Arizona republican., 1922-01-04
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 4. 1922
HIS heart Was as great as the
1VorLd but there aUds no room IN 1t
to hold the memory Of a qOrong.
Emerson.
MOI . oue.tlon Of aAff0rdIna,

mot question or "Afforolno'
The DRY Goods Economist" is opposing the
soldiers bonus piece of idealism and it says:
Only by strong protest from numerous quarters
congress be made to understand that thoughtful
Americans while they earnestly desire that every dis
abled soldier, sailor or marine shall be fully taken
care of by grateful country opposed to loading
tax burdens the American people for the pur-
OF bestowing each and every service
gift irrespective of whether 1t win do him any good
and regardless of the fact that Of the former
don't desire such gratuity
But the soldiers have not been taken Of
fully. Thousands Of them have not been taken
Of at ALL The question is not whether the bonus will
do the soldier any good but whether deserved
has earned it, If we withhold the bonus from
the soldier because he may waste It, wages for labor
might be denied many of the ground.
The soldier. who spent his time for $50 month
faced the horror Of and the discomfort of the
trenches. while the stay-at-home earned from 800
to $500 month for less service than he had
given for a much smaller wage. has earned all his
country can give him.
Whether or not the bonus is the best form OF
ward may be debatable but the question is not
whether the government afford it. The soldier
might with equally good reason, when he called
to the defense of his country, have asked whether
he could afford to spend his time in war at $50
month.
Just debts at whatever sacrifice individual
not afford not to pay them; nor can the nation and
we think that no will deny that the ex-service
men are the creditors of the nation, the creditors
especially Of those OF US who remained at home and
embraced the opportunities for getting which
the war gave.
1t is significant that those who opposing the
bonus bill. profess solicitude for the soldier; they
think that something ought to be done for him. there
not one who the hardihood to declare that the
government owes him nothing more But far
OF the opponents of the adjusted compensation bill
has proposed anything definite in lieu Of it. We
should like to what sort of a measure they would
propose if forced to propose We are that
it would involve the expenditure of no money; or,
if 1t should carry appropriation it would be for
thte payment Of the services of commission TO
ascertain what the soldier is complaining about.
BUY till it hurts" "Give till it hurts!" were
two slogans which were much in vogue during the
war period in relation to the purchase of Liberty
Bonds and contributions to work.
The service men then gave till it hurt" some
Of them mortally and all Of them of financial OPP
portunity and comfort. 1t is hurting thousands Of
them yet.
War always hurts and the hurt is not stopped by
ar1nistices. nation usually Me after
the fighting is ended, just many who has
suffered grievous injury feels the greatest pain
after the stunning effect has passed away. Busi-
ness is feeling the hurt of the it did not
during the war and the hurt feel is the paying
for the war We are paying for airplanes
shells, cannon and all munitions war; Why should
hesitate pay the effort and the lives which
soldiers have spent?
How cruelty flippant then is this from the Dry
Goods Economist!
Out of bg-heartedness good nature and love Of
ertrayagance-to say nothing his thoughtlessness
and his lack of understanding of the results
the average American is ready and willing author
ze the expenditure of "a billion so" reward the
men who entered the country's war forces during
the This fact is thoroughly recognized by
congressman and other officials 1t takes nerve,
therefore, the part of any politician to advise
contrary Despite his desire for economy,
President Harding himself is evidently finding it hard
to maintain his attitude of opposition to the bonus
plan
And it is moreover misleading President Hard
ing's attitude toward the bonus plan has not been
one of opposition to it. 1t is true that
the president urged the senate to postpone action
upon the adjusted compensation bill until the tax
and tariff bills had been disposed of but that did
not involve a postponement of the operation of it.
And in making the request the president recognized
the justice of the measure
The probability of the enactment of It, by the
way is considerably enhanced by the certain
succession of its strongest advocate, Senator Nc
Cumber to the craftsmanship of the finance COM
mittee made by the death of Senator Penrose
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