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The National tribune., 1908-02-27
DEATH OF EDITOR MOVES.

The District of Columbia and the
journalistic profession all over the coun-
try have sustained a great loss in the
death of Crosby S. Noyes, editor-in-
chief of the Washington Evening Star,
who died at a ripe old age in Pasadena
Cal. Mr. Noyes was born in Minot, Me-,
in 1925, began to attract attention by
his writings when quite young, and final
ly arrived in Washington, where he be-
gan newspaper work and soon acquired
much reputation. He became a reporter
on the Star, with which henceforth he
was to be identified and which was to
receive the best work of long life of
unusual activity and ability. During
the war he enjoyed the intimacy and
confidence of President Lincoln and
Secretary Stanton. The latter often in
trusted him with State secrets and deli
cate missions in the way of feeling the
public pulse. He was true as steel to
all his obligations. civic, professional
and patriotic. He formed a company
to purchase the Star, among his asso-
ciates being Samuel H. Kaufman,
George w. Adams and Alexander R.
Shepard. Mr.. Noyes became editor-in-
chief, and at once began the work of
making the Star great power for good.
Far more than any other newspaper it
aided in the development of the new
and beautiful city that the Capital now
is, and Mr.. Noyes had this object close
at heart, all the time working for it with
unmistaking skill and loving enthusi-
asm. He was one of the earnest pro-
motors of the present system of Gov
eminent, and strenuously insisted upon
the Government paying half of the ex-
pense of developing the city. His in
tense public spirit stopped at nothing
that made for the good of Washington
or the benefit of the country at large
He was the inhexible enemy of all graft,
and held every public servant to a strict
account for the way he performed his
duties. His long and highly-efficient
service to the community was recognized
by everyone, and at the time of his
death he enjoyed standing which few
men achieve and which should be the
emulation of every young man in the
country.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
THE wIRZ MONUMENT.

We have to recognize some CLEANS of
better sense in the South, and several
of the papers are deploring the action
of the Georgia Daughters of the Con-
federacy in reviving the old and bitter
sores, the result of which cannot but
be of the greatest injury 10 the South.
The News Leader, of Richmond, says
that the Wirz Monument, together with
Its feverish inscriptions" is a great
mistake, and that 1.-The more we con-
centrate our thought on the teroism,
the magnanimity, the vaior, the glory,
the military prowess and the manliness
of both sides of the civil war, and the
more faithfully we strive to bury the
horrors, treacheries, crueIties, pillagc,
outrage and shame, the better it will be
for us all" Confederate veterans are
writing to their papers protesting
against making hero out of Wirz
when there are so many splendid men
who served the Confederacy faithfully
who should have recognition and honor
instead of this miserable little prison
keeper
The National tribune., 1908-02-27

Some of the Missourians are making
an outcry because there has yet been
no statue raised to the memory of the
late Senator G. G.. Vest, who represented
Missouri in the United States Senate for
"a years. Mr.. Vest was pleasant gem
tleman of fair ability, but what he ever
did TO merit statue to him is not easily
understood by those outside of his i'm
mediate following He was a respect
able Senator, but his name is not asso-
ciated with any great principle or idea,
and his career in the Senate shed no
particular luster upon Missouri. When
the war began he was a young Kentucky
lawyer who had gone to Missouri to
grow up with the country. He was an
ardent Secessionist, and drifted into the
camps of that remarkable body of men
known as Prices army. He does not
seem to have had any marked military
inclinations, however, and when it was
decided to have Missouri represented in
the Confederate Congress Vest was
elected by his comrades in camp to the
Confederate House of Representatives,
where he served two years and was
then transferred to the Senate. His
career in the Confederate Senate was
as-uneventful as that in the United
States Senate.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
QUESTION OF FLAGS.

