| Show THAT T 11 F We give Rive plane today to a n communication n Lion tion from Judge on tho the pension venston question ru It Is Intended ns na a a n reply to toa ton tob b a n brief editorial e In tho the News of ot AUB Aug 28 commenting on a n paragraph which I appeared 1 In III tho the New York Journal As t our readers will readily discover tho the I extended 1 remarks of ot o Judge Di M Diverge il verge vergo Into a n much wider wilier held than that we 0 entered are aro chiefly chlell attacks on persons pers ns who are not connected w with Ith tho the controversy and nn am 1 political flights that V only damage the writers caure The fIle De News In reproducing the 4 Journals statement simply touched touch on ona VI a ft 1 matter that has hns been beon discussed In a large number of ot Influential newspapers I for tor several yearn The Tho Journal men mentioned honed cases of ot Impersonation of dead 4 pensioners and other means by hy which I pensions In a 1 way rendered Im Immortal 1 mortal The Tho News summed 1 up tho the I whole holo hoie matter In this sentence nut Hut Is IsIt Ish IsIt It h not time to overhaul ul tho the entire pen penI I fon system for the benefit of nf the tax taxpayer I payer What Is there In nil that to tot t excite tho the Ire of at any bona Mo ary nr of the pension laws Wherein herein dos does s sIt It reflect upon any soldier or the widow or heir of any an soldier legally entitled entitle to tho the sum provided by b law for such worthy worth orth Individuals 14 The Judge has haa gone gono a n good goad deal dent out V of f the way woy to take a slap and nn 1 hurl a afew afew few fol epithets nt at nn an ex I President who has hM nothing to do 10 with the present question Also Iso to work up b n it feeling among Innocent pensioners t that Dial they the have been assailed We give cho I place to all nil that nonsense that tho the thet t writer may ma not no have occasion to say ray that we wo refused him n a hearing Hut V really It Is space wasted nail and docs not reach ench the subject Introduced by the Journal and nn 1 very briefly touched upon V by li the News Pension Ien lon frauds have havo formed a n topic for tor public consideration for many man years It has been taken up by most of tho the theft ft loading leading leo American papers and maga magazines ma n 1 I sines 11 nell That there have been many p t cases esses of fraudulent frou applications through attorneys specially engaged hill In the tho business and nn 1 of actual deception by 11 which money mOMY has hns been fraudulently obtained has hlll been blen demonstrated be bo beyond yond rational dispute This Is 18 virtually iS acknowledged by our correspondent In t his hili closing paragraph where he ho says ens fraud 1 should 1 be exposed and a 01 the guilty boullt ones oneil punished That Is the tho whole matter In review Why so much extraneous and nn 1 unnecessary protest 7 As to the services of our 1 the fortitude ot of their friends nt at 1 homo home has hos any one tailed either In InI I question Has there th re been any attempt to belittle them has Hns there been n a demand for a 1 decrease In the pension j roll by b striking from from It thur or tho the names of any nn dear old oM wives of or pensioners pen Nonsense Neither the i New ow York Journal nor the I O e News New Nc lifts has said nil a Q syllable In disparage meat of the tho heroism of at the nations de 4 V z fendor or ir r the patriotism of their rela relatives rel lives tives We have only the call for far an nn Investigation which shIll shall ex expose exoe pose oe fraud and punish the guilty Our censor admits admit till the v ry r ground gmund 01 or of I our contention that Is III that fraud I should be exposed and nn 1 the guilty guilt ones onea V i punished yet lIt h li he a n chal thai challenge challenge lenge to us to point out nut n a 1 single coin com community i In the tho United States Stale such sucha a n fraud could exist but i adds n the worth words If known lenon Just Ju l so go goit If it iL The demand Is made mod foi tot Investigation that they ther be roade nade I known and ond then they wll vil not nol b hi bt gut suf suffered Uffer feted fer Ll to exist Is It to be that In the great Teat cities of th the such frauds lire are Impossible to remain t I for a time unknown Fact prove that thai I they tho have hae so o existed but wh i known of course they would not re remain 1 main very vera nt long Ions longi i Now ow we respond with a 0 challenge to tonn any nn one who fh own con do io o to jn point out on OM sentence either In our editorial l or pv 01 li ii lithe the paragraph we quoted q from the Ihl i New York which ta casts ts thy the th thyi i reflection i ri upon ullon any an bona bono fide flue pensioner r a living soldier solder or r the to a of a departee I I t 1 0 III rO t M r I It Ite e I hero Judge Jugo wants us lis In ex OX exposing I posing the guilty not to condemn the th many Innocent ones on That Thal is III the me sog Noth Nothing NothIng oth Hl st kind kIna of Irrelevant bathos the ing has hIS hon bon said Maid or hinted against Innocent ones one If ever there wits watt m a n cue caw of going off oft halfcocked the Jud judge o has furnished It tt lug His letter IB Is an n In of ot mining Into print without provocation I II Is nn In attak upon iTI with the CHUM cause d Is II p II a tearful of tIple a tnt whom In accusation not syllable ha has hall been Iwen said sahi lion tion or by rational Inference Inter nCe The file Jib Pe fet rt t News has hns always alway had lid a Ii good Bowl word to say ay for the defenders deC of our country The U 0 A It II here and re know tha Ih that antI and appreciate li It 1 for forthe forthe forthe need There wap wa not tile the slightest the lung lorn tirade which we WI have printed so fIO that It Its rejection should not give I 00 oe Ann Ana AnnIn eulon for a ft charge of unfairness In view vie of the admissions In III the letter contains Ins w we our query which conti the tile whole matter In Is It IL not the gist glit nf of t time to overhaul the this entire pension aya tern tem tot for the th benefit of or the taxpayer |
