Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1886 — Downright Dishonest Demangogism. [ARTICLE]

Downright Dishonest Demangogism.

It is downright dishonesty and demagogism for Republicans to be making a howl against Cleveland for his vetoes of private pension bills. Every veto was based on the belief that the proposed pensioner was unworthy. Mr. Cleveland has not yet ve - toed any general law for the benefit of pensioners. Every man having a claim for a pension should submit to the general tests of a general law that applies to all alike. A man who cannot establish a claim for a pension upon the same conditions that others can, has no right to a pension by special legislation. When President Cleveland vetoes a general law that soldiers desire, then, perhaps, he may be accused of oppos ng pensit nets; but no such accusa'ion can be male to stick with reasonai le and since’e men by parading the fact that the President has veto d private bill» giving pensions to frauds.— Grand Rapids Leader. Mr. Pillsbury, of Massachusetts, has delivered a reply to Blaine’s tariff arguments, and among other things l.e asks the magnetic tariff champion how he reconciles what he says on the stump about the difference between home and foreign wages with his report while Secretary of State, in which he says: “Undoubtedly the inequalities of English and American operatives are more than equalized by th? greater efficiency of the latter and their longer hours of work.” A great many other persons would like to hear from Mr. Blaine on this point.