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Best general references: U. S. Revised Statutes 1878, Sects. 4692 to 4791: Pension laws in Statutes at large, Vols. 20-26; Reports of Coms. of Pensions and Sec'y of Interior, especially for 1885, 1888 and 1889, in House Exec. Docs.; Speeches of Senators Plumb, Davis, Ingalls, Hoar, and Teller in Cong. Record 1889-90 p.p. 1796 to 6385 passim; Republican Nat'l, platform for 1888 in Tribune Almanac...
...United States is under moral obligations to pension its old soldiers. - (a) The army was made up of our best and most patriotic men. - (b) The U. S. has hitherto always given service pensions to its old soldiers. - (c) Our national honor is involved, for pension legislation is really the fulfillment of a contract; Ingalls and Gorman in Cong. Record, June 23d, 1890. - (d) The U. S. is wealthy enough to afford liberal pensions...
...Occasional fraud is no argument against pensioning deserving soldiers. - (a) Fraud cannot be entirely prevented in transactions so large. - (b) Pension frauds have been greatly exaggerated. - (c) The pension office has on the whole been carefully and methodically administered; Century...
...liberal pension policy strengthens the government. - (a) It intensifies national feeling and patriotism - (b) It acts as a preventive of war by keeping before the public the evils of war. - (c) It strengthens the volunteer sentiment of the country; Paddock in Cong...
...Republican policy has inculcated dangerous principles. - (a) It has given pensions to men whose disability is not traceable to service; Dependent Pension Act, June 27, 1890. - (b) It keeps up protection by dissipating the surplus. - (c) It tends to a centralized, paternal form of government. - Century, XLII, 184,185; Pensions and Socialism...