The New York herald., 1922-02-23
KILL THE BONUS is CRY
IN NCONGRESS AS FOES GROW

against the bonus. His Democratic
and Republican colleagues represent
ing Southern and Western agricultural
States, as well as industrial centers or
the East, who have aligned themselves
against the bonus, are confident Sena-
tor Frelinghuysen will join them.
Seven Senators representing New
England and Atlantic seaboard States
also are preparing to join in the move
ment to postpone consideration of the
bonus legislation at the present ses-
sion.
Professional propagandists in and
out of the American Legion opened up
a new line of attack to-day by sending
out a call for help to bonus raiders in
various parts of the country. They
are proceeding on the assumption that
the full volume of opposition to the
measure has developed. Consequently
they have begun a campaign to coun-
teract the effect of It, which is ad-
mitted by some of the leaders to have
been most disastrous to their hopes
for getting a big pile of easy money"
at the expense of the Government and
taxpayers of the country. The new
plan of campaign probably will result
in the mails and telegraph wires being
taxed to bring to the Capitol the full
output of the mimeograph typewriter
and pencil reserves.
DepIore MacNidcr Threat.
The elaborate scope OF the propa-
gandist flank movement" shows
pretty conclusively that the promoters
OF the raid have no intention o.
Throwing UP the sponge" in their
fight for the prize of S5,000,000, 900
which is at stake. The indiscreet de-
mand made by Commander MacNider
of the American Legion on President
Harding is admitted to have inflicted
great damage to the raid.
Spokesman for the raiders asserted,
however, that they would stand back
of the commander and support his
implied threats of reprisal against
Congressional apostates who have
surrounded to the popular clamor
against tho bonus scheme.
The legion received substantial sup
port to-day from the War Veterans of
America, which claims a membership
of 125,000 men who actually served on
foreign soil. One of the officers of the
Veterans Bureau. which has been sup
porting the bonus raid since its incep-
ton, said this afternoon:
IF Harding vetoes tEe bonus bill ho
will be selling his chances for a second
term. Wen put the skids under Pep
per and Jim Watson because of their
stand on the bonus I'm the face of tie
feeling In their home States"
Threatens Election HcprfsaIs.
The same functionary declared that
Eve know who our friends are in Con-
gress and wl.o our enemies are and We
know how 10 both punish and reward.
Harding and nearly every one OF the
members of the two houses of Con-
gress promised us a bonus, and they
them what we can do in tLe coming
election. We haven't shown our power
i'm politics yet, but you take It from
me, anybody trying TO be elected to
tho next Congress will either have 20
come out in favor Of the bonus or stay
at home. There is no use in Congress
trying TO gold brick us. We know our
rights and intend to have them
In answer to n question whether ex-
service men favored a cash bonus or
insurance. leading propaganda said
THE boys want the cash. All this
talk about most of them being satis-
fled with insurance is bunk They
want the money and they want II now.
Congress promised us the money and
we want them to make good their
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