Show PROFUSE PENSIONS the buffalo Eix express press is is much surprised that the country will remain quiet and submit tamely to to the injustice of the new pension law which is costing the nation so dearly there were on the roll thia this number lias has increased until now although r twenty years have elapsed since the war there arc are now over says the express pensions have been cheerfully paid to an amount unprecedented in any national exchequer during the last lost twenty years more than have been paid army and navy pensioners in accordance cor dance with natural lawa laws the payments should show ft a decrease they did intact apt do so until a new legislature was interposed in 1871 the P pension sion expenditures culminated at it then began slowly to fall dropping to in 1878 then the new law came in and the figures rose to in 1879 to in 1880 to more than this year with a prospect of next year in 1883 and nobody knows hw much thereafter do taxpayers stop to think what a sum is it would maintain a standing army of men in ill this country or in F france batice or germany we point to the burden of the sl anding army as a chief hief cause for the emigration of germans to this country but how much better is it to pay the cost of auch such an all army in our pension roll and not have the army the people had a right to demand that when the war ended its expenses espen ses should measurably end to put upon poll the country the cost of on all in an armous standing tan ding army under the guise guiso of pensions is a deception and a fraud |