Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — It Costs You Nothing. [ARTICLE]

It Costs You Nothing.

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The assessments made under the new law, will no doubt, be much, higher and therefore nearertheir J undeitliciiew-law at 4 ( luiii he r e t of o re,_Kutasto4heiT---lM' i n g nearer on an equality in the different townships of the county and in the different counties of the state, the reverse will we are confident, be found true. The inequality will be greater than before, and especially will it be found that democratic Counties will be assessed way down low, in obedience to the secret instructions of she Green Smith gang. And aS to the hope that Boards of Review, will have any great success in equalizing the assessments, we think that hope is doomed to disappointment. The law is such a wretched, contradictory jumble, especially where it prescribes methods for equalizing assessments, that very little can be hoped for in that respect

“Grand Army of beggers; fatfed pensioners; grand army of sutlers, judge advocates, bounty jumpers and ninety day heroes.” Ac. <tc. Ac. Oh yes, very friendly indeed is the feeling in the south towards pensioners! But, after all, these outspoken tirades against Union soldiers and their pensions are as much entitled to respect as are the hyprocritical screeds of northern editors who, in the hopes of turning Union soldiers against the 'Republican party, rail against the pension laws for their alleged want of liberality; who falsely declare and reiterate that disabled

soldiers wjio receive pensions under that most liberal of laws, the act of June 27,1890, have to become professed paupers to obtain them. And who, for the-purpose of beguiling northern patriots into following the political leadership of southern traitors, declare that those ribald revilers of the ‘ 'grand army of 1 Jeggers” .have become friendly to the Union soldiers and their pensions.

With a wrongheadedness that is as unjustfiable as it is inexcusable the Pilot persists in declaring that the (so called) dependent pension bill is a pauper bill. There are several pension agents in Rensselaer from whom it would be easy for the Pi'Zot to obtain exact information as to the true character of the act of June 27, 1890,-usually,.but incorrectly spoken of as the ‘‘dependent pension bill.” This law, as we stated last week, only requires in the case of a soldier, that he had an honorable discharge; that he served not less than 90 days; that he has a permanent physical or mental inability to earn a support, and

not due to vicious habits. But the inability need not have been incurred in the service, nor is the pensioner required to“declare himself a pauper’’nor make any dec--1 a ration at all in regard to his financial status; nor to be dependent on others for support. In this c onnection we give the names of s ome resident soldiers who have already obtained pensions under this act, and ask our readers how many of them believe that men of their standing would be likely to “declare themselves paupers” in order to obtain pensions. Read their names: J. C. Porter, John C. Chilcote, Joseph H. Peacock, Oliver S. Dale, Ira C. Kelley, Cyrus Haas, all of Rensselaer. James A. Kays and Joseph Mitchell, of s outh of town. Jesse C. Gwin trustee of HTVTiging Grove Tp. S olonion McCurtain, Benj. F. M axwell and . Wm. Daniels, of Barkley tp., Lewis Sayler, of Newton and Wm. Cox, of Union. Likely men these are to “declare themselves paupers.” Further in this connection, and to show the liberality with which the present administration construes this law, it may be added that a single one of our local pensi on agents has secured 12 pensions under its provisions, and the average of the monthly rate of the twelve is eleven and one third dollars; which is certainly very liberal, when it is remembered that the maximum rate under -tlris ha w"ts on H twelve-xlo-Hars. --

Thf. Republican is evidently ignorant of the state of affairs-e-x----ist ingintheSo.uthregardingthe feeling towards pensioners'. People s Pilot. If any better feeling towards Union pensioners has grown up in the South, The Republican is indeed ignorant of the fact, and the w hole population of the North are in the same ignorance, and will remain so until a radical takes place in the tone of the southern papers and their political speakers on this question. That this statement is not, like that of th e Pilot’s, a mere general and vague" assertion, but is founded on facts, we only need to refer to the columns of representative southern paper. We have before us, for instance, the very latest number of the weekly edition of that almost greatest of southern papers, The Nashville American and from its editorial columns cull at random, one of its little editorial.gems, afid copy it below; only premising by explaining that, as .most of our readers know, General Alger is commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and that organization it is which The American so tenderly alludes to as “The grand army of beggars.’’ We quote from The American: Gen. Alger is of the opinion that the old soldier element will “cut more figure” in the Republican convention than ever before. As Gen. Alger is chief of the grand army of beggars, which represents what he is pleased to call the soldier vote, the wish is probably

father to the thought. Still there is little doubt that the fat-fed pensioners, the grand army of sutlers, judge advocates, bounty jumpers and ninety day heroes will be on hand whooping for the old flag and appropriations as of’ yore. And very likely Gem Alger will be there as in ’BB wooing in his sweet, seductive way the dusky delegate from the Sunny South. And perhaps Senator John Sherman will be there loaded for bear —and Alger.