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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-07

Brigadier General, Major. General, corps com
mander, Governor of Illinois, and Senator. He
has as many aches and hurts to remember as
senator Sherman, but it is said that his wife
insists on carefully expunging the acridity Of
these from the manuscript.
Mrs. James z. Mckee, the dauebtsr NJ ex.
President Harrison. is much interested in The
now patriotic organization, the Children OF the
American Revolution. Of which Mrs Daniel
Lothrop - President. One Of her ideas is to
get the members to memories and sing cor
rectiy Americas National hymns-"My Coun-
try, lis Of Thee" The Star-Spangled Ban
ner." " Columbia. the Gem of the Ocean and
all the other songs and anthems which fh
every true American heart withsa thrill o
pride and enthusiasm
twill Hs noticed that all the pictures of Gen.
n. A. Miles in uniform show his @. Ar. badv,
prominently before all ths others
Gen. George A. Sheridan, one of the most
brilliant stump orators this country ever pro-
dueed' IS now an inmate Of the Soldiers Home
at Hampton, Va
Rev Thomas J. Sheppard. Chaplain of the
Soldiers Home at Sandusky, o., ia a candidate
for Chaplain of the House of Representativ YES.
Comrade Sheppard was a member of she noble
band OF Christian workers az AndersonviIIe.
which did so much Christian service in minis
tering to sick and dying comrades. He was
also member OF the ourt-martiaI instituted
among the prisoners for the trial Of the Raid
ers," and which sentenced six men to be-
hanged.
That misfortunss never come siugly is en-.
empiIhed In the case of Gen. T. NJ Southland,
OF CastlstOn, Vt, who has lately met with two
serious accidents, both Of which came near re-
sulting fatally, and they were occasioned by .
fall, the first producing a severe confusion in
the Immediate vicinity of the heart, the second
painful dislocation Of the right shoulder.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-07

THE Republicans should not, and
probably viii not, consider for moment
any proposition to reorganize the Senate
by the aid of the Populists. IF the Re
publicans are strong enough themselves
to reorganize the Senate, they should
not and probably viii not shirk the re-
sponsibility. But they had much better
let it 60 than enter into any dicker with
non-Republicans of any kind to secure
the control.
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GEN. HowARD,s ARTICLES.

We are glad to be able to announce
that Gen. Howard will in few weeks
resume the publication of his admirable
monographs on the war. His next
series will take up Sherman's army
where he left it in the last series, at the
occupation of Atlanta, and tell the
always interesting stories of the Marches
to the Sea and Through the Carolinas,
ending with graphic description Of
the Grand Review at Washington These
articles will be copyrighted by THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and not appear in
any other paper. Be sure that your
subscription is promptly renewed, that
you may not miss one of these, as we'll
as other very interesting things we have
in store for our readers.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-07

THE best way-much the best way
to prepare for the effort for veterans
rights and pension justice before the
coming Congress is TO get up clubs
everywhere for THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE. Congressmen and Senators look
to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE more than
to any other source for what the vet
Grams really want. 1t has done more
than any other one influence to shape
the pension legislation of the past, and
it will be still more powerful in the
future. Let every veteran see to it that
he is on IFS subscription list. This viii
aid him and bis comrades In the fight
for the right.
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oNE-ARMEp COMRADES.

Comrades j. p. Hartman, of Yer
sailles, ILL.,, writes us vigorous and con-
vincing plea in favor of increasing the
pensions to one-armed veterans. He
claims that man with one arm is very
much worse of, so far as getting living
is concerned, than a man with but one
leg, or even who has lost both legs
There is hardly trade that one-armed
man can work at, and he cannot even
keep books very satisfactorily. Comrade
Hartman thinks that the one-armed
pensions should be equalized from the
time they were only SO month, and
that now all that class of pensioners
should be put on an equality with those
who are no worse disabled.
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PERSONAL.

