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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-05-01
TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON D. g. THURSDAY

fetal flowers, fine laces, rich silks, and used
delicate perfumes, etc, paid $23,S18,261 in
duties, to encourage the home-producers of
those articles, of which $7,145, 478 went for
pensions, and the remainder for other pur-
poses.
The smokers of fine Havana cigars and
the users of Sumatra tobacco paid for the
protection of our own tobacco fields S9734,-
9S7, of which s., 92O, 496 went for pensions,
and the balance for other purposes.
The drinkers of fine foreign wines and
liquors paid $T663,24 for the benefit of our
own vineyards, of which $2298,973 went
for pensions.
For the protection of our sheep-growers
and woolen-manufacturers $36, 9i2,607 were
collected in duties, of which S10,9S2,752
went for pensions
The man who smoked 1000 cgarets-
which would be about three day for the
year-paid the dealer $40 for them, and
thereby contributed 80 cents to the Trea-
sury, of which IS cents went to the veter-
ans, and the remainder TO pay salaries, in
tcrest, etc.
The smoker of 900 cigars-three a day
for over year-paid the dealer for them
from S25 to $3.50, and thereby contributed
s. TO the Treasury, of which 30 cents went
TO the veterans, and the remainder to meet
the other OUTLAWS of the Government. He
would not have gotten his cigars fraction
of cent cheaper if the tax had been taken
of.
The man who drank 81 gallons of beer
over 400 glasses, for which he paid the
saloonkeeper, say, $20-contributcd 81 TO
the internal revenue, of which 80 cents, or
the price of six glasses, went to the defend
erS of tie Union, and the remainder to the
Office holders, bondholders, etc.
The man who drank gallon of whisky,
say, 100 " stiff horns" for which he paid the
saloon keeper from SO to $15-contrbutod
80 cents to the revenue, OF which y cents
went for pensions.
! These facts show conclusiyely where the
so-called burden" Of pension expenditures
rests.
Were there no such thing ~ pensions
were every veteran and his widow and de-
pendent parents dead and the green grass
growing over them, it would not affect, for an
instant, the price to the consumers of the
articles which now contribute the money
/ expended for pensions.
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PERSONAL.

Tie marriage Of Miss Koseorans, daughter of Gen.
w g. Rosecrans, to Gov. Toole, of Montana, will
take place shortly. but will be very quiet The
ceremony will be performed in the parlor at viii
lard's Hotel, Washington, where General and Miss
Rosecrans have made their home for several
years. DIR. ChnppeIlc, of st. Matthew'S will oiici
ate After the wedding Gov. Toole takes his bride
to Montana where an enthusiastic welcome awaits
them. Tie hride-oleot is an accomplished woman,
speaking several languages, and sings and plays
with taste and skill.
Col. William Il. Draper, of Hopedae, Mass, will
be married May - TO Miss Preston, daughter of
the late Gen. William Preston, of Kentucky, who
was Minister to Spain under Buehanan's Admins
tration Col Draper went into service as a First
Lieutenant of the 25th Mass. but was transferred
aud promoted Lieutenant Colonel OF the 36ih Mass
he was gallant soldier, and his old comrades will
no doubt be pleased To learn of his approaching
happiness The good wishes of all win attend the
Colonel.
Gen, Benjamin Il. Butler Is estimated by close
observers be worth between IS 600 600 and $1,000
600 He is really moro identified with the City of
Boston than he is with Lowell which latter city is
his legal residence. His law offices In Ashburton
Place Boston, the finest ia the city and lac can
be found there early aud late when not in court OF
travelling. uniilse most Of Boston lawyers he has a
large practice in New York, Washington and
Chicago where lac has eopartnership offices, aud it
Is said that his law business brings him at least
500 600 year. He lives we'll and is very generous.
The bulk of his fortune has been made by invest
ments in manufactures
An inmate Of the Soldiers Home Mt Milwaukee,
Wis, writes that upon the return of their kind and
generous Governor, Gen. Kilburn Knox, from his
visit to Philadelphia. where he had been to attend
the meeting OF the Loyal Legion. the old veterans
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PottawatOmIs Traditions eff Gen. W. II. Harrison.


