The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-05-10
PENSIONS.
The Present Democratic
A Administration
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HAS ALREADY SAVED s2s,OOO,OOO.
Accompanying Statement Made by the
DiffereAt Governments. United
States Pays More Than All.

1 aW AsAINGToN, D. c., May 4. 1894.
sEpIroRs JOURNAL About the
biggest question before the people
OF this country is that OF pensions.
1t is such big question, and SO
often discussed, that we are inclined
to gasp when we hear it mentioned,
and pay no more attention to it.
Instead of this, We ought to study
it until we understand its enormity.
Then We ought to rise in our might
and hurl from power, forever, the
republican party that saddled it on
us.
We ought to give all honor to
Secretary Hoke Smith and Pension
Commissioner Lochran in their
efforts to reduce the pension expen-
ditures, and we should keep up agi-
tation in the line OF reduction until
the treasury is no longer looted by
bumme1s and frauds, and until PEN
sions are given only to the deserv-
ing.
1t has been very hard to get the
following figures. They are from
the latest official records. Read
them and stcdy over them:
Great Britain, with her vast army
and navy, and with centuries Of wars
behind her, gives to pensions nine.
teen million, sever hundred and
| fifty-four thousand, four hundred
andtwenty six dollars (S19,754, 426)
i The United Sta5es with her RECORD
of comparative peace. appropriated
for PENSIONS for the current veal
one hundred and six;y-six million.
FIVE hundred and thirty one thous
and, three hundred and fifty dollars
(s166,531, $500
Austria> Hungary, which has been
involved in many wars, appropriates
for pensions and grants eight million,
nine hundred and eighty.one thous.
and, nine hundred and tbirty-on
dollars (S8,981,931). The United
States in her last appropriation gave
to pensions one hundred and sixty
six million, five hundred and thirty
one thousand, three hundred and
fifty dollars (s166,531, $50.
France, with her unenviable re-
cord tor continual fighting arpropri-
ates for pensions and allowances to
her non. active military force, enc
hundred and seventy. three thous>
and, two hundred and seventy-two
dollars (S173,272). The last appro>
priation of the United States for
pensions was S166,531,350.
Germany, with her great army of
over half a million, appropriates for
pensions and invalid funds sixteen
! million, FIVE hundred and thirty-two
thousand, six hundred and ninety
three dollars (S16,532,693). the
United States, with reckless prodi-
gality, appropriates more than $780,
100000.
Italy, with all her enthusiasm in
the interest of her soldiers, appru-
PIRATES annually one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars (S120, 000).
The United States appropriates more
than s166,OOO,OO0.
Russia, with standing army of
nearly million men, appropriates
SO little for pensions, that no record
OF the amount is available in this
country. The United States, as we
have before observed, and wish to
impress upon you, appropriates one
hundred and sixty-six million, five
hundred and thirty-one thousand,
three hundred and fifty dollars
(s166, 531 $500.
President Garfield, who was one
of the best of Republicans, and one
of the fairest of men to the old SOL
diers, said that the pension expendi-
lures OF the United States should
never exceed fifty million dollars
(s50,000,OOO.
In the year 1892, while Benjamin