Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1908 — Not While Taft is President. [ARTICLE]

Not While Taft is President.

Major Wheeler, a Union veteran and editor of the Lake County Star, has this to say of the proposition to pension ex-Confederate soldiers by the government: “Many of the ex-Confederate soldiers In the South are signing a petition which will be presented to congress later on asking that they be pensioned the same as the Union soldiers, and give as reason that they have now been peaceable citizens under the stars and stripes for 43 years. They are supposed to need the pensions, but it would be funny for a government to pension men who fo.ught four years to ruin the country, and then get paid for it by the nation.”