French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-24
WEAVER VOTED
TO INCREASE SOLDIERS PAY

If he is a private of the first class he
gets So a month extra. For expert
Workmanship he gets So additional.
So that the private of the First Glass,
who has a number of enlistments UNI
der this bill, will get about $S7 a
month and over, and 20 per cent addi-
tional if they get foreign service. The
American who gets $25 a month ur-
der this bill when he goes into the
foreign service will get an increase o.
20 per cent, or $50 a month, and that
is all the gentleman Of Iowa (Mr.
Goode) is contending for. The NOM
ent our private soldier puts his foo:
on the deck of a ship to go across the
Atlantic, under the bill proposed by
the conferees his pay will jump to $50
a month.
at submit to the House this propc-
sition: When a bill goes to Confer
ence it is necessary for the Conferees
to give and take. The House Con-
ferees could not get everything thar
we wanted in the bill. We have to
yield some things to the Senate. They
wanted some things in the Legislation
just as earnestly as we did. This is
a conference report, agreed to after
mature elaboration, after lengthy dis
cussion on the part of the Conferee2
of the two Houses, and 1 submit thar
under the circumstance the Housc
should stand by the Conferees. This
bill has remained Enacted upon for a
long time. The country is growing
impatient. Let us enact this into u
law. I feel confident that the pay OF
the soldier, as proposed in this bill,
will be satisfactory to the tAmericaE
people and the American soldier"
Do you believe President Wilson
was opposed to an increase Of the Pay
Of the American soldier? He asked
to have this conference report prompt
~ adopted, Mr., Weaver voted for its
adoption as requested by the Presi-
dent-and is condemned for his vote
by Mr.. Britt.
Do you believe that Mr.. Kahn, the
Republican leader, wished to discrim-
mate against the soldier? He states
the facts.
Whom will you believe, Presiden:
Woodrow Wilson and Hon. Julius
Kahn, or will you believe Brownlow
jackson, Mr.. Britt's campaign man
ager, who seeks to deceive the voters
of this district into casting their bal
lots for Mr.. Britt? No honest man
who knows Zebulon Weaver will for
an instant be deceived by any such
false and unfair methods. Zeb Weav-
err has stood at all times for eVerJ
measure providing increased pay for
our soldier boys, and for those meas
ures for the protection and Support
of their folks at home and safeguard
ing their health and protecting them
while at the front.
He voted for the bill to provide Sol
diers' Insurance, under which our
Government is today carrying thirty
one billions of insurance on the lives
Of our boys in the army.
One of his first votes cast in Con-
gress was to raise the soldiers pay
from SIS, where it had remained un-
der all Republican Administrations.
| What Did Britt Do for the Soldier
Mr.. Britt was in Congress two
years. During part of this time our
boys were fighting on the Mexican
Border, at SIS per month. He made
no effort to increase their pay. The
Spanish American War was fought ur,
der all Republican Administrations.
did nothing to increase the soldiers
pay.
Mr.. Weaver has been consistently OF
-all legislation the soldiers friend. Il
the present election he offered to MI
B. Jackson to permit every soldier t
vote unchallenged regardless of tn
payment of poll tax. To Mr.. Weave
the uniform of an American soldie
was as good as a $500 poll tax receip'
This proposition was refused by MI
BrOWnlOW Jackson, manager for Nil
Britt, who has now become so anxiou
about the welfare of the soldier. LIE
no soldier, or soldiers father or frien
be deceived by the cunning, tricker
and deception contained in MIR. T
Jackson's letter.
J. S. COLEMAN,
Chairman for Zebulon Weaver.