The National tribune., 1895-11-28
A SERVICE ENSION.
What the Comrades All Over the Country
Have to Say About IL.

What the Comrades All Over the Country
Have to Say About 1t.
You will achieve the greatest work in hav-
ing q service pension bill passed that has ever
been accomplished by any session of Congress
since the war;. KRIsMER, Coalport, Pa.
r. w. Winchester, Co. /, 14th Pa. Cav,
Canton, Wis, wants q service pension with a
per diem addition.
/ favor the service pension, and am truly
glad that you are fighting it out for us old
veterans 1 think that it would be the best
pension bill that Congress could pass.-JogN
SNYDER, Co. II, Tooth Pa, Coalport, Pa.
] am in favor of q service pension law, and
it can be passed this Winter if we all unite
in the effort for it.-G. w. HARTsELL,
Reedsville, W. Va.
L was much pleased with your editorial
on service pension. Asa Past National Com
mander of the u. V. l.. and my associations
with the Soldiers Home matters, give me rea-
son to know that n great majority of the SOL
diers who saw long and hard service are not
on the pension rolls, and never have been
think they should be more deserving than a
soldier who may have seen q fewdays' service
in the Mexican war, and then became rebel
against his country for nearly five years.
God speed you in your new field for the
old soldier. shall at the next meeting of
George II. Thomas Post of this city, the
largest in the State offer q resolution heartily
indorsing your article on service pension
Also, one at next meeting of Encampment No.
So Union Veteran Legion, which has mem-
bership of 800 and not half of them on the
pension rolls-W. Ii. TUCKER, indianapolis,
Ind.
/ am strongly in favor of a service pension,
as are all the veterans with whom l have
talked. / hope that you will be as success
full in getting it through as you have been
with other pension legislation you have advo-
cated-JAs. G. Smith, Blaine City, Kans.
/ see YOU have started the ball rolling for
n service pension bill If you keep it rolling
the bill will get there before next Spring.
Such bill would be honest to every soldier;
such bill would set aside existing jealousy
between many of the soldiers; such bill
would silence false Interpretation of laws
heretofore enacted; such bill would meet
with the appreciation of all political creeds;
such bill would put more money in circula-
tion, and consequently supply the needs of
many home where poverty now exists, and
bring sunshine and happiness; such bill
would be more than q charity, it would he
diery; such bill cannot come too soon, for it
has without doubt been the sentiment of
many patriotic citizens rs well as every sol
der for the last decade; such bill with such
a sentiment back of it, and of such universal
reach in it cannot fail to pass; such a bill will
equalze more than any heretofore passed the
Just deserts of evey soldier; such bill would
soon lessen the expense of the Government in
very many useless appendages; such bill
would have no technicalities, no interpreta-
tions of law attached to it; it would be
straight Just, and understood, with the need
of fewer pension agents and red tape such
bill would treat all alike, giving " honor to
whom honor is due " from the shortest to the
longest term of service; such bill would
place every soldier who bore arms between
1861 and 1865 on the roll Mt n rate equal with
those of previous wars of the Revolution,
1912, and Mexican, the precedence having
been made by act of Congress of March IA,
1871; such q bill alone can satisfy the crying
need of long expectancy and promise. Pass
it, and there will go up shout from one end
of the land to the other equal to that when
the passing Of such bill shall pray. U.
PERsHING, Greensburg, Pa.
T. n. Magill, Little Falls, N Y, says that
any veteran who served two years OF more,
and possesses an honorable discharge, should
have a service pension when he is 80 years
old The rate of pension should increase per
month each year thereafter, and it should not
apply toany present pensioner until the serv-
ice pension would naturally exceed the one
he now receives.