags,
spit in His face, call him pauper. The
man who does this seals damnaiion upon
his own brow. Pass your dependen. bills,
cheat the soldier ont Of his pay earned,
YES, earned on hundred battle fields. We
defy Congress or any other body OF men TO
panperize the soldier. He lives and dies
rich in American spirit-ihe spirit that
yon can never buy or sell for gold
LII Of
land vetoed FIVE acts in favor of soldiers,
vetoed two hundred private pension bills,
and ordered the rebel battle aags, the tro
phles of victory, to be returned to the
conquered rebels. Let Cleveland go on and
fll up the list, sneering ut the wounds and
poverty of the soldier or accusing them OF
frauds, let Congress spout about pensions
twenty-,wo yenrs more, tear down soldiers
monuments, dsband the G. A. r., trample
upon the dust and ashes of these wornout
aud outraged men and they will still live
| in the hearts OF the American people. The
| American soldier never turns his back to
mn enemy and gets on his knees only to
worship God. In saving the union he
immortalized his name and will be remem.
bered with sincere gratitude as long as the
stars and strips float in triumph over the
republic, increasing in glory when wars
shall cease among the nations under the
matches reign of the Prince Of Peace.
Let Congress redeem the credit of the state
nv giving the soldier at least one hundred
dollars in quarterly payments and l6O
ceres OF land saved from the clutches oi
bank rohbers, pension thieves, land sharks
and stock jobbers. ID.
| There you go again Stark mad
Got the Foraker Jim Jams, or politica
hysteria One week "D." buffers u,
up" to "slather us down" the next
One, he thinks, to take position "abovt
party prejudices," in short be honest
requires Surplus" of what is called
"pluck." The next he discovers sol
dier at City Point, Va, who stole
, dying comrades pocket book, and wa
dressed up with barrell, labeled, an,
marched up and down in front of tn
regiment. (Was he a descendent O
, Washington ?? At Andersonville it wa
4 found necessary by the starving CON
I rades to hold rum-head court martit
:. and hang a number of their fellows fc
robbing them. There were many
= these "fellows" got into the army, The
j didn't examine into their moral charaE
!. ter. 1t IS not strange to say that tn
= great majority of these got out of I'll
r army, active, healthy and ready fc
1t duty, by dav or by night, from the polk
s table to the powder monkey for aspii
N ing statesmen. And yet sd" thinl
IL "some soldiers did more to benefit Il
We state in one hour than others did in fl
T. years." and with this wide gulf pictur
l. out in so many words by himself, d
mands of benevolent people that thu
le shall treat them all alike and give the
If 800 year during life and 100 acres
y land. Such arguments and logic a
d sufficient to give the SOLDIER fat
e case of the chronic diarrhee, TWEEN
= years after the war is over, and nausea
If the public with simply the name of 81
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