The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-03-15
Give Them Their Due.

Daniel Robey, First Sergeant, Co. G, 169th
Ohio, Sigel, H., puts in plea for the 100-days
men. He thinks them as much entitled to
recognition as any other enlisted men in the
service.
Miles Cook, Co. B, seth Iowa, Robinson, Kan,
wonders why there should be SO much trouble
in regard to disposing of the surplus, when SO
many soldiers are kept without their just dues.
A. Vanderheyden, Ravanna Kan. is in favor
of the service pension Bill.
Leander ID. Bevan, Co E, 1st w. Va Hen
drysburg, o., is beginning to doubt whether
the old soldier has any friends among the law
makers of the Nation.
NJ. E. Billings Waverly O., thinks the bond
holder has had his day, and that now the time
of the musket-holder should come around.
l.. b. Smith, Dundee Mich, says he wonders
how many of the people who are now opposed
to pensioning the old soldiers would be willing
to be called up some dark, cold. stormy night
pack up their blankets, clothes, five days ra-
tions and 100 rounds of ammunition the whole
weighing about much as a bushel of wheat
march about 20 or 80 miles with clothes nearly
frozen to them, go into camp, hunt wood and
water build fires and get themselves something
to eat or perhaps be ordered on picket He
thinks that if they INDUCED in few such
tramps they would not refuse pension.
| Charles Butterfeld, Co. f, 31st H., Cambria,
Pa, thinks that Congress is rather slow in do
! out September, 1861, and stayed until July,
1865; was in q fights and skirmishes; wounded
| twice and taken prisoner once. He thinks the
country ought to take care of its disabled SOL
| diers.
r. Reynolds, Co. B, 18th Mich, North Lam
! sing, Mich, hopes that Congress will nota adjourn
until it has repealed the Limitation of arrears
act.
Joseph w. Norman, Co. G, list Ind, Eugene,
Ind, is in favor of pensioning every soldier
| who served the term for which he enlisted and
has reached the age of so.
| Ed. Blunt, 18th n. Y, residence not given,
wonders if it ever occurred to any of the vet
Grams who marched in the grand review at the
! close of the war, that they would be treated as
they have been by this great Government.
James G. Carnes, Co. b, 9Th Ohio, residence
not given,) complains of the injustice done the
soldiers by paying them in deprecated cur.
rency.
Erastus Smith, Toland, Mass, thinks it is
about time to stop tariff legislation and get into
the business of giving the soldiers their dues.
James n. Quicksell, Keokuk, Iowa, Endorses
the sentiments Of Comrades Brown and Creich
concerning the action OF the Ex-Prisoners OF
War Association in requiring soldier to have
been held as prisoner for period of not less
than three months in order to obtain pension
1 Henry r. Rifle, Co. @, 29th Iowa, Faulkner
| Gap, Ark, wonders why no special pension bill
is introduced in behalf of wagonmasters and
teamsters, as he contends that they did quite as
much for the Union as those who stood in line
Of battle.
s. H. Rock, Cherryvale, Kan, thinks that
Congress, instead of spending its time on river
and harbor bills, railroad bills and like meas
ures, should pay more attention to the wants o.
old soldiers, and that the man who carried
gun during the war should be pensioned a.
quickly as the widows of Major Generals are
Hiram Francisco, Co. @, 161st N. Y, Elmer
Pa, says nothing about the exploits of his regi
ment, except that it did its duty and obeyeC
orders, as its record will show. Why, he asks
does not the Government do its duty to the sol
diers as well as they did to it.
s. c. Miles, Co. C, 8th Wis.,, Stetsonville, Wis.
thinks that the soldiers who did not apply fo
pensions until the United States Treasury wa
groaning under the weight of a surplus are jus
: as much entitled to arrears as those who crowd
ed their claims upon the Nation when it wa
barely able to meet other pressing obligations
Rual Merrill, Co. b, Sd Me, Augusta, Me.
thinks that the limitation of arrears act one o.
the most ubiquitous measures ever passed b.
! Congress.
John R. Weathers, New Albany, Ind, canno
see why our statesmen fail to appreciate the in