An Associated Press Dispatch from
Dallas. Tex, says:
For several weeks arrangements fol
a sham battle on March 10 at the Ma
tional Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth
have been in progress. The partici-
pants are to be the Confederate Guard
of Dallas, an organization of soldiers
of the South in the war between the
States, and an army made>up of Texas
National Guardsmen
THE final meeting for arrangements
was held tonight. Capt Daniel, of the
Confederate Guard. announced that his
command would not participate if the
militia used the American flag.
"'Under no circumstances will we
fire on the Stars and Stripes, not even
in sham battle declared Capt. Daniel
We stopped doing that in 1863
Rather than have the sham battle
abandoned, the managers of the event
decided to have the National Guards
men use some other set of colors. The
Confederate Guard will carry the flag of
the Southern Confederacy in the mimic
conflict"
The decision of the Texas Confeder-
ate Guard not to fire on the flag is com
mendable in the highest degree. 1t
shows an unexpected consideration for
the emblem of our country which can
sacred thing to be3treated with despite
and aversion levendn play. On the other
hand. we do not think that the Confed-
crate flag should be carried by one side
and fired upon by the other. This seems
unfortunate, stts it will tend to revive
wartime ani,nositiesE Whatever we may
have thought of the Confederate flag
during wartime, and eager as we were
to fire upon it then, it is now only a
relic to which large portion of the
people of Texas are sentimentally at
tached. If there is any meaning in fir
ing upon the flag at all it must be highly
offensive to the people of Texas, who
hold the flag in honor for what their
fathers did under It. No Union man
wants to fire upon the emblem of the
is dead and buried, and entitled to tho
peace and respect of the dead. To dis
play it even upon a mimic field of bat
tie cannot help having a tendency to
revive in many minds the scenes and
contentious of the civil war and arous-
ing passions that had better be left I'M
excited. Certainly the managers of the
sham battle can find some emblem or
device for the opposing forces which
has no sentimental interest to the peo-
pie on either side, and therefore not
calculated to fan into life again the dy-
l..
Why not use the Russian and Japan
csc flags, or the Russian and Turkish, or
the Greek and Roman standards?
The National tribune., 1908-02-27

They got white man into the peni-
Tertiary iii Georgia. and now since his
release upon a pardon he has won a
suit for $4,000 damages against the
lessees of the convict labor for cruelty
and oyerwork This brings the out
rageous conditions of the Georgia con-
Wet camps to public notice, and Gov.
Hoke Smith announces that he pro-
poses to probe the penitentiary admin
istration to the bottom. This has long
been a gross scandal, known to every
one in the State, but no one had the
disposition or the courage to tackle the
powerful ring that was growing wealthy
ont of the convict labor. In the course
of the trial the State officers were COM
PEELED TO. testify that in addition to the
salaries they received from the State
they We're paid literally by the lessees
of convict labor.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27

produced the poisoning attributed to
them. The summer Of 1905 was de-
voted to tha andht was demonstrated
that two Of the plants were clearly pois-
onous in their action. One Of these is
the Aragallus LAMBERT and the other
Astragalus mollissJipus. The Aragallus
LAMBERT poisons horses, sheep and cat
tie. while The Astragalus mouissimus
poisons horSes only, since cattle will
rarely eat it.
The next step was preventive and
curative. 1t has been found that the
Astragalus naollissimus can be readily
eradicated from fenced pastures. since
it only occurs in small patches. The
Aragallus LAMBERT has a wider distri-
button, and is found much more fire.
quently, but tho the work is somewhat
difficult it is not impossible to clean it
out Of any fenced field. No way has
been devised, however, for Kidding the
ranches of these pests.
1t is found that locoing in animals
yields rather readily to a course of
treatment. In cattle it is met by the
administration of strychnine and with
Fowlers solution for horses. EPSON
salts are administered freely, and it is
not unlikely that they are the principal
remedial agent. The Department ar
rives at the conclusion that the locoing
is cumulative process, and therefore
animals never become immune to it. 1t
appears that rabbits are as much in
jured by the weed as other animals.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
PENSION POINTERS.
Inquiries Answered and Suggestions
Made.

