No early payment of the veterans' bonus until the budget is balanced with a cash surplus

I do not see how, as a matter of practical sense, a Government running behind two billion dollars annually can consider the anticipation of bonus payment until it has a balanced budget, not only on paper, but with a surplus of cash in the treasury.

No one, for political purposes or otherwise, has the right in the absence of explicit statement from me to assume that my views have changed. They have not.

Congress overrode the veto; the President's position was consistent with the campaign statement.

Roosevelt, unlike Hoover, favors adequate unemployment relief; on the bonus he deserves credit but remains open to the charge that he would pay it once the budget balances.

Until he makes that compaction Roosevelt will remain open to the charge that he favors a blanket cash bonus when the federal budget is balanced.

Roosevelt's bonus statement was late, indirect and timid compared with Hoover's; a position forced by expediency, not conviction.

the difference be- tween the Hoover and the Roosevelt statements on the bonus is the difference between courage and timidity, timeliness and lateness, directness and indirectness.

Roosevelt spoke tardily and evasively on the bonus, committing to nothing except a balanced budget before payment.

the Governor has spoken, tho tardily, and a trifle evasively, since he does not commit himself on anything except that he wants a balanced budget before a bonus payment.

Roosevelt evaded the bonus issue; his statement is not courageous.

Mills flatly declares that Mr. Roosevelt 'evaded the bonus issue.'

Roosevelt opposes the bonus only because the Treasury cannot afford it, leaving the inference that the demand is just and would be met once the budget balances.

for it leaves the inference that the bonus demand is just, and that only the present Treasury deficit prevents meeting the demand.