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The National tribune., 1888-03-08
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KINNEY.-Albert Kinney Co. r, 5sth Pa, died
Feb S, after a short illness. He received three
wounds in action, the last being in the head, which
at times somewhat impaired his mind. His re-
mains were laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery
Tionesta, Pa, by George Stone Post, No. 274, OF
which he was a charter member.
CRITTENDEN.-Deles 8. Crittenden, 2lst Mich
died Feb. s. at Grand Rapids, Mich
DASIELs.-Francis Daniels, It'll Mieh., died at the
Soldiers Home, Michigan. Dec. q.
MUNFoRD.-Willam III. Munford, Battery d, LIST
Mich L. A. died at Girard. Mich, Dec. 8.
VesBURG.-Capt. Barnard Vosburg, 18th Mich
died Dec % at his home in Gslesburg Mich.
HAzEI.-Died At his home in Creston Iowa Jan
49, John A. Hazel, Sergeant, Co. /. 10th Wis, of
disease contracted while in the service. Comrade
Hazel was an upright and honorable citizen re-
speoted by all who knew him. He was buried by
Union Post AL of which he was a member
REEL-John Reel Co. j, lied Pa died jan %
at Stoyestown Pa. aged 43 years, of disease con-
tracted during the war He leaves widow and
seven children. He was member of Reuben Fer
ner Post, No. Sls and was buried by THAT Posi-
BIkckMER-Died at his home IN West Brook
field Mass, Rufus L. BlaekmeT. Co d. 4th Mass.
Cav on the 27th Of january, of disease contracted
In the army. Comrade BlsekmeT was 60 years OF
sge. and was buried with military honors by Alan
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

SENATOR GEORGE GRAHAM VEST, who
is bitterly opposing the Disability Pension
Bill, was a secessiOnist leader in 1851, and as
member of the Missouri Legislature did all
that lay in his power to drag that State out
of the Union. He subsequently sat in the
Confederate House of Representatives for
Missouri for tive years, and in the Confederate
Senate for one year. His hatred for Union
soldiers dates from the time that they, I'M
der the Leadership of Gen. Lyon, foiled him
and his accompiiees in their design of carry
ing Missouri into the so=called Southern Con-
federaey. A Missouri rebel, and particularly
one who did not do any fighting himself, is
the rankest enemy that the Union veteran
can have.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08
1NTRIGUEs OF THE REVENUE TINKER.

INTRIGUEs OF THE REVENUE thinkers.
The motive of the revenue thinkers in try
ing TO rush through bill reducing the
revenue $82, 000, 900 before any pension legis-
lation is considered, is clear enough. It is to
defeat all pension legislation by having no
money with which to pay pensions.
This is what we have continually warned
our readers against. 1t is part of the plan
concocted long before this Congress met, and
is the offspring of the unholy paramouring
between the free-trade and the soldier-hating
clans which, at the last session, secured the
defeat of the Dependent Pension Bill.
1t requires no prophet to foretell the fate
of all manner of pension legislation if the
revenue thinkers can carry this scheme
through. There viii no longer remain a
shadow of hope of securing additional PEN
sion legislation of any kind or character.
All prospect of rescuing the disabled veter-
ans from the poorhouses, of securing Just
arrears, of equalizing bounties, of properly
providing for the widows, orphans and de-
pendent parents of veterans, and for other
equitable measures will be at an end.
The thing to do is for every veteran and
friend of the veterans to at once vigorously
protest against any tampering with the
revenue until law is enacted carrying into
effect the recommendations of the GAR.
National Pension Committee. Let the re-
Spouse be immediate aud emphatic Lei
every Senator and Representative hear al
once from his constituents as to their views
on this most important matter.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08
A CoAIPARrsnN-

The bOndholders lent the Government
deprecated promises to pay dollars worth
about 35 cents On the dollar.
When the GovernmentsettIedu up with them
itmagnanimously decided to pay them in gold
dollars worth 100 cents That is, it repaid
them about three times what it borrowed
from them
Every year the average soldier was in the
army be gave the Government services that
would have commanded outside of the army
about $780, For these the Government paid
him about $3.50.
To treat him as fairly as the bOndholder
has been treated, he would be entitled to
about $500 more for every year he served, OF
81 200 for three years service.
Multiplying this by 232O,272, the number
of men in the army reduced to a three.
years standard, we have. 2,784, 326 400, Oh
nearly four times as much as the total ex
penditures for pensions up to date. Every
dollar Of this sum is just as much due-tt
say the least-the soldiers, as the differenc,
between IS cents and 100 cents was due tht
man who lent the Government money.
Until the Government has paid the vet
Grams as literally a. it has the bondholders
no one has the right to complain of the siz
of the pension bills.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

