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The National tribune., 1893-06-22
ANOTHER POLITICIANS VIEWS.

Gen. M. 7. Mcmahon, a leading Tammany
politician, and who has managed to hold fat
Offices pretty constantly ali his life, makes
this amazing statement TO a reporter of the
New York Times:
A, least one-tbird Of the present pension roll is
fraudulent. That is a moderate estimate The
claims against which just complaint 10 made are
based fiat perjury. Under the present law. de-
serters. boUnty-jumpers aud claini-agents get
money that ought 10 go to deserving soldiers, If
much money is to be expended, in any event.
OF course, all the soldier-hating papers 90
into ecstasy over this, and laud Gen. Nc
Niahon, as if he was about the only decent
soldier in the Union army, and put down
the rebellion almost single-handed, with
some incidental assistance from Gen. Slocum
and the members Of the late Farnham Post.
What Gen. Mcmahon has said is simply
glaring and absurdly false, and we challenge
him to furnish scintilla of proof to sub
stantiate it. Gen. w. W. Dudley and Gen.
John G. Black, Commissioners Of Pensions,
who had thousand times the opportunity
of knowing the character of the pension-roll
that Gen. Mcmahon has, who were quite as
good soldiers as he was, and whose reputa-
tions for veracity are quite as high, said that
there was not one fraudulent case in / 900.
Edward Atkinson, the most distinguished
| statistician and economist in the United
States, and who has no special love for the
veterans, made an examination last year of
| the Pension Bureaus methods, and reported
that they were fully as good as those of any
other Department of the Government.
We dare Gen. Mcmahon to examine the
first 1,000-or any ,000-pensioners, taken
one after another, that he may find in line
at any Pension Agency in the country, and
give a faithful report of their character,
services, rates of pension, and the disabi tiles
for which they are pensioned.
No one knows better than Gen. Mcmahon
that "deserters, bounty-jumpers, aud claim
agents" do not "get the money that ought
to 90 to deserving soldiers" A deserter can
not get On the pension-roli at all; bounty
Jumpers" are figment of pension-hating
Imagination. There was probably not one
bounty-jumper in 900 Union soldiers and
those that were are either dead or in the
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appointed Principal of the public schools
at Bedford, IN which capacity he served for
two years, ranking high among the common
school educators of the country. He read law
under the supervision of Hon. John III. Dick
erson, and in 1870 he was admitted to the
bar of Bedford County, where he has since
resided, and where by industry, high integ-
rity and strict attention to professional bust
ness he has made himself distinguished
reputation.
From 1872 to 1880 he was one of the edi-
tors and proprietors of the Bedford Gazette.
At the age of "a he was elected to the State
Legislature, serving during the sessions of
1878 and IA. In 1875 he was elected Dis
trict Attorney of his County, and after
serving three years declined a denomination
in order that he might devote himself more
closely to the practice of his profession.
In politics Mr.. Reynolds has always been
an active and enthusiastic Democrat. He
has devoted his time and ability to the
service of his party during many campaigns,
for many years acting as the Chairman of
the Democratic County Committee. In
1882 he was nominated for State Senator,
and in 1891-having declined the nomina-
ton in 1881-was nominated for President
Judge of the Bedford Somerset Judicial
District; and, although defeated both times,
he was honored with large vote, running
from 1850 to $500 ahead of his party's
ticket. He was delegate to the National
Convention at st. Louis in 1888, and at Chi
cago in 1892, and frequently delegate to
State Conventions. He is warm personal
friend of Gov. Pattison, and in 1891 was by
him appointed member of the commission
to select site and erect an asylum for the
chronic insane of the State, in which
capacity he is now serving without compen-
sation.
But it is not in the field Of politics alone
that Mr.. Reynolds has won distinction.
For almost % years he has diligently fol-
lowed the practice of his profession. He is
an untiring worker. He is but 43 years old. in
the prime of life, enjoying the fitness of in
tellectual vigor. He was married in 1877
to Miss Ella Hartley, daughter of Col. Will
liam Hartley, of Bedford, Pa, and their
three children, a son and two daughters,
compose his family.
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penitentiary. We think it would be hard

