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The National tribune., 1911-03-30
HOPE IN THE COUNTRY PRESS.

WITH the Metropolitan press in strong
array against, the veterans their main
hope Isl in the country press. and we
urge them to- cultivate this. and plead
their cause as much as possible in their
local papers,, These, after all. really
mold public opinion and influence votes
and C61gressmen. The country papers
are not only cognizant of the needs of
the veterans with whom they are d.
rectIy in touch. but they know how well
deserved may be anything that can be
gotten from the Government for them,
and they have, Furthermore. the benefit
of the money that is distributed thru
their communities by the medium of
pensions. Every dollar that is spent in
a little town or neighborhood in the
way of pensions is Immediately felt in
increasing the supply of ready money.
One thousand dollars coming into any
country neighborhood in the way of
pensions is better for that community
than $4,000. $4,000 or even 5000
dollars in the vaults of a New York
banker and controlled by . stock gam
bier or jobber. M
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

which Warren had written in regard
to the arrest of Pettibone. Meyer and
Haywood for their completely in the
assassination of the Governor of Idaho.
Warren capped his offense by publish
ing an offer of $1,000 for any person
who would capture ex-Gov. Taylor
and return him to the officials of the
State of Kentucky. President Taft gave
pardon to Warren. but accompanied It
with these scathing comments:
IT would question the wisdom Of
making the defendant conspicuous ard
feeding his vanity by treating him Sc
riously when his violence. his exagger-
ations, his wild accusations, and his
mock heroics ought to be treated with
ridicule.
ITO deal with him with such SO.
verify Is to manifest a concern as to
the evil influence he exerts out of all
proportion to the facts.
Doubtless his writings are read
with pleasure by a number whose
views are as wild and as perverted as
his; but for all persons of common
sense reading Of his articles is the
best antidote for the poison he seeks to
insrin. To visit such an offense with
severe punishment would give him an
opportunity to pose as victim OF
governmental prejudice"
The National tribune., 1911-03-30
THE SOLDIER AND THE BOND
HOLDER.

Comrade Daniel r. Bailou, Provi-
dence, r. L.. Past Commander, Depart
ment of Rhode Island, g. A. r., has
written some unusually able letters to
the Providence Tribune, defending the
Sulloway bill and pointing out most
convincingly how the money account
stands between the Government and
the veterans who saved its existence,
He puts the argument upon strictly
financial ground. He said:
The cost Of the civil war was approx
imately s6,061,4 60.582. This amount
the Government agreed to pay with
interest at seven per cent, In coin, the
bonds issued as security for the pay
ment of the loans having been exempt
ed from taxation. The Government paid
every dollar Of this huge debt and the
interest in gold.
On the other hand, the Government
agreed to pay the soldier $13 month
Ga higher rate, Of course, to officers)
and paid him in deprecated paper
called greenbacks. These notes were
worth at the time only SO cents on the
dollar. With the soldiers this money
was emergency money, for which there
were many demands They could not
hold it for increased value.
Approximately there was palu 10
these men who stood on the firing line
of battle and saved the Union sf,061,-
460,5S2, this amount being largely I'M
der the actual sum paid, but sufficient
for illustration. A deduction of so
per cent for. depreciation amounts to
the sum of $3.50, 73a,291.
Forty-six years have elapsed since
the close Of the war. II the above
amount, representing so per cent de-
probation. had been invested at that
time at six per cent interest, recog-
nized legal rate. 1t would have doubled
every II years
At this rate of interest the amount
would have increased to $8.491,6S4,656
with interest for two years more to be
added.
The veterans, who are quite uni
versally poor men. do not expect this
vasr sum to be paid them. but they do
feel that they should be spared the
humiliation in their old age of being
treated either as frauds or mendicants
when relief is asked adequate only for
bare subsistence In these times of, TO
them, a prohibitive high cost Of living.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

The buffalo Express shows the usual
tiresome ignorance of pension haters.
After the usual cant of wishing every
deserving soldier to be literally pen
stoned it says:
There are more pensioners on ac-
count of the Spanish War than there
were soldiers who ever saw a Spanish
flag or heard the sing of a Spanish bull
let-more pensioners than the total
number of men in Skaters army.
The pensioners on account of the
Spanish War and the War in the Phil
fppines are not for a moment restricted
to the number of men in Skaters
army in Cuba, but include all those who
: served for years in Cuba and the Phil
ippines chasing down guerrillas, restor-
ing peace and order to those distracted
communities and hunting the thieves
and Iadrones TO their holes in the
mountains. 1t was long, hard, exciting
and dangerous service. and we can rest
assured that every man who has gained
a place on the pension roll on account
of that service earned every dollar that
he gets.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30
SOLDIERS HOME IN FLORIDA.

