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Show Onr Costly Discharged Army. Senator Carlisle in the Forum. ( standing army in the world costs the people so much as our army of discharged dis-charged foldicrs. Although we are at peace among ourselves and with ait the world, and have no foroign or domestic policy to make such an expenditure neeessarv. we are paving more than $135,000,000 annually to the soldiers of a war that closed twenty-five years aao. Tho payment of reasonable pensions, pen-sions, on account of wounds actually received and diseases actually contracted con-tracted in the military or naval forces in time of war, is just and right in itself, and is. moreover, the wisest policy that can be adopted by a government which relies for its defense almost exclusively upon the voluntary services of its citf-r.eus; citf-r.eus; but the gratuitous distribution of public money among certain classes of the people is neither just nor consistent with the charaeterof our institutions, . 1 |