The National tribune., 1889-08-15
ANTI-PENsION oUTCRY.
March On, Boys, and Give it Little Attention


EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: This auti-pen-
sion cutlery will eventually react to the detri-
ment and discomfort of the party and press
through which it IS being so freely aired The
men who left their business callings, their happy
homes aud the fond associations OF loved ones
and staked their lives for the preservation OF
the Union during those years Of bloody strife
have listened to this anti pension TRADE, until
listening ceases TO be q virtue. We ask space
in the patriotic columns of the greatest soldier
paper in the land, The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
to throw up few breastwOrks, facing to the
rear, behind which to defend ourselves from
the ignominious shot of the cowardIy old
enemy.
Somehow those immortal words, uttered "a
years ago on the 4th of March last, come ring
ing down through the years with viyidness
which cannot DO obiterated: Let US finish the
work we are in 10 bind up the Nations wounds
to care for him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow and his orphans" II must
needs be remembered that many wounds are
still bleeding Mothers who gave their noble
boys as a willing sacrifice upon their country's
altar, have gone down to their graves with
withered and aching hearts unprovided for on
account of some red-tape technicalities in the
Pension Bureau. Thousands of old soldiers
whose claims have been pending from 10 TO 20
years, have crossed the mystic river of death
without their just dues. This rich Govern
ment which they saved owed them just debt,
which will be marked unpaid throughout the
countless years of eternity.
1t has been officially stated that 10000 old
veterans are in the almshouses, sleeping on
beds of straw, living on crusts of bread that are
not fit for the dogs; separated from loved ones
at home, with no bandages to bind up their
swollen limbs, effected by long wearisome
marches; with no physician or medicine. except
that which is wrung from the cold charities of
a selfish world. We ask, in the name of God
aud the common brotherhood of man, is it not
time that angels of mercy" like Secretaries
Noble, BuSsey and Commissioner Tanner APP
peared in official capacity in behalf of neglected
humanity
The generous policy adopted by Commits
sioner Tanner, and sustained by the Depart
ment of the Interior, by the President, by sage
Senators and Representatives, and by the
masses of the American people, is born of
heaven and cannot be affected by the wonder
full TRADE of the soldier hating press and its
Mugwump allies. We can see no evidence of q
pension raid no occasion for anx iety or alarm
All that is contemplated by the large-hearted
patriotic Government officials is a faithful ex-
ecutiOn of the laws, under u just and liberal
construction, in behalf of the men who saved
this broad gagged Government; in behalf of the
widows and orphans whose husbands and
fathers faced the deadly missiles of war in a
single battle, until So per cent. of their number
fell bleeding, aud while bleeding cheering for
the old flag until the last drop of blood ebbed
from their loyal hearts.
The heartless sneers of ex-President Cieve-
land reduced him to a common field of labor.
The temper of the Chief Magistrate of great
Republic should be evenly balanced and satu-
rated with little humanity aud common de-
ceney toward class of men who made it pos
sible for him TO attain that exalted position.
with malice toward none, with charity for
all. with hTmness in the right as God gives US
to SEQ the right" has the true ring for Presi-
dent of the United States. Those words will
sound down the ages and re-eeho on eternity's
shore, while the seurrilous epithets of coffee
coolers" "deadbeats" and frauds" not lin
Guiding sore eyes among the results of diar-
rhea" will die in New York Harbor with the
party that elevated such an inhuman veto de-
baucher to power
Let mo say right here that the United States
Treasury will not contain money enough in 90
years TO come To adequately remunerate the
veterans for what they did, for what they suE-
fered and endured on the bloody battlefelds.
ON the forced marches, and amid the horrors of
the damnable prson-pen of the South.
The boys of 1861 entered the service of their
country in the prime and vigor of manhood,
with the promise of happy, prosperous years
before them, with the bloom of youth and
health upon their cheeks, the great majority
of whom came home total wrecks, and a half
million of whom sleep in patriot graves where
they fell lighting for the old flag. Think of
this, and then listen TO the mOurnful peal of
tho New York Times, the Mugwump of all
Mugwumps, writhing in its dying agonies with
the anti pension fever.
With all due respect for the editor of the
Times, we say Good Lord deliver us from all
such death-bed scenes. 1t is very notifying
for US to note that there are leading Republi-
can papers in the land weakening under the
anti-pension rebel yell in the rear, or else they
have received check from the combined
money kings, who are growing wild and idiotic
on account of the circulation of pension money,
which touches tender spot in their great
receptaces. The capitalists would like to take
q seat in the rear like they did during the war,
aud continue to clip the coupons from their
accumulated bonds, and furnish the people
money to do business with at an exOrbitant
price.-WALTER FRENCH, Co. ID, 18th Pa. Cav,
Athens, Pa.
Headache, costiveness and piles are thorough
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