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...have room in your columns for the following point of view on the Bonus Question, I will much appreciate it if you will...
...then have done with him. This is not the attitude we should take. Instead, would it not be much better to make the ex-service man feel that our gratitude towards him is permanent rather than ephemeral, as would be the case if he were paid merely a bonus...
After a lull of about a week the proposed bonus bill again comes to the fore. President Harding has vetoed it once already, and now comes forward with the best possible proposal he could make. He does not wish the bill to pass, but realizes that should it pass it must be carefully financed, and so advises a sales tax to meet it, or, failing that, at least a delay...
...insure this delay, for should the idea of the sales tax be gone into at any length it is sure to meet with such opposition as to preclude its acceptance. The agricultural bloc does not want it, the Democrats do not want it, nobody wants it. Discussion of the bonus, then, must lead to a fight over the sales tax in which the bonus itself will become a secondary issue, and will eventually die a natural death. Such a death would be better than a long fight over the bill, for then the issue would solve itself and disappear gradually...
...President deserves commendation for suggesting a proposal which should so effectually dispose of the bonus agitation...