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III MEANS DEATH TO PENSION LEGIsLA-
TION

No one must deceive himself about reve-
nue. reduction. It means death to all fur
Their pension legislation. 1t can mean
nothing else No sophistry or hypocrisy
can obscure this foundation fact. If there
is no income with which to pay pensions no
pensions will be voted by Congress.
If it is difficult to get pension legislation
through when the Treasury is full to burst
ing with idle money, what chance will there
be when the Golfers are emptied, and every
proposition for legislation will have to be
accompanied by bill for the imposition of
new taxes to meet the expenditures
There is absolutely no reason why pension
legislation should not take precedence of all
legislation looking toward the reduction of
the revenue. The need of the veterans is
great and immediate They cannot, from
the very nature of things, wait, for death is
too near many of them. Whatever is to be
done for them must be done at once, or they
will be beyond reach.
On the other hand, there is no pressure
from any great interest for revenue redue-
ton. 1t is not shown that anyone is suffer
ing because of the need of such reduction.
On the contrary, statistics show that every
interest which would be affected by it is
now highly prosperous, while there is a
grave fear that tampering with the revenues
may destroy that prosperity.
Pension legislation has been perfected by
10 years of earnest and exhaustive consid-
Grafton. and is entirely ready for passage.
Everyone is substantially agreed as to what
it should be, Even the actual language OF
the bills has been settled by long continued
discussion and an agreement of all parties
in interest.
On the other hand, revenue reduction is a
matter upon which there is the widest dis
agreement, even among its most devoted
supporters. One wing of the party which
~ committed 10 III wants 10 reduce the
revenues on imports and retain those de-
rived from distilled and malt spirits. The
other wing wants TO do the opposite. Every
Free Trader in Congress wants to retain full
protection on the articles which his con-
stituency produce, while taking it off those
which are staple industries in other Districts.
Each is full of assertions and recriminations
as to where his and other schemes will hurt
or benefit
But one thing is beyond doubt, and that
is that any serious reduction will be fatal to
all hopes of future pension legislation, and
for this reason every veteran should set his
face like flint against II.
Let the reteraas hare their day in Court first.
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transferred to the Southwest, and fought the
last of its 81 battles in Alabama after the cap
ture of the defenses of Mobile. Total deaths
241.
The Sd N. J. Cav.-35th regiment-did not
begin its fighting until the affair at United
States Ford, May 10, 1864, but between that
and AppomattOx it gained laurels in 81 differ
ent engagements. Total deaths, 157.
Batteries A, B, G and d, New Jersey artillery.
were all among the very best Of that arm of
the service. The total deaths in the five bat
teries were 119.
Nearly 1000 New Jerseyans served in the
navy with equal credit to that of their broth
ers on land. They were found on every war
ship which flew our flag.
Evidently, we have got to look somewhere
else than in New Jersey for "deadbeats,'
shirks," and coffee-coolers."
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. D. C., NOVEMBER 2l, 1889.
TEN THOUSAND WATCHES
TO GIVE AWAY.

We have decided upon securing 100000
more subscribers, and TO do it viii give away
10000 of the famous Trenton watches to
club raisers.
We viii send watch FREE, post paid, to
every club raiser who sends US club -of
ONLY TEN subscribers for one year.
This is an opportunity never before
offered. because this watch is not cheap
eatch-penny make-shift, but genuine, full
jeweled patent-lever movement IN dia-
mond-silyer case, warranted for 10 years.
Diamond-silver is q compound metal as
Its name indicates, composed Of pure silver
and nickel. TO give it hardness and color.
1T is not plated, but solid, so it wears the
same clear through, and is so warranted.
Now, who wants one? There are Just
10000 Of them TO give away, and we do not
anticipate much trouble in disposing of them
on these terms.
An hours work viii get one. We hope
our friends viii appreciate the opportunity.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21

The discussion Of the Brazilian revolution
recalls the fact that, when in obedience TO the
cry Of the demagogs for a cheap breakfast
table FOR the workiBgman we took the duty
OF coffee, Brazil at once put An export duty
On, equaling the import duty we had taken
on, and used the proceeds to build up fine
navy. The vessels are commonly called by
the Brazilians, Coffee Ship No. / p" Coffee
Ship No. 2" etc Our wOrkingman did not
get his cHp Of coffee particle cheaper, and
Brazil was enriched at our expense. So il
VIII probably be in every case where we take
duty OF imports.
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Let The Veterans hare their day in Court.
WHO ARE AGAINST PENSION LEGIs.
LATIDRY