penitentiary. We think 1t would be hard
to find single bounty-jumper in any num-
Der of survivors of the Union army. A
bounty-jumper cannot get pension, be-
cause he cannot show an honorable dis
charge.
As for the claim agents, each one gets
only his modest fee for cases that are prose-
cuted to a successful conclusion; and there
are the most stringent laws against his
taking q cent more than his fee. A man
who does so renders himself liable to fine
and imprisonment, and puts himself at the
mercy of any man who may discover his
wrong-doing that no sensible
man will ever do. So careful is the Govern
ment of the interests of the pensioners, that
it will not allow them to pay their attorneys,
but makes this the duty of one Of its own
officers, who sees that the claim agent gets
no more than the legal fee.
Gen. McMahon's talk simply shows how
far a mans partisanship will lead him in
pervertiug the truth
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

ARCHBISHOP TAscHE, of st. Boniface,
Manitoba, writes a long letter against nom
sectarian schools, which he says care really
Protestant schools" We are not in the
apostolic succession, and consequently not
supposed to have the light which the Arch
bishop has, but we never could see why
the three RS" were in any way either
Protestant or Catholic. There is no dogma
in the multiplication table, whether taught
by priest or q public-school teacher.
Nor is there reason why, in acquiring a
fair business hand" child should learn
any creed, and we have never yet seen a
spelling-book that had any sort of con-
fession of faith in it. Let the children be
taught these during the few hours of school,
five days in the week, and the parents,
priests, preachers, and teachers can teach
them what they please during the remainder
of the time
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TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., JUNE %, 1893.
90 YOU WANT TO co
TO TIE
WORLDS FAIR?
WE WILL GIVE YOU s.
A FIRE E TICKET.

Our offer Of free round-trip tickets to the
GAR. National Encampment last year was
so successful that we have decided to repeat
the plan upon a larger scale for the benefit
OF intending visitors TO the Worlds Fair at
Chicago.
Last year hundreds of our readers got
fTst-class TOund-trip tickets from their
places of residence 10 Washington and
return by little effort in making up clubs
sor THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Our plan worked very successfully-eyery-
body was more than satisfied. Very many
were able TO visit Washington who wanted
to do so very much, but felt that they could
not incur the expsnse, and we gave them an
opportunity winch they gladly improved
There was nowhere a single expression of
dissatisfaction.
We Will do the same thing this year
with regard to those who wish to visit the
Worlds Fair. We viH giue frst-elass
round trip ticket from any point in The United
States TO Chicago and return for club of
subscribers, propOrtioaatc to The distance the
point is from Chicago.
This ticket will be for the most direct
route between the two places, and it will have
all the advantages in regard to the time for
which it will be good, length of stay in
Chicago, speed OF trains, etc, that any first
class ticket will have. In brief, it will be
the best kind of ticket which will be a
great superiority, as there will doubtless be
many tickets offered by various parties
which u i'll be only for very slow trains. in
ferior cars, limited as to time, etc Our
tickets will all be for frst-class, fast trains,
and have every privilege given the best class
Of tickeis.
fpbs carrvipo ont ~ this cnbeyna iovnIvao
an immense amount of correspondence and
clerical work on our part, and we are now
prepaTi g q schedule Of the sizes of clubs
which we viii require from different points
We will publish this as soon as completed,
which may be some time hence.
In the meanwhile, those who intend to
work for these tickets should begin at once.
They can send in their subscribers as fast
they obtain them, notifying US that they
are for Worlds Fair Ticket" and they
viii be properly credited 10 them. If they
sfterward change their minds they can have
the subscribers sent in applied on any other
premium that we offer.
We should very much like to have those
who expect TO get up clubs for these tickets
write TO us immediately of their intentions
o. this will help rs in making up our
schedule We will send them any number
OF sample copies they wish to show friends
and acquaintance in the work of soliciting
subscribers
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NOTHING is aggravating the hard times
SO much as the feeling of dread as to what
the coming Congress will do with regard to
the tariff. This is particularly the case
with the wool business. Sheep-owners are
badly frightened at the prospect that all the
wool duties will be repealed, and the value
of sheep destroyed. They are therefore
rushing their sheep off to market in great
numbers. The receipts of sheep in Chicago
have been far in excess of any thing ever
known before. Wool is phenomenally low,
and the business stagnated. Manufacturers
will not buy any more than will last
them from week to week, for they fear that
within few weeks we shall have free wool,
and the markets will be deluged by the vast
stocks which the Australian banks had to
take as collateral, and which will be sold at
any price. They are therefore running their
mills as lightly as possible, and merchants
are only sending in orders for such goods as
are needed at once No merchant, big Or
little, intends to allow himself to be caught
with stock Of goods on hand when the
duties are repealed, The loss to the country
in wages, interest on capital, ETC., is enor-
nous. 80
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

