Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — As to Pensions. [ARTICLE]

As to Pensions.

New Yo-k Commercial Advertiser. The veterans need now to make up their minds to the fact that the great majority of the people of this country have reached (the conclusion that the government, with a pension list which twenty-five years aiter the war cost not less than $167,000,000 per annum has done its full duty, and ttfat it will give approval to no farther extension of a system’which is regarded with amazement by the statesmen of every foreign nation. Any agitation that ths Grand Army may be Induced by the tension sharks to set up with the.purpose of realizing the ends proposed by Governor Hovey will only have tha effect of bringing into unmerited dia, favor one of the noblest organizations f American citizens