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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-10-17

THE ex-Confederates are making O new
scapegoat to saddle the responsibility of
their failure upon. 1t is Gen. Longstreet,
whom they charge with frustrating Lees
well-laid plans for victory. That arrant
fraud, Lord Wolseley, aids them all he can
by valuable opinions drawn from his expert
ence in fighting mobs of Arabs armed with
spears, with disciplined troops carrying the
best breechloaders The Mugwump Boston
Herald gives the Confederates aid and COM
fort by editoriAlly indorsing Wolseley's
views:
Again and again the English critic sees where
the Union army could have been destroyed and
the future ordering Of the American Union vastly
changed II Gen. Lees plans had not been thwarted
by Longstreet and others. His paper has
special value setting forth IN n fresh light the
mastery solf-oontro and unwearied patience with
which Gen. Lee did his beat under very trying cir
oumstanees.
This has no foundation in fact There
never was time in the history of the Army
of the Potomac when Lees army could have
destroyed ii or even driven it off the field, no
matter what Longstreet or any other subor-
dinate might or might not have done. On
the other hand Lees army several times
escaped humiliation by the failure of Gen.
erals in the Army of the Potomac to do
what they should have done.
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THERE is peculiar fitness in the invita-
don extended by Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, Of
Virginia, 10 Lord WOlseley 70 unvail the
statue 10 Gen. r. Z. Lee at Richmond.
Eolseley is the military tool by which Eng
land pushes her selfish trade schemes among
semi-barbsrous peoples- If it is necessary
20 90 down TO Egypt and slaughter a few
thousand half-nzked felIheen, in order
30 secure the trade Of the Land of the
Eile for British manufacturers, WoIse-
Ley Ia sent there and does the work.
III il is necessary TO make a market in
South Africa by killing of the dis
cOntented Beers, Wolseley is dispatched
thifher with all the military facilities for
slaughter. II the British soapmakers find
that they cannot get their paln-oil "a
cheaply as formerly, Wolseley goes to the
Gold Coast and wages bloody war among
the AGhantees. He cannot pursue thos.
tactics in this country, for obvious reasons
but he can pat the ex-rebels on the bach
and win them over TO the support Of Eng
lish Free Tradcism, and so attempt TO &C
cOmplish the designs Of his masters b,
peaceable and less costly means.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-10-17

THE tax on barrel of beer-32 gallons
is 81. A barrel contains four kegs, and
each key has about 100 glasses, as they are
usually drawn. Therefore, the beer-drinker
has to imbibe about 400 glasses, or glass a
day for year and month before he incl
dentally contributes 81 to the revenue of
the United States. He pays the saloon
keeper about $50, and the latter pays the
brewer between SO and so before the Treas
ury is 81 richer. OF this dollar only 80
cents go to the pensioners, the remainder
going to the bondholders, the offceholders,
the Army and Navy, etc.
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WHY THEY HATE ATTORNEYS.

