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The National tribune., 1893-09-21
WHY NOT ENLARGE THE LIsTa

The Cincinnati Southwest, In an ignorant
TRADE against the GA. r., says:
OF the "a COMMANDMENTS Chief OF the Grand
Army not one has been n Democrat. Such men
and heroes as Hancock Meade, Crook, Sloeum
and Mcclellan have been turned down foE inferior
persons
Why did it not go on, and say that such
eminent Republican soldiers as Grant, Sher-
man, Sheridan, Fremont, Hayes, Garfield,
John Pope, Howard, Warren, Doubleday,
Fitzpatrick, Kautz, Reynolds, Thomas j.
Wood, Hartsnff, Hovey, Geary, r. W. john
son, ]. H. Wilson, R. Fl. G. Minty, Thayer,
Steele and number of others who COM
manded armies, corps and divisions, have
been turned down.? The fact that man
had been q Major-General and was a Re
publican or Democrat has never influenced
the election of a Commander-in-Chief. Like
all other organizations, the GAR. Is prone
to give its best places to men in It's own
ranks who have shown deep interest and
zeal in its upbuilding. In an ASSOCIATION
which places all soldiers of the Union on the
common level of comradeship, and recog-
nzes no differences in the Post-room be-
tween the General and the private in the
rear rank, the fact that man had once worn
single, double, or even triple stars was
neither help nor hindraRce to his cleo
ton to Office Several Major Generals who
had shown deep interest in the Order, and
done much effective work in its unbuIldlng,
were elected Commanders-in-Ch The
same was done with some Brgadier-Gen-
erals, Colonies, Majors, Captains, Sergeants,
Corporals, and privates. No one can say
with certainty what have been the politics
Of many of the men elected COMMANDMENT
Chief They have never been active In poll
tics, and some of them owed their selection
over other candidates to the fact that they
were out of politics.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

THE tin-plate makers testified last week
that over 40 factories had been started since
the passage of the Mckinley bill, repre-
sentjng a capital of 100000 and a
present production of 106,000,00O pounds,
and employing thousands Of workmen at
higher wages than the same class receive
IN Europe. The prices of tinware had not
been raised anywhere. IF the duties were
taken off, all the factories would be either
stopped or removed to where they could get
cheaper labor. 20
The National tribune., 1893-09-21
SUPPOSE THAT

Suppose that more than one-half of the
had been filling every issue with
vehement charges that the roll of bond
holders was boneycombed with corruption,
that from one-half to two-thirds Of the men
who were receiving principal and interest
had never lent the Government any money,
and that all manner of perjury and fraud
WAS userted to in order to bleed the Treas
ury, and squander the public funds. Sup
pose that pubic speakers took up the cry,
and rung it from every stump during re-
peated campaigns.
How long would any Secretary of the
Treasury wait before making such an III
vestigation and publication as would set the
true facts before the people?
No matter how certain he might be of the
rightfulness of the payments he was max
ing, he would feel that he could no longer
in the face Of such manifestation of popular
distrust, and he would be compelled by his
sense of duty to his Administration and to
the people to take such STEPS as would cor
rect public opinion.
This, we think, should be the case with
the Commissioner of Pensions. No matter
how well satisfied he may be as to the Justice
of the payments through his Office, he cannot
help knowing that large portion of the
people firmly believe that the pension roll is
permeated with fraud, that there are tens if
not hundreds of thousands of undeserving
men upon it, and that the public money is
flowing in prodigal stream to those who
never rendered the country any service
whatever.
1t is in the power Of the Commissioner to
correct this widespread error with very little
trouble. BY giving the results of an examina-
ton of 1000 consecutive eases he can inform
the people at once as to the character of the
| entire roll. Such an examination, we are
confident, will show that never was money
more hardly, more justly earned than that
which is disbursed through the United States
| Pension Agencies. If this is once shown
| the people, it will make the administration
of the Pension Bureau infinitely more salts
factory to the Commissioner. He will have
the feeling of the hearty support of public
| opinion in his great work of dealing out the
| Nations justice. The voice Of detraetior
will be hushed, and great peace viii sue
coed the storm of calumny and denunciation
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

THE finsncial skies are Frightening every
day. Money is everywhere becoming easier.
The premium on currency has disappeared,
all talk of runs on banks has ceased, and the
banks are beginning to slowly put out the
money they had called in in anticipation of
trouble The consequence is that there is o
much better market for all sorts of farm
products. The accumulated stocks of goods
have been worked off and factories are be-
ginning to resume, very timidly, how
ever, and only in hand-to-mouth sort
of q way, because the dread of radi-
cal tariff changes hangs over all of
them An attempt was made last week
to get some expression from the leaders
of the dominant party in Congress that
any legislation should be made to take effect
at some date in the future, which would
enable manufacturers and dealers to calcu-
late upon it, and put themselves in proper
shape for 1t, but so far this patriotic en-
deavor has been unsuccessful. 1t is the
thing of all others that should be done to
start the wheels of factories and give the
millions of unemployed work and food dur
ing the coming Winter.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

