The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-04
ROBINSON AND THE VETERANS

CFrOm the Milwaukee Journal
CENATOR ROBINSON of Indiana was ap-
~ plauded by his audience at the Veterans
of Foreign Wars convention in Milwaukee. He
denounced the Roosevelt economy; he was
against the employment of young men in the
forests; he said it had all come out of the vet
Grams pockets.
And then he even raved about the members
of the Morgan firm escaping income taxes in
years when the country needed the money
1t all went over because the veterans had
not before them the record of Robinson of
Indiana in public life. except his record on
certain bonus votes. Now it happens that
Robinson of Indiana is associated in the SEN
ate with an emphatic declaration that Birds
Of a feather flock together"
The birds" with whom Senator Robinson
has f1ocked in his senatorial career have been
the Old Guard of the Republicans-Jim Wat
son of Indiana, Moses of New HAMPSHIRE
Reed of Pennsylvania, and the others who
were in control during the Harding and Cool
idge and much of the Hoover regime
He has not been a leader, because there
were until last November much more capable
Old Guarders in the senate. But he was
dependable follower.
Senator Robinson says he is for further
cash bonus. But Mr.. Coolidge vetoed a bonus,
Mr.. Hoover vetoed a bonus. The financial
deity of the Old Guarders, Andrew w. Mellon,
fought a bonus. And Senator Robinsons fac
ton in the senate was with them.
saved by cutting veterans allowances and
then spent on forestry. This is far-fetched,
but let it pass. The opposition to these al
lowances by the Old Guard is on record. The
difference is that the Old Guard did not find
any work for the young men growing up in
the country.
Senator Robinson is shocked that Nor
gan and his partners and others of their ilk
paid no income taxes SO is the nation But
the laws under which they paid no taxes were
passed when Mellon from outside and the Old
Guard reactionaries within dominated the
senate.
We hope Senator Robinson will correct us
if We are wrong in not being able to discover
in any record that he ever raised his voice
domination of the nations tax laws: or
against the Old Guard regime.
There is a fundamental difference between
the Roosevelt theory and the Robinson Old
Guard theory. All over the country men are
going to work because President Roosevelt
has said that to work is a human right
Wages are raised and hours are shortened
ploiters of labor have been given blow from
which they will be long time recovering.
OF course they don't like it; of course they
will strike back. To strike back they will
try to pick up here a group on one issue.
there another on different issue.
The veterans who suffered are being taken
care Of as adjustment boards reach them. All
the rest that Senator Robinson has to offer
is cash bonus
Does any one think that the $500 or s4O0,
which is all most veterans could get out OF
that. compares with what these veterans and
every other worker have lost under the re-
dictionary regime of which Mr.. Robinson has
been so faithful lieutenant?
The Old Guard defeated the bonus: that
is in the record. But not all were against the
bonus. They will pay a bonus rather than
accept the principle that every man who is
willing to work has a right to work and at
decent wages. Wages must come out of their
own dividends.
What is the bonus to them? A one and
two billion dollar sop added TO the national
debt. already large. paid by the taxpayers.
but not-under their laws-by the Morgan
partners.
It is fight as old as the ages. The bene-