1t is not difficult to explain the reason for
the intensely mean and malignant assaults
of the solder-katiDg papers upon oil PEN
sion attorneys. They hate them because
they are of substantial assistance to the
veterans in obtaining their rights. Any
man who is n real effective friend of the
veterans is hated and illuminated by these
papers in exact proportion to his services in
their behalf
If the attorneys could be broken down the
veterans would be terribly crippled in their
efforts to secure justice. Even with the
powerful help of the most capable and ex-
perienced attorneys it frequently takes o
veteran as long as 81 years to secure apathy
allowance of 50 month or such matter.
The average time that he has to wait, TO
maintain voluminous correspondence, to
hunt up proof after proof, and to undergo
examination after examination is over five
years. How long would he have to wait,
and what insurmountabe obstacles would
he find in his way, if he did not have the
assistance of skilled and persistent attor-
ney? If it were not for the aid that these
give he would be practically helpless in the
hands of men organized to prevent him from
obtaining his rights.
Every one of these soldier-hating papers
will say at once that man would be foolish
to go into q common pleas court without an
attorney, in case where so much as the
value of horse or months labor was i'm
volved. Yet there is no court in the whole
country where the practice is so intricate,
the requirements of evidence and procedure
so difficult as in the Pension Bureau. limo
tribunal that our people have ever known
are there so many enormous obstacles in the
way of man obtaining his rights.
And for no service that can be rendered a
client is the fee so insignificant All that
pension attorney is allowed TO receive from
his client for his average of over five years
service in his behalf is $25. He cannot,
under penalty of dsbarment and imprison-
ment, accept cent more than this, in any
shape or form-as gift, gratuity, loan OF
otherwise. Nor can he take any fee except
in cases where he has been successful. lie
may work % years on q case, but unless he
finally gets it allowed he cannot-dare not
receive cent Nor does the amount his
client may receive make the slightest differ
ence. If it lie $500 he only gets S25, and i
it is that many thousands the fee is no more
Where, in any other business, are the com
rades served so cheaply2 ANY reputable
attorney, employed to collect debt worth
going into court with, would charge at leas
SIS for the service
The whole animus of the soldier-hatinl
papers against the pension attorneys h
founded on their service TO the veterans
They would make the soldiers helpless By
striking down anyone who ventures to assis
them.
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TAXES AND PENSIONS.

The constant effort of the collaborating
papers TO make IL appear that the cost Of
maintaining the pension system imposes
heavy taxes on the people has absolutely
no foundation in fact. As we have repeat
eddy shown, not dollar Of our present rev.
enues is collected with reference to use as
pensions. Wechallenge any man 10 show that
q single article is taxed for this purpose, or
that, if there were no pensions paid, that the
tax would be taken of. For example, the
Government collected nearly 81 600, 900 last
year on oleomargarine. This In one Of the
taxes which bear directly On the necessa-
ries of life, for 1t was imposed TO raise the
price of that article, and drive 1t out of COM
petition with dairy products. As about one
third of the present revenues Of the Gov
eminent are applied TO the payment of
pensions. some 100000 Of this sum was
expended for this purpose. Yet there
is no man 30 ignorant or brazen as 10 pre-
tend that this tax was imposed TO pay PEN
sions. II was put on at the earnest solicita-
ton of farmers and dairymen to protect their
products They did not care ig what was
done with the money derived from 1t, but
they wanted the tax imposed, and their re-
quest was granted. The same is true of every
article on the lists of custom house revenues
Every tax has been imposed for the benefit
OF some commercial interest or manufacture
ing industry which is profting by it, and
the country likewise. The repeal of the
taxes would be strennously opposed by these
interests and by the country at large, be.
cause our whole commercial and industrial
fabrics rest upon them. The use of the
money derived from them for paying pen
sions is subordinate and non essential.
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THE woMAN,s RELIEF CORPS.

