The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-28

by his signature or whether it should
be turned back to Congress he did
some mighty careful thinking. He
wants to join the rest of the country
in showing the nations gratitude to
those who served during Tire world
war, but he could ~. sign a bill even
for that purposc vhica provided no
means to raise tie money with Witch
ito pay the bonuc. No man is mere
conscious or appreeis.oive of the work
of the ex-soldier ti,G1 President Hard
ing. This is proved by the fact thai
in the current fiscal year the govern
ment is spending $150,000,000 on hos
pitfalls, care for the sick and wounded'
vocational training and insurance. And
this figure does not include $50 ,OOO,-
900 being spent on new hospitals. he
stated in his veto message that The
estimates for the year to follow are
approximately $47O00O,000, and the
figures may need to be made larger
eve can start off with that infor-
nation to prove that President Hard
ing's administration has accomplished
something real and worth while for
the ex-soldier. Now just think min
ute. How would you like somebody to
make you a gift which left it up to
YOU and all your friends to raise the
, money with which to pay for it?
, Wouldn't it be nothing short of fool
, ish?"
, "I'll say it would" answered Jack.
"Well, that in a small way is just
what the bonus bill as it came to the
president would mean. Besides being
"a perfectly normal human being with
full sense of appreciation for what
g the soldiers did, President Harding is
S also the head of this great nation and
$ the man upon whose shoulders rests
: the responsibility of seeing that this
r country is kept upon basis as neal
t businesslike as possible. The bonus
J. bill would pay the veterans more thar
a S4OOO0OO,00O, but it provided no way
to raise the money! More and heavier
s taxes some place would necessarily
It have to be levied to pay it and the
Y, majority of the men who would re-
o ceive the bonus would be paying fol
+ it along with the millions of othel
l. citizens, already necessarily taxet
e heavily due to the natural results O.
l. war.
e "Let me read you a few stron1
d points from the Presidents message
e Clearly the bill returned herewith
takes cognizance of the inability o
1t the government wisely to bestow, an
ID says, in substance, we do not have tn
IS cash, we do not believe in tax lev
a to meet the situation, but here is GU
O. note; you may have our credit TO
IN half it's worth. This is not compen
r. sation, but rather a pledge by Cor
ic gress, while the executive branch {
Of the government is left to provide #
n payments falling due in ever increa:
tn ing amounts
be "Of course, the fellow who give
IL and spends is always more popula
of than the fellow who saves and denie
on So it is with President Harding toda.
he But he is looking at the country as
whole and presents a sane and logic;
argument when he said: The pressin
IS problem Of the government is that {
DIMINISHING OUR BURDENS
id RATHER THAN ADDING THERE
Sc, TO. 1t is the problem of the worl
Tx War mutations and war expenditure
Us have unbalanced budgets and added
ii indebtedness until the whole world
staggering under the load
nd "Could we ask our President to p1
ad through such a law, kiddies, after tt
OF months of hard and unpopular VOL
he he has INDUCED in to cut down e.
he penses in every corner of the COVER
ment? The work of year and
Gle quarter to reduce government expe
IRE ditures to minimum would be wip,
lde out in an instant by this bill. Prob
er- bly, the outstanding statement of h
The message was: ITO add to our pledg
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