Wichita Daily Times. (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 212, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 1912 Page: 2 of 6
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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, JAN. 17th, 1912,
The Old Soldier Vote
. By Charles Francis Adams in World’s Work
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Statement of Condition of -t as ,
The First National Bank
Wichita Falls, Texas - .
hie Receivable .
December 5th, 1911.
RESOURCES.
Stocks and Bonds ......•..........
Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures
Real Estate..........................
United States Bonde .................
Cash................................
... $430,775.86
-. 60,008.35
-. 16,600.00
... 18,000.00
... 101,000.00
... 171,012.86
Referring, in April last, incidentally
and in the course of some remarks on
another but cognate subject, to the civ-
il war pension system, the present see
retary of the treasuruy. Mr. Franklin
MacVeigh, observed that it ha I lost its
patriotic aspects and that it had he
come a political list. In Washingeon
this fact is understood and appreciated,
for, while it is true that all pensioners
are not actual voters, it is equally true
that those who are not voters, largely
women, when it comes to political ac-
tion are probably more formidable than
an equal number of the opposite sex.
As petitioners for relief, women are apt
to, be both tearfully importunate and
persistently persuasive: men, when not
sympathetic, are notoriously good na-
tured. As s class the pensioners,whteh-
er male or female, act as a unit; and
exciting the hostility of the pensioners
la to a politician like challenging an
organized phalanx actuated throughout
by the strongest motives of self-inter-
est.
Of tills fact Secretary MacVelgh af-
forded a good Illustration as a result of
his altogether truthful statement just
referred to. It excited a storm of an-
gry .protest, which was perhaps best
and most typically voiced by a leading
orator on the following decoration day,
who declared that the secretary had re-
cently made himself ridiculous "by
raising an outery against pensions,"
adding "It | were president of the Unit-
“States and had such an ingrate In
my cabinet, I would fire him as far as
Chicago so quick it would make his
head swim." Let one example suffice;
but generally it may not unsafely be
aserted that if any member in con-
areas, or Indeed citizen la whale life
of sufficient prominence to excite re.
marks, st all ventures wsriticism,much
more an analysis, of the pension roll,
be may with tolerable certainty count
on a response in no way dissimilar to
that visited on Secretary MacVeagh;
nor need he hope for either fairness of
treatment or moderation of speech. He
may, on the contrary, rest assured that
the denunciation will be personal, abu-
sive and mendacious— that usually ex-
perienced from the sturdy and persist-
ent mendicant to whom alms are de-
nied. To the outsider, this in accord-
ance with the everlasting order of
things, matters but little; but to him
who is playing the game of politics. It
amounts to much. It may today be as
serted that any member of congress
representing a district north of the
Potomac, who dares to criticise, much
leas challenge, a measure involving sn
incresse in the appropriation for pen
sion payments, practically takes his
political life in his own hand.
month; of whoinsthere wers-10 1—--in
all. -4560 cases of beneficiaries at eith-
er $24 or $30 a manth. And this by
special acts including perhaps 600 ben-
eficlaries in a lump, passed with ha
a word of debate, and no criticism or
remonstrance. These figures repre-
sent an average of rather more than
thirteen special beneficiaries to each
member of either houuse, in a single
session thereof. A very respectable
bit of patronage, which the average
senator and representative feels little
disposition to forego! The question
naturally suggests itself: How would
it be under conditions at all analogous
were that senator or member acting
for himself—much more as a trustee,
which last a legislator in strictness is?
A breach of trust, such action Is a tray,
esty of legislation.
' ous of at once signalizing their fidelity
to their duties and incidentally mak-
ing themselves solid with their consti-
tuencies' by obtaining consideration
for such applications on the new scale
as they were on the old. Thus the
whole experience of forty years went
in this case for nothing. The general
increase proposed was simply in other
words, another entering wedge
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closed, the. records show what may not
unfairly be described as a flood of spe-
cial cases presented and referred to
the proper committees, sometimes as
many as thirty by a single member In
one day's sitting: and it has been of-
ficially stated that 30,000 applications 1
of this character are now on file in
the office of the proper house commit-
tee alone.
The condition of affairs existing in
the room of that committee at the be-
ginning of the last session of the Sixty-
first congress was indeed forcibly set
forth in a report presented December
15, 1910, by Mr. Fuller, one of its mem-
bers, speaking on its behalf. The real-
ty curious thing, however, in connec-
tion with the report referred to was its
unconscious be rayal of the mental
conditions, as respects what is known
as a system of constructive legislation?
of the member who-drew the document
up, and of the committee which author-
ized its-presentations for it was there-
in stated that there was not a mem-
her of either branch off conkress who
was not besieged with hundreds of ap-
plications for relict by special act.
