Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-09

Of New York 6 corps of young college up- starts and "srnartIes" to interview worthy veterans who are drawing e small psnrion from 6 government they helped to save from destruction nearly thirty years SEQ. before, quite likely, some of their Hsdg- ling journalists had an existence, these in- tsrsIsvs being written up and printed ia nhs Times by daily instsllmsnt. The full namsfAnd residence of each victim of this great inquisltorisl tribunal of the Times, together with all the minute details of his general habits and full description of his personal sppsarsncs, are faithfully jotted down for the sdihc.tIon of those who serve e patrons of tea- infamous paper.
 elf poor old Vet happens to be bald headed, or wears . grizzly beard or mus tashe. or none at all; if hshsppsns to be % tofcxzts as to have 6 small sum of money to his ersdit In some bsnk; if he occasion -siiy tAkes pleasure in,-the pastinss of hunting and fshiDg, and indulges in the F1~e of tobacco, or sometimes takes 6 little ~ntPs af the ardent for his stomRoh's sake xNshese details gre fully recorded and served up to the Times readers in grand Eloquent style. Again, ii the veteran hap pens to be farmer and is able to perform 6 small amount of manual labor in the working of his farm, that fac; is also re- corded as serving to indicate that be Is really not entitled to pension within the meaning of the law, or, in other words, that, no matter how honorable a service he performed in the ranks of his countryis defenders while the war wss in progress, he is now to bs considered a frhudl
 Doubtless the controlling spirit of the Times, in his esgerness to faithfully serve the devil and the present political party in power, cherishes the idea that be ts psr- forming a great service ia the interests of Hoks Smith, the 'rSouthsrn B Bsigsdisrs' and the country generally by the self insti- tut!on of this court of inquiry, with the honorable and honored Union veterans as 6 target for his satanic spleen. His little Idea seems to bs that psnsioDer who is not entirely helpless and psnniless ls not deserving of a pension, forgetting or re- pudisting the fact that & pension is e vest cd right, and that & veteran who is reosiv- ing a pension Is getting only what the gov- ernment, in its time of great peril, plainly and fairly promised 10 sll who took uo arms in its defense.
 In charscteriztng such methods ss sim ply contenptible, we feel that we are using altogether too mild 6 term to adequately express the indignation which every decent person must naturally entertain. No more sbhorrent being in the eyes of the Union soldiers during the war ever sTisted than what was then dtnoninKted Northern ''Copperhesd," :" ihe characteristics of whom are too well known bo require mention in this connection, but whst shall be said of the publishers of s widely circulated iour- nal like the New York Times. engaged, twenty nine years after tbe close of that dirf fol period in our history, st A time when the survivors of thst war are face to face, as 1t were, with the Angel of Death, in a disbolicAl crusade against the bsnescent system that sH0rds a small pecuniAry assistance to them in the form of pension When we n feet upon these things 1t is difficult for us to reAlizs that there is really snch a principle ks ha- man gratitude, and yet we feel that the methods of the Times in bounding pen sions is not ref sction of the sentiments of the great mass of the people of the country, and will not receive their endorse ment
 IT the Times shouId see ft to send Its brilliant reportorisl staff up this way on a tour Of pension investigation it Is bsliered that the old vets of Connecticut would have spirit and msnliness snough to give them 8 pretty cold or s pretty hot recep- ton. It is strange indeed that the vebr- sns of York state, not legally compelled, will submit tO suCh indignities-
 BATTERY No l.