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a class of citizens unjustly because of the conditions
prescribed on which the pension is to be paid. If
that contention is good, you must open the doors of
the lunatic asylums, the feeble-minded institute, the
blind asylum, the deaf and dumb asylum, the State
Normal Schools, and cease the appropriation of
money to the Children's Home Society, because the
State appropriates hundreds of thousands of dollars
each year to these institutions, and in each case con-
ditions are prescribed before the individual to be
benefitted by these charities, can receive the benefit
of the law creating them. It will not do to say that
these institutions are open to all the citizens of the
State because no one can become an inmate of, or
a beneficiary of, the provisions made for these insti-
tutions, except upon the conditions prescribed. And
an overwhelming majority of the people of the State
do not come within these conditions. Beside that,
these institutions are provided for the benefit of a
special class in each case, that is, separate and dis-
tinct from the balance of the people of the State, and
they have not, nor are they expected, ever to render
any public service.
    Furthermore, if it is unconstitutional to grant
a special privilege to any man or set of men, and this
third section of the Bill of Rights shall be strictly
construed, then every lawyer in Kentucky must sur-
render his license, for that license grants him a
privilege for no public service in the world to any-
body, but to enable him to practice his profession
for personal gain. The same rule would apply to
all doctors, pharmacists, school teachers, and in fact,
to every citizen of the State who is licensed to do a
business to the exclusion of the great mass of the peo-