davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The National tribune., 1902-10-09
D1srR1Bur1ox OF PENSION MONEY.

| To hear the pension -haters talk, it
would seem as if the money paid out for
pensions is absolutely wasted. devoured-
of no good to anyone but the pensioners.
who are living at the expense of the tax
payers.
OF course this is absurd to any think
ing man, but the pension-haters address
themselves to men who cannot or will
not think on the subject.
| Substantially every dollar paid out for
pensions remains in this country.
1t is distributed in the most general and
impartial way that could be contrived,
over the whole country, so that every
citizen, even in the most remote districts,
shall get his proportion of it as it passes
out of the hands of the pensioners in pur-
chases from their neghbors of the neces-
saries of life.
Within a very few days of any pension
payment every dollar of the money is in
active circulation in the communities
where the pensioners reside, and every
dollar has done the work of $100 in set
Ting accounts, paying bills. and promoting
quick, active movement in the veins of
business. No other payments made by
the Government-or from any other
beneficial effects upon the business of
every section of the country. Not dol
lar is boarded, as in the case Of other
large disbursements. On the contrary,
there is only too much reason for the
speedy out-payment for that of which the
pensioners have need from day to day.
The grocer. the baker, the butcher, the
feed dealer. and druggist, each takes the
ready money which comes from the pen
sioner to square his own accounts and
meet his bills. In this way each dol
lar paid out for pensions in any small
community may do the work of 500 in
passing from hand to hand before being
gathered up again for remittance to New
York. or some other great money center.
There can be no question that the reg
ular quarterly payment of S35.OOO,OOo III
small payments distributed with impartial
hand all over the country, to the smallest
and most remote villages, is the greatest
possible regulator and invigorator Of the
business currents, and do incalculabie
good in promoting the general prosperity.
Something like it is absolutely essential
to business health The Secretary Of the
Treasury was recently called upon to take
extraordinary steps to relieve the conges-
ton of money in the financial centers.
This need would come much oftener and
be much more acute were it not for the
S13S. .O0O, 900 which the Government yearly
returns to the whole people through the
medium of pension payments. To illus
trate where this money goes take the fol-
lowing table from the Commissioner OF
Pensions report showing the number OF
pensioners in each State, and the amount
annually paid them:
Statement showing the number of pensioners
in each State and Territory of the United
States, each insular possession, and each
foreign country on the rolls June 30. 1907
and the amount paid for pensions during
the fiscal year 1902 in each State and Ter
ritory, each insular possession, and each
foreign country.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

THE Standard Oil is building railway
from Norfolk to the tip end of Cape
Henry, where there is n harbor with GO
foot water, with the intention of building
up big new port. Over on the other
gatepost of the Chesapeake, Cape Charles,
Pennsylvania branch gives direct COM
munication with Philadelphia and New
York. Taking these two lines together.
they will probably be made new north
and south route. At present all the trade
of the region between the AlIeghanies and
the sea coast passes over a single bridge
at Washington, owned by the Pennsyl-
vania-the famous "Long Bridge" There
is no other railway bridge east of Cumber-
land and half dozen through lines Of
railway in the coast and Piedmont cOun-
try nse this cross-over. The Pennsylvania
has pretty near riveted cinch south of
Philadelphia.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

In humorous contrast with Colombia's
solemn dickering in Washington for a
guarantee of her Sovereignty over the
Isthmus of Panama, come these stories OF
the way we are preserving the neutrali.
ty" of the Panama Railway. One of
Casey's marines has just refused to let the
"Commander-in-C of the Province OF
Colon" ride on train, because he couldn't
show permission from the Admiral. Or
ders were stringent not to allow any Co
Iombian soldiers to travel, even unarmed,
without the permission of the American
Commanding officer" Colombia hasn't
enough sovereignty to worry over.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

PRESIDENT RoOsEvELT's doctors have
prescribed week or 10 days of compare
tive quiet for him; only imperative matters
to be brought before him. They report
his condition as satisfactory and rapidly
gaining. but the coal strike conference was
quite a strain on him, and to avoid posi-
BILE setbacks they have ordered semi-seclu-
sion for a few days. The President enter
ed into the strike conference heart and
soul, as is his wont with everything he
takes up. and this hearty habit Of his
makes it difficult for him to go through
these weeks of invalidism and enforced
quiet.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