Every one spplauds the financial wisdom
which brought about the reduction of the
public debt from $2,77s, $4,000, which it
was at the close of the war, to 1868, O92, 200,
which it is to-day.
Every one praises the craftsmanship Of our
public men in steadfastly adhering to the
debt-paying policy until more than 81 500
100000 of the principal was paid OF, though
to do so required the patient bearing of
enormous burdens by the people. Every one
expresses admiration of the sterling honesty
ofthepeople in cheerfully enduring taxation
which elogged, fettered and bore down upon
every one of them every day of their lives
which even reached their kitchens and their
sick-rooms their churches and their offices !;
which advanced the price of every box of
matches, every prescription they had filed
at the drug store.
IF it was so praiseWOrthy to pay off two
thirds of the principal of the debt-eYen at
such enormous inconvenience to the people,
who were recovering from the arrangements
and embarrassments of the warmly is it
not equally laudable to go on and finish up
the work of paying the debt of, especially
since it can be done without inconvenience
to the peopleP
The generation which fought the wal
through paid off twO-thirds of the debt, with
an enormous amount of interest why should
not the generation which is now coming
upon the stage pay off the remaining third
There are twice the people in the country
now that there was at the close of the war
and at least four times the property. 1t i
consequently vastly easier for this genera
ton to pay of the thousand millions ye
due, than it was for the generation of wa
times to pay off the two thousand million
which has been paid.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

AMONG the many active and faithful
friends of the Union soldier and his rights
in the present Congress, none are showing
themselves more useful than Col Oscar L.
jackson, of Pennsylvania. His ability as
lawyer and debater made him more promi-
nent in the last Congress than most new
men, and now, on his second term, he has
the great advantage of the experience in the
former sessions Our people are only Just
beginning TO learn the great advantage of
continuing experienced men in Congress for
longer terms. The South found that out
long ago, and it is, perhaps, about the only
good thing in which they have been supe-
rior to the North. Col. Jackson has In his
speeches urged Congress that if the Govern
ment would pay promptly its honest debts,
pass laws to do justice to the soldier and his
dependent relatives, and make proper and
reasonable appropriations for needful public
improvements, that there would be no larger
surplus in the Treasury than there ought 10
be; that our pension laws are not liberal
and not even just; that the wounds, expos
ure and service of the soldier be recognized
by additional legislation. He favors a tariff
for the protection of all American industries
and products against foreign pauper compe.
ton. AS member of the Committee or
Public Lands, he advocates laws to pre-
serve the public lands exclusively for home
steads for our own citizens Col Jackson was
four years soldier, and severely wounded
in battle He served with the Western army
from the first year of the war to. the marcl
to the sea and through the Carolinas witt
Sherman.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08
TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH s, 1855.
ARTICLES FORTHCOMING

LEREBEL PRISONS 4 Story Of one Of
Col Stracffs officers, Lied. FR. Willis,
5la nd
hrs. sCszE SITTOE; or, The Yankee
Soldiers HYs. By james &. Aagie, 7sth
III
MATzG0RDA BAY-7Hs Thirteenth Corps
a. Tsras IA 1853. By Z. B. LaJkiH, Co. Il
18Th lie. BIeld BE.
zETHE V4LLEK-T1e Shenandoah Cam
paiga al 1862. By Gen Henry CapehaTfi
Fargo Oak.
on TO EICHTOED.-A Graphic Narratirc
Of Cagssre and Captivity, By George b
Craaz3ord, Co G, Isl ". ID HsIs5Hrg, W. Ia
HAWKLHSS Z0UAVES-Ta First Bayo-
net Charge. b j. T. T. IT iiiaey, Sergeant
Co. 3, 9ia l. J., BeD York Gig.
PORT HUDS0K-A Spirited account o
this Important Siege oi.d Battle. By WiJbe'
T. Wo5jaT, LampGsas, Ter.
PICK AND SHOTEL.-Campaigniag 'gi1
tie Engineers. By Waller u. HdrceIs, Co
D,59a T. Z. Eng, LelaistOh, Pa.
czHABA PRLS0K-Ll-e oad Death IA fiji
Place OF Confinement. By Q. j. 7teaanaa
LEHLSBJ RG.-Ca Campaigning and Fighting
"a West T7Tgiaia. By JoSm T. Booth, Ser
eeant. Co. C, 36H Ohio EafweH, o.
DURANT'S AILL.-A part Of the Peacl
Tree Greek series Of battles in The AHant,
campaign. By John AlgOe, AGjataEt, lot
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The National tribune., 1888-03-08
WORK OF THE Pension OFFICE.