Frank Lcslis's Popular AoBthigl
"The old men of my people tell many tradi-
tiOns Ofthe grandfather of the new Great Father
Mt Washington"
The speaker was bright PottawatOmie In
dian, who had been educated in part IN the
mission schools of the Indian Territory, re-
ceiviug finishing touch at = Kansas academy,
and then, true to his people, had returned 20
them settling down on \ farm at the Sacred
Heart Mission which is located near the center
of the Indian Territory.
My people" continued the young POttawat-
omie. called Gen. Harrison 'MskO-pkough'
(red seall on account of his official stamp being
impressed in red sealing-wax. Hence his cam
paigu pledge that he and his Government would
forever live up 10 their agreements, which
pledge oftentimes the Indians found 5ri.tle.
AT Tippecanoe the Pottawatomies sand the
Great Father chastised them like children. In
previous battles the white man on retreat
would pull out = plug of tobacco and hand 1t to
the Indian to take chew, in order to save his
life; but the Indians said that nc the baltic OF
Tippecanoe they fought hard for = chew Of to-
bacco but never got any all that day The
Indian forces with distinguished leaders who
were To have done the lightning did not come
until the battle had been fought.
''In q council held about this time, Teeum-
sch gave Gen. Harrison a sharp repTOOf. The
white General lost his temper and used viOlens
language whereupon Tscumseh arose with his
stately dignity aud said: When great men
get angry, il is time to put out the eouncil-hre-
He then drew his blanket about him and
stalked out of the assembly"
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CAPITOL CHAT.
MEDALS OF HONOR AWARDED.

Secretary of the Treasury Window has
awarded a gold lile-saving medal of the first
class to Richard +. Warren, OF Wilmington, n.
C., for "extreme and heroic daring" in reseung
Miss Carrie Motiitt from the surf at Wrights-
willie Beach, N. C., in June last.
The Secretary also awarded silver life saving
medals Of tho second class to the following
named persons:
John Boyue, South Haven, Mich, for rescu-
ing child from the lake at that place in Au-
gust last.
Capt Andrew M. Taylor. of East Sopus n.
", for rescuing eight persons from drowning
in Rondout Creek at different times since 1852.
Frank Tompkins of Governors Island. N.
Y, for saving The life of man who had fallen
overheard near Fort Hamilton, N. Y, in July
last.
Dennis Tracy, of Bangor Me-, for rescuing
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really not in excess of the needs of the hour
We, therefore, advise our readers and friends
that in forming q correct estimate of the
proposition of the House Naval Committee,
it is necessary TO bear in mind the fact that
it is not only not in accord with the uncalled-
for and alarming recommendations of the
Naval Policy Board, but actually in opposi-
ton TO it, both in letter and in spirit. There
is no occasion for alarm on the part of tax
payers rs to the comparatively modest pro-
gram of the House Committee
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY ], 1890
TEN THOUSAND WATCHES
TO GIVE AWAY.