1T SEEMS the latest automobile acci-
dents are due to the noise of the machine
frightening horses; accidents due to the
machine itself or the lack of skill of the
driver are decreasing in number. In sey-
eral Of the big cities there are suits against
automobile drivers for sums ranging from
$25,OO0 to $4,000 for accidents where
horses were scarced by the machines
noise and proceeded to wreck things. The
question arises as to whether the auto
mobile driver can be held responsible $50
900 worth fer accidents due to a horses
nerves, or whether men who drive hysteri.
cal, uncomfortable beasts through the
public streets are not themselves respon.
sible for damage done. In other words.
must the traffic of a modern city's streets
be limited to the comprehension of horse
or must the horse go or keep his nerves
steady when bicycles whirl, automobiles
chug and flying machines float along be.
hind, beside and over him?
The horse objected to the bicycle and
tried to get legal protection to keep the
flying two wheels from soaring him. Now
he registers protest against the automo-
bile. He will probably demonstrate 10
years from now, VIXEN flying machines,
like big electric light bugs, drop from the
sky to beside or in front of him. Inven-
ton goes right along. automobiles have
their rights and il flying machines are to
come, they will come and the horse will
have to get used to rival carriers or 20.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09
veterans In the City.

Comrade Thomas NJ. Fisher. who served
in the I'd Pa, 19Oth Pa, and 23d U. s.,
was in the city last week on business. He
is Chinese Inspector at Seattle. Washing
ton. He is Past Department Commander
of Colorado and Wyoming.
Among the 18th Ind. men arriving early
in Washington to attend the Encampment
were Frank Anthony and C. w. Cook,
both of Co. C. Their homes are in
Arthur. Wis.
Comrade Frederick w. Fout, of st.
Louis, No.. was in the city last week
attending the National Encampment. He
also visited Baltimore, Philadelphia, and
New York. Comrade Fout served in the
7th Ind, three months regiment, and
later was commissioned officer in the
18th Ind Battery. Comrade Fout says
that everything is favorable for the Re
publicans in st. Louis, sud than three
Republican Congressman will be elected
this Fall. The Republicans now have
two Congressman from that city.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

TALKING about oppressed and needy
tropical countries, maybe we ought to hand
out little reciprocity pie to Mexico and
Brazil. The chemists are making vanilline
from oil of cloves at price with which
raisers OF vanilla beans cannot compete,
and they are making coumarine with
which to adulterate the vanilline, still
cheaper, which throws the tonka bean pro-
ducers on the junk heap. All the vanilla
extracts are now made from these artificial
chemicals; the more expensive from vanil-
line and the cheaper from coumarine
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

WHEN it comes to the crucial moment,
it is discovered that the President of the
United States has power to do whatever
is necessary. 1t does no harm to discuss
the written definitions of the presidential
power, but in actual fact he can do what
ever has to be done. Upheld by the sense
of right of the Nation, his power is un-
limited. A crisis always has proved that
our laws and precedents are elastic enough
to allow of the master stroke which sets
the wrong right and maintains the Gov
ernment of the people by the people, and
for the people.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

TAKING lesson from the stock natural
history yarn about the gaudy stripes of
the tiger making him invisible among the
sere and saffron-colored cane of the jungle.
the British army is painting its field pieces,
guns and carriages, with blOtches of blue
and red and yellow. They blend into the
scenery, and a battery cannot be distin-
guished at 1000 yards, even with field
glasses,
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

II HAS been officially stated that there
are 400 trusts in Germany, and it would
not surprise any one to hear that En-
peror William Hohenzollern has gone cru
sading against them singlehanded to show
the world how.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

AND year or two ago David B. Hill
was wildly excited over the Socialism OF
an income tax, and now he clubs the
Saratoga Convention into recommending
condemnation of the anthracite mines by
eminent domain" and Government owner
ship. That is one of the pet pIanks Of the
Socialists.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

DEATH VALLEY is a great many kinds
of unpleasant place, all different and all
dry and disagreeable but it isn't too much
so TO be the base of supplies of a flourish
ing, healthy octopus. using as much wa
ter in its business as most of the other
some years the valley has been furnishing
enormous quantities of boraX; enough to
dominate the market. Now there are re-
ported large nitrate deposits and half n
dozen parties of .prospectOrs are threading
it in all directions-it takes more than
climate to discourage a Western prospec-
tor, you know. If the discoveries are as
alleged. it means trouble for another of
the octopus brood, the British nitrate
trust, of which the late Col North used to
be head. North will be remembered as a
in a lot of money entertaining the Prince
Of Wales. He had plenty more where it
came from. All the worlds supply was
then-and is now furnished by the inter
beds in Chile-they used to be in Peru,
but Chile expanded to cover them at the
end of a nasty little predatory war which
left South America as full of bad feeling
as can of sardines is of sardines At
one stroke, Peru was changed from n rich
country into n poor one while Chile has
been fattenins ever since on the incre-
ment. The deposits pay most of her ex
penses and leave enough profits over to
gladden. the London trust. and finally get
to the American. farmer, powder maker
and chemical manufacturer Mt price just
low enough to prevent the competition of
the Old-fashioncd processes for making
saltpeter from chamber-lye and manure;
processes most of the veterans remember
as in use before the war. The Chilean
beds are found in the Tarapaca Desert,
rainless arid, scorchng region very like
Death Valley; sort of Summer resort for
Hades. Chile saltpeter is not exactly the
kind of inter that is used directly for max
ing gunpowder, but requires n chemical
conversion into the ordinary kind: it is a
nitrate of soda instead of nitrate of pot
ash. But for the purposes of farmers and
chemists it is used as it comes. Cheap
nitrate from Death Valley would mean a
great deal to truck farmers, nitrate being
one of tie best manures known. In spite
of its great cost, the chemical furnished by
the London syndicate is extensively used
in the Eastern States
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

