The Washington times., 1922-06-19
j. :. WILL USE
WAR DEBTS To
PAY VET BONUS

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bonus will conscientiously assert that
theX have redeemed their pledges
The Republican party will have re-
deemed not exactly the promise. but
the sort Of wink that II gave the
American Legion. Everybody's face
will have been saved; and once more
the Bank of England will nave come
to the rescue in great financial
world crisis.
Such is the prospect as outlined
with every evidence Of authority on
Capitol Hill. The bonus will be taken
care of-with pounds from London
If Senators will consent to get to
work on the tariff and get the tariff
done while the British are getting
the pounds ready.
Also-it Is competently runored-
the Administration and the Repub.
lican national organization will be 50
pleased with Senator McCumber's
courtesy In allowing the bonus bill
TO be postponed to the tariff bill that
the speakers engaged for this years
campaign by the Administration and
the Republican national organization
will feel themselves unable to resist
the impulse to rush into Senator Nc
Cumber's State Of North Dakota in
large numbers and argue for him
before the voters in the Immediately
approaching primary, in which his
fellow-statesman, Ex-Governor Fra.
zier. is aspiring to defeat him.
Thus all things will work together
very nicely-even, may add, for
Robert Marion La Toilette. This
week Senator La Toilette stands
forth as the real friend of the Ameri.
can army against Germany. Some
members of that army may have
found something lacking in Senator
La Follette's enthusiasm for sending
them to Germany. He may not have
been as keen as some other Senators
were for Fastening them into battle.
J But when II comes to recognizing
or for having started there-he leaves
most Of the lingo Senators looking
like seditious pacifists.
Senator La Follette's State of
Wisconsin paid a bonus without
waiting for any spare cash from
abroad. 1t paid II out Of the upper
brackets OF the Wisconsin State In.
come tax-that is. out of the ex-
cess incomes Of the Wisconsin rich.
And Senator La Toilette will this
week stand up before the Senate
and the country as the special cham
pion Of the idea Of getting right
down to business on the bonus now
without any waiting for any of the
mischances and casualties that
might come from trying to make
the bonus depend on the luck Of
tariff bills or on the renewed
solvency Of London.
This delay on the bonus bill Ia
Senator La Follette's rehabilitation
as a patriot. 1t Ia also the rehabili-
tation of the Non-Partisan League
as a patriotic organization, The two
States which were most accused OF
lack Of patriotism were Wisconsin.
because Of La Toilette, and North
Dakota, because Of the onPartisan
League. Both those States have be-
haved with great promptness and
generosity toward the returned SOL
diers of the United States in the
matter of additional compensation
10 them out of State funds. rhe
Non Partisan League has wanted to
reward our soldiers when our cham
bers of commerce have vilified them
as "beggars'' for q "gratuity."
La Toilette has wanted to make
them our preferred debtors when
the Federal Government has been
giving the preference straight along
to war contractors. railroads, and
war bondholders.
In this fiscal year we have found
some sS00;00b.Oo0 in the public
Treasury to pay to railroads In or
der that their owners might suffer
no loss from the war. In this fiscal
year we have found some $1,000.
900 900. 900 in the public Treasury TO
pay to war bondholders in order to
reduce the public debt-the public
debt to bondholders. Meanwhile
the public debt to the returned SOL
diers-a debt fully recognized in the
campaign speeches of most Of the
members of Congress-is now at TIE
best awaiting remittance In
pounds, shilling and pence from a