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MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 1901

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America, which holls the record for most big things, bas at least one is tinction she would rather be without, The pension roll of the United States, which has long been asserting itself as It is very scandalous, of course, hat¦

still living widows of soldiers who fought

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millions, can go on fa ever giving away £3,000 an hour--that is the misinin catimate of the cool of pensione across

A little men and atithmetis is all that the Atlantic. After all, the figures, are necessary to suggest the gravity of not in the circumstances surprising the pension problems. The serer soldiers The pension system in the States is of the Independence War, whose w

lowe are still living, must have cost the striking example of the way in which a States at the very least £30,000. The Government, may pat n proiulum ofaremge pension for a widow is about fraud, and there is no doubt at all that £20 a year with an allowance of £i thousands of persons are on the roll who for each chill quider sixteeú. Every Föhild of a soldier who becomes entitled: hare neither legal nor moral right to be

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