We have decided upon securing 100000
more subscribers, and TO Go il Will give away
10000 OF the famous Trenton watches 10
club T2IseTS
We viii send watch FREE, post paid, 10
every club raiser who sends Us club OF
OxI.Y TEN subscribers for one year.
This is an opportunity never before
offered. because this watch is not cheap
catch-pennv make-shift, but genuine, full
jeEeled patent-lever movement in Ola
mord-silver case, warranted Tor - years.
Diamond silver is compound metal, rs
lis name indicates, composed Of pure silver
and nickel. TO give il hardness and color.
il is not plated, bat solid so il wears the
same clear lhreugh, and is 50 warranted.
Now. who wants one? There are just
10.OG0 Of them to give away, and we do not
anticipate much trouble in disposing Of them
or these terms.
An hour's work viii get one. We hope
our friends viii appreciate the opportunity
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Theexpenditures FOR pensions were there
fore about 30 per cent. Of the total disburse-
meris Of the Government. A little over q
per cent. went 10 pay salaries Of officials and
about u per cent. went TO pay interest on
the bonds, nearly IL per cent went 10 the
War Department. That is, of every dollar
paid out by the Government 30 cents went
10 pensioners, ~ cents for salaries, etc, II
cents for interest, II cents for the army,
rivers, harbors, etc, little over cents 10
the navy, and the remaining cents TO the
Indians and miscellaneous purposes
1t is easy, therefore, for each to figure out
how much he is contributing to the pay
meBt Of the debt the Nation owes TO the
men who saved its life
The manufacturer Of bogus butter seems
to be one Of the heaviest contributors. OF
the 5000 which he pays rs special tax, $3.50
goes TO the veterans, 1852 to pay salaries,
/ etc, Of the President, Congressman and
other officials, Sl02 to the bondholders. Sl02
10 the army, rivers, harbors, etc, $50 10 the
navy, and $l5 to the Indians, etc. For
every 100 pounds Of his imitation butter
that be makes he pays 60 cents TO the vet
Grams 81 cents for official salaries, "a cents
for maintaining the army, and dredging the
rivers, 81 cents TO satisfy the coupon clippers
y cents 10 support the navy, and cents tc
feed the Indians aud pay for the lands W,
have taken from them.
The Wholesale dealer in oleomargarin,
pays $144 year 10 the veterans, $4,000 q
the President, Congressman, Supreme Court
Cabinet Officers, etc, $el.GO TO the army
and 10 meet the outlay OF the River ane
Harbor Bill, ssl.60 10 the money-lenders
$3.50 TO the navy, and so on.
J The brewer who manufactures 500 barrel
) Of beer or more year contributes as n gpe
cisl tax $50 to pensions, SIT TO salaries Of Off
? cials, ST. for interest $l7 for the expendi
3 lures Of the War Department, SO for thos
Of the Navy Department, and So for tbos
. Of the Interior Department.
: The same contribution is made by til
: wholesale dealers in liquors.
0 The saloon-Ko,r rs license of S25 yea
/ is divided up into $50 for the pensioner
s S675 for the officeholders, $425 for India
= fighters, and dredgers, Sl25 for ships an
/; sailors, and rs cents for Indians and othe
G purposes.
L The 81 .0s2, 059 which was collected for th
J, protection Of our barley-growers paid 1924
T 600 Of pensions, and the remainder went I
s the bOndholdeTs and oiliceholders, etc.
The ladies who wore ostrich pIumes, art
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THE present duty beans and peas Is 10 per
cent. The Mckinley bill proposes specific dulles
equivalent TO nearly 800 per cent. These articles
of food are not imported into this country except
when there has been IA failure or partial failure OF
the crop here The new duty would be prohib-
itory, and la times of scarcity would enable specu-
lators to advance prices to "a most exorbtant figure
but the profits would 40 10 the farmer in only IA
small degree. while tha increased cost to the con
suIneTs mostly of the poorer class, would be very
great.H L. Times.
What nonsense. With over 3,O0G 600
square miles of rich soil and the most diver
siGed conditions of climate, it is beyond
probability that there viii be failure of
any crop all over the country. Should
there be failure Of the bean crop in any
one section the Mckinley bill provides that
our own farmers in another section shall
receive the benefit of the enhanced prices
and not those of France, Germany or some
other foreign country. II can never happen
that there will be a very material increase
in the price of beans, because our immense ag-
ricultural area will supply all our wants, and
any considerable rise in price will bring enor-
nous quantities to market. Besides, beans
not being an indispensable article of food,
other cheaper articles could be substituted
for them, which would eifectually kill any
attempt TO corner" them. The New York
Times is terribly afraid OF any scheme which
looks to the benefit of our farmers. Its
sympathies are across the ocean.
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DEADREATS


What means this great commOtion about a pension
That shakes the body polite rs though It had
chilli
The bill they cali Dependent" which refers, ns
ann told,
To a remnant OF the army who fought in days of
oids
read in certain papers and hear 1t on the streets,
That this bill Is la the interests Of paupeTs and
dcadbcnis;
IL seems li,tle singular they didn't call them So
The soldiers OF the Union.-some 20 years ago.
How many were the deadbeats how many were
there then.
When the loyal homes responded to the call for
loyal mcn'
Were the men brave and honest? Then trust these
men Ia. day.
When their steps are growing feeble. and their
loo<sar turning gray.
What though some shrked their duty through
greed craven fear.
There who faced the music. and at roll
call answered here;
Aud because they never responded to the dreaded
Surgeons call.
And no hospital could hold them, cannot prove
their claims at ali.
II Is hard 10 be n pauper. I remember we'll the
white ..s...s saa
When the Nation was dependent on the gallant
rank and file.
II used up all the surplus. but word OF tongue
pea
Against the loyal millions who were dependent
then.
But times have changed. The veterans only
paupers now.
burden to the Government, and deadbeats any
how.
But the men who bore the musket to-day can bear
the shame,
Aad no reproach can tarnish tho Union soldiers
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sPEcIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

