St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29

suits. a divided council will contribute to
defeat Our demands should be reasonable
ana consistent. The last encampment, after
much discussion, by practically unanimous
vote. recommended to congress a service
pension bill and what is known as the dlsa-
bility pension bill, the latter having received
the repeated approval of previous encamp-
ments. This action was the result OF COM
promise, and in my Judgment was as wise as
it was just and conservative. My experience
i'll congress leads me to believe that you will
greatly strengthen the hands of our friends
in that body by demanding at Milwaukee
the pension legislation asked for at Column
bus. Let the committee on pensions take
by united Grand Army of the Republic, and
there will be no failure. If we are true to
ourselves. before the next encampment every
comrade disabled by age, sickness or acci-
cent, and the widows and orphans OF veter-
ans. will be borne on the pension rolls. We
should neither give sleep to our eyes nor
slumber to our eyelids till justice is done our
comrades. The service pension will come.
The day is not far distant when an honor
able discharge from the Union army or navy
shall be all the evidence required to secure
pension to it's holder.
'Aid its dawning, tongue and pen,
Aid it hopes of honest men.
"a pension given as reward for services
to the state is surely as good ground Of
property as any security for money advanced
to the state" said the great English states
man Burke. Let the bondholders OF the
country remember that the men who rendered
their securities valuable-the men who have
ever insisted that they be paid to the utter
most Iarth1ng. principal and interest OF the
money advanced by them to the state-let
them remember that these men have claims
upon the state equal, at least to that of the
bondholder. Let those who inveigh against
pensions remember that it was the boys in
blue who, by the trials, suffering and death,
bQOnna he'd tO fhom tho lQpaQy 0f Ghnrfv and
union, insuring to them and their children
the blessings of free institutions under which
they enjoy greater prosperity, larger lib
erty. higher civilization and Durer Chris
Let the people remember that to preserve
them these blessings
Four thousand of the brave,
Made this, our ransomed SOIL their grave!
We the survivors of these men, we who
gave the best years of our lives to our coun-
try, will present our claims to congress, and,
In doing so, will not approach those in au-
thority with bated breath and whispering
humbleness,' but as free men we will de-
mand, asking only that which is just. We
would rather the nation help our comrades
living than erect monuments to them dead.
"My countrymen," said an illustrious COM
rade, ''this is no time to use the apothecarv's
scale to measure the rewards Of the men who
saved the country" The spirit of these no;
BILE words should govern the legislative and
executive branches Of the government that
the performance of the nation may be equal
to her promise. Comrades, the Roman youth
gloried IN singing how we'll Hortius
kept the bridge in the brave days of Old So
through the ages shall the children of the re-
public sing Of how well you maintained the
constitution, preserved the union of the
states established by the fathers, kept the
flag unsullied. giving to the nation a new
birth of freedom Your deeds shall go
down in song and story which shall be sung
and told by a grateful people to the glad
coming time
when the war drum throbs no longer,
And the battle flags are furled,
In the parliament of man,
The federation of the world"
Commander Warner finished his adj
dress at 1890 o'clock when the encamp-
ment took recess until p. IN.