The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-05-04

Duringt the recent debate on the pen
sion appropriation, which finally passed
the House OF Representatives to the
amount of $l5l 90 100 for the coming
fiscal year, many Southern members
again reiterated favorite assertion OF
Southern newspapers, that IL is wrong
to make the South help pay these pen
sions when the South gets nothing in
return. Me edith, of Virginia who
said that he gloried in the fact that
there were no patriots in his section
during the war, for instance, said In
his speech protesting against the pend
ing pension appropriation bill that his
state had paid three times a; much
pensions as Vermont, and he added,
I'VE get no benefit"
But the assertion is simply false.
The Southern States get much IN IRE
from the Federal Treasury in various
ways than they pay into it. Colon i
Hepburn, of Iowa; replying t. the
ge .tleman from Virginia, had the
hgures ready to proie the falsity OF
these Southern claims. In regard 10
the assertion that the South helped to
pay the pensions, Mr.. Hepburn said:
the late Confederate States contrib
uted not one dollar TO the payment OF
PENSIONS" and he proved his state
ment. OF the $l50,0)J,0)0 internal
revenue taxes" he said, "the South
pays less than 100000; OF the Sl11,-
60 ,0,O customs receipts, the South
rays but 81, COO, 00H, and OF the miscel-
laneors receipts less than $4,000 O."
Putting those three items together 1T
appears that the total paid into the
Federal Treasury by the South is only
about $4,000, 900.
D. 4 hon hn
statesman from Virginia says that the
) nth has no benefit But it got last
year, in sugar bounties, $4,000, 30; in
deficits in postal receipts, 50, 600, 900:
in pensions TO Mexican and Union vet
ans and their families, S5,0L0,00O.
That already makes $40, 900, 900 for the
Sl5,00)00J paid in But the Southern
states get much more than that. 1t is
a notorious fact, for instance, that OF
the river and harbor bills the South
ern States always get the lions share.
1t is not incorrect TO say that the
South, for every dollar which it pays
into the Federal treasury, takes out
two.
Still they are not satisfied down
there. They want protection for
everything they raise and produce, for
the tobacco of Virginia, the rice of
the oranges and lemons of Florida, the
cotton which all of them raise. And
more than that they want Congress to
allow them about $500, 0C0,C0D of war
claims which have been filed in Wash
ingtcn. These claims can never be
lowed as long as there Is bar on the
Federal statutes in the form of pro-
vision requiring claimants TO prove
loyalty to the Government during the
war. and SO long as such a large share
OF the national revenues goes for the
payment of pensions as now. But the
Southerners are constantly scheming
to remove the OBJ ,tacles in the way of
the allowance of these claims; they
!, have made several attempts TO do so
ard they may succeed yet.
Eut there is no truth in the South
eIn claim that the South has ID pay
without any returns. 1t is the North
that pays. But it is remarkable, on
the other hand, that the disposal o. all
the money rails ed in the North is left
to the States that are the recipients of
public bounty. For it IL the South that
rules in Washington to-day.
Pointed Parallels.
It is hard for Democratic paper
to open its mouth in these Democratic
ha,d times without putting its foot in
il. A recent issue contained the tariff
plank OF the last Democratic National
Convention. and a so in another column
an editorial urging workingmen to ac-
cept reduced wages. We make two
extracts which look charming in par
allelS:
WE Pr9%ss ESQ All that is nse del
Mckinley tariff law bring prosperity to Des
enacted by the Fifty Mofnes "a well TO
- <irst Congress as the other cities is to put
eliminating atrocitylthis money in circula-
of class legislation; we ton. In order to do so
indorse the efforts certain existing condl-
made by the Demo rats tions must be met 1t
of the present Congress- Is not necessary to go
to modify It's oppres- back to the causes
sive feature in the di- W ich have led to
rection OF free raw ma these conditions. IL is
terials and cheaper sufficient to say that
manufactured goods Stone OF the periodl cal
that enter into generally ad II tments of
consumption, and we,price5 OF abor and
promise its repeal accommodates well
one OF tn benefcentlas of pi offs is at hand
results that will follow and all parties inter-
the action OF the peO-lested should submit
pie in intrusting power gracefully to the read
to the Democrat C justment for their own
ua:ty. as we'll as for the COM
mon good.
Working men in all
departments should be
willing to accept such
remuneration and fix
such hours of work as
will permit Of the
profitable employment
of their labor by con-
tractors and those en-
gagged in building and
OF her impr Jvements.
This Is poor time to