Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — A Very Pertinent Question. [ARTICLE]

A Very Pertinent Question.

-MonUcello. ilera'ld. If Commissioner Brack’s body is wo thoroughly perforated with rebel lead as democratic papers would have the people believe and ns his extraordiimry pension would imply, how does it* come that he is able to discharge the duties of ofiice for which lie receives 85,000 per annum? In these parts it reupiiies a very- franle and shrewd financiering that will en.fible one to earn half this sum.Commissi* mor’Black cert duly.ku3 no. business with a lucrative office if his: disabilities ’are such as to warrant the enormous pension of 81,200 a year which In* is- now receiving. To say that Mr. Black was a gallant soldier is :.<> excise fiir this gross injustice; to ether deserving men.