THE WOmANS RELIEF SOhf5s
"By their fruits ye shall know them" and
the record of the last year of Relief Corps
work speaks for itself 1t was steady in-
crease over former years, and recalls the
great work performed by the loyal women
of America during the war. Departments
and detached Corps raised and expended, or
turned over to Posts, the sum of $81 ,94S.45.
Add to this sum $2,32285 expended by the
Pension and Relief Committee for aged and
destitute army nurses, and we have grand
total of $s4, 271 go for the year 1883, $50.
The Woman's ReliefUorps embraces in its
membership all the leading spirits of wou,-
ans work in the war now surviving. Annie
Wittenmyer, the organizer of the diet
kitchens, that saved the lives of thousands
of sick and wounded soldiers by supplying
proper food who founded the Soldiers Or
phans' Home of Iowa, the first institution
of the kind in the country, is the present
NATIONAL PRESIDENT.
Clara Barton, President of the Red Cross
Association, through whose earnest efforts
the aching hearts in the North received
their first authentic information of their
dear ones who persisted in the dreadful
prisons of the South, or who were ex-
changed, mere skeletons of their former
selves, is IN honored life member of the Re-
lief Corps and a member of the Pension and
Relief Committee.
Mother" Biekerdyke the grand woman
hero of the West, who used to search the
battlefelds with lantern, after the details
had brought in the wounded, lest some poor
fellow might be left TO die in the cold chill
of night, and whom the convalescents OF the
Western Army loved as they did their own
lives, has from the beginning been heart and
soul In Relief Corps work.
Mary A. Logan, whose patriotic zeal and
womanly sympathieS have enshrined her In
the hearts of the loyal men and women Of
America, wife of the first COMMANDMENTS
Chief Of the Grand Army Of the Republic
the man who inangurated Memorial Day
Is an active member Of the Woman's RELIEF
Corps.
Mary A. Livermore, the eminent army
nurse, philanthropist and orator, wears th,
badge Of the Woman's Relief Corps and Il
earnestly identified with the Order. So Il
Jeasie Benton Fremont, the honored wife o
The Pathfinder of the Rockies" whose per
has forever emblazoned the exploits of thu
earlier heroes Of the Union and Of our grea
civil war.
Lucy Webb Hayes, whose private charitie
led TO the establishment of the Ohio Sol
diers' Orphans Home, a7woman mournet
for her heroic virtues as no other American
woman was ever mourncd before, went h
her long rest with the aemblems of tn
wonan's Relief Corps above her casket
These and long limo Of woman heroes
not forgetting Mother" Ransom of Cali
fornia, Aunt Becky y Young of Iowa, AM
a host of others, are types Of the wome
who are active to-day In the Woman's Relic
Corps.
COMMANDMENTS Chief Warner espresso
the sentiments of the Grand Army when b
extoiled the Relief Corps at Milwaukee an
urged every Post to call to its aid this gran
National Association of women.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-10-17

THE Emperors of Germany and Russia
are hobnobbing and kissing, but both are
steadily increasing their ornaments. Bis
marck spends quarter of million marks
entertaining the Gar "with pomp, with
trump and with reyelry," but he gets an
appropriation of $50, 100000 marks to enter
tain His Muscovite Majesty's soldiers in a
much less agreeable manner.
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ToUCH ELBows. CoMRADEs.

Comrades let US all touch elbows In @
firm line, confronting the enemies who are
rallying against us for desperate battle
this Winter. We can beat them back if we
stand together, but we must stand together
to do it.
They are making enormous efforts
to cheat us out of the fruits of the
great victory we won last Fall, and win
leave no means untried that the ingenuity
of selfishness and hate can suggest, or money
command, to beat us in Congress, and pre-
vent the legislation that has been prom
ised US.
We must meet them determinedly, and
impress upon every Member of Congress
that we are no less resolute in securing our
rights than our alien and native opponents
are in defrauding us. Let every Representa-
tive be made TO understand by his veteran
constituents that there must be no falterine
or double-dcaling; that they expect him to
be earnest and unyielding in his efforts to
secure the enactment of legislation embody-
ing the recommendations Of the GAR. Ma
tional Pension Committee, before any meas
ures looking TO the reduction of the revenues
are considered.
We have waited quarter Of century
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.THE RED ACORN. /"

The most fascinating novel ever written By
John McElroy. We have just published another
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Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain says she
wants to visit this country before she dies
The Commissioners of Emigration would
have grounds for refusing her admission,
either as very improper person or as 3
pauper supported at public expense.
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LET the comrades meet the talk about
onerous taxes squarsiy, BY asking the talker
to define what taxes no or any one he knows
is burdened with, and to show what possible
connection they can have with pensions.
This will prove settler.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-10-17

THE tax on q gallon of whisky Is 30 cents.
A gallon contains from 80 to 100 drinks
"men's SIZE" The saloons charge from 10
TO % cents drink. At 10 cents man pays
the saloonkeeper between SO and $40 for
every 80 cents that the distiller contributes
to the United States Treasury.
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No man would get his glass of whisky or
beer cent cheaper II the tax were taken of.
The brewers, distiilers, rectifers and saloon
keepers would DO richer by the amount of
the tax, and TINT would be all.
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In Judas who betrayed his Master. has
any hneal descendants, they must be the
freshly-imported Jews who conduct Puck.
and are trying to betray the country into the
hands Of the Free Traders, who would cru
eify it
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COMRADES. ATTENTION.

