Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-09-21
Provide Against the Possibility.'

Here is the pension plank of the Re
publican National platform of 1888. It
was written by the Hon. William Nc
Kinley, Governor of Ohio, who was
chairman of the Committee on Resolu-
tions. 1t was readopted by the Nation
al Convention of 1892. and is today
everywhere the doctrine and fervent
belief of the grand old Republican
party:
The gratitude of the Nation to the
defenders of the Union can not be meas
ured by laws. The legislation of Con
gress should conform to the pledge
made by loyal people, and be so en-
larged and extended as 10 provide
against the possibility that any man
who honorably wore the Federal uni
form should become the inmate of an
almshouse, or dependent upon private
charity. In the presence of an over
flowing Treasury, it would be public
scandal to do less for those whose valor-
Gus service preserved the Government.
We denounce the hostile spirit of Presi-
dent Cleveland in his numerous vetoes
of measures for pension relief, and the
action of the Democratic House of Rep
resentatives in refusing even consid-
GRAFTON of general pension legislation.
This is as true today as ever, and
voices the sentiments of all patriots as
positively now as it did then. Contrast
their position with that of Grover
Cleveland. Hoke Smith and the other
bitter enemies of the Union soldier now
in power! The question is not merely
question of recognition and recon-
pense to those veterans, nor matter as
to who they alone may vote for. 1t
has become a question as to which party
in this country its patriotic citizens as
body should belong to- The present
Administration has no use for the coun-
try's defenders; it prefers its worst
enemies at home and abroad.
His Old Pipe.
s'Isn't that rich color" said a well
known lawyer the other day as he held
up brier wood pipe of an almost ebon
hue. Then he stroked it fondly with his
hand and finally took to rubbing it with
his coat sleeve. ''It has taken me over
year to color that pipe, and don't think
you could buy it now at any price. /
used to smoke cigars-I do now to some
extent-but l prefer pipe when read
ing or working over my papers. You
see a cigar is always dropping ashes and
mussing things up. Then the smoke
gets in your eyes when leaning over.
But pipe-oh, there is nothing like it
for real solid comfort. My wife says this
old fellow is getting dreadfully strong,
but she hasn't the heart to ask me to dis
card it for a new one See the way that
rich chocolate tint merges in the black
that velvety looking black-aud then the
gloss that seems to have grown up from
beneath the surface.
''Strange how a man should become
attached to such a thing. But, on the
other hand, think of the nights this old
pipe has stood by me when l worried
my brain over legal tangles; when |
grew cross and irritable, how its sweet
perfume has quieted and soothed me.
Friends might forsake me and fat fees
vanish into thin air, but my old pipe was
ever at hand with its comfort. What
sense of calm contentment settles over
me when the work of the day is done
and l sit down in the library at home,
with my wife and little ones about and
this old fellow filed to the brim and 60
ing! Why, man, the cares and worries
of the day slip off and away with the
curling smoke. Just look at that ex-
quisite colorr'-Brooklyn Eagle.