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...soldier bonus because "we must keep faith with the ex-service men. . . . If we had not intended to pass the so-called bonus law we should have said...
...Grand Old Party; and his message bears this out. He is following President Harding's policies, as he promised; he is a true Republican in his endorsement of high tariff and his reserved attitude toward the farmers of the radical west. And in his denouncement of the bonus and his backing of the Mellon tax reduction plan, he has the true Republican eye for the country's business prosperity. While these points are, on the whole, solidly commendable, the really noteworthy part of the message is its unequivocal stand on these measures and the clarity with which they are outlined...
There is one more fairly clear point. While obviously far from playing politics, President Coolidge has made so strong an appeal to the heart of the public, especially in his tax, bonus, child labor, and mimimum-wage-for-women recommendations, that he who reckons without the President at the Republican convention is likely to receive a severe jolt. Though Johnsons may blow their trumpets from the steeps". President Coolidge has made a simple, direct appeal to the heart...
...longer proud of America. One of these veterans, writing in a recent issue of Collier's Weekly, has demanded to know what kind of recompense this isolation is for the immense sacrifice that they made. How in fact have these veterns been repaid? By promises of a bonus which a large number of them do not want, and by leaving Europe to create another war out of the turmoil of the last, a war into which America will be drawn as inevitably as it was in 1916. While the government is apparently awaiting an opportunity to be of help...
...Soldier Bonus. This will probably not be a party issue. Only a few Republicans and Democrats oppose it. The progressives and radicals are loudly for it. There may be enough anti-bonus votes in the Senate to prevent the repassage of the bill if the President vetoes...