Lancaster Daily Intelligencer

Wisconsin's Eighth congressional district is represented by William T. Price, a Republican, who has managed to attract to himself some attention by his fierce opposition to pensioning the widow of Gen. Hancock. He is quoted as saying that "the practice of granting large pensions to widows of men who have been receiving big salaries and who died poor is destructive of American manhood. The influence is to make men live up to the last dollar of their salaries in pomp and extravagance and champagne. It shakes every principle of justice and creates a privileged class."

In this Mr. Price proves himself a low-priced statesman. He contends in effect that those traits of generosity which characterized the dead hero of Gettysburg, which made it impossible for him to turn a deaf ear to the calls of charity, were unworthy of him, and that more credit would have attached to him had he hoarded that salary which the government gave him. This may be Price's opinion, but the great body of warm-hearted men and women of the country will be glad that Hancock's failings "leaned to virtue's side." And, remembering his magnificent services to his country in her hour of greatest peril, his big generosity to his poor comrades in arms in the days that followed will forever prove him one of the bravest and tenderest men of his time.