Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-04-20
LEGION ATTACKS
bORAH ON
BONUS
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cit would seem that the pubh
treasury needed some regular he
guardians about the time the tire,
billion dollar appropriation was mad,
to save the benefcares of war con
tracts from financial disaster because
the war was won before their con
tracts expired.
"The payment of $50 per month
bonus to civilian employees in Wash
intOn, ID. c., was nicely effected with
out whisper of opposition from the
guardians of the treasury. As sug
gested in our telegram, your opposi.
tion to the war, to sending troops
abroad, to loaning money to carry on
the war, to the espionage act, to the
| bonus bill and to other important
tion policy on your part. 1t is how
ever, a noteworthy fact that this oppo-
sitiOn did not extend to house bill No.
n, designated to create for private i'm
terests a monopoly of 100000 acres Of
grazing lands in southern Idaho
IGNORE LEGION KILOGRAMS
The section of the letter charging
the senator with not needing the pleas
of former service men for aid and re-
lief to which they were entitled by
law, is as follows:
"'You state that you have great re-
spect and admiration for the former
service man and that you have al
ways supported measures for the re-
lief of the disabled So far as can be
learned from various posts throughout
this state, and from the records of the
Pocatello post, neither you nor your
office has ever paid the slightest at
tention to any individual case in which
assistance was requested.
"Telegrams and letters from this
post requesting your good offices in
procuring discharges for men whose
help was urgently needed at home, by
reason of poverty or sickness or other
misfortune; in getting quick action in
the payment of the $50 discharge boz
nus; in pressing insurance and COM
pensation cases-were consistently ig-
nored by you and your office, and
even the courtesy of an acknowledge
ment was not extended. So far as can
be learned, you have utterly failed to
render any kind of service to the de-
serving former service men, to enable
them to get what the law entities
them to-
NO WORD OF THREAT
The post also answers the senator s
charge of an implied threat in the
telegram as to future political punish
ment. "There is no word of threat in
our telegram, it says. "The fight talk
emanates from your own mind. You
are building up straw man for the
purposes of your letter.
Indifference to actual facts during
and since the war is also charged by
the post letter against congress when
it says:
cit may be remarked that, had the
American army been as Indifferent TO
actual facts in conduct of the war as
the American congress has been both
during and since the war, German
miitarism would now be sitting
astride the world.
upon the Bonded backs of American
taxpayers.
81 haven't much respect for the man
who buys office even though he pays
for it with his own money. But tho
most Shiny creature which disgraces
American politics is the man who buys
office by paying for it with appropria-
lions out of the public treasury and
charges his venal political obligations
to the taxpayers.
eff l thought this measure proper
one, / could and would vote for 1T.
But, believing, with thousands of for
mer service men who have written
me, that it is not proper one, if L
should vote for it, it would be a simple
matter of barter in which / use the
people, money to buy somebody's
vote; in which the account of my po-
litical expenses would be charged to
the taxpayers.
"'Of course, you understand that
have at all times supported and stand
ready to support, any measure which
will help the disabled veteran. Very
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