The National tribune., 1893-03-23
TARSNEY'S INFAMY.
sIandering the Men who Bore the Heat and
Burden.

Siandering the Men who Bore the Heat and
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: We who bore
the burden in the heat of the rebellion begin
TO realize that the time has come to look well
to the men sent to Congress TO enact laws for
our country. Over the South we can hope to
have little influence. The North must alone
guard and protect, it seems forever, the honor
and rights of the boys in blue. And yet We
find men from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,
so lost to patriotic honor as to class hundreds
of thousands of our comrades among those
whose service to their country was bought
for so many dollars.
Shame on men who, having common sense
are 50 lost as TO utter speeches on the floors of
Congress calculated to belitte aud degrade
men-only boys then-who at the call of our
Martyr President sprang to arms Offering to do
or die for the salvation of their country, with
out asking what the price would be.
Men who freely gave from one to almost five
years of the prime of lie to save that which
gives our defamers Congress of the United
States to sit in. Then there is that thing known
in print as ''tarsney." talking of the popular
discomfort and dissatisfaction with the present
pension system"
Bah tarsney." In the language Of a
Texas Statesman, you'd better go soak yo'
head"
We will guarantee that there are not 10000
men in the North-rc5els, copperheads and all
the growing element combined who are dis
satisfied with the system.
There may be errors in the working Of the
system in that it initiates against some men
who we'll worthy and deserving whose
claims are rejected because Of insufficient evil
dence. Such errors can be corrected without
your intolerable big headed insults.
Such propositions as have been advanced and
barely defeated would wrong. outrageously
wrong. thousands of men who deferred apply
ing for pension until age and debility vir-
tnaliy compelled them to ask for their rights,
not charity. They had hoped to live without,
and slept on their rights until their comrades,
cognizant of their Affections in the service,
were dead or had beeu forgotten.
Wecould name many such cases. will refer
to one who served at 20 years of age, and
served continuously without one intervening
free day from Sept g. 1861 to May 9, 1866,
period of four years and eight months seven
months of that time in rebel prison. He
hoped to live without the aid of the Govern
ment, in whose service he spent almost five
years in the prime of life.
Four years ago be undertook to prove up a
claim under the old law. but comrades and
doctors having died, others forgotten, he was
unable to complete it. He then applied under
the law of 1890, and for two years has been
drawing the pittance of $12 per month
Lives there a man with soul so dead az TO say
that man is not justly entitled to all he gets.
Many such cases would be endangered were
such pernicious amendments adopted. Oh, yesI
there is Tarsney, of Missouri, says fraud
perjureri"
This same thing-Tarsney, I mean-says
in one of his brilliant (?) utterances, the tens
of thousands of undeserving then on the rolls
by fraud and perjury have been supplemented
by other tens of thousands by the same meth
ods and still increased by hundreds OF thou
sands through vicious legislation and still more
vicious administrative action.
About 100000 pensioners, men, women and
children on the rolls. Deduct Tarsney's tens
of thousands and his second tens of thousands
and his hundreds of thousands, and what have
we left? Simply blotch called 'Tarsuey,"
but really monument Of egotism which he in
his madness takes for heroism
"Tarsney," the immaculate, the personifca-
ton of honesty. bravery, heroism, muscle and
wind The man of all men who saved the
country.
To your kennel, "Tarsney," and bury your
self there and be happy, conscious that we all
recognize your extraordinary superiority, and
crown you chief OF tEIewind brigade
But some of the yelping ours would ask for
a remedy. Remedy for what? Let US alone for
the few years yet remaining to US, and the
country will be happier and more prosperous,
the disgruntled anti-pension screeehers to the
contrary notwithstanding.-"H HANS" Blan-
chester 0.