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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16
VERY ANGRY.

Deacon Meeks met with distressing acct
dent this morning. He was taking AZ dozen
eggs and barrel of soft-soap to market, when
his horse ran away, overturning the wagon,
throwing the Deacon out headforemost into
the barrel Of soap, and pouring the eggs in a
perfect avalanche on top of him. The horse
then dragged the wagon in through Hammer
slaw's gate, which happened to be open, and
tore around through the back yard, knocking
hotbed and four bee-hives galley-west, and
came swirlng out again with cloud of bees
swarming about him, dragged the wreck of a
wagon over the Deacon, and tore away up the
road, leaving the Deacon insensible. tell you
he was angry when he recovered his senses"
"What did he say?"
ale said Gosh All Hemlock!'"
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as TO RAILROAD RATES.

1t is claimed that if there should be any
| material reduction in the rates Of fare
or freight, the railroads of the country
would generally go into bankruptcy. To
support this it is pointed out that only a
small proportion Of them are now paying
| dividends. The answer to this is that not
railroad in the United States is run upon the
| same legitimate basis as other branches of
business. They are all trying to make the
public pay dividends on watered stock, on
blunders aud mistakes in their earlier man.
agement, or in some other way are exacting
returns which are not legitimate. For ex-
ample, in the most honestly managed roads
there were millions of dollars invested in
the deprecated paper money current in the
country from 1862 to 1879. In every other
branch of business stock so acquired was
scaled down as we approached specie basis,
or gotten ridden of at the prices then
prevailing. This was true Of all the real
estate in the country. The value Of oil the
land in the country was scaled down from
the inflated prices of 1866 to those set by the
resumption of specie payments in 1879. The
dollar invested in them is kept on their
acccunt-books at its face value. A still
more aggravated wrong is that the bonds
and stock Of most of the railroads built
since the war represent from three to four
times the amount actually expended in their
construction. When an investor put in
$1,000 he was given from $4,000 to $4,000
worth of bonds ard stock. This is notori-
Gus. Then all manner Of equipment COM
panies," combines, transportation compa-
MES, and similar parasites have saddled the
roads with enormous burdens and are eating
the heart out of the profits of their business.
The railroads are trying to make the public
pay for all of these, and are succeeding only
too we'll.
If the railroads were reorganized, and
placed on the same basis as other branches
of business, their profits would everywhere
be very great There is hardly road in
the United States but which, if purchased
on the same basis that factory or store is,
and run upon the same business principles,
would pay enormous dividends. This is
the direction a great reform must take, and
it is not too soon to begin it now.
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FURTHER AS TO REUNIONS.

Probably some further explanation is re-
CURED as 10 the grand scheme for Reunions
at the coming National Encsmpment, which
was published in last weeks NATIONAL
TRIBUNE.
We mentioned then that the arrangement
as to corps had to be to certain extent
arbitrary, in order TO avoid duplication and
confusion. For example, the Fourth Corps
viii mean only the Fourth Corps of the
Army Of the Cumberland. In the Fourth
Corps will be included all those who served
at any time in the old Twentieth and
Twenty first Corps Of the Army Of the
Cumberland. The reason for this is that
the Fourth Corps of the Army of the
Potomac had comparatively a brief history,
though very creditable one, and it was
broken up early in the Summer of 1862, its
divisions being distributed to the newly
organized Fifth and Sixth Corps-which
Mcclellan had created for his favorites,
Fitz-John Porter and w B. Franklin-and
TO the deienses of Norfolk. Therefore, those
who served in the old Fourth Corps on the
Peninsular Campaign viii fall in with the
Fifth and Sixth Corps, or with the Eight
eenth Corps. A member Of the committee
Cor tae last-namcd corps has been appointed
for the CD Fourth Corps. and probably there
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sl.O71,92l II