Senator Taliaferro has introduced the
following bill, which has been read
twice and referred to the Committee
on Military Affairs:
THAT the Board of Managers of the
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
are hereby directed to establish a
branch Of the home at some suitable
locality in the State Of Florida, upon a
tract of land Of an area of not less than
800 acres.
'Sec. 2. That said branch Home
shall be located on the ground pur-
chased, unless suitable tract should
be donated to the Board of Managers
within six months after the approval of
this act: Provided, That said Board of
Managers may select any Government
property suitable for such Home by and
with the consent of the Secretary of
War
Sec. 8. That as soon as practicable
after the approval of this act the said
Board of Managers shall begin the erec-
ton of a suitable building or buildings
on the grounds secured by purchase or
otherwise for the use of said branch
Home.
"Sec. 4. That the sum of 100000
be. and the same is hereby, appropri-
ated. out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, toward de-
land and the construction of buildings
thereupon for such branch Home.
Sec. s. That all honorably dis
charged soldiers, sailors and marines
who are now or may be hereafter ell
gible have admission into the branch
Home for disabled soldiers as provided
in this act.''
There certainly should b. Soldiers
Home in Florida, where the comrades
can enjoy the marvellous climate and
have their years prolonged by cessa-
ton of battling with the rigorous Win
ter in the North. The bill introduced
by Senator Taliaferro has wisely left
the selection of the location indefinite.
This will be decided after the bill is
passed by the commission who will
study the various locations offered and
conclude as to the best one.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

witnesses and death had claimed many
hof them.
The result of this most rigorous ex-
animation, an examination to which no
other department of expenditures had
been subjected, was complete vindi-
cation of the honesty of the pension
rolls. These extraordinary efforts to
detect frauds did not in any year de-
velop as many as 800 among the mil
where in the orditary run of business
the Bureau had been discovering an
average of about $50
We will not have the effrontery to
assert that this stupendous effort by
the President of the United States, aid
ed by all the powers at his command,
should offset the mere dictum of a
young college professor. We are men,
tioning it merely as a contribution to
the discussion.
What the Professor, like all Others
unfriendly to the pension system, fails
to comprehend-what all of the present
generation fail to comprehensive the
immensely of our war in every respect
and the colossal record of disabilities
left n it's train. There is no other wal
in history to compare with it. Where
1000, 900 men on the side of the Union
and 100000 on the Confederate side
spent four long years in intense effort
every day to destroy and cripple one
another the resultant is far beyond the
power of any mind to grasp. The men
and women on the United States pen
sion roll represent far more hardships
more actual fighting, more disabilities
than in all of the wars of Europe since
the Napoleonic era.
To those who really study history
and interpret it in the light of expert
ence the wonder is not that the pension
expenditures should be so great, bu,
that they are not vastly more than they
! really are.
The Professors assertion that part OF
the money for pensioning veterans
should go to pensioning clerks merely
shows his inability to place facts in
their proper relation. The pensioning
of veterans and the pensioning of clerks
have no more to do with each other
than either has with the determination
of the boll-weeviI.
Before the Professor INDUCES in any
more confident declamations on the
pension system we would challenge
him, as we have others. to visit any
Pension Agency on pension day. take
the pensioners as they appear, listen at
tentively to their stories Of what en-
titles them TO pensions and cross-exam-
inc them rigidly.
We have sufficient faith in his sense
of fairness and justice to believe that
he will go away with the conviction
that instead Of the United States pay
ing too much for pensions and paying
them to unworthy persons, he will be-
come an advocate of still greater ex-
penditure and much more liberal treat
ment to those TO whom the Nation owes
everything.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30
Dee-lighted.

