Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — Old Age Pensions. [ARTICLE]

Old Age Pensions.

There is one point tn which we must agree with the people who oppose old age pensions for America* Bays Walter Weyl In Success Magazine. Pensions, they say, are merely a palliative. What the aging man needs is not so much a pension as a chance to work, and above all th« strength, the health and the intelligence to enab|e him to work. It Is very true. Let us put our minds and our purses to the task of preventing child labor, excessive toll, unhygienic houses and factories and other things' which cripple men In middle and old S&fe. Let us give industrial and technical education, so that a man may be permanently equipped^for earning h!s living. Let us raise the wfccria standard of the working and earning population of the country so that each man may be able to provide for his old age* or at /least that all by joint action may Insure all. But In the meanwhile let us accord a decent life to worthy men and women who have not had the advantages which future generations will enjoy. Let us, as far as we can, provide for present needs, since the bread of to-morrow will not still the hunger of to-day. Let us above all do the work Immediately —grant pensions to onr Federal and State employes, study the entire problem, and whatever ou? eventual policy, desist at least, from our present undignified' attitude of burying our heads in the sand and denying that a problem exists to be solved.