Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-05

Shocked at the shameful frauds perpe-
trated upon the treasury by pension
claimants, Mr. Cleveland has entered
upon career of vetoes unparalleled in
the history of the government. He is
stirred to indignation and sarcasm and
vetoes by the efforts of chronic-diaThpa
soldiers to obtain pensions He raises
the power of the veto between the des-
plcable victim Of chronic rheumatism
and sore eyes, and the sacred treasury.
That the scoumdels have been able to
convince members of Congress of the
justice of their claims and that medical
authority will support the theory of their
disability. makes no impression upon the
adamantine honesty Of the President. He
grows sarcastic over soldiers terrific
encounter with the measles, p" and is hi
larious over the claim that this disease
settled in his eyes and also affected his
spinal column although such a claim
is not unreasonable. He has contempt
for disease that cannot be discovered
Except by chemical tests, although
such disease may be most serious and
mcurable He ScornS rheumatism in
man who weighs 1856 pounds, although
the medical profession has not discov-
cred that this incapacitating disease is
limited to light-welghts. He presumes
that a soldier killed by a blow in Gin
cinnati must have been engaged in an
alteration disgraceful to him, although
there is no evidence to support the pre-
sumption; and that the government
owes nothing to the widow Of man who
is killed while absent from camp with
leave. Short work, with cheerful light
ness, is made of the claims of these
WretcheS.
But as for the Pan-Electric stock
jobbers, impecunious Southern politi-
clans engaged in making free-gift stock
ahle-that'S another matter The
pension bills passed by Congress this
session would involve an expenditure of
some 100000. This is to be saved to
the government by the veto of the bills
OF the rapacious soldiers. The cost of
the Pan-Electric litigation for the bene-
tit OF Attorney Gen. Garland and other
Democratic office-holders will be about
$500, 200. The government can spare
that much to aid the stock-iobbers to
bleed the Bell company.
The President sits up nights to find
flaws in the case sf applicants for pen
slons. But he did not take time to dis
cover that in the suits undertaken to
aid the stockholders, 1.-THE government
has not been secured against costs"
by the stockholders, ''as is customary
In such suits, says the Missouri Demo-
cratic member of the investigating COM
mittee.
Tho treasury must be protected from
the assaults of chronic iarrhea soldiers
who haven't presented absolute proof of
the origin of their diseases; but the
treasury may be bled to pay the ex-
pense of litigation for the benefit of the
stockholders
The President has an easy skepticism
regarding the honorableness of pension
applicants, but an easy credulity con-
corning the honesty of an attorney
general who is loaded with free-gift
telephone stock.
And the Democratic party will 90 be-
fore the country on the issue of PEN
sions-the character of the advisers of
the President and of the conduct of the
department of justice to make no figure
as an issue. The Democratic issue
will be 1.-THE great American vetoer''
and the providing tor special taxes to
pay the 100000 in pensions voted by
Congress; but not the Pan-Electric scan
dial and the paying of 100000 for the
stockholders which is not provided for
by special taXes.-1NiloOdltkee Sentinel.