Word: xlii
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...supported by public sentiment: Forum vii. 675; No. Am., vol. 141, pp, 42-45. - (1) Not supported by many good citizens: Nation xii. 353; Am. Jour. Soc. Sci. xiv. 90. - (c) Has failed in - (1) Maine; Fortn xvi. 168. 174. - (2) Iowa; Nation xlii. 52 - (3) Kansas; No. Am. vol. 141, p. 41. - (4) Mass; Macm. lix. 343. - (5) R. I :Unita. Rev. xxxi. 504. - (6) Vt. Fortrn. xvi. 169. - (7) N. H.: Unita Rev. xxxi. 504. - (8) Mich: Fortrn. xvi. 175-6. - (9) Minn...
General references: Professor Wm. M. Sloan, Pensions and Socialism in Century Magazine, Vol. XLII. p. 179, June 1891; E. H. Hall, An Indignity to our Citizen Soldiers; Pres. Cleveland's message. Senate Journal 2nd Sess., 49th Cong., 2 Sess., p. 219; Mason's Veto Power, secs...
...Republican policy has been extravagant - (a) Amount expended on pensions in 1866 was $13 000,000; in 1876, $28,-000,000; in 1886, $64,000,000, in 1891, (estimate of Sec. of Treasury) $133,000,000; Hall, p. 17 - (b) Germany's appropriation is $9.000.000; Century XLII, p. 183 - (c) Only 72 per cent. of the appropriation goes to the soldiers' Hall, p. 19. - (d) The Arrears Act of 1879 cost the nation $500,-000,000; Hall, p. 7. - (e) Acts are passed without careful consideration of what they will cost; Ibid...
...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...