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Beetnovens • KopcuorandGounod's,;' Ave Maria ” (Hit,A Soldier on the (Dependent Pi-nsiouBill,To the Editor of The Evening Post:Sir : The Evening Post deserves not only the congratulations but the sincere thanks of the'vhole community for its against the Pauper Penleadership in the attack sion Bill. That it furnished nearly all the facts and set forth the con-seqnenees of the act wf and force, will not be said that the President bill in any case, but backbone would have it. it is by no mean gress capable of such might not have passed that the sober setose of against it, there is no;h the greatest clearnessquestioned. It may be would have vetoed the even if his tremendous enabled him to do certain that a Con-a piece of demagogy it over his veto. Now the country is clearly mmediate danger, butthere is an absolute certainty that it will be tried again and agaiii in sonje form until politicians are convinced thpt they will lose more votes than they will gain bjy it. I There is one point injwhich the public heeds much more instruction.! The principle of this bill is precisely the same ms thatat the bottom of the strike in New York and the Anarchist riots in Chicago—that there i is a needy class in thecommunity pense of Now, itentitled those wl is nowherno more reason why a slive at the are better denied thatex-off.thesick and the unfoi tunste, whether soldiers or otherwise, should be carbd for, as a matter, notof right, strictly, but of mmanity. But there isi’.dier, who incurred nodisability in the service,'should receive this consideration at the handsof the general Government than that any othar unfortunate should. As a matter of humanity ' he Confederate soldier.who through no fault oi absolute want, should b by the Government.I was myself a be the last mana deserving comrade about soldiering in allhis own is reduced to cared for, too, but notsoldier, and would to go back ou I know something ts phases, and somethingabout soldiers. I nevfo, even during the war.sympathized with tha^. very large proportion who (always sent a tijumpet before them pro-patriotismclaiming their own patriotism, their sacrifices and haidships, and consequent right to sit at the highest seats! in .he synagogue. I may further confess that I am a pensioner, but for many years I bav^ drawn my stipend with some humiliation, feeling that I was in bad company. My own disability is patent to any passer, and was incurred in battle, but the ^feeling remains, and if the timp ever comes when 1 canlive without it, I shallaccording to my obsercase of depend* ut pasurrender my pension.I was in position to know how the Arrears Pension Act worked, end I am free to say that vation, not more than oneapplication in ten under it was meritorious. The‘ents was even njorse. I cannot recall a single case where the pension was properly granted, though no doubt there I kiqow of one man who drew ic/itwu hr ItaU nerrr smiwere some such. some Jl.doo for a sorprio/ to his (iibVineilr, having separated fromhis wife before tl In view of sue!of a law which, provided only for thos incurred in the line of Ibirth of the child, shameful perversion however unfortunate, whose disabilities were duty, and those dependent on them, we may weOjstand aghast at a proposition to pension all ]who think they need or would like it. But wjkat can you expeet^of a Congress that buys influence by tariff legislation giving a particular class the right to tax the whole community ? It seems to have gone pretty much round the circle now. The iron men, pa-per-makers, sugar-n akers, lumber men. and scores of otbpr trades iave been protected. Lastof ail comes a hour ty on improvidence, indolence, beggary, fraud and perjury.Washington. D. C*.. February lo.H. E. IV.
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Wed, Feb 16, 1887
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