The National Tribune: I returned
from st. Andrews Bay a short time ago,
and was well pleased with the prospects
there. AS proof of how well think of
1t, expect to move there within the
next three weeks, and am not going
there to practice my profession. "a
physician does not want to go to q
healthy climate to locate.l Two days
before left here to go to st. Andrews
Bay we had about 16 inches of snow.
That same Sunday the men working ON
the Government dredges. SO they told
me, went in the Bay bathing When 1
arrived on the Bay 1 found the fruit
trees in bloom and picked flowers in
the woods. When told that L might
starve there, I have said: THE only
way one can starve there is to keep
ones mouth shut" With a season Of
from Feb. Is to Dec. Is, the rain and
Iittie energy. one cannot help but
make living on five or 10 acres.-Dr.
J. N. Mccartney, Sioux City, Iowa,
March Z, 1911.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

They were quite willing that part OF
the money received for protective duties
should Che expended for pensions.
The protective policy became won
derfullyl successful-successful beyond
anybodFs expectations. Manufacturers
profits became sure and enormous. They
enlarged their factories, began import
ing laborers In immense numbers from
Europe. they supplied the domestic
trade and began invading the foreign
markets with success.
But their appetite grew with feeding.
The more money they made the more
rapacious they grew. Where at first
they had only wanted a moderate sue
cess, they now wanted everything in
sight. They were like the man in the
old hymn:
Jeshuiran he waxed fat;
He waxed fat. and down his belly
hung.
He plasphemed the Lord his God,
And high his buttocks flung.
Their greedy eyes turned upon the
money going out of the Treasury to the
| pensioners, and they hungered to turn
| it in some way into their own pockets.
They Joined in the howl their old enc
mics, the free traders, were keeping UP
| against pensioners. Their servile press
opened their batteries Of defamation
against the veterans, and became as
virulent as the free trade and Copper
head press.
The aged veteran, sitting by his
scanty fire, wraps his thin garments
about him, Nand thinks. with the Ban
ished Duke:
BLOW, blow, thou Winter Wind;
Thou are not so unkind
AS mans ingratitude."
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

The New York Assembly has passed
a bill introduced by Assemblyman Cyrus
w. Phillips to appropriate $4,000 to
help meet the expenses of the coming
National Encampment of the G. A. r.
at Rochester, n. Y. The money will be
placed in the charge of committee
composed of the Acknowledgement of
the National Guard, Mayor Edgerton,
Maine, G. A. r.. and four men to be
appointed by the Governor. two of
whom are to be G. A. r. men and Two
citizens.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30
GEN. THOS. j. HENDERSON.
The Veterans of His Old Brigade An
Loved Him.

Loved HIM.
Editor National Tribune: 1t was with
deepest regret that / received the news
of the death Of Gen. Tom ]. Henderson.
My own regiment, the SD Ind. and the
112th H. were brigaded together the
later years of the war, with Col. Hen
derson as brigade commander. We all
loved him for his brave, strong, force
full character, and especially for his
ever kind and considerable care of hfs
men.
Gen. Henderson was a large, COM
handing figure, with strong voice.
eve called him whispering Tom," as
in the presence of the enemy he was
wont to subdue his voice, which even
then could be heard the full length Of
two regiments.) How his sudden ap-
pearance in the works from a sick cot
at Franklin cheered the brigade and
helped resist the terrible onslaughts Of
Hoods charging columns of whisky
crazed men! His own men could not
have loved him more than we of the
other regiments, and I have enjoyed
mary good visits with him at National
Encainpments.
deeply sorrow at the loss of so true,
pathize with his bereaved family
VIM. H. Hornaday. Past Department
Commander, Lawton, Okla.
Editor National Tribune: The death
of Hon. Thomas J. Henderson comes
with deep sadness to every living SOL
der of his regiment. the 112th Ill.
Honored and beloved as he was during
the civil war, he was always referred
to since as one of the noblest of men
in every calling of life. 1 recall in ten
derness when in the battle of Resaca,
Ca, he was wounded, I took him in my
arms and carried him amid shot from
the battlefield His character of merit
Is stamped upon my memory to recall
as the shadows fall on the shortest
end of my life.-John NJ. Poor, Co. !,
112th Ill.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