P. ]. H. 1t is not necessary that
an attorney have power of substitu-
ton in order 20 transfer his rights to
another.
P. T. c., Paterson, n. ]. 1t is rule
of the Pension Bureau that all reason
able doubts shall be resolved in favor
of the claimant. Where the evidence
or the record is adverse, all doubts
are removed.
d. e. H., Madison, Wis. If, as you
state, your husband was absent from
his company on pass at the time he
was accidentally killed, it is extremely
doubtful whether you can make such
showing as will convince the Pension
Bureau that you have a title to a PEN
sion. There have been several adverse
decisions in similar cases.
H. G.. Y, Troy, n. Y. We are advised
that the Pension Bureau has practically
disposed of the thousands of claims
filed under the Act of February 6, 1907,
and the work is current, except in a
few cases that are awaiting evidence
called for as to date of birth. More
difficulty is experienced in establishing
claims for increase. than those that
were filed originally, for the reason
that claim for increase is usually
filed Immediately following the birth
day, making it necessary to call for
evidence of date of birth
R. E. H. Winsted. Conn. On Janu-
airy 90, 1887, Congress passed an act
granting pension to soldiers and sailors
of the Mexican War who served so
days in the Army or Navy. or were
actually engaged in a battle in said
war, provided they were 81 years of
age, or disabled. 1t was further pro-
yided that no disability incurred while
voluntarily engaged in the rebellion
against the United States would be con-
sidered as pensionable. The rate all
lowed was $500.
On Jan. 5, 1898, an act was passed
increasing the pension of soldiers of
the Mexican War from $500 to $3.50
per month. who were wholly disabled
for manual labor and in destitute cir
cumStances.
w. r., Rangley, Colo. In reply to
your inquiry we quote from a decision
of the Hon. Jesse E. Wilson, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, under the
date of March 81, 1907:
Soldiers serving in the First, Second,
Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Regi-
ments United States Volunteer Infan-
try, who enlisted for frontier service
at time when the civil war was in
progress and whose service was in fact
confined to frontier service, in no way
connected with the suppression of the
not actually service in the civil war;.
or during the late civil war; or war
of the rebellion within the meaning
of the acts of Feb. 6, 1907. and June
q, $780,
The National tribune., 1908-02-27

There is a revolt among the more
progressive Jews against the attitude
of the stiff-necked older element, which
has succeeded in having Christmas car
OILS and all illusions TO Christ banished
from the exercises in the public schools.
These are denounced as "a group of
religious agitators and theological
quacks," and it is feared that their
course will provoke in this country the
Anti-Semiiism which has been so dis
tressing to the Jews abroad. DR.. Isa-
dor Singer leader of the Progressive
Jews, depeunces the Jewish Sabbath as
chronologically wrong and otherwise
Objectionable and injurious to the peo-
pie. There Is no reason why Jews
should not in common with the rest of
their fellow-citizens observe as a day
of rest the one observed by all the
other members of the community. II
works particular hardship upon the
poor Russian, Galician and Roumanian
Jews, who are prohibited from work
ing on Saturday, and not allowed BY
police or other regulations TO work on
Sunday. No one can possibly tell with
any exactness what is the seventh day
of the week, counting from the day oil
the creation, and the Sabbath general
ly observed among civilized Nations is
just as likely TO be the right day as
any other.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
TROUBLE OVER THE FLAG.

Gov. Haskell, of Oklahoma, has got
ten into hot water over the United
States flag. Old Glory does not appear
to be highly appreciated in that young
State by the Texans and Arkansans, who
have flocked in there, and the State
House has not been decorated with a
National banner. Noticing this discred-
Army took steps to supply it, and col
lected money to buy flag worthy of
their new State. When this was done
and the flag was ready for presentation
the Daughters of the Confederacy but
ted in, and insisted on having a share
in the function. The Ladies of the G..
\. r. had not expected to make any
sort of a ceremony about the donation
of the flag, and they very naturally re-
fused to have n share in the honors.
whatever they may have been, given to
the women who had done nothing to-
wards getting the flag, and who only
wanted to get in for a share of the
limelight When the Ladies of the G.
A. r. refused to have the Daughters of
the Confederacy participate with them
Gov. Haskell refused to receive the flag,
and did so in a very weak and illogical
letter. He has absolutely no basis for
his declination, and merely did it to
pander to the wishes of those who con-
stituted majority of the party which
elected him. Leaving politics out of the
question, the Ladies of the c. A r.
were entirely right in declining to share
the honors with those who had done
none of the work. Any body of citizens
united in any laudable purpose has a
right to organize as body and to de-
cline to commingle with others outside
Of their organization in any specific
function. If. for example, the Presby-
terrain women had chosen to present
flag to the State House and had raised
the money among Presbyterians, it
would be entirely proper for them to
present it as Presbyterians, and it would
not be right for the Baptist women, nor
would the Baptist women think of such
Il thing, to claim a right to participate
Gov. Haskell is a man who is constantly
playing to the galleries to the extent of
his ability, and the galleries that he
selects are those filled with mourners
for the Lost Cause.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27

