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Show DEMAND PENSIONS. Congress is to be asked to pension i civil service employees after thirty years of service. There is a body known as the National Association of Civil Service Employees, aud at a mass meeting meet-ing held in New York last Sunday it was decided to launch a campaign to obtain the passage of a law embodying the retirement and pensioning demands. No less a personage than Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port of New York, was chairman of the meeting; so it is probable the deman.d will be made early in the coming session of congress. We do not know how many civil service ser-vice jobs there are, but there must bo many thousands of such places. If Uncle Sam should decide to pension this class of employees after thirty years of service a large appropriation would be necessary each year, for many of them receive their places when IS or 20 years of age and cannot be pried loose by other aspiring individuals. They would be comparatively young men and women when the time for retirement came, and in the course of a few years the pension rolla would be very lengthy. ! Old age pensions for tho working 1 classes are in vogue in some' countries, ; but the system would not work in the United States under present conditions.; Perhaps some workable plan will be j evolved in" time, but so far as we know the working classes are not making de- mands for such consideration at the! ; hands of the government. Good work- ing conditioDs and fair, wages are the sum and substance of their desires. They ask no favors. Pensions are paid soldiers and sailors who wear, the uniform of Uncle Sam for thirty years, but these men receive mallpay and except in a comparatively few cases are not a Mowed to ma rry. They could not hae homos of their own or support families if they did take wives. Pensions in this iu stance a i e right and proper aud there never has been any objection to them. It is 1o be doubted, however, whether congress will pass a hill pensioning civil service employees em-ployees who receive good sa laries and who are secure in their positions for thirty years. The laborer is worthy of his hire, but it is not certain the people of the 'United States would submit to taxation forthe purpose of pensioning i civil sendee employees. |