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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22
MIR. RLa,sE.s HEALTH.

Though very many of the reports sent out
from Washington in regard to Mr.. Blaine's
health are sensational, yet it cannot be de-
MED that the distinguished statesman Is
very sick man, and the chances are strongly
against his recovery. So sick is he that
any man with less than his wonderful will
and force of character would have died long
ago from the bodily ills which he has been
combating. His physicians who had up to
that time steadfastly refused to make any
official statement as to the condition of their
patient, last Saturday published the fol-
lowing card:
Mr.. Blaine has been suffering for some time past
with symptoms of impaired general health but
which did not clearly indicate disease oil any par
ticular organ.
Evidences Of local organic disease have been
manifested recently, and It Is believed that his
present condition Is due to this cause.
Whl> there is nothing in the nature OF this dis
ease to warrant the fear Of any very rapid prog
ress, he has shown within n month past more
signs of serious illness than before. It Is hoped
that this aggravation may pass Off Blu. no positive
statement now be made to the changes
which may take place from day to day AT the
present moment he is better than for week past.
This bulletin is generally regarded as very
alarming. It's carefully guarded phrases are
given the worst Interpretation. What is the
local organic disease"2 Why is it not speci-
fed? Is the best that can be hoped for that
it will not make "very rapid progress y?
People remember that Mr.. Blaine has been
i'll for long time, which must have sadly
sapped his health and his power to resist q
specific disease such as has now begun its
inroads, and they are naturally very fearful
of the result.
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THIS is time when veterans should
note and hold in remembrance the attitude
of newspapers which have protested friend
ship for them, and sought support on that
ground Now, as never before, the veterans
need friendship from these-not merely
passive inactive friendship, but stalwart
aggressive fighting in their behalf They
will find that far too many Of these Summer
friends are doing absolutely nothing to stem
the food of abuse which the soldier haters
are rolling across the corntry. Too many
more are giving aid and comfort to the
enemy by conceding that the pension-roll is
too large and should be cut down. These
deserters in our hour Of greatest need should
be marked and remembered We are enter
ing upon desperate fight, where the lines
are closely drawn. Every one who is not
for us is against us, and should be held ever
afterward as an enemy. We will win the
victory, but after it is won we shall have no
use for these journals which abandoned us
when we sorely needed every arm that could
strike blow for us.
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scripton stating the occasion Of its presentation
appears on The obverse. At the assanls upon the
snemy's lines at Petersburg, April 2 1865. which
were wcdge-shapsd. Col Orr was with his Regiments
at the point of the wedge. He carried bis own
oolors after two oiorSergeants were shot, and bis
regiment took more colors from the enemy than
any ia the Sixth Corps.
Gen. J. B. Walker. Gen. Hetb. Maj. stearns, and
William G. Crowell are again at work locating and
marking the lines Of battle at Antietam. Gen.
Lougstreet will be there shortly and assist In The
work.
There 81 widows of Revolutionary soldiers
drawing pensions, the oldes: being MIRA Anna
Maria Young, aged 80 years. OF Easton. Pa
Mrs. Helen Elizabeth King Of Cleveland has
been copying, to be exhibited by the State Of Ohio
at the Worlds Fair. Huntingtons portrait Of Gen.
Sherman. which belongs 10 the National Govern
ment, and hangs in the War Department as WASH
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MEASLy UNJUST,

Representative A. G. Caruth, of Ken
lucky, has introduced into the House of
Representatives bill No. 9,771, which reads
as follows:
That no pensioncr now or hereafter In the ser.
vice of the United States shall be entitled to draw
n pension for any period of time during which he
is or shall be entitled to the full pay or salary
which an able bodied person discharging like du-
ties to the Government is allowed by law.
This was referred to the Committee on
appropriations, and ordered to be printed.
The motive of the bill is essentially
mean and unjust. It is intended to strike
a vicious blow at thousands of deserving
men, who are disabled for hard manual labor
to such degree as to render them pension
able, but yet can do good, faithful duty as
watchmen, messengers, clerks, etc. In the
large proportion of cases the pay Of these
places is small, and the pension helps to
make sufficient for modest livelihood.
The United States Government has nc
more right to take away their pensions be-
cause they happen to be in it's employ than
it would if they were in private employ. In
both public and private employ they get
pay according to the work they do, and the
pension received has no CONGESTION whatever
with the case.
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THE FIRST GUN.

