The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-08-20
PURE BUNCOMBE.

man who claimed much credit for pas
: sing some private pension bills and Sc
: curing pensions and increase of pen
sions from the department, and ",
were asked if we did not think he wa:
entitled to considerable credit.
: We not only think, but know, that
when Congressman c.aims credit fol
securing pensions or increase of pen
sions, either by private bills OF
through the regular channels, that
the claim is the buncombest kind OF
buncomb.
AS matter of fact in ninety-nine
cases out of hundred congressman
does not visit the Pension Bureau Of
ten enough so that the Commissioner
would know him if he met him on the
street. All pension matters are turned
over to his secretary and whatever
work is done in the matter, and it is
always merely, clerical, routine work,
is performed by him.
The men who receive pensions se-
cured them for themselves by gal
lantly serving the Nation in the time
o. the nations stress. The rules and
regulations governing pensions are
well defined and very strict. If an
applicant meets the requirements he
gets his pension, and would get it if |
there were no such thing as con-
gresham in existence. If he don'C
meet the regulations he don't get it |
and ali the Senators and congressman
in Washington can't get it for him.
In former tines, when the Pension
Bureau was months and years behind
in its work, by making a showing of
extreme restitution or near fatal III
ness, on the part of the applicant, a
congressman could get a case adj
vanced on the calendar, but now the
work is well in hand, and about the
only thing member of congress can
do is to claim credit for the allowance
when the pension is allowed, which
cheap congressman always do.
Men get pensions because they
earned them, earned them amid SUI
ferings indescribable, dangers incred-
IDLE and hardshiIs unbelievable and
not because there happens to be
in Washington from
their district.
Cleiring credit for securing pen
sions is the cheapest sort of cheap
John politics and only the littlest men
ever resort to it.
The best remedy for a woman who
hates men is man.
A man never makes fun of his T
vife's religion when he is on his death
Jed. A
The man who knew it was going to =
happen is nightly in evidence these
lays.
1t is easy for physician to cure 8 +
nan of disease that he isn't suffer-
ng from.
The wheat crop is not turning out
[uite as well as we expected. We o
ever thought it would.
1t is of much more benefit to the
1orld to train posterity rightly than :.
lis to hunt up ancestry. "
Mankind pays whole lot more for
ne things that hurt it than it does
or the things that help it. IN
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Girls never hug each other unless
mere is someone looking on but they
re different when it comes to men. w;
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When you bolt your party candidate pa
is patriotism. When you are can
ldate and member of your party
bits you, it is treachery. pa
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The Steans County Fair is our -,
'wn" Fair, and, as the young LADY,
nd to her sweetheart: "The world
IS no time for man who can't hold NJ,
S own"
Congressman Lindbergh declares YIN
at big Business" is fighting him.
it is, it is the first recorded instance
Big Business" wasting its ammu- rul
ton on vacancy. roI
- ney
Two hundred and fifty members of pa;
French Chamber of Deputies have
t their seats and gone to the front
fight. If two hundred and fifty ere
majors and members af Congress or
'uld go to the front we would almost get
lcome a war. tim