Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-11-07
DO NgHE VETERANS Jusr1oE
Lochren's Fee-Grabbing Scheme
and the Insult to Soldiers be has
Rnhhad

Washington specials: Commissioner
Of pensions Lochren 10 his annual re-
port recommends the creation of civil
pension list. He belleyes the old clerks
la the government serviDe should be
psnsioned, when they become unable
to perform clerical duty. This recoln-
mendatlon will receive no endorse
ment from the people. The clerks in
the government offices receive salaries
running from $40 to 81 800 per annum.
The higher salarled officials are out
81 le uf the civil service classification.
The plain people will MT endorse q
proposition to pay pensions to people
VINO have drawn salaries for years,
which are away above the incomes
earned by our working men and
women In private life. The majority
Of these clerks receive $1,000 each per
annum. All who have been IN office
ten years OF more receive that much
compensation. A man or q woman
who draws 500 per month ought not
to need pension In old age; because,
with ordinary care aud economy, mon
6y can be saved and a home provided
for the rainy day that comes to all.
The people would rather have re-
ceived from Commissioner Lochren a
recommendation for liberal and at least
decent treatment Of the veterans OF the
civil war. The people have never OBJ
jected to granting peBslsns to the old
soldiers who saved this Repu bile from
Democratic riot, rebellion and anarchy.
The people would have said amen to
a recommendation for liberal approprl.
ations for the veterans. But, the com.
missioner Of pensions has made no such
recommendation The Democratic ad.
ministration has no love for the old
soldiers. On the contrary they have
been prosecuted and bounded by in
vestigatlons, snap judgments and de-
crease In their allowance.
With the aid Of thousands Of fools In
the northern states, those southern
Democrats have captured the govern
ment which they failed to destroy; and
they have assaiIed the Union veterans
at every point since Cleveland was in.
augurated. But things are different
now. The people Of the north
have suffered for their folly, and they
will not again endorse the party Of
retrogression, rebellion and sectional
hatred. Forgiveness is good thing.
It is cardinal Christian virtue; but it
was wasted on traitors.
We do not need civil pension list,
and we will not have it. We do need
a soldier pension list, and we will pay
taxes with cheerful minds and liberal
hands, in order that the boys In blue
In their old Sge shall not suffer, In
speech at Keokuk In October, 1885,
three months before his death, General
Logan said: "When our boys marched
past the capitol building IN grand re-
view in May, 1866. we read upon a
large banner, In large letters, on the
south front of the marble building:
The co untry will never forget and can
never repay its debt OF gratitude to the
Union soldiers" General Logan said
that only twenty years had passed
away, aud yet the Democrats Of the
North have already forgotten the
looNt Wulto buo OcuuoCidNS VI tuo Oouth
were determined that that debt should
never be paid. But the sons OF vet
Grams are now doing some voting and
party managing In northern states,
and they will see to 1t that their fathers
are cared for, respected, honored and
rewarded at least In some degree, by
she country which owes them 30 much.
No Mr.. Commissioner, We do not
need and we will not have civil pen.
,ion list. But we will have Repub-
lean administration, and a Republi-
san congress, and We will take care Of
,ur military pension list as honorable
aud patriotic citizens ought to do.
We will have a Republican commits
,ioner OF pensions, and he will not fret
his glzzard about civil pension list.
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