Where does the pension-hating horde find
its recruits, its officers, its leaders?
Among the men who plotted treason, Or
ganized rebellion, stole money from the
Treasury, arms and munitions of war from
the arsenals, and ships from the navy to
carry out their designs
Among the men who fought four long
years and deluged the land with the blood of
its best and bravest, to establish Govern
ment based on human slavery.
Among the men who skulked behind
coverts to shoot our soldiers down; who
made Missouri, West Virginia and East Ten
nessee pandemonium of robbery, murder,
pillage and arson who starved our prisoners
at Andersonville, Salisbury and Florence
who created sanguinary riot in New York.
plotted to release rebel prisoners and destroy
Chicago; who worked hard TO produce pesti-
lence in our seaboard cities, and light the
flames Of civil war in Indiana.
Among the men who, seeing from afar the
prosperity of the land have descended upon
it like flock of vultures, to pick its bones
white, and then return to their foul nests.
Among the men who are engineering every
trust, every monopoly, every extorton that
is sapping the life blood of the people, and
who are foremost in every scheme which
will fill their own pockets at the expense of
the interests of the community.
We do not say that every man who is on
posed to pension legislation is or has been q
plotter or fighter against the country, but
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FORM OLE A PETITION.

There is the greatest need that the COM
rades make their influence strongly felt upon
Congress, as soon as il assemblies, in favor OF
an immediate consideration and passage of
pension legislation in advance of the trans
action of any other business beyond that of
organization. The way TO do this is by the
presentation of petitions signed by the great
mass OF those who wore the blue. This can
be readily done by few comrades in every
Post, and every community where there are
soldiers, preparing petitions and securing
signatures TO them. Take n sheet OF legal
cap and write on it heading something like
this:
To the Honorable Senate and House Of Rep
reseHtatipes an Congress assemJIed'
Your petitioners, who served in the Army
or Navy of the United States during the
late rebellion, and whose names are hereto
signed, with their rank, company and regi-
ment, or ship, most earnestly but respect
fully request that the first business trans
acted by your honorable bodies, after organ
laws embodying the recommendation to
Congress of the GAR. National Pension
Committee as TO pension legislation. We es-
pecially insist that it il duo the veterans
who have waited so long that this action
take precedence of all legislation looking TO
the reduction Of the revenues Give as our
day in Court. Thus, as in duty bound, your
petitioners will ever pray.
Let this be signed at once by as many vet.
Grams as there are in the community, and
| forwarded 70 the Representative Of the Dis
trict, with strong letter calling his atten.
ton TO the number and importance Of the
signers, and their earnest wish that it b,
presented TO Congress as early as possible
and that he consider it carefully for his owl
guidance.
| Let The Veterans hare their d1y in Cahyf
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21

JEFF DAVIS has an article in one Of the
magazines earnestly advocating Free Trade.
Unrepentant to the last, he is doing all in
his power to fnjure the country which edu-
Gated and supported him for years. 1t ia
not the smallest of his reasons for advocat-
ing Free Trade that it would put q final
stop to all pension legislation.
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y.mas pressnfs.

do not buy your Xmas presents till you
have consulted the mammoth illustrated pre-.
MUM 1857 Issued by The NATIONAL TRIgGsE.
Bent Tree 10 any address. II gives q selection
from hundreds Of articles. embracing All mus.
cal instruments, watches, jeWelry, guns sew
ing machines, household utensils, such al
china, silver plate. stoves, etc. All these
things can be obtained free Of cost, or, IL one
chooses 70 buy outright, at less than half the
retail price. We also furnish gold watches on
credit
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21

DIR. LUKE BLACKBURN, of Kentucky,
was the head and front of the friends who
shipt yellow-fever and smallpox-infected
clothing to this country to start the pesti-
lence in New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more, and the army. The only reason that
DIR. Luke Blackburn is not now a leader in
the hateful raid against the soldiers is that
he is dead
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21

THE veterans believe that President Har-
rison has q good memory, and that he re-
members not only the services and sacrifices
of the men who fought with him for the
country, but the promises which were made
them by the party of which he was the
candidate, and in the platform upon which
he stood. This leads them to believe that
his message will contain not merely pass
ing reference to the duty of Congress to
promptly pass the desired pension legislat-
ion, but an earnest reminder that that is
its first and most pressing duty.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21

