Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-03 | Page 18 | Local News

It turns out that the pension order about which so much outcry was made will have no particular effect In increasing increas-ing the cost of the pension roll. That order niado the age of 62 a pail of proof of dlsablllay, and increasing years, still further proof, with somewhat some-what higher ratings. The Democratic oratorB in Congress made the air blue with fervid denunciations of this order, or-der, the claim being that It was sure to bankrupt tho treasury. But the order has now been In forco for three months, and Instead of the two hundred thousand thou-sand applicants foi pension under it, that the orators fearfully foreshadowed, fewer than five thousand applications have been made; and probably not more than ten thousand will apply under It, while the Increased payments will not amount to as muoh as tho discontinuances discontinu-ances from deaths. It was a miserable, petty uproar that was made by the Domocratlc demagogues over this order; but the fewness of the applications under it do not indicate any unexpected or Increased death rate: the explanation explana-tion lies in quite a different quarter. It is that far fewer of the veterans of tho war than it was reckoned, had refused re-fused to apply for pensions; and that a good many of these have thus far refused re-fused to apply, oven when the door was opened.