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Show PENSIONS NOW AND HERETOFORE. The Nation notes that three or four thousand private pension lulls become a law every vcar. and sas: "No President since ( 'leva land has In m willing to take tin- trouble t took into thc.r merits one by one That is probably true, and Mr 'l. cland was not at all particular about pensions. eX'-cpt for 1'nion soldiers. If In- could have had his w av . lie wouid have Vetoed eVel'V otic He slglei Wltllollt looking at it the bill giving even .Mexican war veteran ;t pension, but when it came to the I mon sobllel's. lie spread tile record fllll ot Veto s. Some of til. Ill Were most Vicious. We IV 1 1 1 1 1 1 b c r one disf incfly. A oiing colored man ran aa from his mas-ter. mas-ter. joined the Pnion army, and was shot dead in battle. The voung man's mother asked tor a pen- j sion. and Mr. Cleveland's At Liny) - .cmral nn-1 dered a grave decision to the effect that, whereas the voting man when he ran away was a slave, the fact that he .joined the I'nion army and gave his hd in battle for the cause did not change l!m fa-. be. cause he. being a slave, was n.bod . Hen . Mother v en) lib d to no pension. j Th.-rc is such a thing as tin- cxi ut.'.e i ; being too v igilant |