Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-01-19
Friendship o. the Pharisee.

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Al opportunity to divert water to its
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f. np'ch sympathy whom 1t Will add
. It. patronage, or t. lawn and cringc
Nl,a hy - doing it may obtain rccog-
ul.-n from those whu my bc used .
when occasion offers. y lew days ago
j, d,c,arod, with mou-n:'.l cadence,
tAat only one pon.ioncr" had applied !
t. IL, examining board the day before,
jar ALLOWANCE. 80 lie placed on the pen
-.,n vi.
That was the >gANpAED'- text for an
ar:ie." "n tn" fearful proportions to
Ahlrh 'hr annual pension arpr"pria-
tl,n had, through conspiracy and
fraud, grown. The exact words OF our
contemporary were used, notwith-
standing it accuses Us OF misquoting,
nor were their meaning perverted to
draw the logical conclusion that, ut
- only one" Jay in this community,
an equal ratio distributed throughout
the nation would make over 10000
900 people pensioners OF the govern
ment the first year.
The STANDARD maintains that it is
As much Il sentiment OF gratitude To
those who carry honorable scars from
the battlefield, as justice to the living,
who are taxed till soul and body some
times separate, in the struggle for food
and clothing for the loved ones at the
iireside, that impels it to sift the grain
from the chat, and base the pension
on the same strict ideas OF justice as
other claims against the government.
Nobody whose claims are just will suf-
fer from investigation, and were it not
that politicians have made the pension
bureau a party machine, would there
be any criticism OF the attempts to
purge the system of corruption. Just
as our contemporary accuses the
STANDARD of want OF sympathy for
the few remaining Union soldiers, to
find favor with them to aid its own
selfish object, so does the party it rep
resents constantly array the DEM
ocratic Administration in hostility to
the soldier for requiring strict identifi-
cation and proof OF service under the
very liberal provisions OF law, to deter
mine who are entitled to the bounty
provided by a grateful people.
1t would be amusing, if its object
was no. so plain as to be contemplate,
to watch our contemporary pump up
those crocodile tears OF sorrow over
the death OF those who have lived
out TIE full span of life. 1t is safe to
affirm that not a single tear-drop that
pours down its brazen cheek finds an
echoing throb in its calloused heart.
1t is simply playing at game in
which it is the object to deceive and to
mako something by the deception.
And what is the Olympian- Tribune
that it should constitute itself the
censor of its fellows? The war of the
X bellion was begun, continued and
ended, long before it and its sponsors
we're capable OF intelligent effort, while
the STANDARD was living entity dur
ing the whole time. While it may
not appear in the van on dress parade,
its influence was felt on the side OF
Union during the whole war, and was
worth probably as much as a regiment
of men on the field of battle. The
proposition to form Pacific Confed-
eracy, had active, energetic and infu-
entail advocates on this coast, at a
time when a feathers weight would
apparently have turned the scale in
either direction. 1t was to such out
spoken newspapers as the Oregonian,
the Memphis Appeal, the STANDARD,
and few others on this coast, that
the seeds of dissension were stamped
out soon as sown, and the nation was
enabled to end the bloody strife for
self-preserva:ion with all the stars in
her constellation and the idea of Sc.
cession as redress for grievances for
ever settled.
1t seems we have earned a right to
express an opinion on governmental
policy now that the war has closed.