If0KEF seat fs Otherwise than b. registered letter,
postal TRoncp order, Gnaf on Acis
Fork sffu be al lilc r1Sk Of Tie sender.
hGENTS-Hc employ agents THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE has udHg C0ilWteer cGnuoSssrs aud ueB
are generally honest o,d 5a5iljih; bu: persons trho
coatdc cr subscriptions 10 Ga r5tiz. te dcir otrn
FudgoS q fteir responsibility Tie dsT o7H DC se'''
only on receipt Of The subscription prise.
ADDRESSES. RENEWALS. Ec-kdiTosseS 'riH
Dc changed as often desired, btt ocoh subscriber
should i os case gre o old as tuel as Esesr address
In rsneariag Subscribers So,d be caT! to send us ths
tabel on The last 7aper reccUed and scctp any cor
reotious or ocHges ley desire made f RGHse or adj
dress.
C0RRESPOEDENCE-C0r Correspondents Is so'icfied
from ererv section IN regard 10 Grand Army, Fen
sion Misarp Agricultural Industrial and Household
sanfcs asd lcitrS 10 The Editor tDiH Arrays receue
slronyf attention. Hfie on ONE SIDE q the paper
oaiu ne do not re'lTn communications or 1F1Gnu-
scripts s5eSs l,ey are accompanied bg request 10
thai cFeoi aud The necessary postage, ad sSades no
circumstances guarantee deir publications al any
special date.
Address oil communications 70
THE NATIONAL TRrBUNE,
Washington, d. O.
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ENGLAED's greedy designs on Africa are
betrayed by the rage Of the English papers
over Emin Bey's "treachery" in accepting
employment, at fine salary, from Ger
many. People this side of the Atlantic
cannot easily understand why, If the OBJ
ject of the explorations Of Stanley, Emin
Bey aud Others is the advancement of the
worlds knowledge OF the Dark Continent,
and the spread of civilization among the
benighted people there, the help of Ger
many or any other country would not be
very welcome. But England only wants
Africa civilized in the interest of English
trade. She wants as complete control of
the business of supplying the hundreds of
millions there with her manufactured goods
as she has Of the hundreds of millions in
India, aud the tens Of millions in her other
dominions. Anything that looks like diyid-
ing this trade with any other country is
- base treachery TO England, and this is the
head and front of Emin Bey's offending lie
| is a traitor" just as anyone in this country
who opposes its commercial serfdOm to Eng
land il pelted with all manner OF oppro-
brious epithcts by the press subsidized in
! England's interests.
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FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS.
A List of Good Things in Store
for The Readers Of The Ma
iional Tribune.

Tie hare a magnificent lot Of articles Of nm
Is..7I nte-5t for the readers Of THE NATIONAL
UNE 1raieA 'ria be preselted TO them ia
fI1 7ioar future Among these arc:
& SERIES or TEN LETTERS, Bg Frank
G. Corpcatcr, lrhosc letters descriptive Of has
joHrnrg mo The out f-tte-lray places Of The
prorld pfoDed 50 acceptable 70 our readers
last gear.
~REhL RUSSIA" By The author Of the "S1oTy
Of CaHaoRoer," des7iptiDe Of has traUels
and life IA Russia, aud ne people he met
there
'BETHEEg TWO FIRES" By William L.
DosLe, Icing q continuation cf The interesting
FcEiHisoeaoes d an old J'irgiHiaa EUiHg in
The 9cbafaJle country on The BgpidGH.
II THE DL4hOED FIELDS, Bg Edgar
Hels, series Of Eetters from .South AJrioo
b. a. oJle contributor uho Il nor making a
four Of ne great diamond foJds Of that por-
toH u ne ,eorld. no other peper in The
country has a correspondent IN that region.
PARLSLAE SKETCHES, by Ars. Kate b.
SEoya1ood. 4 continuation Of her series ot
iHi1rc5tiag letters.
FHAT VAS CEDAR CREEK9 Jy CAPT
r. Il. Bggum, Of he Hineteeah Corps
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THE soldier-hating Boston Herald walls:

