| Show A CONVENTION OF CRIPPLES It is not certain that the American people do not love a sat of resounding resolutions quite as much > as liberty itself in fact some oE them seem to think that resolutions about liberty are the same thing as liberty itself The great place for the making cf resolutions resolu-tions is conventions and so the country coun-try has conventions of all kinds The only thing necessary to get a convention con-vention is to have enough people who have a grievance or a grudge of one kind or another in communication with I each other and the thing is determined upon But the strongest kind of a convention I conven-tion yet proposed is that of cripples The first national gathering of the kind Will meet in St Louis on the 30th inst It is expected that when the meeting is called to order there will be at least nix thousand delegates present pres-ent each one of whom will be a cripple crip-ple none others will be entitled to a seat in the hall The originator of the gathering is a flagman named William R Tower It is to be a grand affair the President of the United States the governor of Missouri Mr Bryan and others hating been invited Just what the purpose of the convention is is not stated but that it will be a momentous affair is made certain by the fact that there are to be speeches and certainly resolutions It is not at all improbable improb-able that a demand for pensions will be made The sight win be unique yet afterall It will be a sad one as it always is to see a man who was created in Gods image become deformed or crippled One would think that those who are afflicted through disease or accident would not can to assemble in numbers num-bers so large as to draw special attention atten-tion to them J |