WComrade A. NJ. WOolson. of Toledo, o., and
formerly Sergeant Major of the 1st Ohio Fl. A,
has written very interesting account OF the
killing of the rebel Gen. John III. Morgan lie
was present at Headquarters when Gen. Glllem
came in aud reported verbally the affair.
Senator John NJ. Palmer is also writing a
book, with his wife as his amanuensis and
counsellor. The old General will have very
interesting story to tell Of his experiences as a
public man, first as Democaat, then as Re-
publican, and back again to Democracy. as a
local politician, Judge, Colonel of a regiment
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AT last Georgians have walked up to
the fact that their penitentiary system
is disgrace to civilization, and that a
ring of politicians has been making for
tunes by working the convicts to death,
while starving them and denying them
the common decencies of life. They
could have learned this some time ago
by reading THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
which has frequently asserted the fact.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-07

This week it seems to be conceded
that Dingley, of Maine, will be the
Chairman of the Committee on Ways
and Means. In addition to his intimate
friendship with Mr.. Reed is the fact
that he is beyond doubt the best in
formed man in the House ON tariff
matters, and was Maj. McKinley's right
hand man in the formation of the Nc
kinley Bill. Another reason is that
there is strong rivalry among the
friends of Payne, Dalzell and Hopkins,
which might lead to discomfort if any
of the three were appointed, whereas
each will be better pleased with an out
slider than the selection of anyone but
himself. Opinion also gravitates toward
the selection of Col. ID. B. Henderson,
of Iowa, for Chairman of the Appropria-
tions Committee. The friends of j. G..
Cannon are still confident, however,
that he viii receive the appointment.
The main argument against him is the
break of two years in the continuity of
his long service.
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SCHOOL, CHILDREN, INTEND!
The American Flag for the
Schoolhouse.
GIVEN FREE TO ANY DISTRICT SCHOOL

We have decided to offer free flag to any
school OF any battalion Of the American
Guard.
The desire for flag is universal, an it is
not provided for out of public funds except
IN two or three States Our flags are made
Of regulation Navy bunting. The stars are
all sewed on with double row Of stitches.
Just as in the Army and Navy flags used by
the Government.
We have various sizes, but the style of
workmanship and the material is the same
ia all
All that is necessary 20 do 10 get one of
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Subscribers 10 THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
at one Dol ar for each subscriber. The
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with the money, at the rate Of one dollar for
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We viii seud one Of these splendid bunt-
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ly subscibers
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This viii give selection of sizes ample
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known the terms upon application.
Remember, these flags are given away as
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
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MAP NT BILL. RIrS

We have in preparation beautiful
map Of the first battle Of Bull Bun.
which shows the whole field and its re-
lations to the city Of Washington at a
glance, With the positions of the Union
and rebel armies indicated by blue and
red lines The border is a beautiful
composition, showing all the corps
badges IN their appropriate colors.
Beneath the map is legend, giving
The Story Of the Battle" with the
official report Of the losses Of each regi-
merit engaged. Ii is historical, and viii
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aLINcoEN,s MoRns. -

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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE CALENDARS.
Send at once for one Of the beautiful
NATIONAL TRIBUNE Veteran Calendars
for 1896. Every veteran and every son
Of a veteran wants one for his library.
sitting-room or Office. Nothing like
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ARE you helping to build up the
Sons of Veterans? You cannot do too
much for the young men. We need
all the strength and interest that can be
put into the Order, and we will need it
far more as the years advance.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-07
A SERVICE PENSION.

