Deseret Evening News | 1906-03-22 | Page 4 | Cost of War

COST OF OP WAR WAB Boston Transcript The fhe Spanish war for far Instance lasted but u a 1 short time Tho The deaths In ac nc actual tonI service especially service In tho the Held lIel 1 or on time the water ater wire were tre very few fell About soldiers were wera enlisted for It II and most t of ot them gut got no farther than the American camps Yet there are veterans of that war nr on the pension rolls and moro more have made application for pensions lon about a quarter of all nil who served These ye cr f mans rann have come to tho time front for tor pen pensions If it they did Ud not reach the thc front for tor action actton They have been much more prompt than were th the veterans of the th Civil war The pension commissioner explains this on arm the ground that the former had not got onto onlo the th same game When a 1 soldier of the former days day thought he deserved de a pension he sought Fought out an attorney and made amado application application cation these rhese days the tho attorneys seek the time soldiers They have their run docks await awaitIng awaitIng nero acre on the Son San Francisco Ing the steamers steamer that return with troops from the Philippines and every soldier Is IH Invited to file nn an application for tor a n pension vension Ilen lon As It costs him noth nothing nothIng ing lag of course cour o he ho consents