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The National tribune., 1897-12-16
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THE Philadelphia Record is one of
the papers which is wailing over "the
attack of the spoils-hunters on Civil
Service" 1t laments touchingly that
6 at the beginning of every new Admin
istration sweeping removals were made
without regard to the merits and serv-
ices of the incumbents, and with little
knowledge of the efficiency and fitness
of their successors" The grief of the
Record comes little late. 1t had no
tear. to shed four years ago, when Cleve-
land made raid on Union veterans all
over the country, and discharged and
reduced by thousands those who were
among the most efficient public servants
the Government had. 1t saw, without
a groan, some 80 Union veterans of the
best record, both in the field and in
office, discharged from the Mint in its
own city to make room for spoilsmen, of
whose efficiency and fitness" it had no
knowledge whatever. 1t was deaf to
the appeals of the comrades of the dis
charged men for justice, and like the
rest of its kind applauded President
McKinley's remarkable order confirming
the spoilsmen in the places of which
they had defrauded the deserving vet
Grams. The Record is for Civil Service
when Civil Service protects its kind,
and no longer. la;
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On the other hand, the volunteers
have had to go through the most pro-
tracted and harassing litigation this
country has ever known, in order to get
a moiety of their just claims. Every
obstacle has been thrown in their way,
every pretext employed to defeat them.
Whenever veteran has died without
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Lining Up On the Banks of Stone River.

Rain agin to-day" said Shorty, dis
gustedly, rs, on the morning of Dec. 80 1862,
he crawled out OF the shelter which he and
81 had constructed by laying pole in the
crotches of two young cedars and stretching
their ponchos and pup-tents over it. Dog
goned if | don't believe Tennessee was left
out in the flood, and they've been tryin' to
make up for it ever since. I'd rather have
the flood at once, and be done with it, for
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Gen. Boynton says, and this portion
of his article has been widely quoted:

OF Ills drIlcle mas DeeH Wiuely quoteu
g If the pension lists could be printed, every
community in the land would be disguised
with its revelations. Wealthy men in large
numbers would be found upon it. Thousands
would be revealed whose disabilities were only
temporary, and so long since disappeared A
small army of men would be discovered to
whom their pensions are in no sense a neces-
sity. While this state of facts would appear,
it should not be forgotten that there are
men in good circumstances, and many in pub
lie positions of honor and emolument, whose
disabilities and persistent wounds are of a
character for which no pension which the law
provides can even approximately compensate.
At every step they have found themselves
handicapped in the battle of life. For such,
and indeed for all of every rank and position,
through the various grades of disabilities, a
pension is not only as fully proportional to
the needs and deserts of the case as the Gov
eminent can afford, but it is also badge of
honor. To those who are not thus incapaci-
tated for full effort in the struggle of life,
and who do not need it because of the COM
Portable life which they can command with
out it, pension should be badge of
shame'
This is very old and musty straw,
which has been thrashed over every
year for many years. 1t is based upon
the wholly groundless assumption that
there is something about the pension
system which somebody wants to con-
ceal. Nothing could be farther from
the truth. Everyone who has the
slightest right to speak for the pen
sioners has constantly courted-chal-
lenged even-the fullest and freest in
vestigation. Nobody cares how many
lists of pensioners are printed, nor how
much publicity is given them. The
more the better The National En-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic has frequently invited the
fullest investigation. Subordinate sol
der organizations have done the same.
LIE NAllONAL lRi1DNE HAD peItH-
nially challenged the opponents of the
pension system to any form of fair in
vestigation that they could suggest. 1t
has dared the papers who were making
wild charges against the pensioners to
90 to the Pension Agencies in their
cities and take the pensioners as they
came and give the fullest information
concerning them. Not paper has ever
accepted its challenge. In the same
papers in which editorials would appear
filled with calumnies on the pensioners
there would be reportoral items telling
of old soldiers who served their country
honorably and long, who had received
disabling wounds in her defense, dying
in AFFECT poverty, suffering untold mis-
cries because of the unconscionable de-
lays of the Pension Bureau i'll adjudicat-
ing their claims, cutting their throats
and hanging themselves because the
Government had abandoned them in
their hours of direst need.
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This is all that we or any friend of
the veteran have claimed for him. We
have urged that he be treated precisely
as the bondholder was. Certain laws
have been passed recognizing and care
fully defining what are the Nations
obligations to him. Now all that re-
mains is to give him the full and fair
benefit of those laws. The amount of
money required to do so is not germane
to the question. As with the bond
holders, the indebtedness is everything.
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his claim being allowed it has been
regarded as a gain to the Treasury.