A STRIKING commentary upon the claim
of Catholics that they fear to send their
children TO the public schools lest they may
be proselytzed. is made by the entrance of
over $50 Jewish children into a Catholic
parochial school in New York. The Jewish
parents are serenely certain that their chill
dren cannot be drawn away from the faith,
even in o strongly sectarian school. Why
should not the Catholics be equally conf
dent of their influence upon their children :?
The National tribune., 1893-09-21
PLENTY OF GOLD IN THE FUTURE.


THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE went upon rec
ord some months ago with the prediction that
in the near future gold would become rela-
lively more plentiful than silver is now.
Our reasons for such prophecy were that
gold is one of the most widely distributed
metals in the world that there is scarcely
country but what already possesses gold mines
that have been and can be worked with
profit, but that attention had been drawn
away from gold for the past 80 years by the
great development of silver mining The
mining skill, enterprise, and capital of the
world have been concentrated upon the pro-
duction of silver, and consequently silver
mining has been pushed to the utmost, with
the natural result of over production and
great lowering of prices.
Now everybody will turn his attention
TO gold mining. Engineers, chemists, and
miners will devote themselves to developing
known gold mines, finding new ones, and i'm
proving the methods of extraction. If they
do this as energetically as they have with
silver, the production of gold will increase as
rapidly as that of silver has done since 1865.
There is every evidence that theyare already
doing this. The European press contains
much about the development of the gold
Of iyr hafi
that King Solomon's Land of Ophir' has
been rediscovered, and the very mines have
that ornamented the famous temple. 1t is
believed that that region is indescribably
rich in the precious metal, and explorers have
brought back stories of extensive mines which
were probably closed centuries ago by an If
ruption of barbaric hor1es, and still remain
very much as their workers left them, even
to great piles of rich ore, neatly squared up,
ready for measurement and delivery. If half
what is told be true, we are on the eve of
getting a stock of gold from South Africa like
lHdt WHICH AuStraila ana Cafll0flla once
threw into the world s markets
In our own country prospecting is going on
actively in the Rocky Mountains with most
cheering outlook. The Idaho papers think
that the Deadwood district will astonish the
world with its richness in gold, and they
think that some bonanzas are already in sight.
Everywhere in the mountains old gold mines
which have been neglected for silver are being
reopened and put into operation. Even
placer mining is being resumed on large
scale by men who were thrown out of en-
pIoyment by the shutting down of the silver
mines A Denver hardware merchant re-
ports that he has sold more gold pans in the
last three months than IN the previous five
years, The Denver mint reports constant
increase in the amount of gold bullion sent
in. AT the rate of increase for July and Au-
gust it will aggregate fully 81 ,000, 600 in a
year.
The reports from Utah, Montana, New
Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, the
Black Hills, Colorado, and California, are all
to the effect that thousands of miners hereto
fore employed in silver mining are now get
ting out gold, and that capital is being at
tracted to rich finds.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. D. C., SEPTEMBER 81, 1898
MEXICAN PENSION ROLL.

s)ne Which is Not "Purged," and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.
On the Mexican Pension Roll
there are the names of 1928
survivors and .2S2 widows. and
something over 3, 600 cases were
pending al latest reports. This
makes "a total Of q. 497. er sew
eraI Thousand more men than
the United States had i'm Mexico
AT any one time during the war.
These all receive either s. or
$I2 a month.
Ame1g the names are those
Of the widow Of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. a New Yorker by birth.
who was Acknowledgement of
the United States Army at the
outbreak of the War. and used
his position TO aid the rebels i'm
preparing for the struggle. He
resigned his Position To become
Acknowledgement of the South
ern CcEfederaey. and 0fsfeiated
as such until the rebellion eoF-
Iapse<l. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing a pension since June
q. 1857.
The widow Of Thomas j.
.St0newaII") Jackson, wI10
WAS next TO Lee fEae most poptE-
lar commander Of the rebel
armies.
TIE widow Of EFaj. George
r. Pickett, who commanded a
division In the rebel army.
TlEeWisEOw Of Maj .-Gen. Gideon
J. Pillow. who commanded n di-
vision i'm inc rebel army.
TEfe wfSsoT Of LieEEt.-Gen. A. z.
Hill, Who commanded enc Of
the three corps Offices army.
The widow of Sidney Smith
Lee. who was dismissed from
the Navy for "going over to the
enemy" and afterward became
a Commodore in the rebel navy.
BFig.-Gen. Jas. IL. Chalmers.
who was FORESTS chief LIEU
tenant.
Naj.-Gcn. Dabney II. Maury.
who commanded the rebel
troops at the battle Of Chicka-
saw Bayou.
Hen. :. B. Maxey, late United
States Senator from Texas. who
has been drawing his pension
since May ~. 1857. He was Il
MaiOF-Generai i'm The rebel
army.
Hon. JAS. Y. George. Senator
from mississippi, and who
served in the rebel army as a
Colonel. The number of his
certificate is Il, 2I4.
Hen. A. H. C0Equitt, Senator
from Georgia. who was "a Major.
General I'm the rebel army
draws "a pension under certifi.
cafe 1899.
The widows above mentioned
are of men who were educated
sat the Government expense. and
afterWard fought to destroy the
Government. They went ON tIlS
roll at once. while last April
there were pending the claim,
OfI4J, $50 widows of Union sol
diers who had not yet been abb.
10 get 0n the roll.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21
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The National tribune., 1893-09-21
WASTING HIS OPPORTUNITY.