Mr.. Antony means to fight pensions, and
fight them savagely. He is for heroic re-
ductions-no halfway measures suit his
radical temper. Dec. Is, he introduced the
following bill into the House of Representa-
tives, which was numbered $685., referred
to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and
ordered 10 be printed:
BILL repeating chapter 634, Statutes at Large.
on pages 1872 and 1sS, approved juno "a, 1880.
granting pensions to soldiers and sailors aud
20 widows minor children and dependent parents
of soldiers and sailors.
BE enacted bv he Senate and House Of Represent
ofiues Of Ge United States of america IN Congress
assembled. That chapter 63z. Statutes at Large, vol
ume g. pages ls2 aud 49, passed at the first session
of the 5Ist Congress- entitled "An granting pen.
sions TO soldiers and sailors who incapacitated
for the performance of man uxi labor and providing
for pensions TO widows, minor children. and de-
pendent parents" approved june "a, 1886. be. and
the same lie hereby. repealed.
Sec. 2. That all pensions granted under said act
be- and the same are hereby, discontinued and en-
nulled.
Sec s. That this act take effect and be enforced
from and after its passage.
This gives the comrades taste Of what
their enemies have in store for them. This
would take off the roll at one fell swoor
about 100000 pensioners and reduce the ex.
penditures about 100000 year II
would undo what the comrades of the Grand
Army Of the Republic worked hard fol
eight long years to secure.
Nasft
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

PROF. BosCo probably the ablest student
of Criminology in the world, finds that
the Italians are peculiarly nurderous
people. In eight principal States of western
Europe there Is total population Of 1885,
100000 people over 10 years old. Among
these there is an average of 2,777 trials per
annum for murder, while Italy, which has
population of 25,OoO,O0o over 10 years. has
an average of 3,606 murder trials year.
Holland has the fewest murder trials in
proportion to her population; next England,
and then Germany, Scotland, France, Bel
GUM, Ireland, Austria, Hungary, Spain, and
Italy, in the order named.
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IT was only the fortitude and constancy
of the soldiers which made the bonds or the
greenbacks of any value whatever. Every
time there was a Union victory the value Of
bonds and paper money advanced; at every
defeat they fell. If the soldiers had become
disheartened during the bloody campaigns
of the Wilderness and Atlanta, as well they
might. and said, 1--WE will fight no more ;
let us compromise this thing" the bonds
and greenbacks would have become as value
less as the Confederate securities are to-day.
Yet though the money-lenders have been
paid nearly .fue thousand million dollars, the
veterans, who made all this wealth for them,
have not received more than 81 100000, 600
in pensions. This reminds one of the way o
sailor said that prize-money was distributed
He said it was sifted through ladder. What
went through was given the officers; what
the rounds caught went to the sailors.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

