Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — Will Some One Explain This? [ARTICLE]

Will Some One Explain This?

[Philadelphia Prose.] It is an extraordinary fact that the Uuited States pension roll grows larg er from year to year. In the course of nature invalid soldiers die; the widows of deceased soldiers re-marry, and thus forfeit their pensions; all the children born during the war eith er have passed or are fast approaching the age of 16, at which pensions cease; dependent mothers are drop ping off, and yet- the aggregate sura required to pay pensions is larger than ever before.