Show THE PENSION ROLL J Whatever er else the world may 1113 say about the v United States it will be bound to admit that its iL s r government is generous lS to lo old soldiers Up to F r n 30 1905 the disbursements for s t l for pensions amount 21 to lo Civil wn war f j Oj JO Ih war wS IT J. nr Vur Hr of 1 l War Vir r wit with h xico M.-xico Sir with Spain i ar Indian wins uri i. i 1 Um i oo r. r Cost of vf re regular ut t q 1 ryK n oo Last year lal was y as paid The last hist re- re of or the that there are lIl areO nt tEil l- l names on 11 the roll iolJ In each cacti of live Mates Matts of the t the I IC annual I l dU I. I Ilium 1 bm r fur fr t I 1 Those e H are 1 Ohio iu J pensioners pail paid Jt Pennsylvania anin ass pensioners 41 paid New Yurl Yuri pensioners paid Illinois pen 1 1 paid Indiana pension ers CISI paid pail Pensioners living abroad arc I tt over U sixty sixty- three countries but arc are chiefly in iii Canada Oj 1 Germany man Ireland England Mexico Scotland Australia Aus Switzer Switzerland nd France Norway Sweden and awl Cuba And Aud our wise congressmen the interest it bearing debt was more than two thousand millions oi ot or dollars and with this steady y annual drain for pensions before the country demonetized silver and destroyed half the real mon money in the thc world |