12 "Cbc Conservative *
GENERAL SICKLES' INSULTING
"DEFENSE" OF PENSIONERS.
Mr. Evans , the commissioner of pen
sions , hns done his difficult official duty
well ; and General Sickles has been the
means of making his excellent service
widely known. For General Sickles
lias had a public controversy with Mr.
Evans , and has written to the president
Vi
and to the newspapers to show why the
commissioner should be removed from
office. He has said , in effect , that the
civil war veterans are vindictive mendi
cants , and that they will punish the po
litical party that keeps a man in office
who inquires rigidly into the deserts of
new claimants for pensions.
This is the same tiresome and costly
parade of our worst public scandal , that
lias been made at intervals for twenty
years , the same insult to honorable pen
sioners , the same rallying cry to the
mendicant ones who have brought the
Grand Army into disrepute.
The civil war was ended thirty-six
years ago. From the beginning to the
end of it there were not more than
2,000,000 different men in the military
and naval service. Yet the number of
pensioners has been more than 1,500,000.
There are about 1,000,000 of them now
long after most of the men who
served in the war are dead ; and the
pension roll last year cost $189,000,000.
The frauds that have been perpetrated
by claim agents are beyond reckoning ;
and the most pitiful display of the
weakest side of human nature is that
which has been made for years by the
continued additions to the pension roll.
It is a thing that men who have faith in
the honesty of the masses would be
glad to forget. Pitiful , too , is General
Sickles' echo of the old threat that the
mendicants will exert a controlling in
fluence in politics. This likewise is
something that one wishes to forget.
World's Work.
BEPOBT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Nebraska City National Bank ,
NEBBASKA CITY , NEB. ,
at the close of business , July 15,1001.
ASSETS.
Loans and discounts . 820,970.10
Overdrafts .
U. S. Bonds . 103,000.00
Other securities . 2o,847.88
Bank and otliur real estate . 12,770.82
Cash , and duo from banks and Treas. ,
U. S . 185,098.81
Total . 598,105,20
Capital . 100,000.00
Surplus and prollt . 11,815.09
Circulation . 100,000,00
Deposits . ; . 881,289.21
Total . 503,105.20
DIUECTOnS.
W. L. WILSON , Prest , B. LOKTON , Vice-Prest.
. H , D. WILSON , Cashier.
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