Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Cleveland’s Pension Policy. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland’s Pension Policy.

Mr. Cleveland has always advocated i pension for every veteran who received a wound or incurred a disability in the service. He believed that pensions to such veterans were a debt incurred by the country in their enlistment in its service. But he dtd not believe in pauper pensions; in a pension theory which holds every veteran to bo an outdoor pauper, and that all such must be supported at public expense without discriminating between merit and demerit. He did not believe ih “reinstating” deserters to enable them to receive pensions. He did believe that a dishonorable discharge should be a bar to pension. He did not believe that the crippled veteran of a dozen battles should be put on the same level with three months’ men who never were under fire in their lives. He believed in pensioning the honorable widows of veterans who had died from wounds or disability incurred In service, but he did not believe In putting such honorable women on a level with drunken strumpets from the District of Columbia workhouse. His profession and his practice were perfectly consistent. Compare his record with /Gleneral Black in the Pension Office with the record made by Harrison with Baum's assistance. Honest veterans and honest people of all classes will have no difficulty in determining which is the honest, conscientious and

patriotic reoord; which record of the unscrupulous demagogue. Let Mr. Cleveland be judged by this reoord. Let no man vote for him who expects to obtain public money by fraud and false pretense, for It is not from Cleveland that such can hope to obtain aid and comfort, however confidently they may expect it from the Harrisons and the Raums.—St. Louis Republic.