The Department of Missouri, G. A
r.. will hold its Annual Encampment
at Jefferson City May 1925. The COM
rades of Jefferson City say that the de-
struction of the State Capitol will not
interfere with their arrangements for
a successful meeting, and that both
comrades and citizens will do their ut
most to suitably entertain their guests.
Robert n. Denham, Department Com
mander; Thomas B. Rodgers, Assistant
Adiutant-General.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

Lieut.-Col. A J. G. Kane sends US
the following syllabus showing the pro-
lection given to pensioners by the laws
of New York:
Pension Money-Invested-W Ex-
empt from Levy and Execution for
Debt.-Under the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, State of New York, Sec. 1903
tsee also Sec. 1890, exempting a pen
sion (war service) from levy and sale
by virtue of an execution, the exemp-
ton extends to property the purchase
of which can be directly traced to the
pension moneys and which is necessary
or convenient for the support and main
tenance of the pensioner and his family.
Yates County National Bank vs. Car
.penter; 119 New York, $50; 80 State
Reports, 121; Rev. St. 40; Hun, 40: II
State Reports. PSI; New York Supp,
1873; IA Civil Proc. r.. 372.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

Past Com1riander-in-Ch Chief A. G. Weis-
sert, Milwaukee, Wis, announces that
the Wisconsin Vicksburg Monument
Commission has designated May % next
for dedicatihg the Wisconsin Memorial
and the 10 monuments to Wisconsin or
CARNATIONS. There will be no post
ponement- The organizations which en-
gagged in the siege were: Infantry, Sth,
18th, 18th, 14th, 18th, 18th, 18th, goth,
23d, 25th, 9th, 29th and 33d: 1st, 9Th
and 18th batteries and I'd Wis Cav.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

When you send in your subscription
always state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
When you renew from another post
office give former address IS well.
When change of address is desired tie
sure 20 give former address.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

President Taft has handled Fred d.
Warren, the Kansas Socialist editor
with tact and entire sense. Warren,
whose rawlings in the Appeal to Reason
have been regarded as highly danger
Gus TO peace and good order. was sem
fenced to six months of hard labor and
a fine of $500. To have sent him to
Jail, which he coveted, would have
made him martyr and brought about
no end of suspiration by the Socialist
group. The case came up on account
Of series of .nflammatory articles
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

The Department of Maryland, G. A.
r., will hold its Annual Encampment
in the Odd Fellows Temple, Baltimore,
April 1911, with the session beginning
at o'clock p. M, April 10. Command
er-in-Chief Gilman will be present The
annual banquet will be held at the Bel
videre Hotel on the evening of April 10.
William J. Vannort, Department Com
mander; Robert C. Sunstrom, Assistant
Adjutant-G eneral.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

The Department of Georgia regrets
that it is not to have COMMANDMENTS
Chief Gilman with it at its Annual En-
campment at Fitzgerald, April Z. The
Commander in-Chief is due to be at the
Encampment of the Massachusetts, De-
partment on that date.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

The charge that foreigners largely
constituted the Union army is not borne
out by the report of inmates at the New
JERSEY Home at Vineland last year. OF
the 103 men in the Home, IS were born
in the United States and only eight in
other countries. OF the women, 1T
were born in the United States and only
IL abroad.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