No honest, patriotic man ever raised
the objection against the bondholders of
the proportion the money paid them
bore to the total expenditures of the
Government. The only question was
what was due them under an honorable
Interpretation of their contracts. When
this was ascertained then there remained
nothing but to pay them in full and as
quickly as possible, no matter what the
amount might be.
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POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS we're intr

POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS we're intro
duced in England in 1861. The first
day 49, deposits were received. At the
end of the following year there were
1886 Offices receiving deposits, with
nearly s1O,OO0,O00 on hand. In 10
years this had increased to s95, 100000.
Now one out of every seven persons in
the Kingdom is a depositor, and they
have to their credit in the banks over
s400,000,000, besides S32,O0O,000 in
Government bonds. There is an " An
nuity Department !" connected, by which
immediate or deferred annuities can be
purchased on the lives Of persons over
five year. of age. These may be as low
as So year, or as high as $500. A
woman of "a may purchase an annuity
of 50 year, beginning when she is 60.
by paying s1.0S a year, or s26.22 down.
A man at the same age may purchase
an annuity of So a year, to be paid when
he reaches "a, by paying s1.0S year,
or SIC down. A man at 65 can buy an
annuity, to begin Immediately, of So a
year, by paying 1888. A woman at
20 can buy an annuity of So a year, 10
begin at once, by paying s43.54.
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to be broke again-with saw-lOg. Lucky
for old Job that the devil didn't think O.
settin' him to drive mules. He'd "a bin
a-goner in less'n an hour
Dog gone it, there they come," said
Shorty snatching up his gun.
ST looked in the direction of Shorty's glance.
Out of the cedars. q mile or more away burst
a regiment of rebel cavalry, riding straight
for the front Of the train.
With his tribes keen apprehension of dan
saddle, nsrvously unhitched his mule, and
sprung into the saddle again, ready for in
slant flight.
''Get off and hook that mule up again, !"
commanded ST sternly. "Now get on your
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the United States of which $1O,7a6.a7 was

the United States, of which $1O,726.27 was
recovered by eight civil suits.
During the fiscal year there have been:
Recommendations fol. prosecution 242
Arrests of persons 80. ). 81
Indictments found 80. $3.50
Convictions had .t.s. 1877
Sentences imposed .t.ss -. $50
Acguittals p. F.. $50. SO
Cases dismissed on nolle pros. Al
That is, among 975,ooo pensioners,
whose pensions had been granted at
various times over period of 80 years,
there had been 242 cases recommended
for prosecution, in which there were 1877
convictions That is, there were less than
two frauds in every 10000 pensioners.
We can confidently challenge any other
Department of the public expenditures
to make so excellent a showing as this
after so crucial trial.
The National tribune., 1897-12-16

ASSUMING to be true all that has
been said about heiyicious and unde-
sirable elements in the Hawaiian popula-
ton, yet the total can not be so great as
that in any of our large cities, like New
York or Chicago, nor can it be so great
as that which We annually receive in the
way of ordinary immigration. More
over, these bad people are all in sight,
where they can be easily controlled, as
the present Government Of Hawaii has
abundantly shown. Moreover still, there
is not the slightest need Of taking these
directly into the bosom of the body
polite. We should follow England's
example, and give them just such a
Government as suits them.
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CIVIL SERVICE IN CONGRESS.

