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Abolition of Ohio's Pension Law
"If the power of the Legislature to confer an annuity upon any class of needy citizens is admitted upon the ground that its tendency will be to prevent them from becoming a public charge, then innumerable classes may clamor for similar bounties, and if not on equally meritorious grounds, still on a ground that is valid in the point of law, and it is doubted that any line could be drawn short of an equal distribution of property."...