A service pension was distinct j
tacit implication in the contract entered
into when we enlisted.
Custom is as binding as law in al
countries. 1t had been the custom from
time immemorial among the warlik'
English speaking people to make
gifts, gratuities, benefits, and allow
ances" to those who had served then
in war. These were over and above The
pay and allowances granted while IL
the field, and generally took the form o.
either grants Of land or of the use OF
land. This idea survives to this day in
England, where estates are presented to
victorious Generals, and service pen.
sion is given to every officer and soldier
after so manv years of service, in lieu
of the land grants made when the Gov
eminent had land to give.
After each of her early wars on this
Continent, England made liberal grants
of land to all those who had served In
her armies. Some weeks ago, when
giving the history of Louisville, we re-
called the fact that the site of the city
was land grant of $500 acres to an
Assistant-Surgeon for his services during
the French-Indian War of 1856.
We inherited this policy with many
Others from England, and it became as
much policy of the country as trial by
jury or local selfgovernment.
The men who served in the Revolu-
tionary war all received land warrants,
and later were granted a service pension
of IS a month, which, compared to the
pay they received while in the service,
and the relative value Of money, was
more than $50 or S25 month would
be now. The same was true of the men
who served in the War of 1912 and
the Mexican War.
This policy had been so unbroken in
the history Of the country, that every
man who entered the service during the
rebellion had as much reason and right
TO expect service pension to be grant
ed him IN few years as he had to ex-
pect that the country would still be
ruled by President and Congress 1t
was like thousand other things that
enter into our form of Government,
custom SO well-settled and invariabIe
that nothing but an actual adverse law
could break it.
The time is now eminently ripe for
service pension. If it is to be an act of
real justice and gratitude by the people
of the rescued country, it must be now
while there is still a representative num-
Der Of those who bore the heat and bur
den of the battle still alive to enjoy it.
To give it years from now, when only a
feeble remnant survives, when hundreds
Of thousands have gone to their graves
in penury and distress, would be a
wretched travesty on justice and a dis
grace to Nation which boasts Of its
gratitude, benevolence, and justice.
Let us hare Service Pension Bill
passed this Winter.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE PORTRAIT
CARDS

Those who had THE NATIONAL TRIB-
uNE Portrait Cards at the National En-
campment were the envied of their
comrades. They had something to give
away which all their comrades and
friends wanted. Now is the time to
get them for the Reunions and gather
ings this Fall and Winter. They are
really cheaper than any other kind of
cards. We will furnish you 100 cards,
with your name, residence, regiment,
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-07

OwL-LIKE South Carolina keeps
blinking and winking and insisting that
it is not yet day. Last week the Con
stitutional Convention struck out the
section in the article of declaration of
rights which said that "the rights of
citizens of this State to vote shall not be
denied or abridged on account of race,
color or previous condition of servitude."
1t also struck out the section saying that
neither slavery nor involuntary servi-
tude, except as punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been once
convicted, shall exist in this State"
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SIX FOR A QUARTER.

We will send six copies of the "Statis-
tics of the War" to any address for 20
cents. Many comrades will want more
than one copy, and this is to accommo-
date them.
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LET us all get together in solid array
for the passage of Service Pension Law
this Winter. We can accomplish it, if
we unite earnestly upon it.
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GREAT BRITAIN has suddenly awak-
ened to the fact that she is very much
alone in the worlds politics. She has
thought her game was to hold aloof
from either the Triple Alliance or the
Dual Alliance, and magnify her impor-
lance by throwing her weight to which
ever side would offer her the best terms.
This will not work. Russia and France
may join with Japan in the East to
divide up China without he: leave or
sanction, and the Triple Alliance be
utterly unable to help her except by
the dreadful expedient Of inaugurating
a general war, which they certainly will
not do just to help England. The same
is true with regard to ,Russia's aggres-
sions on Armenia and Persia. Neither
Germany, Austria, nor Italy care how
much Russia may take of Persia or
Asiatic Turkey, SC, long as she keeps
her hands off Constantinople. France
will abet her in any design, if for no
other reason than to spite England.
This is why the latter looks longingly
toward us, and there is so much English
talk of "a grand Anglo-'Saxon alliance"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-07

THE Alaskan boundary has been de-
cided in our favor, and the miners up
there needn't save money any longer to
buy guns
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THE NECK VERSE.


