The National tribune., 1900-09-20
FROM MAINE.
An Emphatic and Unanimous Protest Prom
One of the Largest Posts in the STATE.

Burnside Post, No. At, Department of
Maine, G. A. r., ut its meeting of July
is, 1900, instructed its Adjutant to pre-
pare resolutions condemnatory of II. Clay
Evans as Commissioner of Pensions and
present the same for the consideration of
the Post at its next meeting, to be held
on July %, and ,on that date the follow
ing was presented: ,sr
Whereas, 1t having come to pass that
in the administration Of the business of
the Pension Bureau. under its present
head, the policy followed is one of inJus-
tice and wrong, the plain intent of the
pension laws disrcgarded, misconstrucd
and deliberately misapplied; the ingenuity
of the skillful and Inscriptions advocate
eXerted TO throw small, even contempt
BILE obstacles, maSniiied and enlarged into
prohibltive proportions, in the way of do
ing justice, under the laws, to those who,
at the call of their Nation, in its des-
perate need, placed their aall of physical
and mental powers at the Nations ser
vice; sacrificed their material prospects,
and more, the prospects and welfare Of
their wives and children, entailinS upon
their wives lifetime of care and anxiety;
upon their children not only the loss Of
education and training to enable them to
fight the battle of life. but an inheritance
of disease and pain. That the violation
of promises made and reiterated over and
food for powder"-was made necessary by
the progress of the War of Secession, is
not only doing n shameful injustice to the
survivors of that war, but is causing 4
tremendous loss to the Nation, in the loss
OF faith in the disposition Of the Nation
to keep its agreements, and, moreover, IN
the expressed feeling becoming general i'll
our midst that he who is patriotic in any
thing more than words is n fool. Seeing
tiesc things the 200 members of Burnside
Post, No. AZ, Department of Maine, q. A.
X, men of Il State which sent more than
One-third of its men capable of military
service into the armies of the United
States during the four years from 1861 to
| 20, do now
Resolve, That the retention of II. Clay
Evans as Commissioner of Pensions is an
insult to every man who entered the mil
itary service of the Nation, and is tend
ing to destroy all patriotism of the kind
which has value when the Nation has
need; causes loss of faith in our govern
mental system, and teaches our people
that love of country as shown by deeds
is to be condemned, and receives no APP
probation or recognition when perilS are
past; teaches our women that the sacri-
flee of loved ones to the need of our coun-
try Is contemplate, and causes them to
bring up their children to believe that pa
triotic action on their part, if the Nation
should need, would only be a submission
to wrongs sure to follow, utterly idiotic
aud sure of condemnation when the Ma
ton should cease to need their services.
Resolved, That the interests of the Ma
ton would be promoted by the prompt
removal of ii. Clay Evans from the po-
sition OF Commissioner of Pensions, and
that the pension laws, like all other laws,
be executed according to the intention of
Congress as shown, during their passage,
by the debates thereon.
And it was
Voted, That the resolutions be adopted
as read, and copies be sent to President
William Mckinley, Congressman Charles
Il. Littlefeld, and to The National Trib-
| une, of Washington, u. c., for publica-
ton.
T.. A. LoTHRoP, Post Commander.
GEO. G. CLIFFORD, Post Adjutant.
Auburn, Me-