Telegram-herald., 1890-08-12

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- sod 70 snreai .ai sAtein the doctrine of
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s2Anz-SAIP.
The sons rot less than ~ years of age. OF Dc
e,ss.s ar honorabiy dlsch4Fget soldiers. sailors
Marines who seFved 10 the Union army or navy
during the civil war of 1854 &c, and the sons Of
members Of the order not hes than q years OF
age. are eligible 10 membership No one Is eligi-
49, fs.t ~ an zrsaraa
crime or whohas or whose father hes, ever borne
srsas agaiast the government OF the United States
Al the last national encampment Of
the Sons. Lincolns birthday, Feb. 70,
was adopted as Union Defenders day,
10 be observed by suitable ceremonies all
over the Union.
HOME THRUsrS.
Soldiers cannot be insensible 70 the
merits of comrades who stood with them
in the ranks Of war, and upon whose
courage and fidelity their own lives Of
ten depended. and it viii prove CRATE
ful duty 10 do justice 10 the memory of
those who have fallen and TO guard the
welfare of the living also. Whatever
the public may do, either through gener-
al or state laws, for the survivors who
become dependent, there must still re-
main many cases calling for individual
assistance from private hands, and the
associated veterans, while strengthen
ing and Frightening the friendship that
began in the ranks, viii support those
charities of which the distressed and
broken have so much need. Gen.
Devens' (of Boston, Address to the Grand
Army in 1874.
1t is necessary to be precise in speak
ing of sons and Of comrades of the Grand
Army. for in some instances the advan-
tage of age is with the Sons, and no vet
eran, however young, would rest quiet
under the implication that his daddy" !"
and not he himself, eft in the war" 4"
1t is not at all uncommon TO find vet
eran of II or 42 years of age. The boys
of Is and 16 who went ont in "a and '65
have not grown old faster than other
folks. Again, the lads Of those days
whose fathers were in the war have kept
ON growing and so a son today may be
climbing toward the fifties while vet
eran by his side may have just turned
forty.
There is much to be said about over
doing the pension business, but it is easy
to talk at random. The present rates of
pension for common soldiers, s. month,
dates from the beginning of the century,
when the cost Of living was not over one
third as great asst is now. If a pensioner
owned a home he could live on his 500 a
year. He could rent house and garden