Already 80 bills have been intro
duced into the House to modify the
Civil Service system, and it is regarded
as certain that some such bill is almost
certain to pass. Representative Pearson,
Of North Carolina, who inaugurated the
movement, and who is at the head of
the Special Committee charged with con-
sidering the bills, says that the essential
notifications Of the law likely to be
embodied in the bill are:
Excluding from the operations of the law
cases i'll which one Government officer is re-
sponsble for the acts of his subordinate, as
Deputy Collectors of Revenue, examination
of those already covered into the classified
service without examination, 50 as to put
them on a footing with new applicants !;
change of examinations so as to make them
more practical and less theoretical distinct
provision against life tenure and for stated
term of service affirmation of the right of
heads of Departments to remove, reduce or
promote in the interest of the public limi-
tation Of the law to specific Departments,
Bureaus, etc, and an exclusion of those not
enumerated
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CHAPTER V.

Copyright. 1897, by the publishers of THE Ma
TfoNAL TRIBUNE.
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ENTERED At WASHINGTON posTOfro1A szoonOoss MATTER
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laugh was the worst of him, and then 1
dismisscd the impression il had made.
II suppose there's a good chance OF
being o,erhauled in Cuban waters?" /
said. lie shrugged his shoulders,
through very slightly, and again he
gave the same curious chucltle. as h. re-
piled. carclossly: "Oh. ] guess there's
risks. Most Of us are paid for that,
rcckop. Anyhow, YOU can make your
self comfortable in the meantime-well
not sight Spaniard for thirty-six
hours"
''ln that ease. ! think I'll 20 below"
said 1. IL should like 10 see all there is
10 he seen when the time comes"
"Ali right, sir I'll see you get the
chance. and you'll be all the more fit
If you ;rrn In now"
, went below. and. making the best of
things found my way TO the stuffy lit
tlo berth pointed ont TO me by the black
steward
Our voyage was pleasant for the next
two days. and improved my acquain-
tor g with my original companion,
- hC tCCulll NlrcO f4fu. me position
OF second officer on beard the Enter
prize. lie was, found. excellent com
p=ny. rrd had the additional rocor-
n crdation that he knew many pcopleand
places in and about Havana that were
familiar 20 me. lie also inew the coast
veil. and I more than suspected shat IL
was rather or this account. than M.
oihcr. ;iat he occupied bis present po-
sstior on hoard. lie sccmcd well dis
rcrcd 20 cultivate my acquaintance. and
talked very frankly 10 r,c IN RETURN
c.d it Was frofa him lrarrcd tha. re
,eerr ~'yiEr all the islands wide berth.
intending 20 reach the southeastern
cosst CT Cuba ns II from Jamaica. This.
Ct course. meant longer trip, but for
some reason II seemed 10 be preferred
by sho-e in charge.
II vas on tho third Gay out. and the
ksforfcoa was wcii advErcci. wien my
Sr.eaa Thompson tod nc TIA. at last
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round to the motion of the helm; we
were entering the bay. W.
At that moment il came! There was
guicl. flash through the mist ahead,
aa5 then a loud roar that swelled and
rolled in long reverberations against
the face of the hills-it was a cannon.
A qticf order in the captains hoarse
voice was followed by the reverse ac-
tion Of the screw, as we strove 10 stop
her way. A few moments of intense,
wild expectation. and then another
vivid flash, followed by another re-
cchoing roar, and it seemed TO me as
/ strained my eyes that / could see
through the darkness the outline of q
large vessel, with lofty nasts and tow
ering sides, forging slowly ahead out
OF the shadow. Not an instant was
lest. The Enterprise swung round ST.
lently In the direction opposite 10 that
IN which had seen that shadow, and
again the quick throb Of the screw told
that we we're making for the open sea
in preference TO facing the guns of a
Spanish man-of-war. Til then / had
forgotten the storm. The greater and
more unexpected danger had banished
the other-at least, for the moment. My
eyes, and l suppose the eyes of every
other soul on board, were watching
eagerly for the next flash. or the APP
pearance Of our Spanish enemy. 1t
came at last; this time, not one, but
t1ree, and with the roar there was
tps ,1 hot A. 81
us, indeed, but made me shrink in
stinctively at my first experience OF
war.
Nothing had struck us, however, and
we rushed painting on our course. An
other minute, and we emerged from the
shelter of the wooded point which
Thompson had told me would enable
us TO lie sung while we discharged, even
il il blew half a hurricane. 1t was do
ing that now, / thought, as we were
caught in the fierce sweep of the wind,
and in moment had exchanged one
hind of danger for another. The storm
hal come up during the few minutes we
had been in shelter, md already we
were in the midst of confusion of
seething, leaping waves. that rose as IL
by magic. The vessel faced IL bravely,
but / did not believe that she could
make much progress. The wind rushed
bowling across the deck and mGmentar-
lily swept sheets of spray over every
thing. i stood and held on by the
staunchion, but nearly everybody else
took refuge below. And so il went on.
For time, we had heard the reports
OF the cannon, but they had died away
behind us. or were lost in the roar OF
wind and sea around. Still we strug-
glcd on. We must have been battling
for hours against wind and sea, though
no doubt my fancy exaggerated the
time. when suddenly there rose out OF
the cloud in front n threatening shad-
ow. Could it he land?
At the very moment when I saw il
dark figure crept along the deck under
the shelter OF the bulvark. and I recog-
nized Thompson. pointed 10 the black
shadow ahead, but did not try to speak.
as IL seemed useless In the riot of the
storm. lie stopped beside me; he put
his lips TO my ear and shouted the
words:"Only five minutes more-stick
close TO mel" I understood him.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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RHEUMATIC G0UT.
What a Scientific Nan Says
About It.


