The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-02-24

a great injustice, which is likely to cause
untold misery to thosej in poverty who are
knocking at the door OF the Pension Blu
reau.'
Should BE Restored.
Mai. L. Thompson. Nandalia, H., be
llevcS all veterans should he treated con
siStentiy. Lochren reversed Raum S ruI-
ing that disabilities could be combined to
| make pensionableGTate, and large
| number Of pensiOners9were reduced or lost
! their pensions entirely. Mai. Thompson
| says: These shoukli he restored to the
rolls, or other veterans who arc drawing
pensions for combined disabilities should
| he reduced or dropped. / am an old sol
| der, but not a pensiener: not because do
! not deserve it, but ! can live without it,
and will leave it to some more needy COM
rade."
| In Fnvor Of Per Diem Pension.
B. +. Cramp, Co C, 10th Pa. Reserves,
| Cold EarbOr Va, thinks the present pen
sion appropriation Of S1i0 600 900 ample, II
properly distributed among the veterans.
! He says: Instead of a pensioner who
served 30 days receiving the same as a
! man who served three years, why not
grant per diem pension? If Il man who
receives 500 per year is as much disabled
| as a man who receives 81 900, why is this
| discrimination? Is not the blood the for
| mcr shed in the same cause and to main
! tain the same principles, equally valu-
! able?'
-. 4. Taylor, Oakland, Ctfl-, DtlicNcS INC
! act of June, 1890, should be repealed and
| Il per diem service pension granted.
a pension. he thinks, should be based on
| record and length of service rather than
on disability. He gives an instance in MS
regiment where soldier who did little
service is receiving $40, while one OF the
| bravest and most faithful, with his thigh
| broken and badly crippled, is getting only
Sl2.
Where Were They?
VIM. II. Bennett, list Pa, Souderton,
Pa: Il enjoy reading your paper and look
forward TO its arrival with pleasure. The
penSion-haterS are saying that more names
| are being carried on the pension rolls than
there were men in the service at any one
time. | would like to know what these
pension howlerS were doing from 1851 to
1855. | know Of some who hulte q up
money to pay substitutes. They give no
excuse for staying at home, but some OF
them are rich to-day, while their neighbors
who enlisted are physical wrecks and
often needy
Those Open Letters.
Joseph Ferry, Co. d, lSSih N. Y, Middle
River Iowa, writes: please allow me to
congratulate you on your open letters to
the Commissioner OF Pensions. All have
TO say to that is Amen"
"a Subscriber" East liverpool o.,
writes: II desire 10 commend your course
in demanding OF the Commissioner OF Pen
sions the protection and defense you are
making for the veterans and their widows. |
Your course is meeting with the hearty |
approval and Endorsement of all comrades |
in our city and the country around us.
E. L. Cough, Co. II, 18th Mo, Jerico, Mo-,
writes: Your open letters are read and |
appreciated by the loyal veterans OF Mis- |
souri,. Many soldiers are receiving pen |
SiOnS, but there is q large class OF non |
pensionabe veterans. Why not set aside |
land in the Indian Territory for these, as |
many are without homes"
r. T. Homan, Sergeant, Co. D, 9th n. j., |
Glassboro, N. j.: your honest and able, |
letters hit the nail on the head. They are |
Just what the veterans demand. If there
is fraud, we demand "a full Investigation.
1t is due us and the Government we fought |
to defend"
Give All the Facts.
W. f. Webster. Hammondsport, n. Y:
81 am in favor Of publishing the pension
roll but want every name, and when they
come to one who has been cut down let
them tell it, and give the name of the man
who reported him."
support Only Yonr Friends.
Silver Leaves" Escomb, Iowa, i'm the
course of a lengthy communication, makes
the following appeal: Comrades, lay aside
politics and parties and support no man
for any Office who is not our true and fast
friend, and who will at all times talk, act
and vote for our interests against unjust
who will at all times sup
port us in keeping our pensions, honestly
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Could Not BE Done Too Soon.
l.. M. Call1ins, Co. b, 18th Iowa, Hastings,
Web, says: IL am one Of the loyal men of
his country. My leg is anlputated at the
high, by reason OF gunShOt wound at
Belmont, Mo, in '61, and I should like =,
o see each and every Union soldier hold
ng an honorable discharge speedily pen t
ioned. l say this cannot be done too T
oon." v
Unfufiiied Promises.
Adam Butcher, Co. G, 133d Pa, Tobias, l
Ieb., commenting on the injustice that !
las been done to veterans, says: "The !,
country may see the time when soldiers 8
will be needed. And the question is, will
he young men of that day be as ready to
espond as we were from '61 to go 1t =
ccurs to me that some may say: Il re-
member hearing my father say that the :.
Government promised if he took up arms !!
n defense of his country and became dis :, !.
bled for the performance OF manual labor,
II lost q limb the Government would make | :
nipple provision for him. He became SO !.
disabled in his old age, and the Govern !.
nent that ne defended allowed him to die !,
n destitute circumstances. !.
Miscellaneous. +
Orion 3. Stone, Co. f, list Pa. Rifles | n
riverside, N Y. II hope the Commits r.
Toner will show the loyalty and courage h
D-day that the Federal volunteers did in G
he days of 81" V
b. w. Wilson, Kalkaska, Mich, is OPP s
Osed to paying pensioners 20 years in o
dvance, as proposed by indianapolis, Ind, Il
eterans. He thinks the money would not {,
e sufficient to start each soldier in bust S
less for himself and when the pension N
money had been spent they would be in t
worse condition than now. e.
+. j. NJ. Titus, Corporal, CO. f, 18th Ind.
,av., .Joelton, Tenn, thinks there are too d
nany lying reports sent in by special ex- n
miners and would have heavy penalty a
ttached to such reports, land at the a
ption of the soldier to call for investiga- a
ion, the Government to furnish the sol 81
iers attorneys to defend them" a.
J. S. Maxwell, Enterprise, Ore, says thai Il
'ere his old cavalry instructor living he a
yould say, charge! boys, into that nest of q
opperheads that we thought were all
cad" but that now the charge must be
,adc with pen and ink, instead of carbine o
aber or revolver. X
Henry Embee, McCracken, Kan, writes dl
he editor Il have read your letter about II
and tho soldiers pensions, NJ
nd do herewith ask, God to aid you and G.
our paper, and bless yoll and it," s.
q. S. Anderson, Col ID, S7th Pa. Ross
lille, Pa, writes, in part: Shame on you. pi
ensiOn shriekers! You are not worthy Of lie
Government under which to live, saved | al
y the men who stood between your