The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-08-02
What We all want is
Ice,


The New York Morning Advertiser
devotes a third Of a column to the de-
Tense Of pensions, showing that The
GLOBE represents in its fullness, the sen
timent Of the South on the pension ques-
ton. The GLOBE believes that it repre-.
sents the sentiment Of other sections,
and it is glad that its utterances are be
ing quoted. When the people, in their
calm, sober, thinking moments realize
what a stupendOus fraud-what an un-
warranted piece of pillage this pension
business is, then they will call down the
parties clamoring for pensions
THE GLOBE does not sweep the entire
roll-it simply says that every new pen
sion being granted these days is theft,
pure and simple. 1t is worse Than grand
larceny-it is burglary. The great civil
war of which pretending patriots pirate
was a grand thing. 1t preserved the
Union we are told-but it did nothing Of
the kind. The North and the South had
a MISREPRESENTATION lawyers
wanted some spOrt-they desired to try
a case-and the result was that neigh
bors, brothers, fathers, sOns-the whole
affair Of human families shot lead into
each other and caused sorrow and grief
and despair to sit at every threshold.
Dead men turned their cold faces upon a
colder sky maidens tall and fair to see
Dried out their weary souls-sons kissed
their mothers a fond farewell and it was
a farewell forever-desolatiOn, ruin and
all that follows in the red path of war
did come-and the South was lone
for. Perhaps it was the salvation of the
country at the time-but the union has
not been preserved. There is to-day IA
greater cloud of trouble rising just over
yOnder han all the constitutional law
yers with JEFF DAVIS thrown in, ever
saw in the dark days of 81, when over
the trOnbled waters came the report of
the first gun as the bullets struck Fort
Sumpter. There are no JOHN, Browns
in these days-but the red flag Of anar-
chY-of treason and of dynamite floats
in the air-and even the militia of a
peaceful state threatened to shoot down
the officers it they interferred with an
archy. With such pictures ever apparent,
there CAN be no claim that the union is
preserved-jf so, preserves have soured.
a question was simply settled by the
arm of farce-at the bayonets' point, and
that was all.
The Advertiser says that there were
and are some fraudulent pensioners-the
same as there were fraudulent claims of
bounty jumpers in the dread days, but
that does not p~alliate the present wrong.
In those days when the world was dizzy
when all conditions were unsettled
when "a fought man and treason lurked
in the very bushes on the roadside, there
was of course fraud and theft and plum
der. But in these days when the two
sections are living together, when that
ga-lOrious old star-spangled banner floats
for all and over all, there is no mitigating
CirCumstance-there is no valid excuse
why a great government should see
fraud, recognize fraud and approve of
fraud. If, in The Advertiser office. some
scamp was drawing a salary for perform
ing a service and never had performed a
service, We make bold to say that Colo
MEL CoCKERILL would fire him in a min
ute. These are days of sectional peace
DAYS when men with books and accounts
can figure and get things down right.
The GLOBE knows that men who have
lived a life of riotous debauchery-who
have contracted diseases where decent
men do hot go; men who have been
crippled in corr shelters and threshing
machines men who never smelled real