go the most searching consideration by
two committees, one in the Senate. the
other in the House. As only limited
number of these can be passed at each
session, the scrutiny is quite severe. and
it is safe to say that no unworthy bill
endures it.
Nor is it true for an instant that our
pension bill exceeds the cost of the
standing armies in Europe. Every man
who has made any study OF the matter
knows that this assertion is absolutely
baseless.
Thirdly, if there is any value to HUI
man evidence and human effort the
pension list has been conclusively DEM
onstrated to be freer from fraud than
any other department of the Govern
ment expenditures. Mr. Cleveland en-
tered office with a proclamation that
the pension list was "honeycombed with
fraud" Never did a man try harder
than he to make this miserable declara-
ton appear true. The whole power of
his Administration was concentrated up
on the discovery of fraud in the pen
sion rolls, and after spending s2,000,000
he never succeeded in finding, in any
one year, as many as 800 fraudulent
cases among the million pensioners No
other branch of the public expenditures
could endure such terrifically search
ing examination, and the veterans of
the country properly took the utmost
pride in this vindication of their integ-
rity
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
A RECRUDEsCENCE OF PENSION
HATRED.

The hot clamor of the copperheads
against the pension system has been
stilled by the unanswerable arguments
in its favor, and the general feeling OF
the people as to what was due the men
who saved the Nation and to their wild
ows and dependent ones. 1t is only an
occasional screech that rises now, and
one of these was the following which
appeared in the Review, an insurance
paper, published in New York, under
the headline "Our Extravagant Pension
SYSTEM"
"Forty-three years after the close of
the civil war our pension appropriation
VIII exceed $160,000,00O for the next
fiscal year if the pending bills are en-
acted, including one granting a pension
to all widows of soldiers who served
for 80 days or more. This will be the
largest yearly expenditure yet incurred.
and only small part of it will be for
service since 1865. While general laws
now provide a pension for practically
everybody who served in the army or
navy during the war of 1876, scores
of private pension bills are still passed
covering cases which in most instances
are totally without merit. 1t is sheer
squandering of public money upon per-
sons who have or assert some claim
upon members of Congress, and have
none upon the Government.
Tho the cost of. our penison system
is a heavier burden than that of the
largest standing army of any European
Nation, and the total disbursements on
account of 1t have exceeded $3,500,000,-
900. its worst effect has been to demon
alize a large part of the population. 1t
has been prolific of fraudulent claims
perjury, false pretense and of corrupt
influence in politics and legislation, and
has in o large measure cultivated greed
and dishonesty in the guise of reward
ing patriotic service to the country. That
the pension roll for veterans of the
civil war should continue to grow more
than 40 years after the conflict is q
grotesque fact that discredits the Ma
ton. 1t is not too much to say that
this demoraliEing extravaganza is one
of the products of a fiscal policy that
lays taxes upon commerce and accumu-
lates surplus revenue from them under
the pretense of the delusion that it is a
benefit to the industries and the labor
of The country Money SO raised is cas-
lily squandered.'
All this is old stuff which has been
thrashed out years ago, but it is inter-
esting as a revival of the calumnies and
SANDERS which everyone supposed had
been effectually disposed of. The asser-
ton that scores of private pension bills
are still passed. covering cases which in
most instances are totally without mer-
it," is absolutely devoid of any founda-
ton in fact. Every private pension bill
which goes thru Congress has to under
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
Veteran. in the Forest Service.

Lewis Johnson, The Dalles, Ore, who
served in the Esd ILL.,, says that he was
SO at the last birthday, but was asked
to resign as a forest ranger on account
of his age. His record in the Forest
Service was excellent, and since he was
put out of it he has been doing much
harder and more exhaustive work as a
herder in the Cascade Mountains, where
he has had to be in the saddle nearly
all the time night and day. There We're
two other comrades turned out at tho
same time and for the same reason. and
yet who are able to perform harder
work as well as anybody. The only
trouble was that their places were want
ed by younger men with a stronger pull.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
DEATH or GEN. sAxroN.

