The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-30

aVe u they II
= 100. 900 that w i
in 1898 for pensIons
We collect nearly
IN revenues, which NJ. ~
struct every reason 4 "a
etc. but that nearly
out to pensions.
1t is well known IN.
q year to pensioners I,
pays to support that
terror Of the world. ~
ooo,ooo as against sd,
we pay $4,000, ooo \, Ii ~
army. go y ~
Our pensions cost . . v. ~
armies OF England ant N
Not long ago a womss
a remembrance Of her'
Instability incurred il ~
oana had been a tioatlus
continued in the sersl0s
'ne war and never reosIy. 4
hiia, and his only de- u
which he continued q drl' p
zen years after the war nv q
now applies for the n...s, II hi
OF tne house as dead ~! \
uustrious'y working fhrc n
to have his demise etsditsS 4 =
herself supported by fbs
Along the line Of ~ !. Il,
s tne war was in part fSurs ~
nersbirg, Pa, to VlrsIrIs
Alabama, nearly everys,
ana earned more mcray ,ss u
obtained in private AZ q: !: K
pension list or bound h
sisters. his cousins aed N Al
Among these persons !
a stonemason, who conf ~
weighing $50 pounds "a Al " 4
breast bone. As he ssemss !
about working, asked AZ ~
why he did not like nv
.oh, he don't want q ~. Il
know. he gets a peusjo, NJ
around home and reads a.
Was he wounded N In ~
Il think he was ruptured q Ok
In or after the war;" u ~
Another mountaineer III Z q
don't John Jones get d pepalst
else around the mountain re T.
wasn't wounded. but nelfas 2
Others"
Governor Ames OF Massaeau1si'
a few years ago that a Ii. ~,
his, who was physically abb i Il
hard work around his place
81 -.
the special legislation q I'M ~
which everybody in town ~ y.
and a fraud. Thereupon IL s1
the Reed and Mckinley conerI :
chusetts. NJ 10
A singular picture Il prwe,
Confederate army which spas,1l
the numbers of the gedsiai ~
ing not one cent for their 4ss.d
ablings In the war.
John Allen told me that u
Mississippi had large penla
Northern settlers, most Of Nh
able to emigrate and to WIT N
however, takes care Of III II
various ways without chafying 4
the public, while we ars pgil
a year to foreigners who In
us Federal pensioners, xhitA I
more than the entire Sodsh IN
port its veterans.
The present number Of ~
for pensions approaches 1stMl
five years ago we only pail tx
pensions, and then General eH
that the number would ssvsf
From 23S,O0O pensioners 4 ~
spite of 321 900 deaths, The u X
to $4,000 survivors, which i
G400 more than the real suFaH
whole war.
We have paid In tie last ~
over two thousand million doaan
sions, and have only cncoufsp
versal system of perjury. forss5
and dishonesty. eAs
How can this terrible inhiVQeS
duced?
The president wss a prlyaN
the war. The speaker Of tonq
paymaster's asst ,Iant n ue "
any Northern congressman q y
Grafton is willing TO make 2
Iifice to save the country lron :
The evil can be reached y "
ment OF a fierce and inQulas1
sioner of pensions, who VII Il
Tertiary for those VITO nave = = !!
positions.
1t is the general opinion ~
should be paying $75,0oe, W.
sious we should be payl
enough, and this would ssve
900 per annum. IL .si
1t seems that Of mom ~
alleged survivors Of the VI
So, 600 were engaged IN e.
years ago. In agriculture, ...-
ing 421 900 persons were gesg
besides drawing pensions, y
sional classes $1,000 were o's ~
and working. among them n
and over 5000 lawyers. ~ ~
were physical laborers' "
sions. $4,000 we're driving q
were stonemasons and eo,W
If there is such a thing =
in this Nation as opposed =
it is easily in the power
cut the pension aggregate ~
figure and adjust the rlum'e
ers to it. .,e
Probably in no other ~ ~,
could pensioners ~
the government constitu's
to deplete its treasury: . .,..s1
Not long ago the CHEZ 4 frt
In Washington died WHO .ssb
which he employed to ne I, III ~
up the soldiers to have =
attended to by the gove'a VA
large requests to famins jsSIl
used to assist his pens'0an, 80
though he captured ne ., : ~
there still ex st.ssxa
.xaratn0