The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-10-19
old AGE PENSIONS
Directors to the Proposed Law For Ohio Fully An.
swered in Accom- panyng Article

The objections used in Ohio against
the old age pension bill are these:
l. The cost of administration.
2. Increased taxation.
3. No one entitled to a pension who
has not served the state or nation.
a. 1t will create thriftless nation.
5. 1t will bring paupers from other
states into Ohio.
6. 1t is paternalism in government.
To these objections the Fraternal
Order cf Eagles are making the fo''-
lowing answers:
The costs or administration is pur-
posely misstated 1t cannot in any
event exceed $100,000.00 per year.
The same argument was used against
the workman's compensation law, the
mothers pension law and every other
progressive movement to help human
this argument. In passing it over
now, it may be said that such argu-
ments are never used in measures to
protect dollar, but only in measures
seeking to protect human beings. No
sane man denies but in order to pro-
vide the money to. pay old age pen
sons claims that it must be obtained
through taxation Our complaint is
that the amount of money now receiv-
ed from taxes is not being properly
distributed. Advocates of the old age
pension are insisting that a certain
| per cent of the taxes now raised
should be charged off and placed in a
depreciation fund to protect human
beings who are worn out in the strug
gle for existence. We know wise busi-
ness men charge off certain per cent
of his earnings each year for depre-
ciation 1t is sad commentary upon
humanity that while fund is set
aside to take care of the depreciation
of inanimate things, no attention is
paid to taking care of human depreci-
ation 1t is inhuman to insist that
the depreciation of human beings
should be supplied by other human be-
ings, and that men and women with
souls should be sent to the poor
houses to spend the remainder OF
their years.
The argument that no one is en-
titled to pension unless he serves
the state or nation, is the weakest ar
gument presented against the bill
We ask, who constitutes the state
Who creates and produces the things
out of which taxes are raised? The
father and mother who toll and labor
and raise families render as much
service to the state and nation as any
other class of people.
The further argument that sucl
bill will create thriftless nation i!
an insult to every mother of Ohio
In face of the fact that the statistic!
collected by the insurance companie
of America show that out of ever,
100 persons between the ages of g
and 65, that at the age of 65, 81
are dead, are still capable of pro
ducing money, a have incomes from
investments and one is rich, and tn
remaining sd are dependents, pre-
sents the most startling indictmen
against this proposition and mus
E cause thoughtful men and women t
realize that before you can establish
the peace of the world, you must frs
establish peace in the minds and live
of it's citizens. To look forward t
g old age with the possibility of depend
: ency looming up in the shadow of tn
aims house is enough argument t
make the necessity of an old age pen
sion apparent for the safety of tn
republic.
. Discomfort breeds anarchy an
makes men and women out of condi
{ tion poroperly work out their ow
{ salvation. We are informed by tn