Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-16
MRS: GRANTS PENSION.

MRS. CHANTS fbNSluN'
MILWAUKEE, Jan 2-[Speciall-The
vote of Congressman VT. Price, OF
-ttis- state, on lie question of, granting
a pension to Mis-: Grant has been the
subject of much sharp comment among
a ce%ftaid.clas of papers; among them
a Chicago daily . To this latter Con
gresham Price pays his respects in the
following letter, which is to appear i'll
the Sunday Telegraph:
Nv vote Wa disgraceful, or your at
tack was stupid, or deviiish. You
would not p%ay',Your, own money to
another unless. it were to compensate
for some service. which had been rem
dered YOU; or. some service you expect
ed 10 be renderedyt=o or as "a charitable
contribution to some N who was de-
serving and needy. AS custodian OF
another man 8 money, the same rule
would govern. GU, if-A on were honest.
excepeInat the right ofsone man, or OF
q government, To- pay money not bis
own Tor charitable purposes might be
doubted.
Applying this RUE, it would be ad-
Illtl-u tldt 4nIS. NOV bso iSh-
dered any service 10 the government,
does not propose to do So, and ls-not
all object OF CHARITY, aud it is generally
understood that she mas a property
and income of from half Il million to Il
million: dollars. AS the widow of
our. greatest general, she should, i'll
.ny Judgment, be cared for by the gov
erninent, and, if needy, she should be
relieved, side by side, and equally,
with every other widow OF
every other soldier who served in the
Uulom army. a. the widow of All ex-
president OF the United States, who
received S4OU UUJ TOR eight years SER
vice a. p, e>lteuI, aud who while acting
"a such It'll :r. vrlprst d III 10 eqIaiiZe
;.ir Duun., II o.dirr> and signed i
Dl. wuic.. I.cr-a-ed his own -alaI,
from S25,!Hu =" s5U,UOO per annum we
W iier nOthihg
n is, no DOUBT, in all respects a
most excellent ~la!y,aud there is just a.
lit e doubt that there are in ever,
school district III every northern state
many women VINO are suffering in pow
erLy, who were and are rs loyal, low
iHY. and 'Ovabl.: VINO parted wit!i
Hu>h,.ds !, WI III IhrS "ere Is much
arIat:pN.. dnt :ta oiIrr =acrifi; es / -
tls' 6 .ln;n2n god Is grea a. sue. /
Would vii niIuid from lie mantJry OIL
her distinguished husband aud MS fam
lily no good thing thai could he honest
~ given, but. |. AIN suti ieutly a dis
graceful representative to Delieve that
under our republican from Of govern
.,,,r,v Esaunrxr man has rho .irhr r., h.,
the equal al every other mani" that
'.honor and fame from no condition
rise," and that under our theory OF
government nothing is due t o position,
for the psesldeut of to-day may be the
~psth:aaster of Tomorrow, and vice
versa.
mot only believe that these distinc-
lions in favor of class are unjust, but
that they are dangerous. The tenden-
cy Oi The times, a-:shOWn by the acts
%pensipniig prtsid willows, retired
army off er,, aud officers or their
heirs. at IL higher rate than those who
rendered qaaiivgood SCI vices in q more
humble Capacity, Is one OF the most
fruitfui C iuses that lead to that feeling
of unrest aud conviction of unjus.
treatment that deye.op in cpmmn,iistic
nous. destruction of.prOperti, aid i'll
terrup:ipn of productive business en-
ter.niEeS, and iii o many: Instances OF
loss OF life.
u sF,s l"
think we ought not to have voted
tn II prtisiUni not Onty because it Was
an Injustice to the thousands of other
EJltiaY. ~. thuir, I,.i,,, ,rr,, ,,..l,-l
their con, li~inlivns. aid forl uAias.for the
same cause and with equal or greater
sacrifices, ai,a are left to grope III pow
erty and neglect i'll >qnaiid~ homes Or
cqHaty ~poor-houses. the remnant of
their lives; bnt. this government has
no money TO spare AS a nation we
owe hundreds of millions for work
done or service rendered which we do
moi p'y, and 1 lei never will, because
i'll most cases congressional legislation
necessary, and the average congress
man Is too profoundly great to attend
to the plebeian duty Of voting u sum
suffi lent to fulfill a national promise.
l Confess | AN acknowledgements"
TO believe that a man who will be in
fllenced by a sentiment to give away
money not his own, or sqaunder his
own money 10 please Il popular clainOr,
unfiI h. has paid his just debts, is a
sc"undrel, and his apologist but little
better. aud | would, apply the same
rule to the government.
Are my reasons tor that 'disgrace.
ful vote sufficient. Or must. | content
myself with standing convicted of
'~.di-gracefui' conduct by the self-con-
stiIutrh tribunaI-the editor, of 1.-The
later Ocean? | think it very proba-
BILE That you and | could not be brought
to reason alike. think it very prob
'blc rbat had you lived eighteen hun.
dred years agn You would have Joined
the murder US mob hat shouted
s.Crurirv II III! ''Crucify Him. and
tn | should have inquired, WHY cru
cif> Ham,
va say thai ini> w e "oight Ia
+erinAnue nv pnbli' career. Possibly
it .ugnt. Possibly il will. r" me
personally, thi> is II matter of no very
great ,~ulici;u'le. but | think your pre-
dictipn is no more profound than your
judgment was just; and l think 50 be-