Show 1 RADICAL ATTACK ON SERVICE EX-SERVICE MEN Ot OL all 11 the rabid anti ant bonus ar articles rules rule's ap appearing In the ilie papers op opposed opposed opposed posed to the soldiers Ing compensation con none is ss more radl radi radical cal than an in editorial editor In tI the e Wall WallStreet WallStreet Street sheet Journal TournaI Under the head bead beading bead Ing ing Shill Shall We Profit By the Wall wan Street paper papera's us aas as a's In the quest or of o a soldiers bonus its advocates In Wash Wash- Washington ington ton are making a a II list heat des desperate desperate penta offensive from their line ne Congressman Garner thinks that the mat matter ter should be settled in the Interest of ot the counts country's busi busl- business business ness neS But to grant these pan pan- panhandlers pan panhandlers handlers their unearned and dole would settle nothing On the contrary contrary It automatically automat Insure a anew anew anew new bonus grab with each new congress for fifty years ears Have we forgotten the history of the Civil ChU war pensions At least there Has nas v as no talk of ot a cash dole in that ca case e nor oxen of adjusted tion prom from our babyhood to 1861 there sere nero v ere just gust three pensIon acts and resolutions intro Intro- Introduced introduced introduced in congress covering the Revolutionary war the war of 1812 and the Mexican war From 1861 to 1919 there acre n ere pension acts and andI I as a ot of the pension grab brab started In the seventies It may be beI belec recollected I that the total num- num number num Dum number ber in the Union army y muster roll of the Civil il War nar v ar was 2213 2 2 men mea me The total of or the Grand Army of ot the Republic in a nay ay to the American legion but an In- In Incomparably incomparably In Incomparably comparably moro more reputable or- or organization or Has nas The pension list reache reached Its maximum max max- maxImum in 1898 according to the pension office with 5 82 persons In la receipt of ot such relief Adding 5 fi per cent for tor those who died before or Hero ere pensioned after 1898 1838 gh es an approximate record of Ch anI ll 11 I I War ar pensioners of Taking those killed In so- so ac ao action tion and all who dIed or of wounds sounds or disease during the war and nd estimating the wounded at 51 times of the number lulled killed there ii is i an n ap- ap approximate approximate ap approximate proximate casualty list of so that there were pensioned in excess of men It need hardlY be said s d that many wounded were not pensioned and many pensioned were not wounded There are honored living today who never ac- ac accepted ac accepted a a pension Up tp to the end of 1921 the total amount p paid d on civil war pensions was If It we estimate the fur fur- further fur tur further ther life of the pensioners stilt alive at an average of five years there nil will ill be an additional cost bringing up the total Civil was wai pension bill five years ean hence to This Is an average cost for tor pensions of more than The pro proposed posed bonus payment pa mint now be- be before be before fore congress will merely i whet the appetite of those nho ho believe In the fathomless I depth of Uncle Sams Sam's Sam pocket I IThe The muster roll of the Great I war Is about the same as that of the Civil war but the he dole and pension grabbers In thIs i cue case start starl where the Civil war veterans left off oft If It once the practice of granting bonuses is IE firmly Installed with its princIple conceded there Is no ground to hope that the I levy on the American taxpayer taxpayer er will be less lees than I That Indeed Is an absolute minimum and It may maybe mayb anI I be far more f It If If such a a dole were moral morally morally I ly Iy justified we should have I no right to complain But It ItIs itis itis Is not justified It Is the most sordid prostitution of ot Amer Amer- American American Amerlean ican lean citizenship which which- has ba baever ever been heen propounded by i 4 el L I American politicians and that Is 15 saying something Why does doe the Wall Street Jour JOur- JOurnal Journal nal declare that compensation Is not Justified It If men who alto con con- contribute con contribute tribute dollars are not paid in patriotism but must have their dollars returned with Interest why I should hould our young men be called called on to sacrifice even to the ex extent tent of yielding up their lives without thought of compensation T The burden of defending our nation should be equalized and with everyone contributing to that th defense and all helping to pro pro- protect prot pro test without thought of evading responsibility the day may come when the civilian made soldier will ask aik tor for no reward and no recognItion But But while wealth i Is I not DOt and the at ejay-at a ay homes are allowed to profit by wars war's disasters jt It t la Is but natural that the sen Ice Iee men should ex act 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