| Show OlM II Attention Is 11 again called to the tho large number of pensioners pensioner n loner receiving public support for Cor supposed services rendered In the Civil Will War ar Commissioner In Itt his itis annual report repart shows that there are nrc names On the roll roil and antI that on in tho the 3 Hh th of last lul there were still claIms pendIng There are lue now no more moro beneficiaries of oC tho tim pension law lawthan then than there were svere mon men under UHler arms when the tho armies were mustered out thirty six Ix years yearn OIl ago ami the number Is still growing though thought the veterans are arc dy dying dying ing In nt nl tho rate of many thousands every ov ry year oar The rho ho reason lOIson for tor this anomalous comB condi condition I tion tho the Now flew York Journal explains thus It has hus been beell shown recently that while a n pensioner may nitty tIle lie his pension In III many litany ruses cases Is Immortal Sometimes It descends to his hi heirs and sometime It Is just Jut quietly annexed by hy a neigh neighbor bor bar who has hUR taken a fancy to It The rite government Is In the tho habit nf or paying a n pension to John Smith When John Johll Smith dl fi the government dONI not necessarily know knoll It II and If it the tm bt properly worked It may ilia go to on making the tho payments to John Jones Jonea of or false Impersonation are nrc said saltI to be very numerous and In the tha presence of or such statistics as us those tho contained In tho the commissioners report tho the statement t tiliA may flay iliA readily be bo believed The T e oM olti Joke about the longevity of pensioners may not Iw ho strictly accurate It U may mn bo hi merely mery the pension lon not the tho pen pensioner stoner that Is 13 so 80 long lone lived The Tue question Is sometimes sometime being asked whether republics are aro ungrateful We should think not There Thero Is no mon mono country In the tue world where whore tho the government would continue to pay for supposed services long utter after those thoo who performed them have passed lI out of DC this earthly existence Hut lInt Is it not time to tho the entire pension system for forthe tho the lo no lit of tho the taxpayer tn I |