Still President Cleveland fails to take the
obvious steps to relieve the financial strin-
gency by ordering all the silver in the
Treasury coined, and its issuance in pay
ment of some $50 900 or more claims, which
are believed 10 be lying in the Pension
Bureau r. ady for allowance.
We respectfully submit that we believe
he is wasting one of the greatest opportu-
mites that ever came to an American states
man.
1t is in his power to touch the prostrate
body of business as with the wand of a
magician, and make it rise again into full
power and activity. He can set mills to
running, trains to moving ships to speed
ing, break the cruel grip of The money
changer on the throat of the prices of agri-
cultural products, and put work and bread
into the hands of million unemployed men,
while doing an act of supreme justice to
tens of thousands of veterans who are YEARLY
waiting for their rights at the hands of the
Nations officials.
Now is the time to do this if he proposes
to do it at all 1t is one of those tides in
the affairs of public man which comes
but once, and must be taken at the turn,
or be forever lost.
We hope that before it is too late he will
see his great opportunity and improve it.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21
OUR POSITION.

No paper in the country will give a
stronger support to Secretary Smith and
Commissioner Lochren in any thing they may
do toward faithfully and earnestly executing
the pension laws in the spirit in which these
were enacted than will The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. We will help them in any gem
uine effort 10 purge the pension roll of I'M
worthy men.
But we still insist that no man shall be
condemned before being tried; that no man
shall be deprived of the inalienable right of
American citizenship to confront his ac-
cusers, and meet the charges against him,
and that every man is entitled to fair trial
before being deprived of property, reputa-
ton, or life.
We say use every honorable means to find
out and remove unworthy pensioners, if
such there be; but when a man has once
passed the ordeal of examinations, and been
placed upon the roll, the burden of proof is
upon the Government to show that he has
no right to be there, and he should not,
upon mere suspicion, be compelled to prove
his innocence.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

The GAR Posts all over the country are
indorsiRg The NATIoSAL TRIBUNE's re-
qHest to Commissioner Lochren to have
LOCO or more consecutive cases taken from
the files and examined. This is the right
way TO silence our enemies and vindicate
our honor rs soldiers and citizens.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

Workingmen representing the IL, 600 sheet
and plate rollers appeared before the Com
mittee on Ways and Means last week to pro-
tst against any reduction OF the duties on
those articles. Two-thirds of those they
represent were now idle, and all would be If
the duties were taken of.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

THE manufacturers of pocket cutlery ap-
peared before the Committee on Ways and
Means last week, and testified that since the
passage Of the Mckinley Bill the product of
that speciality had more than doubled. Tie
prices of goods to the consumer had not
been increased one cent
The National tribune., 1893-09-21
The American Farmer.
The Oldest Agricultural Paper in
America.
Published at Washington, D. G. Price, so
Cente a Year.
Contents of Issue OF Sept. is.

Banana Culture.
The Wheat Crop-Preparation for Sowing
the Seed to Get Best Results.
The Golden Pheasant.
Domestic AnimaIs-Their Breeding and Man
agement.
The Farmers Horse-The Best Breed and its
Management
Sheep and WOol-Practical Notes.
another Mans Sister,
The Apiary.
Edit0rial-The Tariff Reyision-Infecting the
Chinch Bugs-Coming of Better Times
Horse and Cattle Exhibits-The Hay Trade,
etc, etc.
The Weather Reports
The Ohio Wool Growers
The Indiana Wool Grower
Proceedings of Congress
The English Sparrow.
Homes in Texas.
Florida Crops.
Indiana Farming
The Farm House,
The Poultry Yard.
The Markets.
The Fence Corner.
The Dairy.
The Orchard.
THE AMERICAN FARMER is the only agri-
cultural paper published at the National
Capital, and the only paper that devotes itself
to championing the farmers interest. EUery
farmer should be O subscriber. THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE and THE AMERICAN
FARMER one year for SIPS. Present sub
| scribers to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE can
| have THE AMERICAN FARMER by sending
| on 25 cents additional.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

