The National tribune., 1903-03-26
Total i 500, 10

That is. while they have credit for
1,609,10 of the total of 1853, 132 enlist
ments, or about five-ninths of the whole,
they are only receiving about three
seventies of the whole sum paid out for
pensions. This is explained by the num-
Der of veterans of those States who have
removed to the newer States and the
South. Thus, Idaho, Montana, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wash
ington and Wyoming, which were almost
an untrodden wilderness during the war,
now have in the aggregate over $4,000
pensioners. who receive annually about
1925, 900. Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado and California had the
benefit of an immense immigration of yet
Grams and their young wives in the years
Immediately following the war, who did
marvels in developing the resources of the
new countries, and filling them with civili-
cation and progress. There was re-
markable influx of Union veterans into the
Southern States, particularly Arkansas,
Texas and Florida, which is shown by the
number of pensioners there. Every State
in the Union gets a share of the pension
expenditures, bearing some relation to its
quota of the population. Thus, remote
Idaho, with population of 161, 112, gets
$216,62G distributed annually in pensions,
which is something less than $1.3O per
capita of the population. Florida, with
her population of 52S,542, gets approx
mately S450,000 pension money every
year, approaching 81 per capita. Even
Alabama, which furnished very few sol
diers, white or colored, to the Union army,
gets round half-million dollars in pension
money. equal to about SO cents head for
all of her 1,S2S,697 population-white,
black and mixed. 1t is astonishing to see
the amount that Mississippi gets-$650,-
600 in round numbers, or about. 40 cents
apiece for her Gal 200 whites and 907 $50
negroes.
In round numbers, Arkansas gets
81 100000 pension money, or a little more
that 81 per head of her 1,311 ,564 people.
Arizona gets $4,000, or little less
than 81 per head of her 122,931 in
habitants.
California gets $2,62GO0O, or about
S1.66 per head of her ], 4S5 ,053 people.
Colorado gets for her 539, 100 people
about $945,000 pension money, or about
S1.S0 per capita.
Connecticut, with a population of $685.
400, gets about $1,3SS,OO0, or something
like $1.4O per head.
Delaware, with a population of 1S4, 1856,
~ Al, C..p
bead.
Even Georgia, which was one of the
pillars Of the rebellion, and sent probably
10000 men into the rebel army, with
substantially none into the Union, gets
approximately s500,O00 in pension money,
population.
Illinois, with 1921, $50 population, gets
in round numbers Sl0,OOO,0OO, or, approx
mateIy, 81 per head.
Indiana, with population Of 2,516, 462,
gels $10,300,000, of about 81 head, she
having much less foreign population
coming in since the Gcar.
Kansas, with a population of 1,47O, 495,
made up to a largc= extent than any other
of veteran immigrants, gets over $4,000,
600, or about 81 per head.
Kentucky, with population of 2,147,-
ia, gets $4,045,72G, or nearly 81 apiece.
Louisiana, with 1881, 625 population,
gets 1886 600, or about Ga cents head.
Maine, 694, 466 population, gets $685.
600, or about 81 per head.
Maryland, 1,1SS,044 population, gets
$1,1OS,OO0 pension money, or nearly $1.5O
per capita.
Massachusetts, 2,s05,34G population,
gets S., ICE, 429, or not quite 81 head.
Michigan, 2,420,S92 population, gets
1855, 600, or less than So head.
Minnesota, 1,751, 34 population, gets
$2,298, 600, or over $1.35 per capita.
Missouri, population 3.1O6. 665, gets ST.
10000. or something over 81 per capita.