Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-23
Service Pensions.
friends.


Allison Post at the last regular meet,
ing, January 18th, $780, in response to
a valuable and timely circular address
received from the President of the Ser,
| vice Pension Association of the United
States, unanimously and emphaticaly
endorsed the following:
"ReSolced, by the Union Soldiers OF
Allison Post No. "a, G. A. r. depart.
ment of Iowa, that we heartily endorse
the appeal of our comrade, Gen. Alvin
r. Hovey of the Service Pension associ-
| ;,tion of the United States, demanding
IF Congress the passage of Service
Pension Law for all surviving Union
soldiers of the late war, and that we
Join with him in his appeal to Congress
ind demand of our Congressman legis-
latiOn without delay for these rights
which are due every surviving veteran
by all rules of justice and national hon
or,
The object of this work is to express
to the Service Pension committee and
Congress of the United States, the
unanimous wish and sentiment of the
honorably discharged Union Soldiers Of
our country and the immediate import
ance and reasonablenesS of a just and
proper recognition of the soldier rights
us surviving national defenders. The
pension question has been sufficiently
abused and used quite long enough as
political whip or perverted pretext
for vote catching by hungry Office seek
ers, and it is high time that all surviv-
ing Union Veterans should unite as one
without regard to old political prefer
ance rise in their former might to sup
press the treacherOuS and willy foes who
would dare longer trifle with their in
terestS or trample on their rights. And
the time is not far distant we trust
when this united power will be felt
with telling effect, not by bullets but by
ballots, proving beyond a doubt that
the old soldier is still abroad in the land
with influence, intelligence and Just
rights, which are bound to be respected
Judicious wisdom was exercised in
the selection of Gen. Alvin =. Hovey
the present Governor of Indiana, as
President OF the National Service pen.
sion committees. No better man could
have been found to wisely and effective
ly press the soldiers claims before oul
present Congress. No drawer soldier OF
more valient officer ever entered battle
than the honOred Commander of the
old Bird Division, 18th Army Corps in
rear of Vicksburg. His address is elo
quent, logical and mastery and should
be carefully read and digested by every
loyal citizen.
He faithfully and fearlessly ventilates
the bad faith OF our government TOWARD
the surviving Union Veterans Of the
late war i'll refusing to fulfill to them
any of the various and repeated pledges
given by acts of Congress passed pre-
yious to 1861, to every surviving defen-
der of our flag before the late Rebellion
where each such soldier was allowed
and freely given land warrent of 16t
acres for one days battle or fourteen
days service i'll the army for the Union
But the surviving Veterans of today
for four years active service and ex
posture perhaps on hundred hare
fought battle fields in defense of oul
old flag, through one of the greatest
wars in history, are landless and wholly
unrecompensed; and that too notwith
standing the fact that at the beginning
of the war and as an inducement TO
enlistment, promises and proclamation
were made by orators, people ana pow
ers, that on their return home in tri
umph with the flag still unsullied, ant
the Union unbroken, the pledges to tn
father before this terrible war, woul,
be fulfilled to their Veteran Sons VIII
crushed the Rebellion and redeemed
our nations life in the most trying ant
terrible crisis, but now as an expression
of gratitude, the land warrant is with
held, life pensions are refused and pos
sibility of nine-tenths of our soldiers el
ceiving either dependent or servic
pension is utterly cut off by the regula
/ ton "red tape" and unreasonable re
5 quirements of our pension laws. Will
f the surviving Union soldier has tn
: sweet consolation that he did his dut1
) and while multitudes at home wer
amassing their thousands and million
t under his protecting arm aud unfailin
e valor, he was receiving the remarkabl
: financial recompense of $l3 per mont
e with coffee, soW-belly and bareback
and great part of that time receiyin
+ his pay in money not worth 80 cents O
V the dollar.
The article clearly sets forth til
: fact also that to 100000 survivin
!, Union Veterans service pension G
a eight dollars per month can readily /
e paid, and all necessary expenses COZ
. nected with that work met by tn
n present income to our government frOr
the much talked of whiskey and tobaC
r 20 tax.
y The address Is not only clear an
i candid statement of the situation t
;. surviving soldiers, but is also a mos
S reasonable and forcefRl appeal to tn
loyal citizens of the United States an
their representatives in Congress as a
urgent call to duty and privilege.
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