The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-20
Cnll ror moro pcnslons.

Advertisements have been sent out
from cities both east and west, that Sol
dicrs, of the war OF 1872 or their widows
can now obtain a Government pension OF
IS per month" Il was the cause Of SC
many inquiries aud applications that Com.
missioner BARREI-r,> OF the Pension dc.
plrtmeut. considered IL cXpcdient 10 Civ,
IT q notice. he says, "such representa-.
tions are wholly unwarrunted." A bill
was introduced for that purpose, but tn,
last Congress not only refused TO pass il
but the pension committee unanimously
reported adversely to it, which, as tn,
Commissioner says, leaves little room &c
expect thatwth the present heavy buTder
of national debt, this measure, SO earnestly
pressed upon every Congress during the
last eight or ten years will ever become q
law. |..
our pension system he adds, "ueyer
contemplated lie aunuities to men who
lril the service uuharmcd, or to the widows
Of such rs have once served, for a few
months or years, and afterwards died from
causes entirely disconnected with the war
The proposed enactment would have add
cl TO our pension list nearly or quite as
many iu all probability ~ the whole num-
Der already enrolled by reason of the casu-
altIes of the late war. If pensions are
granted by reason of mere service in the
war of 1872 like claims might as cquitably
be urged on behalf of those who served in
the war with McNico, and all those who,
on land or sea, aided In supprcssing the re-
cent rebellion. Whether the country can
afford to Increase, on so liberal scale, a
pension list already swelling beyond $50,
100000 per auuum | will not discuss. The
improbabiity Of amy such legislation, at
least, is manifest. ;"
Nevertheless, there Is such a scheme, now
iu haud-has been heard Of in Congress
and will be urged, by spectators in that
husincss-to enlarge the pension list for
soldiers in the rebellion, which public men,
of Judgment, declare will amount TO not
less than four hundred millions. OF this,
doubles We shall hear more, in good time
4 Tariff ON Foreign LabOrers.
\ few DAYS since the Radicals of Pitts
burg held % County Convention, at which
they passed series of resolutions one OF
which called for protection to American
iaborcrs, by Congress passing an act TO yir-
tually exclude foreigners from entering
our ports and becoming citizens, unless
they paid q tariff fee OF admission.
The utter narrow -mindedncSs ifuot pit
iul Stiffness of the idea, the Radical New
York Times comes sharply back on, by re
marking that If it j. right TO keep out OF
the country the products of foreign labor,
because, being cheaper. American labor
cannot compete with them without loss
and degradation, IL would be equally right
70 keep ont foreign labor itself
But what would then become ofthe man
ufacturing interest to which imported la
Dor is % necessity. or Of the manifold ad-
vantages which how from emigrant in.
dustry; Exclude foreign workers, and
many branches of manutacture would be
bruught to a stand stin. In the bare pro-
position the manufacturers may see one OF
the difficulties which their prohibitory
doctrine is calculated to produce They
call for protection for the sake of higher
profits, and their Worhmru call Tor protcc-
ton with view to highorwagrs. one is
as rational as the other, but they happen
not To harmonic i'm their bearing upon the
high tariff policy Of Congress.
The case has parallel la the wool trade.
The woolen manufacturers agitated for
heavy duties and got them. The wool
growers in their turn agitatcd fer protec-
lion and obtained it. Protection, in the
latter instance. however, more than neu-
tralized the advantage previously gained
by the manufacturers who would have
been better of with lower duties and raw
material imported free. The Pennsylvania
iron people may uselully note the fact be-
fore their workmen push their claim to pro-
lection much further.