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A Degrading Conception Of Pensions
We have traveled a long way from the high and patriotic conception of a pension that was held forty years ago. We think of it only as an increase of income to a clamorous body, many of them mendicants, who profit by the nation's generosity and by the weakness of our political system....
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Title: A Degrading Conception Of Pensions
Creator: n/a
Date: March 1904
Format: Article
Publication: World's Work
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.7, no.5, pp.4505,4508
Keywords: Civil War; Economics; Government; Laws & Regulation; Pension; Physical Disability; Policy; Politics; Veterans; Veterans & Military; War
Topics: Government, Policy & Law