Schroll, Andrew (Died 1887)

SCHROLL

Posted By: Linda Linn (email)
Date: 3/14/2011 at 08:54:49

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
3-18-1887

A. Schrall [Andrew Schroll], a veteran of the late war, is dead. He has been the victim of a lingering disease, the seeds of which were planted when he was enduring the hardships of war. He is the second old soldier to die in LeMars within the month, A. J. Riffle being the other. The Army Post here furnished watchers at their bedsides during the night time for weeks before they died. They are of the class for which the pension bill, vetoed by Grover Cleveland was intended to help. They were among those whom the president sneered at as paupers, and whom few democrats in the house denounced as lazy, shiftless imposters. Too many of them living yet, said Grover and then vetoed the bill. When the government was in great distress, they flew to its relief; when they had to give up the battle for bread, because health and strength had gone, the government, saved by their sacrifice, flung the sasest insults in their face. This is the cash value of patriotism, under a democratic administration, handicapped by the old confederacy.

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