Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — Pension Payments. [ARTICLE]

Pension Payments.

When a man is robbed of a large part of his income and restitution is mude of one-half of it, the Democrats call it the '‘return of prosperity!” Under the new Democratic Tariff law imports of everything but gold have increased and exports of everything but gold have decreased. . American workingmen to the number of. several millions are still waiting for a restoration of the wages which they received during Protection times in 1892, and thpy know they will not get them until the Tarilf law has been revised on Protection lines by a Republican Congress, and the bill has been signed by a Republican President.

Not for many months h»»ve we noticed any intimations from oar Democratic Free-Trade contemporaries that it would be desirable to secure the markets of the world. This waa the chromo we were to hare for a prize if we elected Cleveland, and placed his beloved 'ocratic party in power. - In* ” -ecuring any more foreign • we had under Relations, our ex•lincd and d our 'r. pId

Trade lips; it sounds like an ex- • piring echo that has vanished and fled. Democratic leaders and orgatis who, a few years ago, were denying the truth of reports showing the increase of wea’th, the advance of manufacturing, the improved condition of the wage earners, the increase of national savings, the extension of railroads, are now breaking their necks fc» secure reports indicative of growth ai.d returning prosperity. In this wild endeavor those of us more or less interested iu the preparation of exhibits of national growth, smile at the eagerness with which the old time “calamity howler” points with conscientious pride and patriotism to the very documents which a few years ago he was as wildly denouncing as Protective Tariff lies and robber falsehoods.—Robert P. Porter, in the Cleveland World, Aug.ist. 18,1895.

The crusade against the pensioners, make under Hoke Smith’s direction, by virtue of orders from the White House, is beginning to bear fruit, says the Toledo Blade. An official statement from the pension office says the number of pensioners has fallen from 1,011, 794 last year to 987,815 in 1895. Judge Loehren has prepared the following table to show the future diminution of the pension list through death and Democratic opposition: Year. Pensions, 1900 854,461. 1905.. 701,413. 1910., .. ~. ***, • 535,255. 1915 307,180. 1920 215,172. 1925 99,116. 1930 31645. 1935 5,382. 1940 293. This estimate has evidently been hastily prepared, for it overlooks

bearing on the perpetuity of pension payments under the former wars. This is the longevity of the wives of pensioners. His table gives 293 pensioners being alive 75 years after the close of the rebellion; jet last year, 111 years after the close of the revolution, there were several widows of revolutionary soldiers slid drawing pensions, a part of whom are undoubtedly living to-day.