IN May, 1865, after the war was over, some
flends placed among the coal of the steam
boat Sultana, which was loaded with released
prisoners, eunningly-d disguised bombs, by
which the boilers of the boat were exploded
after she had reached midstream, and over
1000 of the weak and emaeiated men were
drowned. If the authors of that awful crime
are still alive they are~ery active members
of the Free Trade Copperhead rebel league
against the veterans.
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II each subscriber 10 THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE uciH charge himself NTH getting
one ne'r subscriber The circulation Of the paper
sciH be doubled at once, and Nth little trouble
Let eaeh subscriber try it.
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that every plotter or fighter, every man
whose designs will not bear the sunlight of
publicity, is found in the ranks of the horde
who are making war on the veterans
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IF You had been real smart" you would
have laid in heavy stock of ivory some months
ago, when the price was $500 ton in tins
London market. Now they want S1O5O0
ton for it. And they say that Stanley, Emin
Bey and others while prosecuting their humane
projects in Africa, have managed to gather up
over 600 tons Of the precious stuff, besides bales
OF ostrich feathers, bags of gold dust, and posi-
bly, few quarts Of diamonds.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21

"ALL that woman asks is to be loved, . says
the poet. Yes, but if she is a sensible woman
she wants the man who loves her to be a rea-
sonably lively hustler in providing homo,
clothes and provisions for herself and the
family
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21

h0i6f is the time to subscribe for
NOE TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
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Hare you asked all your acquaintances to
subscribe for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNES
" not, do 90 at once, TO give the paper more
power ia champi0ning the cause Of tee vetsraas.
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Here, oydashus varmits, line gwins 2
give u ehans fur yore mizzsrabl lives. I
hednt orter, no, but always wuz 2 soft
hearted to git along vel When I kouus
three start 2 run, and 1 won't begin shutiu
till i've got 20 rods start. Wun, 2, 3-sksts
out"
How tina did lite out. The bogus preachers
long laigs flew like faIes. and HoOk-Nozs and
Goggle-Eye run fur every sent tina wuz with.
helpt them by yellin at the top Of my vols:
Shin out, shin out; he's bout begin shut
in"
After thade got of little piece snag- Tooth
fred half dozen times, and sent the baWIs
singin bout thare GERS.
When thado disappeared inter the woods
me and snag- Tooth went into the kear whack
up. Snag-TOoth's hog on jinersl principls.
and insisted ON taikin awl the Ticker, awl the
keards, and awl the pistils but wun. I got
away with him, tho. when it KUN dividing
the grenebax. He can't rede no moren a brindIs
kow. A wun dollar bill looks Jest ez big
him ez 10-dollar, and ez got him share
the munni even, put awl the wun dollar bills
In his pile, and awl the 2s, IS and los in mine,
so that got bout six times ez mulch ez he did
Eddicashun's CRATE thing. line proud that
amt ignerrunt like sum men.
Yours, in prosperity, POKE B. NoZE.
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MAN with bow legs a culver in his voies
and a(n)arrOw chest, is not thereby desirable
member of an archery club.
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II WOULD rather vote for sheep-kilIiuz
yellow dog. than you" exclaimed an irats voter
to candidate.
And you would be entirely right" retorted
the imPerturbable candidate; "this election IS
for representative, and you should vote for
whatsoever comes nearest representing you"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21

THE war produced no worse fiends than
the QuantrellJames- Younger gang, who,
with their burnings of houses, robberies,
murders Of unarmed prisoners, unoflending
men, women and children, made Missouri
literally hell upon earth. Such of that
gang as have escaped death by the bullet,
upon the scatfold, or by disease, or are yet
outside of the penitentiary, are very ear
nestly in favor of the raid against pensions.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-22

/ Chicago, May 22.-The most horrible
! revelation made in the Investigation of
| the Chicago public insane ASYLUM was
that reached yesterday in the testimony
OF George Hill, locomotive engineer.
now employed on the Lake Shore 4 Mich
igan Southern road. lie was admitted
to the institution in January, 1883, suffer
ing from slight mental derangcment, and
was discharged as cured in MAY. When he
went to the asylum an attendant named
Lott asked him ii he was insane. Hill
said he was not. ''Well," replied Lott.
I'VE will make you damned sight in
saner than you are now" Another at
tendant named Julian ordered him to
sweep out room, and on his saving he
had not come there for that purpose
knocked him, kicked him in the body
and mouth, knocking two teeth out. Hill
tried to cover his face by getting his head
beneath bench, when Julian turned the
bench over, breaking Hills arm. Hill
rolled up his sleeve in court and showed
huge lump where the ends of broken
bones badly joined stood out. Hill said a
new patient named Levy was brought in
one day. He did not know enough to 90
to the dining room, and Attendants Julian
and Lott knocked him down and
jumped on his stomach until he was I'M
able to move. They picked him up and
threw him on bed. Levy died that
night. The court room was still as death
during this awful recital. Several other
witnesses testified to the brutality of the
attendants, miserable quality OF food, etc.
County Physician Todd testified that
Robert Burns, whose death resulted in
this investigation, did not die of consump-
ton, as was stated by Supt. Herman in
his certificate of death.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-22
SUPREME COURT OPINION
Notaries Public Not Qualified to Act in
U. s. Cases.

