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Show I THE BONUS BILL VETO i President Warren G. Harding is ;a courageous man. Whatever you think of his action in vetoing the soldiers' bonus bill, ;you will have to admit that. It took ;a great deal of fearless determina-! determina-! tion to stand up against the pressure which undoubtedly has been exerted, and to do a thing which might be i construed as endangering thousands J of votes. ' The president felt that the bonus I measure as passed by congress was I undesirable; and as such he vetoed it Many people will agree with Mr. Hat ding that such was the case Others, Oth-ers, of course, will violently disagree with his reasoning on the matter. But there can be no question that he has won the hearty respect of friends and foes, alike, of the bonus measure. mea-sure. When Mr. Harding was running for president the assertion frequently frequent-ly was made that he would be a "spineless president," one who would i not stand alone and who was without firm convictions. That statement I long ago has been exploded, and the I bonus veto is only another evidence that Mr. Harding is one of the most fearless and independent presidents who ever entered the White House. |