| Show TUB Tilt Washington National Tribune The Th first thing that strikes one Is that the veteran of tho the rebellion n are not given RIon the benefits of ot chin Increase of ot on III tho the pension roll toll Nearly tho time whole wont to tho the and they nearly all the Spanish 8 war They Time rhe got gut of oC tho time total of oC 4 OO or over SO it per cent of ot lie thu gain Kilin This flue too tuo while tho the veterans are lire old and at Dt the tIme critical periods of their lives lyell while the Iho Spanish h var war survivors anti nm their will wid widows id Dive nil all young with tho the greater greot r part of ot their lives yet before thum thorn Time Tho next thought Is in that with all these hundreds iu ml rod s of thousands of od w cases on tile IlIe with tho the claimants all past the time meridian of life lICe anti nd h I y growing older and needier With what Iron Iroll rigidity has been heen kept the tab on time the graveyard and ond no one ad admitted to tu the roll until some somo ono one tiled diet anti made u a place tace for tor him Even Kven In Including eluding this extraordinary Increase of oC 1200 durin durIng tho the past post year Mr Evans vanY imas ms allowed a n net to tho thu rolls during his hili four tour years ears of but As the time Spanish war was fought ought In tho the meantime and tint has haH so far resulted In additions there lucre are aro really fewer feier union veterans anti and their widows 1109 on tho the rolls titan than there vero ro when he took tool charge Chicago Evening Post Poet Tho Tue figures throw a II good oo deal of light on those enterprising gentlemen mown known ns os pension agents Not that they hey would for Cor a n moment present tile Its honest claims but that they have such sucha a n sharp scent lent for or that they can ran keep I up the proportions of ot tho the pension roll however fast fust the old ol sol sal diem diers respond t to tho the final summons No matter mattur what republics In iii general I may be l e ours U Is l not ungrateful It may moy be Le unwise It lima may be Le easily worked but lut It Is 18 so eo full tull of gratitude the tho theold theold old soldier that It pensions even ovon the tho third and fourth generations of those that fought for tor It of some seine who Chattanooga Times Common sense and ond ordinary tion would teach us WI that when one person orson In Is drawing a ft pension that It Is not unlikely that one ono out of every ever Y f tidy will be bo pensioned the monumental wrong of or the ago age has been perpetrated upon the tho lon sul people of ot the States Slates Philadelphia Record The ThA fact that tbt th lt Commissioner Evans Emil Issued during durIn the tho year cates eaten 1000 more than were ere Issued be bo tore fore In any till aim ope Op I year ear Is at nt once a db tact fact to tm the taxpayers of at the country and to the tho carpers of ot the time Grand Army of time the Republic The rhe Civil war tar ended years ngo but wo vo are arc now paying five 1110 dollars where we WI paid one at nt tho the end Oni of Fred 1101 dent Grants second administration The total payments for tor pensions since July 1865 1800 have havo been Leon Two prices could have been boen paid out of this tills vast sum Rum of money for every sloe slave In Inthe time the Southern States at the tho outset out et of the tho war find and enough left over ocr to have havo given lOn each OCh slave family faintly forty fort acres of land and a mull mule |
