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...Bonus ghost is not laid...
...Chinese government has taken its first measure to restore order in this much troubled territory by incorporating a group of bandits in the police force, at an expense of $100,000. The bandits, it is reported, were glad to receive the bonus, for there has been a strike of the "river and harbor pirates' union" during the last few months, and profits have been scarce. Now wages are assured, due to the military impotence of the government...
...mentioned the reduction of annual public expenditures of over three billions in two years--a result of a budget system created by Congressional enactment. The reduction in military expenditures was referred to; and the flexibility and adaptability of the tariff to changing conditions, through provision for administrative adjustment. The Bonus Bill, and certain widely-attacked schedules of the Tariff Act, are not mentioned. Times are becoming normal; our Reconstruction period is nothing like that after the Civil War, with embittered party conflict, and an impeachment of a President. On the whole, Mr. Harding thinks the work of Congress good...
...Congress in a recent speech in New York: "Men are in office who would barter the interests of their country in order to stay in office, and if there is any organized opposition they run. Look at the way they ran before the organized minorities of the soldier bonus bloc, the labor bloc, the maternity bloc, the good roads bloc. The damned cowards...
Colonel Gaston represents the same interests as Senator Lodge, he agrees with Lodge on the League of Nations, the Bonus, Prohibition, on every vital question of the day. The sole difference is that he is a Democrat and Lodge is a Republican. The result of this unanimity is a complete falling-off of interest, apparently by both voters and candidates. A campaign that promised to be epochal has turned out a disappointing fizzle...