The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-08

Increased population and larger consumption.
with financial matters settled so that business
confidence win be restored, will produce the
revenue necessary to meet the expense. Ii this
Will not DO IT. restore an income tax" which
ought TO bring into the Treasury fifty millions
year. Individual and corporate wealth
has increased in our country in the last twenty
years at rate unparalleled in the worlds history
Ii mas never paid its just share of taxes, and IN
few more decades, at the present rate of prog
ress in that direction tenth of our citizens
Will own all the property of the country. and
condision or poverty will prevail among the poor
1t has taken the money power 500 years to bring
about In Europe, and England, and Ireland.
thousands OF our comrades are poor and broken
down IN health. and the majority OF them have
long since passed the meridian, and have their
faces towards the Setting sun" of life. IL we
expect our children's children to live in and
enjoy this form of free government our fathers
brought into existence, and whose
life We defended and saved from
destruction, let this generatcn fsirly reward the
men OF 6l to 65 who periled their lives in its de-
Tense, and 1t will be ince ntive to sacrifice ana
PATRIOTISM In the future, rs history shall tell
want and poor houses by the people in their day
and generation. But no man should be COM
PEELED, who was ever a soldier, TO go on the
pension roll against his WILL and [ would sug
gest an amendment in favor of ali those who are
wealthy or 80 nigh toned" they could not or
from the passage of general pension law they
should be forever debarred, and something
thereby saved and covered into the treasury for
the benefit of those who need something more
TO hive on, than patriotism" alone, and
further provide that in order to keep all the
young women in the country from marrying
'old soldiers" have the act apply only to those
married at the time it takes effect. Comrades.
this matter Is worthy your serious and careful
thought and we should come together for con-
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united voice and action press the same upon
Congress. and get the pension system simplifed
and settled The people will sustain us when
properly informed If this session of Congress
will not give us this law, we can elect Congress
that will l regard the reopening of the arrears
act as poor measure of relief. 1t will still con-
tinue the present system in the interest of Off
Gals and claim agents, and not one soldier
IN ten Will get claim allowed under
the present technical rules of evidence. More
than seventy thousand claims are pending now
many OF them for years-and as meritorious as
any that have been paid. Too many, unfortu
nately, have soon dissipated in some way their
large first payments A moderate pension for
life would do more good and all not now on the
roll would fare alike, unless Congress should
make some special provision in future
in cases of extreme suffering. I regard the prop
osition for reopening the arrears act sop
thrown out to defeat any measure OF general
relief, though it comes from the pension commit
Tee Oh Iile W. "A H. NaLlOnal EncamDmenL COm-
rades, again let the writer urge you to immedi-
ately organizein every county and congressional
district in State. Circulate petitions which
we will furnish from this point on demand
in proper form with our bill for presentation to
Congress. A few earnest comrades in each
county can soon get thousands of signatures,
and if each soldier in Indiana will contribute
from twenty-five cents up to ST. toward defray
ing expenses we can organize this work in every
State in the Union within the present year, and
place our State again in that proud position
she occupied during the war before the com
rades. and citizens of our whole country, and
believe majority of them will stand by us In
this movement Come to the mass convention,
at Indianapolis, Feb. l6 Come not as Repubf-
cans. Democrats, partisans of any party; but
come. Come in the true spirit of comrades and
friends, and counsel together for our
country's interest in the future
At that meeting matured and definite plans for
organization and furthering our cause in Indi-
ana and elsewhere will be presented for your
consideration. 1 would suggest that in all
counties where sufficient notice has not been
given for a meeting Saturday, Feb. g.
that meetings be held the following
Saturday, Feb. 49, and arrangements
made 10 have delegates attend the convention at
Indianapolis 10th. Comrades of that city
have lvsGged themselves to assist in securing
low rates railroads and at hotels. Believing
we shall have a large and interesting conven-
ton, 1 am c. A. POWER, Thirty first Ind,
Chairman Eighth District Assn.
TERRE HAUTE, Feb. 2