Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — The Charities of the G. A. R. [ARTICLE]

The Charities of the G. A. R.

Well, words are facts, when they announce great principles. But the Order Ims something else td show. It is doing a grand and noble work in charity to the families of deceased and dependent soldiers. Bor this year the actual reported outlay exceeds $253,()b0; but if We reckon the amdhuts paid for the same purpose and never reported, ft is fait to say that not less than half a millidA dollars have been thus expended... During the sixteen yeirs from 1871 so 18i 87, the sum of 81,173,688. Cd has beeu disbursed in charities; and it is well known that one-half is not reported, there can be no exaggeration in spying that twice that amount has thus been well spent. It may, indeed, be doubted whether this Order does not give a greater percentage of its receipts, if not a larger total amount in charity, than any other organization, religious or secular. There are no distributing agents in the Order. All the money disbursed in charity is given directly to the needy recipients: the families of deceased soldiers, or those depending on soldiers Avlid, because of disease or wottiids, hre unable to provide for theif* families; and, in some insfinceS; t'/ the soldiers themselves. —Gen - Lilcius Fairchild, in The AmericAh Magazine i for November. The Rensselaer Democrat hangs, ' out A bloody shirt inscribed thus- ' ly: For President,'Grover Clevej land; for Vice-President, David ! Tu’pie, McEwen Slid Dave have often drank —milk—out of the same bottle.—Oxford Tribune.