Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Country Corrupted by Republican
Systcms-The Army.
Thurman and His Ohio Chances Dunn
Of Arkansas and Kelley Of
Pennsylvania,
In the Army rs In Business and Social
life Republicanism Fosters "A
Splendid Aristocracy.

| Special Correspondence OF the unzette.
WASHINGTON, June @. - The
thorough compatibility of the whole
population Of n country is illustrated
la the universally of demands for
augmented pensions. Pensioners were
paid an average of from 81, 800 to s., 500
In cash aud thenceforward from 81
to $25 per month each, while wounded
or retired officers were set up for life
with monthly stipends that
would appease the greed of
German poblemen. The retired
nobility of all sorts, judges. naval and
army officers, addicted to life I'm the
capital, have taken possession of
fashionable ab0des In western districts
of Washington, which, like the west
end of London, is the chosen seat of
| American fashion and splendor. These
admirable gentlemen are hoi aristoi,
who dance ut royal festivals OF the
White House. They are strapped for
life on the backs of taxpayers,
bearing each his share of the
burden patiently, since he never
knows how much it costs of toll
and money to endure it. The tariff,
therefore, rs argued by the Republic
caus. is u blessing in disguise.
A QUEER PETITION TO CONGRESS.
The most extraordinary paper ever
presented to congress, in view of these
facts, was an address to congress pre-
sented yesterday aud sent up
from the Coleman Asbuiy
post of the Grand Army of
/ ha Da,,,,l,ltn VI.
is 80 iull Of facts aud suggestions en-
bodied In one or two letters from
| Washington that have appeared in
The GAZETTE that | am inclined to
quote it in its entirety:
| Whereas, the senate of the United States
| has passed reso ution TO placs Gen. IT, \.
| Grant ON the retired list of the army, with
fan rank and pay OF general of the army;
And whereas, the said zen. Grant has been
| highly honored by the people of the United
| States, insomuch tnat he has been twice
| elect ed to the honored position of president
| OF the United states, Tor which services as
| president Gen Grant received the Inuguih.
| cent sum of }00,ODO;
| disposed cl liens of the cities OF New York
and Philadelphia have subscribed aud placed
| IN trust II further magnificent sum OF So 900
| Tor the bsnent of said Gen. Grant, from which
| lie receives AN annual income OF over sl5On:
| And whereas, the said Gen. Grant retired
from the army OF his own free will, and In
fore be ii
Resolved that we hereby offer our remon-
STRANGE against the passage OF said bill, and
| condemn the action of each and every sena.
| tor who voted FOR 1t, be he Democrat or Re
| publican.
If this paper had emanatsd from a
Southern source Sherman and Hoar
would haye burst loose on Danville
and Copiah and slung the bloody
shirt with frantic vehemence. But
these old soldiers of Ohio have been
reading The GAZETTE, and proceed to
say that the passage of the senate bill
pensioning u, S. Grant would be an
Outrage upon the memory of those
gallant comrades who fell In the front,
and whose widows are to-day eking
out n miserable existence on the beg
carly sum of IS per month. and upon
his ruined and crippled comrades
whose small pensions are no just COM
pensation for the loss they nave sus-
tained." The project Is also declared
to be an outrage upon all those thou
sands of soldiers "who, through the ex-
posures incident to camp and army
life, received disabling and permanent
injuries to health and happiness" and
are now drawing pensions ranging from
81 to So month for disabilities, and the
, many thousands who, having like
Gen. Grant returned home sound in
body and health" are "too patriotic to
ask for or even except pension" No.
, content with special remonstrance
, against the proposed retirement oil
. Gen. Grant, Coleman Asbury
: post also. passed a general reso
luton in regard to army
retirements. 1t declared that
g the whole scheme and system o.
army retirements' Is "pernicious and
detestable," ''portentous of mon.
the ultimate overthrow of those prin.
ciples for which our revolutionary
; fathers fought"
, WEST POINT AssAILED.
! THE GAZETTE had already stated
: that West Point, originally established
G as charity school, had become the
p breeding-place for lace. bedizened
govefnment-maintain nobility. II
' Is now the great high school through
8 whose philosophy and instincts the
4 republic Is transformed into the EN-
pire, even as another West Point CAV,
the French republic another emperor.
" HABITS OF A LIFETIME.
y The cultured selfishness and habit.
y OF rank and. of unquestioning ODE
a dience, on the one hand, and of SUI
preme authority ON the other, produce
class OF men who can have no proper
T. sphere of action or of thinking In ,
(. republic, and Tom Benton was wises
4 and truest of American tatesmen wher
!, he declared that West Poilt should b,
l. abolished. Tue West Point produc
e, Is educated Mt the cost of the federal
v treasury and the cost is simply enor
:, nous. This Is not all. 1.-THE schola
= by charity" Is still maintained, fec
ana clothed by the more than paterna
lie government. Salaried sinecures avail
IL ch elevee efthe eleemosynary institu
10 ton. The Interstate war came. Wes
Pointers monopolized offices, honor
and preferments. West Point bore M
muskets, dug no bitches. 1t common
~ "snuffed the battle from afar. J
Honors and promotions were thrus
n. upon II, while common soldiers wer
Or hurled, as at Missionary Ridge, agains
Is massed batteries aud each solid sho
ST from each gun was only arrested In IL,
II course when 1t could no longer fore
IS It's way through ribs aud skulls a
I'd common soldiers, and when thi
IS wholesale slaughter was only arrestet
lie because Gods goodness put into tn
is hearts Of the rebel brlgades n
TX distant point on the ridge /,
~ ny when no man pursued, whe,
Ia such Incidents We're COMMONPLACE ii
"A, Illustrations of tho raia,i,,a 80. -