Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-29

it.-Scranton Gazette.
Morrill, was in favor of giving the
old soldier a pension after he was 81
years old, or in other words in favor of
giving him pension after he was dead.
| Such is the record and we defy republic
| cans to deny it.-[Ompicrat.
There are living to-day one million
soldiers who were in the civil war. The
recent meeting Of the G. A. r. at Pitts
burg, Pa, shows that four hundred
thousand of them belong to the G A.
r. posts and the average age of the SOL
diers now living is almost sixty years.
Does the Omnicrat expect that the next
two years viii see the death of all these
magnificent old heroes? Hardly. Sup
pose each old soldier attaining the age
of 81 should receive a pension thereaf-
ter, how many would be benefited
thereby? It is safe to count on at least
six hundred thousand of the ''boys in
blue" who would receive benefit from
such a law had it been passed But
Morrill's bill known as the Dependent
pension and Debility act has proven
great blessing to the veterans. By virtue
of that act $50, 600 Union soldiers, their
widows and orphans, draw $60,000,000-
almost one dollar for every man, woman
and child in the United States every
year, and there are three hundred thou
sand applications on file under the pro-
visions of this Morrill, bill. OF the total
annual distribution the Topeka agency
distributes about nine million dollars
and large per cent of this remains and
is disbursed in Kansas. While in Con-
gress Major Morrill, was universally rec
ognized as the personal friend of the old
soldier. No man had or has a warmer
heart for an old comrade. He helped
| more than five thousand soldiers by get
ting special pension bills passed in their
behalf. He held that the government
owed its defenders and declared that
pensioner is not an object of charity but
a hero receiving just reward for serv-
ices rendered. Thus no old soldier need
feel that he is receiving aims of his gov
eminent. In view of Major Morrill's
record on the pension question it is in
deed bad taste to attack him and we
defy any pop to deny it.
Why is that all the preachers are
getting to be Pops?-[Omnicrat.
Have YOU ever read the following let
ter from the Rev. J. H. Dougherty who
is the DR.. Parkhurst of Kansas City,
Kansas, and at the head Of movement
for the suppression of lotteries and
gambling dens? Probably not, as the
populist paper to which it was addressed,
and whose party is responsible for the
non-enforcement of the law, has not
published it, presumably because there
is no answer possible or plausible:
KANSAS. CRY, Kan, Sept. II, 1894.
Mr.. E. H. Snow, Editor and Publisher
of the Ottawa Journal, Topeka Edi-
ton.
DEAR SIR: My attention has this day
| been called to a copy of your issue under
date of the Both ult., in which you make
| fragment of my Wichita speech the
! text of some remarks which intimate
| that / am several degrees worse than all
| the criminals of the state. Now, if YOU
will prove that you are not liar, will
| forgive you all. do not ask of YOU to
undertake the difficulty task of proving
\ that you usually speak the truth, but
/ only in this one specific instance keep
your word, and will delight to do you
| honor. In the midst of your TRADE |
find the following eff the Reverend
Dougherty will get the Republican
mayor and the Republican council of his
| town to pass an ordinance against lot
teries, we guarantee to see every lottery
/ is driven out of this town inside of thirty
days" The republican council had
given me the ordinance before you re-
quested it. All things are ready. Begin
your drive. October l5, 1894, will end
these Kansas City lotteries, if you are
! truthful citizen. OF course you and l
/ know that it can be DONE Will you
dare to tell your readers why it has not
| been done? We have had that city or
| dinance more than nine times thirty
days and have been dependent for its
enforcement on the party whose cause
YOU champion. But show yourself
| truthful in this instance and will come
up to Topeka and ask you to dine at my
expense. Yours for truth,
JAMES @. DoUGHERTY.
Homes for the Homeless.
| The opening of the Indian reserva-
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1 up over three and one-half million acres
of fine agricultural and stock raising
! land for homeseekers.
! The Uintah and Uncomdahgre reser-