Show A WRONG PENSION IDEA john burns the english labor champion brings to this thin country some of the old world ideas edca i lit in regard to pensions in his speech fit at it a mass gnass mee t lis ing of trade unionists of now new york k city and brooklyn he touched upon a matter of at old world ideas and now new world rejection when he came to the question of 0 pensions lie he declared he be saw no difference in principle between pensions for let veterans erans in the war and pensions for laborers who do public work nork in the cities or who work in the coal cost I 1 mines ot of pennsylvania ile he loses sight altogether in this of 0 the tea radical difference between public employment and private employment the national government la in working no coal mines in pennsylvania it Is cleaning no slums in new york tork right there Is one distinguishing difference any nation always makes on pensions tile the difference between private and public employ to Is one that its as fir far as this ihla country la is concerned has baa always been the dividing line another dividing line always kept very distinct in this country on one side bide ot of which has been pon pen along and on the other side none has been the difference between civil employ and military employ there Is no civil pension list in this country congress has been frequently imbor tuned to establish such a list or at least to found the beginning of it in r cases but has always refused on the other land hand from the very b beginning e of the nation we have had a military pension list and the reason IS ie co obvious blous in civil life it to la not EL a question ot of life and death tor for a man to take up civil employ more than that no man need enter upon the civil perv service lee of the country unless he desires so 0 to do but on the military side it 1 Is g different first of all the government has the power and it dt may oft time b be c its duty to compel military service of any able bodied man this service in the very nature of it is invariably at the peril ot of the lie life ot of the man called upon tor for it if the soldier so BO taken for military service Is to do battle ifor tor ills his country it la Is at the peril of his life tills this the government has rec 09 clyed this tile the government will continue to lecou nize it to Is a substantial absolute distinction which Is easily luna understood der stood and upon which a dilisi division n 4 ot of duty as between civil and requirements quire ments Is easily stated elated perfectly comprehensible to all men and ab absolutely go fair it if mr burnss chief idea jn in coming to this country Is to urge the establishment of 0 a ch dill 11 pension list st lie he may ng as well return homo home at pace because this country Is neither in the I 1 mood to do anything of 0 that kind nor i has it the money to devote to that pur pose much less to undertake the pensioning ot of disabled laborers who have rece received ived their injuries while in the employ ot of parties in coal mines or performing labor to carry out city contracts mr burns has made a bad beginning arid and will III probably soon ties tee that it Is not worth his while to continue an in that una line lit in america there la Is no sentiment for anything of the tha sort dort L ither cither among amone laborers or anybody else esc |