THE crop news from Europe grow more
discouraging. England, France and Ger
many are suffering from severe and pro-
longed drouth, which has completely de
stroyed the grain over large areas, and re-
duced the production everywhere. The
situation is so bad that an early repeal or
suspension of the duties on wheat, maize,
barley and rye is regarded as certain in
Germany and France. This means a big
demand, at good prices, for American grain.
As soon as the financial situation in the
interior of the country eases up little,
which it promises to do every week, there
will be rapid rise in the prices of all agri-
cultural products.
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WE regret disposition on the part of
the ribald press to poke fun at Senator
PETER because he has taken the $1,000
appropriated for his subcommittee to in
vestigate the cause of the depression of the
price of wheat, and gone to the Worlds
Fair. In the first place, we think it is the
duty of every American citizen to visit the
Worlds Fair, and Senator PETER is simply
doing his plain duty. In the next, there is
no place that man has more need of 81 900
than when on such visit. Lastly. we do
not know any place where there is more
acute depression on account of wheat than
in Chicago. One broker, who attempted to
corner No. 2, May, is out several million
dollars, TO say nothing of millions more lost
by the lambs who followed the plunger's
lead. In consequence of these things, and
some others, wheat is lower in Chicago than
it has been for 81 years. On the whole, we
think that Senator PETER can spend his
ST. ,000-or the sub-committee's-as adj
vantageously to the inquiry, as well as
pleasantly for himself in Chicago as any
place that could be suggested.
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

HUMAN nature seems to be about the
same in Germany as in this country. The
Socialist leaders there seem very much like
the Populist leaders here. Recently, Bebel,
Liebknecht, Singer and other leading So
cialists, met in Berlin to consider ways and
means for extending their propaganda.
They went to the finest hotel and had a
sumptuous dinner at the SWEETEST restaurant
in the city, where they RECALLED themselves
NTH the costliest wines to be purchased.
This coming to the ears of the rank and
file they demanded an explanation. The
leaders explained that they did this to
study the gluttonous habits of the capital
istic class" This reminds us of the late
Senator Van Wyck, who surprised friend
and admirer, riding on the same train with
him, by pulling out great package of free
passes when the conductor came around.
Foraging On the enemy, my dear friend !;
foraging on the enemy" explained the Sen
ator.
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AsKETCH of Col. F. G.. Ainsworth sent out
by the boiler-plate" syndicates, says that
he was Colonel of an Illinois regiment during
the war. This is mistake. He is too
young a man to have served in the war in
any capacity. He was born in Vermont, and
entered the Regular Army Nov. 10, 1874 as an
Assistant Surgeon, with the rank of First
Lieutenant; was promoted to Assistant
Surgeon, with the rank Of Captain, Nov 10,
1879; and to Surgeon, with the rank Of
Major, Feb. 81, 1891. May 81, 1892, he was,
by special act of Congress, made Chief of
the Record and Pension Division, with the
rank Of Colonel.
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For the IL months ending June 1 our
exports amounted to $s4s, 1878, S45-a de-
crease of S174,61O,7oO as compared with
those Of the preceding IL months. On the
other hand, we imported 1886, 9Ol ,287, as
against SS28, s4s, 119-showing an increase of
$108,O53, 1913. Naturally, this state of things
cannot continue, if we are going to keep
any money at all in the country. There is
one sovereign remedy. Buy less of foreign
and more of home products. Do not cripple
the Mckinley Bill, but make it more eff
fective.
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

MGR. SAToLLI seems to be very practi-
cal sort of prelate. Plrt of his errand to
the West is to look after the establishment
of Italian agricultural colonies in the thinly-
settled regions. great deal of good can be
done in this way, in addition to that OF
drawing the Italians away from the con-
gested cities, where they live in misery and
add to the vice and wretchedness Of the
communities. They can be made the in
struments Of introducing many Italian agri-
cultural products, which will add to the
wealth of the country. We have Italians
enough in this country to raise all the olives,
silks, wines, raisins, lemons, and oranges
that we now import from Italy.
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

