The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-09-12
MEAN AND YILLAINOUS,
Tho Iowa State Register Thus Characterizes
an Attack Upon the Pensioners.

an Attack Upon the Pensioners.
Tho Chicago Tribune had a vicious edi-
torial apropos OF the article in the Forum
dictated by Commissioner Evans, and the
Iowa State Register answers it in this
square, vigorous fashion:
1.-THE Tribune appears to have a space
writer who is attempting to ape tho no.
toriety gained by the Chicago Times dur
ing the days the crazed Story was berRt-
ing the coffee coolers Of Shiloh, because
the National Government was giving their
services and injuries proper recognition
but the Tribune editorial is meaner. more
villainous and has more of talsehood in
regard to the disabled veterans than any
article that ever appeared in the Chicago
! Times. The Register strikes the author
Of the Tribune editorial sQuarely across
the face with challenge to produce proof
that will sustain any of the charges made
therein. 1t is true that there have been
very few cases in which the Govern
ment has been wronged by men who have
some OF the apparent characteristics OF
the Tribune's editorial space writer, who
wrote: Repetition Of the plain facts may
IL time stir Congress to amend the pen
sion system so as to check rather than
encourage frauds? That vile statement is
only in keeping with the the Govern
ment does not protect itself to any ada
quate extent the lawyers practically
run the pension business there are now
oOOOO men making a living from procur-
ing PENSIONS and that, too, notwithstand-
ing but 44,225 pension claims were al
lowed during the year ending the Both
Of June last.
THE attack upon the Examining Sur
geons is equally false and villainous-all
of whom arc charged with recommending
pensions for comrades who are not known
TO the local Examining Surgeons, and if
they resist deception the local sentiment
is against themP The people, who know
the disabled comrades and have knowl-
edge of their service, are thus condemned
by the Tribune'S space writer, who has
come forward in this later day to malign
the disabled veterans of the Nation with
every imaginable falsehood that his devil
ish cunning can devise. The widows and
orphans of the deceased comrades are also
Woihshly assailed, and the catalogue Of
the dishonest and undeserving is so large
as to threaten to make the pension list
no longer roll of honorp Yet the scoun-
drel who wrote that editorial cannot name
single instance III which his vile charges
are sustained by soldier of his own &C
Quaintance.
The assertion that there are now so.
OOO men making living from procuring
pensions IS disproyed by the fact that
the tension Commissioners report for the
year ending June 80, 1901, shows that
only 44,225 claims were allowed during
the year, and as the pension attorneys
cannot charge exceeding $40 for procur-
ing the allowance of pension claim, it IS
seen that the 10000 men made a living
on less than 50 each during the fiscal
year just closedl All the other asser-
tons made in the Tribune editorial are
false and vicious and the veteran
should promptly and unitedly
ask the Tribune to attempt to prove the
false and villainous assertions of its space
writer, or make proper apology to those
whose heroic services saved the life of the
Nation"