Show COMMANDER QUINN AND THE BONUS In that Secretary o olie the lie Treasury Mellon h has bas s figures In an effort to defeat bonus John R R Quinn of the legion Quotes from R ReD reset tail s Andrew of Massachusetts to Sho w that the tho government gO paid out In Inthe Inthe Inthe the ear the he bill first passed more than the legal reQuirement re- re re requirement on the war oar debt and ended with a balance of or OO to Its credit Commander Quinn Is Quoted as Fay Fa ing Secretary Mellon proposed a re- re re reduction of If It no bonus passed and he added to that by bysa sa saying Ing that If it a 1 bonus bons did pass taxes lues would go to up and pre present ent any reductions tor for ears to toome ome Wo Vo investigated his hie figures end found that he ltd lad the cost of ot the he adjusted adjusted compensation compensation tion lion at approximately par year for lor the first four tour ears We told him about that showing that the adjusted compensation could be paid pud and still reduce tue e Ve e sho showed cd him that by reducing all tl tI e a taxes tues except the that the money mont mono collected on surtaxes from 2000 war ar made mil millionaires would auld p pty the cost of the bonus Lonus Commander Quinn closes his de of or Mellon with Ith a fore fore- forecast fore forecast cast rast But Dut let Ift me luo tell you ou he sa says s that befog the next war tsar ar comes comes- comes sod and I hope Lope there is 18 the none I legion glon will endea endeavor or to dace on the statute books of the thel l C Stal a s a n law la that will draft 1 ten ien money mOlle and aud means If all alike ahke and receive the same sameI I there win be no war ar 11 Ing and there will III be no noi 1 teed eed eld of or adjusted compensation The country as a whole hole will 1111 sub sub- sub to to 10 iho the declaration that I 1 coney loney and me means ln as well as men be drafted for tor war ar The f 1 el great fortunes accumulated in times were el e obtained bY lon ions lenders taking ad adage iho Ibe be dr dire dirr financial straits In Lich warring tarring nations found them them- them them-F f i 1 Ics t CS Thue is la but little 1 n a In money Men tIen sacrifice their theirl I 1 for countr country but fortunes toi tunes I i ire never sacrificed Weal Wealth III ma Ibe bo dra drawn dran n upon but money passes the obligation on to others The toilers and aud conSumers pay the bills That Thai Is fe true today The com corn It if paid must be paId by the tho consumers Thero There has peen I Ino no method let et devised d for tor takIng business with without tho money from big out Inflicting the tho burden on the tho people as M a ft whole When big busl busi business ness nose Is taxed even enn as aa a 0 surtax the I Iness tax lag Is written oft off In the goods pro produced Those who buy the goods for tor their own o use pay the iho tn tat Either Elther that or big business stag fila stagnates dates But oven eVEn facing that peculiar sit sit- sit situation I It if the boys bo steel feel the I should be compensated and that I their country hits his h tailed felled to glue gIve them just consideration It Is our duty duly to quiet their complaints It if ItI possible They went out to servo and at the time asked no ques Ques- ques- ques questions lions They Clime came hack back to ti find nd the stay stay-at homes had nad demanded an receIved compensation at the tho edt critical heal hour of uncertainty Many i them ithem sufferEd Buffered financial reverse reverses l some of o them lost their job jobs I tailed failed in fn health To say to them that they the must not thin think of the dollar J Is to ignore the tact fact that the I quest Quest for the tilE dollar Is the most In- In In Intensive e passion that shays S Sa a s the lives of oC men and Is the accepted the the- accepted measure of o performance and re- re reward reward re reward wardI ward I This Is not a II criticism ot of o Secre Secre- Secretary Secretary tary Mellon for tor he bo sees seca things I Quite differently He maintains that better than a bonus is industrial prosperity throughout tho rho UnIted States With a prosperous I soldier bo boother bov v and ever every lother other boy bo will be compensated be- be beyond be beyond yond all nil expectation ot o a treas treas- treasury treasury ury contribution and the tho th one say wayby ay Iury I by which to promote prosperity Is Isto isto Isto to take the shackles oft off big bus bust I IDess Begs Dess and bid the genius of Amen Ameri American can capital unfettered to work ork Its miracles of building beyond bo be ond the fondest dreams of great great- greatness nest ness Capital reinvested and thus held Intact instead of ot being pat gated cd stands stand for foi progress Capi Capital tal It Is true tree grows gross STO s greedy and must be curbed d in to its insatiable desire de- de desire de desire sire for more and greater pro profits tItS and gradually restraints are being land applied to protect those without hose labor capital would could be an mark of t |