The PuritGua Compound Co..
Col'cord, N. Ii. et
Gcntlemen:
The Puritana treatment forwarded by
you on the 10th utmo was duly re-
ceived for which many thanks.
The ailment for which it was used
was rheumatigm. or. more properly:
rheumatic gout. the sequence of long
standing liver trouble.
The Purltana treatment has now been
used for two weeks. and the most satis-
factory results have followed. Complete
determination OF the torture which
marks tho ailment, has not yet taken
place. for the period OF the treatment is.
of course. too brief for that, but the effect
OF this short trial is so full OF promise
OF this short trial is so full OF promise, in
the immunity that has already taken
place from the terrible aches and pains,
that I cannot refrain from expressing
my deepest gratitude 10 Puritana.
I shall continue the treatment, conf
dent that II will accomplish thorough
cure. and will write you later as to final
results.
In the mean time. for the blessed relief
II has already afforded, my sincere and
appreclatlve thanks are given. have
tried twenty different remedies. but until
tried Puritaua relief was wanting.
Very sincerely yours.
(Signed) +. NJ. CLOSE. d. Sc,
Staff Writer. San Francisco Call,
Scientific Department.
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River
GEO. l. CONNER. AC KENDALL
Pss'r Tranic Manager. Genr PassI Agent
Il. O. ALLEN. Genl supt
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sea, ard MS / did so turned always
more anNiously 10 the shadowy coast on
which we were rushing at spch head
long pace. Yes, we should reach IL
now. Even in that gray bali light tIie
high land was taking form and sub
siancc-we could h0t DC Iar OFT. Md
now an order was gwen. ard suddenly
1 realized that our speed was dying
away Il wos just then felt the first
uf The storm. Il cauc with quicb
gust on my check, ard q. tho same mo-
incnt there was new tone into tho
wird. IL had been a moan. so far. but
now IL wcs rising to o roar, though its
strength had not coached US yet
thank heaven l felt the sbip swing