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Show Pensions for Confederates Thci suggestion that thj federal gcvernmei.t p.nsion the few re-ir.nhiing re-ir.nhiing Confed rate veterans is made by no less a persen than Alfred Al-fred E. Staeey, National Commander of th? G. A. R. In several recent stat-ments he has suggested that this would be the be t way to wipe out the last vestage of enmiiy became be-came of the war betw (en the States. Th's shows how the world moves. Foes that fought aga nst each other, in settling by arms a great issue in this country, s m to have become, be-come, in truth, common citizens cf a common nation. The le'son set by th- people of the United States in 'rasing as far as po sible th? bi.t-rne s of a great struggle ought te be copied by some cf th-' nations of Europe, where past hates and bitter wrongs are kept alive to nour sh the war sp'rit. It is net the way to peace, and can never be. |