Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-13
ORDER NO. 70
Which Judge Parker VIII Not Have
aChauce to Revoke.


Nothing in the Democratic culver OF
| whereases against President Roosevelt
has failed so utterly as that arraigning
his pension order, No. IS. making the
proof of certain ages by old soldiers
evidential facts Of certain degrees of dis
ability.
If the order had been cunningly de-
vised to betray the great constitutional
| lawyers of the Democracy into making
more than the usual kinds of continental
asses OF themselves it could not have
| succeeded more completely and ludicrous.
| ly. When the great Parker Constitu-
ton Club" Of New York, started in to
arraign Theodore Roosevelt for going
through the constitution as il it were
a paper hoop in a circus ring, it attack
ed his issuance OF order No. rs in these
| words:
1--WE find that President Roosevelt de-
iiberately disregarded Article l., Section 8.
Of the Constitution, providing mo money
shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in
law"
Now, what are the facts?
Order No 10 assumes that an old
soldier who is 81 years Of age is prob
ably able to earn only one-haif of the
support the statute provides in case OF
total disability, at which stage he ar
rives when he is seventy, and says he
shall be entitled to the munificent sum
of So per month as a pension; and it
finds that at 65 he is two-thirds disa bled
and entitled to- IS. -
There can be no serious objection to
the principle Of the order, which is
based OH the experience OF mankind as
to the gradual decay OF human powers.
By reason of strength many men are
as. able to learn a support" at seventy
as at thirty, but the vast majority at
sixty have passed the line where they
are fully capable Of doing so in 1.-THE
performance OF manual labOr," and the
evil days approach when ''the erasshop-
per shall be burden and desire shall
fail" t
/ Order No. IS merely recognizes the
course of nature, but it draws no money
out of the treasury without authority
OF law 1t was issued March u, 1904,
to be effective April 10, 1901 Congress
being in session it was reported to that
body with the request that $1.5O0.OO0
be appropriated to carry it into effect.
The sum was embodied In the pending
money was voted. and in due order under
the Act of Congress. the pensions began
to issue. and not till then. Every cent
paid under Order No. 7S was drawn
from the treasury in consequence OF IAN
appropriation made by law"
Exit the Parker Constitution Club. of
New York, with its constitutional ears
at half mast.
Now, mark the sequel: On September
10 last. $1.4i0,0OO was covered back
into the treasury as the sunex1end,'d
balance. of the appropriation Of $1,000
600. after paying 10000 ON 1857
claims adjudicated in April. May aud
June to the end OF the fiscal year. or
the certificates ISSUED only 1850 were
for original pensions to veterans who
had reached the age OF sixtyrwo or
upward, and 14.16S We're increases al
lowed to claimants who were receiving
pensions for disability less than the
amount to which they were entitled
tnder the pension for age.
Thus. il will be perceived. The dread
Of a heavy pension raid on the treasury
by reason OF Order No. 1S has gone
glimmering along with the constitutional
ny sterics Of the Parker Constitution
Club Of New York.