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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE Is tho only
champion tho soldiers Aars among tAs great pa
pers of ths country. Ths best 'ray to help az
veterGHs 10 By getting Il more subscribers
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UEDENIABLE statistics show that the re-
duction of the tariff on wool in 1888 pro-
duced deep and lasting injury to the wool
producing and wool-manufacturing interests.
Nobody was benefited but the foreign grow
ers and manufacturers. Why should we
hurt ourselves to help foreignersP
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-10-17

ANAH has 10 smoke 900 cigars, or nearly
three day for year, before the manufsc-
turer contributes So TO the revenue. Where
the maker or dealer gets from $50 10 $3.50
from the smoker, but s. goes into the Treas
ury
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THE Give" electric wire has taken the
place of the deadly kerosene can in the
hands of the hired girl as destroyer of life.
We have to pay price for everything good
in this world, and electricity's benefits are
coatIy
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REDUcIsG the revenues means injury 10
every man in the country by Gripping the
interests upon which all our prosperity de-
ponds. The workman and the farmer have
Just as much reason to be hostile TO the
measure as the veteran.
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"pY THE SAD SEA wAvr2

PoETIoAL YOU'VE NAME "My dear Madam,
does the sea speak to your DOyOu know what
the wild waves are sayingf"
CYNICAL NATIONS swell, il they are any
judges of human nature, they are saying, as
they see my husband approach, that they've
got hold Of the meansss old hypOGrite they We
had chance at since Noah's time, and II they
don't drown him they ought to 60 out Of the
sinner destroying business"
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FACT

The London Bread Trust or the union
of bakers In London, which has Just been
organized, expects TO make 20 per cent. q
year on o capital of 81, OoO-CaDIegram
from London.
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FACTS Va. THEORY.
THEORY.

Such thing as grinding trust Is sheer
impossihiity In a Free Trade country. They
are inevitable results of Daily
chorus Of Free Trade papers.
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SEVERAL recent convictions for man.
slaughter Of men who have been responsible
for fatal railroad accidents will have o
strong tendency to make travel much more
safe.
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Haze yOudOns your dRty IN getting one more
subscriber for THE NATIONAL 1,RLBUNEf
You should do TIA, JOrit IS the best lOay to help
your comrades.
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JOHN BRowN's soul still marches on. and
makes It's ghostly appearance at most startling
times and places. John Burns, who generated
the London dock strikers in so mastery way
as to excite worldwide interest and admiration,
is remarkable man in many respects. he is
q strong, deep thinker, and, rs the management
of his army of followers showed, has the high
est qualities of leadership. He thinks that he
Is to be to labor what John Brown was to
slavery, and believes that he will parallel
Browns career by being hanged some day. He
says that If no could accomplish for labor by
being hanged what John Brown accomplished
for the negroes he would so to the scatfold
gladly.
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THE experience of New York city with
women in the School Board has been very
satisfactory, and the papers are calling for
reappointment of the present women men,
beers, with the addition of others.
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Hare you asked all your dcquaintances 10
subscribe for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNEf
u not, do so al once, TO give The paper more
poloer in ohampioninq tie cause Of the Veterans.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON D. O. THURSDAY IT,

WORK OF THE PENSION BUREAU.
Below we give the official report of the
original pensions allowed by the Pension
Bureau for the quarter ending Oct. 1, 1889,
and, for the sake of comparison, the work
done for the same quarter of last year:
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N0Af is the time 70 subscribe for
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AwEALTHY New York manufacturer has hit
upon q new device to prevent his inanimate
remains becoming the prey Of the grave rObber
and the ornament Of dissectng- table. His
will provides that bowlder weighing not less
than two tons shall be placed over his grave.
As the resurrectionists do not as rule have q
derrick equipment this ought to be pretty
secure safeguard.
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