A prominent actor in the great events
of the war has passed away in the death
Of Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton. who died
suddenly at his home in Washington,
Sunday, Feb. %. He was born in
Greenfield, Mass, Oct. 10. 1924, and
came Of family Of soldiers He grad
uated from the Military Academy in
1S49, receiving commission in the ar
tillery. He was engaged for some years
in surveying for the Pacific railroads
across the Rocky Mountains, and was
then appointed instructor at West
Point. At that time Maj. William J.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
THE WIDOWS PENSION BILL.

Commander-in-C Chief Burton and Past
Commander-in-Chief r. B. Brown,
Chairman of the G. A r. Pension Com
mittee, were in Washington last week
bill. They had encouraging interviews
with President Roosevelt, Speaker Can
non, Senator McCumber. Chairman of
the Senate Pension Committee; Senator
William Warner; Hon. Cyrus Sulloway,
Chairman of the House Invalid Pensions
Committee, and others. They are con-
fident of the early passage of the bill,
the only question being as to certain
terms in it, particularly the limitation
upon the marriage of widows.
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
TRIBUNE:

represents. the Pennsylvania boys would
certainly have had some Of it sent them
as pleasing variant of our steady diet
of bareback and ventral parts Of the
hog. Were 1t not from the fact that
manufacturer has built up great trade
with Pennsylvanians who left the State
years ago We should assume that scrap
pie was like Quaker Oats. Force and
other dyspepsia-creating breakfast
foods, the demand for which has been
built up by cunning advertisers. whose
greed for gold makes them reckless as
10 the awful result of making this land
ridden by dyspepsia and cursed with
The National tribune., 1908-02-27
FROM THE COMMUNICATING CHIEF.
General Orders Relating to Various Mat
tiers.
Headquarters, G. A. R.,
Kansas CITY Mo Ian % 1903
haiSoo 1iy, ho.' jan. 80, l'Vo'
General Orders No. 3.

f1eduQudTttTS, II. A H.,
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 25, 1908.
General Orders No. g.
l. Comrade James Tanner, Depart
ment of New York, Washington, d. c.,
was appointed and is hereby announced
as a member of the Committee on Erec-
ton of a Statue in Honor of Benjamin
F. Stephenson, founder of the Grand
Army of the Republic. His name was
omitted in the announcement of the
committee in General orders No. g
III. Rules and Regulations.-At the
41st National Encampment, Section 3,
Article 5, Chapter 2, was amended to
read as follows: Section 8. Eight men,
bers qualified to transact business shall
constitute a quorum at any meeting of
Posts having so or more members in
good standing, but in Posts of less than
so and more than 25 members five
members shall constitute quorum, and
in Posts of less than % members 3
members shall constitute a quorum.
III. In the Matter of Proposed Pen
sion Legislation.-At the 18th National
Encampment, 1884, the following was
adopted: Resolved, That all petitions,
resolutions and memorials by Posts, in
regard to pension legislation, be re-
quired to be forwarded to National
Headquarters thru the Department
Headquarters, and that Posts be for
hidden to make separate and independ-
ent application to Congress for legisla-
ton upon the subject of pensions" This
resolution has been readopted by four
subsequent National Encampments.
Posts will govern themselves according
ly.
" The 42d National Encampment
will be held at Toledo, O.. during the
week beginning Monday, Aug. 81, and
ending Saturday, Sept. 8. National
Headquarters will be located at the
Body House. Comrade Frank NJ. Ster-
rett has been selected by the citizens
of Toledo as Executive Director on the
part of said city. Any information in
regard thereto should be addressed to
him, 109-110 Madison Court, Toledo, 0.
V. Assistant inspectors General-On
the nomination of the Inspector General
the following-named comrades have
been appointed Assistant Inspectors
General for their respective Depart
mentS:
Acknowledgment P. Parker, Phoe-
mix
Delaware-Robert Liddell, Whining
ton.
Indian Territory-R. NJ J. Shriver,
Miami, Okla
Maryland-George w. Johnson, Bal
timore.
Massachusetts Charles W. Hildreth.
Townsend.
New experimentation Clark,
Dairy.