Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-12
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vented insult to the flag? Do they OBJ
iect to the fact that American war
ships appeared promptly at the port
of Beirut when an effort had been
made to assassinate an American otfi-
cial, and in the port of Tangier when
an American citizen had been abb
| Quoted? and that in each case the
wrong complained of was righted and
expiated? and that within the last few
days the visit of an American squad
ron to SMYRNA was followed by the
| Iong-delayed concession of their just
rights to those Americans concerned in
educat ional work in Turkey? Do they
object to the trade treaty with emma,
so full Of advantage to the American
people in the future? Do they oblecl
to the fact that the ships carrying the
national flag now have Il higher stand
ard than ever before in craftsmanship
and IN Seamanship, as individual units
and as component parts of SquadronS
and fleets? If they object to any or
iall of these things, we join issue with
them. our foreign policy has been not
only highly advantageous to the M
ted States. but hardly less advhnta-
geous to the world AS Il whole. Peace
and good will have followed IN It's
footSt.uS The Government has shown
itself no less anxious to respect the
rights of others than insiStent that the
RIGHTS If Americans be respected i'll re-
turn. As for the navy. it has been ana
is now the most potent guarantee of
peace; and it is such chiefly because
it is formidable. and ready for use.
When our opponents speak of EN-
croachmentS" by the Executive upon
the authority of Congress or the
judiciary, apparently the act they
ordinarily have in view is Pension
order No. IS, issued under the authority
of existing law. This order directed
, that hereafter any veteran of the Civil
War who had reached the age of sixty
two should be presumptively entitled
I to the pension of six dollars Il month,
given uni Ter the dependent pension law
to those whose capacity to earn their
/ livelihood by manual labor has been
decreased fifty per cent. and that by
the time the age. of seventy was reached
the PRESUMPTION should be that the
physical disability was complete; the
age being treated as an evidential fact
! in each case. This order was made in
the performance Of duty imposed
upon the President by an act of Con-
ernss which REQUIRES the Executive to
make regulations to govern the
suborC,inatts Of the Pension Office in
determining who are entitled to
pensions. President cleveland had
already exercised this power by a
regulation which declared that seventy
five should be set as the age at which
total disability should be Conclusively
presumed. Similarly President Nc
Kinlry established sixty-five as the age
at which half disability should be con-
cIusively presumed. The regulation
now in question, in the exercise of the
same power, supplemented these
regulations made under Presidents
Cleveland and Mckinley.
The men who fought for union and
for liberty in the years from 1861 to
1850 not only saved this Nation from
ruin, but rendered an inestimable
: service to all mankind. We of the
United States owe the fact that today
!; We have a country to what they did
and the Nation has deCrced by law that
no one Of them, if disabled from earn
: ing his own living. shall lack the
, pension to which he is entitled, not
only as matter of gratitude, hut as a
= matter of Justice. 1t is the policy OF
q the Republican party, steadily con
S tinucd through many years, to treat
r the veterans of the civil War in Il spirit
= of broad libcrality. The order II
| question carried cut this policy. and is
2 justified not merely on legal grounds
t but also on grounds of public morality
= 1t is a matter of common knowledge
b,t xt-hn hn w M
D depends for his wages upon bodily labor
I has reached tn" age of SiXty-two his
, earning ability is in all probability loss
= by half than it WAS when he was in his
f prime: and that by the time he has
D reached the age of seventy he has pro-
= baby lost all earning ability If there
q is doubt upon this point let the douht"i
I examine the employees doing manua
a labor in any great mandatory ol
e ON any great railroad, and find out
: how large is the proportion of m"l
: between the ages of SiXtytWO ano
= seventy. and whether these m"l
are still employed at the highly
i paid tasks which they did il
:, their prime. As n matter of fact, many
Il railroads pension their employees Wher
: they have reached these ages and il
nations where old age pensions prevail
= they always begin somewhere between
the two limits thus set 1t is easy t.
: test our opponents sincerity i'm thi,
" matter. The order in question il
! revocahle at the pleasure of the EXeCu
. tive. If our opponents come into poWc
: they can revoke this order and an
: nornce that they viii treat the veterans
of siXty-two to seventy as presumabl!
{ in full bodily vigor and not entitled t.
= pensions. Will they now authCrita
> lively state that they intend to do this
: If So we accept the issue. If not thei
: We have the right to ask why they rails,
- an issue which. when raised, they d.
not venture to meet.
In addition to those acts of the Al.
, miniStration which they venture to as.
sail only after miSrepreScnting them
=, there are others which they dare mo-
:, overly or officially attack. and ye
- which they covertlv bring forward Il!
= reasons for the overthrow of the party
:. In certain great Centers and with Ger.
>, tain great interests our opponent!
- make every effort tn show that the set.
. tlement Of the Anthracite Coal Strik,