BY studying the above tables it will be
seen that the total of the taxes received on
distilled and malt liquors, and the manufac-
turers and sellers of the same, is Sill ,901,
O9266. To this should be added S11 100000
for duties on foreign liquors, making total
of S123, 000, 000 in round numbers, which
the Government receives for the liquor our
people drink. This alone is more than
100000 mere than the total pension dis
bursements for the fiscal year Of 1891, which
was S11e,548. 959.71, and S24,0OO000 more
than the annual value Of the pension roll
for that year.
This is a war tax" which everybody,
except the manufacturers and dealers, will
at once say should neither be abolished nor
diminished 1t is not to the interest Of
public morals that intoxicating liquors
should be made any cheaper, or that any of
the Recommendations upon their sale should
and sale are enormous and no business is
increasing so rapidly or making so many
people rapidly and certainly rich. The pro-
duction of beer in this country increased
from q 100000 to 30,0O0,G00 barrels last
year-a rate Of increase that no other bust
ness can boast of, and brewing is sure road
to wealth.
Yet in spite Of the enormous revenue the
Government derives from liquors, how much
man has 10 drink and how much he must
pay the saloonist who sells it to him, in
order TO pay little to the Government! He
must drink whole barrel of beer-32 gal
lons-in order that the Treasury may get
81 In taxes. A barrel contains from $50 to
CPS glasses, for which he pays the saloon
keeper from $3.50 to $3125 in order to
give the Government 81. A gallon Of whisky
contains 128 stiff drinks" which costs the
buyer 10 or Is cents each, so that he has to
pay the barkeeper from $3.50 to 1920 be-
fore the Government is richer by 80 cents
tax on the gallon.
We can safely assume, therefore, that in
order to pay into the Treasury the $123, 000,-
600 which it receives from intoxicating
beverages the people of the country must
pay to those who sell these to them over
billion and-a-haB dollars, or hundreds Of
for pensions since 1862
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The House Committee on Agriculture
wanted $4,000 more to distribute in seeds
during the coming campaign, which was not
altogether wrong, but it took the SAC, 900
from the scientific appropriations Of the De-
partment of Agriculture, which was alto
gether wrong. There are grave doubts as
to the value of an extra supply of garden
seeds, except for electioneering purposes,
but there are and can be none as TO the value
Of the scientific work OF the Department.
The portions Of the work which will suffer
most from this will be those devoted to
studying and applying remedies to the dis
eases of animals, fruit and vegetables, which
break out constantly in various parts of the
country, and to checking the rayages Of
injurious insects. This work is OF the
highest possible importance TO the farmer,
and during the past decade has been the
means of saving the country many millions
of dollars. 1t is not at all right that the
work should be crippled in any way, and
the action of the Committee on Agriculture
will meet the hearty disapproyal of all pro-
gressive farmers.
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will he Reunion of all the members who
served with it on the Peninsula.
For the same reason the Seventh Corps
of the Eastern Army has been ignored,
though one division of it made quite bril-
liant history in its defense of Suffolk. The
regiments forming this division were mainly
those which had previously served in the
Fourth Corps of the Army of the Potomac,
and afterward they were nearly all put into
the Eighteenth Corps, and SO this latter
Corps has been made to include them and
all troops serving in southeastern Virginia
and North Carolina. The Seventh Corps
will therefore mean only those troops which
served west of the Mississippi and north of
the Red Rivers, and were organized into
the Corps by General Orders dated Jan. 6,
1864. This includes all troops serving in
Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, Arkan-
sas, etc.
Every effort will be made to have all the
old officers and commanders of the corps
present at the Reunions, and by the plan
contemplated it is expected that every vet
eranin attendance will meet just exactly the
men he wants to meet, and have joyful
Reunion with the men he served with dur
ing the war.
OF course everyone will understand that
these assignments are all entirely voluntary.
Regiments brigades, etc, which served IN
more than one corps or other organization,
will be free to choose which one they will
meet with. At the same time, while taking
up their meeting headquarters with one or
ganization, say that with which they served
the longest, they will know precisely where
to find the other organizations with which
they served, and can readily visit them.
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The * reheis talk quite vaingloriously
Of the carnage they caused in the Yankee
hosts" during the war, and they certainly
did terrible amount of killing and wound
ing. But they did not have it all their own
way by long chalk, and the Yanks seemed
to have shot pretty straight too. During q
recent Confederate Reunion" at Dallas,
Tex, q reporter Of the Ners interviewed a
group OF lS0 ex-rebels, and found that
OF these I73 had been wounded 30 had lost legs Il
had an armies sleeve, two had been shot through
the lungs u had shattered thigh bones which still
caused tEef4 Suffering 81 had been shot through
the arm. and the rest were flesh wounds Judging
from this number he 1900 or 5000 confederates
In Dallas had been thoroughly perforated with
lead any similar number Of men that had ever
come oUt O. a VRr alive.
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CORRECTED.