BORIS, the Russian Duke, says that
Newport society is too strenuous to be
aristocratic; it makes too much work of
amusing itself; it lacks repose, says this
critic. Someone else says it lacks morals,
someone else that it is too yorIng. The
truth is that Newport is no better and no
worse than the idle rich set the world over.
II it had not already been said so patty,
the proyerb, Satan always finds some
mischief for idle hands to do," would have
to be invented. If breyity were not the
soul of proverbs it would be well to add
something about the extra facility for mis-
chief when unlimited dollars are added to
the idleness. Idleness always rots. There
is no room in the natural or social economy
for the idle except to rot away and make
soil for the working life.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

REITZ. who used to be Secretary Of
State for the Transvaal, and is now leader
of the unreconstructed Beers, has come
over to this country to make living on
the lecture platform as professional sore
head.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

ONE improvement the Morgan ship com
bine mas introduced is to have one boat
sail every day, instead of letting them get
away in punches, as has been the practice
under individual management.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

BALTIMORE refuses to allow the COIL
sumption Of pie by children in the noon
hour lunch at schools. The attention of
the society for the prevention of cruelty to
children is respectfully but urgently called
to this invasion of our sacred rights.
What's the use of having fathers who
fought. bled and died for their country if
the children can't eat pie in public schools
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

THE people, the President, the mine
owners. John Mitchell, everybody has
spoken but the Governor of Pennsylvania
and J. Z. Morgan.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09
MAscAex1. the Italian compose,

MAscAGNI, the Italian composer who
writes chills-and-fever music and operas,
evidently regards this country as famine
region-he brings along a barrel
Of Naples macaroni to provide for emer-
gencies. But it is good safe bet that
this is the second transatlantic trip that
that lot OF food has made. Dakota wheat
makes the best macaroni and it is largely
exported to Italy for that purpose.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

have the payments stop. 1t would de-
range all manner Of business, and bring
distress upon dealers in all the necessities
of life. and everybody would feel the
diminution of ready money.
A surprise to many will he the greatness
of the sums distributed through the
Southern States. The smallest of them
receive hundreds of thousands of dollars
yearly. In several OF them it passes the
81. .GG0.GCG mark.
This is largely because of the great
influx of veterans to that section for bust
ness reasons, or to escape the rigors of
the Northern Winters.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

THE President is to be congratulated on
the progress to recovery he is making af
ter that bOne-scraping operation by the
New York specialist-New York special
lists are very fatal.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

BARON SHIBUsAwA. who has just gone
back to the ChrysantheElumland, is a lit
tie Jap Morgan in his way-he is the
guiding spirit in $50 corporations. But
they are all little ones
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

SOMEBODY ought to bell the bad trusts,
so we could tell them from the benevolent
monsters the darkest night that ever
blew.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

MCLEAN, Casey and Coghlan are trip
let of names which are not redolent with
peacefulness, and the cocky young gover-
nor of Panama, Mr.. Salazar, will do very
well indeed to keep his ebullient nature
cOrked.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

IT KEPT Dave Hill so busy running head
on the Saratoga convention, that he had
a rear-end collision once or twice.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

THE English army is to be re-armed
with a later type of rifle. With all due
Difference, it might be suggested that the
most obvious need of the British army is
new officers rather than new guns.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

NoIsELEss pianos are one of the modern
negative wonders
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

The deficit in the Post Office this year
will probably not amount to over mil
lion, and in another year the Department
may be self-suppOrting. This means penny
postage in the near future
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

IT is about time for Marconi to Chamber
over into the advertising columns.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

THESE breakfast foods don't taste as
various as their names sound.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

In that ship deal, Morgan generously
hands out to the British the turkey neck
and celery tops.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

PRICES of other things have risen in
many cases, but never before were clothes
so good and so cheap.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

PUTTY Bradlee Strong and the Maize
YohO Yohe have married at last. The
pair have been in pressing need of
preacher for some years.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

In New Zealand the Postmasters are
required by law to perform marriages; in
this country they growl if they are asked
to unite postage stamp and an envelope.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

THE Panama Canal must have been put
away with the other Panamas for the
Winter
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

THE Moros have been trying to oppose,
\ shrapnel with kisses. Same old result.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

