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Show PENSIONS AND MEXICO. ; Ta Oregonisn despsirs of the country ever being fr from pension p7S- 11 Mra ; ' -Haw laaf a tlma will alaoaa bafora tka piTrornt af paaaiaaa ta rtvil ar tro sad 4air widow wilt tet Bar be laftrrad frea taa fait that tk latt widevr e s raalutiary war ara tid aat 4i until 'MBbwr 11. 1!H. ar 12S yrara s'trr tka iirwi.'er af Yorktwns tkat tka latt ponnoiiad aWu r )!! 1Ihi ia Hes. or aiaatr yr aftr that war rlc4. and tlitt Sl widows of 181 J ' U draw u-'.aa". u-'.aa". Wa . llrrofora. axpart tka laat widow of s tttU war .rraa ta anrrtra oatil Valrraaa of tka !uiM war aad tkalr widowa will k"P tb a- taa vt alir aftar tkat data, aad a raa ataraalr ma ta waia war la tka iatrrim. Aa rapioaara of toe war drop off tka rolli, tkaaa af aaotkxr war lake tkir pla'ef. Praaioai any be cearidared a Sarvatua) eauaa af public airxaa. -. Thst is not worth worrying over. When a yoiing lsdy msrries sn old vetersn just to be sure of his peosion, she is lisble to esrn it all, because old :fHows die hard sometimes; they get to be great nuisances, and there ia many a wife of a veteran who thinks she baa earned the pension through very much more suffering than her bus- nana went toroaRn w ewcuro n. The money paid in pensions does not amount to much. Of course, it is a tremendous sum every year, but then it all stays in the country , it nesrly sll goes to worthy people, and it is a perpetual per-petual advertisement to the world that the United States revere its soldiers and ia willing to pour out money like water to reward them for eervices performed. VT think it doubtful whether we shall ever have another great war. Tbe occasions are growing leas and less all tha time. The moat trying aitnation that the country is suffering under un-der now is in Mexico. There ar hundred of mlllioni of American money tfiere, a preat many thoiwauds of Americans, and it is a source of in-eresaing in-eresaing irritetion thst they should be annoyed, plundered, driven out, and perhaps killed by a lavltag crowd who are too strong, apparently, for the real government of Mexico to. overcome. Of course, they tell na that any armed intervention inter-vention would be followed by the massacre of all the Americans in Mexico, snd a confiscation -of their property. We doubt that very much, be-:su be-:su If thst were to be perpetrated by any clasa of people in Mexico, our country would be sure to demsnd and exact full retribution, and while Mexlcane ar good bluffers, When it comes down to cold stec they are not anxious at all to die for native land. 1 The worst possible feature would be that we would have to annex at leaat on row of state, and we do not need them. , We have our own troubles. (When we resd of the conviction of thirty-eight dynamiter, men engaged in blowing up buildings and killing. Innocent people, or in giving succor to those who do that kind of work, we do not wish any more territory added, where a great many ot the people would be willing agents to continue that kind of work. But Mexico will have to restore order pretty soon or something will have to b done, because it is too lste in the world for a power to admit a tbe one hand that it cannot eontrol its ruffians, and to threaten on the other that if anyone goea td kelp it they will visit tha intruder with condign con-dign punishment. The trouble with Mexico ia that it ia not fit to be frees it peopl" bave not tbe level headedness to gun a repubtio, and the mistake that our country coun-try baa mada waa in not going to hold up the haada of old man Dias until be conquered a peace. |