Col. David CornweII, AIIegan, Mich.
replied to a vicious editorial in the
Chicago Record-HeraId:
My Dear Sir: have read your ed
itoriai in to-day's issue on the Suiloway
pension bill, and say, all honor to the
Senators Of the grand old State OF 1lli-
nois, to whose credit I served more
than five years in the civil war.
1 deny that there is objection to this
veterans who risked their lives in the
war of the rebellion on the side Of the
Union.
II you are capable of drafting a pen
sion bill that will give exact justice to
each soldier for the time served, the
battles fought, the suffering from cold
and hunger, from wounds and sickness
and from confinement in rebel prisons,
why, get busy.
The immortality and criminality' is
not in the Sulloway bill, but in your
befuddled brain and ungrateful heart
You intimate that the bill has not
had proper discussion, and favor put
ting it over to another session Of Con-
gress.
Would you favor putting it over from
Congress to Congress and discussing it
until the old veterans are all dead?
If It is better that few guilty men
escape punishment than an innocent
one suffer, had we not better FISK pen
sioning one unworthy soldier than to
deprive a dozen honest old veterans Of
the means to live in humble comfort in
their old age?
The soldier got SIS month in
deprecated currency, and it was never
made good to him. The capitalist
bought bonds at par In this currency,
and they were redeemed in gold
Do you call that square DEAF for
the soldier?
But for him this whole country
would be Southern Confederacy, with
slavery legalized turnout it's length and
breadth.
The soldier who has plenty thru in
heritance or other good luck should not
oppose this bill. for he will never be
compelled to profit by it against his
will. 1t Is more than probable that
bill--if there are any such-thinks it
will stand in the way of some other bill
by which he would fare better.
Our Government can never fully re-
pay these old veterans for the service
they rendered the Nation in the time
Of its great distress, because it has not
nor can it get money enough, but it
easily can and should make them COM
Portable for the few remaining years
of their lives.
One could never imagine the great
hearted Lincoln vOicing such views and
sentiments are are expressed editorial
ly in the Record-HeraId of this date,
and are to be found every month in the
Worlds Dirty Work.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30

The exaggeration of the cost of the
Sulloway bill still goes on. The New
York papers are publishing telegraphio
reports that the bill would have cost
S70,0O0,0OO. There are no liars like So
called statisticians.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30
Who Hoisted the Flag?

Theodore F.. Lawton. 10 MIL street,
New Bedford Mass, wants to know
who hoisted the American ensign over
the City Hail at Augusta, Ga, May 81
g. 1855
The National tribune., 1911-03-30
CREDIT TO REPRESENTATIVE Ed
SON

Much credit Is due to Representative
George w. w. Edison, whose maiden
speech in the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture was in favor of indorsing the Sui
loway bill. The Boston Traveller said:
TT was the most eloquent speech
heard in the House 50 far, and at its
close was greeted with great applause"
The Globe said: Representative Ed
son made a great impression"
Mr.. Edison had hardly made an open
ing when the whole House was in at
tention.
THAT fellow is going to carry the
House." said one of the members in
opposition.
Impossible" said another; "the OPP
position is TOO great"
To carry the resolution required a
four-ffths vote, but when the names
were called Edison had won by vote
Of 1874 to "a, victory to be proud of.
This was in the face of telegram
from Senator Lodge that the resolution
must be killed. Mr.. Edison spoke as the
SON of a veteran and also a comrade of
the Grand Army of the Republic, but
above all as a citizen of Massachusetts,.
The National tribune., 1911-03-30
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The National tribune., 1911-03-30
NOTICE.

WASHINGTON, D. c., MAR. so, 1911
The National tribune., 1911-03-30
John McELROY. Editor.

Office: 14th and Streets Northwest.
The Irish standard., 1911-02-25
Death of a Noted Boer Leader.

General Pet A. Cronje, the noted
Boer leader in the South African war.
who made such a gallant stand of
weeks duration against the British
army, died at his home in the Trans.
wall, on Feb. 4. General Cronje COM
manded the western army of the South
African Republics in the war. He and
his forces were greatly outnumbered,
and on Feb. IS, Cronje was brought
to bay, at a point on the Modder riv-
er, near Paardeberg, where he de-
Tended himself for nine days. in posi-
ton that was impregnable to assault,
but greatly exposed to artillery fire
frcm the surrounding heights. After
suffering to such a degree that his men
would endure no more Cronje surren-
dered February ~, the anniversary of
Majuba. The deceased was instru-
mental in frustrating the Jameson raid
at Krugersdorp in 1866. He was a
member of the executive council of the
TranSvaal Republic and chief native
commissioner. He was born about
1885
The Irish standard., 1911-02-25
Intemperance DECREASING.

The Irish association for Prevention
of Intemperance reports a decrease Of
IS per cent in the consumption of
spirituous liquors and correspond
ing decline in cases OF drunkenness
Mr.. A. Nj. Sullivan, K. c., the president,
said that the liquor clauses of the
Budget were Il benefit to Ireland. but
the licensing sections did not go far
enough The bulk of the people, even
the drinking portion, were in favor OF
restrictive legislation. and local OPP
ton law would benefit Ireland. The
vast number of active temperance So
cieties in every part of the country
had created public opinion against
the multiplication of licenses.