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Show .Il'STICK TO THK NOLUIKK. "Be just before you are generous," is a motto every patriot soldier In the country would impress upon congress. They are not crying for service or dependent de-pendent pensions. If today, without a word about interest on deferred payment pay-ment of a just debt for a quarter of a century, the government would pay to private and olHcer, wages promised to be paid in gold or its equivalent, but which were of necessity, we admit, paid in depreciated paper, worth 50 cents on the dollar, justice and equity would be done. As an offset to the blatant howls of anti-pension pot house politicians, the unpaid soldiers who uro working their own passage to open graves, have ouly time to interpose their just and equitable claim and go their way amid tho clamoring of tho coyotes at their heels. |