PHILIPPINE officers court-martial men
caught drinking unboiled water.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

SOUTHERN politics is now provided with
jimcrow compartments.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

A WORN and weary tramp who stagger-
ed into a Colorado almshouse after 90
mile walk turned out to be Professor at
Princeton-Walter A. Wyckoff, who
makes business of studying the life Of
the hobos-''for sociological purposes" and
for the magazines. Nothing like realism.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

THE Fall dynamite season has opened
in Russia.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

CHICAGO takes off her hat and steps to
one side to wipe her fevered brow while
the press of the country sails into New
York for allowing murder dives" 1t is
a great relief to Chicago to have public
attention focused somewhere else.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

IT WILL be worth the stress and strain
and the sacrifice if this coal strike situa-
tion and its crisis bring about any clear
ing Of the atmosphere between labor and
capital. if labor unlearn anarchy and op-
preston and learn to keep contracts in
violate, and if capital learn moderation
and decent respect for the opinion of
mankind. Labor has had long struggle
to gain good wages, a fair working day
and safe and decent working places, and
public opinion has rejoieed that they have
doEe so much in bettering the conditions
of work and wages; but labor has learned
dangerous lessons from the Socialists and
Anarchists who come to this land and
preach the doctrine of dynamite, murder
and fire, threats and intimidation. These
have no place under our flag, they outrage
the vital idea of our Government, and the
whole cause of united labor suffers when
threats, violence and lawlessness is re-
sorted to. In the present coal strike the
sympathy Of the whole people would be
with the miners, in whatever demands
they might make, if there were not that
terrible roll of killed and the records of
dynamite and fire.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

WASHINGTON never looked fairer than
in her gay trappings Of flags and colors
donned in honor Of the Grand Army vet
Grams. The Stars and Stripes, jewel
bright, float everywhere among the green
trees and over the great white buildings,
and beneath. through the broad streets.
tramp the men who saved those stars and
colors and brought the land to new glory.
CARNEGIE has been somewhat obscured
of late-what with the coal troubles no
attention in particular has been given to
him-but he is going along his way steadi-
ly averaging eight libraries day given
to deserving cities. We are getting used
to his library giving, it is no longer that
glad surprise that it used to be, but we
could not get along without him.
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

WASHINGTON, D. c., OCT. 8. 1902
The National tribune., 1902-10-09

1t would be great calamity to every
little community in all of these States to
Amador ledger., 1902-08-15
Boxing Contests Tomorrow Night.

The Jackson Athletic club has ar
ranged to give another boxing contest
in Loves hall on Saturday evening
next-republcan convention day. The
boxers for the main bout are Frank
Rafael of Amador City, the victor in
the previous fight with Kane, and
Joseph Butler of San Francisco. Butler
came up from the city Sunday night to
train for the set-to. Several inter-
esting preliminaries have been ar
ranged to take place as follows: Dal
Porto VS.. Dal Porto, 1 rounds, both of
Jackson; Brown of Electra VS.. Gar
della of Jackson, 5 rounds; Soldier
Walker of Sacramento VS.. Joe Reay of
the Olympic club of San Francisco, 5
rounds. There will no doubt be a
large attendance at the exhibition.
The club is doing its utmost to promote
legitimate sport, and furnish amuse-
ment for the people,
Amador ledger., 1902-08-15
Could Not Register.

Chris Hanson, the stage driver on
the lone and jackson line, tells a re-
markable story in regard to futile
effort on his part to get registered.
The incident serves to illustrate the
lameness of the present law which per-
mits the county clerk to appoint all
registration officers from the same po-
litical party. Hansen is in the employ
of the United States as mail carrier,
and the law is that man does not lose
nor gain residence by reason of such
service. He has registered and voted
in lone for years. He sleeps in Jack
son, but the stage goes at such an hour
in the morning as would preclude his
voting, and returns to Jackson after
the close Of the polls. For this reason
he has claimed his residence in lone. a
few days ago he applied to the regis
tration officer in that town to get on
the register. J. Surface proceeded to
make out the affidavit, and while so
doing j. w. Surface appeared and told
him he had better see G.. L. Culbert,
the county clerk. on the subject, con-
veying the idea that he had no right to
register in that precinct. He was not
registered. Hanson is a republican
The funny part about it is that Ralph
Sutton, who is democrat, and who is
also a stage-driver between Sutter
Creek and lone, and who sleeps in Suit
ter but has voted in lone, found no
trouble in registering in South lone
precinct, where he voted at the last
election, as Hanson did also. Here is a
clear-cut inconsistency, and the only
explanation we know of is that one is
a republican and the other a democrat.
What authority has deputy register
to interfere in any way with citizen
who appears before him to make an
affidavit of registration? The one who
is doing the swearing takes the respon.
sibility therefor, and not the officer
before whom he makes the affidavit.