'here being no existing law to recover
these distressing cases. The report
then goes’on to Bay:
The pension committees of congress-
working by night and by day. have
been able to bring relief to a few thou-
sand soldiers, yet in- comparison with
the thousands who are still knoeqing
it its doors for help, it is but o drop
'n the bucket. In this congress alone
there has been referred to the two pen
Total .>
...$797,397.07
Capital Stock ......
Surplus and Profits
Circulation ........
Rediscounts ......
Deposits......4..
Total...............
LIABILITIES
.., $100,000.00
.... 109,954.37
r:100,000.00
.... -37,390.62
Cv. 450,052.08
$797,397.07
. The above statement is correct.
w. M. McGREGOR, Cashier.
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Capital..
$75,000.00
Surplus and Profits $12,000.00
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private legislation. ” ,
The committed in question is thus
depicted, graphically though uncon-
sciously as a shifting and necessarily
unorganised charity bureau, indiscrim
inately distributing money notits own.
The comm
Massachusetts furnishes an exam-
ple. Under the last censue fourteen
congressional districts were appor
tioned to Massachusetts. The average
number of pensioners in each district
of Massachusetts 1a just 2700, At the
election in November, 1910, in which
the members of the presentcongress
(sixty-second) was chosen, the vote in
Massachusetts .Republican and Demo
cratic, was almoat exactly equal, 203.
136 Republican, 203,624 Democratic
In five districts casting an agggregate
of 182,000 votes, the total of the plural
ities of the successful candidate, one
way or the other, amounted to only
2806. In those six districts there were
probably 18,000 pensioners. The aver
age plurality to a district was 450
Such figures speak for themselves.
It is Idle ss well as false to assert
in this connection that the pensioner.
In point of fact, has not made himself
actively felt as political factor. The
contrary is susceptible of proof. In re-
cent debates in congress it was assert
ed that, during the campaign of 1910.
United States senators went through ...
certain sharply contested districts, the present pension appropriation of
throwing their whole weight for or
against the respective candidates on
the pension issue alone.. It was urged
in advocacy of one man that he had
introduced a dollar-a-day pension bill,
while another It was charged that his
whole course had been one consistent
effort to "fool the soldier.” Elsewhere
districts were flooded with letters and
circulars eminating directly from the
organization Of pension applicants, ad-
vocating or opposing candidates on
this issue, and this issue alone. State-
ments to this effect made openly in
course of debate met with no denial
Members of congress who had been de
feated for re-election attributed that re
suit to these circulars. Thus, when
Secretary MacVeagh, in the occasional
speech which baa been refered to.
spoke of the pension list as no longer
s roll of honor, but a political list, he
used language of moderation. He
might truthfully have refered to it as
sn enormous instance of political rob-
bery of the most far-reaching character
deeply affecting, both in Its direct and
Indirect outcome, hot only the treasury
but the political health and lasting
well-being of the whole body politic.
In plain English the legislation under
that head is simply a disguised method
of bribery and corruption on the larg-
est possible scale, and with money paid
out of the national treasury instead of
from the pockets of candidates.
Take, for Instance, the gross abuse
of special pension legislation as a polit
ical factor. Since 1861 there have been
granted to individuals under special
acts no less than 32,401 original pen
sions or increases of existing pensions
in the thirty-ninth congress, that Im-
mediately succeeding the close of the
civil war, when exceptional cases of
peculiar, hardship were naturally fresh
in .memory or sight, 138 cases only
were provided for in this way. Subse-
quently it became an understanding in
congress that each member was en
titled, as a perquisite or special bit of
personal pocket patronage, to two nets
at a session—a sort of congressional
extra. The custom thus obtained a
foothold; the usual result followed. In
the second session of the sixty-first
congress there were 6063 Individual
cases provided for by special acts, al
rates varying from $6 a month, or
which there were three, to $100 a
month, of which there was a single in-
2 * MLA mom.
combined, were those to whom was
granted $24 a month, of which there
were 2689, and those granted $30 a
PeglSTTARAS CSS
Under these circumstances, it might
naturally be supposed that a commit
. ee composed of men of average Intel
ligence and business experience would
reach the conclusion that, when the
exceptional cases under the system in
use had grown to such dimensions
ind the system itself had fairly brokep
lown, some other syetem—a system
based on well considered, constructive
legislation—was altogether desirable.
Indeed, quite essential: for such alone
would meet the exigencies of the sit-
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Democratic presidential nomination.
It is proposed to organize in every .
congressiona district with a view to
capturing the delegations to the na-
tional convention at Baltimore. The
chief promoter of the movement is
John A. Aylward of this city, for
many years a prominent Democratic
leader in Wisconsin and u former
candidate for the governorship.
iave suggested itself. On the contra
y all that the committee had to pro
lose was the passage of yet another
blanket” bill of the customary, indis
riminate kind, raising existing pen-
sions in a lump and to an extent which
would constitute an additional fifty,
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