THE hating Boston Herald walls:
Senator Ingalls, takes long look ahead in the
matter of our pension account. He calculates that
the last surviving soldier of the Of the re-
beon will expire between 1910 and 1850. but that
the pensions will rapidly diminish before that time.
Pensions to widows and dependent relatives will
continue, however, and before the account is
finally closed the Government will have paid out
not less than 81 1000, 5000 in pensions Probably
this is moi an extrayagant estimate.
Suppose this to be true. If the soldiers
do receive in the aggregate $f,0OO,000OOO,
they will be still be more than thousand
million dollars short of what the bondholders
have received up to the present time. And
the veterans gave to the country in sacri-
feed wages alone several times as much as
the bondholders lent it. We cannot see any
thing at all disseminating in the prospect of
the veterans and their dependent ones re-
ceiving fully rs much as the money-lenders
have been paid up TO to-day.
A CITY Office may not be as distinguished
IN honor as National one but there may
be other considerations to make it more at
tractive to q man to whom reputation is not
so much of an object as big wages and a
steady situation. For example, the New
York Democrats elected six men last Fall
for as many offices, the salaries and terms
Of which are:
Register, three years, at $4,000 year.
Judge of Common Pleas, IA years, at
$4,000 year.
Judge of the Court of General Sessions,
Ia years, at S12 900 year.
Justice of the City Court, six years, at
$4,000 year.
President of the Board of Aldermen, two
years, at $4,000 year.
These salaries, with the exception Of the
latter, exceed any paid by the Government
except to the President. The Register and
the Judges get great deal more than is
paid to the august Justices of the Supreme
Court, which is the most distinguished tri-
bunal in the civilized world. These are paid
$4,000 year, except the Chief Justice, who
gets $500 more.
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These leading articles therefore contrib
uted 80 per cent. of the entire amount col
lecied through She Custom Houses As we
have repeatedly shown, not one dollar Of this
great sum is assessed upon these articles or
any other because the Government needs the
money for pensions, or any other expense.
The duties are collected rs a measure Of
protection to our farmers and manufacturers
This is so clear that no one can successfully
dispute il.
We viii now turn TO the other great source
of natural unconditional revenue. The
collections were:
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TRIBUN ETS.

After a careful study Of the speech of many
lands where English is spoken, a writer in the
Western School Journal comes to the conclusion
that tho best pronunciation is found in the
Upper Mississippi Valley-that region bounded
on the east By the Alleganies north by Canada,
west by the Rockies. aud sonth by the Ohio
River. lie finds that the chief fault of educated
people in New York and Boston is the elimina.
ton of the ~. lie heard a distinguished
Boston educator, in convention say, This is
the soss' Of all OWL" In New York murder 4"
becomes "muyder y; park pawk -; "mur-
mur MUMMY" etc. In Philadelphia no !"
becomes now; ' go" "gow''; " road -" roud'';
"bont" bout; day" "dahee" train
"rahcen," otc In Washington. of course, they
have the Southern fashion of cutting OF or"
when the end of a word. His main fault with
the pronunciation of the Upper Mississippi
Valley people is that they pronounce "a" in
such words rs calf, half laugh and land, too fat.
OF course the fact that the writer resides at
Topeka, has nothing to do with his belief that
the people OF the central part of the country,
speak the best English.
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PENSION PROSPECTS.

While both Houses of Congress are strong
ly in favor of doing something of substantial
benefit for the veterans, there is marked
divergence of views between the two bodies
rs to what shape legislation should take.
The views ola majority Of the Senators are
clearly outlined in the Davis Pension bill,
which was passed by that body some time
ago. 1t will be remembered that every at
tempt to materially amend it, or incorporate
into it features either more or less liberal
was strongly opposed, and voted down by
decisive majority. The majority in the
House, on the other hand, are strongly In
favor Of the Morrill, Pension bill. They are
not rs fully committed to it as a whole as
the Senators are to their bill, but still the
bill will, almost without doubt, be passed
in n few days with very little if any alter
alton from its present shape.
The next step must be, therefore, Com
mittee on Conference, consisting of members
of both the Houses, to reconcile the antagon-
isms of the two measures, and draft one
which will pass both bodies. Essential
changes will appear in the bill, but what
they will be it is impossible to predict. We
think it is safe to say, however, that 1T will
be fully as liberal in all respects as either OF
the present bills, aud contain features which
will make it, on the whole, more acceptable
to the comrades and the country than either
Of them.
The best thing the Committee on Confer
ence can do would be to throw both bills
aside, and report The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
Service Pension Bill as substitute. This
would give more general satisfaction than
any other measure yet proposed.
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Ina Chicago Court.


Judge-On what grounds madam, co you
claim divorce from your husbandP
THE doctor told me to discard everything
that disagreed with me, and my hus--"
tiGranted. Next"
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A Cause for Sadness.
IIinninrnif.S lfnnnzins-l

sYou look sad. Mamie"
ayes; found about II doushauts in the
pantry and ate them"
Didn't they agree with you?"
(Dolrfully)-" "Tisn't that; VIC had three
kinds of pie aud ice-eream for dinner, and 1
hadn't any room for them"