The Reverend Mr.. Harps lin the midst Of the
sermon)-And it came to pass that Cain rose up
against Abel, his brother, and slew him. Now,
my brethren, We
Stranger (rising)-Beg pardon, Parson, but
I'd jest like to state that I'm not the man
you're talkin' about. l moved hero from Mis-
souri, day. before yesterday, and have bought
out Hicks's drayin business I alters like to
start right, and I'd hate to have folks think
that I slew my brother. / spell my name
Kane.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

A NATIONAL PARK AT FLORENCE, s. C.
Senator M. C. Butler, of South Carolina,
has introduced a bill, which has been read
twice by its title and referred to the Com
mittee on Public Grounds, to appropriate
$4,000 to establish National park at
Florence, S. c. The citizens of that place
are taking much interest in the matter and
hope that it will pass, as we sincerely trust
it shall
While one of the smaller prisons, Florence
was the scene Of even more misery-in COM
parison with the number confined there
than Andersonville, for the reason that the
prisoners were men whose systems had been
broken down by confinement in Anderson
vile and elsewhere before being brought to
Florence, and they died in great numbers
during the cold Fail and Winter of 1896.
There are 1913 graves in the neat little
cemetery which the Government has es.ab-
lished at that place. Comrade VIM. M.
Jones, the keeper of the cemetery, says that
the old earthworks and other marks about
the prison remain as they were 81 years ago
The places can readily be recognized by
former prisoners. The citizens propose to
purchase the grounds and present them to
the Government. The $4,000 is 10 be ex
pended in putting them in proper shape.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

WITH four State tickets in the field and
a corresponding number of candidates in
nearly al the Congressional Districts, the
near approach Of Democratic CONVENTION in
Chicago a4d lie preparations for TIE Worlds
Fair shaking The earth, the people Of linois
feel SOM taing like envy for the sections
which have nothing worse to disturb them
than an occasional tornado
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The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. D. C., JUNE 16, 1882.
THANKS To ALL,

The NATIONAL TRIBUNE receives hun
dIeds Of letters rom comrades indoTsirg our
course, praisirg the quality of the paper,
and wishing Us success and lo1g lite; all
Of which are most gratefully appreciated.
As lack of time AID space will not permit
the editor 10 answer these, hs wi.hes to &C
knowledge them thus, thanking the COM
rades fer tier good cheer and encourage
mtnt.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

THE inevitable tendency in this country
is to compulsory education and compulsory
voting. Every child in the country should
be compelled to attend school long enough
to get the elements of education, and every
voter should be compelled to visit the polls
election day and deposit his ballot.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