WASHINGTON, May 22-The opinion of
the United States supreme court, in the
case OF the United States VS.. John D.
Hall, was yesterday the subject OF earnest
discussion among the officers of the gen
eral land office. One of the pon.s at
issue was that Hall had made oath before
a notary public. The supreme court de-
| cided that where an oath is required BY
the United States statute the oath can be
administered only by an officer of the
United States. Hence q notary public,
being state officer, can not administer
an oath to q United States official except
where the statutes specially state that
oath may be made before such state Off
clal. This opinion, it is believed, serious
~ affects the status of more than 100 900
cases i'll the mineral division OF the
general land Office. Deputy mineral sur
veyors have for several years, it is said,
sworn to the correctness of their state
ments before notaries public. During
the last four years large number of
cases under the general land laws have
been received for patent at the general
lard office, where final proof was not
made before the officer designated by law
for that purpose. Where no error was
found they have been allowed to 90 pat
ented. This was first adopted by Secre-
tary Villas. The opinion of the supreme
court has created alarm, and the request
for an Interpretation of section 1885, Re-
vised Statutes, has been sent to Assistant
Attorney General Shields, with particular
reference to the supreme court decision
and its effect upon the pending cases in
the general land Off e,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-22

LITTLE Rock, Ark, May 20.--Advices
from Forrest City state that \. M. Neely,
the negro whose quarrel resulted i'll riot,
in which three men were killed, was
killed by mob yesterday. Neely, his
father and brother, took refuge in a
vacant building. Every effort was made
to get Neely, but it proved unsuccessful,
as the negroes were well barricaded.
Acting Sheriff lizard persuaded old man
Neely and his other son to come out,
promising them safe conduct to jail and o
fair trial. A. M. Neely did not appear.
The sherif's party was not more than 100
yards distant with the two prisoners,
when number Of other members of the
posse raided the building, where Neely
was discovered secreted under the floor,
and he was riddled with bullets.
This last killing created great deal
more excitement, and the people were
afraid of raid on the town by the Ne
groes. The acting sheriff wired Gov.
Eagle and asked that the militia be or
dered there. Gov. Eagle thought he was
better able to judge of what was needed
by being on the ground, so he took the
first train to Forrest City and isnow there
and will remain until quiet IS restored.
The cause OF all the trouble was the
determined attempt OF the Negroes to
elect two of their race to membership on
the school board in place OF the two white
candidates. The white people claimed
that the "niggers" already had sufficient
representation and charged that they
were trying to obtain control OF the board
in order to manage the school to suit
themselves.
Neely was a prominent Republican.
He was member of the state central
committee and OF the executive commit
tee, and had secured the recommendation
of that body for appointment as register
OF the land Office here.
1t has been learned that the bullet
which killed Sheriff Wilson was not fired
by Nicely, as at first supposed, but was
one of the shots fired wildly by Marshal
Tolbre as he was falling after being fatally
wounded by Tom Parham.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-22
Inflammation OF the Kidneys.

r. G. Harris, Bazaar, Chase Co., Kas.,
writes: have been afflicted with chronic
inflammation Of the kidneys. | suffered
50 much pain that | could not lie on my
back or lean back against chair My
water also contained chalky sediment.
I tried many remedies but could get nc
relief. then took two Allcock's Plasters
and put one over each kidney, making
them melt on my back bone. These
plasters, strange as it may seem, cured
Inc in week. All soreness was gone,
and my urine was natural,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-22
The Cherokee Strip.

CEDARvnLE, Kas., May 22.-A delega-
ton of Osages, accompanied by W. II.
Mathews, attorney and interpreter, are
on their way from here to Talequah to
meet i'll council with the Cherokees in re-
gard to the government bill for the open
ing of the Cherokee lands.
The de legation was designated by Chief
Mayes, of the Cherokees, in letter sent
to the Usage council specifying by name
the ones he wanted sent.
They are to man opposed to selling
any OF their lands or to any scheme for
allotment. They are staunch friends OF
the cattlemen and will oppose anything
that will work against the leases they
have. They take with them the patent
to their lands and other documents and
are prepared for fight.