The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-12
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the weaker American republics
against foreign aggression, the AID
ministration has lost no opportunity
to point out to these republics that
those who seek equity should come
with clean hands, and that whoever
claims liberty as a right must accept
the responsibilities that go with the
exercise Of the right.
When our opponents speak Of Sen
croachments by the Executive upon
the authority of Congress Or the Jul
dietary, apparently the act they ordi-
narily have in view is Pension Order
No. 70, issued under the authority of
existing law. This order directed that
hereafter any veteran of the Civil
War who had reached the age of six
ty-two should be presumptively emit
tied to the pension Of six dollars a
month, given under the dependent
pension law to those whose capacity
to earn their livelihood by manual la
Dor has been decreased fifty per cent,
and that by the time the age of seven
ty 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 perform
ance Of duty imposed upon the
President by an act Of Congress,
which requires the Executive to make
regulations to govern the subordinates
of the Pension Office in determining
who are entitled to pensions. Presi-
dent Cleveland had already exercised
this power by a regulation which de-
clared that seventy-five should be set
as the age at which total disability
should be conclusively presumed.
Similarly President Mckinley estab-
lished sixty-fve as the age at which
half disability should be conclusively
The regulation now in
question, in the exercise Of the same
power, supplemented these regulations
made under Presidents Cleveland and
The men who fought for union and
for liberty in the years from 1861 to
1865 not only saved this Nation from
ruin, but rendered an inestimable SER
vice 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 decreed by law
that no one Of them, if disabled from
earning his own living, shall lack the
pension to which he is entitled, not
only as a matter of gratitude, but as
a matter of justice. 1t is the policy
Of the Republican party, steadily con-
tinued through many years, to treat
the veterans of the Civil War in a
spirit of broad liberality. The order
in question carried out this policy,
and is justified not merely on legal
grounds, but also on grounds of pub
lie morality.
In addition to those acts Of Admin
which they venture to assail
only after misrepresening them,
there are others which they dare not
overtly Or officially attack, and yet
which they covertly bring forward as
reasons for the overthrow Of the par
ty. In certain great centers and with
certain great interests our opponents
make every effort to show that the
settlement of the Anthracite Coal
Strike by the individual act of the
President, and the successful suit
against the Northern Securities Com
Merger Standardization
BY the Department Of Justice, were
acts because of which the present Ad-
should be thrown from
power. Yet they dare not openly con-
lemn either act. They dare not in
any authoritative or formal manner
say that in either case wrong was
done or error committed in the meth
ID of action, or in the choice Of in
struments for putting that action into
effect. But what they dare not man.
fully assert in open day, they seek to
use furtively and through special
agents. 1t is perhaps natural that an
attack so conducted should be made
sometimes on the ground that too
much, sometimes on the ground that
too little, has been done. Some of our
complain because under the
antitrust and interstate commerce
avs suits were undertaken which
nave been successful; others, because
suits were not undertaken which
would have been unsuccessful. The
Democratic State Convention in New