WHITTIER THE SURPLUS HAS GONE.
Mr. Cleveland went out Of Office March 4,
1889. The last statement by his Secretary
of the Treasury showed the condition of the
public debt March 1, 1889. The bonds then
outstanding were:
Loan of 1891, ~ per cent."""...." sl62s 42,2 zoo
Loan Of 1907, per cent. 6sl, l3s,oVo
Refundinp certificates ....,... 10000
Total SS44 lO6.22o
The total cash in the Treasury available
for the reduction of the debt was S120, $780,
517. OF this over $6o,OOo,o0o, or nearly
one-half, was in the hands of National
banks
The statement of the public debt for Dec.
/, 1892, shows the outstanding bonds to be:
Loan of 1891, AZ per cent. 1858 500
Loan of 1907, per cent. DOS. o92Voo
Refundiny NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 76,43o
To,al...,,.,... 5s5. O3a $50
The net available cash in the Treasury
was 30,32s 1850, of which $16,035, 1873
was held by National Banks for disbursins
officers accounts, etc.
This shows that the public debt has been
decreased since Mr.. Cleveland went out of
Office, as follows:
Decrease.
Loan of 1917 per cent.....".."" Sl37.477,7Oo
Loan Of 1901 per cent............ 12i,oaoIo
Refuntiinp certificates - 1880
Total decrease 259, 073 240
Thus we see that not only was the whole
surplus left by Mr.. Cleveland's Administra-
ton used in reducing the public debt, but
S15a,0OG000 additional applied to the came
proper purpose. Had the present Admins
tration been bent, as its predecessor was,
Oh nursing q big surplus to alarm the
Nation, it could now be able 10 show
surplus more than two and half times as
large as that Mr.. Cleveland left. All that
was needed was simply to refrain from
taking up the bonds. This Administration
decided wisely, we think, that it was better
to use the money in the Treasury to take
up the bonds, and stop the interest, than to
let it lie idle in the vault.
What is of most interest TO the veterans,
however, is the showing of the falsity Of the
clamor that the payment Of pensions has
emptied the Treasury Of the surplus. Any
man can see that the surplus did not go into
the pockets of the pensioners, but that it
and S159.O00,0Oo more went into the all
absorbing Golfers of the bondholders.
This is truth which no one can deny.
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THE SAD FATE OF MUsBY.

1t was Christmas Day. As Musby sat taking
his dinner in Mr.. Thatcher's popular restaurant,
he noticed that the waiter dropped 20 cent
pay-check on the floor near him. Musby slyly
picked up this check and was Immediately
siezed with a fierce desire to eat So worth and
hand in this check at the counter. 1t would
have been better for Musby had he obeyed this
impulse, in which case brief and violent ill-
ness would have been the only consequence.
As it was But am anticipating.
Musby reconsidered and decided to do it
gradually. His Christmas dinner would be 20
cents. He would pay by the 0.cent check and
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How long will it be before the soldier
hating press succeeds in convincing the
American people that the Union army was
made up of the scum OF the earth, who only
went into the army to get immense pay and
bounty, and who shirked duty and danger
as persistently as a tramp does hard work ?
Everything seems tending that way now,
and that will be the end, unless the veterans
rouse themselves in defense of their honor.
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Leading Man lin the center of the stage)-
In two minutes more the moon will show It's
silvery rim above yonder hilltop, and then my
love will meet me here at the trysting- place
At Iawst, fair Luna peeps above-um UNI I! lin
Kissing aside)-Whatt t. ell is the matter with
that moon?
OHooley's Head appearing around wing
60 on widout dhe moon, Mr.. Hamm. Dhe
moon-man is drunk dhe moon is stuct fast
an it's mesilf thot does not know how TO start
dhe dommed dining.
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" the CsNNcHEER. |"

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THE United States Treasury Saved
$3,91s, ss6.96 last year by the death of 25,-
BOG pensioners. This Saving" must in
crease with melancholy rapidity as advanc-
ing years do their sad work on the enfeebled
frames Of the pensioners.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

The Salvation Army seems to have leaped
at one bound from public derision to public
applause. The general course of opinion is
now strongly favorable to the organization
and methods at which nearly every one was
sneering few years ago.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

THE Kansas Popu1ists have decided not
to have an inaugural ball when Governor
elect LleweIling is indicted into Office, be
cause dancing is degraded and disgraceful
form of pleasure" Will there be an anti
dancing plank in the next Populist plat
Go
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22
EAR WEST FAISEHOODS.

