Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — Two Views of Pens ons. [ARTICLE]

Two Views of Pens ons.

“There may be' fair differences of opinion as to the extent and conditions of pension relief, but there is no room for doubt as to pensions,” writes, exPresideut Harrison iu the Ladies’ Home Journal—“ This HountrjjL'Of Ours” article. “Eleven dollars a month for war service implies, at .least, relief in case of wounds or-sickness for the soldier, and that the public will care for Ids Widow and minor children. When the law of pillage prevailed it was otherwise; and when our rich men take to fighting our, wars -we • can trbolY&i the pension system, but tints far it is as historically true of the-armies that won our, independence, delivered ’us from the Indians and the British, and saved tire natitm in tlio great clviL.war, as of the kingdom of heaven: ‘not many rich.' “There are two views of the pension question—one from the ‘Little Round Top’ at Gettysburg, looking out over a field sown thickly with the Head, and around upon bloody, blackened and maimed men cheering the shot-tom banner of their country; the other from an office desk on a busy street, or from an endowed chair in a university, looking only upon a statistical table.”