During the week ending March 3, 1888,
5,293 claims were received, of which 1880
were original invalid; 429 widows; war of
1872; bounty land; 80 navy; 3 old war /;
113 on account of Mexican service, and {, S74
applications for increase.
The receipt of mail matter during the
week was 81, 766; 42,265 letters and circu-
lars were sent out. The names and post
Office addresses of 5,613 officers and COM
rades were furnished for the use of claim
ants. The number of medical examinations
reported during the week was 2,915. The
amount of fees for the same was So, s09.5e,
an average cost of $4.39 per examination
Report of certificates issued during week
ending March 3, 1888: Original, 1,242; in
crease, 634 reissue, 119; restoration, 80; du-
plicate, Is; accrued, II; arrears, 0; Act OF
March 3, 1888, 1; Order of April 3, 1884, 8;
Act of March 3, 1885, 0; Order Oct. z, 1885,
2; Act of Aug. A, 1885, 2; Supplemental,
Act Aug 4, 1886, g.; Mexican war, 458; total,
1852. Reissue same date, 1.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

The Congressional investigation of trusts,
which is now going on with much parade
and clatter, is not panning out at all in pro-
portion to the noise made. Whether or not
the shrewd gentlemen who manage the
trusts have anything of real importance to
tell the public, it is quite certain they are
not telling it, and do not propose to. The
probability is that they have little Of real
importance to tell. Much of the clamor
about them is mere bugaboo. In country
SO full of able, enterprising men as ours, a
trust is not likely to be oppressive for
any length of time There are too many men
eager to make fortune to allow anybody
else long continuance of undue profits. Az
soon as one combination is seen to be getting
rich too fast another combination Ia sure to
spring up to force division.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

When Messrs. Vest, Berry, Bradley john
son & Co. are denouncing the Union veter-
ans and the pension expenditures, they for
get one selfish reason why they should De
eternally grateful to the men whom they
villify. They forget one reason why they
should never weary in extolling the persist
emit fortitude of the boys in blue.
This reason is, that if the Union soldiers
had not fought as determinedly as they did,
the seeding States would to-day be groan-
ing under load of indebtedness which
would be incomparably greater in proper
ton to theirresourcest than the debt which the
war imposed on the United States.
While carrying on the struggle the so
called Southern Confederacy and the States
composing it contracted debts with the ut
most recklessness. They borrowed money
from whoever would lend, and at whatever
rate of interest was asked. They issued
bonds and notes like the leaves of the forest
| and palmed them off on whoever would
take them, and at any price that could be
got for them. No one has any definite ides
how much Confederate and State money
and bonds was put afoat during the strug
gle. But one thing is cerain, and that is
had the Confederacy succeeded, every acre
of ground south of the Potomac would have
been mortgaged to the third and fourth
generation, or else there would have beer
wholesale and shameless reputation to ge
clear of the crushing incumbrance.
The patient valor of the boys in blu
solved the problem much more satisfactorily
They crushed the Confederacy into hope
less ruin; they refused to admit that it o
anything connected with it, or in support o
it, ever had shadow of legality, and so witt
their keen swords they cut the enormou
burden from the backs of their defeated foe
men and made it possible for them to begil
life anew, unhampered by the consequence
of their own folly and wickedness.
This alone should have won them the life
long gratitude of the Confederates, and mad
the latter eager to vote for any pension bill
that might be proposed.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

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postal moncV order, or drGft on Ae1o
York ariI3 be al the risk Of The sender.
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only on receipt Of the subscription DTice.
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Be charged as often as desired bat each subscriber
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-ene,rirq subscribers sosd Be care to send ts the
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TscS0us or changes they desire made ia sarle or adj
dress.
CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence Is solicited
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The National tribune., 1888-03-08
ONE RULE For BOTH.

