The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-27
AND THE PENS ONEHs INJECT A
GREAT INCREASE.

II the soldiers and sailors who were dis
abled by wounds or disease while in the
military or naval service of the United
States are paid pensions. or the widows
OF those which died. until they remarry.
or their children where there is no widow
or she remarries, until the youngest is
sixteen. are paid the disabled soldiers or
x<aors' .yension. all Will be paid pensions,
Who upon any principle of fairness or
right. should BE pensioned. We showed on
Friday that these could not possibly eX-
coed 10000 although there are now upon
the pension roll 959,54i. Every person on
the pension roll In excess of this 10000,
Is fraudulent impostor. or else he is
there under the provisions of a law found
cd upon no principle of Justice that Is
20 more than "A measure by which MEM
Gers Of Congress expect to bride individ-
Gals in their districts to be their local
cooters and buglemen. to form the rings
and combinations by which they expect 20
secure their reelection TO Congress. The
country ought now TO be paying, in fair
ness and justice to the old soldiers, some
thing like ten TO fifteen millions OF dol
lars year. But 1t is actually paying
more than Sl40co0,O0O a year. and the sue
cessful plunderIng of the Treasury that
has been so far accomplished under the
guise OF pensions has so whetted the APP
petites of the sharks that there is no
telling how far this same plundering may
be extended. unless the people of the
country arouse themselves and take II
firm stand upon the proposition. that this
business shall DE cleared up and placed
upon an intelligent basis of common sense
and justice. That those who are respon-
sible for the present proportions of the
job are far from satisfied with the blood
which they now suck is made fully mani
fest from the following letter, which we
md in the New York sun. from that
rather notorious individual who calls him
self Private Dalzell.
To the Editor OF the Sun:
Sill have been looking over two doc
uments Uhe census ana Hoke Smiths
report TO verify or correct, If need be,
my often Published estimates of the SOL
der vote. and ] find j have put IL too
low rather than too high. II has increas-
ed. Is Increasing, and Will continue to in
crease for "a hundred years. This is poor
comfort, l confess for those who hate the
soldiers and wish them out of the way
OF the towards. traitors and Weddings
whom the boys IN blue left at home in
1861.
In the abstract Of the census ! find the
IA 10
dren. IL one remembers the Virllity ana
vigor of the young manhood that fought
down the rebellion. and recalls the fact
that at the close Of the war thcy easily
married the very flower and cnoice o.
young American womanhood, il is need
less 10 prove that the soldier families
are not smaller than other families. so. If
2VD.Do out OF the 100000 soldiers mar
ried-and these are far below the real
fgures-they have not less than 100000
children. males predOminating as shown
by the census OF 100000 children, the
total natiye-born youth between five ana
twenty years OF age In 1880. Most OF these
are OF age now. The soldiers sons and
daughters, now of age. are not, cannot be
less than 100000. II any reliance can be
placed on the canvass referred 10 above
We number 100000 ourselves. even yet
IN spite OF Hoke Smith and death; for,
with almost million on the rolls. almost
a million claims pending and rejecteda
man behind every claim-and hundreds OF
thousands unnumbered by the Pension
once who never asked a pension. we
shall cast. with our families, 100000 Of
the 2,0oo.o0 votes In this country In 1896.
PRIVATE DAI.ZELL.
Caldwell. Ohio. Jan. "a
Private Daizell felicitates himself upon
the fact that there are oea ri,, n,. ,,,,i-
lion OF men on the pension rolls and that
there are another million applying for
places on II. and II is very plain that
Private Dalzeil thinks all OF the second
million should be upon Il. But this is no,
all. lie very plainly thinks that the fact
Of q man having once worn the uniform
OF the United States segregstes him and
his descendants on into . great military