ALL claims should be made special. It is
a scandal that the Pension Bureau should be
encountered with misdeeds of thousands of
cases upon which no action has been taken.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

IF a man is to ever get his pension it
should be now, while he is yet alive to enjoy
it. Twenty-eight years from date of muster
out is certainly long enough for him to have
waited for the Nations justice. All claims
should be made special.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21
Total s4,446.O3I,74e.5s

IT is estimated that if the gold which is
now in the Vatican in the shape of medals,
chains, plate, and other ornamental objects
were transformed into coin, it would make
more than there is now circulating in all
Europe.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

lT is more Than % years since Johnny
came marching home" 1t is certainly high
time that the Government found out VIVA.
is due him and paid it to him.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

A DELEGATION from the workmen i'm the
glass factories told the Committee on Ways
and Means last week that reduction of the
duties on bottles would only benefit the
wealthy brewers. and would injure the work
men immensely.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

THE South has increased her cotton spindIes
from l. 1885, 900 in 1890 to 2, 166, 023 this year,
and now has IA per cent. of the entire number
in the country, when three years ago she had
but II per cent. Naturally, there is grow
ing resistance in that section to any reduction
OF the duties ON manufactured cotton.
The National tribune., 1893-09-21
THE BEST WAY

To get ready for the great fight for soldiers
rights is TO get up big clubs for the veterans
champion, THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

Total amount paid Oh account
Of bonds and interest notes,
principal, interest, and pre-
n.ium, to bOnsihOltsers to june
30, 1898, since and including
fiscal year 1851:
Principal $I,794, 399, I34.7O
Interest 2,53I, 769 ,22I.I7
Premiums lI9.S63, 3S6.71
The National tribune., 1893-09-21

s)Re Which is Not "Purged," and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-27
THE DOGS IDEA OF HIS MASTER

He Probably Regards Him as an Abnor-
NAL Member of His Species.
Our custom of ascribing human fac
ulties and modes of thought is m invol-
untary and jnvariable one when we are
dealing with the mental processes of
other beings, says DR.. Louis Robinson
in Popular Science Monthly. Even
when we speak of the supernatural the
same habit is manifest, and human pas
sions, emotions and weaknesses are
constantly ascribed to beings presumed
to be infinitely more remote from us in
power and knowledge than we are from
the dog Thus we see in the not very
distant past roasted flesh and fruits
were thought by men to be acceptable
to the gods, doubtless because they
were pleasing to the palates of the wor-
shippers, who reasoned by analogy from
the known to the unknown. This should
teach US to bear in mind that there is,
affecting the dogs point Of view, al-
most undoubtedly such a thing as cyno-
morphism, and that he has his peculiar
and limited ideas of life and range OF
mental vision, and therefore perforcc
makes his artificial surroundings square
with him. 1t has been said that man
stands to his dog in the position of
god, but when we consider that our
own conceptions of deity load us to the
general idea of IN enormously power-
full and omniscient man, who loves,
hates, desires, rewards and punishcs in
huInan-lil.e fashion, it involves no strain
of imagination to conceive that from
the dogs point of view his master is an
elongated and abncrmally cunning dog;
Of different shape and manners certain
ly TO tho common run OF dogs yet
canine in his essential nature.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-27
KICKED CY A DEAD MAN.

A Governmont Mail Carriers Experience
with a Lynchcd E.ubbcr.
81 had my hat kicked of ono dark
night 10y dead muu," i51id John 4. Ed
wards to St. Loui3 Globc-Dcmocrat
reporter "Whcn a youngster of nine
teen / was riding q star mail rou1c in
southwestern Missouri. It wac inst
after tho war, and footpads wcro very
plentiful.
''Cnc dark night q couple Of thGso
gentry tried to hold mo up, but Vas
mounted on n mettlcsomo horco and +
soclcd the spurs homo and rode over
them. ] went plunging on through the
darkness for several hundred yards
when my horse stopped 20 suddenly
that I inadvertently loft tho ea6ldle and
cat astrido his neck.
!, "My roadster was trembling nll over
with fright, but, to snvo nc, ! could
sec nothing. L thonght it must to moro
footpadg and spurrcd tho horse for.
'"'cTd, while held my pistol ready for
the expected attack. ~ -. g. :.
"hs passed a largo walnut tree thnt
nearly covered tho road big muddy
boot struck me in tho face and scrarcd
Iuy lat off. L concluded that did not
need hat. SO did not stop T. r"?o~~ =.
On my way back no r.-.. -...
found thai 3hc kicker -.... o. r..., .. o..
wEO was ENin~ir.' 80 .. 3D. ,.a...i
iItS" -. ''t''i" l"... o.. ......
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