WE are in much better shape now for
foreign war than at any time since we dis
mantled the great armament we created for
the suppression Of the rebellion. For a
few years after the close of the war we had
q military AID naval equipment superior to
that Of any Nation in the world. We could
have successfully attacked any seaport in
England or France in spite of all their
navies could have done in defense, and we
could have landed an army that they would
have had great difficulty in resisting. Then
we began TO decline in army and navy. We
did not begin 10 compete with the rest of the
world ia caEnons, muskets, or ships Four
years ago lie climax of this was reached.
We could lot have stopped the entrance of
the navy Of IN insignificant power like Chile
or Spain into any Of our harbors, and If
they had landed an army Of $4,000 men we
could not have met them with anything like
as good wespons as theirs. Nor had we the
factories TO make. these. Now we have a
few Of as good caunon-factories as there are
In the world, and if an emergency should
arise we could increase these immensely.
We can make our iron armor for ships, and
we have fair stool, Of heavy cannon to be-
gin with. We can make smokeless powder
as good as the best and our torpedoes are
equal to any. There is vast amoun, yet TO
be done TO put the country in a good state
Of defense, bat we have made rn0.e t.an a
good beginning.
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WORE HIM OUT.

"At Onderdonkville, the other day, a
drunken yahoo tied bis dog to the rear axle of
the last car with piece of wire and bet pas
senger that the animal would keep up with the
train all the way to Dinkeytown, II miles
away. Strange to say, whom the last-named
station was reached the dog was ahead"
"Impossble!"
ooh, no; he was a head, and nothing but a
head"
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How We are growing in wealth! The
Census Bureau has completed the compila-
ton of IL Inquiries into the property valua-
ton of The United States, and fads that as a
Nation we are about four times as wealthy as
wewereb fore the war, even though The value
Of 100000 slaves then entered into the ac-
count. The to.al valuation reaches SEA, 6iS,-
100000. or more than 81 900 per head, against
$50 in 1850, E9S0 in 1870, and $5l4 in 1860.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

MINNEAPOLIS seems to have taken care
of the Republican Convention with the
same easy grace with which she entertained
the GAR. National Encampment some years
ago.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

REMEMBER that you are to meet your old
comrades at the National Eacampment, and
send in your name, postoffice address, COM
pany, regiment, brigade, and corps, to THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

The New York Herald is giving a much
needed rest to the lie which it has kept stand
ing SO long at the head of its editorial
columns about the comparative expenditures
of the United States for pensions and Ger
many for the support of her army. The
time is approaching when the votes of the
veterans Will be in demand.
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THE REVENUE MARINE AND THE

NAVY.
The fight over the transfer Of the Revenue
Marine to the Navy Department has taken
an odd shape Secretary Tracy is strongly
urging it, and his subordinates-the officers
of the Navy-are as strongly opposing it.
Secretary Foster is decidedly opposed to it,
and his subordinates-the officers of the
Revenue Marine-are warmly supporting it.
Secretary Tracy urges it, because it will in
crease the available war strength Of the
Navy in men and vessels, because it will
familiarize the officers of the Navy with our
coast line, and because it will add to the
Importance of the Navy Department. The
Naval officers oppose it, because it will inject
the entire corps of Revenue Marine officers
into their exclusive ranks, and so, they fear,
lower their jealously guarded social status,
give them burdensome duties, and cheaper
them in the eyes Of other navies They
look with horror upon the possibility of
their having at some time to come under
the command Of officers who came up through
the Revenue Marine. The officers of the
latter are eager for the transfer for precisely
the same reasons that the Naval officers are
opposed to it. There are now in the Revenue
Marine So Captains, who get So, 500 a year /;
So First Lieutenants, who get $500; 35
Second Lieutenants, who get 81 500; %
Third Lieutenants, who get 81 200; 10 Cadets,
who get 5000; &c Chief Engineers, who get
81, 300 90 First Assistant Engineers, who get
$500; 90 Second Assistant Engineers, who
get 1920; besides nine other officers who
rank from Captain down, and get from 81, 800
down to 81 600 This would make total Of
227 oficers-quite large leaven of civil
ians" to thrust into the exclusive ranks Of the
officers of the Navy, where caste prejudice
is stronger even than in the Army, and the
line-o officers hold themselves as somewhat
better even than the Engineers, Surgeons,
and Paymasters of the "staff !" A review
of the payroll of the Navy will show how
much inducement there is for the officers of
the Revenue Marine-who cannot rise
higher than Captain, at So, 500 a year-to
desire a transfer. On the Active List of the
Navy there are:
sRear-Admirals at So 600 year.
10 Commodores at 5000.
As Captains at 81 SOC.
s. Commanders al So 500.
"A Lieutenant Commanders at $1,000.
go Lieutenants at 81 400 to 600
rs Lienienants Uunior) at 81, 800 to $1,000
ia Ensigns at 81, 300 to 81 400.
67 Cadets (graduates} at $500.
Is Medical Directors at 81 400.
Is Medical Inspectors at 81 400.
so Surgeons at s., 800 to 81. zoo
81 Passed Assistant Surgeons at 81. 900 10 So ZOO
Is Pay Directors at 81 400.
I3 Pay Inspectors at 81. 400.
40 Paymasters at s., 500 TO s.. 200
90 Passed Asst Paymasters at 81, 900 to So, 200.
ii Assistant Paymasers at 81, 100 to 81, 500.
20 Chief Engineers al s., 300 to 81 400.
CT Passed Assistant Engineers at S2oo to 200.
81 Assistant Engineers at 81. 700 to 81. 800.
% Cbapains at s., 500 10 $500.
Secretary Foster opposes the transfer be-
cause lie does not think Naval officers will
be as efficient guardians of the revenue as
officials directly under the control of the
Treasury Department.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

