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Show BONUS FOR THE SOLDIERS One of the most vigorous and out-poken out-poken opponents of the soldier bonus IB Treasurer Mellon who declares ad-1 ditional taxation to the extent of $850,-000,000 $850,-000,000 in the next two years must be raised to provide the initial payment of a $3,300,000,000 cash bonus This is under the Fordney plan which has" been sanctioned by President Harding, and calls for the financing of the bonus from the sale of the refunded war obligations of the allies. It is rathrr remarkable for a secretary secre-tary dt the treasury to condemn t policy of the president yel Mellon says Hnrdlng's plan is futile. Improvl dent and unwise. That the government must curtail expenditures $300,000,000 in tho next year and a half to avoid a deficit of that amount, without taking the bonus into consideration, is the conclusion of an extended analysis of the coun try's financial position which Mr. Mellon Mel-lon presents to show "what financial consequences the soldiers' bonus would entail and what added burdens It would inevitably place upon the country.'" SUll the country IB under obligation to the soldiers and Is in duty bound, during this period of country-wide distress, dis-tress, to extend aid. The boys who offered their lives In ! a time of peril to world democracy, and who gave up profitable employ meni and opportunities to advance themselves, are entitled to some form of bonus, even though the granting of the assistance bring extra financial strain upon the treasury of the United States. The Fordney bill or the ad-Justed ad-Justed compensation measure may fall to fit into Treasurer Mellon'? BCh me of finance? and may be Impossible of execution, but Home form of oompenn t Ion should be worked out in order that simple Justice be done the soldier boys. |