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Show PENSIONS, REGULAR AND VOLUNTEER. A curious showlnr; his been made public by Pension Commissioner Ware, of the appll. atlons for pensions on account ac-count of thc teccnt war Willi Spain It Include onl) ihe troops present at the Santiago campnlgn, nnd lndjcnten that prelt) much all of the volunteers present ot that plnce have applied for pensionn, while cninpBiatlvel) few regulars reg-ulars have done so. The table cm-broces cm-broces the records nf live volunteei regiments and rive tegular regiments In this tegnt.l, and I as follows r I 13" Heglruents. ; 52 : fa Volunteers !.. let tilsttlcl of Columbia . n a a, 47J nth-Itlasnehtisett fl a 0 jJB 83d-.MIetitgn "I "I J3 Mth-Michigan 0 t) i t I Stli-Ohlo J!JJa total 0 " ' rthi'"8,hrfantry ull'' 1 7Ht U K lnrantry 3 91 3r l-.Hi r H Infantry JJ I" " J lt,th r S lnfnntr 11 IM 17 111 Stth L" S Infantry l?k!? -" Total 'ei'ni lol 7l Nn doubt that table Is ns striking a one ob the Pension Ilureau could furnish, and It suggests a number of things not carried on the fnco ot It. l'lrst, wo mny loam from It thit the method ot getting volunteers for our war that has been pursued by this country Is the most wasteful of men nnd money ot any ever dev Ised by mnn, save only the nppollltiB losses In nitin of the crusades. We rill for volunteers, volun-teers, they come from every walk of life, having not the sllshtest Idei of what irt renlly the elttty they hivo en-gaged en-gaged lo do, nor of how to care for themselves, they aro tifllcercd, ns a rule, by men equally Ignorant ln these respects with the rnnk and flic. Even If they don't go to tho front nt till, they sicken nnd die nt n rate thit Is the despair of the general commanders, (who na a rule do know something about soldiering,) aa wo saw at tho camp In Chlckamagun. Wo never see nuch deadly epidemics nmong the regulars, regu-lars, because tho men know Homethlng of self-protection, nnd If they lick In Ihls regard their officers know what they should do, and mnke them do It. The remedy Is. to assemble tho volunteers volun-teers nt camps of Instruction, under regular officers, organize them ln such camps. Instruct them In their duties, and officer them nn fnr as posnlblo from tho regular army. Second, It must bo remembered that tho Sintligo campaign was one beset with peculiar hardships; It was In nn unhealthy cllmite, where the maximum maxi-mum of malarious exposure was present, pres-ent, and whero tho very lack of enro that volunteers nro prnno to show would have the highest deleterious f-feet. f-feet. And supervening these 111 coinll-llona, coinll-llona, enmo the scourge nf jellow fever, fe-ver, which practically dtsnhlcd thc whole of the volunteer fntcc, nnd did lint leave the regulars unscathed, ns the pension iciord shows We all recollect rec-ollect the pitiable condition In which the volunteer teglmenta returned to Montauk Point from tint disastrous sti ugglo with 'Yellow .lack" Third, tho nctlvlty of tho pension agent In drumming up business for beiimelves In the way ot pension feus, has a good deal to do with the 1 irge number of the volunteer cases These agents have no such oasy way of getting get-ting at lho regulars as at tho volunteers. volun-teers. To the latter they send persistently per-sistently their ciiculars and uffers of service, nsstirltiK the recipient thit thtro Is no doubt of getting Hie ptn-slnn; ptn-slnn; the ense la perfect, nnd gittlng on the pension roll u certainty, the iigenl make up the case, tho volunteer ineiely his In sign and the shttk will tin tho lest, lobbing both the candidate for pension and the (loverninent Is It tut) wonder, all these things considered, that the Pension nurenu Is able lo make surh a showing ns It has iiiaele, against the volunteers' At the same time, we do not (.insider Unit It was a kind or magnanimous thing tn do, unless It I to bo used tn effect a change In the methol of calling for nnd mustering lit the vnluntier foiccs ill tlmo of war, 'vhon Ihey aie needed The change suggested nltnve would ot course deprive the Htate and the politicians pol-iticians nf Iirge'palrnnugc in the way of getting cotnmlsslnim for ftlendu und constituents, but when wo sin how otutlly wasteful of humnn life mnl health, und of win nuueil ii, the old system ha always pinved, 110 one with a grain nf cnustdi ration In