The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-05
Miss Alice Defends Stand
Against Bonus for Soldiers

From tho MuskoFce Times Democrat.
1--WE come to take my court
martial, boys"
with note OF regret in her
voice but with q smile on her face
Miss Robertson, congresswoma
from the Second district OF Okla
homa. stood before two hundred
forme. service men last night at
a meeting OF the Yank Upton post
OF the Veterans OF Foreign Wars
to explain to them why she is
against the bonus bill now before
congress.
4 week ago the same post
passed resolution advocating
the adoption OF the bonus bill and
severely Criticising Miss Robert
sons opposition. The same reso-
luton pledged the posts political
support TO q congressional candi-
date who was in sympathy with
the compensation act.
She was in a group OF boys who
were every one her friend but
who were not friends Of her poll
icy.
81 plead guilty. boys" she said.
you can do or say anything
you like. We just differ I'm our
viewpoints. You cannot do any
thing or say anything thattwill
leave a sore spot in my heart"
Says Country Is "Brokc."
Briefly Miss Alice's argument
against the bonus bill is that the
country hasn't got the money.
While she maintained that she
loves the boys as well as she ever
did she left them after n stormy
session without dcviating one inch
from her stand that the bonus bill
Is not for their good nor for the
good OF the country at large.
'lf ] am against 1t now it's be-
cause it's for your good" she said.
Did you not promise 20 support
the bonus bill for us in congress?"
she was asked after she had had
her say.
IL did not. The party prom
ised 1.-THE republican party"
"If we are able to show you
that the people of your constitu-
ency are for the bonus bill, would
you support t?" she was asked,
81 decline to answer. II Is a po-
litical trick. / am for whatever
helps the country, and whatever
helps tho country helps the boys"
Oklahoma Paid Heavily.
"It is true that Ohio is prepar-
ing TO give its soldiers a bonus"
she said in the course Of her talk,
"but Ohio Is a profiteering state.
Oklahoma Is the forty-eighth state
of the union, it Is twenty-first in
population, sixteenth in the num-
bcr that went to the war and
IL, np l..
ties.
"Oklahoma has between 5000
and 10000 more ex-soldiers now
than it sent to the war. We had
no war industries. We had only
our farms. We were not making
millionaires. We had nothing.
"If there is any man OF you who
has needed help and has asked
me for it--havo I ever failed you?
at your annual meeting /
didn't want 10 go before you and
say what L knew you would not
agree with. ia rather have been
where you were in France than to
have faced you whom l love with
that message. But l did II.
Had Ear TO Ground.
i've had my car to the ground.
/ I have heard the rumblings. What
good is n bad check? What good
is it writing n check on n bank
that has no money in it? / voted
against the Shepperd- -Towner bill
because we had no money. ] vot-
cd against sending money to Rus
sia until such times as we could
take care OF the boys.
"T hope the time will come when
the wheels Of industry will start
again. Even now there are per-
haps a few signs. 1t seems TO
me that 1 have seen a few more
columns OF smoke above the fac
tory chimneys Of the country.
Bonus! l scorn the word! DO
you think you can measure what
you have done?
"There is no sore spot in my
heart. At Arlington cemetery ]
have shed mother tears for the