The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-27
Ube Urtbune
Only Republican Newspaper in the County.
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Plymouth, Indiana, October 81, 1910.
GREAT MAN
0F INDIANA
| III VIII
SOUND ADvICETO SOLDIERS
AT CAPITAL IN AID
DRESS.
Calls Attention to the Fact That No
Democrat Has Ever Been The
Author of a Single Pen
sion Law.

Senator Beveridge gave a fine ad-
dress before the Old Soldiers Club
in indianapolis a few weeks ago.
His address so clearly states his pc"
and his advice is so sound that We
reproduce extracts from his address
which should be read and carefully
considered by every soldier who went
TO the front at his country's call.
Among other things Senator Bever-
idge said:
"The fact that our flag is still
floating is due to you. The fact that
we have a nation is due to you. More
than a generation has passed and
some seem to have forgotten that 1t
appeared even to the wisest that we
might not much longer have a nation
at all in the days when You went to
battle. We have developed a on
tinent since Appomattox; and In that
development some men have for
gotten Appomattox. Since then we
have woven a steel web of railway
communication connecting ninety mil
lions of people into one great indus
trial family. Since then we have
seen the creation of such wealth as
the world never dreamed Of before.
Since then we have beheld the might
lest business development of all his
tory. All of this was largely possible
because of the opportunity which our
free institutions gave to human
energy to make the industrial o
Guest Of the land. Yet these free
institutions would not be here today
except for you.
"NOt a line or word of our gener-
al pension laws was written by any
Democratic public man. For example,
you will remember what occurred
when the Democrats had both the
house and senate, as well as the
presidency. Were any pension laws
passed then? Tens of thousands OF
Union veterans were stricken from
the pension rolls, until the whole
country, regardless of politics. re-
volted at the injustice. The great
majority of those old soldiers were
previously wronged.
"But believing in nothing, seeking
only to strengthen themselves, GER
tain Democratic congressman are now
pretending that they are the partic
ular friends of the soldier. Let thu
old soldiers of Indiana ask them
selves why these men should be theil
friends, except to get their votes
Was a single one of them a UniOI
soldier? If they were not old enough
to be soldiers were their fathers an,
brothers Union soldier? If not
what is the source of their suddel
and special interest in you7
care their professions merely tn
device of political confidence mel
seeking your support by WORTHLESS
promises behind which there is n
sincerity, no sympathy, either per
sonal or inherited, but only the falls
fervor of the officeseeker? If thi
be true, the old soldiers of Indian
will know what answer to make {
their appeals ON election day.
"No Democrat has ever been tn
author of a single general pensio
law; yet they are now pretendin
that if you will give them your vote
they will enact additional pensio
legislation. They underestimate t.
day your intelligence just as other
in former days understimated til
valor Of the men who saved this ns
ton on the battlefield.
If the house and senate were d.
m~ocratic not one general pension bi
of any kind could be enacted int
law, because such a Democratic SCI
ate and house would be controlled b
the South as always it has been, an
as it is today. Nobody knows tn
any better than those little partisa
politicians who are trying TO decei,
Republican soldiers by fraudulel
bills offered and advocated for IL
purpose of securing their electio
and with the full knowledge that
o elect them not one promise the
make can be redeemed even if tho!
promises were sincere, because Il
Democrats In house and senate a.
controlled by the South