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Show THE VETERANS' .COMPENSATION. ' President Roosevelt is right in-his stand that those who did not suffer injury to health or body while serving during the war should not expect to j be recipients of special favors, should not demand that they be placed on a separate plane from others who would gladly have served their nation similarly simi-larly had obstacles not restrained them from doing so. However, we believe that the ex-service ex-service mens' request that they be given adjusted compensation was and is just, in every way. That request should have incorporated the demand, I and we: believe that such a program was favorably in the minds of all fair-minded veterans, that those who had profited financially by the war should bear the cost of such adjusted j compensation, not the taxpayers in general. I More than 20,000 new millionaires ' were created during the war, these fortunes being built upon a foundation of the broken bodies of men on the battlefields, of the blood of those who I were willing to make the supreme j saciifice that the conditions of those -who remained might be improved. Those 20,000 and others who profited hugely, their millions being added to every day the war continued, should have been glad to have paid for the adjusted compensation; they should be made to pay such adjustment. The government had the power to send the flower-hood of manpower of the nation to battlefields thousands of miles away; that same government has the power to make the war-wealthy war-wealthy disgorge with sufficient of their blood money to compensate men who gave willingly of their time, and faced death courageously that man's domain might be a better place in which to dwell. And that government should be prepared to carry out just such a program. |