Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-03-01

machinists, clerks, printers, mill men,
or laborers neither get nor expect any
pension? The large majority Of men
in this country receive less than $500
per year for their services, and if any
accident happens to them, they have to
bear the loss themselves.
A member of the United States SUI
preme Court receives salary of S10,.
900 per year, and when he retires at q
certain age, pension is allowed him
the rest of his life. General Grant, the
most colossal public beggar of the
world, is now trying to get placed on
the retired list. He wants the work.
ingmen who get less than $500 year
to pay him sl2,750 pension. General
Fitz John Porter expects to receive
$4,000 as back pay, and for time
when he did no work for the country
Congress thought Mrs. Lincoln was
starving on pension of $4,000 pei
year, and, consequently, they increased
the pension to $4,000 per year.
A colonel in the army gets from
$500 to $4,000 per year, and after he
retires from service, he gets pension
of from s2,625 to $3,375 per year. A
captain in the army gets from 81 1900
to $500 yearly, and after he leaves
the service he receives a pension OF
from $3.50 to 1880 per year. A
second lieutenant gets from 81 400 to
$1,000 per year, and after he retires
from active duty, he receives pension
of from 81, $50 to 81 ,470.
A man working in a saw mill during
summer, and in the lumber woods du-
ring winter, is very fortunate if he
gets for his labor during the year, the
sum of $500. If he gets hurt in the
mills, or has tree fall on him, or a
log rolls over him, how much pension
does he getl If no accident happens
to him and he works faithfully at his
hard work Of eleven hours per day,
until he is SO advanced in years as to
be unfit for further labor, how much
pension does he get when he retires
from active service?
Captain Eads wants Congress to put
S50,000,000 tax on the people so that
he can build railway in a foreign
country. John Roach, the ship-build-
err, wants several millions of dollars
from the people so that he can make
money building and running ships. A
New York clique are expecting Con-
gress to vote them hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in order that they can
run line Of ocean steamers from Long
Island to England. The pension ar
reages will place tax on the people of
a good many hundred million dollars.
The men who made immense fortunes
out of the people, while Robson was
Secretary of the Navy, during the cor
rupt and infamous Grant rule, are lay
ing plans to steal millions more Of the
peoples money.
All these pensions, all these stealings,
all the bonuses TO steamers, are paid
by the VOL kers who toll OH their farms,
in their factories and mills, in their
Offices, at the work bench, in the lum-
Der woods, before the mast, on the
drive, and by men in every other
branch of business.
Why can not q Judge of the Supreme
Court, with a yearly salary of $4,000,
save enough to keep him when he is
too old to do any more work? Why
can not a colonel in the army with
yearly income of from $4,000 to 81, 500,
save sufficient to keep him when he
leaves the army on account Of old age?
Why should General Grant, who Is
rich, be made burden to the people Z
Why should General Potter get sl15,-
900 from the people for nothing? Why
should certain vessel men be made rich
at the expense of the people, and why
does the Republican party delight in
keeping the people so heavily burdened
with taxes?