The Pacific RuraL Press, of San Francisco,
talks in way that is simply shameful for
any paper pretending to be well-informed
and truthful. After descanting on the rapid
growth of pension expenditures, it says:
Nobody familiar with t.e methods by which PEN
sions have been secured can doubt for one moment
that very large proportion OF the pensioners OF
the country have no real title to Government aid.
We believe that careful investigation of the pen
sion list would result in cutting off from 10 TO 20
per cent of the whole number of pensioners and in
al annual saving of from 20 to so millions of dol
lars to the Government.
This is simply and glaringly untrue.
Everybody familiar with the methods by
which pensions have been secured" knows
that no class of creditors of the Government
have such difficulties thrown in the way of
securing their rights as pension claimants.
If the United States Government treated its
other creditors as it treats those who at
tempt to get pension claims allowed, it
would be eternaly disgraced as the mean
est and most dishonest debtor that ever
existed. Nobody would trust it for dollar
Nobody would let it have a pound Of meat
or yard Of cloth for its soldiers or sail0rs,
or ton of coal for its war-yessels, except for
spot cash in advance of the delivery of the
goods. Its bonds would not be taken at any
rate Of interest.
TO get pension man has to Prov
more than he would TO clear himself of
charge of murder, if the circumstantial evil
dence were strong against him. We have
repeatedly shown that more than half
the pension cases allowed in certain years
had been pending from five to 81 years, and
ii took much longer on an average to get q
pension case through than it did to put
down the rebellion. Think of any other
| creditor being put off from five to 81 years.
required to pile evidence on evidence, and
meet every possible objection and bubble
| that rises in the disbursing officers mind
| The thing would not be endured
| The Pacifc Rural Press asserts lis belief
that careful investigation of the pension
list would result in cutting off from 10 to 20
per cent of the whole number Of pensioners
Any pretended investigation that would do
this would simply rob tens of thousands of
rights earned by the hearts blood in the
awful fire of battle. For three years now
partisan committees, spurred up with an al
most desperate eagerness to make political
capital, have been investigating the Pension
Bureau, in the hope of revealing some such
| fraud as the Rural Press alleges to exist, and
| their most determined efforts have been
| fruitless. In the face of this well-known
fact, it requires amazing efIrontery on the
part Of that paper to make such mendacious
charges.
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THE Philadelphia Record has still another
scheme for fattening crowd Of political
favorites at the expense of the pensioners.
1t wants a board appointed to 60 over every
pension and examine into its justice. This
would make a fine, fat, long continued job
for quite number of political parasites
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

TOBACCO seems to be an even better
"patriot" in France than when the first
Napoleon commended it for this virtue.
The French Government realizes profit of
$50 100000 year from its monopoly of the
manufacture and sale of tobacco.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

IT is not probable that there will be any
silver legislation this session. There are
any number of Senators and Representa-
tives who are decidedly of the opinion that
something should be done, but the difficulty
is that they hold widely divergent views as
to what that thing should be.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is the only
champion the soldiers haze among the great pa
pers Of the country. The best way to help all
veterans is By getting it more subscribers.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

PHILADELPHIA has been counting her
self over again, and finds that there are
1,l42,653 people in her corporate limits,
which should restore her to the place Of the
second city in the Nation. inst wait now
till Chicago goes accounting!
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-22

Mrs Washington (the landlady Don't you
think that Mr.. Paunchley, the new boarder. is
a very deep man?
Lanks-Um-wel On the contrary he i'm
pressed me as being positively shallow.
Mrs. Hashington-It is evident you did not
watch him eat,
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charges.

THE Journeymen Tailors' Association of
the United States has grievance in regard
to the amount of clothing that tourists are
allowed to bring in free of duty on their
return from abroad, and petitions are re-
ceived by Congress every day from all over
the country asking that this amount be re-
stricted. IT. certainly seems absurd to
denounce the sweating system of the Eng
lish clothing makers, and at the same time
allow the products of their nefarious prac-
tice to take the bread out of the mouths
of our own working people.