The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20
BONUS VIEWS
TOLD IN TALK
IN PITTSBURGH
No Payment Until There Is
Treasury Surplus, Is.
Governors EdiCt.
EARLY BEER PLEDGED
LegaIization Needed to Bal
anCe Budget, Says Dem
oCrat Nominee.
EARLY BEER PLEDGED
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press staff Correspondent

The soldiers bonus apparently
has been eliminated as campaign
issue in the spectacular Pittsburgh
address by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Governor Wednesday night
reaffirmed his belief expressed last
April to the effect that there should
be no bonus payment until there is
surplus in the treasury.
Roosevelt's friends held that the
bonus issue was removed from the
campaign since both major candi-
dates, while differing in detail of
their utterances, are opposed to
present payment. They professed
not to take seriously rumors that
the Republicans would continue to
attack Roosevelt on the bonus by
insisting that he be more specific
as to his views.
He not only delivered a singing
indictment of the Republican cam
paign management as panic breed
ers," who spread the gospel of fear"
among wage earners, but he at
tempted to place the administration
of President Hoover on the de-
fensive for what he said was its
failure to balance the budget"
The Governor urged "beer for
revenue" He promised to work for
immediate legalization of beer SO
that the revenue might help bal
ance the budget.
Condemns Coolidge Statement
He ridiculed utterances by Henry
Ford, w. w. Atterbury of the Penn
sylvania railroad, Charles M
Schwab and others that the re-
election of Herbert Hoover is nee
essary to insure good prospects for
business.
He condemned the bonus state
ment made by Calvin Coolidge in
New York when the former Presi-
dent charged Roosevelt's silence
with prolonging the depression.
Roosevelt, anxious to assure the
country that he is as solicitouS for
the credit of the nation as any man,
not only pledged himself to Is pei
cent reduction in government ex-
penditures, to opposition to any in
creased expenditures except to re-
lieve human suffering, but he
pounded with his heaviest artillery
at the fiscal record of the Hoover
administration, bringing jeers at the
mention of Mr.. Hoover and Pitts
burgh'S most famous citizen, former
Treasury Secretary Mellon.
Roosevelt analysed the adj
ministration handling of the
deficit, and accused President
Hoover of not being frank
with the country as to the real con-
dition of the treasury, which he
said faces another staggering de-
felt despite the claim that the adj
ministration balanced the budget.
Statement on Bonus
He said Melons estimates of re-
ceiptS and expenditures after 1929
constituted gamble on an eco
nomic miracle"
Roosevelt'S bonus statement said:
Before any man enters my cabi-
net he must give me a two-fold
pledge of Cd absolute loyalty to
the Democratic platform and eSpe-
cially to its economy plank, CD
complete cooperation with me
looking to economy and reorganiza-
ton in his department.
LAS part of this phase of the
problem 1 note that former Presi-
dent Coolidge is reported as having
said in a speech at New York City
An early and timely word from
the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent that he would reject the pro-
poSal to increase the national debt
by $2,S00,000,000 to pay a bonus
would have had a great encourage
ment to business, reduced unem-
ployment, and guaranteed the in
tegrity of the national credit. While
he remained silent economic recov-
cry was measurably impeded."
Recalls Former Words
THAT charge is baseleSS and alb
Surd, for the reason that last April
my views on the subject were widely
published and have been Subse-
quently frequently quoted. I said:
/ do not see how, as a mat
ter of political practical business
sense, a government running behind
1000, 100000 annually can consider
the anticipation of bonus payment
until it has a balanced budget, not
only on paper, but with a surplus
of cash in the treasury
mo one, for political purposes or
otherwise, has the right in the alb
sense of explicit statement from me
to assume that my views have
changed. They have not. So much
for another effort by Republican
leaders to preach an unwarranted
gospel of fear and panic to the
American electorate"
The bonus announcement was
followed by the proposal to tax beer
in order to avoid any increase in
tho present scale of taxes.