The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-19

the soldier has once been put upon the pension
roll OF the government that. he should be sus-
fullest investigation. taken in open broad day
light. win the pensioner having the privilege
nesses who appear against him. and and then
is fS Ssas0s be that out T that that
ppairio,ic sentiment ani OF the people and ~
would he and hs ought to Ss Displaced HySi ios ne
that roll OF honor. tApplause) But my objec-
p n ub rs 70 be sSv bpsv the OF fraud
prove ,h that they are unworthy and not simply
R%Se Committed fraud Ra%e got thf sred shs y
that sentiment which is sometimes INDUCED In
pay and for pension. There is not a soldier
before me tonight who, when he enlisted. ever
thought q SoIce o. a Ngc easio@n
"NIany OF them didn't know anything about
pensions, and they didn't care. Their great care
was for the preservation of the freest govern
ment ON earth, and keeping sacred the honor OF
from the purest and highest motives OF patriot
ism. not for the paltry plttance paid them; not
ices. however valuable We're not 10 be heraIded
abroad. They entered the service moved by the
highest sense of love of country that no harm
when that splendid army, that great volunteer
army. the grandest that ever trod the earth.
that fought in noble as any for which
mankind ever engaged.
Debt That Can Never De Paid.
81 remember when that splendid army of Grant.
or sherman, OF sheridan, Thomas and Logan
great applansel passed down Pennsylvania av-
enue. stretched across the great marble capitol
was an inscription in letters large enough TO be
read 10y every passing soldier, and these were the
words OF the Inscription: There is one, debt
which this government can never pay, and that
Is the debt IL owes the men who saved this
nation. Applause) That was true them It is
true now That patriotic sentiment must never
be amended abridged. Talk about the soldiers
OF the republic looting the treasury! Why. we
wouldn't have had treasury or government.
or nag. II II hadn't been for them. Great
wisconsin soldiers %ero know When me tne
OF which my comrades were made: | recall that
which typifes the volunteer soldier of the re-
public. l remember the incident OF the Con-
necticut regiment when the colonel one day con-
its presence delivered to the color bearer of the
regiment the coors he thereafter TO carry.
iyered the flag to the color sergeant he said to
him: 'Color-bearer take this flag. Fight for IL;
hands of the enemy; Applause.) And that
young eolor-bearer. only is years of age, with
cheeks, and taking the flag into his hands, said:
Colonel, III bring this flag back TO you In
CApplauseJ The next day his regiment Went
into battle That young color-bearer fell. stricken
with death; but he fell with the flag about
him, bathed In his own blood. lie didn't bring
II back. lie couldn't bring il back But he gave
has own LIES blood, to save it applause) and
the God above him knew the reason why.
$50 nigh to grandeur Is our dust
SO near TO God is man.
When duty whispers low, Thou must
The youth replies, Il can
when Abraham Lincoln CaDDlause) that mag
nlucent representative on American citizenship,
one of the grandest men in human history, ne
who spoke the words that proclaimed liberty,
he who issued the decree that all men should be
free-Abraham Lincoln. snatched as he was by
bravo from the theater OF fame-when he said
come men responded Il and | WILL and
half million men gave up their lives TO pre-
serve the republic; and IL is business, in the
language of the lamented Lincoln, to bind up
their wounds and see TO IL that their widows
and their orphans, and those who have survived
the great struggle, should he cared for from
bounteOus treasury of the government. ZAP
plause.) What need i'm this country is
vival OF patriotism God grant that 1t may
come. and come TO stay. thank you aud bid
you good night." Great cheerngO