The only people who seem TO be able to
eat their cake and still have it" are the
bondholders. They can lend their money
to the Government and still have it to lend
to some one else.
When dealing with the bondholder-with
the man who lent the Nation money-law,
usage, precedent and official discretion must
all be interpreted in his favor with the ut
most iberality. When dealing with the
man who gave the Nation what money could
not buy and what money cannot now replace,
law, usage, precedent and official discretion
must all be interpreted rigidly against him.
In dealing with the money-lender the
main question is as to how far the law will
allow to be gone in giving him. In dealing
with the veteran the question is as to how
far the law viii allow to be gone in refusing
him.
All that we ask is that the same rule be
applied to both classes of the Governments
creditors. Deal ont exactly the same meas
ure of justice to the veteran as to the money.
lender. We applauded paying the bond
holder every dollar that the most liberia
construction of his account gave him. Lee
the same treatment be melted out to tn,
veteran.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08
A CRrsHrse REJoTNDER.


The reply of Senator Teller, Of Colorado,
to Senator Vest, of Missouri, who was prating
about the immensely of the pension expend-
itures, was conclusive and crushing.
1t was plain, business-like answer to a
mass of rodOmontade, and collapsed the
vapory rhetoric like sword thrust in an in
f1ated balloon.
1t is true, as Senator Teller said, that the
pension expenditures are and have been very
large, but they are trihing compared to the
other expenditures occasioned by the cause
less war into which Senator Vest. and those
for whom he spoke, plunged the country.
In the $9OOO,OOO,OOO, which Senator Teller
showed that the war cost, the $80O,OOO0oO
for pensions make small figure indeed.
They bear about the same proportion to the
whole that nine cents does to dollar.
There was another immense item in the
cost of the war which Senator Teller might
have included, but did not. This is the loss
in wages, business profits, ETC., of the men
who abandoned everything to go into the
army, and the loss to the broken-down mer
of their wage-earning ability by reason o.
the hardships of their service. It would bt
moderate estimate, indeed, to place this a
a million dollars, for that would only make
an average loss of $500 for every man whC
enlisted for three years.
Senator Teller made these enormous fig
ures more easily comprehended by illustrat
ingwhata billion ofdollars would do, and ros
to magnificent climax when he pointed on
that he could build every mile of railroad
now in the country, build every station alonl
those roads, put on the roads every car, en-
CINE and other equipment that they nov
have, build substantial schoolhouse 70
every so children in the country, dig tn
Hennepin, Florida and Nicaragua canals
and still not expend one-half of the none
which the rebellion of the Shareholders cos
the people!
OF this enormous expenditure the peopl
who were loyal to the Government have pal
certainly four-ffths, and they have done
cheerfuIly. Strict justice, and the custom {
Nations would have imposed a large pol
ton, if not all, of the burden upon til
men who begun the war without excuse, an
waged it with such persistent destructive
ness. But the loyal people magnanimousl
took vastly the greater portion of the bul
den upon themselves, and have borne it III
complainingly. 1t is base return for tn
splendid generosity to have unrepentar
rebelslike Vestnow fighting the doing ofscan
justice to the men who were broken down
saving the country. Where the men VIII
were in the rebellion have paid one dolls
into the pension fund, the loyal people haV
paid thousand in discharging the indeb
edness which the wickedness of the revol
ing slaye-owners foisted upon the country.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

The comrades of New York are more than
pleased with the administration of Depart
ment Commander Geo. II. Treadwell, which
has just closed. When he entered upon his
duties he found the Department 81 600 in
debt, which has been paid off and balance
of $500 is now in its treasury. This is
only one, however, of the good results at
tanned by Maj. Treadwel's able manage
ment.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

UNDER the encouragement of protective
duty of 10 cents a bushel, the production of
barley in this country has been increased
from 15,e25, 1893 bushels in 1870 to $4,000, 900
bushels in 1885, or almost exactly quad
rupled This result seems to be well worth
all that it cost
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

