The National tribune., 1893-05-04
WHAT TBEY MEAN
Some Expressions Of the Soldier
HaterS Against the Pensioners.
NEY YORK.

and cowariice in passing loose and sweeping
pension laws. blt be can work a very impor-
tant reform by administering the laws strictly
and Guarding the Treasury against fraud
NeV York World
ARKANSAS
This pension business Is a monumental
swiHdls Of the country. All ether frauds and
suIudtes the most enormous and gigantic,
awintlle iato nothisgness when compared with
our pensi0n lists.-Littls Reck Democrat.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Bounty Jumpers. deserters, and the men vhe
hung upon the outsk irts Of the army to r,iustsR
and Pilisge not the kind that we have any
reason TO be grateful 10.
In fact they have added perjury to thsIr
other crimes.
Let US get down TO rock bottsn and it via
be found that $4,000. 900 annually will BE &C
ample amount to express oar gratitude.
Lop Oh the hoanty Jumpers aud the i'm
postsrs.-Ph Philadelphia Times.
Dedncting the establishments including tia
bounty jumpers All over the country. maHy OF
whom eniis,ed from five to 50 times, and each
counted "one" enlistment the short term
calls. tbs deserters. the hngerers TO the rear,
whom neither persuasion nor bsvonets could gee
on the Sighting line, the HOSPITAL desdbeats whs
lived on the fat of the land. and never retained
of thousands Of the grand total come tumhliax
to the ground iiiazsPoTt HeE-
ILLINOIS.
There is 10 question hut there are on the
rolls mea who never did any zeal service dur
ing the war; who enlisted IN 9o-day regiments
only; who never saw COnfederase soldier ex-
eept IN Northern prison camp; who never
Hired muskst, except. perhaps in target Prse-
tics; who did not march 10 miles or miss =
meal while in the service; who, nevertheless,
are getting the same pens;ons that are paid to
men who went through the entire war, escap-
ing by good fortune both wounds and disease.
but are now in a poverty stricken condition.
Chicago Tribune.
NEW YORK
1t seems useless to put a lock on the door
after the horse is stolen but it is astonishing
how the American people have submitted to
pension system that no ether nation on tha
earth wsuld have tolerated for . moment
Heekiy Illness.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
The pension list, by this process of debass-
meat, instead Of standing Al a roll of homer
has become almost degradation, since it bears
apon it scores of thousands and perhaps hun
dreds OF thaHssRds of the names Of those who
are but leeches MON the Treasury, having
never given services or encountered sRaerI1ss
which in any way Justify the annuity grant
Concord Herald
OHIO
IF 25 Per cent. of the $50, o00, 600 paid TO
pensioners a dozen years ago went to multi
tude of people who made false oaths to get it,
under the more liberal and more lax laws sub
sequsntiy passed how much of the $3.50 090 COO
may We presume now goes into the pockets Of
men and womcH who got their names on the
rolls by dishonest and criminal methodist Is 10
less than oBe-thiTd? Is nothing to DO done to
make end To this colossal i'm position, which
not only places heroes on the sans plane with
SkGlkers, and robs the public of untold millions
of al MT fartr in r.
gloss over the turpitude and crime, to render
swindiing somewhat respectable IL done in thu
RauIe of patriotism and the Government IS thu
victim, and to demorslize a large element Of
society beyond reparssion by ali the reFigioas
influences that the churches can exert? This
Is not an exaggerated statement Of present con-
ditions. In every city, town. village and rural
district the common knowledge that men and
women of good social standing have, without
the slightest apparent compunetion, sworn to
lies and practiced other forms of rasesllity 70
secure pensions is to-day operating upon cea-
sidersbie class Ike moral leProSy.-Cs HelBa-
HGti fTnaes-SsaT.
VIRGINIA.
This pension steal" is not natter con-
corning which there Day be two opinions On
the contrary, there Is ore single fact which
proves beyond a doabs that tie Government 10
paying pensions To thousands of persons vac
are not rightfully included anloag the veJsrzas
of the war.-RichssSBa Dispatch
MISSISSIPPI
II this be done there can be no doubt thaS
this heavy burden could be cut down at least
% per cent This will be q great work for the
SD Congress, and there should be no he5tatioa
about .-VIcks6Hry Herald
KENTUCKY.
A pension bill Of SI65. 90G, 900 was passed By
the Senate yesterday. THIS means that every
man, woman ard child in this country pays
= for he z IL
soldiers. It means that the taxpayers of the
United States pay almost half million dollars
a day to tbs defenders of the Union of 20 yeaFz
age. it means an average Payment of some
thing like SO per year to every man enlisted
In the Union Cause 9ariag the war. And thu
worst part Of the whole matter is there is Ne
chance for a reduction On the contrary, is
seems that as the war becomes more aud more
remote the cost of pensions viii increase. Old
soldiers die by the thousands every yesr. bHs
pensioners seem to hold on foreyer.-L0Eisvi1s
Post
The recest exhibition of eowarfice and Gen,a-
gogy by the House in its refusal to begin any
effort to reform the pension system was al the
more ins1cusable beczase it followed elect
ion at which the people pronauaced over
Hhelmingi y in favor of pension reform. Thai
the pension burden, which IS constantly ar0V-
ing is already beyond ali reasonable limits.
and that the laws under which such spoliati0n
is committed need thorough revision, IS adj
RIitted by the disinteTeSted intelligence of both
political parties. That the Democrats funshs
their last campaign partially demand fox
such revision is matter OF history. And Jet,
on the very first opportunity after the result OF
that cam paiga, every proposition to revise the
peusiOn laws is voted down in House haviag
a top heavy Democratic majority.
There is every reason to expect q differeae
record by the next Congress, but if that shall
say as this one has said, that the pension syS-
TEN shall not be rem0deied then its members
will find that there are a great many people
besides penSon-drawers and pension seekers
who amount to something at the polis.-L1ais-
rihs Courier Journal.
OREGON.
It is an open secret that of This eaOi nous
aggregate not less than $50. g80. 900 year are
paid to persons Bho have just claim 10 pen
sions even under our liberal laws. 1t IS prob
able. indeed, that even large proportion goes
to undeserying persons, whs obtained their
pensions ay perjury or personal fayoritism.-
Portland Orey0RiaR.
GEORGIA.
The pension frauds of this Nation have BE-
come an infamous scandal and bankFuPted cur
National Treasury. We have just passed
through four years of unparRllsi and Rnex-
atm Piled probability in the matter of SpProBTiA-
tions. So reckless has been the speed that for
The first time in 10 years the Government can
not meet the demands for funds and must 20 TO