liln breast feu Ihe good of his country and of his fellow men inn for n moment hesitate to make Ihe needed change And the time to make II la In a petiiid of profound pro-found peace., when theie la no piticin-ago piticin-ago In sight foi when Hie Mress I on llieio Is neither lime nor disposition to make the change Hut tho Pension Ilureau expei ts to pintect Itself agilust many ot the'o claims by volunteers through a plan ndopted at the iiiusteilng nut of Hie tiuops nt tho close nf the Spanish w 11 This plan was devised by (leu 1' f Alitsworth of tho pension office nnd In thus described b the Arms nnd Navy lleglstsr l'nch soldier of volunteers bsfore luing must. red out uremic. In tin wnt wiiR Hpnln was lequlreri to make a t iteim m of his physical enndltlmi lie was uel.e.t to . let tutu himself 011 tin qui 1111,11 Hive ou am teason to b. Hit, ih,i ni ,, present limn you aie Bun.rlii Horn Hi.. uric, is or any wo I Injui) or disease or Hint ou liavi au dlnnl lilt .11 m. pnlrmeiit of health wh. ih. 1 Incurred in the mllltniy service 01 oh iwlse' An I ho was further Invited hi .in. rlbe the ellsiibllll) If 11 rslsted ind t . uit, wli.ii and where and how it w is in urr .1 This -lut'inent was siipplim 11 d bi Unit of 111 company coniin mil r 1 lung lho same lines nnd nimtnlnul bj th. rtnientt nf the exnmlning surgeon u th re npp ur d u discrepancy bitweeii the soldier astute.- ment nnd the surgeon s certlflcite, thc s iidt r went before n litintd of three m; di-enl di-enl otn.ers who.e rti .rt was added to the soldiers history which wns sent to the record and pension ofltce These reord nrt now proving of Immense Im-mense value to the Pension ofilc. ln connection con-nection with the claims which have Ihtii made ond which nre being mide for pulsions pul-sions b) volunteer s. Idlers who assert dls-atiilltv dls-atiilltv bj reason of service iii the volunteer volun-teer arm) the comparison of claims with these records of muster-out cxnmlnitlons have mnn times proven their value Jo tho (lovetninint Thej have protected the tublle treosuri from such an Incision ns Is llluslrnte.1 In Ihe table we have repro elm d. when one out of every two men who served In five volunteer regiments In Culm ImiKln. .1 th.tnsclves Justified In asking n pension from this Government des. lie Hi' fn t tint no 0111 In that volunteer vol-unteer force of cm m n wis reported as killed, wounded or missing When the Pension orilce re.'lv.s 11 clilm from a man who s. rve.1 In Hie war with Spain, It hns but to obtain from the Itccord and Pension office the leeotd of the examination examina-tion of the claimant made prcllmlmrv to his muster-out or disc lurge nnd It dpe 1 not tnko long to nst.rinln whether the claim Is n leBltlmite one or hns been Induced In-duced 1 the persuasion of thc clilm ngent In one notable case recently It wns found thnt the nppllcitlon for pension wits dan el on the v.i) la upon which Hie claimant signed his statement of physic phy-sic il condition on l Inir mustered out At that time he found himself without wound. Injure or dlease vet his claim for pension pen-sion made .ml on the same .lav was re n-elere.1 n-elere.1 not ebb even 111 lb' Pension nfllce, for the colefcoiv of roinplilnts with which he found himself b. set for the purpose of The scheme lool s more like a trnp for the tinwiry volunteer, n belated effort ef-fort on the part of the CSovernmont tn protect Iteelf from Ihe consequences of Its own evil s)Stcm of netting and dealing deal-ing with the volunteers, than n fair protection to the trensur). For lho fact Is, thit the volunteers on being mustered out will sign pretty much nny kind of a paper that thc authorities present to them, suptoslng It to be all 111 the routine, nnd being so nnxlou to get out nnd nwuy In their homes, Hut they neither notice nor care what lt Is about Uesldee, as has been abtin-dinll) abtin-dinll) proved, n man nt the time of his discharge may not think thit he has suffered nny ellsiblllty by reason of his Bervlcc, nnd nny disregard the slight s)mploms of It, when later It Is lliblc tn develop Into a serious matter, mat-ter, nnd In fnct ellsiblo him. We do not believe that thit alleged "shrewd plan" will be iniirh 111 the way of getting get-ting pensions, or that lt Bhould be; fnr It looks altogether too much like nn effort by the (Jovcrnment to take ndvnntage of Un own wrong. |