Show bOLDI IES it is discouraging in these days of ex rebel rule to read of the many falsehoods being told about the pen iona given to yit veterans erana who fought to save eave the union when hen many who are now in office fougle against it all sorts of innuendoes and mali cious prevarications are indulged in in with a view to stir up against m the pensioners while isolated i cases may exist whore the giving of a pension is ia not strictly on the grounds of justice we do not believe half as many are illegally or di dis honestly drawing a pension as danao cratic newspapers would have hate us u bal ballove iove mi many any of these papers not only charge dishonesty st y on the par part t of many vet veterans 6 who are drawing pensions pen siona but one loading democratic orean in tho the city of now new york casts out mean insinuations in regard to the leaders odthe grand army of the republic Ke public as follows in view of the facts that are becoming public and nd notorious it behooves the responsible leaders of the G Q A R to take care lost lest they come under busel dionot cion of Bt andini in with the con pension agents for other than patriotic consideration considerations I 1 I 1 it other words the responsible leaders had better take care and do honor to tho the man who lives in the white house and goes f fishing on decoration day or they too will b be e slandered itis it is a dirty throat threat which ever way one looks at and we wa do not believe that the sentiment of the nation is yet so degraded as to tolerate many such buch insults bad being ft heaped upon the veterans who F saved aved the union I 1 |