The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-07-21

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able to give, are necessarily withdrawn
from public gaze and So not the subject
of general discussion. The details of each
days work we shall never know
But, Mr.. Chairman. if the recording
angel were of this world, and could make
public Il full report daily Of all the details
/ of this pension office assessment Of the old
soldier, with the number Of pensions
reduced and the amount with the number
/ allowed and the per cent. cut off and
passed to the deficiency fund. with iiuni-
her dropped from the rolls and tile nun1-
beT rejected with the grand aggregate
saved To the treasury; and were also at
the same time to tell us how MANY
soldiers homes this cold, Democratic
winter are short of fuel, food aud clUh-
Il .I.Ss 81 h.A.I
nnmaJ say if tLn rn,.orI;t,o ot,,,oI fn,,id
law all his LnfnIo ,,S IN .iri,ori,7Ir dotnii
each day. am ! eXtravagant in saying that
an outraged public sentiment would de-
nounce in thunder tones in the first place
tii,,,,h - I;L - pun,i ~ VI
,lIu"ehl VI Nii'h H'H rinl'''u me tit"H-
urE anu III lhe Seoohn pace ms pen
i S,'i l'~ioiih ~ poitS NhiCu tQoliS ulElueS
tLlt pouulH, tnG rtdl nc'r -oheIlhS oI the
~ ~ iiI'i @ o"I Pcoile 10 tiie uJiehderS ol lie
nag, ueJN ecu lheli aIll me empty mis-
~ ImIIdhd-tu treasury lapplauSe on the
h"Iu1llcah Side.I
hnoW iht amount pald LOT pensions
/ Is iaFge ana the government IS sadly III
heeu oi money. nut better borrow 70 meet
al Obligations, and especially those to
the veterans OF the late war, than TO nave
II 20 down III history that on final settle
ment between the government and the
PreServerS or the mon, the government
brouSht IN inns lu-Eler rule III arlth-
hleIlc' thal twice make ana Twice
hidke ~.
les, III" amount pald Tor pensions IS
large ms nlll carrleS more than three
IlheS as much as Is APPROPRIATED Tor our
army ana navy.
hnJ our war, navy ana pension appr0-
'rl3lioniS Hi conn com %olneu are hpl very much
larSpf lhah 'real bTltalll eNpehdS on ner
tdn adinA Az NV hdN anu ldl IeSS' Souie ~
W"ooo less iilaa a., IS o6 eHpended n yo ny mI Ger
1nn "'i,' IN It, ~
w w, itSS 'hah ny Z ranCe, anu inai, 700
with fh'S great dlfference that In those
countries lHlN Is continuing expense,
running WIN the III" oi me nation - IN
IatI tSSt!iil ~ ~: preSerrNalloh' VINE
MtIn Us ,',.d ioi 'IIoioitH -
otiHr mi tho -ator,,ts sh,iI bnT,o ,7aepod
all"n, ,ili 'lT t.'ailS Smail haNe paSSsl
"'iI ~, Il - - ,i = ..4
- :; ;n f,,, - r,,c,,;t;,t,it ,,,or,,,ont nF
~ i III id'I iiid- illiCtHl IiloluuiehI ~
'hr Era'lInIe OF j Tree EeopS 70 lne Wi
uht'"r N",IlerE "1 the helu9ilc' hhd SO
n,- I'M .I NJ S.ia, S.aIiE
~
Nv vii furnish ITO birhast nnssiI1a tis
suranre Of its future safety in the h0nr of
peril IApplatISe on the Rppuhican side
Yes the amount paid for pensions is
large But il Is not wasted nor does il
90 out of the country like money paid
for the pnrrhase of importpd goods
/ l.yery dollar i pai, to our own citizens
and by them i'm turn 10 other citizens
thus not only hclpipg to swell the volume
of orr domestic trade hut at the same
time helping to keep in motion the cir
,,uIating medium Of the country Money
has been called the lfchlood Of a nation
hprause if is it's circulating, medium. and
.o,nn think ve have NOT money pnnurh
~ tins rountrv. and cite the present con
,iition of affairs TO urovc il.
.Rut Mr. Chairman. there is lust as
much money now as there was a wear
aro 1T the close of the most prosperous
business year in the history of the
country The trouble iS. II * not now
in circulation rs it was then. For in
stance. S15.OoO.too less III round numbers
was scattered into the circulating cur
rents of trade in every part of the
country for the first six months of this
fiscal wear than in the first oix months
nf last year Viz. the difference in first
/ pavmenfs of pensions under Commission
rrS Kaum and Lochrcu Fifteen million
dollars. and who will say the withhold
inc If thiS sum from the old soldiers. and
~ ria, s.,ne TIM, from In. business of the
.,, H. ,,,+b;,,, "a do xith tho star-
r.ti',,' ,,atian ,,o,,. w. rnnn nsg