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More and more the campaign centers in a discussion of economy which has been caught up in characteristic newspaper fashion as "The One Big Issue". Following President Harding's veto of the bonus comes the statement concerning finances by Under Secretary of the Treasury Gilbert. While additional taxes will spell disaster, he says in effect, there is no alternative if there is persistence in any program of expenditures beyond the limits of the Government's income...
Such being the situation, there is a logical step for a weary and fidgety Congress to take: adjournment. The bonus and merchant marine projects are centers of so much contention that action seems very unlikely; and the summer before an election is reputed to be an almost hopeless time to secure the passage of a new tariff bill--particularly when the presses of both parties join in strenuous criticism...
...assumes that the bloc as a party tries to pass judgment on every political question. That is not true. There is just as much difference of opinion on most questions between members of the Farm Bloc as among any other group. We have never taken any stand on the bonus. In regard to the question of tariff we have taken the position that agriculture is entitled to the same protection as industry. Only yesterday I saw in the morning paper that the bloc was back of a raid upon the United States Treasury for a $15,000,000 appropriation...
...quarrel with the bonus on economic grounds or because we dislike putting a fixed price on patriotic service, but neither of these objections applies to the Red Cross plan of helping the wounded veterans by voluntary contributions. So far the government has done very little for the disabled soldiers besides paying their insurance; it may not be able to do much effectively for some time to come. The campaign starting today is for that reason one which deserves the widest support. It is welcome as an opportunity for showing the veterans in question that though we may oppose the bonus...
...stand for a large soldier class. It is the volunteer fighter who made the greatest sacrifice and it should be the duty of the country not to put him at a great disadvantage. Nothing is too good for our citizen soldiers," he declared emphatically. When asked if the Bonus was not more of a "tip" given in a feeble attempt to repay a service which could not be valued in terms of dollars, he said: "Last night I was speaking before an audience composed largely of veternas and I was proud to see that this objection was raised...