The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-21

ed out that the soldiers were the
only "block" that had been left "hold-
ing the bag" The railroads, he said,
had received a neat half billion as
their adjusted compensation for the
time they had been on government
service during the war, and no one
ever shouted. Industries which were
on war time contracts had been fixed
up out of the public purse when they
were left with untitled orders at the
close of the war, and they too had been
paid without howl being raised.
'Now when the soldier wants COM
pensation for his services, Mellon
comes forward, walking on his chin,
with hands raised to high-heaven.
Mr.. President says he, you best
watch out, you will break the nation
Then the president vetoes the bill, and
the soldiers hold the bag.
"We worked for a dollar day,
while riveters in the ship-yards were
knocking out twenty dollars a day,
and we worked just as hard Jas the
SHiFete1S. All we ask is a fair share,
an equal break for all. The bonus,
of course won't absolutely equalize
things, but it will show that the
hearts of the nation are in the right
place."
Insurance Bucks Move" Z
F. A. Galbraith pointed out that the
names of an anti-honus club, the re-
port of which was carried in the
Chicago Tribune, smacked suspicious
ly of insurance companies.
Perkins came back with letter
written by his general agent in which
he denied authorship of story which
appeared In a Racine paper, in which
the bonus was argued against. He
added that the insurance companies
were not against the bonus, due to
the fact that the wartime insurance
had done much to promote the game
and added that there was no basis of
fact in the rumor that insurance COM
panies are agitating against its passage.
G. G. Balloon pointed out that the
bonus is not a cash proposition. AS
the bill now stands, the only cash that
would be paid, would be to men who
had less than two months service, and
that this would amount to $50. Other
provisions of the bill would allow for
twenty year paid up insurance
policy, worth about four times what
the cash would be, or chance to buy
a farm or home, which would add
about % per cent to the value of the
81 day domestic service, and SIPS
foreign service, upon which the bonus
would be based. In addition there
would be an opportunity offered for
vocational training.
Sawed Dirty Dollars"
H. w. Barker, who served in the
army for eight years, declared that
the one thing that made him willing
to fight for the bonus. was the fact,
that every mothers son of us who
was sent into the malstrom of hell,
was sent there to get back the dirty
dollars which Wall Street had loaned
to the Allies. We did their work and
did it well, broke Germany and saved
their looms, and now they plead pow
erty when it comes to paying US. a
bonus. / want them to pay US for
doing their work.
AT this point the Legion gave vent
to a prolonged cheer.
DR.. Thomas Dobbins, head of the
safety division of the Nash Motors.
declared that it would be a case of
robbing Peter to pay Paul, and that
in the end, even if the bonus was
passed we would have to- contribute,
He said that while in England he
had watched the operation of the un-
employment insurance and had seen
it prove a failure. He stated that at
the outbreak of the war he had left
his practice and gone into the army
at S16S a month, had purchased cots,
blankets and several hundred dollars
worth of equipment which he later
had to throw away.
He touched briefly on the present
Washington mess, when he said that
he hoped every one of the dirty
crooks what smelled of crude petro-
leum in the capitol, would have their
necks cracked by an honest people.
Already Robbed to Pay.
Galbraith stated that we should not
loose any sleep over robbing Peter to
pay Paul, for we had done this be-
fore, but that paul" had usually been
the powerful interests, and now i;
would not be unjust to rob paul" to
pay the soldier Peters. He added
that in the last analysis it is not a
case of robbing anybody, but just get
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