The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-10-29
SINGING TWO TUNES.
Bryan Organs, Once Against the
Veterans, Now for Them.
WHY THISSUDDEN CHANGE9
Is 1t That the Boy Orator Wants
the Soldier Votel
RATHER DIsCORDANT MUSIC.

Hut IT WIN All Go for Naught-Tho Re-
publican Party Has Given the Soldiers
Liberal Pensions In First Glass Money.
The soldier Vote That Mckinley WIN
Not Get WIN Not Be Zig Enough to
Hurt or Help Anybody.
In 1892 In It's issue Of Nov. IL, Mr..
Bryan's personal organ, The Omaha
WorldlIcrald, said:
The next session of congress will have
TO wrestlc with one deficiency of SO, ,O00,-
600 This Is on account OF pensions The
appropriation for pensions for tho next
year must not be less than $50, 10000 IL
Is, therefore, easy arithmetic to perceive
that tho appropriation that congress must
make for pensions next session must ag-
gregate not less than 1886, 100000.
This tremendous sum would In itself
be enough 20 run n reasonable govern
ment. One would not complain IL IL were
An honest debt, but large proportion Is
not debt, because IL was never earned by
any act Of patriotism or heroic service.
The government is held up and despoilcd
OF no mean portion Of this, and IL seems
helpnoss TO defend itself Ono cannot help
being curious To know how many more
years IL will take to exhaust tho genera.
tion which feels itself injured by the war
II Is safe to say that never did genera
tion display such remarkable longevity"
Its pet, Mr., Bryan, was not then want
ing the soldiers votes. Now, however,
he does want them, and behold how
changed the tune. Tho Same organ Sept.
8, 1896, said
THE veterans Of the civil war have once
more passed in grand review. This time
not before president and commanders, but
before reviewing officers who appreciate
more and more rs the days go by the he
roic sacrifices thnt were made to preserve
the Union. II is really wonderful and a
source Of qualification how well tho vote
rams stand their burdens of added years
The average age of the soldiers of the re-
bellion Is 81 years. but this burden Of
time did not prevent 1000 OF them from
marching several miles with steps that
We're lightoncl 10y the sounds OF tho flfe
and drum and the great brass band
"Do the people appreciate the services of
the men who wore tho blueY Let the de-
monstrations ut St Paul make reply.
Little girls strcwed flowers at their feet
then, just as little girls did when the tat
tered and sunburncd veterans marched up
Pennsylvania avenue in Washington,
more than thirty years ago, Young women
threw ut their time burdened feet the
choicest garlands, just as young women
did more than thirty years ago, when the
war bronzcd veterans of Grant and Shcr-
man and Sheridan passed in grand review
along Pennsylvania avenue, while Joyous
thousands sang songs of glad acclaim
at victory won and national honor pre-
served. A living flag with stripes of red
and white and flashing stars made up of
1000 little children, waved its living folds
and sang songs rs the old soldiers marched
by with tear wet eyes,
"Ihe children sang and wept rs griz2led
veterans marched and wept, and all the
people stood with uncovered heads and
shouted and sang in honor of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and tears of graft
tude mingled with tears from time
dimmod eyes, and so the remnants of the
grandest army that ever fought In free
dom's cause marched once again in grand
review before tho people whose liberties
that Grand Army had preserved"
There is no use for the Bryan organs to
chew their words. They won't get the
soldiers votes, The Republican party has
given the soldiers liberal pensions In first
class money and this has been satisfac-
tory. No change is asked for. The soldier
vote which Mckinley will not get will not
be big enough to hurt or help anybody
very much. -Moadville -Republi-
can.