The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-22

that the government needed more money anu
then at once voted twenty millions more 10 pen.
sons, they to get over ninety per Cent VI ''e
pensions themselves.
But still this does not satisfy. The House
has Just passed the Sherwood Pension Blii Whicn
Secretary of the Interior FISHER has estmateo
will add seventy five millions dollars annually
to pensioners, even giving pensions TO tnose Mno
have annual income of over sl,ooo ms nus
burden will fall heavily upon the SOUTH pe-
cause as said above, nne-tenths of 1t goes 10 the
North. Satan himself could hardly nave con
cocted. more brazen scheme OF ROBBERY imam
this bill
True men of the nation of all parties honor
the eighty-four Democrats and eight Repuoiicai's
who voted against this bill
While this is all going on our Northern
friends laughing in their sleeves at our stu
pidity. Our Southern representatives are me
honorable men. but the Northern people are very
quietly thinking. What fools these tsouthern'
mortas be-"
Some one will say that the North pays more
into the Federal treasury than the South. 1t
matters not much what the North pays In when
they get back all they pay and eighty per cent
of what the South pays. l would be glad to
form a copartnership with one who would pay
into the copartnership every day 500, while
pay In $500, If every night could take out
the $500 / paid in and $50 of what he paid In.
There is great sympathy for Ireland. because
many of her landowners live in England and
take their rents from Ireland and spend them
in England, thus depicting 1reland's currency,
and keeping her poor. That Is nothing compared
to this.
The whole business is wrong upon the South.
ter. rather about the excess to which 1t Is
carried except fraud and an outrage, and
the good people North and South Will applaud
men in Congress who will cry out against these
frauds being perpetrated (Which they know are
only for political and sectional purposes), and
against the reckless expenditures of the govern
ment.
There Is not an honest, right -thinking man
in the North, who, considering this matter, Will
not say that this oppression Of the South should
be stopped Pensions should be reduced to frty
millions dollars tGen. Grant said they should
never exceed thirty millions), and the expenses
Of the government should be greatly reduced.
Then tariffs could be lowered and the burdens
of the people be made less, but to reduce tariffs
arti not expenditures, will be to bring direct
Taxation and when that comes-when the gov
erament with its sinful extravaganza gets the
right thrust its hand directly into the pockets
OF the people there will ensue oppression and
poverty indeed.
6ut some one asks-What can we dor We can
reduce the pensions properly and honestly at
least hundred and sixty millions dollars. and
the expenses of the government one hundred
millions, and thus to the people two hum
bred and sixty millions dollars each year. Do
this and the South will soon blossom the rose.
Put the Yankees In our place and they would
do something. and do it quick, and II they could
not, they would secede sure as fate, and to pre-
serve the Union the South would be forced to
declare war and Crush the Rebellion" Then II
after the war we should treat them as they have
treated US. at the end OF forty years, all New
England would be too poor to raise a crop Of
cotton tails"
Salem, Va, Dec. Is, 1911.