THE Coroner's Jury in the case Of the
dict declaring Col. F. C. Ainsworth, the
Chief of the Record and Pension Division of
the War Department; William G. Covert,
Superintendent of the Building; Francis
Sasse, Engineer and Fireman, and George
w. Dant, contractor. equity of criminal
negligence" which caused the death of the
victims of that catastrophe. This is strictly
in accordance with the general opinion in
Washington.
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IT is funny to notice how soldier-hating
paper never can get statement regarding
soldiers right even by accident. Thus the
blatant Philadelphia Record says editori-
ally:
Farnham Post, GAR. which was deprived Of
its charter by the New York State Commandery
for technical breach of discipline involved in It's
expression for pension reform. has decided TO ap-
peal the case TO the National Encampment of the
Order. whch will meet in Milwaukee in Septem-
Der next.
OF course, there is no such thing in the
GAR. as the New York State Command
cry" and the National Encampment will
not meet in Milwaukee either this year Or
for many years to come, as there are too
many other cities eager for the honor of
entertaining the National Encampment,
which Milwaukee had only two years ago,
and of which, by the way, she acquitted her.
self proudly.
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

OUR proposition to Commissioner Loeb
rem to inform the country of the real
character of the pension-roll, by giving the
results of an examination of 1000 or 1000
cases, taken continuously, exeites the ire of
the soldier-hating papers, and they are
jumping on THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE saw
agely. We expected they would. The
proposition was not expected to please them.
If it ia adopted it will develop the truth,
and the truth is just what they most dread
to have come out. All their stock-in trade
would be gone. Not one good reason has
been given by any of them why such an ex-
animation should not be made.
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

ONE Of the most hopeful signs Of better
times is cessation of shipments of gold to
Europe. The dawn Of returning confidence
In Europe is shown by the talk of the Bank
OF England's lowering its rate of discount.
This shows that it has all the gold it wants,
and that the money market is becoming
easier. Tn stringency will last longer over
there than here, because of the general
failure Of The crops
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AS Sneaker Crisp win undoubtedly sue

AS Speaker Crisp win undoubtedly sue
coed himself, and be responsible for the
direction OF legislation in the SD Congress,
great deal of interest is manifested as to
what he will say at the Fourth-ofJuly
speech he is engaged to deliver before the
Tammany Society of New York. The New
York Times tried to smoke him out on the
Sherman Bill, but he returned no answer to
it's telegram of inquiry, much to the 7Imes's
anger, which berates him as q "coward, u
shuffier," etc.
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

THE treaty concluded Oct 90, 1888, which
vided that at the end of 10 years a popular
vote should be taken on the question
whether the Nitrdte Provinces should re-
main with Chile or be restored to Peru 1t
looks as if this may breed trouble. Chile
has sent war vessel TO Callao, for what
purpose can only be surinised, and England
has done the same. 1t is expected that we
will think it advisable to send the Alliance
thither to look out for American interests.
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

The situation in Cuba has become so bad
that the Minister Of the Colonies has de-
clared in the Cortes that some form of home
rnle must he adopted for that island and
Porto Rico This naturally raised a storm
ia the Cortes. The Madrid ring viii make
desperate fight TO continue the policy OF
spoliation which has cost Spain Mexico and
all her colonies in Central and South
America
The National tribune., 1893-06-22

FARRAGUT's flagship, the glorious old
Hartford, is to be put into commission once
more, with modern battery of four and
six-inch breech-loading rifles. In the hands
of men similar to those who have trod her
decks the old ship would give a splendid
account of herself She may not be able to
fight heavy ironclad, but she is as trim,
spry, and fast as she ever was, and in another
such fight as that in Mobile Bay she would
be around "very promiscuous like" getting
in good ticks at most unexpected times.
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THE NATIONAL ENCAMPmKNT.

Commander-in-Ch Chief Weissert recon-
mends that those who apply for accommo-
dations at indianapolis during the National
Encampmeut, whether at hotels or other
places, make their wishes known to the
Chairman of the Committee on Entertain
ment-William II. Armstrong, Indianapolis.
BY so doing arrangements will be made by
authority and in a much more satisfactory
manner than otherwise