Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-03-09

InS A6pUOllcAn6. renamed IN power.
Kill the Wilson bill and the same de-
gree Of prosperity will return.
Gresham's Pension.
It is reported, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, that Secretary Gresham has
surrendered his pension. General
Gresham was brave soldier and was
pierced by rebel lead in front of At
1anta. He still carries that little me-
mento OF the rebellion concealed in his
anatomy, and the government did not
ask him to produce it in evidence when
he applied for q pension. 1t accepted
his testimony and that of his witnesses
just as 1t accepted the testimony in
thousands Of other cases like his, and
granted him a pension of $50 q month.
Gresham was not poor; did not need
the pension, but it was q roll of honor
and like other old soldiers he was glad
to have his name written there as one
who had shed blood in defense of his
country. For twenty years he drew
honor to be called q pen ioner.
But when Judge Gresham became
the squire to knight Cleveland, he
realized that 1t meant more than q
simple change of politics and candi-
dates. 1t meant the desertion of old
gods for new and strange idols. Presi-
dent Cleveland had never been SOL
der. He had vetoed 500 soldiers PEN
sion bills. He had referred to pensions
as persistent and ingenious attacks
upon the public treasury" and said of
pensioners that whatever their service
they had accumulated a great deal of
disability" He had further declared
in his veto of the dependent pension
bill that "theS really needy and home-
less soldiers of the rebellion have been
to a large extent provided for at SOL
diers homes, and that at is sad, but
nevertheless true, that in the matter
OF procuring pensions there exists q
widespread disregard of truth and gtod
faith"
Probably when Gresham read those
things he realized what it meant to
Grover Cleveland, and he surrendered
his pension of $50 month and had his
name erased from what he had regard
ed as a roll Of honor, but which Cleve-
land had said was list of those who
pretended an incapacity for labor"
The Deficit Grows.
The statement of the national re-
ceipts and expenditures for January,
indicates that Secretary. C0rliSle'S $40.
OOO,OO loan, no matter how he uses
the proceeds, will 90 only part wav in
providing the Treasury with necessary
funds. The receipts for January were
82l, ,OS2, 738, and the expenditures were
S3l 1909, ,e69, leaving 9 deficiency for the
mOntn OF @1.l2t,9SO. This reduction ts
iouna ai mainly IN the customs revenue,
wnicn VIC I snoweo aaa dailing on as compared
WI Wash .:n.9y, yna.n9uaIy, 1919, OF apout ell,OOV,-
~ S.t wai.e q, aoo sme me ,eAPenaitures are only
sDc1S saos ga,Ws,uoy m,,.ss, less tnen ior January,
900; 300, Dur.ng .ea 1ne seven montns OF me
isc .scal year mere nus Deen en- e iall- d
ang on VI revenue OF @oS, 4oo,sV
anu sae so.ss s,r oeacis ae1 ;n. ior the
S.."etal seveh moa5as N Is 9ao,5oe' iO4; me re-
aaS.toa onNntaa u tas eARenuiSute y iargely &C.
coan.eu tor Iy Vn9 Wiynnoloing OF
tasynen.s ansa wlica 9ugnG 10 oe maze. II
.L me preseaS aeterloraslon conannes 70
.al.s, sai, emu en- vi tne nscas year, Inc 9enclt
" VIII De sona9Ie,;! mgre snaa eIo,oUo. Inere
a.a. - ny possioinsy y. ol tncrease Dy tne Gp-
Sra..oa saS,s ". =. 1se aew ss.san 5aM ZOE oa tne
lnso.ne i.N @ .sA p9loIe tn0 en1 9, the nscal
year, 0QQ C00 treasury ID llkoly TO be