TIE House Of Representatives Committee
On Invalid Pensions has unanimously re-
ported against Representative Newberry 8
bill cutting OF The pensions Of those veterans
who reside abroad The bill has not yet
come up in tie House, bat the adverse
action of The committee, as it ought TO be,
will probably be sustained.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-16

We are disappointed that Tie Republican
Convention did not put plank in lis plat
form about good roads. Every convention
ought to do that.
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too we'll.
HIGH PRICE FOR RED HAIR.

Let scoffers at warm-colored tresses cease
their senseless jeers. A New York court
has decided that they are literally worth
more than their weight in gold. 1t came
about in this wise: Mrs. Hardenbrook, of
New York, does not seem to have red hair,
but she has that which is believed to usually
accompany locks in which the suns rays
have lingered-to wit, sultry temper. Her
serving maid was Maggie Lynn, doubtless a
direct descendant of that Brian OLynn
celebrated in song as having
No breeehes to wear,
Bought him sheepskin and made him pair.
Miss Maggie became weary of the con-
slant boiling point of Mrs. Hardenbrook's
temper, and threatened to leave. Her mis-
tress, Infatuated at the prospect of having
to make another round of the intelligence
Offices, rushed upon her, knocked her down,
and beat her savagely. Miss Lynn makes
no complaint about this. It seems that
that was the style Of thing she was accus-
toned to. But the irate Mrs. Hardenbrook
tore out lock of Miss Maggie's sunny
tresses, and then the spirit of her Irish
ancestors arose within her, and she brought
suit for exemplary damages. The court
decided that she had the right on her side,
and ordered Mrs. Hardenbrook to pay her
$500 for this modern Rape of the Lock-"
Now, a gold dollar weighs 258 grains; and
therefore $500 would weigh $4,000 grains, or
272 avoirdupois ounces, or nearly II pounds
As the lock which was torn away could not
possibly have weighed more than quarter
of an ounce, it will be at once seen that red
hair may have price above fine gold-yea,
greater than rubies.
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" WAUGH.o

Tourist Ito aborigine)-Mr. Stomachs, your
wife seems to have violent temper.
Fourteen Stomachs tremendously Keep
my wig warm. Waughl
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SAME BAND.

Mrs. Dooly-Mrs Tompy had a whist party
last nj ght, and later she was serenaded by full
band.
Old Dooly-I guess it was the same old rub
Der band, my dear!