The National tribune., 1907-02-21
ONE DISSATISFIED CoMRApE,

In the hosts of approving. grateful
letters which The National Tribune re
ceives there is rarely discordant note
| Here is one of them:
Editor National Tribune: The pend
ing important Congress has material
! lied. and with it the protected interests
| Elasticity of the currency" "ShiI
Subsidy" and many other like pressing
| necessities and patriotic measures
that would seem to presage liberia
contributions to campaign funds. viii
take precedence until Just before thf
next election, the importance" oi
which will appear In editorial profund-
At most, the old sol6'er now has but
a few years more of travail and the
journey ends. In the aggregate, he has
Jared well-and he deserves well. HI
is not an important factor now. except
when his prejudice and ignorance car
be made to subserve the patriotic in
terests" of monopolies.
Ny subscription to The National
Tribune expired Dec. 90. You may
cancel saine and I will rest up awhile
J. II. Allison, New Vienna. Ohio.
Since this letter was written the Nc
Cumber bill has been passed, and we
hope that the comrade has radically re-
vised his gloomy views and despond-
ency. This, however. gives us occasion
to point out how well justified by TIL"
event was the urgent advice which VIC
gave the comrades last Fall before tha
election The National Tribune has to
its credit phenomenal record of SER
vice for the comrade and-of timely ad-
vice given to them in great emergen-
cies. With no small pride we point out
that in the more than a quarter of a
century in which The National Tribune
has been accepted as the representa-
tive, spokesman and adviser of the vet
Grams of the war of the rebellion. what
ever it has said in its editorial columns
justified by the results which followed
In ali those years, whatever we have
said with regard to the future has
come absolutely true. Whenever We
have strongly advised them to vote in
a certain way the consequences which
we pointed out of that vote were fully
realized.
Never have our prophecies and ad-
vice been more thoroly and abundantly
justified than when last Fall we urged
every veteran to vote solidly for the
members of the present Congress who
were candidates for reelection. We
told them then that this involved the
passage of the Service Pension bill.
The men now in Congress have been
thOroly educated up TO the wisdom and
justice of that measure by many years
of agitation. Every feature of it has
been discussed with and before them
until they were thoroly appreciative
of the merits of the service pension
bill; they were cogniZant of what had
been earned by the men whose brave
hearts and strong arms had put down
the rebellion, and they were also fully
impressed with the ripeness of time for
the passage of such measure of JUS
tice and mercy. On the other hand,
the candidates who were opposing the
members of Congress then seeking re-
election, were altogether new men, who
had other ideas, other aspirations. They
were men who had come up since
The war, their minds had been engross-
ed with other public questions to the
exclusion of those growing out of the
war of the rebellion, and ii would take
years at least to educate them up 20
hat appreciation of the veterans and
IF the merits of the Service Pension
Dill which the members of the present
Congress had already attained.
We are glad to say that with singu |
ar unanimity the veterans recognized
he force of our reasoning, saw its high