Show C BID S I GRANDPA HANNA HANNA is isI is ap a l FOXY 1 I trying to frame up a ta surprise S for the young man ma In the t o oW White W hUe House Bouse Your Yur Uncle Marcus tonZO knows some politics himself ins ills bill recently Introduced In the theto th to pension all aU the may be actuated by v motives of but a great gr at many of fis cannot help believing otherwise S sek h hate ate ator jianna lanna despite all his ia s uld Il like 6 very to t be president preside of the 1 e Cf U States and Who he hO would wout d not i ii he lC ln te is a laudable one aaa w 1 Senator Hanna Hat i has has as much b right to 10 entertain it as s the next fellow even e n as much right r it as s President Pr Roosevelt Boose himself The senator has been been watch watchIng watchIng l h Ing with interest int r not unmixed with alarm the efforts of the president tomake to tomake make himself solid Iid with the colored brother ier Negroes Neves have ha e been b n enter entertained ta 1 In the House io fos negroes flOS l OS have haye been een appointed to ta lucrative positions positions In spite ol ef fierce ff protests from the thewl whites tes In th the south Now comes Senator Se f i r Hanna with a fl flyt fly j r the Roosevelt R ointment In the shap of his pension p nion bill The meas ma m S nrc proposes to distribute something like among the t slaves Immediately and a n nevert nev it beeSt eSti eStimated mated amount In j years years to come coine Te Ti second section of the bill makes the tha following provisions Any former slave under the ase i of 50 years jears h receive e a pension at the rate r rage of i 1 a month until he shall Breach reach t the theAny S age u f M io Y ars Any enslave who sh shill the age of or 60 years shan shall receive a ca cash h hsum n sum of or and a pension of 8 5 per pcr month until he shall reach the age ige of ot GO years Any who shall have reached r the age of or 60 m years shall receive a sum of or and a pension at the rate of or m 12 a month until he shall reach the age e et Of t 70 years Any enslave who shall have reached te the age of 70 years shall ahall receive a ca cah H Hsum sum of and a pension the thc ie re of ot his hia life UfE of 15 a month The aggregate cash eish amount given ghen above Is figured 1 on a basis of df f but some southern congress congressmen men believe there are at least If H this estimate Is correct the initial expenditure will vilI be somewhere around It is not nOt likely Uk though that Senator Hannas bill will pass nor should It The ru 8 v Is pot yot en entitled entitled titled to any more consideration erat on than thin any tiny other American citizen He was wa given his freedom and that thatIs Is I sufficient for him for all aU time Still even If the bill blU does not become a law Senator Hanna will have succeed succeeded ed Cd in making a gap in southern fences that is as far as the negro delegates to the next Republican national convention are arc concerned He will have shown that he is the only real true friend the negro has among the politicians and an he will i expect ex e t f them to vote accordingly a in ln the convention 8 t I |