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Show Pensions. "The uniform policy of the government govern-ment In the matter of granting pensions pen-sions to those gallant and devoted men who fought to save the life of the nation lu the perilous days of !b great civil war, haa always been of the most liberal character. Those men are now rapidly passing away. The best obtainable oltitial statistics show that they are dying at the rate of something over three thousand a month, aud, lu view of their advauc lug years, this rate must Inevitably In proportion, rapidly Increase. To the umn who risked everything on the field of battle to save the nation lu the hour or Its direst need we owe a debt which has not l-eeii and should not be computed in a b grudging or p.u sluionlous spirit." |