The device is not a new one, by any means.
"Away back in the good old days" when monks
and priests were supreme, they had laws that
any one who could read could escape the gal
lows, no matter what his crime might be- The
laws intended that the magistrate should open
the Bible at random and lay it before the GRIM
inal. If he could read a verse he was declared
to be CLERK" and either punished lightly or
turned over to the clergy TO be dealt with still
more lightly. Later. the Bishops Ordinary,
who was an official at all prisons, opened the
Bible before the culprit at Psalm LII: Have
mercy on me- God according to thy loving
kindness; according to the multitude of thy
tender mercies blot out my trausgressions." If
he recited this the Ordinary said: "Legit at
clericus" The reads like clerk. Thousands
of guilty men saved their necks by committing
this verse to memory. and pretending to read it.
1t was called the "Neck-verse."
The old song ran:
If monk had been taken
For stealing o. bacon,
For burglary, murder or rape,
If he could but rehearse
well promptly his neck-verss
He never could fail to escape.
The law was repealed in Queen Anne's reign
100.
Life in New York will not be so exciting
hereafter, but much safer. The police have
been ordered to have weekly instruction and
practice in pistol-shooting. It is hoped that
this will in time enable them to bring down
wild steer or the vagrant dog, instead of the
unthinking denizen Of the next block.
Isn't it about time to give rest to that worn
old joke about the New Womans husband
having to stay at home and tend the baby and
mend ciothes2 1t belongs to the mother-in-
law" class of jokes, with which would-be
humorists bored the public to nauseation. The
woman who has enough get-up to her to ride
wheel, and do other things usually ascribed to
the New Woman, has vim and pride enough to
take caro- of her household better than a woman
of less spirit and activity.
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WE must have the Congress make the
Act of June 81, 1890, really man.
datory, so that it will be carried out at
once, according to its letter and spirit,
and every man and woman given the
benefits he or she is entitled to.
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TELL US what you are doing to recruit
the membership of your Post. If every
comrade does something the member
ship of the GAR. will be increased
fully 100000 before the Encampment
at St. Paul.
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STATISTICS OF THE WAR.

Send five cents to THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE for statistics of the War;" q
little pamphlet containing facts and
figures that you all want to know, and
to have in compact and convenient
form, where you can refer to them at
any time. No comrade who wants to be
well informed in regard to the real facts
of the war should be without copy.
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IT Is believed that if Mr.. Reed should
be elected President he would make his
colleague and personal friend, Repre-
sentative Hit, of Illinois, his Secretary
of State. This would mean an assertion
of the Monroe Doctrine in a way that
would make the late Mr.. Monroe beam
down rays of warm approval from his
celestial residence.
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THE almost unanimous nomination OF
Comrade Pingree for the fourth time as
Mayor of Detroit shows how well the
Republicans like plucky, aggressive
fighter, though he may be a trife cranky
at times. Nothing pleases them SO well
as a man who has pretty positive ideas
as to what is right, and stands ready to
fight for them. The one thing they
cannot forgive is lodging and shilly-
shallying.
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Tt looks as If South Carolina will make the
voting test ability to "resd clause in the
State Constitution, or understand and explain
it when read by the registration officer" That
is very simple expedient. 1t is a wonder
that it was not thought of before. All that
will be necessary when white man or negro
who "votes right" comes up for registration
will be to test him with the clause which reads
This Constitution shall 20 into effect imme-
diately upon its ratification by majority of
the people," while an undesirable voter may
be easily shut out by giving him clause that no
living man can understand or explain. There
will be some. All constitutions have them.
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Life: A doctor who occasionally walked in
called to see a pious and orthodox old clergy
man who had been taken suddenly i'll.
Am 1 going to die. doctor?" asked the par
son.
Well, guess not this time" said the doc
tor. We'll make bargain-you keep me
out of hell and I'll keep you out of heaven!"
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Lieut. Peary says that whoever wants the
North Pole can have it, for all of him. He
knows when he has enough, and he has had
enough icebergs, polar bears, canned vegetables,
and chilblains to last him the rest of his life.