Show decoration DAY IT has been said that envy la Is the vice of republics and add ingratitude their most marked characteristic this saying baying will not apply to the republic of the united states of america any person who gives a thought to what transpired yesterday all over this thief road broad land must admit that neither envy nor ingratitude are characteristic of our country president harrison accompanied by governor flower participated in memorial day exercises at rochester new york ex president hayes was among the leading figures in the celebration at columbus ohio and so on down to the humblest citizen in the he landaas land was the memory of the departed honored and respected in chicago the union and confederate ex joined to observe the day in the matter of provision for the survivors of the ciari civil war there has been no penuriousness the total cost for pensions for the current year ending june 30 next will aggregate about there are now applications before the bureau under the old and new pension laws and it ft li Is possible that in the near future the annual outlay for pensions will amount foursome for some time to como come to about annually in the nature of circumstances the increase iu crease can not go on much longer once the zenith to is reached the decreasing process will be rapid there are 19 pensioners of the war of the revolution still on en the rolls they are all women the wives of old soldiers and they vary in age from 80 to there are agoos also a number on n the rolls from the war of 1812 and the the majc mexican war all this disproves the old remark that republics are invariably ungrateful in some respects our own has been lavishly the reverse |