The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-12-23
WELL, WHAT OF 1T.
The New York Morning Adverti'

shelters and VINO never saw a Dattle are
to day drawing pensions?
Is it not true that scoundrels who con
tracted diseases in houses of i'll repute
have falsely sworn that they were disa-
bled in the war and are to-day on the
pension rolls:
Is it not true that politicians who never
saw a gun on the field of battle are get
ting the most back pay and drawing pen
sions at the rate of forty dollars a month =?
1t is true.
We have the of just such cattle
and can prove our assertion.
Let there be an investigation-and
what then?
Simply the politicians would white
wash the pension bureau as has been
done-charges would be dismissed and it
would be proclaimed to all the world
that everything was lovely and the alti-
tude of the goose was satisfactory.
In fact there are a lot of fat and greasy
and lazy pretenders.
There are
Scamps,
~Scoundrels.
Sneaks,
And
Dirty,
Lousy,
Licentious
Libertines
On the pension rolls of America,
And there would have been more, had
not
GROVER CLEVELAND, the brave Buffalo
boy, slapped these beggars in the face.
Again The Advertiser says:
Of the total number Of pensioners
borne on the rolls, more than half are
doubtless widows and orphans.
Well, what of that?
D0you not know that there are widows
and orphans-many and many thousands
of them-whose husbands never saw the
war?
Don't you know that since the sur
render-since the great LEE met the
greater GRANT-that there have been
brave boys who told their love to fair
daughters-that the whispered words re-
ceived response, and hat the marriages
have taken place and that children have
been born and that those brave boys
just as brave as though they had been
soldier have died and their bones have
rotted What did they leave?-they left
widows and they left orphans. Yet no
one ONE in-in the hOvel where there
is poverty and where want is manifest
~ So dibhS as jos tuSN may.
What's the use TO howl. When are
these widows and orphans of which you
talk to get through:
Isn't it a pretty orphan, COLONEL
who has been growing up
the last thirty years who cannot take
care Of himself? Or, were these Orphans,
of whom you so tearfully and patLeti-
cally speak, born just a few years ago
If so, was the father of them a soldier
and did he belong to the Salvation Army?
1t is all rant and rot to shed tears for
orphans who must be at least % years
old if their father was a soldier in the
war of the rebellion.
And when you come to talk about it,
people % years old have no business to
ask the common people to take care of
them. 1t makes them mendicauts and
beggars.
AS to the widow with the beautiful
as children, we'll, she ought to do
ike other widows do-take care of her
self.
The fellows who went TO war and who
were killed-they offered up their life
their country and they deserve praise
it. When a mans house is on fire
he neighbors turn OUTPUT they do not
exact pay for what they do. The gov
eminent paid the soldier-and then the
should have ended and would
have ended it had it not been for the
sharks and thieves.
The GLOBE wants honest soldiers.
however, given additional pay and does
not objects to liberal and compassionate
to those who saw real service
NOR does II ohiac, n tho u;d,vr rooo;-