WIS senator's Vest and Hampton stated
that tac South" has PAID s290, 100000 Of
the ss00,0o0,oOO expended for pensions they
abused their position IN that august body to
give authority TO statement that is not
based on facts. The South that is the
South which sided with the rebellion, and
for which Messrs Vest and Hampton pre-
tended to speak-has not paid one-tenth
part Of The 100000 600, either directly OF
indirectly, lor the simple reason that they
never bought AID used more than an insig
nihcznt po1ss0a Of the goods which wer'
taxed for raising the money the Government
needed. This is 50 clear to every thinking
man that NessTs. Vest and Hampton insul
the intelligence Of the common people whei
they make their prePOsterous statement.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

SENATOR MAEDERsOS's speech was q
magnificent effort IN behalf Of justice to the
veterans, ard his conduct Of the debate was
even finer. The Senator Is as able CON-
Blatant 10 the intellectual arena as he used
to be Oh the battlefield. and the opponent:
OF the Disability Pension Bill found him
more than ready 70 meet them al every point
lie was never caught uHprepared by an.
proposition sprung upon him, but met i
fairly, fully and Overwhelmingly. He ha
added very much to his reputation as
brilliant and effective debater.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

MUCH interest is felt in q new invention
fOr manufacturing sugar from sorghum,
which a company formed in Boston is to
push. 1t is claimed that by If sorghum
sugar can be made cheaper and of better
quality than the sugar imported from Cuba.
Anything that promises 10 relieve us Of the
enormous drain Of sl00.0Oo.0OO cash every
year which we send out Of the country for
sugar and nlolasses viii be welcomed. We
must raise our sugar on our own land.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

SENATOR DAVIS is very young in legis-
latiVe experience, but he handled himself
and the Disability Pension Bill with the
Ekiil Of a veteran during the debate. The
State Of Minnesota made no mistake when
ii sent him TO represent it in the Senate.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08
"oARLEToN.S

The concluding article of Carleton" on
the operations which led up to the siege of
Petersburg, which should have appeared in
this weeks paper, wss crowded out by the
report of the debate in the Senate on Che
Disability Pension Bill. 1t viii appear next
week.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

FoR every dollar that Messrs. Vest and
Hampion's south has paid into the pen
mon fund she has received 1000 IN the way
Of protection 70 her rice swamps, tobacco
fields and sugar plantations and appropria-
lions TO render nayigable creeks and bayoul
which are only safely nayigable by catfish
and trout
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

TIE Canadian lumbermen are reported TO
be highly pleased with the proposition to
pat lumber on the free list Naturally they
should be. The struggling farmers of this
country, who are trying to make the stave-
bolts, hoOp-stulI, handle, spoke-and-h hub tim
Der they cut on their farms help pay of the
mortgages given at purchase, are not nearly
60 delighted as the Kanuck timber-lords.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08

If each subscriber to THE NATIONAL
4RLBUEE aetH charge himself NTH getting
one aew subscriber The circulation Of the paper
sciH be doubled at once and Nth little trouble.
Let each Subscriber try e.
The National tribune., 1888-03-08
TRIBUNETS.

Strange, when one gets q rasping letter 10
does not help matters to file t.
What is the matter with George Francis
Train? When the Anarchists were hanged
and ne was banished from Chicago he wa
going 70 have the city perish in seas Of blood
and oceans Of fame before the next change Of
the moon, but nothing worse has happened
than q few billiards which have knocked over
soma ehimneys. George Francis does not ap-
parently have his hand on the throttle-valYs
Of the world to the extent that he imsgines.
The Alabama penitentiary "a haunted By =
murderers ghost, which nightly ascends the
scaffOId in the yard and hangs itself, to the iR-
tense terror Of the eonvicts, who have ali sud.
denly become very religious, and spend their
leisure time In singing hymns and praying.
There is more decency and good sense sbOub
this ghost than any we ever heard Of, for the
only meaning that can be given the visitation
is that after reaching the other world the mur-
derer became thoroughly awakened to bis bad
ness while here, and realized that ons hanging
was utterly insufficient expiration for his mani.
fold evil deeds. So he has come back TO Try 70
even things up little better.
ON THE sCAFFOLD.
The gentleman NTH his hands and legs tis3 To-
gsthsr: Look here, Sheriff, yOu really Oughs
to keep those doors shut. You know my lungs
are very delicate, and almost any exposure a
liable 70 bring on pneumonia"
The National tribune., 1888-03-08
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s rises up at the note az
the alarm-eloek, and
skaters his nerves and
health by loss Of sleep.