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...some sort of land standard of values for the gold standard, in addition to the many proposed changes chronically being aired, there is good reason to consider the question. When a man with an audience as large and as unanalytical as Arthur Brisbane's advocates paying for the bonus with unsecured greenbacks, it is time to start some education. The climax is seen when a United States Senator lots loose a long tirade against the Federal Reserve System which has been written for him by an ex-Comptroller of Currency. Politics in the Federal Reserve System would wreck...
...strangely reluctant to swallow it. It is a sad commentary on transportation conditions that even such a weighty matter as the Darwinian theory should have been sixty years on the road across the Appalachians. The rest of us have our jazz, and our divorce problem, out movies and our bonus bills, but "The Origin of Species" is as completely vanished from the public mind as are last year's "Follies". The mental agony which rocked the world half a century ago now shakes Kentucky to its foundations; fifty years hence, they will doubtless be discussing the "freedom of the knees...
...popular reception to the Soldiers' Bonus Bill is a curious commentary on the psychology of a representative form of government. One newspaper is bold enough to say that Mr. Mellon is right and that because it will be bad for the people it should be withheld from them; another, making a bid for favor among its readers consequently is for it; still others, playing entirely upon sentiment, and having no regard for economic laws or anything else of even a semi-logical nature, will openly and blatantly advocate a bonus--the bill to be footed by Wall Street in some...
...paying of a bonus to war veterans were simply a matter of distributing the loose change in the National Treasury, the idea would appeal to the sympathetic generosity of the American people. Even 300 millions might seem to come under this head--a judicious stoppage of the leaks in the income tax might easily account for this sum. Unfortunately the Soldiers' Bonus bill now before the Senate fails--despite Senator McCumber's optimism--to confine itself within these modest limits. If we are to believe Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, the payments for the first two years will come...
...from Secretary Mellon concerning the financial state of affairs in this country makes it quite clear that the Government will find it difficult enough to make both ends meet without undertaking "any extraordinary expenditures", Certainly, at this time, in view of our extraordinary obligations here and abroad, any war bonus bill must come under the above classification. Undoubtedly it would be a very nice thing to present our veterans with a tangible token of our appreciation; but should this be done at an utterly unreasonable cost...