Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-13

The nti-pensiou junto that got posses
sion of the launching of the pension depart
ment at the Inauguration of the Mckinley
administration, started out to do" the
pension claimants. A more perfect and
complete Job never followed a general plan
than Evans has put up in the pension
bureau since his selection for the JOB"
now over FIVE years ago. Take his FIVE
annual reports and you will see the viper in
almost every page. Every one of his annual
reports falsely attacks the whole pension
system for the purpose of discrediting pen
sions, pension claimants, witnesses, physi-
clans and attorneys, and for pushing the
Southern schoolbook propaganda. Those
reports constitute the most shameless docu-
ments ever issued by any government in the
world. Any candid person would pronounce
the writer daft or a vile crank. If you
should accept his statements as true you
would unhesitatingly say that the pension
laws should be repealed and the pension
bureau closed. But you would at once
see that the wholesale attack on pensions
was based on a few garbled cases selected
by his experts in the Office at his command
out of million of claims. The annual reports
are not written by Evans. He has them
blocked out by his sycophants in the Office
who are experts. They put nearly years
work searching matter for his last You
will see that the wholesale state ments are
not possible to have been known, and there
fore statements made without knowledge
and hence positive falsehoods for a given
purpose. These experts devoted nearly a
whole years work in garbling a few ex-
tracts for Evans last attack on pensions and
the Civil War veterans. DR.. Raub, the
medical referee, should be unceTe moniously
dismissed for his part in the performance
against claimants and physicians. II is a
most brutal Justification of the facts, aud
has been repeated in former reports. Con-
gress owes il to the veterans and physicians
and to history to have ali those 500, 900 med
ical examinations published in full, omit
ting the names. Evans fights any examin-
alton or investigation He don't want that.
He is now trying to play the role of injured
innocence. If, as the President and certain
M C.'s claim, Evans deserves promo
ton" for his good work in the Pension
Office" an investigation by a regular Con
gressional Committee would be the very
thing to disprove the alleged slanders Of
the veterans against Evans. The fact that
no such investigation will be permitted by
Evans Hitchcock, the President, or the
leaders in Congress is conclusive proof OF
the insincerity of their pretensions and Of
their guilty knowledge. The veterans are
not fools.
Pension Commissioner Evans is out in
articles in the daily newspapers repeating
his stale falsehoods that the veterans are
not complaining of him and his course
in the Bureau, but that it is all from
the pension attorneys Every gathering Of
old soldiers convicts him of falsehood in
these advertisements. Their complaints
are crying up to heaven against him.
There is a teaching in mental philosophy
TO the effect that a man may become so
habituated to fasehood that he cannot tell
the truth or cannot trust himself 10 tell the
truth For thirty years Evans has been
slandering the veterans and falsifying the
facts, shouting pension frauds, pension
sharks, pension attorneys He has become
so unbalanced that his mind and conscience
have become corrupted on the subject. This
has contaminated his truthfulness on all
subjects. Take his broad statements against
pensioners and claimants, that they have
been induced by attorneys" to file false
claims, intending 10 be understood and to
charge that the majority Of the claims are
fraudulent. An official, to make such a
statement in his annual report, states what
he does not know and cannot possibly have
any knowledge Of among 100000 claims.
1t was intended as bold falsehood for bad
purpose.
Take his bold advertising himself for an
ambassadorship or foreign diplomat, as
highly accomplished and equipped for the
place. What shall we say Of a man who has
'ciphered" only over to the double rule of
three in the common school arithmetic
r.-f.l IL. =.
quiring scholarship and a high sense of
honor and truthfulness? What sorry
plight the United States would make should
he succeed in advertising himself into the
place Of the classical and accomplished
Storer and Porter at the Court Of Spain,
one of the most exact courts in all Europe,
where distinguished scholars represent the
several nations and constitute the diplo-
matte corps Evans accom- plishment con-
sists in writing fancy hand with hourishes
such as you see written at portable tables
where some young genius is writing cards
al the street corners for sight-seers who
visit Washington, while they wait What
shall we say of the truthfulness of such
man who advertises himself as equipped for
a foreign missionl What shall we say of the
truthfulness Of such man who advertises
himself as about to be appointed ambassa-
dor to Mexico, and as having been a candi-
date for the ice-Presidency, and other
places, pretending that position in the
Cabinet Is Just at hand. The ex-slave voters
have turned his head. What shall we say
Of the attack on Ambassador Clayton by
such man with the view of causing the
downfall of the ambassador and himself
substituted
We are aware of the self made men Of
education whom the United States delights
10 honor but they we're not of the mush-
room order coming up through the ex-slave
voters of the south. They were men OF
achievements and high sense of honoF
we'll trained in laborious and learned pro-
fessions. There are our Greelys, our Lin
coins and host of others whose names and
fame are imDerishable. They represented
true American character and possibilities.
Those men we're not Of the snide order.
Their official acts were not bundle Of
falsehoods.
Take Evans statements in his annual re-