Salt Lake Herald | 1890-07-23 | Page 4 | Pension Extravagance

tf r f V PENSION EXTRA VAGAiNOE The New York Tribune claims to have done its sharctfor many years in securing justice for the veterans of the Union I and links it has earned the right to say now that the surviving Union veterans of this ountry do not ask to be supported at pub lie expense when they are able to support themselves Tho people it says will ertainly stop somewhere Indeed they ivilh The pensions of the present year added to those heretofore paid will require early onehalf tho entire revenue of the government to pay them Tho TiiJiunc therefore thinks this is going toD far and tardily calls a halt I it is true as it nov appears that ono half tho entire rove i uo will be paid in pensions next year then I this halt comes rather into Onehalf of the revenue paid out to about oneeighty ighth of the population the half million I o f pensioners and that too nc twentylive years after the WUI certainly necessitates a halt in pension paying No patriot objects t o the ju t pension claims of veterans but t 30 recent billshavo clearly overdono the i r awarding of pension claimants