The Red Cloud chief., 1894-03-09
you and your party associates have
never lest an opportunity to strongly


1t is simply impossible that you do
no, know that there ID your bureau
teDs-yes hundreds cf Thousands of
claims which rave been, carefully,
painfully peri cted By years Of labor.
ious ard costly effort on the part Of
the claimants. Every mail which
reaches you teens with evidence Of
the dire need of these Iong.waiting
people for the msager stipend which
they earned more than a quarter Of a
century ago BY the hardest and m IS,
dangerous service performed. You
cannot help knowing that every one Of
these men and women must be near
the verge Of the grave, and that their
condition must be pitiable in the ex.
tr'ms, and that every dollar paid them
would bring greater blessings than q
hundred times the amount in the DAYS
when they were young and strong,
and able to fight the battle Of life
without assistance.
1t seems vain for us to remind you
Of what an infipity Of good this vast
sum would do If paid to its rightful
owners. There are probably u car.
load Of appealing letters in your
bureau at this moment, telling 10 plain
homely, but most convincing, Ian.
guage OF the miscries Of poverty, dss.
titu'ion and suffering resulting from
the n%onpaymsnt Of the meagsr but
bitterly-needed pensions. In addition
to the infinite mercy to the myriads
Of pensioners, think Of the incalcul.
able benefit such a payment would be
to the entire country. The people
are suffering from a congestion Of
money in the great commercial cen.
tiers and tho lack Of its general distri.
button. There is to much money in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago and Washington, and no.
en- ough in the hands Of the people.
You are contributing directly to ag-
gravate this dangerous condition of
things by intenSifying the plethora.
Should you pay these men and women
the sl5,O0O,00 which belongs to
them as r~ightfnlly as the semi.annual
interest belongs to the bond holders,
you would contribute more powerfully
than any other man 10 the country
has power to do toward revivisg gen..
eral prosperity.
The $l5, 600, 900 would be distrib.
uted from one end to tho other, and
a fortnight would make its in.
auence felt in every channel of bust.
ness. Not a dollar of it would bs
boarded. 1t would 90 in drible,s just
most needed-into the hands of
The common people, and be by them
set into the most active circulation.
Even on their way home from The pen.
zion agencies and postofices the re.
would stop to pay their little
lebts and buy nscessaries for their
subsistence and comfort. Every 500
paid in any little neighborhood would,
the month, do the work Of
1000, or ' $4,000, in the pre-.
Of business activity. The
,ensioner would pay out his 800 in
little sums to Jones, the grocer;
the dry goods man; Smith,
he shoemaker; Johnston, the physi.
ian; Black, the druggist; White, the
and SO on, and Jones, Smith,
It al, would Immediately pay it to ono
mother, and to others with whom
hey have accounts, and so it would 90
m indefinitely until the village mer.
rant gathered up currency and put
t 10 bank to meet the drafts of the
merchants from whom he
fought his goods.
To pay out this $4,000, 700 now
would be equivalent to expanding
he currency IN the most effective way
$l5O,000.0 5000 to 5000, OOO. 600.
Now, Comrads Loehren, we implors
you to take all this into serious con-.
We know that if you will
give all the facts the proper weight,
'ou will reconsider your determine.
ion to return this money to the
treasury, and will decide that its prop.
n place is not in the vaults Of the
building in Washington, but
a the pockets Of tho hundreds of
Of veterans who years ago
wrecked their lives in saving the Ma
Ion frsm wreck, and in making
.reasury Of the United States per.
nauent and solvent institution.
Yours anpealingly,
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE,