The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-18

1ngs of the people of this country. 1t II
is time to call halt. The people who
work for the Government under the
civil service are asking for pensions
already. They will have bills before
this House for that purpose. The fell
low who tolls and sweats is the man
who pays for these things and it is
not an easy burden. 1t is time for the
representatives of the people to study
where this money comes from as we'll
as where it goes.
1t is not the man who rides in his
automobile and draws $500 a year."
continued Mr.. Quin, significantly nam
ing the Congressman's salary, "who
pays for these things. 1t is the labor
err, the man who gets less than he is
entitled to, who is made to bear the
burden.
Here is one man in this bill who ad-
mits he is getting enough to live on
out of the treasury of the people, but |
comes asking us to raise his pension |
$3.50 a month. Figure it out on that
basis for all the men who served in
the Union army and think how much |
that would be out Of the earnings of
the people of this country. We had
just as we'll strap a soldier on the
back of every man who works for a
living, on the back Of every man who
goes behind his pillow, on every poor
fellow who goes into the workshop
and takes up his plane and hammer.
That is what this Ubiquitous increas-
ing Of pensions means.
"This Congress has passed tariff
bill that makes our revenues a certain
stipulated sum. We know the impor-
tant questions before the various
standing committees. Yet we pass
this bill before considering the reports
of the great COMMITTEES that recon-
mends Government expenditures and
leave them, in a measure at least, to
take care of themselves. We had bet
ter get down to business. We had
better study the revenues of the Gov
eminent before we make these great
inroads on the Treasury Of the coun-
try. This is not only giving the mon
ey of the people to the men who ac-
, tually fought for their country in the
, civil war, but it is giving it to every
: Tom, Dick and Harry who come up
, and says, 4 smelt gunpowder during
the civil war;
This pension business has gone far
enough and too far. 1t is time to
q call halt. Next thing you know you
. will want to pension your Senators
v and Congressman"
1 Injustice To Sisson.
|. The publication of an article in
these columns two days later than II
l. was written, in which it was stated
S that Representative Thomas U. Sisso1
had not returned to Washington fol
e the opening of the regular session o
o Congress, was an error and does Mr.
Sisson an injustice.
y The article was written on Novem
Der 30th, on which date Mr.. Sissol
o had not returned, but it was not pull
lished until December End. Mr.. Sis
son reached Washington on the morr
. ing of December 1st, the day the res
ular session began, and went at ono
g to meeting Of the appropriation
IL committee.
d Mr.. Sisson also wishes it unde
D. stood that in a speech he made on tn
In floor of the House before leavin
IT. Washington, in which he stated thu
W. absent members ought to be here an
o. vote on the Hensley resolution for
- naval holiday, he meant no reflectio
H. on the Mississippi members who wei
then absent. The report Of the speec
in this paper evidently carried Il
idea to the minds Of many that M
Sisson singled out the Mississippi a
sentees from all the rest Of the a
sentees In his declaration that mel
- bers ought to be hero. In reality. b
:. remarks applied to absentees from |
ho other states as we'll IS Mississippi a
+os nothing contained In the report W
20 intended to represent him as besto
ra ing any especial condemnation
members from his own state.
Der Williams at Philadelphia.
nts Senator John Sharp Williams b
or returned from Philadelphia, where
ion spent one day presiding over the me
bus ing of the American Academy Of
litical and Social Science at the Dire
Institute In that city. The sess
Mis- was in honor Of the Internatio